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Clearance is that big of a deal. >> i dont know former employee continue to carry their clearance anyway. i dont see how he has helped. >> mr. brennan has gone way over the view. -- gone way over the line in my view. pulling his clearance makes sense. >> the fact he is out there every single day acting in a partisan way doesnt help his cause. >> former top government officials are generally allowed to keep security clearance to advise future administrations. president trump will have to wait u...

Why do they still have security clearances? national security. it is good to have continuity between administrations. it is not like theyre constantly gepting clattin clas briefings. former cia director john deutsch lost his after classified documents were found unsecured on his home security. and general flynn had his suspended into the investigation of his foreign contacts. he later plead guilty to the fbi, it is notable he has not lost his security clearance, it

Pushback kind of perspective that the president is getting to this, even though the calls the response tremendous? >> i agree with chris, its tremendous but not in the way the president wants it to come across as. these are significant individuals, non-partisan primarily individuals in national security leadership positions or former who have clearly identified whats really going on here. they do believe its an attempt to stifle criticism. but also it will have a trickle down affect. on bone occ...

Is that objectible? >> yeah. its damaging because she is essentially offering a no-work job. $180,000 a year -- hold on. let me finish my point. thats insulting. if youre someone sending five bucks an at time. more than that, a huge problem to the campaign reading lauras response. that was essentially laura saying, you are my best friend. i cant believe you did this. you did nothing to stop the story and showed how much omarosa can manipulate the campaign. >> at the time, she had the conversatio...

People." today the president fired back on attacking the boston globe. "there is nothing that i want for the country is freedom of the press. the fact is that the press is free to write and say anything it wants but much of what it says is fake news." >> joining me. sam, thank you so much for joining us tonight. you have the advantage of having covered the administrations or republicans or democrats and some of them not particularly fond of the media including going back to richard nixon. i want...

Its despicable as a strategy and tactic. it worked for them. this has overtaken -- >> not to be -- administrations do this. white houses do this. you release information for maximum impact. >> i cannot confirm or deny that i held on to a statement for a -- >> exactly. >> of course, when you are a government pr guy, you think about the timing, absolutely. in this case, they would tell you it not only worked but worked for a -- this is a big story. its not just a small distraction. we should be de...

This president wants to take the security clearances from those in the national security community whose talking against him. lets really look at what its about. the people who have security clearances from fired administrations, those security clearances are used when theyre read in by this white house, if theyre ever read in, which they havent been, to a situation. now, they havent even gotten any information on national security. so really this is all-for-naught. its just sable rattling and t...

One key fact that some of the nations most decorated intelligence officials serving in republican and democratic administrations admonished the president in a short statement, saying the presidents action regarding john brennan and the threats of similar action of nine more security clearances in the coming days. like cnn has learned that one of his next targets is bruce ohr. a former justice department official. >> bruce ohr is a disgrace, i think ill be taking away his security clearance soon....

Words and the president was asked earlier today trying to silence the critics. he said if anything, im amplifying them with attention to john brennan and not about silencing critics. it is about bullying critics. >> yeah. the response is really telling. he was basically saying i think this is a useful political tool for me to make me look strong against him. to make me look strong in a political sense and thats exactly why these officials are speaking out. theres a long tradition in this country...

Threat made from the white house of his entire cabinet including his military and intelligence team flanking him, but the president being erratic doesnt matter. because the truth is being erratic is not the reason he took away brennens security clearance. the reason is he doesnt like his criticism. 63 more intelligence officials standing up against the presidents move. a veritable tsunami today. is the president paying attention? >> it doesnt seem the president is understanding the kind of criti...