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Message and the media circus, et cetera. this is a decision with consequence, right? because, again, theres a reason why the intelligence community draws on former intelligence officials and their experience, and in this case, remember, these are officials who served both democratic and republican administrations. several of them -- multiple democratic and republican administrations. and theres a reason they keep those security clearances, so that that experience can be drawn on when the country...

Individually about whether or not they were going to use that in other cases, she wouldnt say. thats really important, because they -- it is -- she went out there with a long list of things to say about brennan. but they cannot defend this criteria for all of the other people that they have put on this list. and, you know, we can talk about whether or not they used their clearances or not. some of them have not consulted with current officials. but that being said, this is a practice that goes b...

Was floated by the president, i called a secretary that served in a prior administration, i said secretary, i want to be sure i am not being too harsh on the president for wanting to do this. i said did you ever call on former senior administration officials from prior administrations and he said he did it all the time. he said when he made decisions, he wanted to understand why prior administration officials had evaluated a situation differently or the same and he said it helped him make decisi...

And then rand paul talked about it. tucker carlson, as well. >> folks, in the category of its rich for the white house to make this decision now, just a few months ago in february when the security clearance of rob porter who was escorted out of the building because of evidence that he abused two of his former wives, i believe, sarah sanders punted on the question of security clearance with this explanation. have a listen. >> look. that is process that isnt -- doesnt operate within the white hou...

>> one thing is important to remember is that threats are so much apart of the dynamic here. this is a man who threatens everybody. he threatens the nations and nato and threatens canada and mexico. he also threatens individuals. when tony schwartz starts talking about his engagement of the deal, he threatens him and he had michael cohen threatens me and he makes people crazy around him because he prefers it that way. he prefers people to be insecure. >> you said, michael, that omarosa is the la...

President. so what is the big picture here. with news breaking now, lets go to caitlin owens, a reporter for axios who jumps in to speak on this at the last minute without any prior notice. we didnt know this was coming. historically its been a professional courtesy, i guess, maybe the right way to say it, to allow the security clearance of people from previous administrations to continue with their security clearance. how unusual is it to revoke such a thing? >> this is highly unusual. you know...

Administrations. today sarah sanders led the briefing by in particular there will be the one for john brennan which will be revoked. john brennan formerly at the cia and dni said this last night on twitter its asounding how often you fail to live up to standards decency steams like you wont understand what it means to be president nor to be a good decent. so disheartening, so dangerous for our nation. john brennan saying that about our president last night. then, we dont have the sound yet but h...

Idea of how theyre going to set them back up again. >> john, i want to underscore something you said. you said it feels like an authoritarian act. its not just random, it is of the presidents critics, which should be more worrisome to people. its not everybody who served in prior administrations gets their security clearance revoked. this is about people, john mclaughlin -- john brennan point in case, but there are other names that the white house is evaluating, all of whom who have criticized t...

To prosper. and if were going to halt that and put these tariffs on different goods and services and to prevent that flow of people as well as of technologies and other things, it really is going to inhibit the continued growth of our world. and so again, this is something that i think mr. trump has really deviated from the former, you know, u.s. policy of previous administrations, which is that the united states, yes, is bigger and stronger than any other country but were going to use our econo...

You are using or disclosing classified material some its very narrow. >> i was reading your interror, you do this live 15 hours a week, its easy to kind of get numb to thing. your intro was the trump white house is suing omarosa. can you imagine few read that ten years ago? i mean you could not -- its unfathomable. were in this, anesthetized to the complete insanity of all this. >> it is complete insanity, you know whats so ironic of what richard just said, willie, that he was in four administra...