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Meaning that its a distraction from the real issue. and chris is absolutely right. its russia, russia, russia, russia, russia all the time, and what can i do to take peoples attention away from it? look at this, youve got poll numbers from nbc and "wall street journal" saying that independents have dropped for trump by 7% and theyre going to d dems. this is not boding well for him. the president did not want people from the intel heads, the other administrations, to have these security clearance...

Today to push it out to the public. we cant ignore that even though its a shiny object. >> this president has an enemies list almost in every category, be it intelligence officials, be it the press. there is an enemies list on every platform for this president. but at issue, and this is a national security issue, this russia issue is bigger than people want to understand or care to believe. at issue, this president does not listen to his own intelligence community. then you have people from prio...

Administrations should have their security clearances revoked is a pure distraction. its also just frankly being petty. most of these officials either dont use their security clearances or have no relevant access to classified information anymore. and ill note that the list of who is being singled out exactly coincides with those who have been publicly critical of the president. this is the sort of attack on free speech, the press and the rights of individuals to speak out in our country that re...

Of being vigilant about that, certainly, its also the idea of being able to act forward. >> of course, the u.s. has capabilities of cyber attacks on adversaries and worry and hesitation is that if you go down that path you end up escalating and could be in the an all-out war and why administrations have not to this point gone down that path. >> this is really scary. >> modern age, no question. >> thanks very much for that report. coming up, ivanka trump suddenly shuts down her fashion business...

Trade or middle east policies. anything like that can be involved in those calls. thats no longer going to happen. instead, these readouts will still happen internally, but they will not any longer issue these things to the press, as they have done in the past. now, former administration officials who have served in previous administrations have expressed some concern about this. number one, saying that its the white house not being transparent, by not publishing these calls. but two, they also ...

Critics and particularly try to really bring in the politicization of this security clearance process. and its frankly unprecedented. ive never seen it happen before. and ive served for about 20 years in government across republican and democratic administrations. >> well, what the administration will say, which is also unprecedented, is having a former cia director like john brennan say that the president committed treason, which he said last week. >> look, i think youre right that people are g...

Understand across party lines is pretty consistent. these are people, some of them, who actually did serve in republican administrations. theyre not totally partisan animals. >> its not like taking away their security clearances is going to take away their tongues. theyre still going to be able to talk. some of these people dont have clearances active anymore, number one. number two, even if they did, you had general hayden, whos not just an obama appointee, say im still going to keep on talking...

From day one have shown a different tolerance of ethics with members of their family and even people outside their family that come join the administration to be honest. we dont know why shes shutting this down. we dont know if this is a business issue. but i would be very surprised if we find out its a conflict of interest. >> we put a huge amount of pressure. every day we raises their conflicts of issues. we said shut it down and she shut it down. so at face value, listen, she did the right th...

Debated, one selected, and then rolled out. this is impulsive behavior by the commander in chief. >> and paul rykoff, all the veterans there, theyve all served and probably have relatives and siblings and kids who are in the service. its a military community. theyve got to be concerned. here youve got a president who spoke of the eu as a foe but befriends vladimir putin, to the generals point, strips veteran intelligence officials who have worked under different administrations, or threatens to ...

Clintons e-mail server. instead of talking about whats in front of you, go to past administrations, start attacking them. "the wall street journal" said this was a dumb idea, but is this just donald trumps attempt to distract from what happened when he and vladimir putin met? >> editorial writers of the journal may have been surprised, but the reporters covering president trump know by nature in president is a revoker. he revoked press credentials for "the washington post," revoked trade agreeme...