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>> we can go on, if you want. >> mitt romney. >> ouch. exactly. i think she knows that shes got to define herself as someone whos a reformer, someone whos a pop ulist, not merely the harvard law professor. i think thats the effort today. you run against d.c. you call it a stinky swamp. and you kind of embrace some of the rhetorical strokes that trump did in 2016. she knows shes going to get hit hard from the right with all the usual bug-a-boos and she has to get out early in defining herself. he...

Clapper. they were never saying -- they werent strident in their tone and in their analysis. they also werent calling his behavior treasonous. they werent going on twitter and being bombastic. brennan approached this in a very political way. when you watch clapper and when you watch other people, you see its more measured, its more analytical. brennan makes a great foil for the president. i think he thinks he wins on it. i think he thinks he is going to continue to bite back, if you will, with h...

Strip brennans was actually drafted multiple weeks before it was issued. brennans is more complicated. sometimes with this president, it is hard to know what is strategic. he has long a problem. he has long had a vendetta against him for quite some time. this president is sensitive to anyone who publicly criticizes him. particularly on television. so thats part of it. the other part is he realize thats brennan with his attachment to the deep state, with his ties to the russia probe, could be a u...

He has long had a problem with brennan. he has long had a vendetta against him for quite some time. this president is sensitive to anyone who publicly criticizes him. particularly on television. so thats part of it. the other part is he realize thats brennan with his attachment to the deep state, with his ties to the russia probe, could be a useful foil here. someone else he could attack. a proxy for going after the mueller investigation. and brennan who has been a very outspoken critics, trump ...

Brennans is more complicated. sometimes with this president, it is hard to know what is strategic. he has long a problem. he has long had a vendetta against him for quite some time. this president is sensitive to anyone who publicly criticizes him. particularly on television. so thats part of it. the other part is he realize thats brennan with his attachment to the deep state, with his ties to the russia probe, could be a useful foil here. someone else he could attack. a proxy for requesting aft...

As a foil and as a crazy left winger. >> it raises the question of how the white house moves going forward revoking anyone elses clearance. what will they say? with john brennan they point to television, most notingly after the summit with vladimir putin nothing short of treasonous but others didnt say anything that vocally critical of the president. so thats raising the question of what to say going forward to justify it, revoking other clearances and on friday the president said bruce ohr is n...

Kind of mentioned that on the us what lawn on friday. why we want this fight? >> well, in a lot of ways john brennan san idea foil for someone like president trump who believes that the law enforcement intelligence community had their thumb on the scale when in the last year of obama in 2016 during the campaign and here you have the former cia director who has, you know, very shrill tones and using in my view a lot of hyperbole described the traders reactions as traitor, treasonous, et cetera. i...

After this president. joining me is - - former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the woodrow wilson center. and guy benson. congresswoman, let me start with you because brennan and those others are saying this is an effort to shut them up but doesnt the president make a good point? brennan has a bigger platform than ever? he was all over cable tv and in the new york times. who is being shut up? >> he is setting brennan up to be this foil. i think that brennans irish as he called ...

Wants to keep their security clearance. it is worth press dij and big dollars and why people are coming forward to protect brennan. not because of the good job he did. he is a political hack wrote the president. >> he is certainly political. my friend and colleague eli lake was on "fox & friends" this morning talked about how the president wants to elevate john brennan as a foil. he is saying i wont you to speak and be out there. democrats and progressives should perform an audit why the preside...

Decent relationships with the truth. whats your sense of how much this erosion of what we can believe and what we cant is setting in? >> i think there is clearly -- has been a rising distrust in the media for awhile. lets be honest, the hasnt always had the highest approval ratings with the public. i think there is this rising skepticism from the public about what we are disseminating, what lawmakers are telling us, and a lot of that frankly has come from the president. this was something he did...