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Security clearance and looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice and mccabe. the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because theyve politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances. >> all right. lets bring in the political and legal experts. laura coats, what is your reaction to the stunning announcement at the white house? >> its a punishment for those that criticized the president of the united states which i...

To express their unpolitical opinions once they leave office? >> well, i think it does. its a very sad and disturbing thing for the first amendment. >> and one quick question. tell us, general clapper, how many years did you serve in the active u.s. military and how personally irritated are you right now that someone with your background in the military, 30, 40 years, whatever it was, is being treated like this? >> well, obviously, i think its pretty shabby. and im not -- just not me. i served 3...

Last night on cnn, james clapper seemed to reaffirm that. here he was. >> before we left the room, started writing a press release about our encounter, trying to say that the russian meddling, russian interference had no impact on the outcome of the election. we didnt say that but i think there was skepticism from the get go from that day to this day that indicated that anything that attacked the legitimacy of now president trumps election, he couldnt get his head around. >> couldnt get his head...

Back. i guess frankly what just seems to be an absurd way, saying the president was for the first time ever just saying no, no more questions when in fact he didnt say no, no more questions. he just said no and thank you very much. i mean, to hear chris wray, hes obviously an honorable person, but he is saying what he believes, but it certainly contradict whats the president seems to believe. >> well, yeah. to his credit as well as that of dan coats for speaking up and speaking truth to power, w...

Believes, but it certainly contradict whats the president seems to believe. >> well, yeah. to his credit as well as that of dan coats for speaking up and speaking truth to power, which by the way was the subject of the, quote, beautiful letter, unquote, that president trump alluded to in his cbs interview. and it is not a witch-hunt. it is a serious, serious investigation, the catalyst for which was the intelligence community assessment that we did in the last administration. >> general clapper,...

Fired or are no longer there. i certainly cant have any confidence in the past, but i can have a lot of kchsz in the present and the future, because its getting now where were putting our people in. i have no confidence in a guy like brennan, i think hes a total low life. i have no confidence in clapper. you know, clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i went into office, and when i first got into office and they got him to say maybe things that he didnt even mean. i have no confidence in past...

It was the russians. nobody else. it wasnt the chinese, a guy in new jersey. it was the russians and the president is always ambiguous about that. >> do you trust the president when he now says that in that private meeting with putin he told putin not to meddle in future elections? >> i would like to hope he did. but i wonder why he didnt say that on a world stage when he was standing next to him. and he didnt seem -- frankly, he seemed to be intimidated by putin. and so i dont know. i hope he d...

Officials are feeling as if theyre providing him advice hes -- theyre providing intelligence hes not listening to and his staff walked in with pages and pages of how to deal with putin and he threw all of that out as well. so in that debate you were having earlier with general clapper about whether or not people should resign, the main reason they may resign is theyre probably feeling theyre completely ineffective. >> yeah, in fact, thats what he said. how can you not feel irrelevant today regar...

Rick, the rush to the summit, the president speed in embracing it when he barely knew the details and when the south koreans first came to him. now nervousness some on the whouts staff that president moon is too eager. they had the meeting to get it back on track. they are talking about having him as who general clapper described as this aggressive spy chief coming to the white house tomorrow.

Chamber. particularly with respect to their attacks on hillary cli clinton. >> all right, thank you very much. general clapper, i appreciate your time tonight, as always, thanks, sir. >> thanks, erin. next, will ripley on -- i dont know what word you use to describe it. lets go with bizarre. the trip to north koreas nuclear test site. and harvey weinstein in handcuffs today, facing charges of rape. its all about the double iis with xiidra... ...the only eye drop... ...approved for the signs....