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Predict. and i felt a duty, an oshlgs to speak up because of that long history of defending these things i think are extremely important for this country. and sure, at my advanced age id just as soon dance offstage but i feel a duty and an obligation to speak up. i think john and mike and others feel the same way. >> you can do your dancing on your own time youve got a lot of gas left in the tank and we need you on this show on a regular basis. >> the irony, chris, just one brief comment, is if ...

Brennan has been so palpable -- >> does he have a right to sneak or does he not? >> of course he has the right to speak but he doesnt have the right to continue to receive the privilege thats bestowed by the president of the united states. >> why should the president punish somebody for speaking out if they havent done anything to compromise their clearance? >> it is not a question of punish if youre talking about a right. but if youre talking about a privilege, essentially a favor, a courtesy -...

Press da precedent. joining us now, lisa monaco, a senior national security analyst. thanks so much for being with us. so many developments overnight, including the president telling us exactly why he did revoke the security clearance of former cia director john brennan and put those nine other people on the list on double secret probation to have their security clearances revoked if they speak out again and the president says its because they were behind the russia investigation. he says i ca...

Through years, many of them decades of service to the country, starting when they were very young, some of them. look, i think its largely symbolic. chris, why? because like clapper told us, like brennan said, they really have not seen classified information since trump became president. i highly doubt that anybody at d.o.j. is calling sally yates to ask for her opinion or anybody at fbi is calling james comey because they know that anybody who would call any of those folks on that list would pr...

That if they give uncomfortable assessments and pass uncomfortable messages up the chain that they should beware that theres going to be retaliation and thats a dangerous thing for our democracy and national security. >> you say its more about the message than perhaps the direct impact of someone like brennan not having a security clearance. michael hayden, james clapper have all said they dont think the country will suffer terribly much from them not having top secret clearance. >> i think that...

To brennan, clapper, michael hayden, they dont believe the fact that they dont have clearance in and of itself will have any major impact on national security which would include any investigations. let me get your take on what john brennan did right this morning. because he reacted. clearly if president trump was trying to silence john brennan, it didnt work. because a few hours after revoking his security clearance, brennan came out with this op-ed in the "new york times" and he says the presi...

Year after the investigation started. all right? what does that tell us? it tells us this is just about political payback. then quho then who do we have next? michael hayden. you also see him here on cnn. the former director of national security, the national security agency, and the cia director. those are two really big jobs. what has he done? hes compared trumps policies to those in nazi germany. so his crime, well, none in terms of the probe. he didnt really play any role in any of the thing...

Administration officials. he doesnt want to say their name. because who knows what trump would do to them? now they dont have access to that. how does that make us more of a? how about bruce ohr? hes over here. hes still a government employee. he still works for the d.o.j. whats his connection to the russia probe? well, his wife worked for fusion gps. whos that? thats the same firm that hired christopher steele. the man who developed the looets leads, bundled together and now called the dossier....

40-year-old .50-caliber browning machine gun and in honor of his achievement his weapon is being retired to the sas headquarters as a museum piece. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us, good night from washington. if i met henry. im ed henry. >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the white house has announced tonight it has revoked the former cia director john brennan considering doing the same to former officials who like brennan ha...

United states personally permitted security clearances? how could that even be permitted. we deserve great credit for tha that. in terms of the spectacle of seeing the former fbi director, the former cia director, the national director of intelligence james clapper, absolutely a assault against this president and attacking him personally -- almost weekly, then it became more frequent. we had never witnessed anything near that in that countrys history. >> tucker: im confused, though. if you ran o...