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>> president obama, along with brennan and clapper and the whole group that you see on television now probably getting paid a lot of money by networks. they knew about russias attempt in interfere in the election in september and they totally burned it. >> laura: hes basically saying they did nothing. if hillary won, what would they have done? is the president wise to speak in those terms about the intel agencies or at least the past directors? >> i think were in a different world here. i would ...

And clapper as well as othersrs including james comey and other intelligence officials were up to no good. >> laura: and theres a couple of moments over the last month or so that really jumped out at me where the criticism of the president -- well, it was particularly nasty it involves both clapper and brennan. lets watch. >> mr. trump is not sophisticated enough, unfortunately, to deal with these foreign leaders in a manner that is going to protect u.s. national security. >> this past weekend i...

Clappers case that clappers interference won the election to trump." senior intelligence officers know we speculate at our own peril.tr joining us now with reaction is lee smith, the real clear investigation reporter who wrote that piece. were joined by former cia covert ops operator baker and "wall street "wall street [ indiscernible ] >> it seems a lot of conservative have seen what happened to john brennan and a lesser extent to james clapper. what else did you find in your reporting? >> ther...

Considering is yanking those security clearances. those are given to them or remain with them as a courtesy. not just brennan but anyone coming out of a senior position. and frankly we should be overhauling the clearance process regardless. but i think, to lees point in this article that you started with, yes, it is true that by talking the way that john brennan is talking and talking that james clapper is discussing, there are -- in a sense, theyre furthering the russian objective which is esse...

That kind of hatred, theyre smearing 63 million americans for voting for donald trump. thats even worse in my view than going after the president. >> laura: thats what they dont understand. they turned out to vote for trump because they know those folks look down on them. trump didnt. >> how condescending elite institutions, which includes the elite media are, when it comes to -- >> the forgotten men and women. fantastic panel. thank you for joining us tonight. >> why a former cia moscow station...

Sticks in his craw, and in the craw of a lot of us. you said that the november, "sources and methods, lives and operations, were all at risk." go into more of that if you could. >> it sticks in my car, too. we started this whole thing. we ended up referring edge of the fbi. but yeah, there were a lot of classified documents, highly classified documents, that were among this cache of documents that were on a private server. and there were open threats made to my folks who are looking into this, a...

You said that the november "sources and methods, lives and o operations, were all at risk." go into more of that if you could. >> it sticks in my craw, too. we started this whole thing. we ended up referring it to the fbi. but yeah, there were a lot of classified documents, highly classified documents, that were among this cache of documents that were on a private server. and there were open threats made to my folks who are looking into this, and to me, it is well documented at this point. it hi...

Then you have air force one where he denied, denied, having any knowledge of stormy daniels. then it comes out that he did have knowledge of it. deny, deny this, and now michael cohen says he knew about it. >> the president is not a credible witness. hes a pathological liar. he lies an average of 6.5 times a day according to "the washington post." hes lied consistently about everything to do with the russia case, the collusion charges, everything. but the cover-up is crumbling. >> in your piece,...

Pressure. just think about whats happened in the last day with on the one hand you have growing evidence of trump collusion, and its not just this, by the way, i mean, the way that trump behaved with putin last week lends further credence to the collusion charges, and led people like jim clapper to say the russians have something on him. the case against trump and the russians grows stronger. at the same time, the republicans are going into overdrive to protect him, theyre trying to impeach rod ...

Oppression and profession. how easy would it be to get them to take totally insane positions by telling them that trump is against it? >> i do not think it would be difficult as you point out at all. think about the positions that clapper has taken. the lies that he has told. comey misrepresented at the very least, so much. he talked about president trump as a man who is nefarious, but this is the man, he was perfectly willing to serve as his fbi director. and the list goes on. the madness and t...