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General, is laughing along to that? >> thats nothing more than a shameful suck-up to the president who wants his attorney general to fall in line on the russia investigation. its really shameful because it is part of this trumpist approach of using the apparatus of the state to punish political opponents. thats the reason why he wants to remove security clearance access for those longstanding members of the professional intelligence cadre, people like retired four-star air force general mike hay...

Security clearances werent in his purview. we went back in the wayback machine, back to july 2016, when security clearances seemed to be in his purview. listen. >> i think the dni, clapper, should deny hillary clinton access to classified information during this campaign. i think thats something that the administration should do on its own. but well look into seeing if thats something we can do as well. >> so jeremy, did he look into it and realize that congress doesnt have it in their purview? ...

I think thats unprecedented and its something that we should be concerned about as jim clapper, the former director of national intelligence says it starts to look heady and causes friction with the intelligence community where there really shouldnt be. we need to be a unified voice and presence to confront our enemies. >> john, we crossed the petty line a long time ago. the danger here is that the continued assault on law enforcement or intelligence officials in this country. you and i talked a...

Understand what it is they saw, to rationalize it, to explain it away, to speculate on what kinds of kompromat the russians could have on trump. when the answer, like infidelity or death was staring them, us, in the face, yes, putin has something on trump. he helped him win. thats the kompromat. ned, do you agree? do you concur? do you say at least its possible? >> well, brian, i think thats an element of the kompromat. in fact, it has to be because as we have heard from jim clapper to other exp...

An element of the comp rumod because as we have heard from jim clapper to otherer experts out there, its unlikely that donald trump would be our commander and chief today were it not for russias interference in our election. was decided in three swing states that were particular targets for the it russians. but i also think that may not be it. and i think we have to account for the fact that there are other additive elements on top of this. on one extreme you have had it theory, which i think is...

Well. you talk about playing it for comedic relief, i dont think the president likes being laughed at. you have to think that it wasnt received well by the president, and the reporting was it wasnt received well by his top aides. whether that would endanger his job at this particular point is sort of another question because coats is so key to all of this, the president the other day said he had faith in coats, came out finally and said he had faith in the intelligence community, so to fire dan ...

Meeting. john brennan, the cia director of the time. james clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time. and at the time, the fbi director, james comey. second, lets take a look at what these men have been saying since the trump-putin summit. >> what mr. trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the fbi, cia, nsa, and others. he betrayed the american public. that is why i use the term, nothing short of treason is created as a betrayal of the nation. >> this president a...

Hillarys server? "clinton cash" author peter schweizer is here to pull back the curtain. we begin with the oh so curious timing of a damaging leak targeting president trump. in-flight may have come from the unholy alliance of james comey, jim clapper, and john brennan. it was a headline that something media apparatus into apoplexy. "the new york times" blaring from the start, trump has muddied a clear message, putin interfered. of course, this meeting was not a secret. on the findings not exactl...

These trade imbalances, he is a negotiator, a real estate developer by training and he is tough on them but people are taking that as a wrong sign he is trying to break up the alliance. he is trying to strengthen the alliance. sometimes when you grow up in new york youre tough on the people you love and youre tough on the people you know youre the closest to and i think thats also being misinterpreted by the media. i think we have to explain that. >> bill: he doesnt believe the people who gave h...

The trump campaign. you have 12 russians indicted for meddling in the campaign. this is not a witch hunt. this is an absolutely essential investigation into what russia tried to do in our elections and continues trying to do to this day. until we get to the bottom of it, no way we will be able -- >> no collusion. >> bill: the whole point about -- the biggest critics comey, clapper, brennan were running the shots then. what were they doing? if obama knew about it and warned by nunes as he said ti...