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It differently. >> juan: do i ever. collusion. the russians must be involved. listen, this is so interesting to me. he is an obama appointee, a friend of jim clapper, director of national intelligence, confirmed unanimously. everybody likes him. then he gets involved in a situation that is thoroughly political which is the overblown attention to hillary clintons emails. never leaked, never hacked. nothing to them. she is the authority as secretary of state at on what is to be classified for the ...

Even after the visit of a chinese envoy recently. frequently for prisoner exchanges, theyve asked to senior people to come, and among them have been president carter, president clinton, the former governor of new mexico, who would go in periodically, and that was governor richardson. and we saw jim clapper, the former head of the director of national intelligence go in and do a release. you would think if they wanted to get a serious negotiation going they would ask for one of those four or some...

>> no. of course not. and, you know, for those of us that have worked, you know, with these intelligence and law enforcement heads, you know, the idea for example that jim clapper, this career public servant going all the way back to vietnam who doesnt have a partisan bone in his body would somehow decide to have it in for donald trump is just absurd on its face. and i think when the president calls them hacks among the professionals in the intelligence community it just further lowers him in th...

Reprehensible that on veterans day that donald trump would attack and impugn the integrity and the character of jim clapper, who served in uniform for 35 years, who responded to the call of his country to go for vietnam, flew in over 70 combat support missions over vietnam and like senator mccain really did put his life at risk because of this countrys national security. to impugn the character of somebody like jim clapper on veterans day who has dedicated so much of his life to this country, i ...

>> well, first of all, he was referring to us as political hacks because he was trying to delegitimize the intelligence assessment that was done. >> first of all he was jim clapper and james comey did not write that assessment. it was written by law enforcement officers of this great country. secondly, i feel very honored to be associated with jim clapper and james comey in the same category. considering the source of the criticism, i consider that criticism a badge of honor. and third, i found ...

Professionals there. there is no credible argument on the other side of it. i think donald trump may be the last person in america who seems to have a real tough time getting it through his head that the russians indeed tried to influence our election in 2016, and they as far as trump is concerned may never pay a price for it. >> weve been down this road before. >> clapper and brennan have a right to their opinion, but they also have a right to be criticized. its very clear that both these indiv...

>> joining us now is cnn political commentator and conservative radio host ben ferguson from dallas, texas, and from new york, columnist from metro papers, ellis henican. gentlemen, glad to have you both with us. >> good to be here. >> ellis, lets start with you. is this the talk of political hacks? we just heard mr. brennan, mr. clapper. that the talk of political hacks? >> no. its something who loves his country who is trying to answer somebody who is a peril to. listen, this is absurd. this w...

At him like a panzer tank. any level of distraction here is not going to shake it off and bringing after people -- people like john brennan, who is a fabulous career civil servant, or jim clapper, a retired three-star admiral and civil servant, thats a mistake as well. >> best legal and political analysis of the morning from admiral james stavridis. and gordon, thank you very much. "morning joe" is coming right back.

Honor it has been to serve with the likes of john brennan and jim comey who are dedicated public servants and have served this country long and well and with great integrity. i think it cannot have a positive impact on the morale of the workforce intelligence community. but i do believe in my heart that the men and women of the intelligence community will continue to convey truth to power, even if the power ignores the truth. >> joining us now is cnn political commentator and conservative radio ...