Good morning, everyone. Im alex witt here in new york at msnbc headquarters. Heres whats happening. The clearance crisis. The first interview with former cia director john brennan since losing his security clearance. If these were normal times i would have expected this, but these are not normal times. These are frankly very frightening times. What brennan plans to do about it and who may be next to lose theirs. And steve bannon on the road to november. And tPresident Trump, new words of support. Very sad wa theyve done to Paul Manafort. This hour, whether the president s comments will help sway the jury. Get right to action from former cia director john brennan. He told my colleague last night why he thinks the president is targeting him, and also responding to a New Washington post report that white house officials are drafting documents to revoke security clearances of others who have either criticized the president or played a role in the russia investigation. Heres part of directo
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irrevocation of a clearance. what we saw with john brens was potentiwas brennan was the first of a series of clearances that could be revoked from very widely respected officials. to that point, has anybody been able to put two and two together and say this is what john brennan did or said and it s a violation of national securi security? any incontrovertible proof to say, here s why we did it? no. on the contrary. the white house said basically they felt he was potentially risking national security with his comments criticizing the president, and taking a partisan approach, but that s really not a legitimate reason for revoking someone s clearance. on the contrary. the intelligence officials should be completely removed from political debate, and they basically inserted inserted