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Today -- >> i said john. >> sorry, john. despite what you said about the dispute in the persian gulf, its clear the president is taking sides in this. why? >> in what way? >> he said today on twitter, all references pointed to qatar. perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism. >> i commented on this. he is talking about terror financing. thats not what i said. he had a productive discussion and he was pleased that they joined with the other gulf nations in support o...

But let me ask you what the reaction would be in moscow today to this news that a critic of donald trumps pro-putin policies was stripped of his clearances, will now be denied access to the kind of classified information that gives him insight and sort of the kind of access to understand whats going on in real-time? >> well, putin supported president trump because he was the chaos candidate and this is just adding to the chaos. this is more norm breaking, this is more doing things that have neve...

John, would in a still be considered spying? as the president claims? >> absolutely not. a counter intelligence investigation is not a criminal investigation. their job is to thwart and neutralize foreign poweris who might be trying to take advantage of the united states. thats not spying on the campaign. thats trying to protect the campaign. and if mr. trump wanted to know about that issue all he has to do is ask his self-apointed fbi director to brief him on it. to go public and smear the fbi ...

This is a very, very good team. i wouldnt want to be on the wrong side of it. >> john, tell us about being able to gather all this stuff from social media, all the rallies being held in different places i didnt know were happening. hillary in a cage and all this crazy stuff going on. theyve been able to track it all down. >> the russians have been doing this type of political and information warfare against us for many, many years. but the advantage they had this time, theres a number of advanta...