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His attacks in this tweet this morning hours after the former cia director spoke with rachel maddow. the other people on the so-called enemys list now, i think this is just another example of mr. trump trying to frighten and intimidate others. but i can tell you having worked in the national security and intelligence community for many, many years, these are not the type of people who are going to be bullied or intimidated by someone by the likes of mr. trump. starting at this hour, jeff ben...

Most distinguished national security officials that this country has to offer. and what hes doing is lashing out to try to protect himself. thats all it is. its not about national security, and on the subject of giving away the nations secrets, there is zero evidence that john brennan has ever done that. but president trump gave away national security information to the soviet ambassador and soviet foreign minister in the oval office right after he fired james comey, so the danger does not resid...

And i think that thats, you know, its going to get more serious if the president does turn out to try to revoke bruce or, the justice department officials security clearance. thats different if hes revoking a clearance of a currently serving official. the reason why hes been lashing out at bruce is the series of fox news talking points over the last year has finally started to make its way to the president. he saw how well it worked with peter strzok, andrew mccabe, the former fbi officials who ...

The presidents back from vacation. he hasnt been seen publicly in two days. but he has been keeping busy, tweeting up an angry storm. back with me now, philip mudd, kirsten powers, rick wilson. kirsten, the russia investigation, omarosa, brennan, the news media, the nfl, lebron james. what does it say to you that this president is lashing out nonstop like this? >> i know a lot of people are saying hes doing this to distract from the things that you just said. but honestly i dont feel like what y...

Journal" and he ties it to this, its hard for any american to assess does he only want yes men around him when hes making decisions of war or is this just a president completely consumed in bunker mentality and hes lashing out with all the power before him. thats a scary enough concept that the president would use his power simply to make these political pushback attacks but its hard to assess if thats how he would respond absent that. >> david chalian, always a pleasure to have you with us, tha...

The presidents back from vacation. he hasnt been seen publicly in two days. but he has been keeping busy, tweeting up an angry storm. philip mudd, kirsten powers, rick wilson. kirsten, the russia investigation, omarosa, brennan, the news media, the nfl, lebron james. what does it say to you that this president is lashing out nonstop like this? >> i know a lot of people are saying hes doing this distract from the things that you said. but honestly i dont feel like what you listed is like any othe...

"in the case of former directors, the agency upholds its clearance and renews it every five years for the rest of their life. however, that requires former cia directors to behave like the current cia employees." is what you saw, is that, you know, a man demeaning a sitting president of the united states on a daily basis on national tv, is that acceptable behavior for a sitting member of the cia? of course not. the always indignant john brennan, hes lashing out yet again yet again, writing on tw...

Put on notice, griff jenkins live in washington with reaction from both sides. >> in an interview this morning the president says his decision to revoke brennans clearance was born out of the russia probe saying, quote, i call it the rigged witchhunt. it is a sham. these people would it so it was something that had to be done. sarah sanders explained the decision to pool clearance, leveraging status of the terrorists and outrageous allegations and added this. >> any benefit senior officials migh...

Sally yates, former acting attorney general. he threatened with firing jeff sessions, robert mueller and rod rosenstein, the d.a.g. revoke the security clearance of john brennan and threaten the security clearances of james clapper, our former colleague michael hayden, susan rice, and as frank just said bruce orr. what does that picture look like you to? >> it looks like a massive abuse of power to me, nicolle. this is a cornered president lashing out in all directions. one of things we know is ...

Had some unusually alarming words from the presidents lawyer, rudy guiliani, who said today if he, robert mueller, doesnt get it done in the next two or three weeks, we will just unload on him like a ton of bricks. write the damn report so we can see it and rebut it. thats the lawyer for the president of the united states issuing a very clear threat, is it not, to the special counsel. is that obstruction of justice? >> yeah. i think that rudy guiliani is making those threats because right now he...