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>> it sure does seem that it would likely have come from the michael cohen camp. its very clear that cohen feels aggrieved, he feels abandoned by donald trump. hes been lashing out. his lawyer is making clear that he is adverse to donald trump and prepared to testify against him. so it wouldnt surprise me at all that if at the end of the day this information came from cohens camp. i want to go back to the issue of why this is a huge deal. some people are suggesting this is the smoking gun of col...

Cohen is doing. they think its not necessarily a savvy legal strategy for himself, and he is acting again like a betrayed man who is just lashing out. on the other hand, they are deeply concerned because this guy who is one of the key people in trumps orbit who would know where the bodies were buried, who was often tasked with sort of burying the proverbial bodies, he is behaving like a woundi wounding man and lashing out. if there is anything there, michael cohen is in a position to give it up ...

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>> april, how do you describe all this lashing out and destruction? >> one, hes lashing out because this president does not like to look like hes wrong. this is a wag the dog situation, meaning that its a distraction from the real issue. and chris is absolutely right. its russia, russia, russia, russia, russia all the time, and what can i do to take peoples attention away from it? look at this, youve got poll numbers from nbc and "wall street journal" saying that independents have dropped for tr...

And trump tweeted how iran better not test them or they will suffer more than anyone has suffered. this afternoon we had the security clearances. these are not unserious issues, particularly iran, and i would say more broadly, sort of free speech as it relates to people who used to work in the government. but they are, i think, meant to take some level of attention away from that one thing that he just cant get rid of that he views as a looming cloud over his presidency, that he has told the rus...

Then earlier today we learned that trump might revoke the security clearances of a handful of his critics who just happen to be former intelligence officials. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennans security clearance, hes also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice, and mccabe. >> former cia director john brennan now an msnbc and nbc news analyst. former analyst michael hayden former national security adviser uns susan rice who by the way has not said muc...

Brennan now an msnbc and nbc news analyst. former analyst michael hayden former national security adviser uns susan rice who by the way has not said much publicly about the president. former fbi director james comey and former deputy director andrew mccabe. the last two for the record no longer have security clearances. which gives you a sense of how much thought the white house put into this stunt. for more on whats behind the presidents lashing out im joined by jake sullivan former national se...

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Who is to dewhat -- decide what is political ant what isnt? this is lashing out at the presidents critics. its part of your job to defend your position and say why youre right and theyre wrong. going after them in this way or slanting the playing field seems to set a dangerous precedence. >> when a former cia director says the news conference that he held in helsinki with vladimir putin was treasonous or bordered on treason, thats strong stuff from a guy like jim brennan. and he was talking abou...