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Former FBI senior intelligence adviser Phil Mudd told CNN’s Jim Acosta Sunday, "If you say, 'Defund the FBI,' let your kid be abused by an adult."

The Democrats and Republicans have completely polarized their political ideas, engaging in a religious-like “purge of dissidents.” This catalyzes the growth of domestic extremism, which eventually leads to an irreversible black hole in US society.

Is the final investigation of the administration whether it was the fake elector scandal, the day of january 6th. and while hes become a bit of a fan favorite in the congressional hearings, for his sort of funny commentary, he is somebody who had incredible access to the president in those final days, and i think it is just another important person to bring in and piece together what we already know, but the more cooperation, the better for the dojs investigation. >> phil, on the fbis search of ...

Openingopening options and you can see why merrick garland is sitting around for weeks saying this say disaster and any step i take say problem. no good answers here, kate. >> there is also -- you mentioned mueller. andrew weissman, people may remember, hes a former investigator in the mueller probe, high profile name at that time, he posted an interesting question that has not been answered amid all the noise surrounding this, which is why trump still has not said why he took the documents, why...

Proceeds, wolf. >> sara murray, thank you very much. lets get to more on all of this. joining us now, chief political correspondent dana bash and phil mudd and state attorney for palm beach county down in florida, dave ehrenberg. do you agree with the justice department that releasing the affidavit, which they reiterate implicates and im quoting now, highly classified materials could undermine their investigation if they were to release this affidavit? >> i do. if you look at what the governme...

Remember the attorney general didnt open the door on the documents, on the search warrant, the president did. as soon as the attorney general starts talking about the case, people say we need updates. we need to know when the case closes. we need to know why you did this additional search. there is a lot of downside to him speaking and not a lot of upside. >> phil mudd, as always, appreciate your time and your expertise. thank you for joining us. >> great. so after a brutal attack, the agent f...

Americans are coming after us and you got to understand one of them might be coming after you. this is unprecedented in my experience. >> phil, what do you make of the call from some republicans for the fbi director christopher wray to come forward and justify the timeliness of this search? is that something you think he should do? >> i would be extremely uncomfortable doing that if i were him. there is a couple of reasons for that. first of all, we keep going back to a common principle, i reali...

Mar-a-lago, they have been confronted with more threats than they have ever seen before. a law enforcement source tells cnn that the personal information of fbi employees is being posted online, including agents that were listed as being involved in the search. lets discuss now with cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. phil, grateful to have you bright and early on a sunday morning. you dedicated much of your career to public service. and national security. im curious to get your reaction to ...

Maybe you should consider defunding the fbi, and opposing the fbi, because of what happened at mar-a-lago. my point is that in a country of 330 million people, a fringe of people who are energized and we saw that on january 6th, we saw that a few days ago at cincinnati, will say might interpret that message to mean i got to attack an fbi office or an fbi employee. i dont care political leaders say they dont intend to motivate someone to violence. if they say oppose the fbi and the fbi is your en...

Does Phil Mudd know something The Washington Post doesn't? On Friday's New Day, Mudd, a CNN counterterrorism analyst, claimed that even with the Top Secret clearance he had in his senior positions at the FBI and CIA, he wouldn't have been permitted to view the documents related to nuclear weapons that the FBI was allegedly looking for at Mar-a-Lago.