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Moments ago, asking donald trump if he would revoke muellers security clearance. he said he could run the mueller probe if he wanted to as officials sign a new statement blasting trump for revoking security clearance from john brennan. ill talk to ellen farc cass, a former obama official who signed that letter, comes amid a startling report the trump white house at one point had an even bigger target than brennan. former president barack obama. last year, as trump was publicly attacking obama, s...

At 54, gorbachev is the youngest man to lead the soviet union since stalin. unlike his predecessors, gorbachev may feel less tied down by the burden of soviet history. >> gorbachev is a revolution among himself. hes talking about a new soviet union allowing some freedom of speech, allowing a more open society. gorbachev had seen how the gap between how the soviet people lived and what the party said was growing wider and wider. but he is a child of the system. he did not want to destroy it. he h...

Iraq war. in september one thousand eight hundred saddam hussein decided to invade iran just months after the revolution the fledgling islamic republic was threatened with destruction. in the heart that he thought if you are in the iranian collective memory syria was the only country to supporters during the war against iraq. and weve never forgotten that that hard to the war which was. that sense of strategic solitude the iranians experience during the iran iraq war. deep impact on their thinki...

And sort of thumping that book of we need to be safe. we need to be secure and defense comes first, what are they going to make of this as it continues on trump slowly but surely makes it clear he doesnt like these people because they criticize him. this is no good. i think were in a moment where we dont know how this is going to fully play out. its just a sad -- its a very sad day in america when we see the mccarthy era tactics come to the surface. i never thought id see the day in 2018. >> you...

Can we draw on the experience of these predecessors who have these clearances to provide advice? i would argue john brennan has a voice in doing that. i think he ought to retain his clearance. >> by that explanation, and definition, does that mean that the presidents actions are imposing a threat to national security ji n security? not being annal to give big picture perspective sump as the ones you reached out to your predecessors for and articulated earlier? is that a national security throat ...

Lose their security clearance and will -- and will there be a check and balance to this? the process is not easy to get security clearance. it seems like the process to remove is easy. >> typically there is a appeals process to go through if your clearance is revoked and i know that bruce ohr is the only member of the list currently working for the department of justice. but typically you go through a process and it is very uncommon. i believe the reporting stated that none of his predecessors w...

Tone in his voice, does that mean hes made up his voice, theres no interview coming, were done here? >> i think hed be foolish to submit himself to an interview. his chief deputy is a person whos schooled in obstruction of justice. hes the prosecutor in the operand s in the case, angel weissman. were not going to see an interview by him. >> was there a serious effort by team trump to negotiate one? rudys has been out here saying june 4th or september 1st, was that all rudy yapping? >> it wasnt j...

Abuse allegations, torture allegations. a bridge too far? would you have done it? >> i wouldnt have. the hard problem is when you are doing a lot of negative attacks, which is a big part of what the job at the rnc is. it was true when i was there. its true for my predecessors and people who could come after. its very easy to take that one step too far than you would. i would say, aoc does not need help from the rnc or any other organizations in bringing national publicity to herself. she does th...

In national security. is that experience relevant to a president when the country is facing threats? >> absolutely. you want the people who are currently in those top jobs at the cia, the dia, the pentagon, to be able to go back to predecessors predecessors and ask questions. people think theyre going back and rifling through files. thats not the way it works. their successors invite them in and say, let me brief you an what were seeing. what do you think? by taking away clearances, you cant do ...

Care of it now. >> a former senior counterterrorism director worn to the current president not to pull the roughly 2,000 troops out of syria and thousands more out of iraq too soon. >> you see from president trump a desire to move on, its something his predecessors showed too but the problem is the mission continues. >> pentagon officials 100 up isis fighters have moved underground and theyve moved back to their terrorist roots after a series of kidnappings and bombings have raised fears seven m...