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To all members of congress regardless of party is when you go out and take away peoples security clearances in an effort to try to stifle their first amendment rights, what that does to these individuals and what signal it sends to other law enforcement, intelligence community officials that have to continue to speak the truth of power. >> what recourse do you have here -- >> neil: all right. continuing to monitor this here. this is mark warner, critical of the presidents decision to revoke the ...

Republican, hes now said hes a democrat. so there are a couple of republicans on there. to me the most interesting one from lets say the enemies list side of things, those people who are on warning, on notice that their security credentials could be, their access could be revoked, bruce ohr is a sitting member of the department of justice, answers to jeff sessions who answers to the president. he is talking about revoking the security of members of his own administration that have authorities, h...

And consulted for foreign governments, including turkey. this is not an uncommon thing. i do think its worth delving into whether the president and the white house actually intend to follow through with this. i do think this is much more about making the point that there are these people out there who are criticizing the president and saying things that we dont like about him and its an effort to really discredit them. i dont think a real tangible threat. >> thats interesting. >> its not about t...

They have opened up the roads around the white house, and they are letting some people in and out of the white house complex, depending on their security credentials. but as you point out, this was a pretty harrowing morning and afternoon for many people around the white house. this is a very busy spot. this is a spot that many tourists come to check out the white house. and it was right before noon today where this individual came in front of the white house and fired multiple shots in an attem...

When he pulled comey aside that day and said, you know, i think you ought to go easy on general flynn. what did he know at that particular time. and also i might add that it raises questions about why it took so long to fire flynn. i mean it took about three weeks, as we know, and if they knew this information, and they thought that he had misled the fbi, which would mean, by the way, that your own national security advisor would likely have his security credentials revoked, why did it take so l...

Probable federal election campaign violations, the solicitation of something of value, probably was implicated by his conduct. for manafort and kushner, the leaving out of this meeting on their security clearance forms becomes much more profoundly important to them. it seems to me that leaving this out is emblematic of something thats untruthful or hiding in their behavior. so, you could say, maybe, they made a mistake at one point, and theyve now corrected it. but leaving out a meeting that see...

Documents from security adviser michael flynn? they say he left out information on his security application, failing to disclose a 2016 trip that was financed by a russian deal. senator, whats your reaction to the news that your colleagues on the house side are seeking this information on general flynns work in saudi arabia, that he didnt disclose it when hes applying to renew his security credentials? >> well, if you draw conclusions as a prosecutor about what we can see from the flynn investig...

But clearly this is an indication that the obama folks are getting frustrated and losing patience with president trump with these remarks about the obama administration being responsible for michael flynn. >> the obama administration fired michael flynn as the dia director back in 2014. and in early 2016 when he got his security credentials, security clearances renewed, it was the dia, his former employer at the pentagon as well as the u.s. army that gave him those security credentials. now corr...

When we started the interview, i didnt even know he had had it! >> and interesting that he said personal engagement is the key to influencing this president. >> this president, totally. >> its a great podcast. >> thank you for being here. >> good to be here. happy easter. >> happy easter to you, too. >> happy easter to all of you, too. calls from democratic lawmakers demanding the fbi pull jared kushners security credentials. youre going to hear from one of those lawmakers straight ahead, righ...

Would want this information no matter what. >> and hes getting this information and the form hes getting it is his choice. and the form hes getting it are in the brightest. and isis is a real problem. this is the person whos funneling this information through for donald trump. >> we dont know what mike flynn is telling him. with do know the classified briefings would be -- >> we -- >> -- around the world from the very u.s. intelligence officials who are on the ground there. >> we in the media do...