this week. it's next week. clearly, the investigation moving to a new phase. the president watching it saying he'll be more involved. we have no idea what this means, jake. >> jeff zeleny at the white house with the breaking news, thank you so much. cia spokesperson told cnn that the agency has no comment on the threat of revoking security clearances. let's discuss here. david, this is unprecedented. you don't have to defend it if you don't want to. >> listen. so yeah. unprecedented. but, you know, the revoking of security clearance, i know this is a revoking of security clearances. these gentlemen have been retired for quite sometime. i think it is a nicety that they're allowed to keep the clearances to be part of the club. the revocation of a clearance, it doesn't take abuse and not sure why they maintain them. >> we'll go to barbara starr at the pentagon to explain that in one second but first i want everybody's reaction. what do you think? >> the thing is that he's not