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Sided with russia over americas Intelligence Community. The president is now changing his message once again, calling the entire russia investigation a hoax. This as the president is privately frustrated by the lack of progress with north korea. And now kim jonguns regime is making new demands on the u. S. On top of all of that, former Trump Campaign adviser carter page admitted he informally advised the kremlin. Paul manaforts criminal trial is set to begin this week. The fbi has a secret tape of the president and his lawyer Michael Cohen discussing a payment to a former playboy model, and the plot is thickening on an alleged russian spy here in the United States. And remember, we still dont know what happened during the president s oneonone meeting in helsinki with Vladimir Putin. Lets start with our white house correspondent. The president is reversing his walk back on russia. Whats the latest message hes now sending . Reporter well, wolf, after what could only be described as a week of damage control by this white house, insisting that the president did believe the Intelligence Communitys assessment that russia meddled in the election, the president is now making fresh calls to end the investigation into russian meddling in the election and whether or not any Trump Officials colluded with anyone from russia. The president tweeting this several times this morning and over the weekend, in all caps. Saying this investigation is a hoax, saying that president obama knew about it before the election but did not tell the Trump Campaign, something thats not true, and also saying that this investigation was prompted by that surveillance of that former Trump Campaign aide carter page. That is also not true, wolf. That surveillance did not start until october. That is months after the investigation into russian interference in the election got kicked off and was under way. It was well under way. Now, Sarah Sanders said this morning that the president was referring to collusion when he said that it is all one big hoax. But wolf, to be clear, the president himself is not making that distinction on twitter. Instead, hes saying that the investigation into russian meddling needs to be ended now, and hes also continuing to lash out about the medias coverage of his sitdown with the russian president Vladimir Putin. Writing on twitter, when you hear the fake news talking negatively about my meeting, remember i gave up nothing. We merely talked about future benefits for both countries. S a also, we got along very well, which is a good thing. Wolf, the reason the media has been covering his summit in that way is because he did not acknowledge russian interference in the election when he was standing side by side with the russian president. Also that, twohour meeting they had was never fully read out to the meetings of what was said between the two leaders. Thats the reason for that coverage of that sitdown, wolf. And there will be a press briefing coming up supposedly at the top of the next hour with the press secretary Sarah Sanders, right . Reporter yes, wolf. Thats right. She has a bev y of questions facing her. Last week she was asked several times about the president and whether or not he believed russia was still targeting the United States. There was confusion that abounded over his answer. Also, they were asked to comment on the indictment of that russian who is accused of being in the United States to spy and infiltrate organizations. Thats something Sarah Sanders said she was only looking at then but did not comment any further on that. So weve got all of these questions as well as everything the president has said over the weekend. He has been tweeting more frequently than usual, wolf. 17 times, i believe, in the last 24 hours or so. So Sarah Sanders is going to have a lot of questions facing her when she does come out to that press Briefing Room here and what the white house says will be in the next hour. There certainly will be a lot of questions. Lets see how those answers shape up. Kaitlin, thank you very much. None of those threats from President Trump, lashing out at irans leader the president says, quote, to iranian president rouhani, never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death, be cautious, close quote. The president s warning appears to be a response to comments by rouhani directed at the u. S. That any war with iran would be the mother of all wars. In recent days, iran has threatened a blockade of oil exports if there are renewed sanctions against iran. Lets go to cnns Nick Payton Walsh joining us from london. How is tehran additionally reacting to. President tru to President Trumps threat . Reporter this is a region volatile enough that they possibly arent going to be tipped over the edge byca capitals, but thweve seen a reasonably measured reaction from iran. A Senior Iranian commander has referred to this as psychological warfare. But to Donald Trumps point, this was actually a response to Hassan Rouhanis suggestion that they should not pull the tail of the lion, so to speak, and that the mother of all wars could potentially come their way. On top of that, weve heard an echo of the hardline from u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo that potentially fermented that quite strident speech by irans relatively moderate president. Heres one of the phrases that mike pompeo had to say during that speech in which he refers to some of the discontent felt inside iran because the money spent on its foreign adventures is now kind of its regional influential peak for the past decade or so. Heres what he had to say. Today thanks to regime subsidies, the average hezbollah combatant makes two to three times what an iranian firefighter makes on the streets of iran. The bitter irony of the Economic Situation in iran is that the regime uses this same time to line its own pockets while its people cry out for jobs and reform and for opportunity. The iran economy is going great but only if youre a politically connected member of the elite. Reporter now, there is economic discontent on the streets of iran. The sanctions have caused the currency to slide, but what is the end state theyre looking for . Clearly what were seeing here is the moderate government of president Hassan Rouhani being pushed slightly towards the hardliners. Thats frankly the opposite of what the u. S. Wants. They seem to believe the more pressure they put on, theyll find a more relaxing, more liberalizing of irans government. That could put them into a more difficult place. Good point. Nick paton walsh in london. Thank you very much. Escalating the rhetoric to shift the National Conversation seems to be a strategy the president uses when he wants to deflect criticism against him. Lets discuss this and more with cnn Global Affairs analyst and senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations max boot, and White House Reporter for the New York Times julie herschfeld davis. The president tweets close to midnight saturday night that he issues this very tough warning to president rouhani of iran. How do you see this unfolding . Well, i mean, the question is whether this threat is being taken seriously by the officials in iran and certainly around the world. Because this president has shown that he is willing to use this platform to try to change the subject when he feels that the narrative is not in his direction. You opened the show talking about his continuing walk backs about his performance with Vladimir Putin in helsinki last week. I think that this is certainly a response to rouhani, but it also should be viewed in the context of this broader narrative that he doesnt like that he somehow looked weak on the world stage and is trying to reassert that toughness. Frankly sort of do what he did with regard to north korea where he really ratcheted up the rhetoric. We heard about fire and fury last summer. Then he thinks, the way he sees it, he sort of brought him to the table, brought kim jongun to the table for that summit in a way that made him, donald trump, look strong and look like he was driving the process. I think hes trying to turn the page on these russia questions by shifting the focus back to iran. I should point out, max, the tweet was midnight last night. Sunday night he tweeted in all caps, to make the point that this is a real warning to the ia iranians. You can see it right there. Be cautious. Thats the end. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. How do you see it . If anybody is issuing demented words of violence and death, i would say its the president of the United States. Its quite a pass weve come to when the leadership of a country like iran seems more stable and rational than the president of the United States. I agree with what was said. I dont think hes planning to attack iran. I think this is really a ploy to distract the tension from the horrible publicity he got for his subservience to russia. I think it underlines his extraordinary his conduct towards putin is. Hes threatening rouhani with death, consequences nobodys ever seen before. Rouhani gave a speech in which he said if the u. S. Attacks iran, itll be the moer ther ofl wars. So this was not some true attack on the United States. It was just some rhetoric, whereas Vladimir Putin is actually attacking the United States as we know from his own director of national intelligence, and trump has nothing to say about that. Moreover today, or sorry, yesterday, mike pompeo, you know, gave a tough speech about iran at the Ronald Reagan library, a lot of which i agree with. He was pointing out the corruption and human rights abuses in iran, which hes right to do, but how come pompeo and trump and nobody in the administration ever points out the corruption and human rights abuses in russia . Theres a clear double standard here, wolf. Yeah, a lot of people point that out. And we still dont know what happened at that helsinki summit in that twohour private meeting that the president had with the russian leader. President putin apparently is briefing some of his close allies. Hes briefed, according to the website, hes briefed belarus on what happened. And Sarah Sanders said this morning in the white house driveway, well, weve already gotten a return out of the meeting because the president talked about what he discussed. It was so vague, and he didnt mention any particular issue. Certainly putin both publicly and privately has seemed to leak out points of discussion in this meeting that he finds advantageous to him. The idea they discussed a referendum in ukraine that would decide the status of ukraine and potentially the status of crimea. This idea that maybe in minsk they have an idea of what happened in that room. Its kind of amazing. To maxs point, the administration actually has talked pretty toucgh, at least some members of this administration. What we havent heard is the president take up those themes himself. All he seems to be doing is sort of portraying this meeting in a very warm light. As you saw in that tweet, we got along very well and thats a good thing. The irony here is thats absolutely right. We dont know what happened, yet trump is complaining hes not getting full credit for what happened. How can we give him credit if we dont know . Do you think his top cabinet members, including dan coats, mike pompeo, james mattis, do you think they have been fully briefed on what happened . No. Theyve said they dont know. That was last week. But i wonder since last week whether theyve received that indepth knowledge. Think about this, wolf. Who would brief him . There was no not take taker in room. They have to rely on donald trump, who is not exactly the most accurate thenarrator. He lies in public on average 6. 5 times a day. He has probably a stake in distorting what actually happened. Unless theyre interrogating the translator and getting the full story from him, which i dont know if she can remember it all, theres no way the u. S. Ghovt s government is going to get the full story. In all likelihood, pe putin has transcript. I was thinking back to the last time he sat down with putin for any length of time, which was last year. Hamburg. Secretary Rex Tillerson was there and gave us a briefing and put the United States spin on what those discussions were. Sergey lavrov came out and gave a very different view of what had happened. Even then, you had some sort of contrast between what the russians were taking away from it and what the mempamericans w. At least they each had somebody in the room who could convey those points. The president has not either publicly or even toiz his aides to our knowledge, given a reliable account of what happened. And the whole russia investigation, the president tweeted this morning, once again, its a discredited mueller witch hunt. Thats what he says. Thats a disgrace. Hes once again taking the word of putin over our intelligence agencies. Hes going back and forth on this. All right, guys. Thank you very much. As the president previously fumes about the lack of progress with north korea, cnn is now learning that kim jonguns regime is making new demands on the u. S. Plus, President Trump makes a series of false claims about the warrants involving his former adviser carter page and when the president was first briefed about russian interference in the u. S. Elections. And john brennan is under fire. Rand paul asking the president to revoke brennans security clearance. Youre going to hear why. Ordinary stains say they can do the job, but behr premium stain can weather any weather. Overall 1 rated, weathers it all. Find our most advanced formula exclusively at the home depot. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In Clinical Trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, inlaws were coming, a little bit of water, it really it rocked our world. I had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. We called usaa. And they greeted me as they always do. Sergeant baker, how are you . They were on it. 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All of asia is happy. The fact remains that six weeks after the singapore summit, theres little progress in denuclearization. And north korea now says it needs the u. S. To be willing to make what they call a bold move to push negotiations forward. Lets go to our Cnn International correspondent will ripley joining us from hong kong. Will, what kind of bold move is pyongyang looking for . Reporter well, north korea, according to my source, wolf, feels theyve already done enough, although two of the three major concessions that were talking about happened before the singapore summit, that being the test the freeze on testing of missiles and Nuclear Devices and also the destruction of what north korea claimed was the destruction of the nuclear site. In the coming days, north korea is expected to possibly repatriate what they claim are the remains of several u. S. Service members that died during the korean war. Thats something the president asked for in singapore. But there have been no tangible steps in giving up their Nuclear Weapons. No transparency about their nuclear sites, the kind of thing mike pompeo went demanding earlier this month and pretty much came away empty handed. What the North Koreans say is that the United States is asking for too much. What they want above any economic incentives from the u. S. Or the easing of sanctions, is a security guarantee for their leader kim jongun. They want guarantees hes going to stay the ruler of that country. What they want is a peace treaty a formal end to the korean war, replacing the armistice agreement that was signed in 1953 when the fighting stopped but still kept north korea technically at war with the south and with the u. S. And its allies. They also want a slow, stepbystep denuclearization process that gives them economic benefits along the way, whereas the United States is saying theyre not going to lift sanctions until the end of the process. But they are backed up right now, wolf, by their traditional allies, china and russia, who have told kim jongun reportedly that they have his back, even if talks with the United States fall apart. And remember, one thing the North Koreans did before the summit with the president and kim jongun was release those three american prisoners as a goodwill gesture at that time as well. Something the trump administration, certainly their families were deeply appreciative of. Will ripley in hong kong, thank you very much. Measuring the standard of progress with north korea is hard to do. Pyongyang has a long and documented railroad of cheating on nuclear agreements. One woman can readily attest to this. She served as the deputy secretary of energy from 2014 to 2017. Shes also the former white house coordinator for defense policy and weapons of mass destruction. Liz, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks, wolf. You know, the juxtaposition of the president s tweets is astonishing and creates a very dangerous precedent for wouldbe proli p proliferators around the world. You have the president saying to North Koreans, who are known human rights abusers, we give you respect, and indeed he said after the meeting in singapore that he had given them a guarantee of regime survival iranians is you have to Nuclear Weapons. You know from your personal experience, liz, how hard it is to dismantle nuclear arsenal. So whats your assessment on the challenges the u. S. Is facing right now with north korea . Weve known all along this would be a long, hard process. Its been estimated by those who have looked closely at the north korean arsenal that it could take up to 15 years to get this done. But the elements that are necessary for agreement include stopping production of all of their fissile materials, both uranium thats been enriched and plutonium, dismantling the production facilities that exist for that fissile material, dismantling the Nuclear Weapons that they already have, and publicly its estimated they have up to 60 Nuclear Weapons, and then dismantling all of the sites that produce those Nuclear Weapons, along with the Delivery Systems that they have been proliferating as well. So we have got a long, hard process ahead of us, and much harder than the deal with iran that the president walked away from, which was verifiably dismantling iranian capabilities. Thats because the iranians had no Nuclear Weapons. As i mentioned, the North Koreans have a number of them already. They certainly do. What do you make of the North Koreans new demand as will ripley just reported that they are seeking firm guarantees that the regime will survive and that sanctions against north korea will be lifted . Its not at all surprising. I think the most important thing to note is we have already given up something very substantial, which when you and i talked previously on this topic, i said i thought something we should not do. That is to cease our military exercises with the republic of korea inned a advantages of any demonstrable progress on denuclearization. Weve already given a lot. We need to see the North Koreans make concrete progress on denuclearization before we do anything more. But isnt the fact that theyve not had a nuclear test in nine months, not had a Ballistic Missile test in nine months, isnt that significant . Well, its significant, but lets ask ourselves the question, who has the onus been upon . It has been upon the North Koreans who have violated all agreements that have been reached by the International Community, multiple u. N. Resolutions, sanctions have been imposed as a result, and they continued both to proliferate Nuclear Weapons and to test their Delivery Systems in a way that threatened our allies and partners in the region and ultimately potentially the u. S. Homeland. So the onus was on the North Koreans to stop that before we would take any further steps that would ease the pressure thats on their economy and welcome them into the International Community. The president has given the most important recognition of kim jongun in welcoming him to a summit in singapore, standing beside him, having our flags flying together. Weve already given plenty. We now need to see concrete action from the North Koreans. What was your reaction when you read that tweet in all caps from the president of the United States threatening the iranians, and ill read a line from that tweet. Suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before if they continue their threats against the United States. You know, wolf, my kids have always said to me, if i tweet or text them in capital letters, im shouting. So i want top say i thi say i t totally unpresident ial for our president to be communicating this way. We dont have the International Community united behind us anymore with respect to iran. When the president tweets escalatory rhetoric, threatening war, it makes us all less secure. We have created tensions with our allies that means they may not stand with us were we to go to war. In addition, weve undermined deterrents because the president has called into question our alliance commitments. Therefore, that invited others to mess with us at a very unstable time potentially and were the president to want to take us into war, he would need to have the allies of the United States around the world with us, not standing in astonishment at what hes doing. Its destabilizing behavior thats dangerous for us a of us. Elizabeth sherwood randall, thank you. Thanks, wolf. President trump making a series of false claims involving the warrants of one of his Campaign Advisers and carter pages ties to the kremlin. Were Fact Checking all of that. Sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. Stadium pa all military members stand and be recognized. Sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. No matter where or when you served, tmobile stands ready to serve you. Thats why were providing half off family lines to all military. Uhp. I didnt believe it. Again. Ooh, baby, do you know what thats worth . I want to believe it. 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He wrote, im quoting now, so now we find out that it was indeed the unverified and fake dirty dossier that was paid for by crooked Hillary Clinton and the dnc that was knowingly and submitted to fisa and which was responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited mueller witch hunt. Joining us for a fact check, cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. Break this down for us. A lot of those truths in Donald Trumps tweet are incorrect. Lets start with the dossier itself. This is the entire fisa warrant. Its long, lots of redactions. This was not the result solely of the dossier. There was lots of other information that was the reason the fisa warrant was issued. Lets go to the next thing. This is important. Devin nunes has repeatedly said that no mention was made of the fact that Christopher Steele, the former british spy, was being paid by someone with affiliations to one of the candidates. Not true. A u. S. Law firm hired the person to conduct research on the ties. The person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate number ones campaign. Its right there. Lets go to the next slide. Okay. Remember i mentioned it wasnt just the steele dossier . From approximately 04 to 07, page lived in russia. Theres another piece here i did want to mention. The point being, there was not a one off. They had been watching him since 2004. He had dealings with russia. He lived in russia. This is not the result of Christopher Steele digging around. And this is really, really important. Donald trump goes on and on about judges and why we need them. Okay. These are judges who signed the fisa warrants. Reminder, it was given once and then renewed three times. These judges were appointed by, and you might be able to guess, george w. Bush. George w. Bush, George Herbert walker bush, and Ronald Reagan. These are the judges that approved those fisa warrants. These are not a bunch of liberal democrats who approved these. It was not just approved. It was reapproved three times. Lets go to the last one on the timeline. Donald trump said he knew nothing about any of this. We know thats not true. He was briefed august 27th. Briefed that foreign adversaries were trying to infiltrate the campaign. October 9th, trump on hacking, the reason they blame russia is because they think theyre trying to tarnish me with russia. Then january 6th, two weeks before hes sworn in, intel teams show trump claims of russian efforts to compromise him. They showed donald trump at that point the president elect, they showed him information that russia was trying to compromise him. So theres a lot wrong in there, wolf. And this has become a real hot button for conservatives to say, see, this is all phony. It is not. This is the steele dossier is not the reason carter page there was a fisa warrant on carter page and certainly not the reason it was renewed three vat separa separate times. They were concerned he had been compromised and was a Foreign Agent. Thats the reason. Back to you, wolf. Very interesting that on august 17th, after he got the nomination, the obama administration, the Intelligence Community not only briefed Hillary Clinton, the democratic nominee, but also him in depth about these russia allegations. So to say that he wasnt informed, thats clearly not true. Just one other quick thing. To say he wasnt informed because they expected Hillary Clinton to win, they briefed both sides at that time. So this was not because they thought one side or the other was going to win. They did both. All right, chris. Thank you very much. Carter page fired back at the accusations in that warrant on cnn, saying they are so ridiculous and misleading. But listen to what he said when cnns jake tapper pushed him on if he ever advised or worked with the kremlin. Listen. No, ive never been an agent of the foreign power in any by any stretch of the imagination. I may have back in the g20 when they were getting ready to do that in st. Petersburg, i might have participated in a few meetings. But you did advise the kremlin. I want to make it clear. You did advise the kremlin in 2013 or 2012. Jake, its really spin. I sat in on some meetings, but to call me an adviser, i think, is way over the top. Except in a 2013 letter, you wrote it says, quote, over the past half year, i have had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser to the staff of the kremlin in preparation for the presidency of the g20 summit next month where Energy Issues will be prominent on the agenda. Thats yourself calling yourself an informaled advisers to the kremlin. Informal having some conversations with people. This is really nothing, just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading document. All right. Lets discuss this and more with cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor laura coats and cnn political analyst and congressional reporter for politico rachel bade. So hes acknowledging at a minimum he was an informal adviser to the kremlin. Yeah, and that he has a long history with them, as chris just discussed. This is not something that started just with this dossier. Its interesting because trumps allies on capitol hill, they really seized on this dossier for the past few months, saying that it was paid for by democrats and that the fbi when they got this warrant, they werent clear that it was politically potentially politically motivated. Again, as chris just showed, they were clear about this. They were clear that he had longterm contacts with russian officials that were suspect. The thing is, i dont know that it makes much difference on capitol hill. We were talking to people just a couple hours ago who were saying that conservatives and trump allies on the hill are still talking about holding rod rosenstein, whos overseeing this investigation, in contempt of congress. Right now were going to have a situation where who can yell louder. The president is also tweeting about this, saying its a witch hunt, even though what we saw this weekend is clearly not the case. Its pretty amazing. Ive covered the Intelligence Community for a long time, for 40 years, since fisa came in. These fisa courts have received these kinds of classified briefings, requests for opportunities to wiretap american citizens and others. This is the first typime, i believe, ever theyve released justification for this fisa warrant against carter page. Over 40 years has gone by before theyve done so, with good reason. You do not want to have a tar and feathering when youre talking about a probable cause warrant on an american citizen. Its also unheard of to have the information released because we so covet our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. Another reason, of course, is because of that Fourth Amendment right to privacy is why all the steps it takes herculean efforts to get a fisa warrant to be accepted, let alone by four judges who are all republican appointees. In order to get to any one of those judges, it involves two branches of government. Theres a fisa law about it. Youre trying to have all the hurdles because they dont want people to have in the open theyre being surveilled. It would lead someone to the conclusion that they must be engaged in criminal activity. Having said that, in order to get the warrant, there has to be more just fraternizing with somebody. Its got to be more. It has to be bank statements, documents in the trash perhaps, statements by the actual person like carter page talked about. All these different hurdles have to be passed in order to ensure its not a witch hunt. It has to be able to pass the muster of all the judges. Clearly huge chunks of that, 400 pages, were redacted, blacked out. We dont know the specific details of what the u. S. Suspected as far as carter page is concerned. We do know that carter page has not been charged with any crime. Hes obviously innocent as of everything we know right now. Thats true. Hes innocent until proven guilty. The whole premise of the warrant was not to prove he himself was a criminal or could be. They were trying to figure out whether or not he was being used by a Foreign Agent or a foreign entity to commit a crime. He himself had to have a probable cause why he should be there, not beyond a reasonable doubt for an actual crime yet. Lets talk about Michael Cohen, the president s former fixer and lawyer and the recordings. He obviously recorded a lot of his phone conversations, including with donald trump, who was working with him for a dozen years or so. How worried are you hear the that the president and his legal team are right now because the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, they have those recordings . My colleagues who do cover the white house say that he is worried and their legal team is very concerned. Cohen has even said specifically that he has additional tapes and thats going to be particularly problematic for the president. So its clear that the president right now is feeling like hes in some sort of hes hunkering down and feeling like he has to swing back. Hes taking to twitter. Cohen is saying he has these tapes. Hes getting pummelled, even by some in his own party, on how he handles russia last week. Right now were seeing polls shows more and more americans actually believe that russia did interfere in the election and that potentially if they hadnt, Hillary Clinton could have won. So right now were seeing him lash out every which way. Hes got a big problem here, both legally, politically, and personally. Yeah, i suspect youre absolutely right. All right, guys. Thank you very, very much. Up next, senator rand paul, listen to this, is now calling on President Trump to revoke the security clearance of a former director of the cia. Were going to tell you why. You said youre not like me, you never drop to your knees, look into the sky for a momentary high, you never even tried till its time to say goodbye, bye everybody fights for a little bit of light, i believe. Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Whoooo. You rely on tripadvisor so you dont miss out on the perfect hotel. But did you know you can also use tripadvisor so you dont miss out on the best price . 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Reporter well, its unclear what evidence rand paul has behind his assertions on twitter from earlier this morning, saying that brennan s quote, monetizing his security clearance and making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media. We do know that rand paul has been a sharp critic of John Brennans, ever since he was nominated back in 2013 as obamas cia director. Back at that time, youll recall, wolf, rand paul took to the senate floor and launched a filibuster for more than 12 hours railing against the nomination. President trump himself has been sharply critical of brennan, has leveled significant accusations against him personally. So clearly rand paul believes he has a receptive audience in raising these concerns with President Trump. However, going after a former official security clearance is highly unusual, even for political reasons. Youll recall michael flynn, the former National Security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with russians to the fbi, he maintained his security clearance despite his attacks against Hillary Clinton, about lock her up during the campaign. And former officials tend to keep their security clearance to they can provide counsel and advise to Current Office holders about issues they may have had to deal with when they were in office. This will be a highly unusual move. After the summit in helsinki, brennan suggested the president s behavior was treasonous. Well see if thats a factor. Manu, thank you very much. Theres other news were following, including some newly released pictures in the manhunt over the murder of former president george h. W. Bushs former physician. Youre going to hear what police are now asking. Plus, moments away from the White House Press briefing. 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And then according to police just moments after this photo was taken, the suspect turns back behind him and fires two shots at the doctor, killing him, and then just continues riding his bike on. Theres another photo that shows the red circle by itself. Thats taken moments after the shooting. You can see there are cars in the area. There is a sketch they put out there. They believe it is a white or hispanic man about 510. Slender, athletic build. He was wearing a cap, a gray jump suit and sunglasses. Whether this was road rage, a targeted attack or completely random, police dont know and theyre looking for answers. Sad story. Thank you very much. Diane gallagher reporting. Any moment the white house getting ready to hold another press briefing. Youll see Sarah Sanders walk over to the microphone. The last one got rather heated with the president s by heavier in held sen can i. 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