The former cia chief firing back in an interview last night. The other people in socalled enemys list is another example of mr. Trump trying to frighten and intimidate others, i can tell you having worked in National Security and Intelligence Community for many years these are not the type of people who will be bullied or intimidated someone the likes of mr. Trump. Fox news security correspondent Jennifer Griffin with muff more. Eboni, democrats have called it enemys list, admiral navy seal who saw bin laden raid compare today mccarthy era tactics, in an interview with Rachel Maddow speak at length after having security clearance revoked. Theres been a health cry from many intelligence professionals not to support me but to support the principle that security clearances are something thats very, very solemn and sacred and they never ever should be used for political purposes either to grant friends for clearances or revoke clearances of your critics. Among those now in the president s sights former head of fbi james comey, former dni James Clapper among others, Washington Post reported last night that the white house had drafted orders from the president for more security clearances to be revoked of particular note is Justice Department prosecutor who works in the organized Crime Division who most people had not heard of until recently, bruce ohr demoted by Rod Rosenstein early on in the Mueller Probe afters revealed that he had contact with christopher steele, the former mi6 spy who compiled unverified dossier that included allegation that is russia had dirt on President Trump, ohrs wife nelly worked for fusion gps, Opposition Research firm hired by Clinton Campaign to investigate any ties trump had to russia, President Trump hinted at what is likely to be his next move while leaving the white house friday. Ic bruce ohr is a disgrace, i think that bruise bruce ohr is a disgrace with wife nelly, for him to be in Justice Department and for him to do what he did, thats a disgrace. Bruce ohr to testify on capitol hill on august 28th, order to revoke clearance drafted in july but conversations from the white house suggest that it was announced this week to distract from the new book by omarosa which was producing bad headlines for the president , eboni. Thank you, jennifer. Mike. Mike eboni is alex little, alex, good to see you. Good afternoon. Mike theres debate of whether forrer officials like john brennan need security clearance or its courtesy, take a look at tim scott and i will ask your reaction. We are fighting whether or not he has it or whether or not we are taking it. The question is how is america safer because he has it and the answer is there really isnt a good answer, why does he have it . Theres not a good answer to that question and taking away seems plausible and logical. Alex, your thoughts. I would hate to be republican and having to defend the president on this, tim scott is smarter than that. When you have someone with a career that has relationships around the world like john brennan, he brings incredible amount of insight, if youre still at cia, youre still with National Security council and you want to ask brennan his thoughts on whats going on, he needs to know whats going on, he needs to have the clearance so you have a discussion with him because people like him make the country much safer because of their knowledge, because of the relationships. Mike what about those who make the argument the president is using clearance as weapon or trying to silence John Brennans criticism, what about that . Hes admit today that. Thats the admission to wall street journal, reports about that Washington Post as well. The president has the power to use classified clearance processes to revoke or grant but when it does it this way undermines who we are as country, National Security is the most important thing. President trump could legally strip democrats of security clearances and incredibly despicable path and thats the path hes walking on. Mike then the president plan to go take security clearance of bruce ohr, wife nelly, contractor for fusion gps which worked on the dossier about the president during the campaign, where are you on ohrs clearance . One that he cant do is he cant fire bruce ohr, he has protections, has to be fired for good cause and the president appears to find way to inflict pain on those who he disagrees with. This is what happens when you have, i think, an individual who appears to be reacting and not acting very president ial. Theres no president , democrat or republican who has ever reacted this way towards Civil Servants who are doing job to protect the country and uphold system of justice we have. Anyone on either side of the aisle and looks at this and are not disgusted need to reorder priorities. Blocking the president from revoking security clearance, sees security clearance as punishing and intimidating the president s critics, is that more a protest from top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee . Mark warner will put republican colleagues to the test, is congress a separate and equal power of government that will put checks on this president or are they just going to be the way that theyve act sod far which is to let President Trump pretty much do what he wants. We have tariffs, problems with the trade wars and we will see if they actually will take the challenge an put sol real restraints on the powers of President Trump. Mike im going to ask you to take for a moment to get reaction on the latest development on the Paul Manafort trial, eboni. Jury deliberations are set to resume on monday morning after judge received threats over the case. A big reason why the fbi opened the investigation into possible collusion between Trump Campaign and russia in the first place. Former Trump Campaign tweeted guilty to lie to go fbi agents and special counsel Robert Muellers team recommended the judge sentence papadopoulos to up to six months in prison along with a fine of 9,500, according to muellers sentencing memorandum, papadopoulos lied in order to conceal contacts during campaign and made false statements to investigators on january 27th, 2017 early in the investigation when he investigated decisions including who to interview and when were being made. Papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced on september 7th, next week, though, former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is expected to learn his fate in the first two trials muellers team has against him. After 14 hours of deliberations the verdict has not reached verdict and wont be at it again until monday morning, manafort saying at this point they are feeling confident. Favors your client . I do and he does. Denied request for a handful of Media Outlets to unseal the names of the jurors, he couldnt do without endangering safety because he has received threats himself and now has to travel with armed detail from the u. S. Marshals, eboni. Thank you, garrett, back to you, mike. Mike for more bring back alex little defense attorney and former assistant federal prosecutor, so is this jury deliberation stretching into a new week good sign for Paul Manafort and his attorneys . As long as the jury stays out and doesnt return a verdict thats a good thing for Paul Manafort, when you get in long trials you want the jury to take time and hope that theres dissension about verdict. Its not unusual to go this long given the length of the trial but certainly help the defendant. Mike i want to play comments President Trump made and get your reaction, listen to this. They should be looking at bruce ohr and his wife nelly for dealing with by the way indirectly russian, they should be looking at steele, all of the fbi guys who got fired and demoted, its not us. Mr. Mueller has a lot of conflicts also directly yourself but you know that. Mr. Mueller is highly conflicted. If he was doing an honest report he would write it on the other side. With mueller handling mueller case would you be concerned if jurors heard comments and read the president s tweets this weekend while they are deliberating . I think the mueller team would be concerned about that, i think, we have to look at broader picture, never in American History is the u. S. President really defamed a prosecutor in the midst of really highprofile case like this. We have to use President Trump as president when makes statements and hes the target in many ways of investigation and so hes not acting president ial, hes not acting like the president , hes acting like somebody who is under scrutiny, the jury hears that theres going to be problem, issues earlier where the jurors may have been expose today external information, this judge will have a handle on that, he will ask them monday if they ever talked to anyone about the case or heard about the case, we have processes for that in court system and i hope theyll follow those. You also worked on prosecution side of things, how nervous prosecutors are right about now . Its the most nerveracing time, you worked on case for months, built it and present today jury and now its out of your hands, wait for those 12 people to come back, theyll not get a lot of sleep and secondguess everything they did until the verdict comes back. Mike what if they fail to get conviction here, does that increase calls for special counsel to wrap things up . Its odd because this case really was unusual on now normal it was, this bus a basic bank fraud and tax fraud case that could have been brought in any courtroom in the country in federal court and in some ways it probably wouldnt have much effect, the next trial of Paul Manafort is much more critical because it does involve contacts with russians and much more closely aligned with the campaign but i think both sides will find things to complain about or to crowe about when the verdict is read. Mike are you surprised judge ellis revealed that he has received Death Threats an being protected by federal marshals . No, in highprofile trials it has happened before and the reason he told folks hes explaining why he wants to shield the jurors, judges really try to protect the jury as best they can. Judge ellis will do and needs to provide context as to why he thought it was necessary. Mike what about George Papadopoulos with the recommendation he gets up 6 months of jail time . Well, whats most interesting about the recommendation is what the prosecutor about the things that papadopoulos had done to really lie to the prosecutors and to try to tort their investigation, so if im a federal judge i dont like the fact that thats the way papadopoulos treated investigators and hes got a real chance of spending some time in jail. Mike alex little, thanks a lot. 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Forces in afghanistan, also the author of the upcoming novel dark winter which hits book sthestles shelves this october, so much with iran, endeavor devastating behavior, and its, you know, no secret that the sanctions that President Trump has talked about reimposing in faith of 2015 iran deal is part of the steps, from your experience outside of the sanction in position, what other things should we be doing to force some of the bad behavior from tehran in iran to deescalate. I think secretary pompeo has it exactly right, he and President Trump establishing the Iran Action Group. When you think about it, there are about four major elements of National Power that this administration has shown more adept than any in recent history and what secretary pompeo is doing is really pushing hard on the diplomatic piece and hes got mr. Hook, we step addway from iran deal and trying to get a better deal and, you know, you think about it eboni, we signed the deal under president obama and we had no provision in there stopping support of hamas, hezbollah, the Houthi Rebels and yemen, any statesponsored terrorism. Thats what this administration is trying to do. And then, you know, try to renegotiate another deal and thats thats whats happening now. General to your point of your resetting which i think most everybody could agree is needed at this point, President Trump has said that hes willing to sit down and speak with the president of iran, you know, under certain circumstances but iran, tehran seems to be saying that the best way to a great nes hes demonstrated and i think iran is afraid of that and what they want is all the other levers from the european powers to be able to with europe primarily with cars and airplanes and precious metals, thats the first sanctions to hit. Oil is the next set to hit. I dont think youre at all alone, they think its a very bad deal with few assurances, i dont know much of any evidence we have seen that the deal itself has decreased the escalation from violence with iran but do you see another way for the talks to reengage . Yeah, for economy to implode as is happening for the revolution that is bubbling there but does get no Mainstream Media coverage because, you know, it supports President Trumps actions and so they are not going to cover it. So what is really the two options for iran are their economy implodes and the revolution picks up steam or they engage with President Trump and find a path forward. Excellent, i want to ask you before we wrap here, its been reported that irans navy has mounted a locallybuilt advanced defense weapon and thats for the first time, how dangerous . Very dangerous. Bypassing some of those weapons because they cant get them, embargoes around them so they are having homegrown weapons . 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