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Good morning to you. it is friday, august 17th. i'm richard louie alongside frances rivera as well as louis bergdorf. ayman and yasmin have this morning office. we're starting with the woug post which reporting that president trump feels emboldened by stripping brannan of his security clearance. two aides adding that he feels a visceral disdain for the former director when he sees him on tv. white house officials said trump did not focus on his power to remove clearances until this summer. white house aide confirm that trump made his decision about brennan who serves as an nbc contributor. sar...

Sense to me. i don't think we should change the system because of brennan. i think the idea of collaborating with people in prior administrations to keep us safe makes sense. but i can't imagine sharing anything with brennan given his hatred towards president trump. >> why do people who no longer work for the federal government still continue to have a security clearance? >> is this nakedly political, all people who have opposed the president in some political way not just on the national security front. >> politics happening in washington, d.c., i'm shocked. >> puerto rico brennan has demonst...

Not have to do to the fact that rural america did speak up and working class did speak up sort of the power they saw and the power that they saw in hillary clinton. i am not sure if we can still be blaming for donald trump for every racist problem in the country. >> i don't think anyone is doing that. >> i think what this man said is people spoke up and elected him. that was their way of speaking up. >> yeah, a lot of people felt that they were not being heard. >> he in turn after charlottesville said there were fine people on the other side that says jews will not replace this. that was a mis...

Separate times. they were concerned he had been compromised and was a foreign agent. that's 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 wasn't informed, that's clearly not true. >> just one other quick thing. to say he wasn't informed because they expected hillary clinton to win, they briefed both sides at that time. so this was not because they thought one ...