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I am watching and learning as we go along. we have james clapper on tonight to give us some perspective not just on whether he likes this move or not. i love listening to general hayden talk about the practicalities. i want to dig into that more with clapper. how much did he use the team before him to help him in his job? what does he know about the current team and what might happen and what might this move to all that? of course as you noted earlier, this is a big fat distraction. and we're not going to let us distract it -- let it distract us from what matters. we're going to talk about thi...

This is the one that really matters. the white house just messaged the entire american intelligence community if you stand up and say things that upset the president or with which he disagrees, he will punish you. and that is a horrible message to be sending to folks who are there to tell you objective truth. >> let's drill down just on that last point, because i do think it's a very important one, and one maybe that kind of got lost in a lot of the coverage today. you know, just explain the role of what intelligence officials are supposed to be doing for the president, just in terms of giving...

Wanted to serve for those purposes? >> absolutely, absolutely. no question about it. in omarosa's first -- one of her earlier book, b-switch, she says that she wanted to be -- i think she even said in an interview, she wanted to be a billionaire. she wanted to be like him. >> right. >> donald trump is -- >> certainly serving in the white house is different than wanting to be a billionaire. >> that's true. i think she was inspired by his message and wanted to be effective in opening up the party and taking his message to the black community. that's why she signed up to work on the campaign in t...

Attributes a lot, the first book, the b-switch book, to donald trump and the boardroom and learning from him. so i think there is some truth to the fact that she might have learned how to be strong, how to be effective, how to be what she is doing now in terms of manipulating the media to get what they want. that's what donald trump was known for doing in the past. but i think right now what you see, i don't think these are lesser trumps. i think what you saw and what you see are people who signed up because they actually believed in the president's make america great again agenda. i think the...

Threatening to do to you and others? >> first of all, anderson, with regard to john, it was personal and it was vindictive. and frankly, i think it was an overall judgment that john was being somewhat effective. you can tell i'm here at dulles. i've been traveling all day. so that tape you just played of sarah sanders describing why the president did it, i could translate for you, anderson, is that john brennan's life experience gives him legitimacy to say a lot of the things he is saying, and the white house couldn't stand for that. so you've got the misuse of power here i think with regard t...