Page 2 - Clearance Issue News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

At the same time you can say john brennan is completely politicized that position and is speaking out in an unprecedented fashion compared to all the past former directors. from my perspective getting into the machinations and bazaar back and forth between john brennan and donald trump, doesn't blow my skirt up. i would rather focus on a bigger issue, we can take this and make it good and that would be the clearance issue we have nationwide. there are over 4 million people right now between government and contractors, private business to security clearances and 1 million of those are top-secre...

Time, you can say that john brennan has completely politicized that position and are speaking out in an unprecedented fashion, compared to all the past former directors. i guess for my perspective, getting into the machinations and the bazaar back and forth for between john brennan and president trump, it doesn't really blow my skirt up. i would rather focus on something bigger here, a bigger issue that may be we can take this bizarreness i do something good, and that would be the clearance issue that we have nationwide. look, there are over 400 million people right now between government and ...

♪ >> if mr. trump believes this is going to lead me to go and be quiet, he is very badly mistaken. >> those decisions being made for whatever reason, people make their own conclusion. i think it's sad that politics has come to this level. >> it's been totally political. i think i called him a butthead, and i meant it. i think he is giving the national intelligence community a bad name. >> bret: just wanted say for the record we love senator kennedy and his sound bites. this is on the clearance issue of mr. brennan, john brennan, former cia director. standing beside him and supporting him as ...

Punished, those who come in and snow him, those that come in and give him a bridge to vladimir putin he desperately wants as he made clear to jonathan lemire in helsinki, do you think people rising in the ranks of national security with some skepticism? >> nobody lasts forever in the trump universe. omarosa said nice things about him and moved up and got a senior job at the highest levels in the white house. until she said something bad and was kicked out. if you tie this clearance issue with the firing of mr. strzok at the fbi, for example yesterday, it does have this loyalty test smell to it...

Some but not all questions. and lindsey graham and jack green, who separators, talked about that. listen. >> i like jared. the clearance issue was a decision made by general kelly. my interactions with jared kushner have all been positive. very smart guy. he takes his role in the white house seriously. >> it certainly complicates his ability to be an effective spokes person, not a spokes person but high level negotiator for the united states. if you can't get access to information at that level, you don't know that. he's been active in the middle east, a critical area. >> dana: this is a littl...