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Here's the name calling. loud mouth partisan political hack. that's how president trump is describi describing former cia director john brennan this weekend. now the white house has a new defense for his decision to strip his security clearance. brennan's access was revoked last week after the white house said he used highly sensitive information to make a series of outrageous allegations. today national security adviser john bolton attempted to clarify that statement. >> in terms of what he said since he left, i think a number of people have commented that he couldn't be in the position he's ...

Take on that? >> i don't think that's an idea. wars need to be fought by countries. if we're going to represent and defend the united states national interest, it should be the united states troops doing it. you can't outsource. we tried this before. it doesn't work. it brings up questions, i don't know if it's even legal. how do you enforce accountability. what kind of standards are you going to hear from? who will they take orders from? it's a bad idea from the start. >> this is a response in the last 30 minutes, has anyone looked at the mistakes, serving as cia director. he will go down as ...

The president to sign. what's the likelihood we see a mass security clearance revocation? zbli wel >> as we reported today, the white house has begun discussing on how to optimize the release of these if the president does decide to sign them, to potentially get past unfavorable news cycles with a book of omarosa manigault newman. the president certainly is inclined to sign these clearances. he thinks a lot of these officials have been, in his estimation, corrupt by years on the russia probe, loud mouth critics on television. he is very frustrated, and he personally dictated the list of nine p...

Even more upset in light of the insider threat that came to light with the omarosa tapes. but don mcgahn at the white house has a variety of if you asked him to fulfill. he's there to advise the president on critical legal issues, for example, whether the president should use his executive authority to arbitrarily revoke security clearance. these are the things you want the white house counsel to be weighing in on. it's going to take time away from performing other functions, and is the president going to trust him and listen to him as much. >> i want to turn to what he's saying in his tweet t...

We were reminded of the more than 100 women including members of the national and olympic gymnastics teams who have accused gymnastics doctor larry nasser of abuse. when gold medal gymnast, mckayla moroney tweeted a metoo story of her own. >> alabama's roy moore is denying accusations of sexual misconduct. he is not dropping out of the race. this is moore's first public appearance since the washington post told the story of a woman who says moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was a 14-year-old girl. and he was a 32-year-old assistant prosecutor. >> i am not shocked by donald trump...