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Government contractor. but, again, to revoke it would be more of a slap in the face than it would be anything else. steve: well, sure. it does look like he is punishing his critics. and i know james clapper yesterday said it was petty. we had a sound bite, greg, with jim jordan, the congressman from ohio a little while ago, and he do tailed a number of these six people when they were in office did lie, did leak. perhaps he should have been, you know, they should have gone after the security clearances and fired them at that point rather than afterwards because to some it does look petty. >> th...

The right to do what he's to do regarding security clearances. they do have a first amendment right. it's going to be interesting to see what he does. todd: i think a lot of times the liberal left gets rights and privileges confused u in our last hour, we had retired fbi special agent greg shaffer on. he basically breaks down the difference in this situation. take a listen. >> having a security clearance is not a right. it's a privilege. and in the federal government, that privilege has to be renewed every five years. if the president can identify, again, a specific offense why he should revok...

♪ >> this is a very dangerous day for american democracy. this is the move of an autocrat, not an american president. >> there is really no way to look at this other than president trump wants to punish his critics. >> jake, there is no question about it wants to punish them and silence them as well, perhaps. >> sarah sanders there call it what it was she threw a grenade in there. >> we shouldn't minimize this. this is a huge deal. this is nixonian. this is the president threatening to use his power essentially to punish his political enemies. there is no other way to look at it. steve: well...

Church teaches. now, here's the rub, mary katharine. >> right. >> bill: nobody is forced to be a catholic. nobody is forced to go to the newman center or to do anything with the catholic church. i agree with sally kohn who waffled around but i agree with her on one thing, these kids have a right to protest if they don't like what father shaffer says in his blog and that's basically what he is doing, just blogging. this is what i believe and why i believe it. they have a right and by the way you are looking at that kid in the collar, he joined some kind of, i don't know, crazy new thing or what...

Liberal campus. >> private university. nonreligious university. jewish student groups and catholic. look, here is what i think. i support the right of the preach tore say what he said and i support the right of the students to say what they're saying. it's really difficult time in general for the church right now. most of the catholic lady and a lot of the leaders are evolving on issues of gay rights in the same way that the rest of the country is. >> bill: that doesn't matter is the church teaching is the church teaching and father shaffer who i don't know i invited on the program he didn't w...