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Somebody's security clearance and you hold them. you remove them away from intelligence information. that's standard operating process. this notion that these people just didn't know what they were doing. they got up really high into presidential politics. they didn't know what was going on. this russian stuff is nothing. on the one hand, you are saying you don't know what they are doing. on the other hand, you are making the argument that there was no russian collusion. maybe they were pawns of the russian government and they didn't know it, because they were pawns of the russian government. ...

I used to brief in the white house. there are awkward conversations and difficult conversations where the truth versus loyalty dilemma comes up. i'm giving the truth as i see it and the policy maker doesn't like the message i'm giving. in the comey case, it was about what he was saying about the investigation and his unwillingness to say, yes, sir, i'm personally loyal to you. what happens when you have that ethical dilemma? you resolve it one way or another. it's tough for us to put ourselves in those shoes and we should be slow to judge someone put in that position but i was put in that posi...

He spent some time with the prime minister. met in person a few different times. there were some tensions over what he had happened after the manchester incident where law enforcement was believed to have leaked some information provided by u.k. intelligence. that created a potential rift. theresa may made a point of saying they would raise that with president trump. and then they were able to be on the same page when it comes to terrorism, sharing of intelligence information, so this comes at a time when this is a new relationship between the president and the prime minister. there have been ...

They are all being subpoenaed to find out some facts. what are your thoughts. >> especially in regard to samantha power. she is diplomat, not dealing with intelligence matters. that is a big question there about what they are trying to get from her. look, you know, i think it's repeatedly forgotten there is this other side of the investigation. both with the illegal leaks and also the reported unmasking of trump official names. there has also been circa abuse from the obama administration with violating america's privacy rights and scouring these overseas foreign intercepts. we had that fisa c...

European leader as you know who's been sympathetic and welcoming to trump, even getting ahead of the skis and promising a full state visit. look, i mean, this is a, kind of a fascinating wrinkle, given what we are seeing in the domestic arena here in the u.s. with the leaking, in many ways, unprecedented leaking of aspects of intelligence information either swirling around the russia investigation or for that matter the transcript of the president's conversation with the russian ambassador and foreign minister, which is something that i have never seen leaked before. i'd be interested if nick ...