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View classified intelligence as part of a classified counter intelligence investigation that he -- >> how many times have you said, i could never imagine that anything -- i couldn't fathom this would happen, and then it happens. >> and as david said, that's been almost the daily story of this presidency, i think we spend so much time focused on donald trump breaking norms, that part of this -- part of what we're losing in this is why other people are breaking those norms, why john brennan, why jim clapper, why mike hayden are speaking out in the way that they are. i mean, admiral william mccra...

Was ruling it out? >> he did not definitively rule it out. he did not comment whether or not he would do the interview. the context of our question was, in fact, rudy giuliani's comments and we asked him about that and whether that was a concern he shared, giuliani having used the term perjury trap. yes, there's that possibility that if i were to sit down with him that because comey is close to mueller he would believe comey and that would make me a liar, he actually used that word. so that was -- in the context of responding to what giuliani had said, but when we followed up and said, will yo...

Even jim clapper was on the shows criticizing john brennan for going way overboard his criticism of donald trump. saying he made himself the issue. your viewers shouldn't think of this as brennan versus trump. this is about getting to the bottom of this after two years. was there an anti-trump collusion so to sneact obama administration and was there collusion by the trump administration with any part of the russia people. and we should know both. eric: to those who would say they were legitimately concerned about russian interference in our election. >> you don't misrepresent a dossier submit...

These clearances, at least in the law from what i understand and from my understanding when i was in the congress, is so these people can be a help to the government because they were there before, and so they might be a good reference in the past. well, if the administration doesn't feel they're a help to the government anymore -- >> clapper says that he's been contacted by senior members of the intelligence organization for the president right now. he didn't want to name them because he's worried about them being punished. but now you've take than resource away from them, rick. are you good ...

He didn't want to name them. now you've taken those resource away from them. you good with that? >> yeah, i am good with that. there's lots of people -- >> lots of people? >> i think there's specific things that someone in the administration wants to talk to jim clapper about -- >> that tells us so much about the integrity of the security plan. >> but we are -- >> hold on, hold on. the president says i care about security clearances very much. you both heard him say that? he didn't care so much about it when it was his son-in-law or rob porter, did he? where was his concern for security cleara...