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Hall. steve, a lot to take through with you here. do you agree with those in the intelligence community like michael haddon is nothing short of a threat to silence us? is it? >> absolutely, poppy. if you go through the list of people that over the past couple of weeks, even days that the president has begun going after, most recently, and most noteworthy, john brennan, clapper. if you go further back, back even further, you have andrew mccabe and comey. he is trying to eliminate or intimidate those people who could point to the issue of what was the nature of the relationship of the trump admi...

Get security clearance for a former government official. and guess what? it ain't there. it is not -- that's because it's not a right. it is a privilege. and it is a privilege bestowed by the president of the united states as a courtesy. it does not have to be extended. >> no, it doesn't. but when is it supposed to be pulled? there's a process, niger. we just watched people go through it. clierny, trump's own. right? who had trouble either getting or keeping their security clearance because they have problems with conflicts in their backgrounds. they're supposed to be that hey, you don't deser...

President seeking revenge. don lemon is here. and this is very interesting because on one level you could easily argue this is nothing, they don't need it, clapper will say it, hayden will say it, brennan may be saying it right now on tv for all i know. we don't use it anymore, it doesn't matter. but it compromises the people who are in there now in terms of using those men the way they used men who came before them. and on another level, don, it means everything. it means if this president doesn't like what you say he will come after you any way you can. >> i'm glad you put up that picture, c...

Of national intelligence he used former officials from other administrations to learn, to pick up on leads, to get things faster, to make decisions better. he says he has talked to senior administration officials. he doesn't want to say their name. because who knows what trump would do to them? now they don't have access to that. how does that make us more of a? safe how about bruce ohr? he's over here. he's still a government employee. he still works for the d.o.j. what's his connection to the russia probe? well, his wife worked for fusion gps. who's that? that's the same firm that hired chri...

Those are names that conveniently double as a list of people whom trump blames for the mueller probe. one on that list is former director of national intelligence james clapper, our guest tonight. welcome to "prime time." good to have you, sir. >> thanks, chris. >> what do you make of the move? >> well, i think it was, as mike hayden indicated earlier, it was petty and vindictive and it was very personal against john brennan. but you know, this is really not about us individually. and whatever intrinsic contributions we're able to make as formers. this is a long-standing tradition, that former...