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>> president obama, along with brennan and clapper and the whole group that you see on television now probably getting paid a lot of money by networks. they knew about russia's attempt in interfere in the election in september and they totally burned it. >> laura: he's basically saying they did nothing. if hillary won, what would they have done? is the president wise to speak in those terms about the intel agencies or at least the past directors? >> i think we're in a different world here. i would like to see the president more circumspect, but that's not going to happen. i would like to see b...

And clapper as well as othersrs including james comey and other intelligence officials were up to no good. >> laura: and there's a couple of moments over the last month or so that really jumped out at me where the criticism of the president -- well, it was particularly nasty it involves both clapper and brennan. let's watch. >> mr. trump is not sophisticated enough, unfortunately, to deal with these foreign leaders in a manner that is going to protect u.s. national security. >> this past weekend it's what a great case officer putin is. he knows how to handle an asset, and that's what he's doin...

Clapper's case that clapper's interference won the election to trump." senior intelligence officers know we speculate at our own peril.tr joining us now with reaction is lee smith, the real clear investigation reporter who wrote that piece. we're joined by former cia covert ops operator baker and "wall street "wall street [ indiscernible ] >> it seems a lot of conservative have seen what happened to john brennan and a lesser extent to james clapper. what else did you find in your reporting? >> there's a number of different things going on here. one of the key things is is that the american pub...

Considering is yanking those security clearances. those are given to them or remain with them as a courtesy. not just brennan but anyone coming out of a senior position. and frankly we should be overhauling the clearance process regardless. but i think, to lee's point in this article that you started with, yes, it is true that by talking the way that john brennan is talking and talking that james clapper is discussing, there are -- in a sense, they're furthering the russian objective which is essentially and always has been over decades to so discord and doubt and confusion. -- to sew discord ...

That kind of hatred, they're smearing 63 million americans for voting for donald trump. that's even worse in my view than going after the president. >> laura: that's what they don't understand. they turned out to vote for trump because they know those folks look down on them. trump didn't. >> how condescending elite institutions, which includes the elite media are, when it comes to -- >> the forgotten men and women. fantastic panel. thank you for joining us tonight. >> why a former cia moscow station chief say john brennan and jim clapper are doing putin's bidding? the answer when we return.