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General, is laughing along to that? >> that's nothing more than a shameful suck-up to the president who wants his attorney general to fall in line on the russia investigation. it's really shameful because it is part of this trumpist approach of using the apparatus of the state to punish political opponents. that's the reason why he wants to remove security clearance access for those longstanding members of the professional intelligence cadre, people like retired four-star air force general mike hayden, retired three-star air force general jim clapper who has served for decades in the service o...

Security clearances weren't in his purview. we went back in the wayback machine, back to july 2016, when security clearances seemed to be in his purview. listen. >> i think the dni, clapper, should deny hillary clinton access to classified information during this campaign. i think that's something that the administration should do on its own. but we'll look into seeing if that's something we can do as well. >> so jeremy, did he look into it and realize that congress doesn't have it in their purview? or was that just blatant politics? >> his standard move is when he doesn't want to answer an un...

I think that's unprecedented and it's something that we should be concerned about as jim clapper, the former director of national intelligence says it starts to look heady and causes friction with the intelligence community where there really shouldn't be. we need to be a unified voice and presence to confront our enemies. >> john, we crossed the petty line a long time ago. the danger here is that the continued assault on law enforcement or intelligence officials in this country. you and i talked about this. about the number of people that have given their lives in an area that's being belittl...

Understand what it is they saw, to rationalize it, to explain it away, to speculate on what kinds of kompromat the russians could have on trump. when the answer, like infidelity or death was staring them, us, in the face, yes, putin has something on trump. he helped him win. that's the kompromat. ned, do you agree? do you concur? do you say at least it's possible? >> well, brian, i think that's an element of the kompromat. in fact, it has to be because as we have heard from jim clapper to other experts out there, it is in some ways unlikely that donald trump would be our commander in chief tod...

An element of the comp rumod because as we have heard from jim clapper to otherer experts out there, it's unlikely that donald trump would be our commander and chief today were it not for russia's interference in our election. was decided in three swing states that were particular targets for the it russians. but i also think that may not be it. and i think we have to account for the fact that there are other additive elements on top of this. on one extreme you have had it theory, which i think is a bit outlandish. that he for years has been a recruited asset for had it russians. but on the it...