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Today -- >> i said john. >> sorry, john. despite what you said about the dispute in the persian gulf, it's clear the president is taking sides in this. why? >> in what way? >> he said today on twitter, all references pointed to qatar. perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism. >> i commented on this. he is talking about terror financing. that's not what i said. he had a productive discussion and he was pleased that they joined with the other gulf nations in support of the terror financing center and he is pleased with the movements taken. he is concerned about te...

But let me ask you what the reaction would be in moscow today to this news that a critic of donald trump's pro-putin policies was stripped of his clearances, will now be denied access to the kind of classified information that gives him insight and sort of the kind of access to understand what's going on in real-time? >> well, putin supported president trump because he was the chaos candidate and this is just adding to the chaos. this is more norm breaking, this is more doing things that have never been done before, reaching down into the government and showing both personal animus and partisa...

John, would in a still be considered spying? as the president claims? >> absolutely not. a counter intelligence investigation is not a criminal investigation. their job is to thwart and neutralize foreign poweris who might be trying to take advantage of the united states. that's not spying on the campaign. that's trying to protect the campaign. and if mr. trump wanted to know about that issue all he has to do is ask his self-apointed fbi director to brief him on it. to go public and smear the fbi and perhaps out a source, which is dangerous in and of itself suggests a real problem here as far ...

This is a very, very good team. i wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of it. >> john, tell us about being able to gather all this stuff from social media, all the rallies being held in different places i didn't know were happening. hillary in a cage and all this crazy stuff going on. they've been able to track it all down. >> the russians have been doing this type of political and information warfare against us for many, many years. but the advantage they had this time, there's a number of advantages. one of them is the ability to weaponize social media and use these type of things to create...