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Abdulmutallab was handled. senator kit bond says brennan has been carrying out policies that endanger america and should step down. white house press secretary robert gibbs responding to this dustup a moment ago. >> john is there each and every day working in his office to try to do everything he can to keep the american people safe. i would suggest whether it's to senator bond or others on capitol hill, these are decisions best left to people who have an understanding of counter-terrorism, experience in counterterrorism and law enforcement rather than politicians on capitol hill. megyn: stron...

About that. in the end the people at the cia and the directer of national intelligence and the national counterterrorism center, they're going to do their work regardless of what john brennan and kit bond say. but again, you know, the idea that a republican senator, the top republican on the senate intelligence committee can't raise what a lot of people consider to be legitimate concerns about the handling of abdulmutallab without being accused of serving the purposes of al-qaeda, you know, really that does seem to go a little far. jane: chris wallace, thanks. we're going to see you on sunday....

Don't concern reporters and then we'll jump in for the q & amount. it is getting very heated. as i mentioned you have the deputy national security adviser coming out and taking a direct shot at top republicans on capitol hill saying they knew that this guy, abdulmutallab, the christmas day bombing suspect, was going to be mirandised, they knew he was in fbi custody and knew we were going to treat him as a criminal defendant rather than a military suspect. then the top republicans come out and say that's crazy, that's not true, we didn't know, it was never clear with us and now pete hoekstra an...

Gregg: the white house is defending its top counterterrorism advisor amid calls for more republican lawmakers he resign or be fired, john brennan is his name, the deputy national security advisor and has been pushing back at critics of the administration's handling of the christmas day bombing suspect and in an op-ed piece called the criticism politically motivated and that column prompted criticism from some republican lawmakers about his credibility and the white house is standing behind their man and in a written statement, white house spokesperson nick shapiro said he has devoted his life ...

John brennan to resign. but senator bond who is on the committee that is supposed to have oversight over counter-terrorism issues, he is very experienced. he has been doing this for eight years. john brennan has been part of this community as well. the white house admitted that they had bungled part of the operation. what kit bond was confused about last week was an initial comment to him by the fbi director that it was critical not to let the world know abdulmutallab was talking. megyn: he clammed up, then started speaking begin. >> they commented he was speaking again which according to sena...