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Adopting that in our politics. >> mark lauder, one last word response or you prefer we move along? >> i think there is, there is some relative we have to take a look at. i think we all, we all hold a certain amount of blame in this. i'll go back in october of, of last year where -- and i'll pull it off here. the george papadopoulos plea agreement was significantly enormous. it was more problematic than the gates and manafort indictments. he had already given up four other people. those were all things that were being talked about for 24/7 on cable news after the fact of a plea deal. now we kno...

And there are a lot of republican cia officials or former officials who have come out this week and said this was outrageous. this is an attack on the first amendment and puts a chill on all the rest of us. you can't revoke somebody's security clearance for political reasons and that was what was done here. >> mark, do you think it is a defensible move? do you think the outcry on the republican side would be huge? >> i personally believe no one should have a clearance after your service, after a short time of transition, which is what the continuing clearance was, was meant to be for. i gave u...

Part and parcel to the way they approach things, but we've never seen it on the scale and consistency of this white house and this administration. and i think what we saw with mayor giuliani today was just another example of that. >> i think we actually have, if i can ask my executive producer ben to play that clip of giuliani. >> truth isn't truth. >> one more time. >> truth isn't truth. >> yeah, just so we're clear, mark lauder, do you agree? >> what i think -- >> it's a yes or no question. >> what i think rudy giuliani is talking about is that sometimes we have a lot of facts that are broug...

>> mark lauder, one last word response or you prefer we move along? >> i think there is, there is some relative we have to take a look at. i think we all, we all hold a certain amount of blame in this. i'll go back in october of, of last year where -- and i'll pull it off here. the george papadopoulos plea agreement was significantly enormous. it was more problematic than the gates and manafort indictments. he had already given up four other people. those were all things that were being talked about for 24/7 on cable news after the fact of a plea deal. now we know this week it was all insignif...

Republican cia officials or former officials who have come out this week and said this was outrageous. this is an attack on the first amendment and puts a chill on all the rest of us. you can't revoke somebody's security clearance for political reasons and that was what was done here. >> mark, do you think it is a defensible move? do you think the outcry on the republican side would be huge? >> i personally believe no one should have a clearance after your service, after a short time of transition, which is what the continuing clearance was, was meant to be for. i gave up my clearance the mome...