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Jersey where the president is this weekend. how else is the white house -- is the president responding? >> president trump is continuing to attack the former cia director whose security clearance he stripped earlier this week in an attempt to retaliate against brennan for his criticism of the white house. trump going after brennan's tenure at cia director, describing him as a political hack. there were times when both democrats and republicans did criticize brennan. but former senior intelligence officials, dozens of them are now banding together to defend brennan, arguing that president trump...

White house aitd aides are wai for a time when it might be convenient to roll out the revocations of the clearances, perhaps to distract from future negative headlines. >> sarah westwood, thanks so much. let's talk more about this. with me is bob baer, a cnn security analyst and juliette kiam. good to see you both. we saw this powerful statement from dozens of former cia officials condemning the president's decision to revoke brennan's security clearance. bob, as a former cia case officer, how is this move likely playing with current rank and file members within the cia? >> not well. i looke...

What they say literally, because you can't believe they are actually saying it. they have said that they don't like what brennan has been saying about the president publically. period. there's no national security need. there's no classified -- there's no evidence of classified evidence disclosure. brennan was on the far side of these formers in the sense that he was much more aggressive, his language could be jaw-dropping. i admit that. i knew brennan. to see that language from him was, i think, surprising. i think reflected more what he believed to be the importance of calling out what was g...