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You had top secret security clearances. rand paul says they should take everyone in the white house who has classified security credentials, go ahead and issue lie detector tests for them. how would officials react if everyone had to submit >> this isn't "law and order." disincentivize these disclosures by creating an environment where people feel comfortable sharing their views and thoughts and don't feel like you have to write an anonymous op ed. >> everybody stand by. we'll have more on the op ed mystery, the president's anger and the deeper mysteries to serve and the safety of our troops ...

With whoever -- let's say a democrat gets elected president in 2020 or 2024. would you be okay with that person revoking, let's say, gina haskell's security credentials because she's an yououtspoken critic? my guess is that's no. but it should be no. >> you make it seem so simple, chris. thank you my friend. >> thank you. we are continuing to follow breaking news in the paul manafort trial. learning more, hopefully, about this note the jury has submitted. jessica schneider is live with the latest. >> reporter: a little bit of this mystery now unveiled. the jury did submit a note to the judge...

He said he believes he has the authority, for example, to fire rod rozrozen rosenstein. he can't technically fire mueller. he could push rosenstein to do it. rosenstein has indicated he is not going to do that. the president, though, could also try to essentially defang mueller. essentially take away his security credentials. something he did to former cia director brennan. he was asked about that in that reuters interview as well. he said he hadn't really given that a whole lot of thought. we try to drill down exactly what the president meant. the other big headline here is president trump se...

>> a security clearance is a privilege and i think that john brennan was abusing that privilege. >> these people are being singled out to have even clearances revoked or in the process of being revoked. it smacks of nixonion processes. >> you shouldn't be signified with a process where clearances are granted or withdrawn. >> and removing a security clearance makes sense because of conduct. >> the brennan thing seems to bring out the extremes in both parties, the fighting escalating over the security credentials for former security director john brennan and others are saying how he was treated,...

Many people don't know who he is and now he has a bigger voice and okay with me. i like taking on voices like that. >> reporter: speaking about the decision for the first time, the president insisted he was getting high praise for the move to retaliate on brennan and review the security credentials of nine others. >> i have gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me. very, very important. >> reporter: but that overlooked one key fact that some of the nation's most decorated intelligence officials admonish the president in a joint state...