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To all members of congress regardless of party is when you go out and take away people's security clearances in an effort to try to stifle their first amendment rights, what that does to these individuals and what signal it sends to other law enforcement, intelligence community officials that have to continue to speak the truth of power. >> what recourse do you have here -- >> neil: all right. continuing to monitor this here. this is mark warner, critical of the president's decision to revoke the security credentials of john brennan, the former cia director who has been critical of the preside...

Republican, he's now said he's a democrat. so there are a couple of republicans on there. to me the most interesting one from let's say the enemies list side of things, those people who are on warning, on notice that their security credentials could be, their access could be revoked, bruce ohr is a sitting member of the department of justice, answers to jeff sessions who answers to the president. he is talking about revoking the security of members of his own administration that have authorities, have warrants to carry out their job. now they have less of an ability to do that. the broader poi...

And consulted for foreign governments, including turkey. this is not an uncommon thing. i do think it's worth delving into whether the president and the white house actually intend to follow through with this. i do think this is much more about making the point that there are these people out there who are criticizing the president and saying things that we don't like about him and it's an effort to really discredit them. i don't think a real tangible threat. >> that's interesting. >> it's not about the security clearance. it's about discrediting the critics. >> we know the white house is tota...

They have opened up the roads around the white house, and they are letting some people in and out of the white house complex, depending on their security credentials. but as you point out, this was a pretty harrowing morning and afternoon for many people around the white house. this is a very busy spot. this is a spot that many tourists come to check out the white house. and it was right before noon today where this individual came in front of the white house and fired multiple shots in an attempted suicide. that male was pronounced dead at the scene. at this point, we don't know who he is, bu...

When he pulled comey aside that day and said, you know, i think you ought to go easy on general flynn. what did he know at that particular time. and also i might add that it raises questions about why it took so long to fire flynn. i mean it took about three weeks, as we know, and if they knew this information, and they thought that he had misled the fbi, which would mean, by the way, that your own national security advisor would likely have his security credentials revoked, why did it take so long to make this happen and why did it only happen after it was revealed that he lied to the vice pr...