Target security clearances and to take away brennan s privileges sparked intense criticism from the intelligence committee including dozens of cia officers. this morning trump defended his actions. i have gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me. very, very important. i had a tremendous response for having done that. trump addressed the growing concern about a chilling effect on free speech, saying he was attempting to silence brennan. there is no silence. if anything, i m giving him a bigger voice. many people don t know who he is and now he has a bigger voice. that s okay with me because i like taking on voices like that. i never respected him. i never had a lot of respect. john brennan spoke with rachela maddow for t a maddow
Close. bannon is sing trump s praises to get back in his good graces. he formed a pro trump political group with campaign staffers. his return includes a pro trump documentary he wrote and directed and characterizing the new efforts, his approach to the mid-terms represents the all or nothing proposition that at times endeared mr. bannon to mr. trump and helped create the administration s most serious self inflicted crisis. whether it will be enough remainings to be seen. they had a public falling out with the president issuing a public statement saying steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired he lost his job and he lost his mind. the white house is in the midst of another nasty departure of another staffer, omarosa. he claimed she signed a
Cia director i didn t know it was the day mr. trump gave a public call to the russians to find hillary clinton s e-mails, it was the same day that the gru was looking for it. there is solution in plain sight. let s bring in the lead off panel. national political reporter, an attorney and former staffer for the armed services committees and national correspondent for the washington post. philipp, on this issue of security clearances, john brennan had his revoked. in this same studio a few hours ago, he talked and one of the things he talked about was trying to prevent this from happening to other former and current officials. does he have any ability to do that? one of the things is he is trying to engage in a legal case to do that. he recognizes what the threat s.
President trump is right. clearly this has done nothing to silence brennan. he was harsher tonight than in the arrest past. he recognizes there is a particular threat. if you are someone who donald trump still has power over in the government, who someone like bruce ohr works for the defendant of justice, that changes his career. that makes it so he is not able to work. that s a point that brennan made. he can t use this to punish his enemies within the executive branch of the government. that s i think the broader threat and think the outside chance of people wondering about and are curious about is whether or not he tries to exercise that threat. i want to get to that name, bruce ohr in a minute. the president talking about it a lot. john, i want to pick up something the president said and phil just alluded to when he talked about brennan, he talked
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