intelligence, this year more than 4 million people, 4 million people have access to some type of classified information in america. that is a lot of people who may have criticized the president. so this idea of punishing your enemies or those critical of you, well, here's the thing, it's straight from the playbook of those the president admires, including strong men like the turkish president erdogan. here is president trump at the nato summit. remember he let merkel and macron everybody, trudeau go ahead and he walked side by side with erdogan, on autocratic leader who has reportedly arrested 100,000 people in a purge of his political opponents, including members of the military and judges. that's the model we're talking about here. to strip the former intelligence chiefs of their security clearance is unprecedented. never mind that the president's team didn't actually check the facts of who even uses those security clearances. this move today should upset all americans. jeff zeleny is "outfront."