Transcripts For CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20180815

Omarosa . Ton of bricks, a new threat from the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani warning if special Counsel Robert Mueller does not finish his investigation within the next couple of weeks, quote, we will just unload on him like a ton of bricks. And, closing arguments, the jury will now consider the fate of trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Both sides wrapped up the closing arguments with the prosecution telling jurors this is a case about lies. Wonderful blitzer is off today. Im jim sciutto and you are in the situation room. And the breaking news, President Trump launches an extraordinary attack on a critic. Revoking a security clearance of the former director of the cia john brennan. And reviewing the clearances of several other former Senior National Security Officials. All of whom have been critical at times of his administration. And official with knowledge of the matter tells me that the nations senior most intelligence official dan coats was not consulted and the cia, quote, caught off guard by the move which is an unprecedented use of president ial authority to punish his political rivals. Press secretary Sarah Sanders today could not explain why the president never issued a similar statement revoking the clearance of his own former National Security adviser flynn who admitted to lying to the fbi. Ill speak with congressman don beyer. Lets go straight to the breaking news and cnn White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. This is truly a bombshell. It is unprecedented. Take us through how this happened. Reporter well, jim, it certainly is a bombshell and theres no ignoring that the white house made this announcement on a day where theyre dealing with the fallout still from that staffer omarosas tellall book. Now, the white house announcing at the briefing and then later a letter of the president dated july 26th. Three weeks ago, in three days after they first announced they were considering revoking these security clearances. Now, the white house has sent out an updated version of that letter that does not have that july 26th date on it which is leading many to wonder if its a distraction or a coincidence. The white house tonight changing the subject. Announcing President Trump has revoked former cia director John Brennans security clearance and highly unusual move. Id like to begin by reading a statement from the president. Ive decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence agency. Reporter Sarah Sanders claiming he leveraged the position criticizing the trump administration. Recently leveraged the status as a former high ranking official with access to highly Sensitive Information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations, wild outburst tons internet and television about this administration. Reporter the white house unable to cite any evidence brennan misused the intelligence access or monetized his proximity to it. Asked if this is tied to his criticism of trump, Sarah Sanders said this. Not at all. The president has constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. Reporter yet the white house is also reviewing clearances for nine other democratic officials who have criticized the president. Including James Clapper, james comey, michael hayden, sally yates, susan rice, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page and bruce ohr. Reporter one name not on the list, former National Security adviser mike flynn pleading guilty to lying to the fbi of communications with russian officials yet the president never revoked his clearance. Asked why he is not on the list, the white house deflecting today. Again, certainly, we would look at those if we deemed it necessary and well keep you posted if the list is updated. Reporter the president s statement on clearances dated july 26th, nearly three weeks ago. But it was Just Announced today as the white house struggles to defend itself from a crisis of its own making. The fallout of omarosas tellall book. The president remaining behind closed doors today as he lashed out at the special counsel on twitter. Calling the investigation a rigged russian witch hunt with no credibility. That as his lawyer Rudy Giuliani argues the facts are up to them. Eye of the beholder . No. Facts are not in the eye of the beholder. They are. Now, john brennan responded, jim, saying he believes this is directly tied to the criticism of President Trump. He said it wont deter him Going Forward and he does fear this is sending a message to those who have the security clearances that they ought to hold their tongues. Jim . One thing they have in common on the list, criticized the president. Kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you. Lets go in depth now with shim shim shimon. The director of National Intelligence, dan coats, im told was not consulted on this decision. Im also told that the cia was in the words of an official with knowledge caught off guard by this decision. Has this ever happened before . A president revoking a senior officials security clearance and threatening to do that to others . No. Not that we know of and seems to be unprecedented appears. By all accounts. You have talked to people. I have talked to people, a National Security lawyer who says that theres no reasoning, no cause here. You would need cause to revoke someones security clearance and to take such a step, right, you have to show did the person leak classified information . Is the person under some kind of investigation, criminal or perhaps an internal investigation. We have nothing, nothing to suggest any of this certainly by the former cia director. So it is unprecedented, for the white house to meddle in this, to go ahead and make decisions for the sponsoring agency and here probably was the cia, to circumvent the cia, to go ahead and do this on their own and from the podium. Right . Nonetheless, before the american public, before the people there who watch these beliriefings. Josh, lets talk about the timing of this. Not only when the white house is within something of a controversy with the former aide omarosa but also exactly one day after john brennan the former director of the cia criticized President Trump in a tweet. Im going to read it now. He said the following. It is astounding how often you fail to live up to a minimum standards of decency, civility and probative. Addressing the president. Seems like youll never understand what it means to be president. Nor what it takes to be a good, decent and honest person. So disheartening and dangerous for our nation. Is ate stretch to imagine, josh campbell, that this was political punishment for criticism like that . I think that definitely factors into play here. Theres three issues happening at the same time. Theres an issue of distraction. Now you think about the major issues taking place right now. The Paul Manafort trial. The president s former campaign aide. The omarosa revelations. Talking a last couple of days about the president s been accused of uttering and this is all an attempt to distract. Im convinced theres running list inside the white house of topics that they can pull from to try to distract. The second issue is the tweet you mentioned. I think its an issue of impulse. This is a president who gets some type of release by going after his enemies. Im sure he saw the tweet and angry by striking back and payback for brennan for that and then the last issue i think if you look at the collection of these officials that have been targeted it is the idea that this is another instance of trying to discredit the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference because many of the people had a role in the investigation or in calling out that russian interference and now tieing in this specifically bruce ohr, Justice Department official and i dont think criticized the president and involved up in that orbit just kind of shows what its all about here. I think that at the end of the day the motives here are sinister, selfish and serious implications for u. S. National security. One of the things they disagreed with the president on is the assessment of the Intelligence Community that russia interfered in the election. Clapper, brennan and others. Thats just one of many points of contention. We did the math on the long list of people targeted now. Nearly 300 years of experience in government. Some 268 years of National Security experience. You look at James Clapper there, 47 years going back to the vietnam war. Michael hayden, nearly 40 years. Brennan in the cia for 25 years. Is this consequential for the Intelligence Community, for them, to lose this eligibility for access . Well, certainly it is because, jim, when you think about it, what if the current cia director wants to call john brennan saying, hey, you were dealing with an issue while you were cia director and i need to talk to you about this. Its a classified matter. Secret matter. He now cannot talk to her about that matter. And the case of the former dni director James Clapper, he said on our air around 3 00 that he has talked to former white house officials. This now does not essentially allow these people in the case of the former cia director john brennan to have the classified secret conversations with current officials. They may want to bring him in for expertise on any number of issues and thats where the consequence could be in terms of a National Security level, certainly in the current administration. You know what john brennan in charge of by the way . The point man on bin laden at the time when he was killed in an operation, experience that might be valuable in the war on terrorism. Imagine that. Josh, what kind of signal does this send to those former officials or current officials who stand up and criticize this administration or the president or its policies . Is this intended to silence them . It possibly is intended. I know its certainly a byproduct. This chilling affect thats going do go out to anyone who may be in a position of wanting to speak out to criticize what theyre seeing in this administration. But i can tell you what. You look at the caliber of the people, these individuals who have dedicated much of the career and lives to public service. I dont agree with everything that they have said and agree with the language used to criticize the president but i know to a person these are patriots and more like them in government. They may, you know, the intention here may be to try to deter them and doesnt stop good people from standing up. We got do remind people. These folks, they have served democratic an republican president s multiple times. Not an issue of politics in the career. They served democrats and republicans. Thank you very much. Were joined by congressman don beyers from virginia and former Lieutenant Governor of virginia. Thank you for taking the time. Absolutely. You tweeted after this came out today, very strong words about this decision. Ill just repeat it for the sake of the audience. Quote, trump is clearly punishing brennan, cracking down on a dissent. The president adopted the weak, paranoid behavior of a dictator. Strong words, remarkable words. Very clear. This is a striking move towards authoritarianism. They jail their opponents n. Th. In this case, they steal the security clearance. Its mean and petty and ironic and ivanka has security clearances and meeting with russians about hacking emails opposed to a patriot. What are you and your colleagues in the house going to do about this . Do you have any republican support for responding to this . We have had very little in the house. There have been a number of republican senators, i dont know about just today, but over the past couple of weeks willing to speak up. Were not going do pass legislation in the next couple of months to address this. However, we need to do that in the years to come. One of the pieces of legislation floating around right now takes away the president s ability to provoke a security clearance and gives it to the director of National Intelligence. Do you have any republican support for a measure like that . Not yet. Maybe after today well get it. Whats amazing was that this is going to be a the haspel appointment was supposed to be good for the cia and tears down that morale. At the end of the day, remember, when this first came up, speaker ryan was asked about this. He kind of laughed it off saying it sounds like the president is trolling. That was the word he used. Clearly, though, the president now made a decision here. Its incredibly impulsive. But i agree with josh. Distracting us with other things. Omarosas book. The tweet of calling her a dog. The manafort hearing trial. All things upsetting to the president. Beyond the pettiness of this, there is a consequence to this, is there snot these are experienced National Security officials who and the reason they keep the clearances so that they might be consulted when the country is under threat. If theyre revoked as John Brennans has been that cant happen if theres another 9 11, for instance. To lose the wisdom and insight of a clapper, hayden, brennan. Those that were there when we captured bin laden. Both bushes and reagan and obama. This is an incredible amount of really important insight into how the world works. We instead got donald trump with very little insight leading this. Is this an enemys list on par with nixons . Sure looks like nixons. Out there. I mean, nixons hidden until the tapes, i think. You have the press secretary reading the list on national television. Yes, exactly. Its funny how often in these situations not something thats whispered in a corridor but something thats writ large in the public. Of course, this comes as this white house is facing troubles. It has a former aide now accusing the president of using horrible racial epitaphs, claiming a tape. It may not be true but still its a controversy that this white house clearly does not like. Do you see through this as a transparent attempt just to find, turn the page . I think it could be all these things at once. Clearly is distracting and so impulsive and undisciplined and reactive. It could be anger, also. Someone said will we revoke his security clearance . Never done that for a president before. Sources with knowledge say dan coats, the by statute seniormost security individual in the country not consulted. John brennan, the cia was caught off guard. By this decision. Should that be worrisome to the American People that the president making intelligence decisions of consequence without consulting the appointed advisers . Jim, should be of great concern to americans but no surprise at this time. When he did his helsinki visit with putin, i mean, once again, dan coats said, quote, he said, what . Theyre catching the Intelligence Community off guard again and again and it is a shame because these are the people with decades of experience and understand how best to proceed. If this is, indeed, a threat to National Security, to make a political, you might even say a petty decision like this, with consequences, as a coequal branch of government, congress, Must Congress stand up now to check the president on this kind of behavior . Yes. Absolutely. I think thats the American People expect. They dont expect us to be vindictive or mean but expect a check and balance. And that when these are wrong or a step too far, we have to say enough. I hope not just with the words and the tweets but with legislation. If you take back the house, will you pass legislation to pro ve prevent this . Absolutely. I hope we get the 60 votes in the senate. Congressman, thank you for taking the time. Thank you. Next, blistering reaction for lawmakers after President Trump revokes the security clearance of the tomorrower director of the cia and threatens several other former senior officials and the Paul Manafort case will now go to the jury after closing arguments wrap up in the fraud and tax evasion trial of the former chairman of the trump campaign. Now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller im gonna follow the sun now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller transitions™ light under control™ welcome back. Our breaking news, unprecedented prove by President Trump revoking the security clearance of the man who used to lead the cia, john brennan. And threatening to do the same thing for other former national officials. Officialing all of whom have been critical at times of his energy. There is sharp reaction on capitol hill. Senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju is there. Are you hearing pushback of democrats and republicans . Reporter just democrats seizing on the news. Criticizing the administrations move saying it looks like a lot like nixons use of an enemys list, retaliate, unprecedented ways against critics and raising some significant National Security concerns particularly for someone like john brennan and knows the secrets and presum bring to help with some key issues that are facing the cia and other intelligence agencies. So far, not much coming from republicans and the top democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark warner told us that hes concerned that this is just going to be the start and perhaps the Mueller Probe is next. To have clearances revoked or in the process revoked to me smacks of nixonian type practices to silence anyone criticizing the president. Do you think they go after the Mueller Investigation . There would be nothing the white house would do to surprise me at this point. Clearly under siege and will stop at nothing to try to divert peoples attention. Reporter warner suggesting that perhaps the president try to remove the security clearances of the prosecutors part of the Mueller Investigation. Republicans i said, earlier, jim, not weighed in on this. Senators just getting back to washington. We planned to press them on this. And the house members on recess. Speaker paul ryan this is the president trolling people, he said in the purview of the executive branch and not commented yet now that the president taken the action and revoked the security clearance. Jim . More than trolling. President s team took an alarming shot at the Mueller Probe, the special counsel. Whats the latest attack . Reporter thats right. Rudy giuliani, the president s attorney, told bloomberg this. That if he doesnt get it done in the next two or three weeks well just unload on him like a ton of bricks. Write the damn report so we can see it and rebut it. It raises quite a lot of questions of what he means. Of course, they have been criticizing the probe relentless and theres no signs that this is going to wrap up by september as Rudy Giuliani and the white house have been demanding. Of course, we know that at least one witness is coming on september 7th. Theres no signs of the any resolution to the president to sit down with the mueller team so perhaps this is going to be just further escalation of the team trying to undercut the credibility to rile up the base heading into the midterms. Manu, thank you very much. More breaking news now. Closing arguments wrapped up in the fraud and tax evasion trial of the former chairman of the trump campaign. Paul manafort. Cnns kara skanell been in the courthouse in virginia. This is Robert Muellers first case to go to trial. How important is it for him, for the broader investigation, to come away with a conviction here . Well, jim, this is a highstakes prosecution and if muellers team wins i think it will send shock waves through the trump camp, to allies, friends and others on the campaign to show the strength of the Mueller Investigation and the persuasiveness of the case but if the prosecution loses here, it will embolden those who call for the investigation to end and to wrap this up. And wrapping it up is what happened today. We heard closing arguments of both sides with prosecutors saying that manafort lied to keep the fortune and when it dried up, he lied to banks to persuade them for 20 million in loans. Now, the prosecutors also tackled the issue of rick gates telling the jury they didnt have to like him, raising affairs he may have had, a distraction and saying the documents that were the star witness and not rick gates, jim. Now, i understand that the defenses closing brought up trumps time as Campaign Chairman. How did it factor into the closing arguments . Reporter the defense brought up manaforts role in the campaign and other campaigns right at the getgo. In a way suggesting but not directly saying that this prosecution was politically motivated so the defense team arguing the prosecutors digging through manaforts files to try to find a charge, that they were stacking up the charges against manafort and they pointed to one loan that manafort had applied for and did not get asking the jury why would you have that additional count . What would that be about . Pressing the jury to consider what the motivations were behind the prosecution. Now, the judge had earlier told them they couldnt make the argument and said hed instruct the jury to not consider any motives of the department of justice. The judges is kurntsly giving instructions on the law and still ongoing and once it wraps up, it goes to the jury and begin deliberations, jim. Cara outside the courthouse, thank you very much. Coming up, breaking news, President Trump making really an unprecedented move against the critics, kre vorevoking the cle of brennan and threatening several other former National Security officials. Is the president trying to change the subject after being put on the defensive by a former aide and former apprentice star . Was he simply outsmarted by omarosa . Youre in the situation room. Fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. Some only call when they have something to sell. Fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. And while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. Fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other money managers. Fisher investments. Clearly better money management. If you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. 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President trump now revoked the security clearance of the former director of the cia john brennan. 25year veteran of the cia. President said hes considering similar action now against former fbi director james comey, James Clapper, michael hayden, several others. You see them there. John kirby, you know, beyond the spectacle here, are there National Security consequences to this . We did a little math and the ten name that is he rattled off or Sarah Sanders rattled off is 278 years of experience in National Security. You want the ability to call on their expertise, do you not, calling them in if you have a crisis . Any normal administration, jim, absolutely. This one, not so much. I cant see them bringing in brennan to talk but what hes done could affect future administrations and future opportunities to bring in and pull in on the expertise. They have a lot of experience that the nation should be able to draw from and also in my view a Chilling Effect downstream. So all these men said that this isnt going to necessarily change the way they speak and write and talk but theres other officials, mid level officials with clearances and need the clearances to either do their jobs or to help advise at lower levels in the administration and this decision by the president could have a real chilling affect on them. Director clapper said on the air earlier theres circumstances hes been in touch with intelligence officials on issues of the day. I imagine there are a whole host i think you mentioned that you have a clearance. Not like you walk into a i dont have access to intelligence anymore. Thats a you dont have access, cant walk in at any moment but eligible to see the information if called upon. If theres a need. Fair enough. Susan, also served at the nsa, one of the intelligence agencies, were any of the reasons cited by Sarah Sanders cause for revoking someones security clearance . No. Absolutely not. Look. Its clear that this has absolutely nothing to do with security whatsoever. We know that because none of the ordinary officials were consulted. The ordinary process wasnt used and because there are important security reasons to allow this consultation. That distinction of eligibility and access, brennan lost access leaving the government as everybody does. Exactly. Trump revoked the eligibility to see classified information and meaning when the director of the cia, the director of odni, high ranking officials feel they need to consult with brennan, you can understand why you want to be able to talk to the person in office before you and more difficult for them to do this. John brennan, the point man on Osama Bin Laden at the time he was killed. You are looking for another terror bad guy. Might you want to consult someone with that level of exsneerns. Not if youre donald trump. If youre donald trump you dont think you need to consult anybody but yourself. Might the American People want the president to consult i think they might and would. They should. And this is an abuse of power. This is a First Amendment issue. These are people who happen to disagree with donald trump on certain issues regarding National Security. As a result of speaking out which is what we are allowed to do in this country, they are being punished. They are being told, we are going to strip your security clearance away from you. Now, some of these people because they didnt do the research, they didnt have clearance anymore. But they stripped them. Its petty. Its bullying. Its an abuse of power. And it is a violation of the First Amendment of the constitution. Period. Is this an enemys list . Seems like an enemys list and comes at an opportune time for donald trump or inopportune time for donald trump and talking about omarosa for the last couple of days. Raising very uncomfortable topics for this president , whether or not he used nword. You saw the white house yesterday not able to dismiss that out of hand. Talk about just racism in this administration. So that was very uncomfortable. You have the president changing the subject here. The question is, i mean, we have seen this before. Does he sort of conjure up something out of thin air Going Forward to do the same thing . Other interesting thing about this, this wasnt really Donald Trumps idea. Right . This was something that was floated on fox news for months and months before he did it. And then rand paul talked about it. Tucker carlson, as well. Folks, in the category of its rich for the white house to make this decision now, just a few months ago in february when the security clearance of rob porter who was escorted out of the building because of evidence that he abused two of his former wives, i believe, Sarah Sanders punted on the question of security clearance with this explanation. Have a listen. Look. That is process that isnt doesnt operate within the white house. Its handled by the Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community. And we support that process. Its the same process thats been used for decades for other previous administrations. And were relying on that process at this point. I do think its up to those same Law Enforcement and intelligence agencies to determine if changes need to be made to their process. We support that process. Its handled by our Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community. Im told today that the director of National Intelligence dan coats not consulted and the cia caught off guard by this. There isnt a process. There is donald trump. Who says maybe listening to rand paul or whoever he was listening to saying, you know, these guys are out there criticizing me. Im going to cut them off. By the way, change the subject. Nia saying about, you know, from omarosa. What process . Is she talking about here . Theres a process that does exist. Its a process theyre not using it. Right. When theres cause. When theres cause. An exemption of that. Whenever the white house wants to circumvent that process, they get the head of the affected agency. Right. What we see from them circumventing the process, the president invoking the authority, he couldnt get either of those people to put their name to a piece of paper saying this was a Security Threat at all. And it actually could open him up. Ordinarily courts refuse to look at these questions. Not putting Important Information on your security clearance form as the president s soninlaw did repeatedly. What about flynn . General flynn who lied to the fbi. Right. Does he still have his clearance . In the category of an intentional distraction, caught by our white house team, my colleague, our colleague jeff zeleny, the statement announcing this as released by the white house after that press briefing dated july 26th, 2018. Composed more than two weeks ago. The white house later said that was a cut and paste mistake. I dont know how you cut and paste a date to this. It looks like, gloria, does it not, you have been involved in statements like this before, john kirby. Not this. Havent back dated things. Looks like its on the shelf and an omarosa problem. Drop it today. All the hallmarks of trying to get us to talk about something else. I cant for the life of me think why they think this is better for them than talking about omarosas book. This is an abuse of power. Theodore roosevelt said its morally treasonous to say the president shouldnt be criticized and think they thi t crossed this line today. Yeah. Stay with us. President trump revoking the security clearance of john brennan. Authorities investigating Cyber Attacks against the opponent of a congressman known for his prorussia views. Were going to bring you details of that alarming story just ahead. I visualize travel rewards. I receive travel rewards. 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The fbis reportedly investigating Cyber Attacks against democratic opponent of a prominent prorussian republican congressman. Our nick watt is working the story for us. Nick, were these sophisticated attacks . And do we know yet where they came from . Reporter well, jim, we do not yet know where they came from and spoke on the the candidate claiming he was hacked. Dr. Hans kerstag and running in californias 48th. Now, he says that, quote, my company was attacked multiple times and it was very sophisticated. My Congressional Campaign attacked multiple times. A very concerted effort and real. The main thrust of the attacks according to Rolling Stone saying attacks on the email, the cam pins website and on social media platforms. Now, the tactic for the email is spear phishing. Tries to induce you to clicking a link to give away information. That is apparently what happened. Now, the candidate himself says he has been in contact with the fbi. We have not yet managed to confirm that the fbi is indeed on this case but this does bear hallmarks of attacks on the dnc for example and mueller in one of the indictments of those russian Intelligence Officers claim that this same tactic was used on various Election Officials in florida so no one is saying yet whos definitely behind this but people are definitely whispering this could be russia. John podesta, how he was gotten. Anymore special scrutiny given to the fact that robacher happens to be a congressman whos very prorussian, try gent in the ideas. No indication that the attacks were successful or impacted the vote in the primary at all but rohrabacher is known by some as putins favorite congressman, made a number of trips to russia, claimed that russia not behind the dnc. Hes also kind of pooh poohed claims of russian human rights violations. You know, he is clearly a friend of russia. Pushing for closer ties with russia. So that does bring this in to more focus, brings more attention on this. As i say, jim, there is as yet no indication, no proof we have that indeed russia was behind this hack. Nothing to suggest rohrabacher himself involved. Jim . Nick, thank you for looking into it. Coming up, more on our top story, President Trump revoking the security clearance of the former director of the cia john brennan, threatening the same action against several former intelligence officials. Plus, as a feud between the president and former aide omarosa rages, new questions of his use of nondisclosure agreements. Was President Trump trying to buy her silence . Is out there. And the Alzheimers Association is going to make it happen by funding scientific breakthroughs, advancing public policy, and providing local support to those living with the disease and their caregivers. But we wont get there without you. Join the fight with the Alzheimers Association. 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If your uc or crohns treatment isnt working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. Entyvio. Relief and remission within reach. Agreement. Okay. Tonight amid accusations from former white house aide omarosa that President Trump tried to buy her silence, new questions about use of nondisclosure Agreements Inside this administration. Brian todd has more. How common are these . Reporter theyre common among the trump people, jim. President trump is furious with omarosa. Some say he is panicking over her new book and coming after her for violating a nondisclosure agreement she signed to work with his 2016 campaign. Trump biographers say his obsession with the agreements reflects the back stabbing culture of his inner circles. Low life, shes a low life. Reporter President Trump lashing out against a former aide he feels betrayed him, with vicious name calling of Omarosa Manigault newman, claiming she violated a deal with him. Tweeting wacky omarosa has a fully signed nondisclosure agreement. Trumps president ial campaign tonight is demanding omarosa face an Arbitration Panel for violating an nda she signed. Omarosas explosive book portrays trump as unfit for office, tells a dramatic tale of refusing a cushy 15,000 a month retainer from his campaign because it came with another nda. They tried to buy my silence. Reporter if it was anything like the one cnn obtained from another campaign source, she could be in violation. Quote, you hereby promise and agree not to demeanor disparage mr. Trump. Theyre widely used in companies and often in campaigns. Omarosa says she did not sign an nda with the trump white house. But white house Officials Say many others there have signed them. We have confidentiality agreements in the west wing, absolutely we do. The idea is to make someone very afraid. Afraid primarily for their reputation and their bank account. Reporter some on the trump team say other administrations have forced white house staffers to sign ndas. A former Obama Communications director says she knows of no one in the white house that had to sign one. I was never asked to sign a noen nondisclosure Agreement Agreement on the Obama Campaign or kerry campaign, except for classified information. Reporter donald trump has a history of ndas for business and private life. This agreement is the one drawn up between he and Stormy Daniels who says she once had an affair with trump. A trump biographer says his obsession with ndas speaks volumes about trumps inner circles and his own paranoia. This idea of someone speaking negatively about him does enrage him. It makes him furious and makes him eager to exact revenge. Reporter cnn is told a lot of white house signers are no longer signing nondisclosure Agreement Agreements. People close to the white house telling cnn theyre largely seen now as unenforceable. Jim . 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