Director to a far left cable news pundit, among and from almost the moment President Trump took office. Heres what he said tonight. What really gets under my skin is mr. Trumps lack of decency, integrity, honesty and, um, his lack of commitment to this countrys wellbeing and National Security. Mr. Trump time after time i think has really just disappointed millions of americans, which im trying to give voice to. So i know a lot of people think a former intelligence official shouldnt be doing this. I dont consider what im doing political at all. David now 15 top former intelligence officials from both parties, you see them on the screen, came to brennans defense released a statement that said in part, and i quote, we all agree that the president s action regarding john brennan and the acts of similarses against other former officials have nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearances and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech. It goes onto say, decisions on security clearances should be based on National Security concerns and not political views. Later today, 60 former cia officers also released a letter criticizing trumps action against brennan but President Trump is sticking by his guns. Ive gotten tremendous response fromsp having done tha, because security clearances are very important to me. Very, very important. And ive had a tremendous response for having done that. Theres no balance. If anything, im giving them a bigger voice. Many people dont even know who he is and now hes got a bigger voice, and thats ok with me, because i like taking on voices like that. Ive never respected him. Ive never had a lot of respect. David and brennan, by n the way, might not be the only one who looses his clearance. The Washington Post reporting tonight that b white house officials have drafted documents that cancel security clearances of several current and former officials. The post reports that trump wants to sign most, if not all of them, due to his anger over the russia investigation. Joining me now for reaction area buck sexton, former cia analyst, jim hanson, president of the Security Studies group and chris hahn who is a former aide to democrat senator and the senior senator to new york, chuck schumer. Gentlemen, good evening, great to see you here again. Lets dive right in and begin with john brennan. This is what he had to say earlier on msnbc with rachel maddow. I was very concerned and aware that the russians were trying to leverage u. S. Citizens to achieve their objectives in the president ial election. While you were in office as cia director, before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u. S. Persons were successfully leveraged in that effort . No. David now, ill go to you first, buck, if the question is asked if the concern was there and the answer was no, then why is john brennan going the way he does against the president . Thats a question i dont think anyone could answer including john brennan if you push him enough. People are talking a lot here, david, about how its unprecedented to pull a clearance in thisut way by a president , but what is also unprecedented is not just for a former intel chief but the most recent cia director, not to just be critical of the president but to be actively undermining the president , calling him a traitor, in fact, to the country, this man is the commanderinchief and brennans allegations have gone far beyond what you would see in normal political discourse to the point wheref. You could even say its undermining institutions to borrow from one of the common democrat flies terms of trump on all things lines in terms of trump on all things. I see this now on a few levels, one is, david, i dont think people that dont have government business should maintain clearances. S. I think that should just be a general rule and you certainly should maintain a clearance if youre going on tv and suggesting you have secret information about the president that you cant really tell but its whats informing your judgment that hes guilty of treason. Thats a big problem. David chris, especially with what buck just said, john brennan going on tv, his clearance covering the specter, giving his words more weight. Ill put the same question to you, if the answer is no, and given what buck just said, then is john brennan being honest or somewhat disingenuous what hes doings on cnn or on any of the other channels . I watched a lot of that interview earlier, and he did not say that the president was out ofe line, and he did not say he did say, though, that he had new information that was widely publicized including the don jr. Meeting in trump tower that most of us didnt know about until this last summer. So there are more information that has come out, and i think this is led him to believe theres been some sort of collusion, not necessarily with the president , and maybe a conspiracy that involved americans that needs to be dealt with and needs to be uncovered by mueller. As for the president stripping his clearance, look , i dont think any of us believe that a president should use the power of his office to retaliate against his political opponent. Thats unamerican. Its a banana republiclike move. This is not something we associate with the american president. This is like nixon enemies list except for Sarah Sanders goes to the podium and reads the names on the enemies list. If we had a congress who is doing its job, it would investigate exactly why this president was doing this, and i think come january, we will have a congress that will do its job under the constitution and hold this president accountable through checks and balances. David well, if they take the congress ithink we can expect that from the democrats. Jim, to you on this issue of security clearances. Theyre kept because, if needed, they will call back these advisers. This has been common throughout administrations, however if the administration has madee a decision that theyre not going to call you back because of as they see it john brennan is in and out against the administration. They may not trust his advice and they have the right, then what is it really all about to remove his security clearance if theyre not going to call him back . Why should he keep it if theyre not going to call him back . Theres absolutely no reason for him to keep it, because no one is going to trust his judgment now having said what he did. G you know, he basically claimed that the president has committed treason. So the idea that this is something that the president did that is Donald Trumps fault, its not. Itshi John Brennans fault and the rest of the clown car of obama National Security officials whoho gemmed up an investigation into trump russia based on a few minor players in trumps orbit andor then they added in the dncfunded steel dossier to the mix. The problem is, there was no trumpp russia. So now what were looking at is the democrat deep state collusion blowing up from their faces like it was a wiley coyote acme smear generator. Theres no their there. David this is john brennan again on msnbc talking about the special counsel, robertta mueller. Its called the dulyappointed special counsel who is given the mandate to investigate what russia did in terms of interference in our president ial election. And who might have been working in supportrt of russian objectives . O and who might have committed the crime in that process . Thats why Robert Mueller is a Real National treasure. He needs to be able to continue with this investigation unimpeded. David so, chris hahn, does removing John Brennans security clearance in any way impede Robert MuellerNational Treasurer as brennan sees him, impede his ability toce carry out his investigation . I dont think so. I think if the president acts towards going after mueller anymore, hes going to lose some support, Additional Support in congress from even people in his own party, but, look, the bottom line is this the president did not consult with his National Security apparatus before he took the clearance away from brennan. Those people might havena said, mr. President , we mightht want o work with him on things that he had worked on prior to leaving office as a continuation of government, some constitutional knowledge. He didnt do that. Fi this is a decision made in the president s press shop to distract from the omarosa story and were told today earlier this evening that the president has several others lined up to distract, as needed, if the news cycle gets away from him as did this a week. Thats despicable hes playing games with our National Security and thats not right. And i would like to hear what dan coates others that say. I would likeot to hear what the current cia director others that say. I wantt to hear what they have o say about this, because i dont think theyre too keen on this. They were saying they didnt know and were not consulted. Thats just wrong. There are procedures and policies that were taking theres a prestos take aware these processes to take away these and he didnt follow it. David youre in the shop. The cia director isnt the only one that has the information. Hes certainly the head of the agency. Maybe within the agency, the highest classified authority. Others have the information. Isso the cia director the only e that could be called back if they needk information . No, i think thats pretty overstated. Also, anyone who spent any time in the Intelligence Community will tell you theres a lot of people working on any one issuew and theres a tremendous amount of Institutional Knowledge from people who arent political appointees who stay in these agencies for decades and decades for their career. The notion youre going to have this t crisis situation where yu cant bring back a director to find something out is preposterous. You hear it described in a press report as a courtesy. Thats why a lot of individuals hold their clearances. Its a different idea to have that courtesy when youre a person in private life versus someone who is clearly trading on that recent access, not just on media appearances. The whole thing about it being silenced is cleanout ridiculous. Hes on tv practically every five minutes. Youre seeing breennan and the antitrump folks getting plenty of air time and additional play here. David, i understand theres a concern about political retaliation. Thats a fair point to make ford some people in some cases thank you. But, one, i think brennan is the exception so far, and, two, this is not big of a deal. The people that are suggesting this is the equivalent of the japanese being enturned in camps or anything like that are going wayam overboard, but thats what we tend to see from trump where does it end . David certainly see the hyperbole hyperbolely. Let me bring in Rush Limbaugh in this. Here he talks about trying to overthrow a duly constituted elected president. Lets listen. Wheres it written where john brennan, above all else, must be granted his security clearance when this guy is actively engaged in overthrowing a duly constitutionally elected president . Youu know the answer to the question. Just because the left doesnt care about the constitution. It doesnt care about the rule of law. It cares only about its power and, folks, this is none ofpo those are cliches. None of those are exaggeration. David well, jim hanson, you heard it from the rushner himself. What do you say to that . I think we saw this. It started during the election. It ran through thehe transition and continued once President Trump was inaugurated. Theyve been trying to stop him. Theyve been trying to discredit his administrationey and now theyre trying to get him removed. And theres nothing to remove him on. There is no collusion with russia. Theree is, however, a collection of former obama officials and dnc folks who did conspire to create a controversy and who were leaking information, a lot of it potentially classified, to the media, that includes brennan who is a prime suspect in that along with clapper and other people who signed these letters in support of brennan saying he shouldnt have lost his security clearance, soth theyre the ones i think the problem for them may be looking at them as opposed to trump and they may get some unintended consequences. David so, all right, gentlemen, i know the debate is going to continue, but weve got to cut it here. Quick last word, chris. Go ahead. He led the mission to kill osama bin laden. David chris, i gave you the last word. Weve known each other a long time. I was fair to you, my friend. Gentlemen, thank you. Jim, chris, thank you very much. Stunning new revelations tonightng about doj official bre ohrs involvement in the steele dossier and President Trump, hes ready to take action. Dont go away. Dont go away. Welcome to the xfinity store. Thanks, janet. Its my happy place. You can learn how to switch to xfinity mobile, a new Wireless Network that saves you cash. And you can get 5 lines of talk and text included with your internet. And over here im having my birthday party. Dj fluffernutter, hit it dj fluffernutter simple. Easy. Awesome. Ask how to get 300 back when you sign up for xfinity mobile, and purchase a new samsung phone. Visit your local xfinity store today. Or david more antitrump by the doj . More antitrump activity exposed. Bruce ohr caught in contact with christopher, the expert spy and the author we nowhe know of the infamous russia dossier, by the way, financed by the democrats throughout 2016 and 1717 and ia major news story, fncs Katherine Herridge reports that ohr wrote in an email that steele was very concerned about james comeys firing. Afraid they will be exposed. I wonder what he meant by that . The president went after ohr today. I think bruce ohr is a disgrace. I suspect hell be taken away quickly. I think hes a disgrace with his wife nelly. For him to be in the Justice Department and for him to be doing what he did, thats a disgrace. Is thats disqualifying for mueller. R. David joining me now for reaction is journal columnist jim, and former democratic pennsylvania congressman jason. Good evening to you, all. Kim, ladies first, you heard the president s reaction there. What happened . Hes right to think something highly improper went on here. You have a senior Justice Department official who is operating with the dossier author with the Opposition Research firm that was funded by the Clinton Campaign and the dnc. Hes collecting this information from them even after Christopher Steele had been fired by the f. B. I. For breaking the rules and talking to the press and hes doing this without revealing on Financial Disclosure forms or presumably to his superiors his wife is working for the same research firmk and profiting from the wok hes passing onto the f. B. I. David jim jordan had this to say earlier. No, hes the key guy. The f. B. I. Was, in fact, getting parts of the dossier from bruce ohr, top Justice Department official. Bruce ohrs wife worked for the firm that the clintons hired. He gave it to bruce ohr. She gave it to the f. B. I. Its not supposed to work that way here in the United States of america. But it did. David the questions about smoke and fire could bee put together. Jason, let me go to you and get you to weigh in on this. I mean, is there nothing to see here . I think the issue that was mentioned with regard to him not reporting the fact that his wife worked at fusion gps, thats a relevant issue, but this is a senior Justice Department official who had nothing whatsoever to do with the russia investigation and was not involved in it. I dont know what the problem is with him having a conversation. He understands the investigation is going on. He passes information on relevant to that investigation. I dont know what else he did other than the reporting issue that was inappropriate. David ok. Process and procedure. Right to you, john. I mean, here we have process, procedure, ohr and, you know, we dont know what was said and what he had between he and his wife. But there has to be some trouble and concerns about the dossier and after it was discredited and what went on after that. Theres absolutely a problem here with process and procedure. The f. B. I. Is part of the department of justice. And ill tell you, you cant have an agent whose spouse works for an agency who is producing information from a source and then passing it back to the f. B. I. Why should doj be doing the exact same thing . Youve got to haveng people who are unbiased and no connections here. This would be a problem in the f. B. I. And frankly a fireable offense. David all right, so, kim, the president tweeted this earlier today, and i want to read this. Very concerned about comeys firing. Afraid they will be exposed. I mean, those are pretty straightforward words. He goes onto, you know, basically reference the connection, the phony and discredited trump dossier. Weve heard that before. He finished in that tweet, a creep thinking he would get caught in a dishonest act. Rigged witch hunt. Is the president is he going too far . Is this a reach . Well, i dont think its too far to ask the question of what did he mean when he said exposed . The charitable explanation here is he was worried he would be exposed, his name would be out there, but guess what . Christopher steele was already out there. T he sat for an interview with mother jones months before and blew the lid on the f. B. I. Investigation whichre was why he was fired by the f. B. I. Sohi he cant be worried about s name being out there. So that would suggest the exposure they fear is something different, maybe the methods this was all put together . Maybe who was financing it which we now know. Maybe t the unorthodoxed ways in which it was put across. Look to go back to the process and procedure thing here, what on earth was the f. B. I. Doing interviewing bruce ohr 12 times for the information he got from Christopher Steele. The f. B. I. Already dismissed steele as a source because he had broken the rules, so this goes just beyond bruce ohr. It goes to the institutions behavior. Who knew about this at doj . Who signed off on it at f. B. I. . John, Inspector Generals Office and the reports and the ongoing investigation, the investigation initiated by the attorney general, should they where should they be looking . Is it process and procedure alone . Are there individuals that frankly have responsibilities to sign off on all of these conversations and call it interviews . I think we have to look at who is signing off on these things . Because first of all, its perception. Even if no one intended to do anything wrong, the American Public has to have confidence in the f. B. I. And the department of justice. Thats why we have these procedures. Who is allowing this sort of communication and transactions to take place . Who authorized it . Who instructed people to go out and do it . Thats what i want to know. We need to get that cleared up so director ray could take the f. B. I. Forward from what is all the problems created under strzok and mccabe and others. David speaking of strzok, he tweeted and this is what he had to say, jesus, more v. O. Leaks than the nyt. B. O. A reference to the f. B. I. Here we see yet more interchanges, more interactions and more concerns in text and tweets. We all know peter strzok is very comfortable around his cell phone, whether its tweeting or texting. For gods sakes, he needs to stop that. Hes not helping himself. Hes certainly not helping the men and women of the f. B. I. Who are trying t to do their jobs. He should stay out of it at this point david all right, jason, the politics of this. As someone who has sat there in congress, the politics of this plays into what is coming with the midterm elections. How do you see this playing out for the democrats . Is there a way for them to use it . I think what i said earlier is true. Theres little evidence anything inappropriate happened regarding ohr, but the president has found with regard to strzok and some others if he uses his bully pulpit in a way, hes able to raise the stature of this issue, you can certainly paint it in a way thats unflattering. Who knows what will come out of it . David how are the democrats going to use this . I think the democrats should be concerned that there is a point at which it does taint the Mueller Investigation if more were to come out and if the avenue that the president goes down does lead to some nefarious activity, then certainly, that would underminene the credibiliy of the investigation. Thats not happened yet. What happened with strzok and what happened with ohr, these are unfortunate circumstances that lend to people who were inclined to disbelieve what mueller comes up with that lends to that concern. Es david kimberly, we are only hours away from the latenight hours. Does strzok, as he said in testimony, tweet in the middle of the night . Ill kind of throw it to you. How do the democrats plan to use this . How do you think they could use this . Well, i think what democrats should be concerned about is that the drum they have beat for two years pretty much ever since President Trump was elected of trump russia collusion, theyve not yet been able to yield any public evidence that that has happened. Thats what enabled the president to talk about this as aev witch hunt in the way it got started and the up orthodoxed procedures that came about as part of it. Democrats will continue to suggest theres something nefarious but theyve gone a bit quiet on this. Its becoming harder for them to use it as a campaign issue, because most of what were hearing is about problematic procedures and behavior by the Prior Administration in terms of this investigation. David kim, gentlemen, thank you very much. Our special trump versus the intel Resistance Continues next. Intel resistance is bob muellers team headed for a major setback in its first trial . New developments, thats coming up. Ts. Thats coming david question on many minds tonight is bob muellers team headed for a major setback . The special counsels office first test is in an american courtroom for Paul Manafort. Kristen fisher has been following the trial and is here with the latest. Kristen . Reporter as jurors were settling in for their second day of deliberations, President Trump was weighing in on the trial of his former campaign manager. First, he was asked by reporters if he considered pardoning manafort. He said he wouldnt talk about it but he did defend him. Listen to this. I think the whole manafort trial is very sad when you look at what is going on. I think its a very sad day for our country. He worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what . He happens to be a very good person, and i think its very sad what theyve done to Paul Manafort. Reporter while the president was making those remarks, manafort was sitting inside a small jail cell inside the courtroom with no tv, no reading material, but it didnt take long for word of the president s remarks to reach his defense team. Any reaction to the president s comments this morning . Great comments. Mr. Manafort really appreciates the support of. President trum. How are you feeling . Are you currently deliberating longer . Do you think that favors your client . I do. And he does. Reporter the jury now deliberated for 14 hours over the course of two days and during that time, theyve asked the judge several questions. Theyve asked him to redefine reasonable doubt, the legal threshold for acquitting a defendant. The judge obliged that request. He refused another one. The jury asked for an updated exhibit listt. Connecting each piece of evidence to the corresponding charge in the indictment. Keep in mind, there are 18 charges and nearly 400 exhibits. Its easy to see how a jury could get very confused, but the judge refused that request, so the jury now others that sift through mountains of evidence without any index or key connecting particular documents to these individual charges. This afternoon, they knew they were not close to a verdict, because they asked the judge to leave early at 5 00 p. M. So one of the jurors could attend some kind of event in the early evening, and the judge actually let them leave early, but theyll bee back first thing monday morning, david. David kristin, the judge is speaking out. Im hearing there were threats. Whats all that about . T reporter he said this today in court. He said he received threats to the point where he now needs u. S. Marshals protection. He brought it up because he needed to explain why he didnt feel comfortable releasing the names of jurors before the end of the trial, and he had to do that, because several news organizations had filed a motion to intervene requesting the names of the jurors should be released. The judge heard them out, but in the end, he decided to keep their names sealed at least until after the end of the trial. Back to you. David kristin, thank you very much for joining us. Tr kendall, first to you on this. Paul calin had this to say earlier on cnn about the president peaking out on manafort speaking out on manafort, lets play this. The one thing i worry about as a prosecutor function a diehard trump fan on the jury, you have the president of the United States yesterday making comments about this deliberating jury. Jeff sessions said it rather than donald trump if the lawyer said it, hed be held in contempt of court. David is contempt really an issue here or is that a deflection, kendall . Not at all, and, look, were all talking, heads talking about the trial, breaking it down, giving predictions and things like that thehe system has to assume that the jurors are going to honor their oath, but nevertheless, if youre Paul Manafort, this is an intriguing development, because lets face it theres got to be statistically speaking three or four jurors in that group that probably supported trump. Got to think that somebody is getting word about it, maybe, maybe not, but when jurors go home for the weekend, do they talk to family . Do they talk to friends . Maybe theyre not supposed to, but maybe a lot of times they do. And we all know this, that a lot of people t who support presidet trump dont back down easily with their views ofe what the president says andf what the president believes. So now youve got an indication that theres clear endorsement ofow Paul Manafort and by the w, a very harsh condemnation of his trial, so whatever Paul Manaforts been going through, this has got to be, the last couple of days, two of the best days hes hadas a long time. David all right, randy, i mean, here we are, and, you know, the trial, the megaphone obviously of the president we talked about a lot of big cases before. Youve handled a lot of big cases. When you look at this how much does that play into with the jury . What about the judges instructions and the jury being charged to judge the merits, not what they hear from the outside . Well, working backwards, you would love to think that jurors will honor the oath of sympathy has no place in the courtroom. Your personal feelings have no place in the courtroom. Dont listen, dont read anything. Dont watch anything. But d theres a concept weve al learned, the right way and also the hard way which is journalification which is what a juror will say which is jury nullification. Which is what a juror will say, i will vote my conscious, vote with my heart and be damned what the law is what is so bizarre here, i mean, this is how everything is politicized, chocolate versus peanut butter, but, remember, the executive branch, who sits at the top of the executive branch . The president. Where does the department of justice fall . Under the executive branch. Youve got the most important person in the executive branch basically saying that the department of justice under his watch doesnt know what it is theyre doing. What . None of this makes any sense, and mr. Coffey, i must respectfully disagree with, because if you as a lawyer are discussing a case youre involved in where that could prejudice the trier of the fact, a juror, thats a potential disciplinary violation. Weve got the most important person in the country, perhaps in the world, speaking out while the jury is deliberating you know, kendall, as they say in the debate business, when your names been mentioned, you get to defend your position. So what do you say to randy . Of course, of course the president has a right to speak out about issues of public interest. He didnt plant this. A reporter asked him about the issue and he responded spontaneously. If the suggestion is being that the president is somehow suggested to discipline, ive got a very strongly ive got very strongly disagree with that. I think what will be fascinating for the trial Going Forward is this is a very, very tough case for Paul Manafort to win. Biggest be one of the upsets if he got acquitted on everything since, well, bombed trump won the election against donald trump won the election against hillary clinton. What would be a big victory for manafort those opposing the investigation would be a hung jury. The questions we got yesterday, maybe the impact of President Trumps statements, there could be things adding up to suggest there could be at least a couple of jurors who have some skepticism about the prosecutions case and perhaps a reasonable doubt. Now, its much too early for Paul Manafort to be getting optimism. We could recall cases such as arthur anderson, the accounting giant and scooter libby, former chiefs of staff Vice President cheney that the jury deliberated for 10 days and came back with a guilty verdict. Nevertheless, its not a proprosecution stampede. Given everything Paul Manafort is facing in this trial, that may be a small glimmer of hope. David lets bring senator chris murphy, the connecticut senator into this. I generally choose not to hang on every twist of the Mueller Investigation but if trump pardons manafort after maybe having promised a pardon to get him to not cooperate and gatesway with it, then we are in a banana republic. We just are. He may not be the president , randy, but hes a sitting senator. Once again, what is happening with our system of justice . Once upon a time, yeah, transparency, you can go into the courtroom and watch what is going on, but we have everybody weighing in from a political standpoint. Suddenly were a banana republic. E the point remains we have a system of justice that at its essence is based upon the publics, us as citizens, being confident the right result is going to happen and with the politics, everything is about politics. My god what is happening in this country . As far aspeng mr. Manafort is concerned, hes presumed innocent until such time as the jurors go in and begin their deliberations. Their verdict should be based upon the evidence and nothing else, how the president feels, how senator murphy feels, how you feel, how i feel, its simply based upon the evidence and somehow thats so gotten away from us david all right, gentlemen, thank you, both. Iri mean, great legal analysis. Kendall, randy, great to see you both. How the media is colluding with the intel resistance to take down President Trump. Details next on this ingraham angle special. Take downwnwnwnwn all right, ive got a question for you. David ive got a question with you. Is the Media Establishment colcolluding with the resistance to try to take down President Trump . If you look at the past 24hour Media Coverage of trump, it doesnt seem that far off. If you look at John Brennans tweets, theyre emotional. Theyre energized. This is someone who sees the sort of denigration of americas security and National Security apparatus. People who worked for brennan were very clear that he was not a partisan. You can say it on the outside, because he feels a duty now to Say Something to save our country. Ive personally known and worked with john brennan. The same with jim clapper. Those people have more integrity, more intelligence and more honesty in their little fingers than this president could ever have. Here with reaction is candice owens, Communications Director for turning point usa along with democrat and radio talk show host garland nixon. Now youre in trouble. We have talk show hosts, im still going to give you the upper hand on this, and ladies first. Im a gentleman. Just old school. So freepressday yesterday, and the newspapers across country some 300 and here we are today. What do you say . The media and the president . Absolutely theyve been colluding with Robert Mueller trying to get out this false story that somehow the Trump Campaign colluded with the russians. Its evident every single day. If we looked back and counted how many times they said the word russia and took a step backwards and realized that a shred of evidence has been produced to donald trump tying him to the russian campaign, this is madness amount of some point, you have to acknowledge at what point do we acknowledge these people are conspiracy theorists . When you look at the Media Coverage of this were a couple of talk show hosts. We get hours at a time to go over this. The media gets a headline or perhaps a soundbite and the analysis comes out with coverage i want the Democratic Party to be healthy. I for some time have been uncomfortable with the incestuous relationship between the Intelligence Community and the certain elements of the media and the Democratic Party. I felt that the party should be focusing on a platform where were almost to the midterms and the Democratic Party is so focused on this,th they dont he a platform. To be honest, i would have to agree with you based on what i see. I think the Intelligence Community has kind of taken over kind of like an octopus and taken over a lot of parts of the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party. I dont think thehe Democratic Party is any better for it i dont know if theyre blind or just going along with it, but its not helping them. Wow. David lets talk about the leaks. Ill just pingpong in between the two of you. We got you right here. The leaks coming from intelligence, candice. How troubling is that as you see it . Its troubling beyond democrat or . Republican. That stuff doesnt even matter. The implications here are much more severe. Whats going to happen afterwards . If weve lost faith in our Intelligence Community, where are we going to be at as a country if we cant trust them . This is why this issue i try to tell people, this is not what side youre on this is about right and wrong. And left. Its been very troubling for quite sometime and by the way, breath of fresh air. Im so glad to hear someone with some sanity say there is no platform here. Theres nothing else going on. And they seem obsessed with this obsessed with getting trump. Theyre not realizing that youre losing a bunch of americans in the process. Weve grown apathetic with this. Weve grown apathetic with talkingg about the russian collusion and nothingpa is going on Paul Manafort is sitting in a cell by himself in solitary confinement over a tax charge. This is incomprehensively corrupt. Garland, we wont get into the legal analysis. Were two talk show hosts and one very brilliant young lady. Lets get into the narrative that has are out there. Youre talking to people in your audience, are they echoing your concerns about the democrats and running with this versus winning message . Democrats used to have a message about helping the underserved, about jobs, about economy, but now that seems to have been taken away from them. Yes, you know, what doesnt get reported on is, you know, we call we would prefer to you know, like the bernie people and points left who actually are believe it or not, you know, are focused on policy. If you look at what is talking about policy, its the left wing of the party. The liberal or right whipping of the Democratic Party or centrist wing of the Democratic Party are so focused on the russia issue, so focused on the investigation that if this falls throughsu, which its certainly starting to appear as though it will and lets just say my background was in laws enforcement. I was the commander of investigations division. Looking at this investigation, its so tainted now, i dont see how you could ever charge anyone with this investigation and that it could survive the rigors of discovery. I think discovery would tear this investigation apart. And so i look at the Democratic Party and, you know, right now, its not a party that looks very healthy going into the midterms. They could really put a hurting on the republicans in the midterms, but i suspect theyll inch away with a few victories and call b that a blue wave. What a breath of fresh air this guyuy is i mean david hes almost too rationale. I dont know what were going to do with this. New york times and this is the New York Times executive editor on President Trumps remarks towards the press. Im deeply concerned, and not only concerned by the way about what happens inside the United States at some of the volatileom trump rallies, i think that the president has sent a message to desperates abroad you can disrespect the press. Weve had president s attack the press. Weve never had a president go on foreign soil and attack the press. David candice, first to you, Quick Response to this. Quick response to the New York Times editor. The press is completely outic of touch with the american people. They have been for quite sometime. Theyve almost become a cult against just tate hating trump and not listening to americans. Theyre referring to americans as racists, sexists, and misogynists and putting them in these boxes because they dont understand how americans are feeling. President trump blocked out their nunsense and started to listen to the concerns of the american people. Theyre doing themselves no favor in this regard. They are in many ways just going to help get him reelected in 2020. G david garland, talk show host to talk show host, ive got to throw the last word to you. Go ahead. Bottom line, youre not going to go wrong with attacking the press to how its going to affect you politically. The president went after the press prior to the 2016 election and won, so i think that people that are going to defend the press, i think thatll help them with t the electorate are makina bigt mistake. The polls arehe simply saying tt the press over all isnt very popular right now. David candidates and garland, thank you very much. Hes my favorite person. He made my night. David good to have you both here. Really great to see you both. Intel chiefs claim their rabid antitrump behavior is patriotism. But they may only be playing into the hands of american enemies instead. Well explain right after this. So i can buy from enterprise car sales and youll take any tradein . Thats right great here you go. Well, it does need to be a vehicle. But i need this out of my house. vo with fair, Transparent Value for every tradein. Enterprise makes it easy. David if you ask the former intel and Law Enforcement chief slamming President Trump, theyll pretty much say theyre doing it to save the country and our standing in the world, but in reality, they may be doing the exact option and playing right into our enemies hand. Joining me now is a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee and the director of National Security of Law Enforcement at george mason university. Playing into our enemies hands. Russia wants to undermine americas faith in its system or constitutional republic, and congressman, its working in some quarters. Are they playing into his hands . Into putins hands . Absolutely. Youre doing russias work for them. Youre doing our adversarys work for them when internally you have people, whether theyre inside our government or now recently outside of our government seeking to undermine our own country, our ownco democratically elected government. Youre absolutely right. Thats a real concern that i have as really one of the reasons why john brennan shouldnt have a security clearance. You should make an example of him. And if you do any type of an intel you analyze him and you look at just emotionally, mentally whether or not hes got it altogether, and also whether he understands rules right now when hes accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanors after the helsinki summit, if you do an analysis on john brennan, its important we not only make an example of him, send a strong message but we also take away his security clearance because that while you have d a right to First Amendment, you dont have the right to a security clearance especially as unhinged that has man is right now. O david lets go right to it. This is video from cnns jim asking the question about putin and brennan and the security clearance. Lets play this. T you have a president firing a former leader of the Intelligence Committee siting the russian investigation. Does putin cheer this kind thing . Of course, he does. Its more chaos, more kind of dismantling of the u. S. System of the transatlantic alliance. You know, at this point, sanctions doesnt matter. Its all about shaking up our system and taking it down a notch instead of bringing russia up. David your reaction to that. The problem here is this is a problem of the president s own creation. He didnt need to strip brennan of his s security clearance. Brennan was doing a good enough job on his own making him look partisan. The president made the narrative worse and talked about tax cuts and Regulatory Reform and conservative judges. John brennan was doing a good enough job on his own making himself irrelevant. David theres been critique about the method on which they played out that the president could have just done it, let it happen and not given john brennan a bigger megaphone. The president said hes elevated him. What do you say . E first off, i dont think john gotten ahould have security clearance in the first place. Fast forward to currently, hes seeking to monetize his position as former cia director. As i mentioned earlier, hes become unhinged. For the president of the United States to make an example of him, hes sending a strong message to others there are rules, you do have a right to your First Amendment freedom of speech. You do not have a right to a security clearanceou. You also need to follow the rules of the United States government. You cant set your own rules on what is right and what is wrong, because one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threat weve seen historically as far as access to classified information isss when you have n individual gone rogue who is setting their own rules and deciding their own moral compass is one that supersedes and overcomes any type of guidance the government puts out on john brennan or anyone like him. I think its important to very publicly make an example that this conduct by this man right now isly what its exactly wt disqualifies you and will result in losing your security clearance. I think its great hes making a public example of this man. David the public example. How does this play out in the political world . The intel chiefs, their letters, will this last . Will it have any affect as you seeve it . Look, the problem here, david, the congressman isda rigt to make the point that maybe you want to make an example of someone, right . The problem is making an example of johnoi brennan, the president has bipartisan opposition from all of the intelligence officials, 60 former cia officers. Itsy going poorly for the president. This is not working. This is an unforced error it was a tactical mistake and could have strategic consequences. The president others that get out of his own way and stay on message and not worry about the russia investigation or bob mueller. That investigation will happen. T the president should focus on his own message and focus on that and listen to his aids. Were telling him to stop do this stuff doing this stuff. 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Breaking tonight the white house drafting additional security clearance cancellation after donald trump specifically called out doj official bruce ohr over his ties to the infamous steel dossier. Welcome to fox news at night. Robert muellers russia investigation reaching a f