There is fallout this morning after the white house announced that President Trump is considering taking away the security clearances of several former intelligence officials. The list includes former cia director and nbc News Senior National security and Intelligence Analyst john brennan. The white house also accused five others of politicizing their highlevel security access. Not only is the president looking to take away brennans security clearance, he is also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, haden, rice and mccabe. The president is exploring the mechanism to remove security clearance because they politicized and in some cases monetized their Public Service and security clearances, making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate. The fact that people with security clearances are making baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy with inaccurate evidence. Former intelligenc
Federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to hand over the grand jury material from former special counsel Robert Muellers investigation before the end of the month. And in this case, the judge explicitly rejected the Trump Administrations argument that the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate without a full house vote authorizing it. That is what may be the most important part of this ruling. The administration is likely to appeal it. This is a big win right now for House Democrats, especially if it establishes a precedent allowing house investigators access to more documents because the Judicial Branch recognizes what theyre doing as an official impeachment inquiry. Now, this news comes as the New York Times reports and nbc news sources confirm that a probe by the president s attorney general bill barr into the origins of muellers investigations has changed from an administrative review into a criminal investigation. Now, we do not know when this criminal inquiry began and we d
Inquiry. Kristen welker has details reporter tonight, undercutting the president s denials of a quid pro quo, the acting white house chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, with a remarkable admission one of the reasons President Trump held up military aid to ukraine was mr. Trump wanted them to assist in a Justice Department investigation into the 2016 election. The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the things that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. That is absolutely appropriate. Reporter the president s request was over an unfounded allegation democrats meddled with ukraines help in the election mulvaney was pressed, was all of this a quid pro quo . Which could be illegal. We do that all the time in Foreign Policy i have news for everybody, get over it. Theres going to be political influence in Foreign Policy. Reporter the president has denied there was quid pro quo during his july phone call with ukraines leader. There was no quid pro quo there was n
And the survivors speaking out for the first time were warning signs missed . Nbc news investigates one of the nations largest Student Loan Companies taking employees on a luxury hawaii getaway at a time millions of americans are being crushed by student debt. Wed love to talk to you about what you guys are doing here. What the ceo said when we confronted him. The new warning, toxic metals that can damage babies brains found in a Staggering Amount of baby food. What parents need to know. The tributes pouring in for a longtime congressman and civil rights champion. Good evening an embattled President Trump may have gotten no favors from his acting chief of staff today who appeared to contradict one of the president s main impeachment defenses, that there was no quid pro quo. Mick mulvaney telling reporters the president did hold up military aid to ukraine, at least in part for personal political reasons. He addressed reporters at the very same time a witness directly involved in those u