This week he revoked brennans security clearance calling him a hack who cant be trusted to keep secrets. It prompts more than 70 intelligence officials, including top former cia directors, to come together with a statement warning the president the country will be weakened if there is a political litmus test applied before seasoned experts. Brennan himself firing back at the president , calling him power hungry. He is drunk on power. He really is. I think he is abusing the powers of that office. I think right now, this country is in a crisis in terms of what mr. Trump has done and is liable to do. Trump may not be stopping with brennan. He has ordered white house to draft more clearance cancellations of current and former officials, all of whom have been publically critical of the president or tied to the russia investigation in some way. Cnns Sarah Westwood is in new jersey where the president is this weekend. How else is the white house is the president responding . President trump i
Kristi, President Trump is facing a growing backlash to target cia director john brennan. Dozens of officials are speaking out over trump a setting a president to use a litmus test of who gets to keep their security clearances. Trump linked his decisions to the investigation while the white house so far has not provided any evidence to back up claim that brennan lost his security clearance because he abused it. Trump is tweeting about russia and raising the spector of china saying all of the fools so focused looking at russia should look in another direction, china, but in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along to everyone. We are not sure who he is directing that to. Clearly, russia is on his mind. Sarah what are you learning ability the potential timing for revoking those other security clearances . Reporter well, President Trump is weigh of removing the security clearance of nine people, or are connected in some way to the investigation. Those names inc
news in a case that has gripped the entire nation. a senior law enforcement source says george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot dead an unarmed teenager trayvon martin will, in fact, be charged. florida s special prosecutor has scheduled a news conference two hours from now. of course, we ll bring that to you live. let s go to cnn s martin savidge. he s in sanford, florida, watching all of this unfold. set the scene for us, martin. what do we know right now? reporter: we know that sanford is, of course, the epicenter and right now there is a lot of tension in this town in the leadup to that special announcement that will come from the special prosecutor at 6:00. what we do know is that she has said quite plainly and this was the press release, the wording and it is very carefully worded. the release says, quote, miss corey is prepared, rather, to release new information regarding the trayvon martin shooting death. it doesn t say anything about charges, but