brennan of this security clearance. at the time, trump was consistently assailing brennan, an outspoken critic of the president for what trump claimed was erratic behavior. joining us now from washington, reporter for the hill, julia manchester. julia, let s talk about the stuff we ve been covers so far. was this essentially a bluff by president trump in talking about john brennan and revoking his security clearance? what does it say about his administration if it did not follow through with his request? in the first part of your question, yasmin, it does seem like a bit of a block. we do know john brennan has made trips to capitol hill to brief democrats on various matters that might involve classified information. that is not known to the public. so that s a bit telling. however, i think it just shows that president trump, you know, was could have been, you know, obviously, watching john brennan on cable news. john brennan is someone who goes on cable news quite a bit.
and is a huge critic of the trump administration. we do know president trump takes a lot of criticism, especially that on cable news, to heart. it seems like this is something president trump saw and he was obvious obviously offended by seeing john brennan a top community intelligence official go on repeatedly to lambaste him. and it appears as a way to lash out. in terms of what it shows for the organization, i think there may be miscommunication on this. clearly, this was not a priority for those in the administration to take away john brennan s security clearance and they were focused on something else. however, it is a bit bizarre that president trump would have called for this and never followed through. it just goes to show what we have come to expect from this president being very reactive. yeah. in nature, and not necessarily going through the pace of that reaction. when i first covered the white house, people would say