Conflicted. President trump is answering on the north lawn of security clearances bring up special counsel mueller calling him highly conflicted and linking him to one of the president s favorite targets, fired fbi james comey. Plus, 200 tapes . After former white house staffer manigaultnewman released a new one on this program yesterday and new report says she may have up to 200 recordings and now donors of the Trump Campaign has some questions. A man charged on felony for voting while on violation and he says he did not know. The state even mailed him the legal registration card. Well start with the new name that President Trump mentioned moments ago of revoking critics National Security clearances, special counsel bob mueller. The white house has previously said it is investigating. I think Bruce Brennan is a disgrace and for him to be in the Justice Department and doing what he did is a disgrace, thats disqualifying for mr. Mueller and mr. Mueller has a lot of conflicts or so. Hes
Sarah sanders asserted brennan lost his access to highly Sensitive Information because of his erratic conduct. Mr. Brennans line and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with action to the nations most closely held secrets and facilities. The very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos. Well, later yesterday in an interview with the wall street journal, the president gave a more revealing explanation of why he chose to revoke brennans security clearance saying that brennan is among the obama era officials that he blamed for the russia probe. Heres what the president told the journal i call it the rigged witchhunt, its a sham and these people led it so i think its something that had to be done. Lets go to abby phillip who joins me at the white house. A few question this is morning because as youve heard and pointed out a number of pundits are saying this is President Trump repeating a similar pattern of behavior that
these long held institutions which have always been non-partisan is what is momentous and it s discouraging to see. the real losers here, frankly, are the american people because we don t know if going forward we will have a truly depoliticized intelligence service. bruce brennan s assertion that i just read in the times that it s hogwash to say there s no collusion, this coming from the man who led the cia. is it momentous, is it reckless of him? well, the revoking of the clearance is executive order 12968 identifies what procedures for accessing or maintaining or revoking security procedures and then there are adjudication guidelines identifying what areas one would lose clearances for and none of those seem to be applicable in this case so it raised the perception that it s politically driven. i m asking you what brennan is saying, the assertion he s
he s at the white house. just so we are clear, jeff, the president was asked about revoking security clearances. he brengs he mentioned bruce s name and then he mentioned mueller s name. he says mueller should write his report. tell us more of the president s thinking if you can jeff on this topic. reporter: one way to interpret this is president trump is walking right up to the line. he knows taking steps to shut down the russia investigation would blow back on him so instead what he s doing is he s hitting robert mueller and the special counsel team over and over again as a way of discrediting any of their findings. the president is doing this as he s got vulnerabilities swirling around him. when it comes to security clearances, the president feels
national security clearances, special counsel bob mueller. the white house has previously said it is investigating. i think bruce brennan is a disgrace and for him to be in the justice department and doing what he did is a disgrace, that s disqualifying for mr. mueller and mr. mueller has a lot of conflicts or so. he s highly conflicted and sadly mr. mueller is conflicted and let him write his report. we did nothing and there is no conclusion. the response came two days after the white house revoked the security clearance of john brennan. the white house is also reviewing the clearances of nine others not including mueller. let s start the conversation on this friday with jeff bennett,