They join 30 National Security and intelligence chiefs who publicly rebuke the President Trump overnight in a rare joint statement writing we all agree that the president s action regarding john brennan and the threats of similar actions against other former officials has nothing to do with who should hold security clearances. Decisions on security clearances should be based on National Security concerns. The president stopped to defend himself. Action against brennan was directly linked to brennans involvement in the russia probe. There is no silence. If anything, i am giving him a bigger voice. Many people dont even know who he is. And now he has a bigger voice and that is okay with me. I like taking on voices like that. I have never respected him. This just came up lately and it is a disgusting thing, frankly. Look, i say it. I say it again. That whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. The president singled out the only official still in office whose security clearance is under revi
Military strength. That parade canceled. All in starts right fou. Good evening from new york. I will ali velshi in for chris hayes. Faced with extraordinary backlash. The president today defended the move as payback for the russia investigation. And vowed to go further. Tonight, 60 former cia officers are condemning what they described as an attempt to punish brennan. They join 30 National Security and intelligence chiefs who publicly rebuke the President Trump overnight in a rare joint statement writing we all agree that the president s action regarding john brennan and the threats of similar actions against other former officials has nothing to do with who should hold security clearances. Decisions on security clearances should be based on National Security concerns. The president trustopped to def himself. Action against brennan was directly linked to brennans involvement in the russia probe. There is no silence. If anything, i am giving him a bigger voice. Many people dont even kno
And dan bongino to name a few. First, chad pergram with the latest and newest details of the comey transcripts. On 245 occasions former fbi director james comey told investigators he didnt know, couldnt recall or couldnt remember things when asked. At the end of the session he said they rehashed Hillary Clintons emails, but there was not a lot of that in the transcript. The key number to remember may not be 245. Four. Here is the most of significant part of the transcript. Comey said the fbi opened investigation on four americans to see if there was any connection between those americans and the russian interference effort. Those four americans did not include the candidate. That means President Trump. Had different 90s interview comey defended special counsel robert mueller, says he admires mueller and would bet his life mueller would do things the right way. He says he doesnt have muellers phone numbers and they arent friends in has been and lot of criticism directed at peter strzok,
Issa, tom fitton. And dan bongino to name a few. First, chad pergram with the latest and newest details of the comey transcripts. On 245 occasions former fbi director james comey told investigators he didnt know, couldnt recall or couldnt remember things when asked. At the end of the session he said they rehashed Hillary Clintons emails, but there was not a lot of that in the transcript. The key number to remember may not be 245. Four. Here is the most of significant part of the transcript. Comey said the fbi opened investigation on four americans to see if there was any connection between those americans and the russian interference effort. Those four americans did not include the candidate. That means President Trump. Had different 90s interview comey defended special counsel robert mueller, says he admires mueller and would bet his life mueller would do things the right way. He says he doesnt have muellers phone numbers and they arent friends in has been and lot of criticism directe
Issa, tom fitton. And dan bongino to name a few. First, chad pergram with the latest and newest details of the comey transcripts. On 245 occasions former fbi director james comey told investigators he didnt know, couldnt recall or couldnt remember things when asked. At the end of the session he said they rehashed Hillary Clintons emails, but there was not a lot of that in the transcript. The key number to remember may not be 245. Four. Here is the most of significant part of the transcript. Comey said the fbi opened investigation on four americans to see if there was any connection between those americans and the russian interference effort. Those four americans did not include the candidate. That means President Trump. Had different 90s interview comey defended special counsel robert mueller, says he admires mueller and would bet his life mueller would do things the right way. He says he doesnt have muellers phone numbers and they arent friends in has been and lot of criticism directe