don t think it s that big of deal. i don t even think that you necessarily need to have security clearance at large. you could do it on a case-by-case basis if you are called back in for that consultation. i imagine that the people who have been critical of the president who are now having their clearances revoked will probably not stop being critical of the president because of this. i will give you the last word. and it will, in fact, elevate their platform among those places where they are already being heard that will give them victim status and then they will make more bleeding noises and the white house will make more bleeding noises and it will drown out other important things. dana: i will tell you what she did do. only one question about omarosa in that briefing. you got it. dana: i have got to hand it to her. bring back collin reed and shellie holiday a reporter for the wall street journal and you were here to talk about paul manafort. ville talk about this shelby,
alexandria bolton writing in the hill of mitch mcconnell s plan for the next few months. not an agenda to sow political fights and base. task of congressional leaders especially before a midterm election. instead meant to show voters especially swing and independent voters that senate republicans are a study hand of the levers of government. i m joined by collin reed senior vice president of definers affairs and boston columnist and senior seeingman former fugitive governor joe corzine. that s a mouthful. a lot of the formers. dana: sara sanders is stepping to the podium so i am going to see if you can stick around. we will go to sara sanders now. as the head of the executive branch and commander-in-chief, i have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nation s classified information, including by controlling access to it. today in fulfilling that responsibility, i have decided to revoke the security clearance of john
clearances. that is handled way below the president. this seems very retaliatory. one thing interesting is sarah huckabee sanders cited a list of reasons why this was happening. one of it had it to do with russia. retaliatory in that sense. brennan is on tv talking about the russia investigation. when you look at the pattern of firings and measures taken like, this it did race some questions about the pattern of trump s behavior. is he trying to silence his critics and make this investigation go away? that s one of his biggest problems right now. he can t just stop tweeting about it, making moves like this that just keep adding to this pattern. dana: he does have the right to do it. he has the power to do it, collin. of course. dana: omarosa put to the side today and, you know, it s not necessarily the way to lead with the great economic news going into the mid terms but it is a way to change the news cycle. certainly. time after time throughout his time in office, president tr