A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A stickler for a speedy trial that he often snaps at the mueller team if he thinks they are dragging things out. The mueller team complained about the judge with emotion, protesting a comment that he made yesterday, where he urged the special counsels lawyers not to focus so much on loans that Paul Manafort was denied, he wanted them to focus on loans that he got. The mueller team didnt think it was fair, they wrote in the motion, the courts suggestion that the government was unnecessarily spending time on a loan that manafort did not receive undermines the wellestablished law on conspiracy, undercuts the charge in count 28, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury. The mueller team wants the judge to do the same thing yesterday, explain that he may have made a mistake to the jury. But they wanted to it happen this morning. And it didn
disagreement. we are halving it half-nast a there is no nafta without canada. by the way. still to come, more on the new reports showing the fbi and justice department official bruce orr. and more about the 2016 election.
security clearance of a former cia director as a pawn in his public relations strategy, i think, is just so reflective of somebody who, quite frankly, i don t want to use this term maybe, but he s drunk on power. he really is. and i think he s abusing the powers of that office. reporter: among those now in the president s sights, former head of the fbi james comey, former dni james clapper among others. the washington post reports last night that the white house had drafted orders from the president for more security clearances to be revoked. of particular note is a justice department prosecutor who works in the organized crime division who most people had not heard of until recently, bruce orr. he was demoted by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein early on in the mueller probe after it was revealed that he had contact with christopher steele, the former mi-6 spy, who compiled an unverified dossier that included allegations russia
had dirt on president trump including a tape. orr s wife nelly worked for fusion gps, an opposition research firm hired by the clinton campaign to investigate any ties to trump had to russia. president trump hinted at what is likely to be his next move while leaving the white house friday. i think bruce orr is a disgrace. i suspect i ll be taking it away very quickly. i think that bruce orr is a disgrace with his wife nelly. for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. reporter: bruce orr is slated to testify to the house oversight committee on capitol hill on august 28th. there are bound to be a lot of questions there. kristin: one thing i wanted to hit on, this letter that was signed by so many former cia directors who have served every president going back to ronald reagan. put this in perspective for us. how big of a deal is this? reporter: well, it s a big deal if you look at the original letter from 12 former cia
leland: and this is going to be an issue throughout the campaign really. president trump saying he is likely to revoke the security clearance of current justice department official bruce orr more his connections to fusion gps and dossier author christopher steele. his base loves this. kristin: on the heels of his call to strip former cia director john brennan s security clearance earlier this week. we ve got jennifer griffin here. jennifer, what a treat to have you. what s the latest on this story? reporter: well, thank you, kristin. there are very clear signs that president trump is preparing to strip the security clearances of eight more top former intelligence officials and one current justice department employee for their role in the russia probe or their criticism of the president in recent months. in an interview with rachel maddow last night, former cia director john brennan spoke at length after having his security clearance revoked. the fact that he s using a