issues were discussed with the president. he was in the room when the comey firing was discussed. and finally, he would have been privilegy to conversations about the cover story trying to explain that the trump tower moegt was not a meeting with the russian government over the election. we ll play the moment heard from around the world on meet the press this weekend. we ll talk about it on the other side. i m not going to be rushed into having him testify so he gets trapped into perjury. when you tell me that she testify because he will tell the truth and he should not worry, that s so silly. it is somebody s version of the truth. not the truth. he didn t have a conversation truth is truth. i don t mean no. truth isn t truth. so rob, is that just the era we ve entered where the president s lawyer can go on television and say things without consequence? of course, brian. it is a bizarre statement.
legal precedent this would set going forward, where future prosecutors, future investigators, would say, well, during the trump presidency, you were open and we had access to people. and he might have wanted to restrict that a little bit more as the clinton president zi during a similar investigation. so a little bit of an interesting mislocation of the sveu viewpoints here. let s talk about what mcgahn may have been around for, what he may have witnessed, and reminding our viewers, he is not only a lawyer but white house counsel. that makes his value extreme as a witness before the mueller prosecutors. that s right. the oath that don mcgahn swore when he took the office was to the constitution and to the rule of law. not to donald trump personally. so his duty of loyalty runs to the office, to the institution of the presidency as noted.
segment on cnn. the president didn t like it, tweeted against him and is asking aloud whether or not his clearance should be revoked on twitter. are we all going after this giant shiny object of security clearance? this is the president s new toy. he is certainly drawn to things. so frustrated with how washington works, even with controlling both houses of congress, the members of his own staff telling him no. much like presidential pardons, he s realized security clearances can revoked by him alone. just remember his order the strip brennans was actually drafted multiple weeks before it was issued. brennan s is more complicated. sometimes with this president, it is hard to know what is strategic.
mulling legal action after his security clearance was pulled by the president who doubled down on this today. quote, i hope john brennan, the worst cia director in our country s history, brings a lawsuit. it will then be able to get hiss records, texts, e-mails, and documents to show not only the poor job he did but how he was involved with the mueller rigged witch hunt. he won t sue. the associated press sums up trump s actions. with tweets and taunts, president trump is attempting to turn one of his most outspoken critics into the public face of the russia probe that he has long worked to discredit. over 175 current and former intel officials have now come out in favor of the john brennan and against this practice of pulling clearances. still the washington post is reporting the white house is drafting more clearance
he has long had a problem with brennan. he has long had a vendetta against him for quite some time. this president is sensitive to anyone who publicly criticizes him. particularly on television. so that s part of it. the other part is he realize that s brennan with his attachment to the deep state, with his ties to the russia probe, could be a useful foil here. someone else he could attack. a proxy for going after the mueller investigation. and brennan who has been a very outspoken critics, trump has told people around him, he thinks the credibility has been shot. if he links brennan to mueller, that helps him attack credibility of the investigation. regardless of what else is said about mr. brennan, he is at heart a long time, many decades public servant. and i know you wanted to come on tonight and make a point about public servants. well, i think what we ve seen from president trump is an effort to cast some of these