politicized and mondatized thei security clearance. so just to be clear, and to repeat, in addition to brennan, the list dincluding brennan, comey, rice, andrew mccabe, two of them comey and mccabe, no longer have security clearances. the white house announcement followed a twitter notice from senator rand paul of to order call tty: 1-800-544-3316 the effort to end his clearance appears to have started last week on the president s cable news network of choice. john brennan is an irresponsible combatant on a cable news channel and has
questions about possible collusion with moscow. whats that president said about that, no collusion. trump described it as a big hoax as the conflicted and discredited mueller witch hunt and as a disgrace to america, saying they should have drop the discredited mueller witch hunt now, and trump is taking on former half dozen officials and considering revoking their security clearance. one thing, all of the names have in common. they have all spoken out publically against the president. not only is the president looking to take away brennan s security clearance, he is look engine the clearance of comey, clapper, haden, rice and mccabe, the president is exploring mechanisms to remove security clearance because they have
briefings to member ins of the other party. but the truth is to take the security clearance away or threaten it is meant to send a signal and i think steve schmidt responds to that with a lot of the reaction that people in washington do today. thank you for have joining us. really appreciate you coming on tonight, coming up for us, a delay in the trial of paul manafort and the feds have 11 more audiotapes, it turns out, seized in the raid of trump s former lawyer, michael cohen by the fbi. and the president s warning to iran, and other than a giant distraction at the start of a new work week, what might it mean? the the 11th hour with brian williams as we said, a new night on a new week. back after this. . ahh. summer is coming.
tonight, for a white house ankles to chan to for a white anxious to change the subject, two of the names on the list potentially getting security clearance pulled don t have security clearance. it s not a well thought out or researched idea at this point when you put on people who are not actually having security clearance. i don t think it changes the subject, i think it extends it. this is all sort of driven out of the helsinki summit, it s out of the idea that the president has a relationship with russia that has been questioned and under investigation. he is saying, if you question me, i will find a way to penalize you for that. and so, i think in fact, it extends the questions about his relationship with vladmir putin rather than distracting from them. what is he so afraid of if in fact he does not have an
authoritarian instinct at full use and it s alarming. not a mincer of words, steve shall had michmidt that gave up membership in the republican party. they want to chill those people that are critical. the president is tired of hearing those on this network and others criticizing the government. he is sending a message, i can hit back more than you can hit me. if you are aaccusing me of treason, i have something to go after you. it sends a chill after democrats and republicans, people that don t remember anything quite like this in the post watergate era. i cannot remember a time that a president has stripped security clearance from the other party because he was criticized. he is not obligated to give