insinuating that john brennan s loose lips were a national security risk. but the president decided to do this just one day after brennan criticized him on twitter for failing to live up to minimum standards of decency and s ability. mr. brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations, wild outburst on the internet and television about this administration. brennan has been one of the president s most vocal critics coming all called the president s behavior during that press conference with russian president vladimir putin treasonous. tonight, brennan says today s action is essentially a page out of putin s playbook. i have seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and experts and autocrats for many, many years, during my cia and national security career. i never, ever thought i would see it here in the
mr. trump is trying to send to others including those that currently hold security clearances within the government. i think he included bruce orr, the current department of justice official among those whose clearances he s reviewing. is this an effort to try to cow individuals both inside and outside of the government, to make sure that they don t say anything either that is critical of mr. trump or with which he disagrees? i have seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and despots and autocrats during my many many years of my cia and national security career. i never thought i would see it here in the united states. i do believe all americans really need to take stock of what is happening right now in our government and how abnormal
erratic conduct and behavior. second, that conduct and behavior has tested and far exceeded the limits of any professional courtesy that may have been due to him. i do believe mr. trump decided to take this action, as he has done with others, to try to intimidate and suppress any criticism of him or his administration. revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me. bret: john brennan, former cia director, security clearance revoked today saying it was a suppression of his freedom of speech, saying that as he was speaking freely on another cable channel. he has been speaking freely, criticizing this president pretty robustly. i have seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and despots and autocrats for many, many years during my cia and national security career. he is mean-spirited.
political reporter, elise jordan is an msnbc political analyst and former aide to the george bush white house, and jonathan alter is an msnbc political analyst and daily beast columnist. john brennan was just in responding to nicolle wallace. i know some of that blendinged into this hour, but let s go back and listen to part of it one more time. is this an effort to try to kow individuals both inside and outside of the government to make sure that they don t say anything that either is critical of mr. trump or with which he disagrees? i ve seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and decembspots autocrats many, many years during my cia and national security career. i never, ever thought i would see it here in the united states. and here is what he tweeted. this action is part of a broader
information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations wild outbursts on the internet and television about this administration. wild outbursts. a host of other critics, former officials, brennan punching back and he s making waves tonight right now by likening this to the behavior of despots and autocrats. this is not going to deter me at all. i m going to continue to speak out. i ve seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and despots and autocrats for many, many years during my cia and national security career. i never, ever thought that i would see it here in the united states. i am joined by david preece. he s a briefer who used to actually give bob mueller his morning intelligence briefing. back with me is bloomberg s tim o brien.