does have some stuff stashed away for a rainy day and to keep the drum beat going and to keep book sales up and to keep torturing the president, who she says, whether she believes it or not, i don t know, she says treated her unkindly. and $180,000 for a campaign operative would be a lot of money. it would not be unheard of based on my experience. so it s not a massive sum of money. i mean, i think some of the senior trump people make a lot more than that. so it doesn t sound like it s outlandish and out of control. the way it was put to her was certainly not like other things we have seen. i wouldn t call you a tweezer. i would call you a lawn boy, just for the record. thank you. and also curveball. i can t believe you threw it in there. dagger to my heart. thank you very much. after purging intelligence officials, revoking security clearances, and attacking mueller by name, what could the president do next? former director of the national counterterrorism center is next.
response. the guy is erratic. i often thought demagoguery is not a long-term good career move. the rest died hideously. the other problem with this is it is not going to work because you can revoke the security clearances unilaterally of people who are out of government and who aren t actively using them anyway. but the problem with revoking security clearances as a strategy for dealing with your political problems is most of the people who have them need them to do jobs that they are doing in the service of you. so you know, what are you going to do. you are talking about governing. trump is not interested what you are talking about. if you want to run the cia, you have to have people in security. you are long-term thinking. reporting now, he loves any power he can get. i think there are moments
who wrote that op-ed for the washington post, and some republicans in the senate who have differed from this decision in the white house and don t necessarily like the idea of revoking security clearances for former intelligence officials have also been critical of john brennen. i think the white house chose this one as the icebreaker when it comes to this effort because they recognize that brennen is something of a lightening rod even among people who might be critical of this decision. so you ve seen a number of senators, john kennedy from louisiana, susan collins who differed with the decision actually said she s not happy with the way john brennen has been political. they wanted to force this issue and have this conversation, and
what the president s campaign was engaged in that may not have been part of the counts in this trial. so that would be a gross abuse of process. now, it is true that the president has the power of the pardon. on the other hand, if you look at the guidelines for which justice departments have used in the past for exercising that pardon power, there have been clearer steps that have been gone through. this president has blown through all of that. he has undermined the integrity of the pardon process. he has politicized it. you asked me about the response from my republican colleagues in response to what the president has done in revoking security clearances, that would be a moment if he used the pardon power in such an abusive way that people as americans, as patriots need to stand up. they need to stand up for the rule of law. let s see how things proceed. again, the main thing is this
in the united states. this may only be the beginning, the white house says it is considering revoking security clearances from other prominent critics of the president like james comey the director of national intelligence james clapper, national security visor susan rice and former deputy attorney general sally yates. democratic senator mark warner. and erie memory of an enemies list. these people are being singled out to have security clearances revoked, smacks of nixonian type practices of trying to silence anyone willing to criticize this president. that puts us in uncharted territory. reporter: one person not on the white house list of people whose security clearances are