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Today. President trump admitting he all but revoked security clearance because of the russia investigation. This came hours after the president said he was following through on his threat. He was among the officials who presented evidence to mr. Trump before the inauguration that russia interfered in the 2016 election. Speaking to the journal, the president drew a direct connection with brennan and the russia probe. He said i call it a rigged witch hunt. He added, so i think it is something that had to be done. Hours earlier, press secretary Sarah Sanders said he lost this clearance because of wild outbursts on television. She did not specify what those were. Mr. Brennans lying and recent conduct characterized by commentary is consistent with the access to the nations closely held secrets. How can we not interpret that as getting back . The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access. Brennan says americans should be worried about
Sarah sanders claimed that brennan lost clearance because he leveraged his status on wild outbursts on the internet and television. Mr. Brennans lying and recent conduct characterized by commentary is consistent with the access to the nations closely held secrets. How can we not interpret that as getting back . The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access. Brennan says americans should be worried about efforts to silence critics and suppress freedom of speech, but he says he wont be muzzled. It will not affect my speaking out and criticism of mr. Trump. Im going to try to do it in a professional way. I dont know what recourse there is and ill just take things one day. The white house says the clearance of nine other current and former Security Officials are all under review. All appointed by or served under president obama. One mans clearance is not reviewed is the former National Security adviser michael flynn. He pleaded guilt
Sarah sanders asserted brennan lost his access to highly Sensitive Information because of his erratic conduct. Mr. Brennans line and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with action to the nations most closely held secrets and facilities. The very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos. Well, later yesterday in an interview with the wall street journal, the president gave a more revealing explanation of why he chose to revoke brennans security clearance saying that brennan is among the obama era officials that he blamed for the russia probe. Heres what the president told the journal i call it the rigged witchhunt, its a sham and these people led it so i think its something that had to be done. Lets go to abby phillip who joins me at the white house. A few question this is morning because as youve heard and pointed out a number of pundits are saying this is President Trump repeating a similar pattern of behavior that
Him again even if i have to go in my wheelchair. Good morning to you. Welcome to sunday. Im christi paul. Im Martin Salvidge in for bvicr blackwell. Several key witnesses scheduled to appear to the impeachment hearings. Now republicans vp released the names of their own witness wish list. Among them, hunter biden and the anonymous whistleblower who started the whole impeachment inquiry at the end of the day. Lets bring in White House Correspondent Kristen Holmes in washington. The whole wish list on the part of the republicans gives a tip of their hand what the strategy is going into these public hearings, right . Absolutely, martin. It is very clear from this list that republicans try to shift the focus away from President Trump and his relationship with ukraine and shift it towards some unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and paint ukraine as corrupt saying if President Trump was acting this way is because ukraine was corrupt. Ill point a couple of things out here. We know hunter bid