wait until he asks a few times or says it a few times. he s clearly said this a few times. if you take out the name president trump and put in president obama and he did something similar, you have to ask yourself how quickly this congress would be reacting and calling for a hearing and all sorts of other things. yeah, and how little republicans acting right now. correct. david, the fact that the president says john brennan has displayed, and i m quoting erratic conduct and behavior, i mean, it would sort of be funny or ironic, if it wasn t actually serious and coming from the president of the united states. well, certainly. it s very rich for this white house to be talking about the erratic behavior of john brennan and about his, quote, wild outbursts. it s just unbelievable that they choose those rationale. listen, i think there is a good chance that if the president sees a way clear, if he has a path forward to bring the ax
from that except for the white house has not offered any objective test for who getress advocate. we know a bill of particulars against john brennan mr. brennan has recently leveraged his status with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfound and outrageous allegations. wild outbursts on the internet and television about this administration. mr. brennan s line and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation s most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries which is to sow division and chaos. any access granted to our nation s secrets should be in furtherance of national, not personal interests. okay. so lying and making unfounded allegations, that s bad, like saying the former president of the united states was not really born in america, or the former president wiretapped the candidate at trump tower. also really bad are, quote, wild
nation s classified information, including by controlling access to it. today in fulfilling that responsibility, i have decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan, former director of the central intelligence agency. 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 outbursts on the internet and television about this administration. john brennan learned of the president s action after friends alerted him to the white house press briefing announcement and his first response was on twitter. he said, this action is part of a broader effort by mr. trump to suppress freedom of speech. it should gravely worry all americans about the cost of speaking out. my principals are worth far more than clearances. i will not relent. john brennan s first interview was by phone with nicole wallace.
unfounded and outrageous allegations, wild outbursts on the internet and television, about this administration. reporter: brennan has called mr. trump everything from a traitor to a danger to the country. and he responded forcefully. revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me. but i think i have tried to voice the concerns of millions of americans, and this is not going to deter me at all. reporter: the white house also announcing it s reviewing the security clearances of other intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of them trump critics or involved in the russia investigation, including fired fbi director james comey, former cia director michael hayden, obama s national security adviser susan rice, and former director of national intelligence, james clapper, who called the move an infringement of first amendment rights. isn t it also an attempt to curtail their freedom of speech by penalizing them for being
speaker s office for reaction and he has yet to respond publicly. so the house is in recess. radio silence. so we re hearing here and looking at the reasons. nothing tangible. kind of abstract saying, he made the series of unfounded, outrageous allegations, wild outbursts on the internet and tv. when it comes to the reason here, it s clear this is the easiest game of connect the dots when it comes to brennan and everybody else who has spoken out who could be on this list as well. the wall street journal interview, i just read in the break, i thought my goodness, this is time after time when this president implicates himself and the obstruction aspect of this, saying these people were all involved in the russia investigation. that s what he said in the wall street journal interview. that they were all involved in the rigged witch hunt and quote it had to be done. so this is going beyond retaliation for being critical of him, to these people being involved in a very serious inves