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to punish those that could be witnesses in the russia probe, the criminal investigation into his white house. we are seeing a rising chorus when you look at the screen. it includes robert gates and six former cia directors that served under presidents from both parties signing on to a strong letter condemning what donald trump is doing. they say they have never before seen security clearances abused as a political tool and they say it s regrettable. president donald trump admitted this is about russia payback. it s a disgusting thing, frankly. look, i say it and i say it again, the whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it s a totally rigged deal. they should be looking at the other side. trump is using the same trick to attack bruce ohr even though he is not working on the investigation itself. i think he is disgraced with his wife, nellie, for him to be in the justice department and him to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. let s get right to it. let s ....
weisulberg was granted immunity in order to testify in the michael cohen investigation. the man they describe as the most senior person in the organization that s not a trump. well, according to bloomberg, weisulberg is deeply familiar with the trump organization s financial housekeeping, was privacy to decisions that the house was never able to take part in. eric trump, both executive vice president of the organization. ivanka trump was also an executive vice president before she went to work at the white house. so cooperating with federal prosecutors should maybe be illegal. it. this whole thing about flipping, they call it. i know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years i ve been flippers. it almost ought to be outlawed. you say something about donald trump and you ll go down to 2 year s s or 3 years. in all fairness to him, if i were him i would do it. it s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. today is another bombshell in a seemingly mushrooming of l ....
robinson. you went to the game? didn t you richard? good to see you do investigative journalism, mr. scarborough. i love people that root for the underdog and you re a yankees fan. only in new york is a team that s 31 games above .500 the underdog. willie, you tweeted something out last night, which is pretty astounding, about just how well the yankees are doing and what do you say? yankees would be in first place by four, five games in most divisions? yeah. i think four out of the other five divisions up by at least six games and in some divisions seven or eight games. yankees, 31 games over .500 and ten games out of first place because red sox after winning last night are 51 games over .500. michael kay said in the yankees broadcast only the second time in baseball history a team has been at least 35 games over .500 and trailed by ten games or more. go back to 1906 or something to find another situation like this. fact of the matter is, the red sox of a his ....
truth? i don t accept that it s about believing they can change, that they can be forgiven that it s an extension of some kind of divine clemency. i don t buy it. i think it was an organization protecting itself. i think it was working as an organization of man, not as a hand of god. i think that the proof is in the facts. and this was laid out by this grand jury, who came out with their report today, don, telling people, listen to us, we know there is compassion fatigue, we know it s too icky, pay attention. because it only gets worse. and that s the truth. we got to change laws like this. it s not a partisan issue. you re right on. i have nothing to say except for, organizations protecting themselves, that s what we re going to talk about right now. good. thank you very much, sir. see you later. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. on that note, what president trump what he did today is straight out of a dictator s playbook. revoking the security clearance ....
use this term. former cia tell analyst at msnbc and republican strategist m matt. let me go to you first and ask you, drunk on power. those are strong words. brennen, who was always low key, more kind of thoughtful guy than a guy that would give statements. drunk on power, would it have brought him to the place where maybe he does obstruct justice. maybe he is trying to silence this. is it all the above or is he doing something that he had the power to use at the time the president doesn t. in theory under article two of the constitution, the president is classifier in chief. he decides what is secret, top secret and everything else, but there is an established procedure by way of executive order for deciding whether or not to pull or grant security clearances. president can by pass that in the case of national security issues. i think that s why you see him making his point in his statement this is is a national security type issue, but ultimately he might just say ....