. >> michael hayden, former cia director michael hayden on cnn just this morning pointed out to allison that there is evidence that he said, you know, russia is looking to montenegro and meddling with politics there as well. so your point is well taken. when it comes to nato allies believing this president and what he says, like what he said to tucker carlson, here's how a former cia agent agent and congressman, republican representative will hurd of texas sees it. >> i don't think he should be doing one on one meetings with heads of state because too much is at stake. >> hi doesn't think the republican president should be doing one on one meets with heads of state. that's a significant statement, especial will i from a republican member of congress. do you agree? >> i would caveat by saying

michael hayden, who also worked under president george w. bush, tweeted "i don't go back for classified briefings, won't have any effect on what i say or write." james clapper said this on cnn. listen. >> i think this is just a very, very petty, petty thing to do. that's about all i will say about it. >> for the record, having a security clearance doesn't automatically give former officials accessed information information. instead, they are all on a need-to-know basis. shannon. >> shannon: all right, trace, thank you for the round up. conservative watchdog group judicial watch pursuing the caa for communication between former cia director john brennan then former top center democrat harry reid. did brennan feed harry reid information about alleged russian collision with the trump campaign so that harry reid publicly pushed narrative durin6 campaign? chris farrell as director of investigations and research of judicial watch entrances live. great to have you with us. so you have officially filed a lawsuit. let's walk people through what happe

i understand what you are saying about general hayden and i respect general hayden but we have the most serious wrongdoing we have ever seen when it comes to people with access to classified information. the idea they used that information to try to stop it meeting donald trump means the american people at least 50% of us are crying out for some justice over what happened in 22016 election. misused the use of confidential information they shouldn't have security clearance, they shouldn't ever be able to serve in government and a lot of us think they need to be standing with their hand up in the air in a courtroom explaining exactly why they perpetrated this on the american people. >> if you're from the previous administration or if you are key commentator is there a better way to say we won't name names but if you set these criteria we will say no more? >> it is not the people coming out of government demand to keep it. it is usually the successors that once them to keep it. the current cia director might want to get on the phone and ask about something that happened 10 years ago. it is

but librarian of congress carla hayden said it was important to look beyond the play on the field -- to how the game has reflected life off of the field. carla hayden, librarian of congress: of course when you think about diversity and baseball bringing people together, you think about jackie robinson being the first african-american player. the library of congress collection holds jackie robinson's papers, and the peexecutive who helped him 1947. also part of the game, including a uniform from the rockford peaches, the team made famous in the film, "a league of their own." hayden, a baseball fan herself, hopes the sights and sounds of the space spark memories, and conversations across generations.carla hayden, librarian of congress: it's gonna take you right back to when you were at the ballpark, or you were at home and listening to a game on the radio, and that's what we hope people will feel. no matter how long ago, or not so long ago, those memories may be. in washington, i'm karin caifa. ((justine) up next -- how much are you willing to pay for a fancy hotel room in boston? insi

hayden, he's a four-star general who spent 40 years in the air force. clapper, served two tours of duty in southeast asia. despite that, senator rand paul who floated the idea to the president, suggested that this issue is an easy political win. >> i think there's a great deal of resolve. because i don't think we should reveal secrets who are calling the commander in chief treasonous. i don't think there's many people in america who are going to disagree with that judgment that we will continue to give secrets to calling the president treasonous. i would probably go further and say that really ex-cia agents once retired should no longer have top secret clearance. >> while rand paul calls this a no-brainer, democrats like ron wyden say it looks like the president is compiling, quote, an enemy list. as for folks being targeted, they're staying relatively quiet. comey and mccabe don't even have security clearance. that is what's so important. sarah sanders gets on the podium, ready to roll, naming people who don't even have clearance. that is sloppy nonsen

john brennan, james comey and you can see michael hayden and james clapper and susan rice and andrew mccabe. that could be for starters. it's already start add firestorm in washington today. welcome. i'm neil cavuto, this is "your world." security clearance revoke not yet but for those six former obama administration ofs,

you look at hayden. you look at comey. i have no confidence in a guy like brennan. i think he's a total low life. i have no confidence in clapper. you know, clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i first went to office and it was really nice, and then all of a sudden he's gone hey wire because they got to him and they probably got him to say things that maybe he doesn't even mean. but no, i certainly don't have confidence in past people. you look at what's happened. take a look at all of the shenanigans that have gone on, very hard to have confidence in that group. >> steve schmidt, two more poeses of information to throw at you and then take it away. during the most controversial and really devastating periods politically after the iraq war took some of its, you know, most botched turns, there was never an effort -- i talked to three former -- of our former colleagues. no one was ever stripped of their security clearances of being harsh critics of the iraq war. no critics take away security clearances of the one that preceded it, no matter how harsh the political

fbi director james comey, michael hayden, susan rice, former acting director of the fbi andrew mccabe, and former director of national intelligence james clapper. a former senior intelligence officially spoke to today following the white house threat called today's announcement a watershed moment of the trump presidency and said, quote, if we have come to a point when we use the stripping of security clearances to deny free speech, we have crossed an american line and people need to act. he also said of the individuals named by the white house today who he knows well, quote, the danger here is that while traditionally former directors have not entered the political debate, they have been called nazis by this president and these guys feel there is a need to protect the community because trump has crossed lines that create danger. this former official added, quote, the standard for stripping clearances is the disclosure of classified information and none of these individuals have disclosed classified information. they're doing no more than exercising their first amendment right to criti

mike hayden comes on and is not as harsh as clapper is. you see i think he is the -- >> well. >> the shining beacon of -- >> who's who of the enemies of donald trump. of conservatives. of fox news. if you looked at fox news over the last couple of days, this is something they have been talking about, too. tucker carlson brought it up specifically. why does brennan have the security clearance? rand paul jumps on it, too. it is clearly the president has been back on his heels in some ways even on fox news so i think grabbed on to this idea that has been floating around among conservatives for a while. you hear from clapper and the folks who have these honorary clearances and not going back for clearances every day. susan rice on the board of netflix at this point and moved on from needing or wanting a security clearance. >> falls on the idea that president trump opposed to the idea of people monetizing their government service. if that the case, perhaps you would like to talk to your daughter, your son-in-law, your sons and maybe sean spicer

you don't see these officials as one -- hayden just tweeted at us. he doesn't go back to the white house for briefings at this point, right? >> right. >> reporter: but i think critics will see this likely as the president going after some of his political enemies, people that he has concerns about. i heard the press secretary also get into a little back-and-forth about free speech. don't these folks have a right to speak out and make their views and voices heard? in the white house's view, the threat to national security in their perspective overrides some of that, and i'm paraphrasing sanders' comments. it's certainly -- the question that i think about is why now? why is this happening now? it's likely because over the last week you have heard the increasing drumbeat from people like john brennan and others very critical of the president, specifically after his meeting with vladimir putin. you know many on the left, critics of the president, called it treason or talked about the treason summit, that it was treasonous, and that seems to have clearly

i think that they realistically know this is not really going anywhere and it was general hayden said on twitter, great. it's not going to stop me from talking. so there is -- the degree to which this is retribution or an act of potential retribution from the white house is staggering. on any given day president trump does something that would have destroyed previous presidents. and that his -- trump's own supporters would have been furious with president obama for it or president hillary clinton or president -- >> the blame america is the -- >> said in french, by the way. >> thank you. >> we have to revisit that in a second. but this is another example of that. again given that the security clearances have been such a problem for this white house, i was really surprised to see them drive the car straight toward it. >> kushner, rob porter. >> right. >> all of this stuff. you think of the problems that he's had and the people with whom it's been associated with and now he's directing this on people like michael hayden. >> it does make me wonder whether there is some other issue looming

let's get more on this joining us from the accountant capital kampala is sally hayden who's a journalist there thanks for joining us on al-jazeera how much is this to do with attacks on gossip as it seems the government is putting out and how much is about stifling freedom of speach. i mean i think that the idea of the idea of free speech are not necessarily distinct well. the president has made an argument that they do need to raise more taxes and i have spoken to very very few number of ugandans who have said that they recognize that ugandans pay a lot less tax than other people do but critics and most people i meet are either critics or they're quite bewildered by the whole thing they say that it's stifling free speech it's crushing opposition and they also say that the government mismanages funds so why should they trust a government to give them more funds anyway if the government is going to mismanage them and they also say that it's going to affect business people around the world who i guess just enjoy using social media in a free way will be appalled at the idea that people are

>>reporter: this is video of six-year-old hayden learning self rescue. his class was swimming in a pool for 10 minutes a day, every day for six weeks. he learned instinctively how to look up to breathe and flow. >> hayden had done regular swim lessons for a couple of years. until he did these isr lessons where it was very specific to him learning swim and come afloat, swim. 12 hayden can now swim, float, and swim until he is able to get to the side of the pool, and by the loimportant this is. jordan taught hayden how to swim and also have a six-year- old boy who is autistic named jackson. >> these kids do not have words, but they can develop the skills to give them an extra two seconds. that is the difference between faceup and facedown. >> james rose, fox news. >>> following breaking news in oakland. we will have the latest on a two alarm house fire. why the fire is proving to be extra difficult for crews. >>> the contra costa county fire investigators investigating an early-morning house fire in walnut creek. the latest details are coming up. all week

hayden said it won't have any impact on what i write or say. says he doesn't get invited to the white house anyway. james clapper served as the director of national intelligence. he was also an obama nominee with a long history in the intelligence community serving under president's george h.w. bush, clinton and george w. clapper called the threat to take away clearance quote petty. james comey, president obama nominated him as fbi director and he served until president trump fired him over the russia investigation. previously comey served as deputy attorney general under president george w. bush. threat is not much of a threat 25 at all. andrew mick kab. >> say that one more time. >> no more clearance. just to say it. for sar -- he doesn't have experience. andrew mick k -- andrew mccabe. james comey nominated him as fbi director in 2016. attorney general jeff sessions fired him just two days before his retirement in march of this year. spokesperson says he no longer has security clearance either. so what are we talking about him for? finally,

hayden less so. rice involved in the unmasking and mccabe in the dossier. so today, sarah sanders, said the president is investigating what can be done. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, he's looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice and mccabe. the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances making a baseless accusations of being in contact with russia that is extremely inappropriate. the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides legitimacy to accusations with no threat. >> brennan has been unhinged to hear it from the white house tell it. that's not me saying it. that's them saying it. they feel so strongly that he's been so unfair in his criticism. i can also tell you this quickly, we've heard from the spokesperson for andrew mccabe. she said my client's security clearance was already deactivated. so even though he was among the n

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. >> he's also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice and mccabe. >> former cia director john brennan, james comey, former tops by director of national intelligence james clapper. former national security advisor susan rice as well as former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicize and in some cases monetize their public service and security clearances. >> the issue came up at the briefing after republican senator rand paul tweeted that he would ask president trump to pull brennan's clearance. after the helsinki summit brennan tweeted that the president actions were treacherous. >> being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides an appropriate legitimacy accusations with zero evidence. >> michael hagan seemed to brush off the threat writing i don't go back for classified briefings, won't have any affect on what i say or write. clapper said it's kind of a

former cia director, general michael hayden. you have studied and monitored vladimir putin for years. here are the things he knows. president trump called the european union one of the greategreat est foes of the country. and that our relationship with russia has never been worse because of the russia investigation. >> first, this is a great day for vladimir putin even the russian federation. just step back a little bit, john. we realize this is a president of a pariah, second rate country. our president is going to meet with putin. putin, on top of the dichotomy, is smaller than the economy of several american states. that is a sense of equivalency, it's really not earned by russia's status in the world, and isolation. he has been embraced by the leader of the united states. so almost cost free. just by agreeing to show up, putin has pocketed everything he needs for the domestic audience at home. >> on a different topic, i'm very interested in the transparency with what is about to happen in the next 90 minutes. is it unusual t

james clapper, director hayden. national security adviser susan rice, fbi number two, andrew mccabe, two of them, comey and mccabe no longer have security clearances. the white house announcement followed a twitter notice from rand paul of kentucky saying he said ask the president to remove brennan's privileges. he has been vocal in his criticism of the news conference with putin. it appears to have started on the president's cable news network of choice. >> john brennan is an irresponsible partisan combatant who works for a cable news channel and threatened the president on twitter. why would he have a top secret clearance? >> if john brennan has top secret clearance, can he research donald trump and his family? >> that seems to echo what the president told cbs news when he named names of former intelligence officials in a list remarkably similar to what we heard today. >> do you think agencies are out to get you? >> well certainly in the past. it's been terrible. you look at brennan, you look at clapper, you look

the former cia director john brennan, the former cia director and nas chief general michael hayden. former fbi director james comey. former director of national intelligence, james clapper. andrew mccabe and the former national security adviser, susan rice. i just want to be clear here almost all of these individuals have worked for both republican and democratic presidents for years in government. to get to the top of the organizations, the cia, the fbi, the -- the only exception is susan rice. what they actually all have in common is not their politics. what they have in common is that they have criticized this president. here is a small sample. >> i really do wonder whether the russians have something on him. i think his behavior was just unbelievable. >> i don't think he has a full appreciation of russian capabilities, russians' intentions and actions that they are undertaking in many parts of the world. >> what his motivations are, i think is a legitimate question, one that i trust that the special counsel is investigating. but the policies that this president has pursued globa

general hayden said i don't go back to classified briefings, won't have an effect on what i say or write. and last night in a phone interview -- >> this is a very petty, petty thing to do. that is about all i will say about it. rob: we end clearing the record, to give you access, for current officials to reach back and clearances don't automatically terminate when they leave so we'll hear more about this. rob: new fallout from the fisa document them, the chairman of the house intelligence can be slamming the doj for deceiving the court. >> you have to really desperately try to put it together the way they did instead of having a simple -- i don't blame the judges, i think the judges were misled. >> devon nunez referring to the warrant for surveillance on carter page. the request based on the dossier funded by the clinton campaign and the doc. jillian: war of words with iran escalating, donald trump and uranium leader exchanging threatening hostilities. the latest from washington. >> if anyone is inciting anything look at iran. what seems like a battle has exploded into a war of words bet

john brennan, james comey, james clapper, michael hayden. susan rice and andrew mccabe. >> they politicize and monetize their public service and security clearances. >> it's common to maintain clearances after leaving office. they're renewed every five years and allow former officials to advise their successors. clapper that served under president obama called it retribution for speaking out against president trump. >> it's a very sad and disturbing thing for the first amendment. >> republican senator rand paul brought the idea to the president. >> i think there's a great danger to having people on television who are speaking off the cuff, who are getting classified information. >> a spokesperson for brennan, a former cia director says president trump is trying to divert attention from the russia investigation. >> it's all a deflection. >> democrats also believe the president wants to change the topic. >> i think this president is getting us closer and closer to unnecessary war with iran. >> president trump made an all caps twitter threat to

dni clapper, rice, and hayden. clapper said this. >> i think this is just a very, very petty, petty threatening to do. and that's about all i will say about it. >> and as all this begins, we should make it very clear clearances do not automatically terminate when officials leave that position but the post position clearance does not also give them access to current intelligence. todd, ainsley, steve? steve: griff, thank you for reporting live from our nation's capitol. there has been reaction from both sides. some people go yeah, he ought to do that because they did weaponize their intel. but then at the same time, when asked yesterday about doesn't this violate those people's first amendment rights, sarah huckabee sanders said the president feels as if they are politicizing and in some cases monetizing their clearance and they don't like that. and, keep in mind as well, the president has the power to grant or revoke clearances. ainsley: that's right. he has the power to do that because these individuals, they were

, hayden? >> hayden lewis, i'm standing here on the outskirts of the national forest where a fire has joust broken out. >> when we were on "mr. show," bob and david wanted to approach sketch almost as a reaction to other sketch shows they had done before. they wanted sketches that made a point, and they wanted sketches that said something about the world. every sketch didn't have to have a point, but there needed to be a reason for it to exist in this world. >> hit her. >> he said give her a kung fu. >> be a man. >> hit her, hit her, hit her. >> shut up, shut up. >> you talk about sketch comedy being surprising. and "mr. show" is like the deconstruction of a sketch comedy show. >> hello. i'm dr. sammy, beverly hills psychoactualist and author of the book "old lady, biker, gay guy, japanese man, the four voices within." >> the structure of "mr. show" was very influenced by monty python of wanting to have a show where sketches would bleed in and out of each other. >> it was one of the most fun pa

hayden? hayden lewis, i'm standing here on the outskirts of -- where a fire has joust broken out. >> when we were on, bob and david wanted to approach sketch almost as a reaction to other sketch shows they had done before. they wanted sketches that made a point, and they wanted sketches that said something about the world. . every sketch didn't have to have a point, but there needed to be a reason for it to exist in this world. >> hit her. >> he said give her a kungfu. >> be a man. >> hit her, hit her, hit her. >> shut up, shut up. >> you talk about sketch comedy being surprising. and mister show is like the deconstruction of a sketch comedy show. >> hello. i'm dr. sammy, beverly hills psychoactualist and author of the book old lady, biker, gay guy, japanese man, the four voices within. >> the structure of mr. show was very influenced by monty python of wanting to have a show where sketches would lead in and out of each other. >> it was one of the most fun parts about it. you'd have all this

you look at brennan, you look at clapper, you look at hayden, you look at comey, you look at mccabe, you look at strzok, his lover, lisa page, you look at others in the fbi that have been fired that are no longer there. certainly i can't have any confidence in the past, but i can have a lot of confidence in the present and the future. because it's getting to be that we're putting our people in. but in the past, i have no confidence in a guy like brennan, i think he's a total low life. i have no confidence in clapper. you know clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i went into office and all of a sudden he's went hay wooi because they got to him and got him to say things he probably doesn't even mean. i certainly have no confidence in past people. you take a look at all of the shenanigans that have gone on. >> james clapper spent 35 years in the u.s. military, it's pretty shocking to hear the president talk about these dpis like that. >> honestly, it's disgraceful. these are career public servants, who have devoted their lives to this country. and the president lists them going down

>> i think general hayden is proving president trump's point. michael hayden, i know him. if he doesn't take briefings now no harm, no foul. he should lose his security clearance and have it taken away. i wouldn't put him in the same category as brennan. he has been sort of hostile to the president. brennan has gone beyond that. the rule should be unless you're an advisor to the president i don't see what purpose it serves for people like that to retain security clearance. to me it creates risk. >> fisa, you've seen the redacted document that came out on saturday. i still don't get a sense that a lot of americans remember who carter page is or was, what he is doing today or what he did then. he was with tucker last night. he believes now the onion is starting to be peeled away and the truth is starting to emerge. have a listen here. >> finally 14 months later the f.b.i. answered my requests. this weekend we started having a little bit of transparency. obviously there are 100 plus pages of blacked-out information and i think, you noe, it is just starting the process in term

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former cia director michael hayden says he doesn't get security briefings at this point and revoking his security clearance won't stop him from saying what's on his mind. he's saying you won't shut him up. former fbi officials comey and mccabe, they no longer have security clearances, so the threat is moot. so there you go. distraction. probably should have done a little homework. maybe they already knew it but just wanted to put it out there. see, that's the point. just making the threat to take action changes the subject from serious issues facing the country like the fallout from helsinki or the upcoming trial of paul manafort or the michael cohen tapes or, let's see, lack of progress on north korea and its nukes or heightened tensions with iran or the separation of migrant families, children in cages. the list goes on and on and on. president trump may or may not revoke the security clearances. it's likely it doesn't matter to him. today he thinks he looks like a tough guy, standing up to former officials who weren't loyal to him in the first place, at least that's how trump sees

you look at hayden. you look at comey. you look at mccabe. you look at strzok and his lover, lisa page. you look at other people in the fbi that have been fired that are no longer there. >> reporter: it is common for senior government officials to maintain their high-level security clearances after they leave office. clearances are renewed every five years and allow former officials to advise their successors. security expert frank cilluffo says it's the public that could be hurt if the intelligence isn't shared. >> ultimately it's the american people because we're not going to be able to get the requisite knowledge that they -- that these individuals have in their heads to be able to enhance our national security. >>> nearly 40 years after the sandinistas toppled the dictatorship of somoza, nicaragua is again in the grips of unrest. anti-government protests have been under way for three months now and the government has been cracking down with deadly force. manuel bojorquez is in managua. >> reporter: this is the latest anti-government march

. >> former nsa director mike at hayden says it could have no affect on what he says or writes. they are both cnn contributors. no comment from john brennan. >>> paul manafort trial has been delayed until next tuesday. it was supposed to start tomorrow. a federal judge granting a delay allowing manafort's lawyers to review 120,000 pages of documents turned over by prosecutors in the last month. the judge also granting immunity to five witnesses who are expected to testify at the trial. all work for banks or financial firms linked to manafort. >>> satellite images appear to show north korea has started dismantling facilities at the key nuclear test sidte. this has been the site of launches since 2012. we are joined by will ripley in hong kong this morning. will? >> reporter: it is significant according to analysts. it is a good confidence building measure. the launch facility is symbolic. this is where north korea launched a satellite in 2012 after signing a deal with the obama administration. that deal was dead on arrival because north korea launched the satellite which they cam

thank you general clapper and hayden as well. and we will go into why it's troubling to so many people and why the president's statements have been raising concerns in washington. and those who know intelligence operations and russian agents are worried about the man who sits in the oval office. we'll go there tonight on "360." today... back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. until her laptop crashed her salonthis morning.or weeks, you never know what the day's going to bring when you're running a small business, it might even bring a blue screen of death. having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get virus and spyware removal, and 24/7 tech support. office depot now offers on demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. ♪ right now, buy one hp ink and get a second at 30% off at office depot officemax dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman, who governed thousand

hayden on the spot. i've been a huge fan of wikipedia since my time at duke. someone had done an entry on me and wikipedia. it was embarrassingly over-the-top. have i couldn't figure out who writes it. i was embarrassed that i thought that people thought i would rate this thing. and how got changed. i got the essay with this whole thing. when i went to the new york public library. i started to recognize the value of wikipedia. when i went to new york i got even more interested in a and encouraged our curators and the folks that were processing the collections to go in and add links to the new york public library collection. i can still remember my favorite example was that the performing arts where the processor had finish the processing the patty chayefsky collection. she have a flaming e-mail from a faculty member at northwestern. and how dare you going to change and suggest changes to my work. i was proud of her because she flamed right back. this is the truth. the value of linking was something that i really believed in it so when it came to washington was

former cia director michael hayden says he doesn't get security briefings at this point and revoking his security clearance won't stop him from saying what's on his mind. he's saying you won't shut him up. former fbi officials comey and mccabe, they no longer have security clearances, so the threat is moot. so there you go. distraction. probably should have done a little homework. maybe they already knew it but just wanted to put it out there. see, that's the point. just making the threat to take action changes the subject from serious issues facing the country like the fallout from helsinki or the upcoming trial of paul manafort or the michael cohen tapes or, let's see, lack of progress on north korea and its nukes or heightened tensions with iran or the separation of migrant families, children in cages. the list goes on and on and on. president trump mayor m or may revoke the security clearances. it's likely it doesn't matter to him. today he thinks he looks like a tough guy, standing up to former officials who weren't loyal to him in the first place, at least that's how trump sees

you look at hayden. you look at comey. you look at mccabe. you look at strzok, and his lover, lisa page. you look at other people in the f.b.i. that have been fired, no longer there. nlrtainly i can't have any confidence in the past, but i can have a lot of confidence in the present and the future, owcause it's getting to be now where we're putting our people in. but in the past, no, i have no confidence in a guy like brennan. i think he's a total lowlife. i have no confidence in clapper. you know, clapper wrote me a beautiful letter when i first went to office, and it was really nice. , d then all of a sudden he's gone haywire, because they got to him and they probably got him to say things that maybe he doesn't even mean. n t, no, i certainly don't have confidence in past people. you look at what's happened. tak at allf the shenanigans that have gone on. very hard to have confidence in that group. >> glor: on saturday you told us your doctrine is strength, and achieving peace through strength. >> right. >> glor: after helsinki, lindsey grah

director michael hayden. he's also targeting former c.i.a. director john brennan, who recently blasted the president over his summit with vladimir putin. >> this is nothing short of treasonous. >> reporter: mr. trump has publicly accused these former officials of publicly spreading information from the ongoing special counsel investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. election. last week in an interview with cbs news the president called them out. >> glor: do you think any u.s. intelligence agencies are out to get you? >> well certainly in the past it's been terrible. you look at brennan. you look at clapper. you look at hayden. you look at comey. you look at mccabe. you look at strzok, and his lover, lisa page. you look at other people in the f.b.i. that have been fired who are no longer there. f reporter: it is common for senior government officials to maintain their high-level security clearances after they leave office. clearances are renewed every five years and allow former officials to advise their successors. security expert, fra

obama era officials, james comey, andrew mccabe, james clapper and susan rice and cia director michael hayden. sarah sanders had this to say. >> the president is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicized and in some cases monetized public service and security clearance and making baseless accusations. >> the reaction, comey and mccabe no longer have security clearance but reaction from others is strong, general hayden, i don't go back for classified briefings, won't activity effect on what i say or write and clapper said this in a phone interview. >> i think this is just a very petty thing to do. that is all i will say. >> for the record it is important to note having clearance does not give you access, just clears you need to know basis should officials need to reach back on and issue. rob: house democrats pushing a resolution denouncing donald trump following his summit with vladimir putin. >> donald trump sold out our democracy in behavior that was damaging, destructive and disgraceful. house republicans are complicit in the president's betrayal of ou

former nsa director michael hayden and former director of national intelligence james clapper among others. the officials are known for their outspoken defense of the u.s. intelligence community. they've all backed the conclusion that russia interfered in the 2016 election. and many have expressed alarm that the trump campaign may have collaborated with the kremlin to do just that. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders made that unprecedented announcement in an almost choreographed response today to a question served up by jen gizzie of the conservative outlet news max. >> senator rand paul today made a strong attempt to vitiate the credibility of former cia director john brennan, saying that he's, and i quote, "monetizing his security clearance and that it should be removed from him. he even called on the president to do this. >> not only is the president looking to take away brennan's security clearance, he's also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice, and mccabe. the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they've pol

so would you expand the list to include michael hayden, james clapper, would he be on your list as well? >> i would probably not name names, i would have it as a universal policy that when you leave -- the only time i can think of a reason why you would want to keep this would be in a transition when you are still breathing people, when you're sitting down with the next administration. i would probably just go one step beyond and not let any retired officials go on television to still have classified security clearance. >> martha: so how serious is the president about pursuing this? they said they want to look into the avenues that exist to pull these clearances. what was your impression when you were in there with him about what the time frame is for making this happen and how determined he is to do it? >> i think there's a great deal of resolve. i don't think we should reveal secrets to people who are calling the commander in chief treasonous. i don't think there are many people in america who will disagree with that judgment that we would continue to give secrets to a person calling

then i will put doctor hayden on the spot and see if lc is going to be doing the same thing. >> i have been a huge fan of wikipedia since my time at duke when i discovered an entry, someone had done an entry on me. [laughter] >> was a correct? >> it was over the top. it was embarrassing over the top. i could not figure out how you find out who did it. i was embarrassed to think that people thought i wrote this thing. then i watched the editorial process with people commenting and how it got changed. i got fascinated with the whole thing. when i went to the new york public library, i started to recognize the value of wikipedia and then i went to new york and i got even more interested in it and encouraged our curators, our folks who are processing collections, to go in and add length and wikipedia to the new york public library collections as a way to draw people back into the library. i can still remember my favorite example was the library for the performing arts where the processor had finished the teddy collection and went into wikipedia and within a half an hour she had a flaming e

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general hayden, for instance. and doing it as a purge, because you don't like the fact that he's being critical of some of your policies. >> this is a political enemy's list, pure and simple. it was so sloppily drawn that it turns out that two of the names on it don't have security clearances any longer to be removed. what these people have in common is that they have dared to criticize president trump's policies. sometimes in quite sharp terms. i do think as richard haass said, this is an attempt as we've seen earlier in the attacks on peter strzok, the former fbi agent, the repeated attacks on james comey that led to his firing, an effort to say that criticism of the president, calling attention to the president's actions, especially in the russia investigation, is somehow wrong. there's been an attempt to web some sort of criminal conspiratorial tone around this, and this is the latest chapter. let's just look at one person on this list. jim clapper has been an american intelligence official in one way or anoth

james kleber, susan rice and michael hayden. destroyed trunk media basically -- well if trunk breathes they go into meltdown mode. >> sarah sanders they are, let's call it what it was, she threw a grenade in there when it comes to this moves which she is now saying the white house is considering not only revoking the security clearance to john brennan but also that of comey, clapper, mccabe and rice. >> there's really no way to look at this other than president trump wants to punish his critics. >> he>> wants to punish them in silence them as well perhaps. >> an unprecedented threat from the white house but it doesn't seem grounded in reality. >> this is a very dangerous day for democracy. this is the move evan autocrat, not an american president. >> this is nixonian, this is the president threatening to use his power. >> the other way is they use their power as a relates to the american electorate with russian lies that hillary paid for. the truth about our nation's great comeback, and fox news contributor newt gingrich, we are

mike hayden is in the same situation. >> you said that you have had security clearance since 1963. since john f. kennedy was president? >> exactly. >> for people not in the intelligence world, people not familiar with the way the government works, can you just explain why you and others maintain that clearance, even though you retired from the government? >> well, the rationale -- this is a longstanding practice that goes back decades -- that senior formers from these positions are granted continued eligibility for access to classified information. this is to facilitate consultation with those who are occupying or who are the current incumbents. i have had occasion to engage with senior members of this administration who for obvious reasons will remain nameless, drawing on my 50 years of experience and my corporate memory and my background on certain issues. >> you help them out? you help out members of the current president's operation, the current president's government? >> yeah. yes. i have. at their behest, their request. will the republic collapse if i no longer have that elig

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we have michael hayden. we have nick robertson, also kaitlan collining. the con dex for this news conference is that european leaders, nato leaders that have been part of these meetings have been saying that the president outright threatened them suggesting that the united states was willing to "do his own thing if these other nato countries did not spend more on defense." the president saying he won the commitments he was looking for. never nato leader will tell you they were successful, i'm asking you did the other nato leaders consider these last 24 hours successful? >> they're going to consider them hugely disruptive and they're going to talk about some key important issues if is hard to get all of the leaders together. they're going to be unhappy about him coming in as a disrupter. he again used that figure of 4.2% of the u.s. gdp contributing to defense spending. that is believed to be closer to 3.57%. there is a feeling that president trump is mixing up details that they would feel he should be more familiar with. that he is wasting their time, and

. >> former nsa director michael hayden says it could have no affect on what he says or writes. they are both cnn contributors. no comment from john brennan. >>> paul manafort's trial has been delayed until next week. the federal judge granting a delay allowing manafort's lawyers to review 120,000 pages of documents turned over by prosecutors in the last month. also granting immunity for five witnesses who all work for banks linked to manafort. >>> satellite imagery shows north korea dismantling facilities in the sohae area. cnn's will ripley joins us live from hong kong. what do we know, will? >> reporter: north korea is beginning the process and these images are from a couple of days ago. they believe the work started in the last two weeks. they are taking apart the sohae launch facility. that launch scut tetled a short lived deal with the obama administration in 2012. they say the facility has nothing to do with the ballistic missile program. listen to the sicientists told e in 2015. >> what can you say to the world to prove this is not a ballistic missile program in disguise