right well to lionel's point that something changed along the way it's funny you mention john brennan i was just about to say the thing that changed is that the democrats finally realized that all they needed was a vein to get into the intelligence community of the united states and the person who injected that eason g.p.s. document which by the way was paid for by hillary clinton and the d.n.c. all they needed was a vein a way to get it into the intel community and they did so through john brennan and if you look at granite and i'd love to present trump revoked his security clearance and his right to rifle through all the intelligence briefings guess what you notice you guys notice the leaks have stopped since that happened and what does that tell you that tells you that john brennan was indeed the leaker he did have a political ax to grind and by the way you're not supposed to be allowed to be a paid network contributor and also have access to highly classified intelligence briefings that in my opinion as someone who went through journalism one o one in college knows better than tha

brennan, ta ke you take away from john brennan, take it away from me too. you take away from john brennan, take it away from me tool you take away from john brennan, take it away from me too. i think it was wrong to take the clearance away, to pay somebody back, like what they said. i think i also have to say that i thinkjohn brennan, describing someone he didn't like as treasonous, was over the top. i would like to see both sides calm the temperature down. there are legitimate areas of serious disagreement. we can talk about those areas of. when we encouraged what we called the food fight, throwing names at each other, are not doing anybody say this. america is very polarised nap —— right now. at the heart of it seems to be an notion that donald trump has, there isa notion that donald trump has, there is a deep state, the elite, including the national—security establishment, gentlemen such as yourself, who are determined to bring him down. he is telling an america that these people don't want me to succeed because i am your guy, working for the little guy and they wa nt to working

we continue to be joined by former cia director john brennan. that struck me as the most presidential thing. that is plausibly and conceivably what other presidents would say to other commanders complaining about the pace of the fight. except i'm guessing you have a difference with the way trump carried it out? >> yes. i've heard basically those questions with a different tone and thrust uttered by other presidents. these are the types of questions that presidents and national security members need to ask, how long are we going to commit troops, how long are we going to lose lives. what are the national security stakes that we have to protect. how can we, in fact, extricate ourselves from these long and drawn out wars. these are complicated issues. we don't want a withdrawal that will allow our adversaries to use afghanistan once again to launch another 9/11, but can we commit treasure and blood for years upon years and hope that, you know, one day in the future we're going to be able to get out. these are serious questions. again, these are iss

all they needed was a vein a way to get it into the intel community and they did so through john brennan and if you look at granite and i'd love to present trump revoked his security clearance and his right to rifle through all the intelligence briefings guess what you notice you guys notice the leaks have stopped since that happened and what does that tell you that tells you that john brennan was indeed the leaker he did have a political ax to grind and by the way you're not supposed to be allowed to be a paid network contributor and also have access to highly classified intelligence briefings that in my opinion as someone who went through journalism one o one in college knows better than that but unfortunately the lines in washington these days are so mixed that that was allowed to happen and it's a real shame you know lionel we haven't heard much from james oh lordy komi lately i wonder why they connect to the back to get a little whose name was good back in the news again in a big big way that's why he wrote the book and sold it before it happened my words he's going to be the lead m

if john brennan wants americans to divorce themselves from the notion of a deep state. they he should stop saying dumb stuff like that. adam schiff says i have been previously informed by the fbi and justice department that they would consider their release a red line that must not be crossed as they compromise sources and methods. agencies need to top hiding behind sources and methods. because wants to with hold information that might ex poise as an ambitious fraud. and if schiff is concerned they abdicated their own power by concentrating too much of it in the presidency. schiff for brains. don't act outraged because you think power is being wield by a short-fingered simpleton. i would like to wrap d.c. in saran wrap. the test will facebook this president is eager to wear there is achievement crown top declassify documents when they are not common rating, personal or entirely favorable, that style still be sexy? that's the memo. earlier this year republicans and democrats on the house intel committee put out dueling memos. so will the president's order to release thes

sanctimony, john brennan. foxnews.com just obtained brand-new texts showing that some officials were "leaking like mad in the lead up to the fbi's washer pro." why? to influence public opinion. take a look at this exchange. this is just after the president got elected, december 15th, 2016. there they are again, lisa page texting strzok, remind me to tell you tomorrow the times doing a story about the rnc hacks. strzok responding "more than they already did? i told you that quinn told me they are pulling all the stops out on some story." he then followed up "think our sisters have become leaking like mad. he scorned and worried and political, they are kicking into overdrive." according to reporting from her own catherine herridge, the sisters they are referring to that strzok mention, that likely is the cia, that would be john brennan and barack obama's cia. less than a month after that exchange "the new york times" published, published a story about rnc hacks on the very same day bus speed published a dossier

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or john brennan and james comey will look like heroes for exposing carter page for the spy he s. every time the democrats cry this will be a national securi security risk, they are crying wolf. >> shannon: the accuser of john. she said in 2017 she was in an abusive relationship. it named ellison. she said every time she tweets it out, it goes ai. the dnc is investigating this. it raises questions for people who say why so many demands about republican investigations? should we not be fair across the board. this should not be a partisan issue? >> i agree 100%. as a victim myself. my perpetrator didn't ask my political leaning. the bottom line is every woman or victim should be believed. 2 to 10% are being untruthful so 90% are truthful. the reason these are taken off social media. not because of what she is claiming. it's because of the doctor being listed. her patient number and other private medical information. >> i don't agree that every woman should be believed. but evidence should be believed am this woman has a lot more evidence than kavanaugh's accuser does and it happened

we sat down with michael hayden, leon panetta, john brennan, jay johnson and madeleine albright. >> and the russian investigation, the u.s. relationship with nato and the trump administration's threat to pull security clearances from some of those people we just mentioned. first up, our conversation with retired four-star general michael hayden, who ran both the nsa and cia. and we started by asking him about his new book, the assault on intelligence, american national security in the age of lies. >> i come at it with a three-layered problem. number one is cultural. and fun mentally that's the biggest one. it's us. the book is about us and our political discourse or lack of discourse, our distrust. that's anchored also on the lack of truth. post-truth world oxford definition, decision making based on feeling and preference rather than objective reality and we've gone to our corners, pledged allegiance to our tribes and data doesn't matter much. second layer, the president, who quite intelligently saw it, exploited it and now in office uses it and frankly i think worsens it. >> abuses it

either the president will be vindicated and show they did survey of his campaign or john brennan and james comey will look like heroes for exposing carter page as the spy that he is. either way why not be on the side of openness and transparency? every time the democrats cry this is going to be a national security risk when something is unredacted they are crying wolf. it has never happened. shannon: i want to touch on this case involving karen monahan, the deputy director of the dnc and running for ag in minnesota posted her medical records the talk about when she saw doctor in 2017, she was in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship. in that report she says every time she tweets it out it goes away. we are waiting to hear what the dnc is doing to investigate this. it raises questions for people who say why so many demands about republican investigations, shouldn't we be fair across the board, to the accusers and the accused regardless of party? this shouldn't be a part of an issue? >> absolutely, i agree with you 100%. as a victim myself i can tell you my perpetrator did

a lot of it should be embarrassing to john brennan and may be there in lies that he is so adamant. i don't think it will change anyone's mind but i have seen nothing in it that will jeopardize the national security interest of this country. >> bret: lasting quickly, do you think attorney general sessions keeps his job and the president continues to talk about the attorney general, the other day saying, i don't have an attorney general. >> i think we are at the point of irreconcilable differences in this relationship and i think he keeps jeff sessions until a sufficient number of republican senators tell the president that someone else can be confirmed. i don't know who that person could be in this hyper political environment. i hate it -- of all the cabinet level jobs, that is the one i'm most interested in having the right person in and i hate the president's relationship has become what it is and i hate that it has become public but i think you will be the ag until someone else will be confirmed and i don't know who that person might be. >> bret: is that you? >> heavens no. linds

. >> harris: his comment coming off a sort of witticism from john brennan that we've seen before. watch it. >> i think the director of national intelligence and mr. rosenstein should push back against any directive that is going to have negative impact on our capabilities on mr. trump in the white house does not relent, i think that they have some decisions to make whether another going to just not follow that direction and be fired or to resign. >> harris: i'm a little baffled by trey gowdy singh is not going to change anybody's mind. i don't understand it, why can't we see all of it then? >> pete: i agree with the speed fortune, we need as much sunlight as humanly possible. he may or may not be right, but i don't want to go through trey gowdy or the john brennan filter. the american people are smart enough to get a look at something like this and i understand sources and methods, it's important, but a guy like john brennan is always going to hide behind that but what if they use their sources and their methods to spy on american citizens and a political candidate in the middle o

is that acceptable, john brennan? i hate to say that chuck schumer is right, but if you go against the intelligence community, they will get you six ways to sunday. why? because the deep state with tht power that they have intelligencewise, it's like a house of cards. we are watching the whole scheme come tumbling down. revealing the level of corruption in your government that should make you sick and concerned, and as it turns out, high-ranking deep state officials, they weren't the only people rocked by the election of donald trump. look at breitbart.com. they obtained official video from inside a 2016 company-wide meeting at the tech giant, google. this was following trump's win. if you thought the good peoplea of google weren't biased and against all things trump, this should make you think again. let's take a look. >> most people here are prettyt upset and pretty sad because of the election. >> the first moment i really felt like we were going to lose. a massive kick in the gut that we were going to lose and it w

but, former cia director and trump critic john brennan says leaders of the intelligence community have an obligation to block the president's order. watch it. >> i think christopher wray, director of fbi and dan coats director of national intelligence as well as rod rosenstein overseeing this investigation should push back against any directive that is going to have negative impact on our capabilities if mr. trump and the white house does not relent, i think they have some decisions to make, whether or not they are going to just not follow that direction and be fired or to resign. >> harris: tough part of my job is first do i go to kennedy who is nodding or charlie who is taking notes? kennedy? >> kennedy: i think if john brennan wants to completely obliterate the idea that there is a deep state, he needs to stop talking. [laughter] >> harris: that's why i went to her first. >> kennedy: people who hold these sensitive jobs in the fbi and doj and cia that they somehow need to get together in a cabal and block the president. >> maria: that's not what he said he said if they don't feel co

john brennan. yes, that john brennan. a pat on the back from the former cia director is coming up. we begin tonight with the fallout from the president's labor day tweets taking aim at syria as well as his own attorney general. good evening. >> this is a big tweet and it's going to be getting a lot of attention because what president trump was essentially suggesting was that the nation's top law enforcement officer should have waited until after the midterms to prosecute two republican congressman up for reelection. >> president trump is again taking his attorney general to task on twitter by saying "two long-running obama era investigations of two very popular republican congressman were brought to a well-publicized charge just ahead of the mid-midterms but to easy wins now in doubt because there's not enough time. good job, jeff. the two congressmen he's referring to are chris collins from new york and duncan hunter from california. the two were indicted within two weeks of each other last month on unrelated charges. collins was charged with 13 counts of security fraud, wire frau

john brennan would be here tonight if he hadn't been in korea. he is been the most forward leaning and personalizing the attacks on the president. we all enjoy some flavor of that at one time or another. there are certain choices to be made along the scale. those of us who have criticized have made the choice. we are willing to accept the risk in order to do something that might in emergency break glass. >> are you breaking the glass? >> yes. the fact that three of us are in under contract with cnn [laughter] i were in reston two or three weeks ago with the tribal isers having a conversation, as a retired community. there were a range of views. some of them were supporters. others. we should not be there at all. that is not an illegitimate point of view. you were in the room. >> i am with you. that is a very articulate the portrayal of the issue and the controversy. where you come down on it is a very personal thing. >> what is your degree of alarm about russia and the ongoing practice of the president downplaying their role? the threat for you?

if we get these isa documents released, there will be a lot of questions for john brennan. i haven't heard the cia director ever in all the work i found -- >> sean: i've heard from my sources that audi doesn't want him out. >> gaudi signed a letter, he's t john brennan will have some questions to answer when he's done. >> sean: so in other words, farming out. >> the two allies were concerned they would be exposed. one was great britain. and not about christopher steele, it has to be something else. and what about source? >> "washington post," they bury the lede in the last line, but all the reporting we've done on your show is 100% accurate. he's a russian oligarch and connections to be 14 and ohr come all the things we reported. that's a project that showed up in his note as the successor. but the spokesman goes further and says, when we hired the democracy project we were paying for fusion gps to do work. so now there's a new stark money group funding -- >> sean: i'm running out of time but let me ask this question. we've all talked about how the president needs to reclas

brennan. a pat on the back from the former cia director. the president's labor day tweets. >> this is a big tweet and it is getting a lot of attention but donald trump was just in the nation's top law enforcement officers should have waited until after the midterms to prosecute two republican congressman until after the election. donald trump is again taking his attorney general to task by saying two long-running obama era investigations and republican congressmen were brought to a well-publicized charge just ahead of the midterms by the jeff sessions justice department, two easy win now in doubt but not enough time, good job, jeff, the two congressman i chris collins from new york and london hunter from california who are indicted within two weeks of each other on unrelated charges. collins is charged with 13 counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and lying to the fbi while under is accused of misusing campaign funds and falsifying campaign records. those lawmakers have pleaded not guilty. co

director and father-in- law watching you try to use jumper cables... ( laughter ) john brennan. now presidential spokesperson sarah hucka-sands, read the president's statement today about brennan from the official white house lying perch. >> "as the head of the executive branch and commander in chief, i have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the 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." >> stephen: this means brennan can't read classified intelligence. so, now the only place he'll read threats against america is on trump's twitter feed. ( laughter ) and-- and the official reason trump gave for revoking brennan's clearance? brennan "leveraged his status to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations, including wild outbursts on the internet." ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: yes, yes. >> jon: shame. >> stephen: yeah, i'd say that's the pot calling the kettle black, but

brennan, who called the president treasonous and had a terrible record with which and goes into, they consider him a straight shooter. obama did not actually take election meddling seriously and the special counsel only happened because james call me gave the world the impression trump was already being investigated which he was not. trump one not because not because of russian meddling or a% of money dedicated to russians but because it's a simple idea of enforcing our borders and ripping up nafta. let's hope he gets some that on the last but not least, ann coulter has the ability to debunk two years of programming for cnn and msnbc in just over 250 pages. i cannot recommend her book without anymore. without further delay, the one and only ann coulter. >> i did not promise of support short speech but as i do not get the balcony up there i will not give you and ava perrone style speech. i do think -- well, first i should say if you want to know what is going to happen through your life into the world probably the best book for that is the bible. but the second best book is resistance

the comments made by john brennan, the former c.i.a. director, i mean the borderline decision. they are asking -- borderline sedition. they are asking people to go against the president of the united states president. he has every authority to declassify the documents and the american people deserve to see it. i do have news for you tonight. i have been told by sources that the documents will be turned over to the president next week. i hear that the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. are redacting what -- redacting. what they will do is turn the documents over to the president sand -- and say it's up to you to declass. they are trying to stall or put pressure on the president. i have talked to sources that have brewed the documents that have top secret clearance to view them. i'm told there is nothing in the request, nothing whatsoever that would violate national security or give away sources and methods. that is what claiming, the d.o.j. as well as the f.b.i. and others are claiming the president will do. >> lou: as they have by the way throughout. >> absolutely. >> lou: they have stonewa

. >> brennan: one of the attendees at saturday's memorial service for john mccain here in washington was ohio republican governor john kasich. he joins me here. thank you for coming in. i know you were there at the memorial service, something that senator mccain thought through, he planned, orchestrated every little bit of it, what do you think his message was? >> come together. have guts. stand up. that's the thing about john. john was so comfortable with himself, leaders walk among and john did not like people that did this, put their finger in the air get the wind. he was so comfortable with himself, really didn't matter to him who he was going to have to take on or what cause he was going to go for. if he felt it in his bones, in his heart, in his soul then he went forward. i think that was the message >>: meghan mccain -- >> made me cry. she made me cry for two reasons. one was, the deep love she had for her father, you know the other thing that made me cry? the deep love that sometimes girls have for their daddies. i got two little girls, they're not little any more, they're in

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to get reaction to this from the senior national security analyst and former cia director john brennan and how unusual is this? >> well, it is very unusual and concerning from two perspectives. one is that it is highly inappropriate and unethical for mr. trump to the take any action that pertaining to the criminal investigation of russian collusion, and russian and in cooperation with russia in the election of which mr. trump and close associates are subjects. so that should not happen that he would be able to take such an action, and he certainly has the authority to do it, but i think it is highly inappropriate, and anybody who knows the issues feels similarly. and secondly, to basically order the de the department of justice and the fbi to release this information, even that which is redacted earlier, it is really just pushing this envelope, and i believe it is making a lot of law enforcement official, and justice enforcement officials and intelligence officials concerned about the negative consequences of that. so, yes, he has the authority to do these things, but the question is w

john brennan to even mention the russian's names. when the obama administration was going to call them out for this activity. there has been nothing done from the senior administration level to protect from an attack like this happening again. in fact, i wouldn't be surprised if they would even welcome it. >> it wasn't just the ads that boosted the influence of elections. it was the free accounts. the messages and the messages. those are what spread virally. because people thought, you know, they were true, they were native. how does that get tackled in the future? >> exactly. facebook took almost a year to acknowledge this activity. the initial report was the russian -- this russian company, the internet research agency, had spent about $100,000 on ads. and that's not much. it was an in an election in which the trump campaign and clinton campaign each spent tens of millions of dollars on facebook ad. when you looked a little more closely, it was obvious that was not the sort of business model. volatile themes on race, on guns, on im

former cia director and nbc news contributor john brennan saying, well done, colin, well done. >> a joke taken too far? a florida mother is under fire this morning after a video of her dunking her toddler's head wt viral. the mom says they were just having fun, but police and state authorities aren't laughing. she's now facing an investigation. from our nbc affiliate in orlando, michelle meredith has the story. >> it was just a joke. >> reporter: caitlyn wolf said she had no idea this video sticking her son's head in the toilet would get the reaction it did. oh, but it did. threaten to do what to you? >> threatened to kill me, murtd me, shoot me, shove my head in the toilet, bury me halfway alive, cut my head off. >> reporter: it started last week when caitlyn says as a prank she gave her 3-year-old son what she calls a swirly, toilet flushing, head in the video lgs out. but caitlyn says he's not screaming, he's laughing. >> it was just a joke. and i mean, everybody is like, oh, his face didn't go in -- it's not a dirty toilet. it was clean, you know. he wasn't being tortured in any way.

brennan. let us start with nbc national correspondent peter alexander who is joining us from the white house. peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. president trump we are told erupting after learning about the shocking op ed that savannah just read in part. volcanic is how multiple allies and aides familiar with his thinking describe the president's mood. the writer details a quiet resistance of appointees who work for the president. president trump pushing back overnight tweeting, i'm draining the swamp and the swamp is trying to fight back. don't worry. we will win. this morning a warning rattling the white house from within, president trump lashing out after "the new york times" published an unprecedented, anonymous essay from a source described as a senior official inside his own administration. >> i am part of the resistance inside the trump administration. >> when you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration, probably who's failing and probabl

joining us now former cia director john brennan. senior national security analyst for nbc news and formernato supreme allied commander james is chief international security and diplomacy analyst for nbc news and msnbc. counsel on foreign relations and author of the book. we'll talk about that in just a moment. >> let me begin with you. all that is new, all that is old is new again. i mean, if you talked to george w. bush they were leaking about me at the cia around the clock, the state department always leaked. this does happen, but perhaps in not such a dramatic manner. is this a new chapter or have we seen it before? >> i will take issue with your premise. i don't think they said it was leaking around the clock. they were concerned about it but "new york times" editorial is not a leak. it is deep concern and worry. what people have been saying over the last year that donald trump has not fulfilled his responsibilities. so so, i think a lot of people within the government that are quite frustrate would the situation and now taking

mike rogers, john brennan and jim cooley. given the remarks he made at ci recently, it would appear to me, at least the inference you can draw, he got smarter about it or more educated about the value. but he did make a comment, or something like that. i don't remember the exact words. we didn't dwell on it at the time. again, this was 20 months ago. the president-elect at the time, had very little or virtually no exposure to intelligence at all. in fairness to him, it is part of the education process. i would say that the interesting contrast here between mike hayden and mike rogers, i think it reflects the decision, whether or not to speak out, is a highly personal one. mike rogers, i think it is quite understandable to take the position he has taken. he will get over it. [ laughter ] you know, having served in this administration, i think he is going to come at it from a different perspective. it was 23 years ago for me this month that i retired from the military. september, 1995. it never occurred to me to speak out or go

that's john brennan. rachel: a rich irony in men nab's attack -- brennan's attack, here to explain, ed henry. what's the iron newy here? >> hang on a second, john brennan is saying someone is partisan? it's a job that griff knows in washington, democratic, republican administrations relatively nonpartisan because you're supposed to give the president, any president, either party the intelligence. the important stuff you need to know to prevent terror attacks. this guy's come out of the job and has been not just an obama partisan is, he has been deranged almost in his attack the on president trump. won't even call him president trump, says i'll call him mr. trump. i will not give him respect. so spare me if we're going to get a lecture from john brennan about who's partisan. and by the way, the second part of the tweet where he gets into lindsay graham is craven? didn't he love him when he was riding shotgun with the late senator john mccain, and whenever graham and mccain took on president trump in consci

admiral mike rogers, john brennan, jim comey. and given the remarks he made at gina haskell's installation at cia recently, it would appear to me -- at least the inference you could draw -- is, you know, he's gotten smarter about it or gotten more educated about the value of human. but he did make a comment something like that. those weren't the exact words. we didn't dwell on it at the time the, we just pressed on with our briefing. but, again, this was 20 months ago, and the president-elect at the time had very little, virtually no exposure to intelligence at all. so i think this is, in fairness to him, you know, kind of part of the, part of the education process. .. >>. [laughter] having served in this administration, i think he's going to come at it from a different perspective. it was 23 years ago for me this month i retired from the military in september 1995. i never thought, it didn't even occur to meto speak out or go on television or any of that . but i came to the conclusion that we are in a very different place and a

the media considered john brennan, who called the president treasonous and has a tomorrow record which ann goes into, the media consider him a straight shooter. obama did not actually take election meddling seriously, and the special counsel only happened because james comey gave the world the impression trump was already being investigated, which he was not. trump actually won not because of some sort of russian meddling or the fraction of a fraction of a percent of money that was dedicated by russians to influencing people on social media, but because he had the simple ideas of enforcing our borders and ripping you have nafta. let's hope he gets some of that down. some of that done. so i cannot recommend "the resistance is futile" any more, and without further delay, the one and only ann coulter. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. i didn't promise a short speech, but since i don't get the balcony up there, i'm not going to give you an eva peron style speech. [laughter] first, i should say if you want to know what is going to happen through your life and through the world, probably t