“The removal, a threatened removal, of security clearances from people like Michael Hayden, John Brennan and others is so small, so petty and so predictable. And it is the behavior of a man, Mr. Trump, who knows that the cops are at the door, and he continues—and he did it within the past few days—to stick his thumb in the eye of the American intelligence community, preferring to go with the Russian theory rather than what the American intelligence community has told him and has warned him repeatedly,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle as he along with Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist discuss President Donald Trump threatening to strip his critics—including former NSA Director Michael Hayden and former CIA Director John Brennan—of their security clearances. Listen to more of the discussion here.
Jul 24, 2018