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John Brennan has called Donald Trump’s repeated denials that his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election “hogwash” and accused the president of revoking his security clearance as part of a “desperate” attempt to interfere with the special counsel’s investigation. 'Unprecedented': Trump's revoking of Brennan security clearance denounced Read more Brennan, who was CIA director from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama administration, has stepped up his criticism of Trump in recent months. Trump also admitted there was a link between stripping Brennan of his security clearance and the special counsel investigation. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) “John Brennan is a stain on the Country, we deserve better than this.” Former Secret Service Agent and author of new book, “Spygate, the Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump,” Dan Bongino. There was no reference to the Russia investigation in the statement. Sanders also listed nine other national security figures whose security clearances were under review. Those listed also include former CIA director Michael Hayden, former national security adviser Susan Rice, Trump’s former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe and fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from the Russia investigation over anti-Trump text messages. Ohr is the only current government employee on the list. Sanders insisted the White House was not only targeting Trump critics. Recently, he suggested that Trump’s behavior in his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki rose to the level of an impeachable offense.

Donald Trump has revoked the security clearance of John Brennan, the CIA director in the Obama administration, citing “erratic conduct and behavior”. Brennan has been a vocal critic of Trump. The move comes as the White House has been rocked by allegations against the president by former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, including the claim thatan audio tape exists of Trump using “the N-word”. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I am still going to speak out.” He described it as an effort “to cow individuals inside and outside the US government” and compared it to behavior from “foreign tyrants and despots”. Sanders had in July floated removing Brennan’s clearance along with a number of other Obama administration officials. On Wednesday, Sanders repeated a long list of others from whom the White House was considering revoking security clearances. Most recently, Brennan condemned Trump’s characterization of Manigault Newman as “that dog”. But politicizing the way we guard our nation’s secrets just to punish the president’s critics is a dangerous precedent.” John McLaughlin, the former deputy director of the CIA under George W Bush, called the decision “ridiculous” and said in an interview with MSNBC that it indicated “an authoritarian attitude in [Trump’s] governing style”.

Sally Yates, former acting attorney general, talks with Rachel Maddow about what the White House knew about the investigation into Michael Flynn when Donald Trump pressured James Comey about the matter. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the…

Image The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently provided President Trump’s lawyers a list of questions he wants answered in an interview. What was the purpose of your Feb. 14, 2017, meeting with Mr. Comey, and what was said? Mr. Comey was fired soon after. There, The Times revealed, Mr. Trump suggested he had fired Mr. Comey because of the pressure from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump has criticized Mr. Sessions’s recusal from the Russia investigation. The Times has reported that Mr. Trump told his White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, to stop Mr. Though Mr. Trump’s own advisers informed Mr. Mueller about that effort, Mr. Trump denied it: “Fake news,” he said. What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding any meeting with Mr. Putin? This is a key question. This question, along with the next two, show that Mr. Mueller is still investigating possible campaign cooperation with Russia.

Jeff Swensen / Getty Images Joe Biden hasn’t decided whether he’s running for president, but he has assembled a coalition of 30 of some of the biggest names in Washington last month to help shape his domestic policy, from union presidents to former top Obama administration officials to bank officials. Announced last month, the Biden Institute’s new Policy Advisory Board is the next major piece in what is shaping up to look like a very familiar playbook: a potential presidential run rooted in old-school, establishment politics, capitalizing on his broad popularity among Americans and vast experience in politics. Said one former Biden adviser, “He’s building out a host of different pieces, and he’s definitely doing that with an eye towards the presidency and the future.” Though many of Policy Advisory Board members say joining doesn’t mean they’re signing on to support him if he runs for president, the adviser said, “They have to know what they’re doing to some extent. The folks that really need to be on a panel like this right now are people that you and I have not heard of that are living the reality that most Americans live on.” More than a half-dozen members sidestepped questions from BuzzFeed News about whether they wanted the former vice president to run in 2020. “The first reason I joined is out of personal loyalty to Biden,” said Larry Summers, a top Obama economic adviser and the former president of Harvard. Dean, of Democracy for America, said Biden’s advisers were unlikely to consider how closely the former vice president’s economic concerns were tied to issues of racial justice. Biden “comes from working-class roots, and we don’t question that, but times are not the same as when he was going through them,” Dean said. The Institute’s advisory board is stocked with longtime Biden loyalists, like the president of the powerful International Association of Firefighters, Harold Schaitberger. When he said he would not run, the union waited months to support Clinton. Biden is “clearly a voice that knows how to speak to workers.” “I know by January, I have to make that decision,” Biden said in a speech at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday.

This week, a federal judge in Hawaii issued an order freezing Trump's latest travel ban. Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates discusses the ban, and the resiliency of the rule of law. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC…