Washington (CNN) Former CIA Director John Brennan criticized President Donald Trump on Friday for revoking his security clearance and said the President is "drunk on power." He really is, and I think he's abusing the powers of that office," Brennan told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow during an interview. Trump announced on Wednesday that he was stripping Brennan, who has been an outspoken critic of the President, of his security clearance and accused the former CIA director of "lying" and giving "increasingly frenzied commentary" on television. The book contains critical passages about Trump, and Manigault Newman has been releasing audiotapes she surreptitiously recorded of Trump, White House chief of staff John Kelly and other top aides to the President. Brennan said on Friday that he believes the country "is in a crisis in terms of what Mr. Trump has done and is liable to do."

Source: CNN August 18, 2018 02:46 UTC