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During an interview with MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace, former CIA Director John Brennan responded to the question of whether he was scared for US national security after Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland:“Well, I think we’re all ashamed of what we saw on the stage in Davos. I think all of us were quite jealous of seeing the integrity, professionalism, and intellect of Prime Minister Carney of Canada, who acquitted himself brilliantly in many respects in terms of honoring the Transatlantic alliance. And when we hear Donald Trump talk about history in such a, as you point out, an ignorant way, it really is a period of time where I think all Americans, whether or not they served in the military, diplomatic service, national security, intelligence, really feel that we really have reached this real inflection point where America’s leadership on the world stage is not just in question, but also is now being seen as being absent, which has worried our European partners. And so, again, I think what we saw was a very, very terrible depiction of what Donald Trump 2.0 is going to do one year into a four-year term. And, again, I think many of us are just really, not just appalled and ashamed, but also just so puzzled as to how so many individuals within the Republican Party, within Congress, continue to allow Donald Trump to do this, because I think people on the world stage, and Europeans in particular, are not just seeing this as Donald Trump’s aberrant behavior, which I think they’ve gotten used to, but he is a reflection of a sentiment in the United States within the Republican Party, as well as maybe 30 percent of the electorate that really does agree with him and believe these things and is allowing him to do this again to, not just to the detriment of international peace and stability, but to the detriment of U.S. national security.”Source: MS NOW/Grabien