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I hope you can let this go. he did not say anything to mr. trump about curtailing the investigation, only replying, i a agree he is a good guy. >> defending the integrity of the president trump and attacking the accuracy of the memo saying, this is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and mr. comey. joining us now, connecticut, democrat senator who is a member of the judiciary committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight on this important night ...

With multiple officials and the reporting on this, to withhold some of that including the city that trump references specifically in the conversation including some of the details he shares with the russian officials about the nature of the plot, about how the islamic state is trying to pull it together. the fact that those details are out there just underscores, i think, the accuracy of our report. >> all right. standby. i want to bring in david sanger. i want to get back to the panel. presiden...

Mccain who put out a statement about the disclosure of this information. now saying that he trusted h.r. mcmaster at his word. another republican from oklahoma saying something similar. i will note there are a lot of republicans who are raising serious concerns and one or two who think its just overblown. >> accuracy is important and understanding what happened is important. that would be fair. i think its a the right thing to do for the american people but we need to learn more about it. i have...

Joins us on capitol hill right now, that wasnt a defense from the senate majority leader, and we are hearing from more and more republicans this morning, phil. >> reporter: yeah, thats exactly right. and with the exception of one or two, the vast majority of them have both a lot of questions and are raising a lot of concerns about what actually happened. and i think whats really important here is to try to get a gauge on where everyone is. obviously, democrats have made no secret of their opinio...

Withheld plot details including the name of the city not to jeopardize intelligence capabilities. so if you know the name of the city and other plot details, how does that line up with what the white house is saying tonight? >> well, exactly. i mean, these are details -- theres two things, don. so our sources were not wanting to compound the mistake here by revealing information that they believe trump should not have revealed to russian officials. and then there are other decisions we made as a...

People are leaking especially anything revolving around national security. the problem is what is the president leaking, if you will, and feels he has complete carte blanche to do so on any topic with anyone and although technically correct, who he speaks to and about what and when is very much an issue. if he speaks to russia, which we are not clear is truly an ally, is not an ally with syria, not an ally with north korea, and when we have an ongoing investigation that was headed up by an fbi d...

He read yesterday and the other statements put out from rex tillerson and dina powell and others. theyre carefully worded and theyre all red herrings. what the statements deny including the statement that he read in front of the white house yesterday as were seeing on screen, the "washington post" story doesnt actually allege what was denied. then, of course, this morning the president came out and pulled the rug out from under h.r. mcmaster, from his secretary of state and his deputy national s...

So. president himself tweeted that his surrogates cant stand at this podium with perfect accuracy. are you concerned when you have yourself, when you have general mcmaster up here, that people dont perhaps trust or find the statements being made are credible go. >> i think i addressed this last week. we do everything we can to provide you with the most updated information at the time. py think general mcmaster stood at this podium a few hours ago and made it very clear he stands by what he said....

>> we dont have press conferences and we do -- >> you dont mean that. >> just dont have them. unless i do them every two weeks and i do them myself. i think it is a good idea. you have a level of hostility that is incredible. >> the president has also suggested written responses for the sake of accuracy, meantime newt gingrich supporting the idea of ending daily briefings. >> you know have a news media that is totally out of control. i think it might be very healthy for the white house press cor...

Change and if thats the only way youre blocking, you wont block it with 100% accuracy. >> tom bossert was at the white house press briefing today. he took podium before sean spicer. heres what he had to say. >> is there more out there that you worry about that could lead to more attacks in the future in. >> i think that the united states, probably more than any other country, is extremely care wfl their processes, how they handle any vulnerability thats theyre aware of. thats something we do whe...