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People will look attes this statements clearly. >> the if the story is false, it says a lot of things. so it is not clear what she means by the story is false. obviously i think gloria mentioned this. if this was a routine diplomatic exchange, why then, is the national security agency and cia trying to clean up a mess? thats the real question that if this was simply a normal diplomatic exchange there would be no need for panicking attempt to contain information and to comfort allies which is wha...

They dont know anything what theyve read in these reports saying they are alarmed, both republicans and democrats, and they are concerned. people like senator bob corker saying this is problem at ache endick dushin, senate whip saying this is reckless if this were true. a lot of members have not heard about this. even members who sit on the senate intelligence committee. richard burr said he hasnt even read anything about this other than whats in the report. he said he has not fully read in deta...

Ambassador, sergey kyliak and lavrov. he was already under criticism because of the optics of it. now bb the national security adviser to the president, hr mcmaster, did walk by reporters within the last hour inside the west wing. he was peppered with questions about this washington post story and according to reporters who were there if the room and heard hr mcmaster respond to all of this, the only thing they heard him say is this the last place i want to be. and then he surreyed away from rep...

Intelligence. meaning a human source meaning a spy that works for one of these intelligence agencies. that can be what this is all about. but it indicates that this is very much a need to know highly restricted information. the u.s. intelligence community would have briefed the president on it. they would have no expectation that he would turn around and tell the russians, wolf. >> yeah, one of highest levels of u.s. classification. you reveal code word information potentially you can reveal the...

Office is specific information that is essentially the stuff that they asked us not to publish. so we held some of this stuff back because the cia, because the director of national intelligence, and other intelligence agencies were specifically concerned that this information, fit got out would essentially reveal the way they collected that information, the sources and methods that they rely on, including from partner ally countries, partner agencies in allied countries. so the concern here that...

Donald trump said hillary clinton was unfit for the presidency as a result of the way that she handled classified information. obviously she was never charged with any crime for what she did but this is something obviously of much greater gravity if these reports are true. its not only an issue for donald trump but also for all of the republicans who supported him during this election, all of the congressional lawmakers who are going to be responding to this story within the next few hours and d...

Operations. jeffrey tu jeffrey toobin, your reaction it breaking news, how serious is this, jeff? >> it is certainly a potentially serious national and security problem. as you have said, it is not a legal problem for the president. he does have the right to declassify anything he wants including in the moment. vice president has that power too. so what might get someone else imprisoned, the president has freedom to do. it doesnt mean it is a good idea. doesnt mean if couldnt have problem nation...

And times is a concern as jim sciutto was just talking about on the part of intelligence officials that the president of the united states effectively accord f according to the post bragging to lavrov about how great our intel is, spoke about some smings that he shou things that he should not said, that he is an friend of the united states and he shared this highly classified information as way to brag about how great our intel is. i still think there is a lot of dig tock done about why the admi...

The last several days. >> what is code word information? you cite u.s. official familiar with the matter saying this is code word information from the placement of that in your article and the way you describe it it is clear that that is supposed to indicate to us that this is very highly protected information. for us trying to figure this out can you explain that a little bit? >> very highly protected information that we dont distribute to allies that is even restricted within the u.s. governme...