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Russia, i dont like that, i should fire him. >> and you are just admitting that? >> uh-huh. >> obstruction of justice. >> sure, okay. >> did i get it? no, i didnt cover nothing matters. absolutely nothing matters anymore? >> tucker: ratings for stephen colberts "late-night show" are up, to come unexpectedly. >> "the washington post" reporting that donald trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister and ambassador. the article cant describe in detail what was share...

Code word information to the russians. thats outrageous. the consequences of that may be far worse than we understand at this point. so i dont cut him a lot of slack for that. i also dont think its ever okay for the president to interfere with an ongoing fbi investigation. what im saying is that democrats must not rush to judgment on this or make it a political issue. we must investigate the facts in a way that is fair and neutral and that the american people could have some confidence in. if th...

Russia. i thought, he is investigating russia, i dont like that, i should fire him. >> and you are just admitting that? >> uh-huh. >> obstruction of justice. >> sure, okay. >> did i get it? no, i didnt cover nothing matters. absolutely nothing matters anymore? >> tucker: ratings for stephen colberts "late-night show" are up, to come unexpectedly. >> "the washington post" reporting that donald trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister and ambassador. the article...

Some others including cnn picked up large parts of it and we were able to confirm it was that the president disclosed whats known as code word information, which is above top secret and a real concern for the national security as well as intelligence communities, john. >> the white house never denied he shared information and the president confirmed that he shared information. joe johns at the white house. thank you so much. want to bring in evan perez. evan, lay out for us exactly the nature of...

Intelligence source leaked this information 37 its the leaking of the information that creates the compounding problem of intelligence services. it would have been bad enough if this had happened. but nobody knew about it. but now which have two problems one sources and nods now can be found by the russians and two our allies know that this was disclosed. >> although you could make -- i would assume phil that you could make jim sciutto that you could make the argument that the united states woul...

Representatives and leaking classified information they would be put in jail but fofrpinately for the president these two laws that govern the release of classified information basically let the president do whatever it wants to do with classified information but its horrible mistake of judgment because the information hes putting throughout can not just indanger american citizens and really put our relationships with people and government that give us information at great risk. >> you saw in th...

That, and the other thing. and he can give out classified information to the russians. but at a certain point people are going to get tired of it. and this is putting our countrys national security at risk. the president should only be sharing classified information with foreign powers after hes been advised by his national security team its in our interest to share classified information. and with the russians of all people. trusting the russians with classified information is like trusting ber...

Classified information with russian officials. lets discuss now. a former white house ethics lawyer and page pate. good evening to all of you. page, you dont think the president broke the law but you say he used bad judgment. how specifically and how bad? >> i dont think theres any question he used bad judgment. the question is how damaging its going to be to the country. if anybody else had done with what he did in connection with meeting with foreign representatives and leaking classified info...

But highly credible concern about the laptops and was the united states going to extend the laptop ban. so we know there are serious intelligence gathering going on and out of the blue something shared with the it russians and i cant explain that. its the casualness about his own job and about his responsibilities as president that is just -- its hard to just be able to explain it anymore. if i just giver him the best of is a serious job that he wanted. >> code word information, julia. thats wha...

Then use their knowledge and their other resources to reverse engineer the information. its not certain, though, theyll be able to do this. but it is very possible. and let me tell you how this works because ive watched the russians do it before. it russians may identify, for example, if its a human source who that human source is, approach that human source and say, look, we know you are working for x country or whatever, youre spying on isis. well, were going to compmizia to isis and youll bed...