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Trump revealed highly classified information to russian foreign minister and ambassador. the story broke this afternoon by "washington post" reporters greg miller and greg jaffy and was confirmed by buzzfeed news and the "new york times" citing not only former u.s. officials, but current u.s. officials which seems important. the post says this, president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister and ambassador in a white house meeting last week. the information...

There could be this guy who we rely on and it disturbed a lot of members of senate both republicans and democrats. >> senator of the report in the washington post, says and im quoting now, trump revealed the city and islamic states territory where the u.s. intelligence partner detected this latest threat. explain to our viewers how the russians potentially could use that information and how damaging potentially it could be to sources and methods of this u.s. ally that shared this very sensitive ...

These countries have to have confidence that they can tell the united states what they know and that the president of the united states is not going to go out there and start talking about it especially to the russians. so this becomes very serious. it is the confidence other countries have that they can share with the united states and the president of the united sates is not going to go out there and start talking about it. it goes even deeper than that because what the president could not pos...

To the washington post that has something to do with the fight against islamic state and that information coming from a u.s. ally, that would mean that president contradicted himself. and levied against hillary clinton in the campaign when he pounded her time and again accusing former secretary of state of revealing classified information through her use of her private e-mail server. pretty difficult consequences for this white house, for this president who is already under fire over last week w...

We will check out from sources to see if there is spin but you have a pretty declared fashion there from national security adviser dina powell saying this is the story. they are trying to knock down the story, wolf. >> we will go through those words carefully. i know you are getting more information, jim acosta. stand by. gloria borger, let me start with you. reaction from capital hill is pretty intense. most of the top u.s. entors, vice senator tweeted this a little white ago. if true, this is ...

Information to, apparently. it is russia. a russia is the full crumb and all of it is based on the trump campaign and trump administration giving them favorable treatment. potentially another serious example. >> indeed. and statements from dina powell, the story, the president discussing common threats that both countries face, statement from rex tillerson, those words will be analyzed very cleesely. the suggestion in both the "new york times" and washington post is the information the president...

He cant be charged with any crime but as you know a lot of u.s. intelligence officials, theyve been fearful of a development like it for a long time if the stories in the new york times now and washington post are accurate. >> right. as you say, he can not only account president declassify anything but he can do it in the moment and so it is probably within his prerogative to do this. that is not the issue of whether or not he broke the law or not here. the issue here is, did he just severely da...

Were reporting him giving away this classified information p. the one other point i wanted to make wolf in general is that this is why it is so important for an administration to establish credibility with the media and public. when the administration has a reputation for misleading or inaccuracies or whether it is crowd size or whether or not a decision to fire director attorney from rod rosen stein and folks lose confidence in some of that information coming from the white house then when the ...

Good thing. >> should be part of the investigation here going forward. >> lets wait and see what this was all about first. >> wolf, even some >> house officials are very tight-lipped about this story in the washington post that president trump with the russian foreign minister and russian am minister that he revealed classified highly classified information to russians during meeting and it has something to

Without understanding the consequences of what he was doing. and largely the consequences to the people and the states that have supplied this information to us who would not want to continue sharing any intelligence stream with us in the future if they cant, of all things, trust the president of the united states not to share it with a country with whom we perhaps dont want to have this information. so these are the questions that general mcmaster has to answer. and, you know, again, i come bac...