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Sentence in the article. president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian ambassador in a meeting last week. current and white house officials saying trump disclosures jeopardize a critical source of intelligence on the islamic state. your reaction? >> well, i dont know whether it happened or not. i think senator burr and senator warner, vice chairmen, will look into it. rs i know they will look into it. but your correspondent described exactly what code word is. i know when...

In which it was collected. a current official said monday. what are your sources telling you, jim? >> let me tell you this, woks, the news of these reports is rippling through the intelligence community. like any other story related to intelligence. that the high mark, as you know, wolf, because weve been in -- [ inaudible ] with this administration and intelligence. i want to tell you one former senior u.s. intelligence official told me about this if the stories are true. quote, never before ha...

Obviously congress wants to get the answer to these. but i think the white house has to explain exactly what went on in that meeting. and one thing that we know did not get discussed in that meeting, wolf, as we spoke about last week, was the question of russian hacking. >> that did not come up, youre right. and were going to get -- once again were going to get reaction from the white house momentarily. h.r. mcmaster, the presidents national security adviser expected to walk outside the driveway...

If this is article is right, i heard condemnation from republicans and democrats. it also emphasizes again, we have to have a special council, a special prosecutor, to look into what is russias connection, both with the -- and ongoing. it cannot be somebody who says that they have to pledge loyalty to the president, not to the rule of law. this american wants a rule of law to stand up above anybody in government, of either party. the rule of law has not been respected during all of this. >> sena...

Tweeted this. ill put up on the screen, its simple, individuals who are extremely careless with classified information should be denied further access to it. as you know, president, commander-in-chief, he has the authority to declassify government secrets at his will. so should there be any consequences? will you push for full scale investigation? because the president can declassify even the most sensitive information if he wants to. >> the president wants to declassify something, he has that r...

Wolf, suffice it to say, people wanting to know more information and trumps not getting much support from his own party. >> yeah. people want to know if in fact the president of the united states did reveal highly classified information to and the russian ambassador to the united states, sergey lee yak. i want to bring in your pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. what are you learning? >> well, wolf, the key question here, if all of this is true that the "washington post" is reporting, theyre ...

>> well, again, im not here to defend the trump administration, but i dont know whether the article is accurate or not. they have add lot of very accurate articles and i will wait until the intelligence committee looked at it. i will certainly get briefed by people whether it is accurate or not. but it would be almost inconceivable, that any president would allow something of that nature out, anything that would disclose sources and methods. those are things we protect. i give you an example. no...

That he was merely bragging to the russians about the classified information that he is privy to as pthd. and the president will have a lot of explaining to do if that was purely the justification for sharing the information. >> all right. justice correspondent evan perez is getting more snfgs. >> back on march 3 st when cnn broke the story of the intelligence involving the middle eastern countries, we spent a couple of days on the phones working with u.s. intelligence agencies. they had specifi...

>> jim sciutto, stand by. jim acosta is at the white house getting more information. what are are you getting there, jim? >> just getting this information right now. i want to read to you directly what was sent to us from the white house press office. statement from u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson. forgive me for reading this as we speak here. it says during president trumps meeting with foreign minister lavrov a broad range of subject were discussed among which were comment efforts and t...

Fmy doctor recommended ibgard. abdominal pain and bloating. now im in control of my ibs. nonprescription ibgard - calms the angry gut. president trump apparently highlighted classified information to the russian ambassador last week. cited by the washington post. saying the president jeopardized intelligence on the islamic state. lets go to jim acosta. so whats the reaction youre getting over there from official eats the white house? >> it is almost radio silence here at the white house. in re...