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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...

Intelligence, including the city where the laptop threat was detected by a u.s. ally because u.s. officials were concerned about revealing sensitive sources and methods. the "washington post" story citing u.s. officials says president trump revealed the name of that city to russias foreign minister and ambassador, and those officials are now extremely concerned about the president compromising a critical isis intelligence source and its impact on global u.s. security partnerships. they also worr...

Security clearances, anderson. it means that the programs are so significant that sources and methods are so critically important that any discrimination or any leaks of information about that might give away damage that the pogram cases. ive been read in on code word programs before both in combat and peace time. and youre not only read in youre also read off when you leave the program which means you say i will never disclose that i know anything about in program that i will give any informati...

Now, and he likes to kind of brag about things. and you can just see that occurring. ive got great intelligence, lavrov, heres what its telling me. >> then candidate trump railed against hillary clintons handling of classified information, how do you square that with this? >> i wish we would all slow down and take a good long look at what is really here, and none of us at this point knows whats really here. hillary clinton had hundreds of thousands of emails that were put on an unclassified serv...

Critically important that any leaks or information about that might give away damage that the program exists. i have been read in on code word programs before both in combat and peacetime. youre not read in, youre also read off when you leave the program, which means you say i will never disclose that i know anything about this program or that i will give any information about it or even give what the code word is that describes the program. and it is so dangerous, any kind of investigation that...

U.s. security partnerships. they also worry president trump might have put the lives of u.s. agents in the field at risk, to say nothing of the sources itself. >> lawmakers react to the report with deep concern. house minority leader nancy pelosi saying at a cnn town hall that if the president did whats alleged here, it would be very damaging. >> this is a very serious matter. this is code word source highly classified information revealed to an adversarial country, and to do so in a way, they s...

Is he reagan? right and there were -- tlerp conservatives like george will who attacked -- reagan didnt have -- until late in his administration the scandal part. but there were conservatives like george will who attacked reagan ended up looking silly and stupid because he became in iconic protective placement and sevt conservative figure. is he nixon? its unclear. and so i think youre having people hedge bets. >> right. >> and i dont know when the tipping point comes but at some point people wi...

>> let me first say, when you extended the invitation to have this town hall a couple of weeks ago, little did we know that fbi director would be fired. we thought oh, my goodness, thats going to change the town hall. little did we know we would have a matter of this consequence. as you may know, for over 20 years ive been a member of the intelligence committee or the gang of eight. longer than anybody, actually, in history. our work there -- we had some differences over time. has never been pol...

The compounding problem of the intelligence services, it would be bad enough if this happened, but nobody knew about it. now we have two problems, one sources and methods could now where found by russia. >> you can make the argument that the united states would have to informal lied intelligence services that this information had been disclosed. >> that would be part of the damage control, were not talking about messaged damage control, were talking about risk damage control, which is obviously ...

Here were talking about the president of the united states personally deciding to give top secret information possibly code word information to another government. there is precedent for this. george w. bush had several occasions where he would invite foreign leaders into his presidents daily brief, the most sensitive daily briefing the president gets. theres a difference. in those cases where he was bringing in foreign leaders to his circle of trust them in to make them feel important and to, i...