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The partner. one of the subordinates called for the discussion to be stricken from internal memos, and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, to prevent details from being disseminated further. david, your thought on that. >> well, look, if this is code word protected information, which means a very small set of people have access to it, then you could see a circumstance where you would try to limit the distribution of the memo of the meeting with the russians so ...

Disadvantage of the country, if people keep demanding more and more material come out publicly. this is not a good thing. >> well, it involves something called code word information. help us put all of this into context and tell us what that is and, as a result, how seriously this could potentially be. >> most information that is particularly sensitive has a code word attached to it, as in a special compartment. and it is known by that code word. its also essentially an informal way of saying ma...

Meet getting according to the reported code word level classified information directly from the president in the oval office you cannot make this up. >> thats my next point they walk into the oval get all the information and get the information and walk out lets reverse engineer all this and figure out who the source is if they didnt figure it out while sitting there. theyre -- theyre sitting there kind of laughing at all of this saying well this was better than we thought. when we hacked. >> th...

Either. >> melissa: we have fox team coverage. peter ducey is on capitol hill. we are gonna start with john roberts who the live at the white house. what is the latest? >> reporter: good afternoon. the white house, the lights just went out. the white house still not confirming whether or not this information was actually classified. code word it was described in the washington post article that the president shared with the russian foreign minister and russian ambassador to the united states. bu...

Recognize quickly that trump had overstepped and moved to contain the potential fallout. the assistant to the president for counter terror placed calls to the directors of cia and nsa, services most involved in the intel sharing arrangement with the partner. one of the subordinates called for the discussion to be stricken from internal memos, and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, to prevent details from being disseminated further. david, your thought on that....

Or sourced and meth loods, the , what and how was disclosed to the russians is inconsequential. if youre isis, which the "washington post" said was the aim, if youre isis and heard now that there was a -- we had sources collecting on their plot to put bombs on laptops, you know the people that were involved in the operation. simply put, if we had an asset in place or a foreign intelligence agency had an asset collecting that, which is hard to get someone to infiltrate isis, theyve rolled up the ...

Administrations? >> there are two ways, someone through regular interactions of the intelligence communities of various countries, passing information after a thorough process off vetting whether its appropriate to pass that information in order to achieve a mutual goal. thats not what were talking about here. 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 t...

President would as rapidly as possible come forward with the document, his tax returns, if he other materials, so that congress can make the appropriate appraisal, finish the fbi investigation, get this matter cleared up one way or the other for the american people so we can move forward. >> general, to be clear, it sounds like youre saying that there is a very real possibility that in this meeting the president of the united states unknowingly, unwittingly revealed classified information to the...

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...

Never disclose methods. you only disclose to a local group of people in the senate house. it is almost always code word clearance required. which is as clear as can you get to have sources and methods. our allies, they assume we will never release that because they may have worked for years to develop the source. they also know if the source is revealed, that source may have a very, very short life left. it is just never ever done. >> this highly sensitive code word information with the united s...