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U.s. successfully extracted from russia one of its highest level covert sources within the russian government according to multiple trump administration officials with direct knowledge. quote, the removal of the russian source was driven in part by concerns that president trump repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute in exposing the source as a spy. the decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a may 2017 meeting in the oval office in which trump discuss...

Officials with direct knowledge. quote, the removal of the russian source was driven in part by concerns that president trump repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the source as a spy. the decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a may 2017 meeting in the oval office in which trump discussed highly classified intelligence with the russian foreign minister. quote, the disclosure to the russians by the president prompted intelligence officia...

President trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy. the decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a may 2017 meeting which were trump discussed classified intelligence with the foreign minister and the russian ambassador. youll remember that highly classified intelligence has been provided by israel, but trump nevertheless blurted it out to the russians and blew that up. quote, the disclo...

Mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to supposing the source as a spy. the decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a may 2017 meeting which were trump discussed classified intelligence with the foreign minister and the russian ambassador. it was provided by israel that trump nevertheless blurted it out to the russians and blew that up. the disclosure to the russians by the president prompted intelligence officials to resign renew earlier discussions. knowledge...

Tell me in that previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017 the u.s. successfully extracted from russia one of the highest level covert sources inside the russian government. knowledge of the russian covert sources existence highly restricted even within the u.s. government, according to a source know quall alternative inside the russian government with insight and information on the russian president vladimir putin. a person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the ru...

>> yes, obviously. >> okay. >> all right. thanks so much for watching "new day." "newsroom" with poppy harlow and jim sciutto starts right now with a breaking news exclusive. good morning. im jim sciutto in new york. >> im poppy harlow. were glad youre with us. we begin with a cnn exclusive, this is your reporting, you have learned about a highly secretive intelligence operation by the united states. >> thats right, poppy. multiple trump administration officials with direct knowledge tell me...

Course we must do something about this at once. well, jeremy, if this had happened we would have already heard about it, would we not? >> i had the same reaction, joe, whats going on here the justice department senior leaders know full well the tactics and techniques used to conduct the counterintelligence investigation of the trump campaign were legitimate. they were lawful. they were appropriate. as you noted, the 11th commandment for professionals is thou shalt not reveal the identity of a cl...