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Completely politicized institution. >> well, its a great tragedy for the committee, but this is the direction mr. nunez decided to take us. and in terms of the minority, we can go along for the ride or fight this abuse of the committee process and weve chose tone fight it. they have, as the department of justice said quite aptly decided to start declassifying information without regard to the investigation or source of methods. to make a political point that is, as they said, extraordinarily rec...

Right. get a better understanding of whats doing on. i think thats whats probably happening right now is members are trying to get information, trying to get a better understanding before they do comment on something. i think people have commented and i think people have hesitated to comment before they get the information so i dont think thats much of a story. >> since we have you here commenting, youve been a defender on the president on a lot of things. other things like wiretapping. can you ...

To say were never going to share information with any intelligence community members of the united states because they are doing to give it to the president and hes doing to share it with our potential adversari adversaries. >> in this bizarre reality the one player that doesnt seem upset about this at all is russia. they couldnt come out defend, mocking it, minimizing it, reminds lavrov laughing at the measure media when questions asked about comey. so the president says you guys are huffing an...

Post"? >> absolutely not. >> did you authorize somebody to leak to the "washington post"? >> absolutely not. i did not and would not leak classified information, no. >> the president seems to suggest that you were behind this "washington post" article. the morning before you testified he tweeted ask sally yates under oath if she knows how classified information got spoke newspapers soon after she explained it to white house counsel. >> uh-huh. >> it does sound like he doesnt -- he seems to belie...

Attitude. its not that i disagree with what jen says. am i concerned about our allies and the implication of this information going out there? of course im concerned about it, but i think it is manageable. >> we have to leave it there. but jen, im sure youre reminded of all of the times that the president talked about hillary clinton and how she handled classified information. we will have you both back. were out of time. thank you very much. >> thank you, poppy. coming up in our next hour rep...

Intel community? he has unfettered discretion to unclassify whatever he wants. >> chris, i think the american people need to understand that you dont just get intelligence out of thin air. you get intelligence because we deploy spies, because we deploy people who are willing to put their lives on the line and because we work with other intelligence agencies around the world that help provide that kind of information. but it is done on the basis of competence and trust. the information that was p...

Safety. humanitarian reasons. plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. does this make it okay? joining us now is democratic congressman jim himes, serves on house intel committee. the president legally can declassify information when he deigns. cant be illegal. do you believe the explanation he gave is satisfying. >> it may not be illegal. if the "washington post" story is to be believed, what happened is the president gave a lot more information than typical...

Responsibilities that relate to a president of the united states in terms of intelligence and security for this country. and he cannot just, you know, go ahead and reveal classified information without creating some huge problems within the intelligence community in terms of gathering that kind of information. so what bothers me here is that the president of the united states, an office that i respect throughout my life, i just think this president has to understand that he cannot just say whate...

Problematic to u.s. allies that the "new york times" is reporting middle eastern ally that warned united states dont share this widely or you wont get critical information from us. youve got an op-ed on cnn.com you write at best trump channeling inner high school outcast trying to gain approval and cool points from the more charming bully sergei lavrov and by extension his boss vladimir putin. whats the democrats play in all this. what should democrats do? >> this is much larger than politics, p...

And cnn military analyst lew eternal general mark hurtling. let me begin with you, some reporting by earthquake and his team lays out a little more detail in terms of who this ally was and why it was so important to the united states in terms of this information sharing dpreem. they say its a middle eastern ally. this ally warned united states apparently upon giving this information and this intelligence dont tell anyone, dont even share widely among u.s. intelligence, the u.s. intelligence comm...