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Information. judge napolitano was with us 20 minutes ago and he says no laws broken. listen. >> well, he may have broken rules about the manner of declassifying information. but thats not a crime. under the law, the president can declassify anything. so he can take a top secret. this top secret is called s.a.p. select access procedure. its the top of the top secret. he can declassify that there may be political fallout for him declassifying it. steve: sure. >> as we will find out today as i thin...

President trump on twitter this morning saying i did nothing wrong, offering reasoning for why he disclosed highly classified information to russian diplomats in a controversial oval office meeting last week. presidents usually meet with heads of state, but for him to meet with a foreign minister and an ambassador who wasnt mentioned in the white house read-out on what happened in this meeting. the only picture we knew was because this picture was offered up by soviet media. these tweets about w...

Act. >> absolutely yes. >> to do something. >> we expected the white house to act. >> do you expect them to act quickly? >> yes. >> there was urgency to the information. >> yes. >> im just wondering on a personal level, i dont know if you can answer this or not, but, you know, you were in government one week. you get fired. now youre out and watching day after day after day go by and nothing seems to have happened to the national security adviser that you have informed the white house about. jus...

This. if it gets out, it can give information that we dont want to get out because it will either destroy the program, harm people, or give our adversaries an advantage. thats what a sap is. i was thinking last night about this, as i watched this unfold. i can think of probably a dozen or more countries that have told they were a part of intelligence collection on a terrorist group and then it was told to the russians, the russians could very easily counter it and cause a great degree of harm to...

Security adviser to the united states says the story is false. he didnt give up any sources or methods, which isnt the reporting. some could say hes parsing his words too carefully. the president this morning isnt saying that. he said, yeah, i did it. its okay that i did it because i want to help russia get more involved with isis and it was the right thing to do. hes saying something different apparently. yes, its just a tweet but this is the way the president likes to communicate most often. e...

Here to react, fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. judge, lets start with the very beginning, if its true, with the "the washington post" story is true and they stand behind it. >> right. steve: did the president break any rules. >> he may have broken rules about the manner of declassifying information but thats not a crime. under the law, the president can declassify anything. so can he take a top secret. this is called sap. select access procedure. its the top of the top ...

So thats the information i have. i obviously have leaks from the media saying there was information that could lead to people being detected by just sort of going through the process of figuring out the information released and how you could then determine who released it, but, again, thats the information that if i was a member, i would be trying to see, okay, what specifically was talked about and trying to get an understanding. if the president did what "washington post" suggested, i would ma...

Which could be a sign of stress or intense aggression. the finishing of the tweet is that the president had the absolute right to do what he did. facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety, humanitarian reasons, plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. does this make it okay, phil mudd? >> hell, no, all you have to do to go into that meeting is have national security apparatus say its appropriate to talk to the russians who lost a plane to isis i...

Declassifying information and getting it out there, that that trust in how many safeguards exist and how the programs are run has been diminished. so what is going to be important is to build that back up. >> this past wednesday, new years derrick the new york times issued their first editorial of the year, about how the obama administration can start rebuilding that trust in the intelligence community by going easier, somewhat easy on edward snowden. it says, quote, considering the enormous val...

Technically how it works. ma is absolutely clear to me, given the public debate that took place and this is only going to work if the american people have confidence and trust. now, part of the challenge is that because of the matter in which the dribs and drabs shaded in a particular way and because of the constraints that weve had in terms of declassifying information and getting it out there, that that trust how many safeguards insist and how the programs are run has been diminished. whats go...