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Leak of sensitive details surrounding the call came within hours. in other words. within hours of the president talking to putin, everybody knew that his briefers said dont do that, and they all knew it officially. that means someone leaked the presidents briefing papers, leaking such information is a fireable offense and likely illegal. and now the associated press reports that the white house is conducting an internal investigation. additionally, trump has told confidantes that he believes the...

What bothers him more are the leaks. the fact that this was leaked out. we now this was roiling a number of people in the west wing. our own peter alexander got this statement -- if that statement is accurate that means someone around the president is leaking papers and a fireable offense and likely illegal. sara sanders was pressed yesterday on why the president didnt raise the issue of russias meddle. she said, look, it is not the job of the u.s. -- >> kristen, lets just play that because it i...

Ties or meddling in the election on trumps behalf, this is the evidence, the foreign policy of the united states is the expression putin is getting what he wants. >> general mccaffery, i want to come back to you. you made the point a second ago there is alarm not just in the inner sanctum in the white house, but in the government how trump is behaving towards russia. you cant discuss whether the leak is close to trump or not. there is a suggestion this one would be. the white houses reaction to ...

White house at this point about this leak? >> reporter: i think the sense here is its not a surprise, but theres a lot of frustration. some people here angry about the fact that this was leaked out. let me read this from a white house official. if this story is accurate, they leaked the briefing papers leaking such information is a fireable offense and likely illegal. now we know that leaking information is something thats gotten under the presidents skin in the past. something that really infur...

Center. not withstanding the fact that the white house would like to make this story about a leak of confidential information, theres an underlining matter here that the presidents advisers warn him not to make this congratulations to vladimir putin and he did it anyway. >> reporter: first, let me give you the latest reaction from the white house. this is from my colleague peter alexander who commented on all this who effectively says, if this story is accurate, that means someone leaked the pre...

He truly did wrong and did something that was a fireable offense, should he not be punished for that just because he was close to retirement? >> well, that depend. there are reports that the justice department accelerated the process. and didnt give him much chance to respond so they could get it within the timeframe and rob him of his pension in effect. lets be very clear. there may have been wrongdoing. but they intentionally tried to cut this guys -- to cut his head off. potentially went afte...

Whether mccabe misled investigators or he lacked candor when he was speaking to investigators. and whether that constitutes a fireable offense. of course if he did commit any of those things and he was in, you know, obviously within the range of being fired, then probably you can make the justification that he should be fired. but with respect to the memos, you know, its possible whether, you know, it be about him voting for whoever in the 2016 election whether it be for trump or hillary clinton...

Their false memo. so this is i think just of an effort to take a key player off the field. >> listen, i have to ask you this because cnn is learning that about 19 nearly 20 members of the fbi have been dismissed for lack of candor in the last year. that is a fireable offense. >> yeah, don, you know, when youre interviewed by internal affairs or the office of professional responsibility as they have at the fbi people should be straightforward, honest. but right now there is no denying that its a ...

They got rid of andrew mccabe based on this lack of candor standard, fireable offense in the fbi. they wormed around till they could find a way to get rid of him. they would have to fire mueller for cause. >> lets step back a minute. if we hadnt had mccabe fired last night at 10:00, if we hadnt had this statement by dowd this morning that was probably orchestrated by trump, the whole purpose of this is to take stormy daniels off the front page of the paper. but for this, the lawsuit that was fil...

Department. it could drag into saturday because the drop-deadline is 12:01 sunday morning. mccabe was leaving this morning. he said he would come to washington thursday to plead his case to preserve his government pension. were told most likely it will be reduced because the legal bar is so hide to take it away altogether. the all grew out of the independent review of the clinton e-mail case by justice department inspector michael e. horowitz. mccabe was not forthcoming with investigators and ma...