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Caps which the president ignored. a white house official tells nbc news if this story is accurate, that means someone leaked the presidents briefing papers. leaking such information is a fireable offense and likely illegal. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news chief of staff john kelly is "frustrated and deeply disappointed" that the presidents briefing notes for his call with putin were, in fact, leaked. bob costa, based on your reporting, people you talked to inside the white house...

Again. were certainly not clear that he or his staff are the ones who leaked this, but he is the one right now the president is angry at. and this is another example, though, of this white house talking about leaks. this time more seriously. suggesting this is a fireable offense. this is a white house that has plenty of leaks. this is one of the few times weve heard suggestions someone could lose their job over it. its obscuring the bigger issue, this is yet another example where president trump...

Himself, how inexperience they are. i dont buy for the deep state. thats food for the conservative right to defend this president. but the reality is, the big picture here is this is one more moment that feeds the suspicion that many people across the country as to why the president continues approximate to be more critical of fundamental democratic institutions in his own country than authoritarianism. we dont know the answer to that. >> i just want to let people know this live picture were loo...

Controversial call or maybe he never read the briefing notes that said in capital letters "do not congratulate." the white house furious at the disclosures has said their, quote, a fireable offense. our big question on this, why has special counsel mueller been able to conduct his investigation leak free, while comparison the white house has been a virtual sieve. david jolly is a former congressman from florida. and the ceo of the messina group. i was a reporter in the obama white house, i wish ...

With north korea, syria, ukraine, isis, iran, and even the coming arms race. bush tried to get along but didnt have the smarts. obama and clinton tried but didnt have the energy or chemistry. remember reset peace through strength." its been reported by the "post" and other news outlets there were briefing notes prepared for the presidents call with vladimir putin. jonathan lemire of the associated press who joins us in just a moment reports it as "unclear whether trump, who prefers oral briefing...

Intelligence community who congress, but obviously he needs to clean house as well and look at his own people. there are cave drawings of leaks because they have happened since the beginning of time. but they are not helpful. they are destructive to the process and damaging and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> is it a fireable offense as the official told jeff zeleny t even though they leaked it, the leaker should that person be fired? >> look shs i dont know what was leaked. but it sounds...

So it leads many administration officials here to believe is there sort of a sense in the national security apparatus trying to undermine this president. we know the president made the phone call from the residence of the white house yesterday morning. not many people were around at all. but it was certainly a small set of people involved in the briefing. but erin, i can tell you on a day when the government was shut down, white house was pretty quiet today except for this. people were on the lo...

Putin. everyone says theres been all these events, you have to call him on it and he didnt. thats why this leak is so bad. he went out and said he congratulated putin. he was told, they knew going into it, dont say congratulations. that doubled the impact of the leak. i think they are pretty serious about this. of course its a fireable offense. if you did that and werent fired, i dont know what you would be fired for. i think that they will probably bear down. its different from a leak investiga...

Interaction by the attorney general? i knew andy well. he is an honorable man. one of the brightest guys at the fbi. it really smells when youre less than two days away from retirement, the president of the united states has hammered you repeatedly and all of a sudden the attorney general takes a file and says youre fired. i also know the disciplinary process at the fbi. theres something that wont that led them to believe what andrew mccabe did was a fireable offense. i cant see that it is appro...

Told him not to congratulate the russian leader. theres this tweet foxnews independently confirms this. senior white house official said this. if this story is accurate that means someone leaked the presidents briefing papers. leaking such information is a fireable offense and likely illegal. >> sandra: find the leaker. we should not accept illegal leaks of any classified information and we should be going hard after these leakers, because what did we see with theresa may and u.k. when they temp...