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Which as you know, wolf, and weve reported is still the subject of an ongoing investigation of michael flynn, then the president taking whats truly an extraordinary step for the commander in chief to go to the head of the fbi, the nations top law enforcement official in effect who is leading this investigation and apply pressure, apply pressure to him to end that investigation. remember, last week when the president fired james comey it was a question as to whether the president had used undue i...

Legal right, in fact, a legal obligation to disclose and to declassify information to whoever they want. the other person youre talking about, hillary clinton, had no legal right to do that and indeed it was inappropriate in the way that it was done. youre mixing apples and oranges here. there is no question that the president has the legal right to do this, and i would argue the oral right to do it and when he believes it will save american lives, that its in the interest of the american people...

To share this information, information that your sources gave you at great risk, we decided were going to share this with the russians are. was there any advanc word to theislition? >> thats a great question, wolf, and can i tell you this. i dont know whether they did or whether they didnt, but i can tell you the protocol is that we do not ordinarily notify whatever the source is that were going to use it to our advantage in some particular situation. we share intelligence information with all b...

Comey because comey obviously did not cede to the presidents wishes of dropping the investigation and he got fired f.obstruction w fired. if the obstruction was part of the firing of comey, then it all comes down to a he said he said kind of dispute and the white house clearly understands the gravity of this and they issued that statement quickly to say this didnt happen because of the obstruction implications of it, so it may never be resolved if you have two men who are essentially taking a di...

The years ahead with president trump. myself and my colleagues have spoken to foreign diplomats, allies of the u.s., who are concerned about how this intelligence, the most secret intelligence is talked about by the president, an ongoing worry that weve heard about before and those concerns deeper now. wolf? >> indeed. all right. thanks very much. jim sciutto reporting. joining us now a key member of both the intelligence and foreign relations committee senator james risch of idaho. thanks for j...

Why do you think director comey wrote a memo to the file about it? because he was so appalled that a president of the united states would behave in this way. close it down is an instruction to stop investigating president trumps campaign. richard nixon was impeached in 1974 for telling the fbi to stop an investigation of his campaign. thats what watergate was, and, you know, if comey was telling the truth in this memo, and obviously theres a dispute about that from the fbi -- from the white hous...

That he had with the president so this could be just the tip of the iceberg. maybe the most explosive, but its very clear that -- that james comey wanted to get out there that this happened, created this paper trail realtime, contemporaneously rather in order to protect himself from exactly what happened last week, him being fired, him being blamed and -- and, you know, wanting to know that he has sort of the information at his disposal if in fact this happened, and if you just take a step back,...

The "new york times" has not viewed a copy of the memo which is unclassified, but one of mr. comeys associates read parts of the memo to a "times." reporter. quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, mr. trump told mr. comey, according to the memo, quote, he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. david axelrod, your reaction. >> well, look, i echo what jeffrey said in that this is -- you know, ive been ive not been one to sort of ration to the whole im...

Or worse that it cant trust the president of the united states with information, that obviously has very serious repercussions and particularly if were talking about information about a threat to americans posed by isis. >> reporter: as part of its evolving defense, the presidents national security adviser said today that the president did not even know the origin of the intelligence. >> the president wasnt even aware, you know, of where this information came from. he wasnt briefed on the source...

Sensitive information, giver it to the united states. the united states then gives the information to the russians. as you know, the russians are working very closely in syria with the iranians, with hezbollah, two enemies of israel. the israelis all of a sudden get very nervous that all of a sudden the information they shared with the u.s., iranians might get that information from the russians, hezbollah, the lebanese group might get that information from the russians. does that concern you? >>...