To the threat the president s house was relation to airlines. It is this an imminent threat, was there justification in that moment . General mcmaster i dont want to get into the specifics about what information was shared with which allies, but information on this topic of the threat to aviation was shared with multiple allies. As you know, many policies have been put in place to protect against that threat. You and many others have reported. Reporter im saying our allies did not. General mcmaster i have no basis for comparison of what was shared with which country. I will tell you it was the impression of all of us in the meeting that was shared was wholly appropriate given the purpose of the conversation and the purpose of what the president was trying to achieve through that meeting. Reporter when you came out after the story broke, you said that the president did not disclose any sources, he did not reveal anything about military operations. Why are you denying things that were not even reported . The report said that the president revealed classified information that had been shared with our allies in the middle east. The question is simply a yes or no question. Did the president share classified information with the russians in that meeting . General mcmaster as i mentioned already, we dont say was classified and was not classified. What i will tell you again as i with the president shared was wholly appropriate. The story combined what was leaked with other information and then insinuated about sources and methods. I wanted to make clear to everybody that the president , and no way compromised any sources or methods during the course of this conversation. Report mike did you say National Security would be put at risk . Do you have any idea how this got out and what steps are you taking by virtue of discovering this to try and limit the potential for any more leaks . General mcmaster i think National Security is put at risk by this weekend leaks like this. There are a number of instances where this has occurred and i think its important to investigate these sorts of things and to make sure that we have trusted organizations plus our government that allows for the free sharing of information and collaboration. In terms of National Security, what is critical is that you can assemble the experts you need. You want a bigger group for any of these policies because you need their expertise, you need the tools that they bring from different agencies and apartments. All we have to do is make sure we have a very high degree of confidence in all of our organizations and our systems and processes so we can do what we need to do for the president does give him our best advice and give him options to deal with these complex problems. Report mac you cant have that confidence by virtue of what happened yesterday. Do you have an idea of how this got out and how can you tighten up the ship to ensure from your perspective that this doesnt get out . General mcmaster is incumbent upon all of us to bring in the right authorities and mandates to take a look at how this leak occurred. Reporter is there now an active investigation into how this information was leaked and can you tell us about whos running the investigation . Also, given that President Trump will now be meeting facetoface with dozens of foreign leaders, is there sensitivity to discretion and what group of information is classified . How are you advising him about that . General mcmaster there are no sensitivities and terms of me or anybody who is not the president and many of these engagements. He shares information in a way that is wholly appropriate. I should make the statement here that the president wasnt even aware where this information came from. He wasnt briefed on the source and method of the information. Im sorry this is the last question. With the president from turkey coming momentarily. Thank you. Jon you can hear the consternation in the voices of reporters were covering the National Security advisor, h. R. Mcmaster there. He response to the allegations that the president somehow released Sensitive Information to the Russian Ambassador and the Russian Foreign minister during a meeting in the Oval Office Last week. And the words of the National Security advisor, the president and no way compromised sources or methods during this conversation. The arguing will go on. Please stay tuned to Fox News Channel and this fox station for continuing coverage of this story. On jon scott in new york. As we continue to cover the words of the National Security advisor and the reporting of various papers that broke the story, it first broke in the Washington Post yesterday. Other stories and papers picked up on this, our coverage continues and outnumbered search right now. Sandra firing back, the white house fiercely defensive conversations that President Trump had with officials saying that he leads classified information on those talks. H. R. Mcmaster saying nothing the president did was inappropriate as he took a shot at the leakers behind the report. Watch. The general mcmaster i stand by my statement i made yesterday. What im saying is the premise of that article is false. The conversation was not inappropriate. I think the real issue and what i would like to see debated more as our National Security has been put at risk by those violating confidentiality. Those releasing information to the press that could be used connected with other Information Available to make american citizens and others more vulnerable. Sandra this is outnumbered. Im sandra smith. Here today, harris faulkner, meghan mccain, cohost of after the bell on fox news business, melissa francis, and todays oneluckyguy, the editor in chief of the Weekly Standard and fox news contributor, Stephen Hayes is here and he is outnumbered on a huge day. Breaking news coming out of the white house. H. R. Mcmaster saying he stands by that Washington Post, the premise of that story being false. What more did you learn . Steve i thought there were a lot of shifts in what he said today versus what the white house said yesterday. Yesterday they said the story was false as reported. Yesterday, he said the story was false, today he said its doing potentially tremendous damage to National Security. There were a number of other things that i thought suggested that the white house was shifting at story. Harris one important part that we reacted to, i want to make sure. Mcmaster said that the president did not know where this information had come from. Was the the significance of tha that . Steve the Washington Post reported that this came from a third party service. Therefore the president was not able to share. The Senior Intelligence official, former that i spoke with last night as this is one of the biggest red lines u. S. National security. You dont share information that is provided by a Third Party Intelligence source without getting permission. Today, mcmaster said that the president wasnt aware of where this information came from. Thus on a confirmation that it came from a thirdparty source, but it suggests it. Sandra lets get to john roberts and hear what he heard out of this. He is standing by in the Briefing Room were h. R. Mcmaster just ended. Very important words. What did you hear from him . Good afternoon. It is not what we heard, its what we didnt hear. We didnt hear any confirmation of the president had discussed classified code worded information with the russians. He only would say that the information shared was wholly appropriate to the fight against isis and the type of information would share with a partner who you were trying to enlist in the fight against terrorism. He reminded that back on octobes lost in airliner by a russian bomb. Hes suggesting that the russians share exactly the same threat that the United States as when it comes to bombs on aircraft and of course, we do not have laptops available on flights and that looks like it could expend to europe and beyond. Again, no acknowledgment that the president discussed information that was classified. He is saying we do not discuss what information is classified in one information is not. Getting a lot of reaction from capitol hill on all of this as you can imagine. Most recently, senator john mccain of arizona said regrettably, the time he spent sharing Sensitive Information with russians was not spent. What the president is doing here is all of that aside and you can ignore that and i dont think the president did during his meeting with lavrov. He was trying to recruit them further in the fight against terrorism and thought it was appropriate to share this information and again, its in for Dominic Dominic dominic he does not know where it came fro from. Harris the president spoke with the king of jordan by phone this morning. When he talked about leaking out of the white house, you talk about previous calls with leadership around the world that the president had first ever the inauguration. I would put that into the mix here. And about 20 minutes, hes set to meet and welcome to the white house the president of egypt. I wonder now if turkey, excuse me. I wonder where it mcmaster said, all this could be affected by these leaks. Whats being talked about now . The reason the conversation with the king of jordan is interesting is that there has been speculation that this intelligence instrument of the president discussed with the foreign minister of russia may have come from jordan. Jordan is a very good ally on the war on terror. As a country thats very close to syria and may have better information, better human intelligence on the ground in that region than anyone else. There is speculation of the president may have included the conversation some talk about that. In terms of the leaks, h. R. Mcmaster was quite clear when he said at the very beginning that what jeopardizes National Security is when information like this begins to get out. I asked him directly that there was some Electronic Communications about the meeting. Meeting. Weatherby email or a readout or description of the meeting to a small group of people, most likely at the nfc and somehow the information got out. The white house i could tell you is very concerned about this leak. To say its apoplectic is understating the case and they want to get to the bottom of this. General mcmaster also said that they want to have confidence they could share information like this broadly. Harris and those leaders who talked to our president melissa i want to follow that theme because thats what the trump team has been saying this morning that what the real concern as there are people inside the white house or trying to sabotage the president and his agenda by floating stories like this one so that we are all standing around and his credibility is undermined. You are talking about asking h. R. Mcmaster who that leak might be, what about inside the white house . What are people saying about who they think it might be . Ive talked to people here at the white house who say they believe they know where this is coming from, but people are reluctant to point fingers because nobody wants to be the one to do it and potentially be wrong. To say this leak originated in the white house or very close to it is probably a safe bet in terms of the degree of sharing with electronic munication. It was shared with officials outside of the white house as well. People who used to work in government. If you start to connect some dots, you can lead to a path that might take you to an individual. Its clear from what the national secured advisor told me in answer to my question but there are very interested in getting to the bottom of this. Sandra john roberts liber the white house for us as the National Security advisor, h. R. Mcmaster just wrapped up a press briefing. Stephen hayes is on the couch with us today. Lets get back to how we started this out. He said goodbye, the fact that this was false, he stood with her today, although one difference was he said the premise to that story was false. You want to say the president was meeting with the foreign minister about a terrorist threat. He decided to share info in the context of fighting isis. When he discussed was wholly appropriate and routine. Steve interesting to go back to your first point, there was a shift from mcmasters rather categorical statement yesterday. He said i was in the room, this didnt happen. Today he said well, the premise of the story is false. Meghan hes saying im adding to what i said yesterday. Melissa he said i was there it didnt happen, he said maybe it didnt happen. Steve the fact that it was distributed, that bossert distributed certain aspects of the reporting that President Trump disturbed of this information. This definitely a shift and when he said from last night to today and at the end, i thought he shifted even further when he confirmed some of these details. Meghan im having a very hard time with this. I got incredibly upset. All of you know how important i believe syria is in the idea that President Trump could have intentionally or unintentionally reveal classified information, which is the key point here. It makes me upset in ways i can imagine. Watching mcmaster do this, i trust him or i did up until yesterday. Hes one of the main people i really trust in the trump white house. I dont think is entirely appropriate for him to be standing up there during the sean spicer dance right now. He didnt do anything wrong so far. The president needs to answer to whether or not he did. Hes getting caught up in so much language. I just want to know did you reveal sources or methods . Melissa he said know specifically that he didnt. Steve he said he didnt discuss sources and methods. He can reveal sources and methods. Meghan this is whats exhausting. I challenge anyone to not politicize this. I just want to know whats going on here and i dont trust anyon anyone. I dont trust a lot of the pundits from different sides who want their agenda. We are talking about gast children. This is at the root of all of this and we have a bunch of politicization on all sides and i want to know what the truth is. Harris when the president says that he may have talked about certain things in the context of trying to find Common Ground with russia in regards to the Islamic State is that enough for you, apparently not, to pull back from this thought . Meghan this is a policy pinpoint that i get stuck on with people like geraldo who got excited about this on the couch. They think we should be doing business with russia to fight isis. My argument is that aiding and abandoning the statesponsored terror and all these things was a big old to go on the internet and look at what it looks like, no we dont have the same interests. We have a long history of trying to reset with russia and it doesnt work. By the way, this entire mess wouldnt have happened had he just been a little more careful with his relationships with russian leaders. Sandra for now, the answer and that Briefing Room two was classified information shared or not . H. R. Mcmaster implied, we dont say it was classified and was not classified, but he said over and over again, this was part of routine information sharing. This story continues to break, well have much more on the other side of the break. Whos with me . Were like a sports team here at ally. If a sports team had over 7. Im in. 7,000 players. Our plays are a little unorthodox. But to beat the big boys, you need smarter ways to save people money. 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We have an area of cooperation with transnational, isis in particular, organizations that have already taken down and converted over 200 people in october 2015. This was the context of the conversation in which it was wholly appropriate to share with the threat was as a basis for common action and coordination. Sandra that was general mcmaster just a