Trump is facing a major new scandal. The Washington Post reports he revealed highly classified intelligence to Russian Diplomats at the white house. Even Senate Republicans are now warning trump is in a downward spiral. We will get the latest. Then as the ninth Circuit Court of appeals hears argumentsts ovr trumps second m muslim trtravel ban, we will go to seattle to speak with Washington State attorney general bob ferguson. He filed the first suit against comes travel ban, sparking a nationwide firestorm of legal resistance. We are a nation of laws. As i said, as we have said, from day one, those laws applied everybody in our country, and that includes the president of the United States. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The beginning of the end. Thats what many are saying about the Trump Presidency following the Washington Posts e explosive article revealing how President Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence during his sitdown meeting with Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian AmbassadorSergey Kislyak at the white house last week, only one day after he fired fbi director james comey over his investigation into whether the Trump Campaign colluded with russia to influence the 2016 election. Citing unnamed u. S. Officials, the post reports trump began bragging to the two russian officials about his intelligence briefings, saying i get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day. Trump went on to disclose highly classified information provided by a thirdparty about the possible threat of isis launching an attack on an airplane using a computer bomb. This is the Washington Posts greg miller, one of the coauthors of the report. At someme point, trtrump stas talklking about t the g great inintelligence he gets. He is tellingng his visitors, i get the bebest intelelligence, d procds t to talk abobout this threat that is underway that has been publicly talked about for some time. But t he goes into d details a t the spececifics ofof this plot d how it is coming together and what the Islamic State is doing to try to pull this off. The problem is that the United States knows much of this information because of intelligence that came from a partner, another country. Amy senior white house officials were apparently so alarmed by trumps disclosures they called the cia and national , Security Agency afterwards to warn them of what had happened. Officials told the Washington Post they were concerned trumps disclosure would jeopardize a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. There has been some speculation that the country of jordan was the source of the classified intelligence. President trump is reportedly scheduled to speak by phone this morning with jordans king abdullah. At an emergency News Conference monday, National Security adviser general h. R. Mcmaster said the Washington Posts story was false. The story that came out tonight as reported is falsese. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats t to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. At no time at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Amy but earlier this morning, President Trump made his first comment on the story in which he appears to contradict general mcmaster and instead confirms he did disclose information to russia. He wrote on twitter as president i wanted to share with russia at an openly scheduled white house meeting which i have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and Airline Flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis terrorism. Well have more on trumps leaks to russia after headlines with Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution here at Stanford University, and with scott horton, lecturer at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at harpers magazine. The journalistic Monitoring Group airwars reports up to 100 civilians were reportedly killed by u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes in iraqs Anbar Province on residents say the airstrikes saturday. Continued for four hours and hit an internet hall, multiple homes, a stadium, and a cemetery where a funeral of an isis fighter was occurring. Meanwhile, the syrian observatory for human rights says u. S. Airstrikes killed at least 30 people, including more than a dozen children, in the eaststern provovince of deir alr monday. This comes after u. S. Airstrikes on may 11 reportedly killed at least a dozen civilians, including eight children, north of the city of raqqa. Two days earlier, airstrikes on two villages around raqqa reportedly killed 19 civilians, including at least five children. In more news on syria, the u. S. State Department Says it believes the Syrian Government has been burning the bodies of those killed at the sadnaya prison outside damascus in a crematorium. Amnesty International Says the Syrian Government has executed up to 13,000 people at the prison since 2011. Physicians for human rights said if shown to be true, the Syrian Governments use of a crematorium demonstrates the extent to which the Syrian Government has become a machine that commits mass murder with impunity. In yemen, the death tollll froma cholera outbreakak has risen to 18187 as the u. S. Backed saudid Bombing Campaign has devastated yemenss health water,r, sewage, anand sanitationysystems. There are more than 11,000 reported cases of cholera in yemen, and the International Committee for the red cross wawarns the e disease is spreadg like wildfire. In afghanistan, five children, between the ages of six and were 10, killed on sunday when a mortar round exploded as they were playing cricket. The mortar round was likely fired amid fighting earlier in the y, but didid not explode into little more plain. The United Nations say fighting in afghanistan has killed 283 children so far this year. In mexico, awardwinning journalist Javier Valdez has been assassinated in the Northwestern State of sinaloa. Valdez was a longtime reporter on Drug Trafficking and organized crime. He wrote for the prominent newspaper la jornada. He was killed on after armed monday gunmen opened fire on his car in the city of culiacan. This is valdez speaking in 2011 when he won the committee to protect Journalists International press freedom award. I have been a journalist for 21 yeaears and never before havi suffered and enjoyed it this intensely, nor with so many dangers. Alive. Danger to be to be a journalist is to try to an invisible line determined by the bad guys who are in Drug Trafficking and the government. The country most of is living through. One e must protect oneself from everything and everyone, and there does not seem to be options for salvation, and often there is no one to turn to. Amy his death marks the fifth reported killing of a journalist in mexico this year. Only hours after his assassination, gunmen opened fire on another journalist, sonia cordoba, and her son Jonathan Rodriguez cordova, in in the state of jalisco. Cordoba is the Deputy Director of the weekly magazine el costeno. She survived the attack and is in critical condition. Her son, who also wrote for the magazine, was killed. Mexico is one of the worlds most dangerous places to be a journalist. Since 2000, more than 100 journalists have been murdered in mexico. President trump is meeting with turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan today at the white house. Todays meeting comes amid tension between u. S. And turkey over the pentagons arming of the Syrian Kurdish militia. Theyre not expected to discuss the deteriorating human rights situation inside turkey, where nearly 50,000 people have been arrested, 150,000 public and private workers have been fired , and more than than 150 journalists have been imprisoned since last summers failed military coup. In seattle, washington, the 9th Circuit Court of appeals heard arguments monday over trumps second muslim ban, which sought to ban all refugees and citizens of six majority muslim nations from entering the United States. Two months ago a federal judge , in hawaii blocked trumps revised travel ban just hours before it was slated to take effect nationwide. This is neneal katyal, a lawyer representing the state of hawaii. The governmenent has not enengaged in mass, dragnet the past 50 years. This is something new and unusual in which you are saying this whole c class of people, se of which are dangerous, we can bar them all. Amy we will go to seattle later in the broadadcast to speakk wih washingtonon state attorney who filedb ferguson, the first lawsuit against comes muslim trumps muslim ban. In japan, thousands of people protested against u. S. Military bases on the island of okinawa monday as the island marked 45th anniversary of its reversion to japanese rule. The protesters gathered on the shores near henoko to protest a highly controversial new u. S. Military base, which began construction in april after years of oppososition from residents. For decades, residents have called for the expulsion of u. S. Troops from okinawa, which houses about twothirds of the 50,000 u. S. Troops currently stationed in japan. In el salvador, the United Nations is calling for an investigation into a string of killings of transgender women. Local lgbtq groups say at least 17 transgender women have been killed so fafar this year in el sasalvador. The Trump Administration said monday it wowould vastly expxpad the socalled global gag rule, a reganera policy that bans u. S. Funding for any International Healthcare organization that performs abortion or advocates for the legalization of abortion or even mentions abortion, even if those activitities are funded by nonu. S. Moneney. The expansion of the gag rule is expected to affect hundreds of Health Clinics worldwide, particicularly in n africa. The u. U. S. Supreme court h has t a major r victory r vovoting rights activists after it refused to hear an appeal over north carolinas Voter Suppression law. Last year, a federal Appeals Court blocked the law, ruling the measures discriminated against African American voters and targeted them with almost surgical precision. On monday, the Supreme Court announced it would not hear a challenge to the Appeals Court ruling, meaning the highly restrictive voter id law will not be reinstated. In bakersfield, california, dozens of farm workers are recovering after they were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide, whose use was recently green lighted by the epa in one of the agencys first decisions since trump took office. Last year, the epa had appeared to be on the verge of banning the pesticide, but under the direction of epa head scott pruitt, the e agency unexpectedy reversed couourse and approved e use. Multiple studies have found the pesticide can cause both immediate symptoms, such as vomiting, diarrhea, and blurred vision, as well as longterm damage in children, such as developmental delays and higher rates of autism. And in west virginia, former Police OfficerStephen Mader is suing the city of weirton after he says he was fired from the Police Department for not shooting a suicidal young man. In may 2016, officer mader arrived at the house of 23yearold African American ronald r. J. Williams, jr. , after williams girlfriend called the police because hed threatened to hurt himself. Officer mader says he found Williams Holding a handgun and acting suicidal. Mader says he was trying to deescalate the situation and was urging williams to put down the gun, whehen two more pololie officersrs aiveded. One immediately opopenedire, killlling williams. The police later found william gun was not loaded. Officer mader says one month later, he was informed he would be fired for apparent difffficulties in Critical Incident reasoning. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadadcasting from Stanford University in california. President trump has appeared to a bombshells o of Washington Post story that he disclosed highly classified intelligence last week to Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian AmbassadorSergey Kislyak last week, only during meeting at the white house. Earlier this month, trump tweeted comment appears to contradict statements from Top Administration officials last night who claim the Washington Post report was false. According to the paper, trump disclosed highly classified intelligence whats know as , codename information about the , possible threat of isis launching an attack on an airplane using a computer bomb. This is greg mililler, one of fe cocoauthors of the artiticle. At some poinint, trump s stas tatalkg by ththe greatt intelligenence he gets. He is s saying, i get thehe best brbriefings, i i do the bestt intelligence. He proceeds to talk about this threat that is underway that has been p publicly tatalked about r some time. But he goeoes into detetails abt the ecififics of t this plot and how it is coming together and what the Islamic State is doing to try to pull this off. And the problem is that the United States knows much of this information b because off intelligigence that cacame froma partnener, anotherer country. You hahave his ownwn nationall Security Council staff m member, senior o officials, who see rereadouts of what t happened. They called the cia director, the nsa chief to warn them, look, something happened in the meeting with the russians that we need to tell you about. This is in part because they are alarmed and concerned about the blowback. These are agencies, the cia that would be directly meeting with this foreign partner, and they would be most concererned about that relationship going south. A makeup senior white house officials were apparently so alarmed by trumps disclosures, that they called the cia and national Security Agency afterwards to warn them of what had happened. Officials said they were concerned trumps disclosure would jeopardize a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. There has been some speculation that the country of jordan was the source of the classified intelligence. President trump is reportedly scheduled to speak by phone this morning with jordans king of jello. One current u. S. Official told buzz feed the situation is far worse than has already been reported. To talk more about the story, we are joined now by two guests. In london, we are joined by scott horton, lecturer at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at harpers magazine. He is author of lords of secrecy the National Security elite and americas stealth warfare. And here is Stanford UniversityLarry Diamond of the hoover , institution and the Freeman Spogli institute for International Studies at stStan