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Goes awry, they want to make it known this isn't because of they're own incompetence. it's because the president of the united states gave up the goods to the russians. the other part i found compelling is this information is so sensitive we did not share it with our allies. now there's some information the allies have they do not trust completely why? because those intelligence agencies have been penetrated by maybe france, germany. >> so could our allies stop sharing intelligence with us because of this? >> yes, and also the reason we didn't share the intelligence with our allies because we ...

Group of people working on one small operation, one small cell, that they're not going to share that information with a larger isis group or with the defense intelligence agencies or the defense department or homeland security. that information would go to the national security advisor, especially if it was an imminent investigation and if for some reason that investigation gets to trump. and that may include -- we know that country x has an asset in isis. and that asset is highly vulinablenerable but willing to share information with us and something that's casual as that said to the russians...

Russians. i mean, this is just ludicrous and of course the law will allow the president to do this legally just like he doesn't have the financial conflict of interest statute that applies to him that applies to the rest of the entire executive branch and he can run around saying he's above the law and he can do this, that and the other thing and he can give out classified information to the russians but at some point people are going to get tired of it and this is putting our country's national security at risk. the president should only be sharing information to foreign powers only after he'...

Presidential intelligence briefings. nice to see you again. thank you for being here. >> hi, rachel. >> i'm in fair consume of spy novels and i know absolutely nothing in terms of what the real work is of an intelligence agency other than what i glean from people like you and fiction. when an official says this is code word information that was given to russia, stuff we wouldn't even give to our allies, can you explain o us in lehman's terms exactly what that means? >> sure. there are levels of classification that determine the type of classified information that's there. it starts with confid...

Shared it in the oval office -- and remember identified as a top intelligence spy master enwashington d.c. this is no light matter. i mean you're giving the keys of the kingdom to moscow center here. >> and one thing on the intelligence side, we are a country that is actually good at intelligence gathering. we share with other countries not as sophisticated. so they're only as strong as we are. so the weaker we become in terms of capacity to get intelligence from any of our allies, those other countries become weaker. that includes a country like canada, which is highly dependent on us for int...