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Sentence in the article. president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian ambassador in a meeting last week. current and white house officials saying trump disclosures jeopardize a critical source of intelligence on the islamic state. your reaction? >> well, i don't know whether it happened or not. i think senator burr and senator warner, vice chairmen, will look into it. rs i know they will look into it. but your correspondent described exactly what code word is. i know whenever i'm given something a code word, classification, we do it in a secure room.

In which it was collected. a current official said monday. what are your sources telling you, jim? >> let me tell you this, woks, the news of these reports is rippling through the intelligence community. like any other story related to intelligence. that the high mark, as you know, wolf, because we've been in -- [ inaudible ] with this administration and intelligence. i want to tell you one former senior u.s. intelligence official told me about this if the stories are true. quote, never before have i witnessed a senior government official so carelessly threaten intelligence sharing relationshi...

Obviously congress wants to get the answer to these. but i think the white house has to explain exactly what went on in that meeting. and one thing that we know did not get discussed in that meeting, wolf, as we spoke about last week, was the question of russian hacking. >> that did not come up, you're right. and we're going to get -- once again we're going to get reaction from the white house momentarily. h.r. mcmaster, the president's national security adviser expected to walk outside the driveway there at the west wing of the white house, walk over to the microphones and make a statement an...

If this is article is right, i heard condemnation from republicans and democrats. it also emphasizes again, we have to have a special council, a special prosecutor, to look into what is russia's connection, both with the -- and ongoing. it cannot be somebody who says that they have to pledge loyalty to the president, not to the rule of law. this american wants a rule of law to stand up above anybody in government, of either party. the rule of law has not been respected during all of this. >> senator leahy, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with us, wolf. >> we're getting lofts more ...

Tweeted this. i'll put up on the screen, it's simple, individuals who are extremely careless with classified information should be denied further access to it. as you know, president, commander-in-chief, he has the authority to declassify government secrets at his will. so should there be any consequences? will you push for full scale investigation? because the president can declassify even the most sensitive information if he wants to. >> the president wants to declassify something, he has that right, tell the american people he did. but then further explain why he did. and lastly explain whe...