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Representatives and leaking classified information they would be put in jail but fofrpinately for the president these two laws that govern the release of classified information basically let the president do whatever it wants to do with classified information but it's horrible mistake of judgment because the information he's putting throughout can not just indanger american citizens and really put our relationships with people and government that give us information at great risk. >> you saw in the last segment r there are people defending this. is this defensible or indefensible? >> all i cou...

That, and the other thing. and he can give out classified information to the russians. but at a certain 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 classified information with foreign powers after he's been advised by his national security team it's in our interest to share classified information. and with the russians of all people. trusting the russians with classified information is like trusting bernie with your pun money. it makes no sense what's going on here. >> all these happen would the ba...

Classified information with russian officials. let's discuss now. a former white house ethics lawyer and page pate. good evening to all of you. page, you don't think the president broke the law but you say he used bad judgment. how specifically and how bad? >> i don't think there's any question he used bad judgment. the question is how damaging it's going to be to the country. if anybody else had done with what he did in connection with meeting with foreign representatives and leaking classified information they would be prosecuted and put in jail. fortunately for the president these two laws ...

But highly credible concern about the laptops and was the united states going to extend the laptop ban. so we know there are serious intelligence gathering going on and out of the blue something shared with the it russians and i can't explain that. it's the casualness about his own job and about his responsibilities as president that is just -- it's hard to just be able to explain it anymore. if i just giver him the best of is a serious job that he wanted. >> code word information, julia. that's what the washington post said on islamic state. how secretive is it? >> it's one of the highest int...

Then use their knowledge and their other resources to reverse engineer the information. it's not certain, though, they'll be able to do this. but it is very possible. and let me tell you how this works because i've watched the russians do it before. it russians may identify, for example, if it's a human source who that human source is, approach that human source and say, look, we know you are working for x country or whatever, you're spying on isis. well, we're going to compmizia to isis and you'll bedead or you can work for us. and so that source, if it's a human source, begins to work for ru...