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Intel community? he has unfettered discretion to unclassify whatever he wants. >> chris, i think the american people need to understand that you don't just get intelligence out of thin air. you get intelligence because we deploy spies, because we deploy people who are willing to put their lives on the line and because we work with other intelligence agencies around the world that help provide that kind of information. but it is done on the basis of competence and trust. the information that was provided here was provided by a middle eastern country that was very sensitive about the information...

Safety. humanitarian reasons. plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. does this make it okay? joining us now is democratic congressman jim himes, serves on house intel committee. the president legally can declassify information when he deigns. can't be illegal. do you believe the explanation he gave is satisfying. >> it may not be illegal. if the "washington post" story is to be believed, what happened is the president gave a lot more information than typically would be given. just imagine the story said it was location. let's just work with that. let's im...

Responsibilities that relate to a president of the united states in terms of intelligence and security for this country. and he cannot just, you know, go ahead and reveal classified information without creating some huge problems within the intelligence community in terms of gathering that kind of information. so what bothers me here is that the president of the united states, an office that i respect throughout my life, i just think this president has to understand that he cannot just say whatever the hell he wants and expect that it doesn't carry consequences. >> do you think this is an issu...

Problematic to u.s. allies that the "new york times" is reporting middle eastern ally that warned united states don't share this widely or you won't get critical information from us. you've got an op-ed on cnn.com you write at best trump channeling inner high school outcast trying to gain approval and cool points from the more charming bully sergei lavrov and by extension his boss vladimir putin. what's the democrat's play in all this. what should democrats do? >> this is much larger than politics, poppy. i have to say it is not acceptable to share information provided by a partner, overseas p...

And cnn military analyst lew eternal general mark hurtling. let me begin with you, some reporting by earthquake and his team lays out a little more detail in terms of who this ally was and why it was so important to the united states in terms of this information sharing dpreem. they say it's a middle eastern ally. this ally warned united states apparently upon giving this information and this intelligence don't tell anyone, don't even share widely among u.s. intelligence, the u.s. intelligence community. and if you disclose this to too many people, if you share too widely, we will stop helping...