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Information. judge napolitano was with us 20 minutes ago and he says no laws broken. listen. >> well, he may have broken rules about the manner of declassifying information. but that's not a crime. under the law, the president can declassify anything. so he can take a top secret. this top secret is called s.a.p. select access procedure. it's the top of the top secret. he can declassify that there may be political fallout for him declassifying it. steve: sure. >> as we will find out today as i think the day progresses. steve: no criminal charges. >> correct. ainsley: even the "new york times" a...

President trump on twitter this morning saying i did nothing wrong, offering reasoning for why he disclosed highly classified information to russian diplomats in a controversial oval office meeting last week. presidents usually meet with heads of state, but for him to meet with a foreign minister and an ambassador who wasn't mentioned in the white house read-out on what happened in this meeting. the only picture we knew was because this picture was offered up by soviet media. these tweets about what happened, do they shed light or create for of a problem? joining us now has serve as cia

Act. >> absolutely yes. >> to do something. >> we expected the white house to act. >> do you expect them to act quickly? >> yes. >> there was urgency to the information. >> yes. >> i'm just wondering on a personal level, i don't know if you can answer this or not, but, you know, you were in government one week. you get fired. now you're out and watching day after day after day go by and nothing seems to have happened to the national security adviser that you have informed the white house about. just as a private citizen at that point, did it concern you? >> well, sure i was concerned about it....

This. if it gets out, it can give information that we don't want to get out because it will either destroy the program, harm people, or give our adversaries an advantage. that's what a sap is. i was thinking last night about this, as i watched this unfold. i can think of probably a dozen or more countries that have told they were a part of intelligence collection on a terrorist group and then it was told to the russians, the russians could very easily counter it and cause a great degree of harm to not om our allies but to our enemies. this whole thing is interesting because what you have with ...

Security adviser to the united states says the story is false. he didn't give up any sources or methods, which isn't the reporting. some could say he's parsing his words too carefully. the president this morning isn't saying that. he said, yeah, i did it. it's okay that i did it because i want to help russia get more involved with isis and it was the right thing to do. he's saying something different apparently. yes, it's just a tweet but this is the way the president likes to communicate most often. eagles saying i know, himes, i'm concerned about it, you're not. my communication is more impo...