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Here to react, fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. judge, let's start with the very beginning, if it's true, with the "the washington post" story is true and they stand behind it. >> right. steve: did the president break any rules. >> 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 can he take a top secret. this is called sap. select access procedure. it's the top of the top secret. he can declassify that. there may be political fallout for him declassifying it as we wi...

So that's the information i have. i obviously have leaks from the media saying there was information that could lead to people being detected by just sort of going through the process of figuring out the information released and how you could then determine who released it, but, again, that's the information that if i was a member, i would be trying to see, okay, what specifically was talked about and trying to get an understanding. if the president did what "washington post" suggested, i would make the argument that he overstepped his bounds and probably shouldn't have done that. is this a ca...

Which could be a sign of stress or intense aggression. the finishing of the tweet is that the president had the absolute right to do what he did. facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety, humanitarian reasons, plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. does this make it okay, phil mudd? >> hell, no, all you have to do to go into that meeting is have national security apparatus say it's appropriate to talk to the russians who lost a plane to isis in 2015. it's appropriate to they will them about airline security. i agree with the president, we s...

Declassifying information and getting it out there, that that trust in how many safeguards exist and how the programs are run has been diminished. so what is going to be important is to build that back up. >> this past wednesday, new year's derrick the new york times issued their first editorial of the year, about how the obama administration can start rebuilding that trust in the intelligence community by going easier, somewhat easy on edward snowden. it says, quote, considering the enormous value of the information he's revealed, and the abuses he's exposed, mr. snowden deserves better than ...

Technically how it works. ma is absolutely clear to me, given the public debate that took place and this is only going to work if the american people have confidence and trust. now, part of the challenge is that because of the matter in which the dribs and drabs shaded in a particular way and because of the constraints that we've had in terms of declassifying information and getting it out there, that that trust how many safeguards insist and how the programs are run has been diminished. what's going to be important is to build that back up. i take that into account in weighing how we structur...