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Shocked to hear about when the leaked slides give a look at how far the nsa was able to go. >> the slides mention e-mail, photos, for example, you upload or took on your phone and were uploaded to, for example, apple servers snrk all of the companies mentioned denied granting the government sweeping access saying they took user privacy seriously and will only share information when there is a court order. how could the nsa gather the information without the company's knowledge? >> one of the conjectures people are making is they are tapping into the data that goes over the wire. >> reporter: t...

Unclear whether he did this wittingly or unwittingly in discussing this threat imminent for a city in syria and isis-controlled territory and inadvertently tipped off the russians who the source was and what other details might be played out since russians are in syria now. >> just as important as the disclosure winds up being the explanation. general mcmaster comes out. strong pedigree, respected man of integrity says the tore is false, but then seems to compare apples to oranges. he seems to say the president did not expose any sources or methods or any operations that weren't radar in the p...

Almost unfettered discretion to declassify whatever he wants, whenever he wants, arguably however he wants. so this is not a legal issue. but does this he said the analysis of error? >> no, not at all. in fact, you characterized it accurately. the problem here is you've taken sensitive information key allies provided united states with strings attached. the president has apparently given away that information to the russians, an adversary without consulting with the ally first to get permission to do so. that's the normal protocol with this kind of thing. >> it does seem nothing else the presi...

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To host a critical meeting toward the interest of the united states in the middle east. turkish president erdogan is expected to show up here around midday. back to you. >> joe, appreciate it. let's bring in senior writer for "new york times" eric schmidt, co-author of the paper on sharing classified intelligence with russian officials. thank you for joining us this morning. so let's answer the basic question for folks at home. why do they care about this? what is troubling? >> so what's troubling about this is president trump in this meeting with the russian officials in the oval office discl...