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Bob baer is here, mark preston, alan dhers wits. let me start with you so you can explain. you're going to share as much as you can but not enough to put lives at risk if that is what you're trying to do. you're not going to say the city from where this intelligence op ty was able to penetrate top level os f isis to try to protect lives. how top specific and specific was this information? >> as your other reporter summarized, this was really sensitive information about an ongoing and unfolding islamic state terror plot that's caused a great deal of concern among counterterrorism officials. and...

They didn't want to compound the problem here so they were with holdsing details from us and we're withholding further details from our stories at the request of officials that we talked to today. >> just such as you're withholding the name of the city so ie sis wouldn't be able to kw that someone infiltrated their top levels. >> correct. >> go ahead. >> we're withholding some of that information. but we know more about what trump talked about in the session and the way it was described to us is he was laying out sort of details about the capability here. how the islamic state is pursuing this...

It off. and at the same time trying to talk about some of the measures that the united states is taking to try to deal with it. and this is problematic mainly because this is information that the united states has mainly if not exclusively because of a foreign partner providing it that has some access to the islamic state. and so this wasn't intel that the united states was authorized to share, and especially not authorized to share with russia. >> and i want to read to you, greg, because this goes to the heart of what you're reporting, two statements from the white house tonight, one of which...