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Feeding suggested twitter posts to the president so the council's staff would have greater influence. joining me now is eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning opinion writer for "the washington post" as well as howard dean, former chairman of the democratic national committee and former governor, and former cia official jack rice back with us. governor dean, what do you make of this? >> a, i think they're very disorganized. b, the national security council is supposed to be advising the president on policy. the problem with this white house is the president makes the policy sometimes in the c...

>> what was wrong was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room, were given that information. because that was classified information. it was given illegally. that's the real problem. >> there are reports of apparently illegal leaks. but it is a real problem if there are secret links to the russians or criminal collusion with them. and there will be a cloud over the trump administration until and unless the president releases his entire tax returns so that all potential russian connections can be vetted out in the open. joining me now for more is navid jamali, author of "how...

Alternative to the leaking which we were discussing earlier in the hour and the general criticism? is there anything else appropriate that these folks in the intelligence and security wings can do to try to push this administration to be more responsible if that's their view or concern? >> well, it's frustrating at all get-out when you contemplate, these are people who put their lives on the line regularly. they're trying to get information to the president so he can make the right decision. but the fear for those in the trenches right now is that what we're seeing from the white house is, the...

This. we have a classified angle, we don't want to disclose sources and methods. so i think there should be an independent investigation to look at this. the question of did he talk about sanctions, this is a binary one. the transcripts will say he either talked about sanctions or he didn't, yes or no. simple. >> and did he lie about it. rick, you wanted to get in? >> there are two equally frightening prospects here. number one is that donald trump is compromised by the russians in some way, whether financially or personally or in some other capacity or he owes money to folks that are tied bac...

As a lawyer, you understand this. we have a classified angle, we don't want to disclose sources and methods. so i think there should be an independent investigation to look at this. the question of did he talk about sanctions, this is a binary one. the transcripts will say he either talked about sanctions or he didn't, yes or no. simple. >> and did he lie about it. rick, you wanted to get in? >> there are two equally frightening prospects here. number one is that donald trump is compromised by the russians in some way, whether financially or personally or in some other capacity or he owes mone...