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With a u.s. adversary russia is, quote, wholly appropriate as mcmaster said repeatedly today. that's also a term he seemed to define in terms of if a president does it in the name of national security, it is by definition appropriate. now last night after the story came out the trump administration originally pushed back against the notion that president trump had divulged sources and methods of intelligence-gathering which neither "the washington post" or cnn had reported. what we all reported is what the government was saying back in march when we showed the restraint with publication, the s...

Trump revealed the city in the islamic state's territory where the u.s. intelligence partner detected the threat, unquote. it's the same city. it's the same city that cnn was cautioned not to report, but here's the president's national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster when asked earlier today about the president sharing the name of the city with the russians. >> if you were to say, hey, from where do you think a threat might come from territory that isis controls, you would probably be able to name a few cities, i think, and so it was -- it was nothing that you would not know from open-s...

Cnn executives to not report certain details about the threat, including the city from which some of the intelligence was collected. by reporting are the city's name, trump administration officials insisted, that would tip off american adversaries about sources and methods used to gather the intelligence. tlt would, th-- it would, they get people killed. cnn did not report the details or the name of the city and last night the "washington post" reported and government officials say that president trump in a meeting with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and the u.s. ambassador sergey ...

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