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Reiterated what we heard from general mcmaster earlier in the day, the national security advisor, that the president hadn't been aware of sources and methods. by their thinking, how cot president have revealed something that would have xrom mi compromised sources and methods. >> let's get to one of those former intelligence officious, our own malcolm nance, an msnbc terrorism analyst for us here at msnbc. malcolm, does this endanger national security? >> well, yes, it does endanger national security. even though the president himself may have thought in that moment that he was going to declass...

Expand. >> yeah. that is the big credibility gap we have here. jennifer's right that he has steadfast supporters who are going to believe him no matter what he says, even when he isn't telling the truth. but i think with more and more americans who aren't in that steadfast support group, he is sacrificing his credibility, he's trashing his own aides' credibility, the deputy attorney general last week, general mcmaster, dina powell, secretary tillerson on this incident. he is going to find that when a white house loses its credibility in that fundamental way, it is very, very hard to govern. >>...

So. president himself tweeted that his surrogates can't stand at this podium with perfect accuracy. are you concerned when you have yourself, when you have general mcmaster up here, that people don't perhaps trust or find the statements being made are credible go. >> i think i addressed this last week. we do everything we can to provide you with the most updated information at the time. py think general mcmaster stood at this podium a few hours ago and made it very clear he stands by what he said. so i'm not entirely sure. he put out the statement. secretary tillerson put out one and deputy na...

I think specifically as a division of the secret service, kathy at the secret service is probably -- and public affairs office is probably your best bet. george. >> a trick question. >> thank you. >> there's a lot of reporting in israel the president was going to go to massada. is that something that's been scrubbed? if he is going, what's the message you're trying to send? >> if i can, it is our goal to have an off-the-record briefing tomorrow probably some time laterhe lo logistics of the trip. we can walk you through that. but obviously a lot of things aren't finalized for security reasons....