The post story are accurate. Were not quite four months into the Trump Presidency and senator bob corker puts it bluntly tonight the white house is in a downward spiral. Global affairs analyst, david row and diplomatic analyst, john kirby. Good evening to all of you gentleman. What are you hearing from your sources tonight about this bombshell report . From myself and jake tapper, two former officials knowledgeable say that president did share classified information with the Russian Foreign minister, the russian ambassador. The information did not directly reveal the source of the intelligence. But intelligence officials tell cnn there is concern that russia will be able to figure out that highly sensitive source. There is some disagreement as to how far the president went. This intelligence relates to what is known as special Access Programs or s. A. P. Which cover some of the most highly classified information and is protected with unique access and security protocols. As you know, don, with intelligence often there are different views, different analysis. And what were told is that some are more concerned about the degree the president went with this information than others. But the concern remains, did he go far enough that russia could, based on this information, and the details, could russia conclude where it came from . In particular what partner of the u. S. The source the information, which would be uncomfortable. Whats the reaction from the white house . Well, the white house is somewhat unified, although their messaging is a little confused as to what they are denying. In general theyre saying this story is false. Lets listen on the White House National security advisor, h. R. Mcmaster. Theres nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the American People. The story that came out as reported is false. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Two other seniors officials who were present including the secretary of state, remember the meeting in the same way and have said so. Their on the record accounts should outweigh those sources that are anonymous. I was in the room. It didnt happen. Thank you, everybody. Lets be clear what he denied. He said the president did not reveal the source and did not talk about any military operations. We are told by more than one source with knowledge of this meeting that president revealed sensitive intelligence that, based on that intelligence, they may be able to conclude where it came from. He didnt explicitly say the source, but that would lead the way for the russians to that source. And be to specific about whats in the Washington Post report, its reporting that he was boasting about inside knowledge of a looming threat from the Islamic State. Why was he bragging about Something Like that . Well, its the long tendency of the president to talk big and the difference between micking a sale, frankly, and being president. And this presents a real problem for republicans. This is again where his tendency to brag, to over state things, to frankly not tell the truth. Its putting more and more pressure on republicans on the hill, particularly those who care about National Security. That statement from senator bob corker, mccain, senator graham. This is a very serious issue for the republicans. This is terrorism, Islamic State and National Security and its a republican president whos doing this. And when Rex Tillerson put out a statement disputing this report but a Senior State Department official tells cnn that he didnt know about it. They learned about the statement from cnn and were left scrambling. As a former state department spokesman, what do you make of that . Its very unusual. I cant remember a single time working for secretary kerry or two prior to that where we didnt have a hand in it, it wasnt staffed, well coordinated, both within the building and across the river at the white house. So its pretty amazing. Ive talked to some colleagues at state. It looks like this was on real fast track. The white house specifically wanted to put out all three statements at the same time to look like a very Cohesive Communications approach and in the speed to do that, they didnt do all the staffing you would normally do with the rest of the building and at least the communications staff. I think this continues to speak to the dysfunction at the state department as well. Why would they reach out if the president didnt do what the report says . Its hard to say. Im kind of where jim is on this. Their denials are not full denials. Theyre simply denying things that storys never said. Why they didnt do a better job staffing this, again i is this an attempt to confuse the public that they may get confused by the details and think its a full throated denial of a that its not . I think its an attempt to get the temperature down on this. Its ironic. When you put your National Security advisor out in front of cameras, youre elevating it and even though the statement seemed to try to deflate it. So theyve already elevated it. I think it was trying to take the air out of the story as quickly and efficiently as they could. Thats another reason i suspect he didnt take any questions. Jim sciutto, before these reports, this meeting before the president and the Russian Foreign minister and ambassador was already raising red flags last week because it was a day after the president fired fbi director james comey. Which he later admitted was because of russia. He admitted in the interview with lester holt and a russian photographer was included but not u. S. Media. Are these the kind of optics Vladimir Putin wanted when he interfered in the election . You forget something that happened 72 hours ago but in the span of less than a week, president fires james comey. For he admits later the Russian Investigation, he wants to draw it to a close. Then he invites the Russian Foreign minister and ambassador, who remember its conversations with that ambassador that got his previous National Security officer fired michael flynn. Then he gives classified information to russia and this happens after an election where an Intelligence Community found russia interfered in the election process. All of this has to lets just raise those questions higher. To raise questions about why the president doesnt look at this country as his entire Intelligence Community does as a threat. And dont forget the attorney general reaccused himself from the russia investigation, devin nunes who had to step down from the investigative part of this russia. Every day there seems to be something. Were talking about classified information. The election wasnt that long ago, though it seems like ages ago. This candidate slammed Hillary Clinton throughout the campaign for her alleged handling of classified information for which she was never indicted for. He slammed her. Watch this. We cant hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies. I dont think its safe to have Hillary Clinton be briefed on National Security because the word will get out. We cant in the oval office who doesnt understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified. And then he tweeted this crooked hillary and her team were careless in their handling of sensitive highly classified information not fit. How does this compare to what Hillary Clinton was accused of . The key words are not fit. There could be this huge dark conspiracy and somehow donald trump is in line with russia. Theres no proof of that and i dont personally believe it but its his temperament. He cant the reports he cant stand the criticism, that comey is talking about russia, so he fires him. Hes somehow bragging to the russian ambassador, fights with the australian Prime Minister on the phone. Its the president himself. I mean more than anyone else and his fitness. And always putting up sound bites from something that donald trump the candidate or donald trump the president said which contradicts something he has done in the moment, every time. Every single time. Listen, it makes it harder for him to be credible when he pushes back against these things. Remember, the issue with Hillary Clintons emails were could by using this private server that information could have been used by a foreign power . In this case you have an active sharing of classified information with a hostile power face to face in the oval office. Not good. Its not like the russians to hack into his email. He gave them the information voluntarily. Should this investigation be part of the investigation into President Trump or the then candidates Trumps Campaign . I dont know if we have three now investigations going on. But i think it needs to be carefully looked into and scrutinized. And damage control needs to be done if it hasnt already. I think its important for people to keep this in context. We have three investigations into russias involvement into our election process. We are in odds with syria and certainly over ukrain. And we have a president who doesnt appear to have a careful nuance to understanding the information and the intelligence that hes getting, if hes even getting it every day. Well come back. I just saved a bunch of money on my Car Insurance with geico. Huh. 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Again, the denial that mcmaster has given and that the Trump Administration and the urists gts is hanging on is the president did not disclose sources or methods. Thats not ingravamen of the the Washington Post exclusiveimates its the information explain that because theyre saying they didnt reveal sources and methods, he didnt do this. Thats not what the report says. Explain to the viewer what the report says. Well, when it comes to the intelligence you can give a certain scenario. You can say, well, we have certain intelligence coming out of such and such place in syria, that isis is looking to hit a western city or commercial airliner or Something Like that. And the russians because they have their own intelligence gathering methods which includes partnering with the iranians and syrians can piece together thou americans know. Sources is pieced together from raw information or credible information. When the dni came out with the report that said what they did not disclose was sources and methods. Right, we dopt know how u. S. Intelligence knows this because if they were to give that away, they would essentially allow the russians nooults their intelligence gathering mechanism. The russians would no knowhow we do cyberwarfare, what our weapons cape nlt is in mus cow, et cetera. By the way, for officials to leak this press, this is the other thing my excia source said, indicates a level of complete agigation and almost theyre driven to distraction about how frustrating this is. This is a case in which the commander in chief might have possible blown an active intelligence opjarkz if not, then hung out his own intelligence communty to dry in the event the russians are now able to blow this intelligence. Go ahead, julia. In your pns, is the white house, this administration tonight being too cute because theyre denying something they know thats not in the report . Well, they may and they may be trying to protect the intelligence relationships they have with this country that trump may have sort of blown the relationship with. So they want to minimize the impact. The notion that intelligenceagies would floif the Washington Post that not only this happened but remember the second piece and the amazing piece of the story is that then theres a scrambling after that meeting to notify the intelligence agencies that this had happened so they can begin to notify our nato allies or whoever it was, other allies and to protect what assets we have and what intelligence gathering resources we have going on. Because the most important thing here we all know over the last week theres been these growing rumors, you have done stories about it, about this highly credible concern about the laptops and was the United States going to extend the laptop ban. So we know theres serious investigation, serious intelligence gathering going on. And then out of the blue somethings shared with the russians. And i cant explain that. Its a cap at best its a casualness about his own job and about his responsibilities as president that its just its hard to be able to explain it anymore. If i just give the president the best of intentions, its just this is a serious job that he wanted. Code word information, julia. Thats what the Washington Post says on the Islamic State. What is this and how secretive is it . Its one of the highest if not the highest sort of intelligence designations for information that would be kept exclusive even within your own intelligence agencies. So in other words you may have such a discreet group of people working on one small, you know, operation, one small cell, that they are actually not going to share that information with maybe a larger isis group or with the Defense Intelligence agencies or with the Defense Department or homeland security. That information would then go to of course the National Security advisor especially if it was an imminent investigation. And then for some reason that information, probably part of the daily brief, gets to trump. And that may include, look, we know that country x has an asset in isis. And that asset is highly vulnerable but willing to share information with us. And something as casually as that said to the russians then will release a series of responses by other countries who do not have our best interest in mind. So julgia, michael said at the very least our intelligence officials and the white house tried to minimize the damage to whats the president did in the oval office. So is leaking this to the Washington Post, does that further damage u. S. Security . No, i mean again as i said the Intelligence Committee i think is trying to protect itself. Because if this whole thing exploded or if the operation goes awry, they want to make it known this isnt because of theyre own incompetence. Its because the president of the United States gave up the goods to the russians. The other part i found compelling is this information is so sensitive we did not share it with our allies. Now theres some information the allies have they do not trust completely why . Because those intelligence agencies have been penetrated by maybe france, germany. So could our allies stop sharing intelligence with us because of this . Yes, and also the reason we didnt share the intelligence with our allies because we didnt want the russians to get ahold of it. But now thats gone because the president shared it in the oval office. Remember kislyak as a spymaster in washington, d. C. , this is no light matter. Youre giving the keys to the kingdom in moskow center here. And also on the intelligence side, we are a country thats actually good at intelligence gathering. We share with other countries that arent as sophisticated. So theyre only as strong as we are. So the weaker we become in terms of ourcapacity to get intelligence from europe or any of our allies, those other countries become weaker. That includes a country like canada which is highly dependent on us for intelligence. So its not just us thats going to be impacted. Other countries that are sort of intelligence consumers will also be impacted by this. Theres just a casualness about the sharing of this information, which its just jaw dropping. These are the russians. I just dont know how more we can say it. I have this big sigh like this is unreal. It really is truly unbelievable. But i just want to know is kislyak, did he play the president . Did he play by buttering him up and getting him into the oval office . I dont think he had to. Look, President Trumps twitter feed is a gold mine for any kind of hostile foreign intelligence service. This is a president who you dont have to get exclusive access to the white house to understand whats going on inside his head. I mean everything whats on his lung is on his tongue kind of thing. And hes telling you in realtime what hes thing, any type of personality disorder he wants to exhibit, hes exhibiting. He is sort of cream cheese for a foreign spy service. So for kislyak to come there, and remember this came a day after the president fired james copy, the director of the fbi overseeing a Counter Intelligence investigation into possible conspiracy of donald Trumps Campaign regarding collusion with with the russian government and then who does he invite . Lavrov, kislyak, again somebody Jeff Sessions was meeting with and plus got fired. And the first thing that lavrov jokes with the press corp oh, was comey fired, i had no idea, get out of here. Theyre controlling the United States, and the president is allowing them to. Quickly, julia, ive got to run. As michael knows being in counter terrorism, the kunsquence of this is isis knows its been exposed. So two things will happen. It will either delay what its doing, which is good. Or itll speed up. I dont mean to sound alarms but we know how terror organizations respond to being potentially infiltrated. Theyll either recede or speed up. Well just have to monitor it. Is he competent to be in the oval office . Thats a good question. When we come back how members of the president s own parties are respondsing to tonights breaking news. One describe describing the white house as in a downward spiral. Mattress firmness . Enter sleep number. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. You can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. Save 700 on the temperature balancing i8 bed. Go to sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. The shlike a bald penguin. How do i look . 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Anybody looking at this, don, is concerned. Everything thats happened over the last week is concerning. But i guess i would urge us and encourage us not to, you know, through trump derangement syndrome go to 100 here. Lets sort of be measured about this. This is deeply troubling, but youre not going to expect to see republicans mass pile on the president. Whats the number, though . Nafgt they dont want the president anywhere near it. What youre starting to see is republicans pull away from the president and hopefully despite him still get some passed because the president doesnt care about the details. So theyre all trying to hunker down. So theyre using him to get their stuff down. You said 0 to 100, bullet can they ignore this the. This could jepper dies all the progress they be any hope of making. I said ignore, but you cant ignore it. The reason youre not seeing Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan and every republican rank callout the president is because they still want to get things done. This is their chance to do it. This was the new york time tonight. It says quote, in fact the ally has repeatedly warn in fact the ally has repeatedly warned officials it would cut off if it were shared. How do you respond to this former cia . Well, its a common concern between allies that share intelligence information back and forth. I mean theres constant bickering and concern raising in this realm about this very issue. But generally you dont have the president of the United States compromising Sensitive Information to a foreign advery just brazenly. And it really is cause for concern. Inrussians will take this information, donald trump didnt have to talk about sources or methods. But if the information was very detailed, the russians can go then use their knowledge and their other resources to reverse engineer the information. Its not certain, though, theyll be able to do this. But it is very possible. And let me tell you how this works because ive watched the russians do it before. It russians may identify, for example, if its a human source who that human source is, approach that human source and say, look, we know you are working for x country or whatever, youre spying on isis. Well, were going to compmizia to isis and youll bedead or you can work for us. And so that source, if its a human source, begins to work for russia as well as trying to stay safe. It gets very complicated. But the big picture is ultimately we lose control through our allies of an important stream of intel. And that puts americans at risk. But shouldnt Americans Care about that, even . Well, of course they should, don, like many things. So earlier you said theres no buyers remorse among republicans. No, i was not saying theres buyers remorse. But im going to let john go. So john, you said theres no republican but theres buyers remerse. There are three people who have come in the room and said this story is not accurate. So if they interviewed three eyewitnesses versus people who lets do it one point of the time. What theyre denying is not actually in the report. What theyre saying is the report is false. Theyve made that very clear that as written the report is false. Theyre saying sources and methods were never shared. Thats not what the report says. So theyre denying something thats not in the report. So theres actually not a denial. So if i say, you know, i never said you had gray hair and then i deny it, then its not there. They deny that donald trump was on the grassy knoll. The point is all of a sudden come on, john john. I think youre being disengine ws. Hold onto the first point. If theyre denying something thats not in the report, how is that a denial of the report . Theyre saying that as written the report that people are sourcing is wrong. They were very clear about that, three people who were in the room. Second, lets be clear of one other thing. We keep acting like he gave the launch codes of our nuclear weapons. The truth of the matter is as much as were an adversary with russia on other things, were actually in the fight with isis. The information he shared is relative to the fight against isis. Third of all, lets also not forget it wasnt him but president obama who was caught on tape secretly telling the russians that after the election he was basically going to give them the store when it came to missile defense. What does that have to do with sharing classified information . Its apples and oranges. If donald trump go on, even. Look, if im saying if theyd treat donald trump different than russia than anybody else. If President Trump was caught giving away National Security secrets, i think everybody would be outraged. Youre comparing apples and oranges. For someone saying give me a chance, and hang on. It was roundly criticized. So youre comparing things that arent necessarily comparable here. President obama didnt give away security secrets on classified information. Lets get back on track. To your knowledge, did president obama ever give classified information away to our enemies . No, he gave away negotiating techniques to our enemies. Thats what the story is about. And i dont remember we have to go back and check, but i dont think its necessary. It doesnt really matter. But go on, even. Yeah, look, i am so tired of hearing people justify some stupid action that President Trump takes by some counterclaim or argument about what happened in the past with barack obama or Hillary Clinton. Get over it. Its not the world were leaving in right now. For heaven sakes, donald trump is the president of the United States, hes woefully unprepared for this role. Hes stepping on himself left, right, and center. He doesnt care to learn the job. Hes too slow on the up take. Hes sloppy, and hes making mistakes, left, right, and center. Get over this. What about Hillary Clinton and obama, get over it. We have real interest here. And actually that is the most obtuse excuse. We are allies alone in that war. It would be barely cooperating. Thats not true at all. That absolutely is true. John, im out of time. There are times were going to have to deal with russia. There are times were going to have to deal with china. Thats not what this is about. The president can declassify anything he wants anytime. But this is a president who was basically trying to brag about the intelligence he has with our archenemy across the table. And margaret is a republican. When we come back, more on aerobreaking news plus why Jeff Sessions is in hotwater in the firing of james comey. Our bombshell breaking news tonight. Sources confirm tacnn that President Trump shared highly classified information with russian officials. Lets discuss now. A former white house ethics lawyer and page pate. Good evening to all of you. Page, you dont think the president broke the law but you say he used bad judgment. How specifically and how bad . I dont think theres any question he used bad judgment. The question is how damaging its going to be to the country. If anybody else had done with what he did in connection with meeting with foreign representatives and leaking classified information they would be prosecuted and put in jail. Fortunately for the president these two laws that govern the release of classified information basically let the president do whatever it wants to do with classified information but its horrible mistake of judgment because the information hes putting out there cannot just endangerer american citizens but put our relationship with people and government that give us information at great risk. You saw in the last segment there are people defending this. Is this defensible or indefensible . All i could say is when i was chief for the Bush Administration we made it very clear how critically important it was not to reveal a classified information to anyone without a security clearance and it would have been a joke if id said and dont release it to the russians. I mean, this is just ludicrous and of course the law will allow the president to do this legally just like he doesnt have the financial conflicts of interest statute applies to him but apply tuesday the rest of the entire executive branch. And he can run around saying hes observe the law where and he doesnt have to do this, that, and the other thing. And he can give out classified information to the russians. But at a certain point people are going to get tired of it. And this is putting our countrys National Security at risk. The president should only be sharing classified information with foreign powers after hes been advised by his National Security team its in our interest to share classified information. And with the russians of all people. Trusting the russians with classified information is like trusting bernie with your pun money. It makes no sense whats going on here. All these happen would the backdrop of the president having fired the fbi director james comey in part of the recommendation of attorney general who repeat lad ereaccused himself because he said he didnt want to deal with it because he said he did not disclose contacts he had with the russian ambassador. Did Jeff Sessions violate his recuseal when he did this . Well, there are two issues. Whether or not you really meant if im going to look at things even if they overwhelmingly not just tangentally touched on these issues. Instead he is fixated it is more of a personnel issue, that he has every right as head of the Justice Department to ensure his chief investigator is somebody whos credible among his ranks, credible among the people he works with the fbi. So thats his excuse there. But remember donald trump has consistently given many but different explanation about why he chose to terminate james comey. One of them being the russia investigation and trying in some way to stop what he thought was a conspiracy. Well, if jeff segs was aware that was even one of the motivations behind trumps firing of comey, then he has not only violated ethically his duty to recuse himself, but also perhaps in the obstruction world to say he knows of a reason someones trying to undermine the investigation and he played a part. But, don, reel important here to keep in mind is the backdrop here. The same day we have a trabl ban argument with the ninth circuit where the president s own men are saying listen, the National Security issue gives me deferred judgment, is the same day we learned he has aapparently disregarded the National Security of a nation perhaps or is acting in a way to undermine it. Its a very, very big issue here. Watch this. I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States. Could he be in serious legal or ethical trouble the. Well, i dont know about legal trouble because i dont know whos going to holds him accountable. I dont know if the president is going to hold him accountable. Obviously congress is not going to do much about it. They cant remove him from office. But i think he said to American People hes not going to have anything to do with the Russian Investigation. And i have no idea how you can be a parts of velting a new fbi director and youre not discussing the Russian Investigation to make sure your new director can move forward with that investigation, to have the proper resources. So i find it important for the director to be involved with that even on the personnel side. Thank you all. When we come back is President Trumps staff secretly slipping had him fake news . 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No. Its really the white house coming apart at the seams. And one of the reasons for that is that this president has not learned what all of his predecessors learned the hard way sometimes, which that you cannot govern effectively without empowering a white house chief of staff as first among equals to execute our agenda and most importantly to tell you what you dont want to hear. Every president needs a grown up in the room who can say no, you cant talk to the russians about that stuff. And no, you know you cant go out and tell fragrant lies. And yes, weve all have got to be on the same page with the truth. And if you want to use your twitter account, thats great. But youre going to have to run it by me first. Shane. Yeah, theres no question that President Trump has resisted structures of any kind and restrictions on his behavior. He doesnt want to be told he cant tweet, he doesnt want to be told he cant go do things. And chris is absolutely right. Reince priebus as chief of staff, even as announcement of his position, from the get go theres division of power in the white house. Everyone is working against each other, and at timesites not clear everyone is pulling in the same direction as the president. Theyre pulling for their own agendas versus his. Its interesting, shane, because in an article of politico you explained how it sometimes come from his staff. So priebus, his goal is to become agate keeper, hes tried to put in a system where the president gets newspaper clippings. K. T. Mcfarland the National Security advisor gave trump two copies, articles. One its a fake. He got all worked up about before staff had to intervene like mr. President this isnt true. Because theres no systems in place, because priebus doesnt actually control the paper flow for the president , hes at risk at getting things that arent true. The. But he often reacts to those things, and maybe this one buzz caught. But there are others that are not caught that he reacts to, chris. And many of his supporters believe them as fact when it is in fact fake news. Yeah, one of the critical things the chief of staff has to do is be the honest broker, teeing up information on every side of a difficult issue, making sure only the toughest decisions get to the president. The most important asset any administration has is the president s time. And, you know, this is clearly a president whos completely undisciplined. President s come into office with a kind of hubris, and they think they have all the answers. As someone said its kind of like alcoholism. Every president hits rock bottom at some point. You know, bill clinton went a career and a half before he learned he had to empower the white house chief in the form of leon pinetta who came in and turned the white house around. Jimmy carter took two and a half years before he realized he needed to appoint a chief of staff. Shane, does the staff matter or does it all go to man at the top in the white house . To some extent it goes to man at the top here. He talked last week he had some communications plans about the firing of his fbi director. They cant spin that in a way that makes it a positive story for the president. He says you cant always listen to them because they dont always have the information he does. Yeah, and they went out and undermined him. Two days later he said nope, i had already decided when i gut that recommendation. And not only that, it was my decision and no one elses. And it had to do with russia. Thats it for us tonight. Ill see you right back here tomorrow. Pcountries thatk mewe traveled,t what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. So when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. Im everything. Im from all nations. I would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark . Because im everything. And i marked other. Discover the story only your dna can tell. Order your kit now at ancestrydna. Com. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. I was in the room. It didnt happen. The white house with a fullthroated denial after the president of the United States was accused of sharing classified information with the russians. What did he say . Why does it matter . And how does this white house stop what one republican senator called a downward spiral . Good morning and welcome to early start on another extraordinary day. How many times have we said that in politics . Im dave briggs. There is not a chaosfree day