that. you know, you talk about an expert, country expert in the state department. no one is an expert to donald trump more than expert to donald trump on anything he knows something about. it is amazing though that it took a whistleblower almost on the third year to disclose all of this. this is obviously the mo. it took a whistleblower to state the obvious about all the crazy and all the legality that defines donald trump s presidency. i still can t get over rudy giuliani giving the fake package to secretary pompeo and italy there is a picture circulating o on twitter how it was photoshopped. the white house s logo. a knock off version and it is kind of symbolic of how wrong everything is going right now
ordinarily have access to it. the white house what i mean by that is if you re sort of a country expert or you re in an issue area, you normally would get access to conversations from that area. and other senior people who had security clearance could get it. at the time this conversation happened, the white house had already started restricting these memos, fearful of press leaks. we re told that this memo about this conversation with lavrov and kislyak was restricted even more tightly, so that only very few officials could see it. that said, clearly an understanding of what happened in that conversation did get around, and i would note that this is the same conversation in which the president revealed a highly classified source of information that the united states had about isis operations and also remarked to the russian officials that after having fired jim comey the day before, that he had relieved a lot of pressure on him at the time. remember that when the president fired jim
the white house, mr. trump said he wasn t concerned about interference with the 2016 election. we know that essentially, this was no longer available to people who might actually ordinarily have access to it. if you re a country expert or issue area, you would not get access to that area. at the time this conversation happened, the white house started restricting these memos, fearful of press leaks. this memo between lavrov and kislyak, was even more tightly. what happened in that conversation did get around. and i would note this is the same conversation, in which the
things publicly. you know, when talked about vladimir putin s a killer. a lot of people are killers, there s a a lot of people do a lot of things. it is extraordinary to hear the president saying that directly to the russian ambassador and the foreign minister. is it clear to you how that conversation was limited? the reporting that cnn had earlier, cnn was only able to say that the the distribution of it or the access to it was limited. do you know any more details on how it was limited? sure. we know that essentially this was no longer available to people who might actually have access, ordinarily have access to it. now the white house what i mean by this, if you re a country expert or an issue area, you ordinarily would get access to conversations from that area. other senior nsc people who might have security clearance could get it. at the time this conversation happened, the white house had already started restricting