leading democrats are scratching their heads. a statement from the russians would be the potential recipients of this intelligence and may determine the source is all the more problematic since their interest in syria and elsewhere is in many respects deeply antithetical to our own. so the back and forth continues. all i can tell you is here they are frustrated and i think that s putting it mildly, shannon. shannon: we re getting denials and explanations about what he did tell the russians. what about what he didn t tell them? sources and message. you ll hear that expression a lot today. for people not familiar with what that means. it means that what the president did share did not in any way jeopardize critical mission experience and information. that s what they will tell you at the white house. nothing that was said in that meeting somehow would put americans at risk.
allowed into a meeting with the president. the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador in ways that moeft people aren t. if the president wants to look people who are much suggest he closer to him than he suspects. secondly, congressman could not more disagree on russia and its intentions. senator graham is 100% right. the russians don t wish us well. they re an adversary power. i agreed with mitt romney when he said vladimir putin is the biggest threat to world peace today and we need to acknowledge it. the president shouldn t go around trying to impress the russian foreign minister with information he has. the reality is the russians are not impressed. the russians are playing us for fools and the faster we recognize that the faster we can get back to doing what s right and now what the russians think is right. shannon: we got this interesting denial coming from the foreign ministry spokesperson in russia saying the president did not share anything they considered to be
pushing back against claims he jeopardizeed critical intelligence sorcerers by sharing classified information with top russian diplomats. he tweeted this. secretary of state rex tillerson and national security advisor h.r. mcmaster deny reports the president revealed intelligence gathering methods and sources. doug schoen is a former advisor to president clinton and alex con ant is communications director for marco rubio. alex, we got statements from within the administration from secretary of state tillerson and from national security advisor on camera the words were very carefully chosen, though. they were. it was probably the most
the information that could have leaked it. what does the president do about these constant leaks? he has to stop them. somebody in the administration i don t know if it s somebody he appointed. it s probably career bureaucrats who hate donald trump almost as much as the news media. that would be impossible. somebody is doing everything they can to undermine the presidency. forget it s donald trump. this is an undermining of the office of the president and therefore really it s an undermining of the integrity of our government. everyone in that room said this did not happen. every person goes on camera, dena powell, rex tillerson and mcmaster said it s a lie. donald trump says i didn t give out anything that wasn t in public. you know what the media is reporting? trump confirmed that he gave out classified information and he most certainly has not confirmed that. this is it s the most stunning thing i ve ever seen when it comes to the media.
happened, if it did not go through an internal process and it was a strategic decision to share the information with the russians you risk undermining our relationship with allies around the world including in europe and in the mideast where we are dependent on them for vital information to keep americans safe. so i know it is president trump s top priority to keep americans safe and secure and if he did this because he thought it would keep us safe and secure it s very defendable. if, however, this leaves american less safe and more vulnerable to terrorists because we don t have as good intel as we did prior to him telling the russians this information, it is a huge mistake by the president and something that i think republicans on the hill will hold him accountable for. shannon: doug, a few seconds left. the new york times piece they talked about the fact the president may not have understood the sensitivity of what he was sharing. there wasn t the an mouse there crossing an ethi