This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Tonight the Washington Post is reporting that President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian Foreign minister and the Russian Ambassador to the United States when the men met at the white house last week. The paper says that current and former u. S. Officials say that mr. Trump revealed details of an isis terror threat. Details that had been learned by a u. S. Ally. Mr. Trump has the authority to declass fie secrets but telling the russians about the information may have threatened to expose the allied countries intelligence operation. Mr. Trumps relentless criticism of Hillary Clintons handling of classified information may be the main reason hes president today. Justice correspondent jeff pegues is following this. Reporter the meeting in the oval office occurred last wednesday. President trump spoke with both the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador kisl
That. So we continue to work, and well see. But we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. Paul retired fourstar general jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst. Welcome, general. Glad to be here, paul. Paul so what did we learn, do you think, about north korea and its willingness to denuclearize. Well, first of all, they used the same pattern that theyve always done, and that is give us something, and in return we have to give up sanctions on them with the promise that they would eventually give up their Nuclear Weapons. St well, this is the first president that didnt take the deal, and he walked away from it. So i think, i think its not a setback, its a step forward because we have declared that denuclearization is truly ore objective. Theres been some reporting that reallyly what President Trump ws seeking is some kind of normalization of paul or yes. With north korea. And possibly let them keep their Nuclear Weapons in exchange for security in the e peninsula an
That. So we continue to work and well see. But we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. Paul retired four star general jack keen is a fox news senior strategic analyst. Welcome, general. Glad to be here. Paul what did we learn this week do you think about north korea and the willingness to denuclearize. They used the same pattern theyve always done, that is, give us something and in return we have to give up sanctions on them with the promise that they would eventually give up their Nuclear Weapons. Well, this is the first president that didnt take the deal. And he walked away from it. So i think its not a setback. Its a step forward. Because we have declared that denuclearization is truly our objective. There has been reporting that really what President Trump was seeking is some kind of normalization of relationship with north korea. And possibly let them keep their Nuclear Weapons in exchange for security in the peninsula and economic prosperity. Well, thats not the case
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