they don t want mulvaney s involvement in possibly holding up the the aid and all the legal questions there to sort of kind of wash over their kind of national security reputation. so i do think there s this other dimension of what s going on. so this might get branched out into two separate suits. mulvaney might give his own suit or file his own suit. right. if it s found that mulvaney has to testify or if it s found that kupperman has to testify, does that mean that everyone s going to have to testify? does a ruling for one apply to everybody? not necessarily. one of the other things that has been pointed out is that both bolton and kupperman, they say stand on different legal terrain because they no longer work for the president. yeah. and so that that could really make a big difference in terms of a judge drawing lines. mulvaney, of course, still works for the president and so the
that s it for us. ac 360 starts right now. piers, thanks. good evening. it s 10:00 in the east coast. we begin with allegations the white house is leaking state secrets, supplying information for political gain. john mccain is leading the charge and has bipartisan support. mccain claims the white house orchestrated leaks to boost president obama s national security reputation heading into the election. the reports include classified data on a computer virus attack on iran, as well as cia drone strikes. the release of the information in these articles harms our national security and puts in danger the lives of the men and women who are sworn to protect it. the only conceivable motive for such damaging and classified leaks of information is that it makes the president look good. we ll talk to senator mccain in a moment. the white house are flatly denying the charges. jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of cl
jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. all this outrage stems from a wave of news reports of secret operations overseas including an article about u.s. cyberattacks on the computers they ran uses to run the nuclear facilities. the scoop is based on interviews with current and former officials involved in the program. now some of the information came from current officials working on the program. listen to how he refers to the source. he was deep into every step in slowing the program, the diplomacy, the sanctions a senior administration official said. that wasn t the only one. in three other recent stories having to do with national security the source or sources cited were administration officials. one of the things that senator mccain is angry about is the white house is ignoring leaks that make the administration look good with taking a hard li
puts in danger the lives of the men and women who are sworn to protect it. the only conceivable motive for such damaging and classified leaks of information is that it makes the president look good. we ll talk to senator mccain in a moment. the white house are flatly denying the charges. jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. i ll have senator mccain respond to that in a moment. all this outrage stems from a wave of news reports of secret operations overseas including an article about u.s. cyberattacks on the computers iran uses to run the nuclear facilities. the reporter david sanger comes out and says his scoop is, quote, based on interviews with current and former officials involved in the program. now some of the information came from current officials working on the program. listen to how sanger refers to the source. quote, he was deep into
men and women who are sworn to protect it. the only conceivable motive for such damaging and classified leaks of information is that it makes the president look good. we re going to talk to senator mccain in just a moment. the white house for the most part is flightily denying the charges. jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. i ll have senator mccain respond to that in a moment. now, all this outrage stems from a wave of news reports about secret operations overseas including a new york times article last week about u.s. cyber attacks on the computers i rarn uses to run the nuclear facilities. the reporter david sanger comes out and says his scoop is, quote, based on interviews with current and former officials involved in the program. now some of the information came from current officials working on the program. this is a direct quote from t