the president wrote james comey leaked classified information. that is illegal. according to the hill sources, some of the private memos of comey s conversations with president trump about the russian investigation contained classified material. however, there is nothing in the hill, we should point out, in their report thag suggests it memo that comey gave to a friend that eventually made it into the press contained classified information. jessica schneider is back with me on this. pulling double duty today, i appreciate it. lay this out for me. reporter: the president there in the tweet claiming james comey leaked classified information. like you said, kate, there s nothing to indicate the memo he gave his law professor friend to leak to the press, there s nothing saying it contained that information. the former fbi director wrote
the president is represent thag country we have built and fought for over centuries. as we move away from that tradition, it s not just terrorism. terrorism is a concern for everybody. to say that is the organizing principal, it undermines what we have together built out of the ashes of the second world war, which is this liberal, international world order, free trade, human rights, growing democratic systems. that is what has allowed big parts of the world to grow and prosper and unleash this incredible potential. if we say the u.s. mission on the world stage is to fight terrorism, we are under mining this magnificent structure that we and our allies have built over the last 70-plus years. we are doing it at our own peril. gor dan, you are an expert in this area. that is expected to be a huge
bill. what would that do? what is your feeling on the idea of using that extra money? as tempting as it is to comment on what they should do with the bill, i m going to resist doing that because the senate leadership did not weigh in on our deliberations. i want to respect their process. i m not going to intervene in their deliberations to get through the bill. talk of cnn on the immigration bills, you are talking about making public safer but actual law enforcement chiefs have complained that, you know, forcing these policies and what they feel inhibits them to do their job and cutting money that goes to fighting crime and terrorism in their community will only make their communities less safe. do you think they are say thag in bad faith? if not, how are you convincing them this is in their hands? first of all, i will tell you with certainty, the overwhelming numbers of law enforcement
department of justice? yes. and to whom did you show copies to? i asked the president tweeted on friday after i got fired that i better hoped there is no tapes. i woke up that there maybe corroborations for our conversations, my judgment is i need to get it out to the public square so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of it with a reporter. i asked a close friend of mine to do it. carl bernstein. a lot of supporters of donald trump is saying he admitted of having leaked. it is more than him acknowledge thag acknowledging that he leaked. we have seen the former director
what s to come? reporter: we just got excerpts from the president s speech. he wants to try to reset relations with the muslim world. he s hope thag this speech helps him do it. let me read you a portion we got from the white house. he s going to say, this is not a battle about different faiths, sets or civilizations. this is between bar baric criminals that obliterate human life and decent people of all religions. this is a battle between good and evil. thomas, that s really the critical argument and thesis of this speech. this battle between good and evil. he is starting his trip here in saudi arabia to reach out to the muslim world, this speech, a critical part of the outreach. it comes after the inflammatory comments he made as a candidate. he said muslims hate the united