obama administration from the get-go of this administration have been tout sandbag the president, but if there are still members of this current administration out to do the president harm, that s no good. laura ingraham was tweeting last night. the washington post didn t talk to any white house official at the meeting who confirmed their story. mcmaster they did quote, however he denied that the post story was accurate. ainsley: she is going to join us in the next hour. brian: would any other administration get this kind of scrutiny? if all of these things were coming out of the obama administration, the bush administration, would there be this kind of uproar or does it seem like the big target is on this president nonstop and most people say deanna powell and rex tillerson as competent as anybody. also, as the president gets set to meet with the turkish president today and on friday go on his first overseas trip, is there a push out there to hurt anymore? is there a push coming fro
information. judge napolitano was with us 20 minutes ago and he says no laws broken. listen. well, he may have broken rules about the manner of declassifying information. but that s not a crime. under the law, the president can declassify anything. so he can take a top secret. this top secret is called s.a.p. select access procedure. it s the top of the top secret. he can declassify that there may be political fallout for him declassifying it. steve: sure. as we will find out today as i think the day progresses. steve: no criminal charges. correct. ainsley: even the new york times article said in this morning in like paragraph three or four says doesn t appear to be illegal that the president has the power to declassify almost anything. that s what the president is saying in this tweet i have the absolute right to do this. steve: dot dot dot. brian: i would hope that h.r. mcmaster or deanna powell or
exist, they see crimes and conspiracies. the rest of us may complain that trump is undisciplined and impulsive, fair. they regard him as the single greatest threat to western civilization since atomic weapons. brian: that was tucker carlson yesterday. a bit of a push back. irving was trying to deny themselves the details. army general out there saying i was in the room and there was nothing that was expod. also the thing to keep in mind, too. donald trump didn t tweet out last night that shows discipline. let my guys handle it deanna powell handle it. they were there. they can walk it back. i just also think this russian thing deserved the access to be in the room. they have been untrustworthy along the way it could have been the photographer who-to-say something that they were told not to release information. ainsley: you have the the washington post cheering because they got so many hits on that story when it posted online. do you think it s because they are cheering because they a
as bombs, the president either intentionally or inadvertently gave an indication as to the source of that. steve: he mentioned the town in syria. mentioned the town in syria from which the human intelligence came, meaning a spy. an american spy, a local spy, we don t know who. he said the information didn t come from american intelligence. it came from a foreign intelligence source, an ally of the united states. which apparently didn t want that information out there because it s their spy that s jeopardy died. that s the washington post version. general mcmaster who says he was in the room said that that s not the way it wanted ha. he wasn t quite specific about what happened. but he denied. rather emphatically, that the president revealed any national security secret. what do we know? we know that somewhere along the line there is a leak to the the washington post. it was either somebody in the oval office at the time. and that s a finite number of people. steve: deanna powell,
safety because russia had the plane blow up over the sinai there are certain rules can you take on and off a plane when you are in certain countries coming into the u.s. he said he thought that is what it pertained to. brian: for eight month we were bringing up that the secretary of state had a private serve are with all this intelligence on it and then have you chelsea manning who gets out of prison after releasing all this devastating information anyone who comes down and says this is a light sentence you are crazy overreacting. hillary clinton everyone is overreacting. the president says something that h.r. mac master and teen deanna powell and rex tillerson said was not a big deal. and all of a sudden everyone is beside themselves as saying, you could say wow, i m disturbed this was exposed. i wonder how it was done. we better stop. this but the way people are reacting as if the world is coming to a close because of what may or may not have been reported. steve: all we know the wa