Emergency Edition: Trump Gives Classified Material to the Russians

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This afternoon, the Washington Post broke a major story: Donald Trump disclosed highly classified material to the Russian ambassador and Foreign Minister in the Oval Office last week, compromising a highly sensitive counterterrorism program run by an allied intelligence service. This evening, we got former DNI General Counsel Robert Litt on the line for a discussion with Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes of the latest mess. Litt helped coordinate and manage the intelligence community's response to the Edward Snowden revelations, so he knows a little something about responding to massive intelligence disclosures. We talked about how bad the disclosure may be, what the remedies for it are, and what we still don't know.

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1:08.0	May 15th Special Emergency Edition.
1:12.0	The Washington Post is reporting this evening as you probably already know
1:16.0	that Donald Trump committed an egregious act of disclosure of highly sensitive intelligence information
1:26.0	with you guessed it, Sergei Kislyak, Ambassador of Russia and Sergei Lavrov,
1:32.0	the Foreign Minister of Russia last week.
1:36.0	It's a shocking story and we decided to put together a emergency podcast on it.
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