TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MCMASTER: “National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster faced the press Tuesday afternoon in hopes of quieting the storm caused by a Washington Post report that the president had shared classified information with two top Russian officials during a visit to the Oval Office last week.
He might have made things worse.
Asked a direct question as to whether Trump discussed classified information with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kisylak, McMaster dodged.
‘We don’t say what’s classified and what’s not classified,’ he said. ‘What the president shared was wholly appropriate.’
McMaster continued his defense of Trump. ‘I should just make the statement here that the president wasn’t even aware of where the information came from,’ he said. ‘He wasn’t briefed on the source or method of the information either.’ “
-Chris Cillizza, “Did H.R. McMaster just make Donald Trump’s Russia problems worse?,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 16, 2017 2:31pm