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Veteran national security official Leon Panetta rebuked the Trump administration following reports that the President had shared highly classified information with Russian officials.

President Donald Trump's decision to apparently share top-secret classified information from a foreign ally with two top Russian officials last week, according to sources who spoke with CNN and The Washington Post, seems, on its face, inexplicable.

A Washington Post report that President Donald Trump shared highly classified information with Russian diplomats in a meeting last week drew immediate reactions from intelligence officials, who warn any revelations jeopardizing "a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State" would severely impact international cooperation on matters of national security.

Less than a week before US President Donald Trump arrives in Israel, the White House has been forced on to the defensive over reported comments by an American diplomat describing the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City -- one of Judaism's holiest sites -- as being in the West Bank.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will likely take a wishlist to his meeting with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, and at the very top will be calls to scrap a US plan to arm Kurdish rebels in Syria.

Republicans in Congress barely had time to get their footing Monday, as another wild development, this time reports that President Donald Trump had revealed sensitive intelligence to Russia's foreign minister and US ambassador, swept the Capitol.

If President Donald Trump did indeed reveal highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador, many lawmakers said his actions are irresponsible and potentially dangerous.

Visitors to the Trump International Hotel in Washington were greeted with a provocative message Monday night: "Pay Trump bribes here."

President Donald Trump shared highly classified information with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during a meeting in the Oval Office last week, according to reporting by the Washington Post.

President Donald Trump's governing agenda, which only 10 days ago showed signs of gaining steam, appears to have derailed in the aftermath of he allegedly shared classified information and dismissed of FBI director James Comey, both of which threaten to alienate Republicans while bogging down the White House once again.

Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina said Monday he has removed himself from the list of potential candidates to be the next permanent FBI director.

Hillary Clinton officially announced Monday her post-2016 election plans: A political organization aimed at funding "resistance" groups that are standing up to President Donald Trump.

On Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer refused to offer any clarity on a simple but absolutely critical question: Is President Trump taping phone calls he makes and receives? The president has nothing further on that," Spicer said at one point.

Influential Senate Republicans are questioning whether one of their own -- Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn -- should be tapped to run the FBI, amid a deeply chaotic political environment after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the bureau.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she would have retired if Hillary Clinton had become president.

Defense attorney and constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz said Monday that President Donald Trump is now facing "the most serious charge ever made against a sitting president" after reports that he shared highly classified information with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador during a White House visit last week.

Confusion at the upper levels of US government was on display Monday as the White House scrambled to respond to a report that President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russian officials last week.