The White House is denying claims that Donald Trump shared classified intelligence with senior Russian offials during a meeting in the Oval Office last week.
According to the Washington Post US officials say the US President began disclosing details about an Islamic State terror threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft to both the Russian Foreign Minister and the Russian Ambassador to the US.
The report adds that the US ally behind the intel source had not not given the US a green light to share the highly sensitive information.
The Trump administration is knocking down the story saying it's false.
The US Secretary of State released a statement saying no 'methods or sources' were revealed but stopped short of saying no classified information has been shared with Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Kysliak.
A similar rejection of the story was given by Trump's National Security Adviser HR McMaster when he addressed reporters outside the White House....
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