Lawmakers Dismayed by Report That Trump Spilled Classified Intel

Democratic lawmakers, and a few Republicans, were deeply troubled by a report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week.

The Washington Post reported late Monday that Trump reportedly gave away information related to an Islamic State plot, learned from a key U.S. partner, during a White House meeting with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. He did not reveal the name of the source or the intelligence-gathering method, but discussed details that could be used to reverse engineer that information, per the story.

The report comes as congressional panels and the FBI, with a new acting director on the job for less than a week, probe the nature of any potential links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

"If the allegations are true, that would be very, very troubling," Senate Foreign Relations committee chairman Bob Corker told reporters. "To compromise a source is something that you just don't do, and that's why we keep the information that we get from intelligence sources so close."

Corker also told reporters that the White House was in a "downward spiral."