Trump's Sources Of Information - Foreign Leaders?

Click here for an article by Hunter at Daily Kos entitled "Conway: Trump gets his information from 'world leaders', is 'magnanimous' for not jailing Clinton."

CNN's Dana Bash was interviewing Conway about the fact that although Trump is being offered daily presidential intelligence briefings (most of which his VP-elect, Mike Pence, is taking), Trump has taken only two so far. (Who needs it? He knows better than the generals and the people that have gotten the U.S. into its current mess.) There was the following exchange:

BASH: [...] Is this true? Has he turned down the opportunity to get classified intelligence briefings?

CONWAY: So he is receiving classified intelligence briefings and the president-elect is also receiving information through his personal and on the phone meetings with over what's now 41 world leaders. In addition to meeting with 60 men and women who could serve in his government but certainly without the promise of any formal position or certainly — [...]

Now, the fact that Trump is skipping the intelligence briefings is bad enough. But since he is also not communicating with the State Department before taking off-the-cuff calls from foreign leaders, the fact that he is receiving information through his meetings and phone conversations with world leaders is astonishing. He is getting his information on the situation in Egypt, for example, from his discussions with military strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi? Is he getting his information on the situation in Russia from Vladimir Putin? Frankly, I find that terrifying.