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>> phil is right. i was listening to him. there are 435 members of congress, 100 members of senate. what about local officials? i think the threat might be just as high with people that are on school boards right now. just as high with local officials being called groomers and the metastasization of crazy before it happened even before january 6th. i think we need to look at elected officials of being culpable pushing this kind of nonsense. maybe im not asserting strongly enough, not emphasizing...

This is a tragic data point in the violence we have seen before january 6th. heck, we go back to the national bomber who thought there were reptilian humanoids. we have a problem. a lot of it is in the data. i think were in for more of it. >> there are all these insane spears theories. he was blogging about january 6th, election conspiracies and that sort of thing. i was talking with michael fanone and phil mudd the last couple of hours about whether or not security needs to be stepped up for me...

Negotiations or discussions is it between the two countries? >> well, never say never, john, but i think right now the focus is on whats happening on the battlefield, because, you know, ukraine is seeking before the winter sets in to press the momentum that it has and the advantage that it has. it has very little incentive, you know, to negotiate when its still gaining territory back that the russians took initially on the battlefield. for russia, i think, right now is not advantageous, because ...

Put through more ukraine to aid in a lame duck session if it comes to that after the election, if republicans do, indeed, win the house, but i think it could, you know, really underscore putins strategy of buying for time, hoping that the coalition, the political coalition to oppose him in the west frays at the edges. >> so, phil, ukraines defense intelligence agency says that russian missile supplies have, quote, fallen below the critical level. the u.s. cant confirm the exact number of weapons...

Inner circle, john, you cant assume that even putin is telling the inner circle what he thinks or what he knows hes going to do next week. how the heck do we know. weve got to make judgments about how aggressive he might be. how dangerous he might be but those are squishy judgments in my experience, john. >> phil, weve got 30 seconds we know there are diplomatic back channels that state officials speak to officials overseas. what about intelligence back channels? >> there would be, but im not go...

Reckless. >> joining me former cia terror official phil mudd. and knows when it comes to vladimir putin, cornered, reckless, defensive, what do you think that means, phil? >> im taking this, first, john, from looking fernlt the cia director director burns who i know, hes a subdued understated individual. hes been around for a long time he knows the russians. so when you look at what saying, you got to take it at face value. if youre sitting in the situation room in the white house, you got to ma...

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Classification review of documents marked as classified that were taken out of mar-a-lago, so about 100 documents. and also, they are doing an assessment of the potential risk to national security. so this work was on hold wherever there was that court flurry with the special master coming in, with donald trump suing. and now this is what the justice department wanted. this is what the administration wanted. they had gone to the 11th circuit to get this picked up again. now they have it and they...

Shouldnt turn those documents over to the fbi and to the department of justice. and the presidents going to say i didnt -- i dont know what came from the white house. i didnt tell kwbd to do anything. i dont know what this lawyer did. i still dont think that president trump is going to get charged in this case, and i would be surprised if he does. im not saying he didnt do anything wrong, and im not saying hes not responsible. im saying if youre looking for reasonable doubt, i would argue hes st...

New tonight, a federal judge naming a special master who will oversee and review more than 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago in august. the news comes after weeks of legal drama between trump layers and the doj over who should get to review these highly classified documents? joining now to discuss is cnn political correspondent sara murray, legal analyst and former u.s. assistant attorney, jennifer rogers, cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd and cnns national security analysts -...