probably could have been exposed, and do your assessment accordingly. oh, boy, director clapper, thank you so much. i appreciate it. i want to bring in cnn political correspondent abby philip. also senior legal correspondent elie honig, he s the author of hatchet man, how bill barr broke the prosecutors code and broke the justice department. and former special watergate prosecutor john sale. he s also a former personal attorney for rudy giuliani. good evening, everyone. aly, i m gonna start with you, because i want to get your reaction to to what we are learning for the washington post tonight. we re talking documents so top secret that many national security officials are kept in the dark about what these documents contained. does this bolster the fbi s case that they needed to take action to retrieve these documents? for sure, don. i think the criticism of the fbi we ve heard from donald trump and others is they acted too rationally, too precipitously. why did they not try other
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trump world in the federal criminal justice system. so they think he s a flight risk? there are concerns he is a flight risk. this is a guy who has extensive contacts, enormous network particularly in the middle east, all this work he s done. and he has almost unlimited financial resources. so there s absolutely a concern that he s a flight risk. i mean, the nature of these charges don t necessarily make you a threat to society or someone who should remain bars, but there is a concern he s a flight risk. and there s already at least one person in this case who s been accused of fleeing when they realized they were under scrutiny. paola reid, fascinating. now from ely honing, also the author of hatchet man how bill barr broke the prosecutors code and corrupted the justice department. obstruction of justice, make false statements to authorities, illegal foreign lobbying i mean it s not surprising i guess given what we ve seen in trump