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John? alisyn? >> it's always interesting. foreign actors know the intelligence value of social media here. all right, evan, thank you. trying to exploit it as well. if you want to know what your candidate thinks, start with their ads which are already numerous, expensive and, above all else, telling. john avlon here with our "reality check." >> follow the money. america is headed for the biggest, ugliest and most expensive election ever. less than 90 days out from the iowa caucuses, we've already seen more than $100 million spent on political ads on the way to an estimated $6 billion by the ...

The world's most wanted man hid, possibly for weeks. intelligence value whisked away, flattened by rubble of repeated airstrikes. we obtained these images from a local cameraman able to function in a region where al qaeda is strong but civilians long to be normal. shells littered the area perhaps from the eight helicopters that arrived here in the dead of night before u.s. commanders blew holes in the compound's walls. abu woke about 11:00 and was surprised to see helicopters. before long, a blast. houses one kilometre away were completely shattered, he said. we waited until sunrise before we ...

Himself and the three children. his body was mutilated by the blast. >> and this is where it happened, northwestern syria not far from the turkish border where he was able to live in anonymity. air strikes destroyed nearly everything in that compound. >> reporter: it was the hardest of places to get into and hardest to guess he'd be hiding in. this is all that's left of where possibly for weeks.nted man hid- much of an intelligence value whisked away, flattened to rubble by repeated air strikes. cleared up it seems by the islamists who control the area. we obtain these images from a local came...

That came out of the white house, it seems very farfetched that this would reach the thresho threshold. imagine maybe a negotiation with the foreign leader where you are trying to reign something of intelligence value. this is not that. this looks like someone trying to get information on its political rival. where this breaks down as well in terms of classification, this is not a call that's encrypted and secured in between two protected parties in the way we may think of intelligence activities. this is a call between president trump and the foreign leaders. the foreign leaders does not have...

Of the president and vice president. your targets are foreign intelligence. but if you intercept for example two officials of a foreign government talking about the president, that may well be of important intelligence value. >> bob can't answer this, but two officials told me that the rule is if a u.s. official is on the line they are listening to, they stop. >> that is what i had always heard. is that not really policy but sort of a norm, john? >> it is certainly practice. you know, a lot of things in government are practice. and there is probably a regulation that governs that. i don't know...