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Our oelection, globery, and macron telling putin to knock it off as well. i think it is time to take this as serious as we should. this russian government is out to blow up the western alliance. that's very, very clear. it's been true from the beginning. and wolf, for the price of less than a mig 29, look what putin -- look at the chaos putin has sewn. >> pretty dramatic ip deed. you have confidence the trump administration can deal with this? >> i not only don't have confidence, i'm appalled. we have a president who is yet to take this russian threat serious. what we know from our intelligenc...

>> joe, appreciate it. bring in the panel maggie haberman and david gregory, senior analyst jeffrey toobin, reporter and editor-at-large chris cillizza. this case against contractor against nsa how does it shape up legally? >> it's very straightforward. she's a contractor, which like a government employee, has an obligation to keep classified information secret. if, as the government a little, she mailed that document to "the intercept," online publication, that's a crime and very serious crime. i don't think it's legally complicated, and this means this woman is in a lot of trouble. >> jeffre...

The panel, charlie savage, washington correspondent for not times, also an msnbc contributor, msnbc justice and security analyst matthew miller and former justice department spokesman under attorney general eric holder and msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nance joining us this afternoon. charlie, let me start with you, the justice department announced this case about an hour after the report was posted on the intercept. how are they able to investigate and make an arrest so fast? >> well according to fbi affidavits that were put out by the government, the reporters for the intercept had approac...

Travel ban. they have instead called it a temporary pause or just the executive order. >> the first person to face charges for leaking classified documents under the trump administration. >> the justice department charging reality leigh winner with leaking intel to a website. sources say winner leaked was the basis for a story monday published by the intercept. >> the article includes details of a 2016 russian military cyber attack on a u.s. voting software supplier. an internal audit revealed winner was one of six people who printed that document, but the only person who had e-mail contact. s...

The contractor and what was in the document she leaked. >> the document at the center of this case is a classified report from the national security agency detailing how a russian military intelligence unit tried to hack into voting systems here in the u.s. just days before last year's presidential election. sources telling us that the classified report that reality winner of this federal contractor allegedly leaked is the same one described in an art cal published by the intercept yesterday. while there is no evidence that any votes for affected by this hack, this document does provide new de...