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training status of their personnel or command and control, there is a whole plethora of kinds of information pertaining to a nuclear offense or defense that could be revealed or information could be inferred by exposure of these documents. >> this is obviously very valuable top secret information. but what is the value of this top secret information to another country? because, you know, only a certain number of countries have nuclear capabilities. >> well, that's right. it is a fairly small club of nine or ten, depending on if you include north korea or not, i guess. and as i say, t...

and, or, importantly, the obverse of that is that it could also indicate what we do not know about a foreign nation. which could give them some form of reassurance, particularly if it's an adversary. so, nuclear capabilities, number of weapons, how many are on alert, maintenance status, training status of their personnel or command and control, there is a whole plethora of kinds of information pertaining to a nuclear offense or defense that could be revealed or information could be inferred by exposure of these documents. >> this is obviously very valuable top secret information. but...

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 toni...

These documents contain. 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 measures? first of all, we already know they did try other measures for well over a year they tried informal negotiations. they don't get all the documents. they tried to subpoena, they didn't get all the documents. and the search warrant was really there sort of last option. if anything, if this reporting from ...