this is like throwing gasoline on an already burning fire really. his motivations remain unclear. he also remains at large. we will continue to follow the situation and see we know that he spoke to a conference in jordan but by video link or videotape of some kind. so he remains on the run and he knows that he is a wanted man. we will continue to follow that. see what happens. colonel, thanks for coming back. good to see you. thank you. shannon: there is a lot on the president s plate right now. he is outrage as north korea s brazen attack on south korea. also the wikileaks document drop in the mix. already a contentious political environment here at home. let s get back to our political panel now. ail alexandra, i want to start with you. any chance that this solidifies or unites got parties here in washington as we sort of have to unite against attacks from outside the u.s. and issues from outside the u.s.?
fighting back. well, first of all, we obviously need to know exactly what happened that has caused this incredible flood of information which can be harmful to the united states and our allies. and we ought to think about ways of responding such as a cyber attack on those that are responsible for it. wiki leaks has been working with a number of publications. the new york times, the german guardian and other european papers that have access to the documents and we should begin to see some of the details coming out throughout this afternoon. shannon: malini, thank you very much. for more on the wiki leaks document drop, lieutenant colonel shafer joins us now to talk about it. your initial reexercis reactioe the fact that we hear hundreds more documents are coming? that is part of the problem.
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that the confidential source was a part of the trump campaign more anything to indicate he was ever imbedded into the trump campaign. he reportedly appears to have provided the fbi with information about his interactions with the three trump campaign officials as the fbi was trying to investigate russian meddling in the american election. that s the timeline. now, three points that i want to make. first, ask yourself this, when the fbi was contacted by the representatives of a u.s. ally, australia, and told that a presidential campaign operative had accurately predicted a hostile government s document drop of stolen e-mails of another presidential campaign, what should the fbi have done? run it down, of course. second, as noted by aaron blake of the washington post, the reason these facts don t make sense as a spygate conspiracy is that if the aim were to undermine donald trump s election, then why did all of this remain a secret until after the election?