the e-mails were sent on october 4, 2016, hours after the wikileaks founder, julian assange, told reporters in a weird videoconference that he would soon release, quote, significant material related to the presidential election. bannon then e-mailed roger stone that day saying what was that this morning. stone replied, fear, serious security concern. he thinks they are going to kill him and the london police are standing down. however, a load every week going forward. three days later the load began. wikileaks began releasing the e-mails that were stolen from hillary clinton's campaign chairman. joining our discussion now dahlia, senior editor and legal correspondent for slate.com. also joining us is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and also an msnbc legal contributor. dahlia, as i say the whole stolen e-mail question is something the media has never