joining us now is abigail spanberger, nominee for the seventh district, trying to unseat dave brat. thank you for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me on. >> so we've seen this story unfold over just a quick few days. what do you think, this release of this very sensitive document from your time applying as a federal law enforcement officer and a cia officer, it was all released as an accident. >> that's the explanation that they've given. it doesn't change that it was released in violation of the privacy act and it was given on this research firm and then later circulated and provided to journalists. so i am incredibly disappointed this. this human error, it so profoundly maktd me but i'm glad it dime light so it doesn't affect others. >> as far as the response we've had thus far, have they notified any of the other people who may have been subject to the same kind of breach? they made reference today in their formal statement about this matter that there may be others whose personnel files with who knows who is in them, may have also been breached. do we

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the reason abigail spanberger found out this had happened is thereafter the republican party and a pac run by house speaker paul ryan happily started shopping this document to reporters and started using it in political attacks against her in her congressional campaign. i mean, that is a legitimately new thing in politics. we're all supposed to be jaded observers in politics, there is nothing new under the sun. this is new. this is new. i mean, maybe we should have expected it anyway, it was all new when republican decided to yank security clearances from john brennan because of his role in the russia investigation and the president doesn't like the investigation. apparently this is next. once you break that seem. now republican party is using the stuff if campaigns. we will have more including the strange non-response thus far from the agency apparently responsible from releasing this do you mean. if this document was released, if this wasn't an accident by some rocky employee, who will now be punished and prosecuted for having done this, of course, we should expect this will become a

democrat abigail spanberger says the congressional leadership fund is using the information for politicals. the superpac which is aligned with house speaker paul ryan, denies the allegations. >>> and a florida congressional candidate who hit tv screens with an ad pushing impeachment lost his bid for his democratic nomination. david richardson lost to donna shalala in a primary for a representative ileana ro ross-lehtinen's seat. >> there's one word official washington doesn't want you to hear. it's [ bleep ]. it's [ bleep ]. it's impeachment. >> and up next, few people were closer to john mccain in the u.s. senate than lindsey graham. senator graham is going to be here to talk about his friend up next. >> the bottom line is, folks, that the people that he served with in jail will tell you the same thing in prison that i will tell you. he is loyal to his friends. he loves his country. and if he has to stand up for his country, so be it. he would die for this country. i love him to death. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was s