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The missing binder full of highly classified intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election could have ended up being shared directly with Vladimir Putin himself, warned former CIA Director John Brennan on MSNBC's "All In" Friday evening.

But even if not, he warned, there are other nefarious uses former President Donald Trump could have had for it.

"Right now, I have to imagine the protocol must be an assumption by the part of the intelligence community, that that binder has fallen into — there must be some damage assessment they've already done, and something they're doing to figure out what to deal with the possible repercussions of that being in the wrong hands," said anchor Chris Hayes....

A binder of highly classified intelligence about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, last seen with former President Donald Trump, has gone missing, and no one seems to know where it is — coinciding with a moment when the former president is being prosecuted for retaining national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago country club.

All this smells rotten, argued former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg on MSNBC's "The Beat" Friday evening — and it could lead to criminal charges.

"So Kristy, [former FBI official] Frank [Figliuzzi] has talked a bit about accountability, like reforming the entire system for dealing with classified information. But accountability could also take more mundane forms like legal liability or criminal liability," said the host. "Is there perhaps criminal liability for whoever took this binder, whether it was Mark Meadows in the Oval Office with a candlestick, or someone else?"...