Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. I was away last week for a trip to Provence with friends and family, but, believe me, I was pining for you, my readers, the entire time.

Looks like I’m back just in time for the crazy story that broke over the holiday weekend: a massive leak of American intelligence documents, the likes of which hasn’t been seen, arguably, since the days of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. In tonight’s edition, my conversation with Senate Intelligence chair Mark Warner about all that and more.

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The documents themselves are proving to be a nightmare not just for the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community, but for America’s friends and allies. They’ve revealed some of our most tightly-held secrets about how...