Peter Navarro

So this is.

And these charges, as you said, carry 10 years each.

So he could spend the rest of his life in prison, in theory, if convicted on these charges.

But let me tell you what the defense could be here.

I should add that this case has been this case is being prosecuted by career prosecutors, respected people.

Unlike the Comey and the James case, which was avoided by every career prosecutor in the department and pursued only by Donald Trump's political appointee.

This one has gone through normal channels, as we understand it.

But let me explain some potential mitigating circumstances here.

Lots of people.

who have jobs where they see classified information write books.

And they send the manuscript through a publication review, for example, if you're a CIA officer.

And oftentimes, those reviewers will say, sorry, you can't say that.

It was classified.

We're keeping that out of the book.

Well, that information was classified.

It went over an unclassified email system.

Those people don't get prosecuted for doing that.

What's at issue here are not documents marked classified, which was the case in the Donald Trump indictment.

This was information that John Bolton gathered and wrote down in diaries and sent that the FBI and the CIA and other people have determined contain national defense information.

And when you look at the descriptions in the indictment, it's pretty clear that some of it probably did.