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Tonights season premiere of "declassified" looks at the shadowy world of russian agents living deep undercover right here in the u.s. heres a preview. >> the best cover for a spy is the ability to blend in. and just be another citizen. >> an illegal, the agents who quietly blend into the societies of other nations and lead seemingly normal lives while secretly carrying out orders passed to them from moscow. >> the term illegal is an intelligence term that refers to somebody who is here not with ...

Look at it differently. how is that? >>well, for the most part this information was eventually going to come out since we have a national security investigation going right now. there is no need for anyone in the u.s. intelligence community to go out and start stealing top secret classified information and putting it out in the way that this young exair force operator did. but for the most part, you know, that aside, we are learning something new, you know, and far be it from me to speak about s...

And that the russians were intending to set up a system to go after the actual -- you know people who were setting up the -- the electoral process, registration and matters like that. >> raj de, there a dichotomy, a difference between the career intelligence types like our friend malcom and the many, many contract employees because of the extent of the intelligence business these days? we have to use them. is there a difference in quality, loyalty, maturity, or what? >> you know brian there real...

The u.s. intelligence community to go out and start stealing top secret classified information and putting it out in the way that this young exair force operator did. but for the most part, you know, that aside, we are learning something new, you know, and far be it from me to speak about special intelligence. but we are learning that the hack was a lot more involved and that the russians were intending to set up a system to go after the actual people who were setting up the electoral process, r...

Thought that sally yates was fired she refused to defend the ban in court. but was it also an excuse to fire her, she was the agitant. by firing her, they made that go away. >> what do you make of -- i have to say as someone who doesnt spend his life intelligence, the idea that theres -- that flynn was compromised because of these calls, is a little hard to get your head around, were talking about interactions, the content of which we do not know. as someone who is an career intelligence, what d...

I think have to ask, we thought that sally yates was fired she refused to defend the ban in court. but was it also an excuse to fire her, she was the agitant. by firing her, they made that go away. >> what do you make of -- i have to say as someone who doesnt spend his life intelligence, the idea that theres -- that flynn was compromised because of these calls, is a little hard to get your head around, were talking about interactions, the content of which we do not know. as someone who is an car...

This case, and will agree on more is really a big change. because he was so disparaging. we never had a president come into the office saying such terrible things about the intelligence, very demoralizing, and upsetting to those of us on the outside that felt he needed to have that type of information. but now he seems to be gaining admiration and respect for the generals. but its reassuring. >> andrea mitchell in moscow where it already has been thursday for quite a while. a career intelligence...

Illegal. reports this week suggested that rice asked to include the names of trump transition officials in intelligence reports before leaving office. requests that she and other officials have said were lawful. rice firmly denied leaking any information and claimed the pace of unmasking requests during the transition period were normal, noting they require the approval of career intelligence officials. early in trumps interview with the "times" yesterday the president abruptly changed the subje...

Reading. youre trying to understand what you are reading. so you need to know the context of what you are reading. and wonderful, its not -- the process is not as if you pull off a post-it note and uncover the name of somebody. this has to go through a number of people, professional career intelligence officials, who will ask you why you need to know this, why they should grant it. and theres a whole legal process you have to go through. once thats unmasked, the number of people who actually see...

House intelligence committee. good to see you, thank you for being with us. >> good afternoon, thanks for having me back. >> your colleagues sending us a letter, are things moving along quickly enough for you? >> well, right now, we just begun or investigation. and what we want is to get to the bottom of what were the prior political, personal, and financial ties between donald trump and his team and russia. and right now, over the weekend, the president has tried to throw in a smoke bomb to dis...