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To handity about a report that president obama punished russia to get in way of trumps policy. >> s was really disaboundaried to read in the "new york times" piece the allegation or see sun supposition that one rein the sanctions are taking place to is, quote, box in president-elect trump. i hoe that this isnt motivated by politics even a little bit. >> in the meantime were keeping a very close eye on two russian compounds, one in new york, the other maryland. usual officials say the russians wo...

Are and as far as cyber warfare goes we need to win cyber arms race. >> the obama administration decided they are going to expel some 35 russian diplomats that -- i guess that would be called spies. otherwise he would let them stay so they would get rid of them and shutting down two compounds call them spy or hubs themselves. why now? if they knew about these things, get rid of these months or years ago? >> we have confirmation now from 17 different intelligence agencies that not only the russia...

Organizations. 35 russian intelligence officials being kicked out of this country, two russian compounds being shut down. were told there will be things we dont know about publically, maybe cyber operations. thats done with the administration leaving in three weeks. how does it set up relations for a trump administration with russia? >> i think theyre all reversible, if thats what he wants to do. what the president announced today was incoherent and inadequate. which is typical of this foreign p...

By restoring our ties is ending its term in an anti-russian agony. rest in peace. caroline shively joins us live from the state department. hey, caroline. >> reporter: hey to you, sandra. president putin said they will not expel anybody. this is an unusual move, one, because of all the tough talk we heard yesterday, but also because in the past when the u.s. has booted russian diplomats, theyve kicked ours out. not this time. take a look. although we have the right to retaliate, we will not reso...

They have? >> i dont think they will have much impact at all and i think president obama searry compromised the signal that he was trying to send by mushing together both the cyber attacks and the harassment of american diplomats in moscow. its the latter that really explains the png of 35 russian diplomats in this country and closing two compounds which the russians are preparing to reciproca reciprocate. the real issue is getting our arms around what we know about what the russians actually di...

In 1972 turning the grounds that once delighted so many family members into a vacation and meeting retreat for russian diplomats stationed in the u.s. on 50 acres by the corsica and chester rivers, that facility is private and ornate with teak floors, oriental carpets, crystal chandeliers, this is according to "washington life" magazine, plus a full library, lovely staircase, views of the river, a tennis court, if you worked in the kremlin in the 1970s getting assigned to the u.s. was for top di...

Good to have peter alexander in washington. well be following the breaking news at this hour. russian president vladimir putin making a dramatic announcement a few hours ago on the kremlins website saying he will not expel any american diplomats or close any u.s. facilities in retaliation for the tough new sanctions imposed by president obama. those include expelling 35 suspected russian spies and their families who have until this sunday to leave the country. the russian embassy in washington t...

What was really going on there? then you have kelly aanne conwa saying theres really no russian military intelligence operating in the united states. how much of what goes on, what is this spy stuff, really does still exist and how close is it to the cold war? >> clearly, it does still exist. it would be naive in the extreme to believe that major countries and world powers do not have the capacity to try to use ways of the intelligence approach to understand whats going on in other countries. in...

Compounds. >> lets start with maryland, 45 acres and huge compound and dozens cottages each and it can accommodate 44 people. a soccer field. i spoke to a friend of mine, he went to parties on this compound. he said it was like a camp on row boat as and he said it was really good parties. >> this is the place that russians would use. the u.s. government is going to say there were a gray area here and espionage is going on. you pointed out something yesterday repeating the proximity of this. >> c...

Moving out, getting the paperwork out. as you said, noon today. so we have passed it. right now the state department is controlling access in and out of the compounds. >> great nugget, back in the early 90s a reporter said that the russians didnt cook crabs the local way, but they stabbed them and threw them into the pots. >> that was an obvious give away. >> the hackers, well talk to the former director of operations for u.s. cyber command about how the u.s. is trying to track down the cyber cr...