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Very different situation. we track people rather than pull them off the street. we knew what was going on and we should say the state department will take over. there are compounds that we use in and around moscow. there are compounds like this in russia that our diplomats use to take their kids on holiday. this will be used as a new years location party for many people at the embassy. we do the same thing. some of these are reciprocal. and thanks as always for that. democrats are claiming fake ...

Is going to look at the russian meddling and the hacking that did occur and congress and the administration got all the pacts and we can determine a course of the actions. i dont believe it would be prudent and it would be politically difficult for him to do. >> thanks as always for the time. >> thank you. t. >> squeeze in a quick break and democratic senator is traveling this week to ukraine and the baltic nations. she is out there with republican senator and lindsay graham. what she is learnin...

Obama. >> tell him to cut it out, there will be serious consequences. >> reporter: freezing the assets, banning business contact with americans, russia also accused of harassing diplomats abroad and espionage operations in america. >> weve seen verbal and physical harassment. weve seen them try to revoke credentials, detain them. >> reporter: 35 russian diplomats in the u.s. expelled, just 72 hours to leave. closing two russian government compounds, rec centers allegedly used for spying. in a st...

Widespread commitment to figuring out how to defend our country most effectively against cyberattacks. this is a national defense issue. thats our first obligation as members of congress, as federal officials. so i think thats what we ought to be focused on and i think there probably will be pretty good bipartisan support for doing that. >> john yarmuth from kentucky. happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you, craig. the clock ticking now on two russian compounds on u.s. soil. white hous...

The u.s. is expected to expel 35 russian diplomats suspected of being buy spoospies, close two compounds in maryland and new york expected to have russian activities and sanction two leading intelligence services, sanction three russian companies that supported these hacking operations, they also will be penalizing four top officers at the organizations. also, two russian people who have been named in unrelated cyber activities and those two people are suspected of stealing $100 million from u.s...

Before we get into the details of that, we have by executive order, president obama sanctioning two of russias intelligence services. as we have seen, two compounds have been shut down. you have these two bills. take us through it. >> first is to understand the russian hack, the election system, and how to protect ourselves from future attacks and what should be the appropriate response. the second will be the anxiouses imposed against russia for their cyber attack against us.

Cafeteria, and they served great food and good vodka and finished, these were really good parties. >> the compound in long island, it was bought in 1954 for $80,000. it has to be worth 100 times that right now. its nicknamed the nor wich house. youre looking a to the aerials of it there. the state department took control of this pound youre seeing it there from the air. the state department took control of this compound at noon today. they shut it down. theyll be the ones who control it from thi...

All right. two russian compounds have been shut down here in the united states, part of that sanctions package that was announced yesterday by the white house. one inn centerville, maryland, n your left, just outside of washington, d.c. another on long island, not too far from where we are, also shut down with russian diplomats driving away as state department agents looked on. but what were these buildings and what exactly went on? who used to go to these compounds. msnbc senior editor cal perr...

Parties were thrown. lavish partys were thrown. we know, for example, the ambassador spent a lot of time there especially in the 80s and this is a place where you would have not only this diplomatic activity but espionage happening at this compound and as the american officials work through this, theyll shut down the compounds and put not just the individuals behind me on airplanes but 35 in total, steve. >> yeah, and what do we know about whats going on inside these places too? >> i think we ca...

During the cold war and one of the things that they did is remove the parking passes that the russian diplomats needed to go to the beach as kind of a measure of like a warning. >> that was it. >> the point of this is weve known the guys for a while, three decades. we known the compounds. none is really new information for u.s. intelligence. >> these compounds though, it sounds as if the russians were saying, these are recreational facilities. the government now saying, in addition to them being...