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Legitimate reason for doing that increasingly it looks like there wasnt. fox news chief national correspondent ed henry joins us with more on that russia intel story. ed? >> tucker, this is just breaking this hour. the "new york times" reporting that a shadowy russian tricked american spy out of 100 grand last year. they promised not just information on donald trump but to deliver stolen national security agency cyber weapons in a deal that this shadowy russian insisted would also include, yes, ...

152nd a video of an american businessman and a room talking to two women. according to the "times," there was no way to verify whos in that video and the spies thought that was incredible. the report says the officials eventually agreed to pay the shadowy russian $100,000. instead of turning over and i say hacking tools, he gave them "unverifiede, and possibly fabricated information involving mr. trump and others including bank records, emails, and reported russian intelligence data." the hundre...

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Used in these investigations. >> the russian foreign minister seemed to relish the chaos. >> translator: when we were blamed of doing something, they presented evidence such as fingerprints of hackers. now it is being known that the cia is able to get access to such fingerprints and probably use them. >> the republican chairman of the house armed services committee told fox news he believes wikileaks is being used by moscow. >> we have never seen wikileaks release information about russian or ch...

To compromise apple and android smartphones and even listened through a samsung smart tv. heres former head of the nsa and cia, general michael hayden, describing this to stephen colbert. >> there are some bad people in the world who have samsung tvs, too. there are people out there that you want us to spy on. you want us to have the ability to turn on that listening device inside the tv to learn that persons intentions. this is a wonderful capability. >> reporter: thus far, no evidence of the c...

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The hacking tools that were used. another indicator they say that leads them to official russian government backing of this activity. and the wide disbursal of the nrgs, mainly through wikileaks. now wikileaks say they didnt get it from the russians. its very possible wikileaks is not very clear on the identity of where it all came from. but the u.s. believes that only vladimir putin inside russia would have had the authority to carry out such a wide spread effort. >> okay, barbara, thank you ve...