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cant be on the ballot? how does that work? what is the limiting principal for that? >> we dont need to have judges making these decisions. we need voters. >> if they dont run a free and fair election in colorado, ill drop out, too. >> the court will make that decision. he supported an insurrection. >> i dont want to support a candidate that wont be on the ballot. >> it will create more animosity and help trump because theyre doing this. >> neil: rocky mountain slide? the debate off the...

Kendalls retirement was detrimental to our case from the standpoint we wanted to show positively that he was accessing national defense information and provideing it to the cubans. that was essential to charging espionage. >> now he was enjoying his retired life on his beautiful 34-foot sail boat that hed bought in sweden, brought to the united states. >> from my perspective, he was a bit of a hypocrite. he supported the cuban and socialist movement from a yacht. i couldnt quite wrap my head aro...

And prove that case. we wanted to show positively that he was accessing national defense information via his access there at the state department and provideing it to the cubans. it was essential to charging espionage. >> and the information we had suggested that kendall was working for cuba but we still did not have him providing national defense information to a foreign power. >> we were starting to get a little frustrated because while we were happy that we the unsubor kendall meyers, were no...

It was really important for us to prepare the under cover as best we could to go in there and kind of press them. >> our under cover did a great job of pushing him for a specific example of something sensitive that he had passed to the cubans. and kendall provided a few examples. which did meet the threshold we were looking for with respect of being examples of very sensitive and classified signals of intelligence. >> what was it? >> absolutely not going to tell you.

I couldnt bare to watch at this point. i was so afraid it was going to go wrong. but then the undercover pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and wrote it down for him. and it became very apparent to kendall who this was and that he was there on behalf of cuban intelligence to reestablish contact with kendall in an effort to gain access to information. and agreed to meet later that afternoon. ho hook, line, and sinker, absolutely. >> after that initial exchange happened, kendall went in and the...

>> and thats what we had to try to do. and he did not do it. so he was not removing classified documents from his office and walking out of the building. we were all convinced its him. but no counterintelligence, no espionage indicators. >> so kendall s had had no activity, no contact. >> it appeared that they were no longer operational. they werent continuing to provide the cubans with intelligence. that presented us with a problem of not being able to catch them in the act if theyre not still ...

Mentioned anything about something not being right, gwen did say at one point hey, do you think this is all right? and kendall said absolutely. this is good. its my birthday. cuban cigar. >> gwen may have had had some reservations but kendall convinced her everything was okay. after the initial meeting in the hotel bar, there were three more meetings we had with kendall with our undercover. >> during the discussions they were confirming operational detail. so he told the undercover his code name...

Concerned, he was a model employee. he did his job magnificently. he was a well-respected analyst in the office of intelligence and research. >> so kendall was an analyst for the state department, but this wasnt a case of the state department being penetrated, that was a case of the intelligence community being penetrated. kendall myers worked in the intelligence community portion of the state department, so he had access to intelligence reporting for all intelligence agencies. >> unfortunately,...

So he was not removing classified documents from his office and walking out of the building. we were all convinced its him. but no counterintelligence, no espionage indicators. >> so kendalls had no activity, no contact. >> it appeared that they were no longer operational. they werent continuing to provide the cubans with intelligence. that presented us with a problem of not being able to catch them in the act if theyre not still active. it doesnt matter, what matters is that at one time or anot...

His 1978 trip to cuba and conveyed a very positive image of cuba, a very negative image of the united states. >> it was a glowing report about the cuban revolution, how the people are doing well. castros a great leader. >> it essentially conveyed kendalls infatuation with cuba. >> kendall s diary was critical. the next piece in evidence was stunning. >> in a filing cabinet in their closet, there was a record that indicate gwen a tumor on her shoulder in late 1996 that was a matrix point that we ...