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The cia comes out of 20 years of saying were going into a business of working with security services in places like pakistan to hunt terrorists. maybe recruiting terrorists. were paying less attention to iranians, chinese, russians, north koreans. and now im not surprised people in the cia i can guarantee you are saying when we get back into the business of the real spy stuff. north koreans, as i said, russians, chinese. are we as good as we used to be? and im sure there are some people, chris, ...

Saying were going into a business of working with security services in places like pakistan to hunt terrorists. maybe recruiting terrorists. were paying less attention to iranians, chinese, russians, north koreans. and now im not surprised people in the cia i can guarantee you are saying when we get back into the business of the real spy stuff. north koreans, as i said, russians, chinese. are we as good as he with used to be? and im sure there are some people, chris, who are answering that quest...

100 involving cia officers. cases are spiked. they are mushrooming around the globe. weve seen a new set of victims come home from vienna, a hot spot for spies. new cases in africa that was previously unreported. this is very much still happening and its happening now. one of the things that i think has been very tricky for the cia and the intelligence community at large is its been very difficult to determine whether any one person who is reporting these symptoms is experiencing the same thing ...

>> i knew there was work we needed to do to make sure the investigation was on rock solid ground. >> the associated press says that you asked for a backup plan to protect russia evidence. what -- what was that backup plan? >> i cant tell you the details of the backup plan, but i can say this, steven. thats our job, right? thats our job, to prepare for eventualities. >> is it on like a thumb drive under a brick, dupont circle? did you have to do spy stuff to hide it? >> its on the tape reels that...

Ultimately recruit people who can give secrets to the united states that we could use in our long-standing feuds with russia. second and honestly more likely i think the russians probably snatched him up for political reasons. either because they want to facilitate a swap later on. of course you remember anna chapman, sort of a model russian agency type women who we arrested in 2010 for western spies. or it could be the russians thatll be rough sledding in the united states for them this year be...

Michael flynn hes bringing up where michael flynn apparently suggested or went along with some turkish plan to reclaim one of their nationals here in the united states against his will? >> here is why this is significant, chris. weve known that michael flynn has a russia problem. its also pretty clear he has a turkey problem. he was made more than half a million dollars to lobby. he has this meeting where according to wools i a plan was discussed to send this clerk back, a potentially legal plan...

Nonessential not even needed people and treated with one broad brush. thats just to start. and the top lines of how bizarre this statement was from president trump. >> quickly, david drucker, before we go, you know, as lynn points to, these diplomats like the highest of them, secretary of state rex tillerson, he said by september 1st we will have a response to russia on expelling these diplomats. and the president just responded and undercut him, did he not? >> well, even though the president di...

And republicans in congress refuse to acknowledge that because tax cuts and repealing obamacare are just more important to them. >> yeah. you know, scott, now having known, you know, malcolm and naveed for a year now and talked about all the spy stuff with them, its obvious that if there was a vulnerability on the -- for jared kushner specifically, maybe even for the trump family, money feels like its a part of it. to go back to this nbc news scoop on june 5th one of the question kushner is expe...

Operation against america. so it doesnt even matter what happened at the meeting itself. it might. but thats the big picture here. and republicans in congress refuse to acknowledge that because tax cuts and repealing obamacare are just more important to them. >> yeah. and, you know, scott, now having known about the veselnitskaya for a year now and talking about all this spy stuff with them, its obvious that if there was a vul neither for jared kushner specifically and maybe even for the trump f...

Himself and that episode and just said, you know, those guys did it, theyre going to have to take their punishment, that is what could have saved richard nixon, im persuaded. a little quick surgery. but he was the compulsive minutia man. he had to get involved. he had to dabble in this -- in this conspiratorial spy stuff. and he pulled it all into his office. >> what is the dumbest thing you did? >> the dumbest thing i did was not to go to him when i realized this and say, look, if you dont go o...