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But the post reporting is we have stopped that linkage, we think. i agree doesnt make sense. it does make sense or you can follow the logic if theres going to be some kind of trade swap here. i would like malcolm maybe can shed light on this, every major powers compound is going to have spy stuff in it. our diplomatic residencies everywhere have people who work for the cia and theyre not all just gathering information. great powers do spy craft. russia probably does more than anybody, certainly ...

Pomp pompeo, mike pence and donald trump used this exact same information during the campaign. as the former fbi agent that testified in congress said, it was the trump team that actually used these operations against the united states. they used them. >> this is what happens when you invite snakes into your backyard. they will end up biting you. this is goingo ben ongoing challenge for this administration, the ties to putin and undermining of u.s. democracy at all levels. were going to have to ...

Were going to start with british spy stuff. if you are into british spy stuff, even spy novels and bbc cereals and that kind of stuff, you will know there is a convenient mnemonic device for us americans about british spy stuff, a convenient device to help us remember what the different british spy agencies are. they have one domestic intelligence agency thats mi 5. thats the rough equivalent of fbi. they have mi 6 which is the equivalent of our cia. and theres this handy mnemonic device which i...

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...

The cia had become basically a branch of the military after 9 /11. he said he wanted them to get back to their real purpose as an agency which is collecting intelligence. less killing, more traditional spying. now, though, it has been one terrible story of the cia screwing up the basic work of spying even against our own best allies. outing their own people, own assets, toeltally failing the president by not telling the white house what was going on. this is terrible. is this a sign that that ag...

Is this a sign that that agency really is getting back to the work of spying and theyre like an agency in transition and theyre just rusty? or is this just an agency that is flailing in a more typical way? joining us now is mark mazzetti, national security correspondent for "the new york times," author of "the way of the knife: cia, secret army and a war at the end of the earth." thank you very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me on. >> i am not an expert on spy stuff except for fake...

>> the president is out of office. men in the nixon white house went to jail. what was the mindset -- what happened? >> thats the problem. i dont know what happened. >> the burglary had nothing to do with richard nixon at the time that it occurred. if he had kept distance between himself and that whole episode, he didnt know about that in advance, im persuaded. i never heard anybody come forward with any evidence that he did. if he had kept distance between himself and that episode and just said...

Men in the nixon white house went to jail. what was the mindset -- what happened? >> thats the problem. i dont know what happened. >> the burglary had nothing to do with richard nixon at the time that it occurred. if he had kept distance between himself and that whole episode, he didnt know about that in advance, im persuaded. i never heard anybody come forward with any evidence that he did. if he had kept distance between himself and that episode and just said, you know, those guys did it, they...

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 out there and make this clean,...

Men in the nixon white house went to jail. what was the mind-set? what happened? >> thats the problem. i dont know what happened. >> the burglary had nothing to do with richard nixon at the time that it occurred. if he had kept distance between himself and that whole episode, he didnt know about that in advance, im persuaded. ive never heard anybody come forward with any evidence. if he had kept distance between himself and that episode and just said, you know, those guys did it. theyre going to...