>> fred pleitgen, thank you very much. let's try to get some answers to these questions. joining us is cnn political analyst and "new york times" politics editor, patrick healey, and retired cia chief of russia operations, steve hall. so steve, why would veselnitskaya admit this now about being an informant? is she going rogue or likely doing this with putin's permission? >> ana, i think there's probably a great deal of confusion with regard to thisn't informant th. and i think it's a lot less important than what her actual job title is or how she describes her or when she describes herself. i think those of us who have been covered russian for many years have held for a long time that this visit that she paid to trump tower to meet with cree members of the trump team was always part of a larger operation being run by the russian government, but the russian intelligence services. and that she was part of that. her denials that she was just a