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Embedded, joined at the hip with russia. so let's look at vel. >> veselnitskaya. happens to the best of us. >> thank you. what did we learn today? we learned in a completely unrelated case that she felt so emboldened, so backed up by the russian government, that she could draft a memo, draft a response to the united states department of justice as if it was the prosecutor, the russian prosecutor's response. you only do that when you have the full backing and support of the russian government. so if there was any doubt in our minds that the woman at that table at trump tower, sitting with the p...

Embedded, joined at the hip with russia. so let's look at -- >> veselnitskaya. >> the female russian attorney. >> happens to the best of us. >> whose name i have trouble with. thank you. indeed. what did we learn today? we learned in a completely unrelated case that she felt so emboldened, so backed up by the russian government, that she could draft a memo, draft a response, to the united states department of justice, as if it was the prosecutor, the russian prosecutor's, response. you only do that when you have the full backing and support of the russian government. so if there was any doubt ...

With. thank you. indeed. what did we learn today? we learned in a completely unrelated case that she felt so emboldened, so backed up by the russian government, that she could draft a memo, draft a response, to the united states department of justice, as if it was the prosecutor, the russian prosecutor's, response. you only do that when you have the full backing and support of the russian government. so if there was any doubt in our minds that the woman at that table, at trump tower, sitting with the president's son, son-in-law, and campaign chairman, was there there as a co-optee of the russi...

Candidates during the campaign. >> steve, it's certainly not every day that an alleged russian spy agrees to a plea deal and starts cooperating with federal prosecutors. >> yeah, anderson. i've heard a couple commentators talk recently about eight years ago the group of ten russian illegals that were caught and then returned in exchange for russian spies. i think this is a little bit different. maria butina in my mind is not a formal illegal. she probably doesn't work directly for the russian intelligence services, but she's rather a co-optee. i think that's why you're seeing the legal path sh...

She was doing it, that we really still don't know, is that correct? >> it's certainly not clear. we do know she's changing her plea. what exactly she's pleading to and who she influenced precisely, we don't know. she met some of the presidential candidates during the campaign. >> steve, it's certainly not every day that an alleged russian spy agrees to a plea deal and starts cooperating with federal prosecutors. >> yeah, anderson. i've heard a couple commentators talk recently about eight years ago the group of ten russian illegals that were caught, arrested and russian spies, i think this is ...