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♪ ♪ chase. make more of what's yours®. in august of this year on a beautiful sunny day in broad daylight a man on a bicycle wearing a wig rode through a quiet berlin park in germany and he shot a man in that park. he shot him once in the torso and twice in the head. the man who was murdered in that park that day was a 40-year-old recent immigrant to germany. ethnically he was chechen. back in the early 2000s when the chechens were fighting a war with russia, he had helped lead forces in the battle against russian forces. after the chechen russian war he reportedly helped the nation of g...

He shot him once in the torso and twice in the head. the man who was murdered in that park that day was a 40-year-old recent immigrant to germany. ethnically he was chezen. after the shechen russianer war he reportedly helped the nation of georgia in their counter intelligence effort. the man had been living in the nation of georgia for several years but after two failed assassination attempts against him there he fled to germany to try to stay alive. and that is where he had been living until they did finally get him, until he was successfully assassinated in that berlin park in august of thi...

Looked at facts and they could not end up with a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits in terms of a criminal prosecution. if they decided they couldn't prosecute on those specific things that is still going to be of interest to congress in terms of the conduct that went on behind the scenes during the campaign. >> when you hear democrats in the senate and the house talk about not only getting the full mueller report and the underlying documents, does that seem like to you they're moving the goal post? >> certainly there's some of that. because this began as a counter intelligence eff...

Because this began as a counter intelligence effort, let's not forget. there are 25 individual russians actually indicted for interfering in the election. the material and information that the special counsel obtained related to those charges and anything like it are the things that are most likely to be when he would because of the intelligence value of them and then there's also the question of unindicted folks who the department of justice has traditionally not outing when they aren't going to indict them. i think that's where congress is going to push the hardest if such folks exist and we...

This, why aren't they stopping the suspected russian operatives from entering the country? >> we are told that counter intelligence is speaking to keep an eye on this activity. in some cases the fbi uses surveillance to track the suspected russian intelligence officers as part of their counter intelligence effort. that was how the u.s. is able to identify and expel 35 russian diplomats accused of spying in response to the alleged russian election meddling according to officials we talked to. u.s. law enforcement officials say some of the russian diplomats have violated protocol by leaving the ...