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That. fbi obtained thousands of internal memos from sputnik to see how it ran from the outside. another staffer says the outlet pushed him to try to obtain private e-mails from john brennan, and refused because viewed as request to commit espionage. sputnik says this inquiry undermines press freedom. look at this fairly. if the government is investigating a real news outlet for its journalism, could be bad for press freedom. but that's actually the whole question the feds are investigating. are outlets like sputnik independent news or kremlin propaganda? it matters. there's freedom in united s...

Everybody is compromised. that's what he's using rt and sputnik to do, undermine the position of legitimate media. >> so confusion and chaos is a goal in and of itself. >> in this particular case, fake news is a putin stratagem. >> hunter, your view of former employees that you spoke to. >> the company says they've all had performance issues but justice department is clearly taking it seriously. as david was alluding to, rt and sputnik both described by u.s. intelligence community as part of the influence campaign by russia to influence the election. >> thank you both. >> more with sputnik wit...

Colleague mike issuekof focused on sputnik, it's funded by russian government. but this afternoon rt, english language tv station run by russia and reporting that one of their suppliers has been contacted by doj and told to register under this act, fara, foreign agents registration act. it does seem to be widening, never seen fara used to go after foreign media, hard to tell where it would go. allows for criminal penalties up to five years in jail but wouldn't necessarily ban a foreign media outlet. just require them to give better information about their finances and material they're putting ...

Gainesville, 164,000 residents there when school is in session. trying to figure out how to recover in the days ahead. ari. >> morgan radford, thanks for your reporting. stay safe. now back to the fbi digging into sputnik. michael mcfaul, thanks for being here ambassador. you've dealt with sputnik in professional capacity and it's hard to know what to call it. that itself is part of what is under dispute and investigation. walk us through your experience with employees and what you thought of their work. >> i know the people that created sputnik, one an old friend of mine. sputnik, i don't t...

Day. when sputnik puts out #crookedhillary, it's pretty clear what side they're on. and there's normative and ethical and maybe legal issue we have to come to grips with as a country. we don't allow the russian government to provide direct noun a candidate right? that's illegal. should we allow the russian government to tweet #crookedhillary. and at minimum should we tell people that see that tweet it's the russian government? >> and putting finger on the other issue. we've got reports they were there trying to push government officials to respond to them as if they were legitimate press, to g...