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Tonight. diplomats from a dozen latin american countries and canada are urging venezuelan president nicolas maduro to abstain from being sworn in for a second term. they want him to cede power until new elections can be held. the rebuke comes days before his january 10th inauguration to a 6, ride widely rejected as it illegitimate. the foreign ministry says the coalition is taking orders directly from president trump. irish officials say the american detained by russia on an espionage charge has requested help from the irish government. they say they will do what they can to assist paul we lan...

Place in between those two which is asking someone to steal documents, right? so, you know, reporters might have a confidential source and they bring them a document and the reporter says this is great but i kind of need more, could you get more? and there's a question about the legality of that. what is your sense of what the legality of that is and whether that might be tested here? >> so it's one thing for a reporter to passively sit back and receive information and perhaps shape and guide what that source is getting. it's another thing to direct a source to commit a crime. so i think that'...

And that's the larger charge of espionage that would involve intent to harm, intent to distribute national defense information with the intent to harm the united states. if they can show that, they could flip into a larger espionage charge. >> m tatt miller and frank figliuzzi, thank you both. we are learning more about the man president trump wants to lead the immigration and customs enforcement, that story is next. we've shown just how far love can go. (grandma vo) over one hundred national parks protected. (mom vo) more than fifty thousand animals rescued. (old man vo) nearly two million ...

>> so it's one thing for a reporter to passively sit back and receive information and perhaps shape and guide what that source is getting. it's another thing to direct a source to commit a crime. so i think that's where the justice department would probably focus. there's another issue as well and that's the larger charge of espionage that would involve intent to harm, intent to distribute national defense information with the intent to harm the united states. if they can show that, they could flip into a larger espionage charge. >> matt miller and frank figliuzzi, thank you both. we are lea...

Asking for off you've upstages anna chapman. she was a spy. these allegations are not she's a spy, right? >> that's right. because there's no information that she was soliciting or accepted national defense secrets which is kind of what you need to make the espionage charge. she was an agent of influence september here to try to cultivate ties and improve russia's image within the republican party. this 56-year-old man is described as a republican political activist. widely believed to be a man named paul ericson who had ties to the national rifle association. and democrats have release the e-...