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good to be back. >> it's great to you have here. do you remember the name brandan van grek? >> as i have memorable name. if not, the circumstance of which you first heard it? but if you are like me and the first time you heard the name brandon van grabbing is the first time you heard the word he is spee naj formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, not just spy movie stuff, as in u.s. law. we were only about four months in to the trump administration when "the new york times" was first to report that the then brand new trump admini...

Inherited from them. files seized from a former president part of espionage inquiry. what it meant specifically is that search warrant that they unsealed cited a portion of the espionage act that concerns the handling of national security information that could harm the united states or help our enemies. it means to get that twoornt search the house, prosecutors had to prove to the satisfaction of a federal judge that there was probable cause to believe that at trump's home they would find evidence that that part of the espionage act had been violated. that that crime had been committed. now t...

Offering to the trump administration to get what this government, which is so anti-russian, which was lethal aid, lethal force in fighting the russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine. >> and as part of what they may have arranged here, not only were the investigations into manafort dropped but it appears at the same time that kilimnik was allowed to leave ukraine despite the fact there was an espionage inquiry into him and he was allowed to go to russia, which is where we think he is now. >> yes. and if he's in russia, he's never going to see the inside of an american courtroom. russia a...

The business interests that he represented did not go anywhere. and in fact they tried to mount a challenge to the pro-western government that had come in with petro poroshenko, who was himself extremely corrupt. and it is not -- you know, closing down an investigation into one corrupt guy is not crazy in a government that's also riddled with corruption. so you know, i think this kind of makes sense as a kind of offering to the trump administration to get what this government, which is so anti-russian, which was lethal aid, lethal force in fighting the russian-backed separatists in eastern ukr...

Himself extremely corrupt. and it is not -- you know, closing down an investigation into one corrupt guy is not crazy in a government that's also riddled with corruption. so you know, i think this kind of makes sense as a kind of offering to the trump administration to get what this government, which is so anti-russian, which was lethal aid, lethal force in fighting the russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine. >> and as part of what they may have arranged here, not only were the investigations into manafort dropped but it appears at the same time that kilimnik was allowed to leave ukrain...