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Russia, really to soil the democratic process. he also wants to be perceived by his own people and the world at large as a standing toe to toe with best thanks to his asymmetric relatively inexpensive espionage operation. this was one waiting to be discovered. and then, it is waiting for us to do something about it. and he did not. >> and 16. i mean tell me a little bit about him. he is under sanction, was stationed in december because he has his concorde company mentioned in the indictment that apparently was building a base on the russian border near ukraine and even then they abused russian...

More than they want out. let's turn to our nbc national security analyst clint watts, is this everything out transparency, or is this political selective transparency for partisan purpose. >> it's totally partisan, it's selective, it's cherry picking, and it's also put out under this vail veil of the public needs to know. and the public does need to know. that's why we're doing the mueller investigation. and you need to determine if someone is part of an espionage operation, foreign terrorist organization, foreign terrorist target, and that's why you investigate, because you're trying to get t...

Often with the help of the fsb, which allowed them into the country in the leadup to the winter olympics in sochi. now he's saying we need to work together on cyber security after perpetrating not just a major hacking of the u.s. democratic election system, but probably the greatest espionage operation even during the cold war. the russians never did what they did in 2016. putin is taking a deep bow and trump is patting him on the back for it. i agree with the senators, it's like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire brigade. i understand this talking point. we need to work with the russia...

Become some international espionage operation where one country is trying to trick the voters here into thinking one thing and the campaigns are retaliating through intermediaries locked up in embassies. i just think that's nuts and, you know, i think it's easy to either go into the legal weeds here or get interested in the intrigue or the drama and that's certainly where roger stone wants us to go. you know, our democracy was attacked and i certainly hope the members who take his testimony at the hearing really hold him to account to find out what happened and don't get caught up in the drama...

Participants here have mentioned, roger stone accusing others of malining him is a pretty rich irony. this is someone who's spent his professional life maligning people on the other side of the partisan spectrum. so i think, as the others were hinting at, i think he wants to put on a show. but i do want to touch back on the seriousness of what we're talking about here. if you had someone who was an adviser of the trump campaign talking to julian assange who is in the ecuadorian embassy, i'm not a lawyer, i don't know the law, that's really scary, and i don't think any of us want our politics t...