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>> i was going to say, and i think david makes a really good point about the expectations game here. i think you a lot of people that are looking to see giant espionage prosecutions happen when what's more likely is the way michael flynn winds up in trouble is based on the foreign agent registration act violations, based on not filling out his paperwork. if there are crimes, they're crimes that are more mundane, lack of disclosure. but they're still crimes. and what we really want is the answer to how russia managed to impact -- >> to be clear -- the legal history is very instructive and it is...

>> i was going to say, and i think david makes a really good point about the expectations game here. i think you a lot of people that are looking to see giant espionage prosecutions happen when what's more likely is the way michael flynn winds up in trouble is based on the foreign agent registration act violations, based on not filling out his paperwork. if there are crimes, they're crimes that are more mundane, lack of disclosure. but they're still crimes. and what we really want is the answer to how russia managed to impact -- >> to be clear -- the legal history is very instructive and it is...

With secretary of state conqujo kerry and being greeted by loved ones and even held his own news conference and yet very little is known about the details surrounding the other prisoner released from cuba. a u.s. intelligence agent who up until now very few people even knew existed. i am joined by cnn national correspondent jim sciutto. what do we been this agent? >> this is a big diplomatic move and it's an old-school cold war spy swap, and known in the u.s. as the wasp network. in exchange, cuba releasing, we are told, a cuban man who provided critical assistance to the u.s. a statement from...

Since the cuban revolution. >> a big diplomatic moment there. and kris, one of the big points of controversy in the president's announcement is the revelation is wasn't just gross, he stressed unrelatedly another, what he really explicitly said was a swap of those cuban prisoners for an intelligence asset, tell us about that. >> we didn't know about this asset, he is a cuban, we have learned that he was critical in breaking some espionage cases, and seeing that some espionage prosecutions were successful in the united states. he was in prison in cuba for 20 years, obviously many of the details...