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Ambassador to russia doesn't think much of the president's response, here is what he wrote in a tweet. "that donald trump raised putin today for cutting our embassy in russia shows that he doesn't understand diplomacy, imagine wanting to know less about russia's military modernization, that is what trump prays today." is it the case? that by losing these diplomats we are actually losing spy services? >> of course not, this is several hundred employees, many of them russian, a lot of them working on not spying, they are there to help the embassies. again, i think that is an overstatement, hyper...

The father to build a trump tower here in moscow. that's a project that was never completely fulfilled. dana? >> thank you so much for that report. i want to bring back jim sciutto and jeff zeleny. jim sciutto, you cover national security. the intelligence world. have you found anybody who thinks that it's plausible that this russian lawyer was not connected to the kremlin? i haven't. >> well, here's the thing. the way the kremlin operates, this has been with a lot of the meetings the trump world had with russians, you have many non-official spies who report back to the spy services. >> right....

Counsel investigations. >> do you stand by your testimony that there is an active investigation, counter intelligence investigation, regarding trump campaign individuals and the russian government as to whether or not they collaborated? >> to see if there was any coordination between the russian effort -- >> right. is that still going on? >> yes. >> so nothing has changed. you stand by those would statements. >> correct. >> another continuing question for investigators, does russia hold information that could be damaging to donald trump if made public? the collection of such compromising mater...

>> when you consider what occurred in 2016, it is remarkable. spy services around the world are constantly stealing each other's secrets. that's their job in addition to analyzing it. but typically this is done to try to benefit policy makers so they can have insights when they deal with that other country. what happened is the russians not only were doing what they always do which is basically snooping around in the computer systems but in this case they made a decision to basically take emails they knew would be harmful to one side and inject them to the public through wikileaks in order to ...

Described russian interference in the u.s. election as politically the greatest crime of the century. >> right. when you consider what occurred in 2016, it is truly remarkable. spy services around the world are constantly stealing each other's streets. th -- other's secrets. that's their jobs. but typically this is done to benefit policymakers to have insight when they deal with that other country. what happened in this case is that the russians, according to u.s. intelligence agencies, not only were doing what they alway the computer systems of all political parties, but they made a decision ...