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Putin and others from interfering by creating very tough automatic penalties if they get caught in 2018. >> in expelling those 30 russian diplomats from the united states, u.s. officials said most of them were really intelligence or spies, intelligence operatives or spies. presumably the russians do the same thing to the american diplomats who are now being expelled over the next few days whether cia or other intelligence agents working as diplomats. how difficult will it be to gather intelligence capability in russia? >> how many of these are really intelligence folks? i can assure you the ma...

Information to see if, in fact, that person is the leaker. >> molly: attorney general sessions saying the department have tripled the number of active leak investigations compared to the number in the last administration, he top talked about for people being charged with unlawfully distributing classified information. does the digital age make it easier to track the leakers? >> they are not spies for a foreign government, they are not given support to spy against us. they are not always trained intelligence operatives, a lot of times they don't understand the tools that can be brought. you hit...

At the c.i.a. headquarters today, promising his 100% full support. he's also now blaming the feud on the news media among other things. let's bring back our experts. and jim sciutto, the criticism that the president is now getting is that the site where he went into all these other issues, today, that's hallowed ground over at the c.i.a. headquarters. you and i have been there. >> it is, it's 117 stars, most without names attached to them. of intelligence operatives who have given their life, the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country. the words are right above those stars, they we...

Welcome back to "the lead." we're covering breaking news. in our world lead, the obama administration out with a sweeping set of actions against russia, punishment for what the u.s. intelligence community says were cyber attacks by the russian government on u.s. political targets during the 2016 election. the government will expel 35 russian diplomats. shut down two russian compounds. lisa monaco joins me now live for more. lisa, thank you for joining us. the 35 individuals with diplomatic and consular passes into the united states, who you are now identifying as intelligence operatives, what ...

They have a background in the bath party or in the saddam hussein regime. military officials, intelligence operatives. they have a very codified system. any works of art, preislamic sculpture, they consider to be worship object. gold coins, these things can be sold for money. i think there's also pragmatic value here. they apparently raised the temple in hat ra. how do you smuggle the temple out of iraq to make a fortune. you just smash it. >> now to russia where authorities formally charged two of the five suspects in the killing of opposition leader boris nemtsov. a sixth suspect blew himsel...