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Federal prosecutors started their day today with the cooperation of someone new, a russian operative at their disposal. maria butina admitted she sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with americans having power and influence over u.s. politics for the benefit of the russian federation. we should note, she was successful at that. vladimir putin distanced himself from her this week, said he asked around, nobody knew her. but today foreign minister sergey lavrov told russian media, quote, we will do everything to provide the rights of our citizen and enable her return home as soo...

She's a volunteer. she's an amateur. she had no operational training in espionage whatsoever. she communicated via social media, not a spy, an agent, possibly with loose connections to espionage svr or fsb. but not a trained spy. >> jack, look at it this way look at the return on investment. she's just an entry level bargain basement agent, comes over here, climbs the ladder to the senior rank of the republican party, has the nra convinced that the right to bear arms is actually a thing where she's from in russia. she was cavorting with the top leadership of the party and the campaign apparent...

Members to high-ranking campaign officials. there they all are, and future high-level administration staff. here with us tonight to talk about all of it, malcolm nance, a veteran of naval ] special ops, homeland security, 35 years working in counter-terrorism who wrote the book on this topic. it is called "the plot to destroy democracy, how putin and his spies where disabling the west." also we're happy to welcome jack barski back to the broadcast, a former kgb spy. he cooperated with the fbi. he is now an american citizen. he quote the book "deep undercover,". jack of the three of us you're t...

Behaved themselves. so it was real easy and inviting. >> so malcop, back then it was the trump campaign. now it's the leadership structure in the country you wore the uniform of and fought for overseas. how do you view those 14 individuals? >> well, i take a holistic view of this. first off, they are 14 individual contacts in various times, various locations, with various people. but there's one consistency with all 14 of these people, and jack has a really good point about how they were an inviting target because based on their characteristics which one of jack's old friends uri would say, th...

Federal prosecutors started their day today with the cooperation of someone new, a russian operative at their disposal. maria butina plead the guilty add midding she sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with americans having power and influence over u.s. politics for the benefit of the russian federation. we should note, she was successful at that. vladimir putin distanced himself from her this week, said he asked around, nobody knew her. but today foreign minister sergey lavrov told russian media, quote, we will do everything to provide the rights of our citizen and enable he...