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I -- that is turned out not to be as helpful as they probably should have been. but if there is anything that cia was created for, it's exactly this. it's the kind of thing where we need to get into the people we need to get information to those people in russia. not necessarily because we know it's gonna create an immediate change, and immediate overthrow of putin or anything like that. but we need to sort of start to get information into that system, because as the russian people who are suffering here, not as much as the ukrainians, obviously, putin is throwing them under the bus. their eco...

>> it is extraordinary to watch all of this. dimitri o, thank you for joining us. we are thinking of you and your parents tonight. >> bye-bye. >> with that, let's bring our experts, michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia, and msnbc international affairs analyst john cipher, a former cia affairs officer. ambassador mcfaul, you just heard that, you've been in the center of this for the last two weeks. you talk and people in ukraine, you are with us on air. at this point, is there anything putin won't do? two days ago it was, we have to hit putin where it hurts, we have to ban russian o...

Was a virtual certainty russia had listened in to the phone calls with giuliani, telling the paper that the kremlin may have been able to learn about, quote, the kremlin's attempts to investigate a political rival months before that effort was exposed and could have used those insights to adapt or amplify its propaganda promoting the baseless claim that ukraine rather than russia hacked the democratic committee in the 2016 election. one official told the paper that russia likely knows more about trump's conversations with giuliani than impeachment investigators do. quote, congress and investig...

Exposed and could have used those insights to adapt or amplify its propaganda promoting the baseless claim that ukraine rather than russia hacked the democratic committee in the 2016 election. one official told the paper that russia likely knows more about trump's conversations with giuliani than impeachment investigators do. quote, congress and investigators have call records that suggest certain things but have no means whatsoever of getting the actual text of what was said, that's according to john cipher, former deputy in chief to russia operations at the cia. quote, i guarantee the russia...

Order to extort money out of people who were the royalty of saudi arabia. he claims jared kushner gave him that enemies list. that is not a normal use of intelligence processes that we have. could donald trump say i did this, i gave him as the essential adjudicating authority i gave him this clearance? yes. but if at any point that information is found to be in the hands of our enemies or is found to have been traded off in some form of horse trading for some personal benefit, then you have an article of impeachment. >> john cipher, what do you see at stake in the security clearance process, e...