Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180326:21:43:00
Here under nonofficial cover. they were here as academics and business people but they were russian spies. that investigation was going on for more than a decade. and the fbi didn't blow their cover because they wanted to follow them around. they wanted to garner as much intelligence on them as possible. so clearly there is some intelligence benefit that we get to monitor these individuals but also a second principal and that is the principle of reciprocity. we know that when we expel two russian spies, the russians are then going to expel a couple of our diplomats. so we know and we can assum...