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This reporting tonight and we're doing what we can to match it. we haven't at this point. i will take issue with one way that they characterize the indictment yesterday against tom barrack. and this is a characterization i've seen a lot of different news organizations make, but it's not actually technically right. and i think it's technically incorrect in a way that might be important to understanding the significance of this case. as cnn put it, federal prosecutors in brooklyn investigating tom barrack for allegedly violating foreign lobbying laws. it wasn't really a lobbying case. this case ...

There is a word that is sometimes used, co-optee. oftentimes soviet intelligence service would co-opt members of the diplomatic corps to sort of be trusted assets as it were. to say the ambassador was such a thing may be stretching it. i've got to believe a man as dynamic as he was and as detail oriented as he was certainly both knew what was going on and to the extent he could helped out. >> so i think these distinctions are important. i appreciate you making them. it's one thing to call somebody a spy. it's another one to understand what else they may have been doing. we don't know. we don't...