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To protect this country. >> okay. can you stand by panel? i want to bring you back. i'm going to bring in cnn correspondent jessica schneider because we have news tonight about the release of a convicted russian spy. good evening there is news a convicted russian spy has been released back to moscow. that spy part of the same spy ring that we heard about earlier this week because they tried to recruit carter page back in 2013. what can you tell it's about this that? >> this is evgeny. he is 42 years old. he was released on prison on friday after serving 26 months of his 30-month sentence. now ...

Released from prison on friday after serving 26 months of his 30-month sentence. immigration and customs enforcement took him into custody upon release from ohio prison five days ago and escorted him back to moscow today where he was turned over to moscow authorities. it all happened in the same week that carter page was revealed to be a target in spy ring his associates were operating in 2013, they were in the city in an offer for intelligence source he admitted to earlier this week but revealed his research into energy policy and nothing illegal about that communication but again, don, this ...

Buryakov, in an effort to make carter page an intelligence source. page admitted he did correspond with a member of the spy ring but he was only revealing information about his research into energy policy and there was nothing more nefarious or illegal about that communication. but this russian spy who is reported today, he was never implicated by the feds as dealing directly with carter page, but he was working with at least one russian who did meet with page. so a very interesting development today. >> so why was this russian spy released nearly four months short of his full sentence? >> it ...

Operative named victor podobnyy who was later charged along side two others for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government. a former campaign adviser met with and passed documents to a russian intelligence operative in new york city in 2013. the adviser met with the russian intelligence operative named victor podobnyy who was later charged with two others. quote, a court filing by the u.s. government contains a transcript of a recorded conversation in question he speaks with one of the other men busted in the spy ring, igor sporyshev. buzzfeed has confirmed male-1 is carter page. he...

Fbi had hidden microphones inside the binders. and he got the listen to everything these guys said, even though they thought they were in the most secure environment. inside the russian mission they thought they were essentially on russian soil. they certainly had diplomatic immunity, they were in russian space, but the documents they had were bugged. there were microphones in the binders. so the fbi got hours and hours of tape off those microphones in the binders of these guys talking when they were sure nobody could hear them. one of the things those guys talked about was the other guy in th...