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Cnn's aaron mclaughlin is in the town at the center of the spy war. do authorities have any idea where exactly the scrippals were exposed to this nerve agent? >> well, if they do, ryan, authorities simply are not saying. they're being extremely tight-lipped with the details of this investigation. in fact, most of what we know at this point is based on what we can see and an area of focus for them in particular right now is the local cemetery. and that's significant because that is where scrippals' wife as well as his son are buried. his wife dies of cancer in 2012. his son died of liver failur...

We're going to talk about your book. next hour, but right now, there are a lot of people with their fingers on the key boards wanting to order this. tell us about this. >> this book, the spy is a novel about two big things. china, and its intelligence service, and china's race to dominate the united states and the world of technology. so if there are two things that this piece of fiction tells you that are a matter in terms of the real life visit by our president to china to take up the rest of the week. chinese want to dominate the most powerful computers that are built. they've announced tha...

Knowledge that there will be this imbalance in the bureaucratic infrastructure. trump doesn't seem to want to invest more in intelligence. he's not reading his report. so all of this means the russians have hit the jackpot. >> because you worked at the state department, let me get your take on this. part of cnn's report iing on th stepped up efforts by russian spies in the u.s. is that the state department is still willing to give out a lot of these temporary visas, even to these suspected russian intelligence officers. it's complicated, right, because you need a reason behind not granting a v...

That the american public and electors know who has been involved and make sure that we protect the integrity of the american democracy. and that's why tomorrow, when we vote in the electoral college, i'll be putting forward a mot n motion. >> are you concerned as well about what we've heard, particularly over the last week or so? cia, fbi, president of the united states. members of your party like john mccain, lindsey graham. are you concerned that this was influenced somehow by russia? >> look, concerns, i'm always concerned about espionage. i assume this is the modern version of a spy war th...

Like landing on an aircraft carrier. >> the aircraft is commanded to other places, and new missions. we envision it will have programming to be able to sense the environment. >> reporter: the navy will now have to consider the moral and ethical implications having warplanes not under the constant control of human beings. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. happening now, spy war is heating up. first this arrest, now russia outs the man it says is the cia station chief in moscow. a killer tornado outbreak. bigger than anyone thought. now emotional survivors are speaking out. and the mayor o...