her lawyer says her contacts caught the attention of the fsb, one of russia's security services. >> i think anyone who is russian has to meet with the fsb when they go back and forth and frequently are asked at the airport what they were doing in america if they have any information for the fsb. >> reporter: and shef was probably a valuable asset for russia. >> i think she was a valuable asset for russia, but i would like to see other versions of maria buttina. >> her boyfriend who has not been accused of wrong doing, they found a note in his handwriting, how to respond to fsb offer of employment. it's unclear which of them it was before. >>> still to come, how close the north korea to actually getting rid of its nuclear weapons? the president is being criticized for not holding the regime accountable and now the white house is responding. >>> and the fight against ms-13, we'll take you to an area in the u.s. hit hard from gang violence and what the governmepresident do about the gang coming up. you don't want to live with mom and dad forever, do you? i'm making smoothies! how do i ch

her lawyer admits her activities and contacts caught the a tension of the fsb, one of russia's security services. >> anyone who is russian has to meet with the fsb. >> experts say she was probably a valuable asset for russia. >> i think mariia butina would have been valuable to the russian government despite the fact she wasn't a classally trained intelligence officer like perhaps someone like anna chapman. >> i would expect to see other versions of mariia butina. >> when investigators searched the home of butina and her political operative boyfriend who hasn't been accused of wrongdoing they found a note in his handwriting "how to respond to fsb offer of employment." it's unclear which of them it was for. sara murray, cnn, washington. >>> a massive manhunt under way for the suspect in the murder of a houston doctor. why police searched his home overnight and when investigators say the suspect did in the days leading up to the shooting. ahoy! gotcha! ah! nooooo... noooooo... nooooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent than the leadi

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services. >> i think anyone who is russian has to meet with the fsb when they go back and forth andy asked at the airport what they are doing in america if they have information from the fsb. >> reporter: experts say she was probably a valuable asset for russia. >> i think she would have been valuable to the russian government despite the fact she wasn't a classically trained intelligence officer like perhaps someone luike anna chapman. >> reporter: when investigators searched the home of butina and her boyfriend who has not been accused of wrongdoing they found a note and it's unclear which of them it was for. >>> joining me is kimberly dozier of "the daily beast." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let me start with the basic question. how worrying is the fact that an alleged russian spy got really close, it raps, or attempted to to a trump campaign? >> what it shows us, if she was, indeed, directed by the russian government as the u.s. government is trying to prove, that russia understands the most important part of changing the mind of your opposition is to get to know peo

when he became the director of the fsb, the first thing that he did was he renovated the st. sophia church, right? the infamous torture center and headquarters of, you know, all of the soviet union's intelligence apparatus. so he did that. and people saw this as a sign that he was a man of faith. and so he recognized that russia was more akin to a nation that czar nicholas i had a motto for which was orthodoxy, nationality -- orthodoxy, nationalism and autocracy. and russia at that time was creating an entirely new class of money where the oligarch key, the -- oligarchy, the uber-elite rich of this nation. and so doing that, he could also add to that philosophy, oligarchy, which were the supporting fiefdoms that made him president. and he understood that being an autocrat and keeping a firm grip using the intelligence apparatus of russia, that he could determine who was rich and who was not rich. in doing that, russia has now become essentially a functioning autocracy. it's not a rich country. a lot of people mistake the fact that because they have atomic bombs, because they

they started giving her information and she ended up giving it to the fsb. once they caught her red handed she was quietly dismissed. they weren't able to arrest her because she was a russian citizen. certainly the russian government wasn't very happy about it. >> when she was suspected of being a spy presumably they gave her information to see if she would distribute it to the russian intelligence community. >> originally -- it wasn't a lot of information here and there. it was just in drips and drabs. they realized the fsb was getting a lot more information. she had access to the intranet of u.s. secret service, the e-mail system. we asked the secret service whether any national security information was compromised. one official told me that this woman didn't have access to classified information. the secret service laid out a statement that said the duties are limited to translation, interpretation, cultural guidance, liaison and administrative support. at no time did any secret service office had foreign nationals provided or placed in a position to obta

i have no doubt based on my experience, russia fsb, the internal security police, would have detectedo this collection effort and sought to seed their own disinformation in the dossier. the way russian propaganda, just like its kgb predecessor works, 90, 95% of what they tell you is true they want to establish their bonefides. then tell you a few things not true to sway influence the targeted audience after the audience is accustomed to reading things they find to be truthful. trish: so it is possible that was all a bunch of garbage directed to christopher steele by the kremlin. now walk me through -- which by the way the hillary camp paid for, let's not forget. if you want to talk about collusion as some people in the media talk about it. that might be worth looking into. on other hand you have russian lawyer that sits down with trump, jr., and that is seen as some kind of smoking gun for, well surely there was collusion then with the russians. what do you make of that? >> so the russians, their intelligence services with which i'm very, very knowledgeable i must say based on my care

all the russians are reporting to the fsb in one way or another.y went way farther than the other ones in getting documents, the president's schedule and the rest of it. what they probably did in a case like this is you put a camera in her office, film her, watch what she is getting access to and then fire her. but for me the big point is that we are coming out with this now. this is leaked out. what the federal government, what the state department and cia are telling us is we are coming after the russians. we don't care what this president has to say about putin, it is a new relationship, turning a blind eye to election meddling, we are coming after him. this is more a part of it. >> it is almost like a freelancing -- i find it -- to your point, people make some mistakes. she gets caught. now we are hearing about it. you are saying that is very much on purpose. >> very much on purpose. we normally fire these people quietly. the fact that it happened a year ago and it is coming out now tells the whole story. you have the national security agency a

a lot of information going to the fsb, one of the russian's primary security agencies.eally, they caught her red handed in a sting. they started giving her -- letting this play out, giving her certain types of information which they saw was being passed on to the fsb. of course, notified secret service and she was fired last year. >> what does the secret service say about this ? >> they are trying to downplay the role of this woman. officials have told me from the state department and the u.s. secret service has told our white house team that this woman did not have any access to national security classified information. they did in a statement say, quote, all foreign service nationals who provide services in furtherance of our -- they are host country locals that are local hires, who provide services in furtherance of our mission can be subject to foreign intelligence influence. this is of particular emphasis in russia. these employees, these foreign service nationals, they do have contact with their local governments as part of their job, whether it's cultural, admini

they kind of did a sting operation, passed information to her that reached the fsb and she was caught>> thank you very much. >>> there's also breaking news in the trial of the former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. prosecutors highlighted his lavish spending. his long time bookkeeper testified today he was actually broke by 2016. jessica, jurors heard a lot today about manafort's expensive taste. >> that's been the crux of prosecutor's arguments. on the flip side, his bookkeeper today was on the stand saying that despite thele ma lmillions made, he was flat prosecute bbr. that was around the time he offered to work for the trump campaign for free. and he got a bank executive a position on the campaign. paul manafort's dire financial situation outlined for the jury. the prosecution dropping the bombshell that manafort was broke by 2016 after spending millions maintaining his lifestyle. after manafort's ukraine consulting money dried up, he turned to bank fraud. manafort's business and personal estate bookkeeper spent hours on the stand detailing how manafort's lobbying firm was

we don't want to have people working for the fsb inside the embassy.acting with people, having access to information. there is good news. i think it's highly unlikely she had access to classified information. that are just does happen in the embassy for russians for foreign nashs working there. but because she worked for the secret service as you just alluded to, she probably would have access to the schedules of people like the vice president and president. that obviously is not good. >> walk us through where this fits on the spectrum of expected, possible, low risk, impossible. you operated in an environment where rachel and others have reported on before where there were all kinds of explicit measures taken against you and your team there. so you obviously, this is not like working in the canadian embassy. i should say the u.s. embassy to canada to be precise. did it cross your mind that this was part of the risk you faced from your own staff or russians hired by secret service and the embassy? >> absolutely. of course. with good reason. just one an

related entities and individuals ranging from the internet research agencies social media farms to fsb and gr you are actors who rushes date on the fence on bomber at which has been supplying billions of dollars worth of weaponry to the assad regime. additionally, treasury has issued findings pursuant to the patriot act against a major latvian tank that was laundering money for illicit activities a set of russia and we have engaged globally with partner nations to apply their anti-money-laundering regimes to target financial flows associated with russian organized crime and the maligned behavior of the kremlin. russian aggression is ongoing but the treasury department has demonstrated to putin and his inner-circle that their behavior will not be tolerated and they will incur significant costs. on april 6 2018 we sanction russian oligarchs were part of the innermost circle along with companies they own or control. this included dara costa and unlike the previous administration which shied away, we've gone after the big fish. the result controlled by oleg daraposka is the largest produce

was not just vladimir putin in that video but also his defense secretary as well as the head of the fsbtelligencer is ris, of course then trying to show that vladimir putin is very much in control of the government, that they're all working together and obviously hanging out together there in siberia. it comes at an interesting time, the rugtss jussians just today announced they're going to have the longest military maneuver coming up soon with some 300,000 soldiers involved. >> this isn't the first time we've seen immailinages of puti vacation, right? >> reporter: no. and normally what we see with him when he has those pictures from his vacation is that we see him bare chested the we've seen that when he went fishing and on a horse. one of the interesting things folks are talking about here in russia, some of the tv shows is why he didn't show more skin as they've said. in fact one of the main political talk shows here had almost its entire show devoted to that very topic. i want you to listen in to one of the panelists on that show and what he had to say about why that could have been

goals here. , directing ask you questions to you, the obama administration imposed sanctions on the fsb and g are you following the election. officer of those accounts of been frozen, do you know? i don't havelea: that information. sen. menendez: how much money did those individuals lose as a result of any sanctions, if there are any that relates them? sec. billingslea: i will have to take that for the record. secretary michel, i have a high regard for you, but it gets diminished when you do things that i think are political in nature. you mentioned the mighty river comment as relates to the previous administration in 2009. , that wasefore crimea before the invasion. that was before the of mom -- obama administration levied sanctions against russia for its invasion of crimea. that was before, when the president ultimately went ahead and that is why russia is not part of the g7 today. it is also when we became aware that russia was interfering with our elections and that they did pursue sanctions against the gruma fsb. that is why they made a membershipconfirming to georgia. i could go t

secret service commuter system and e-mail system and she was having regular, unauthorized meetings with fsb me for perspective, jonathan rakrow, he is a former secret service agent. the fact that this person has had access to the same computer system, same e-mail system, the intranet that secret service has, what does that mean she had access to? >> it's important to understand that the secret service along with all u.s. government entities that are operating overseas cannot perform the function of their mission without the support of foreign service nationals. >> it doesn't shock you that there was someone -- a russian national working with the secret service? >> absolutely not. based upon the press release, actually, that was her role. her role was a foreign service national investigator. her role was to liaison with the police service in moscow. that was her role. from that context, nothing abnormal. what did she have access to? the secret service, state department, there are strict protocols on dealing with foreign service nationals to avoid classified, sensitive information getting out

this started under the kgb, what is a precursor to the fsb.b made plans on how to survive the sur moil the soviet union was going through. one of the ways they did that. they started huge corporations. and a number of those people were trading commodities. now these people came alive again, and you sit -- see them partnering with donald trump. >> why would the russians be interested. at least that early on in 2016 i think we figured out why. he didn't like hillary clinton. >> why would they be interested in someone like donald trump. >> back then he was a businessman, and they approached him as a powerful businessman and that was sort of it, i believe it started out as laundering money, when the soviet union crumbled there were enormous amounts of flight capital that needed to be laundered. what is the best way to launder money? it is real estate. donald trump created an empire that became a money laundering machine. this was his way of doing business and it was a win-win situation they saved him, he was $4 billion in debt at one point. the ru

senator, as you are aware, we have sanctioned a number of individuals connected to the gru and the fsb. in fact, some of the sanctions we issued this morning were specifically in connection to their relationship to the fsb. we did designate the -- the ira but not some of the 12 gou. we are very closely looking at that indictment. i can't preview what our plans are, but rest assured -- >> all i will say is it will help the american public as we sanction these bad actors and these bad actors' identities in case that was built against them by the workings of the special prosecutor. it would do a great deal to the american public in terms of the seriousness of this threat in the president wouldn't on a daily basis denigrate the mueller investigation and call it a witch hunt, an investigation that has created 30-plus indictments and guilty pleas, and has been a very valuable tool in identifying the bad actors who in the past and in the ongoing basis try to interfere in our election activities. mr. krebs, do you have indication of who attacked senator mccaskill's activities before the electi

to understand what they're doing to try to get greater fidelity as to how the fsb works. remember, it dedicated lots and lots of resources. i'm being vague with this. first and foremost mergs and they're really good at it. to dismiss somebody without trying to investigate and figure out what they were doing, if that holds to be true, then that was probably a mistake. >> and final question then. certainly can't arrest them on sovereign territory out of the blue. but reportedly that this was a mole inside the secret service and you want that information, they were in u.s. employ. so what about holding them there? >> you watch a lot of spy shows, don't you? >> spy shows? i just watch the news. >> that's a very interesting idea. should that have been done before? that's a great observation. that was an employee. if everything that has been reported is true, i want to keep saying that. i don't know the actual facts. we should have taken more precautions. and obviously this person was not fulfilling their contract as has been reported. and we want to know more than just sweepin

nikolai patrushev is a former head of russia's internal security service the fsb.ch russia and the us disagree — election interference, the annexation of crimea, the salisbury novichok attack — and the war in syria. here's imogen foulkes. united states has said it wants all irani and troops out of syria back to iran right away. moscow says it does not necessarily agree with that but it has different views about how to achieve it. it's suggested relaxing sanctions iran. that's the opposite of what they said they want. got a rep of sanctions and jumbled and said they want to exert maximum pressure. for other people long—term peace negotiation watchers is another disappointment and that's the fact that when president trump and president putin met in helsinki mother things apparently at the top of the agenda was nuclear arms reduction. president trump said he was committed to substantial reductions. we had thought maybe john bolton and nikolai would announce the restart of the so—called talks. it stalled for use in russia and america on getting rid of at least some of

when he became the director of the fsb, the first thing he did was rennovated the same church next to the square. the infamous torture century and headquarters of all of the soviet union's intelligence apparatus. so, he did that and people saw this as a sign he was a man of faith. and so he recognized that russia was more akin to a nation that czar nicholas i hat, nationalism and autocracy and russia was creating a new class of money where the ogabby, the uber-elead rich of this nation, and so doing that, he could also add to that philosophy, oligarchy, which the we fiefdoms that made him president and the understood that using the intelligence apparatus of russia, he could thunderstorm was rich and who was not rhythm russia has been a functioning awe tot creak. it's not a rich country, people mistake because they they've atomic bomb and oil and gas exports and they do global weapons sales they're a first world country. they have access to first world material us about they're not. it's very poor country am gross dome product of italy, the united states has larger trade relationship w

specifically to mister blanks, you mentioned about the resurgence christianity among many of the kgb or fsbpersonnel. does this have anything to do with the possible schism between the eastern orthodox church which is basically centered in the ukraine? can you say something about that please? >> the orthodox church, that has been all over the state and it's also been allover the secret police going back in many cases . there's no privacy in the confessional, for example. the church was obliged to inform on people telling them of the dishes activity. >>. >> as an arm of the russian state is that it isan arm of the empire . and there has been this trend if you go through the entire ukrainian history and try to look at the ukrainian history of objectively without polemics on either side or on the many sides of all these issues, the russian orthodox church tried to assert that it is the main church and the ukraine's orthodox church is subordinate to it. and that therefore the russian orthodox church and by implication therefore the russian state have hegemony or leadership in ukraine and that t

fact some of the sanctions issued this morning was specifically connection to the relationship to the fsb. we did designate -- >> the ira but not some of the 12 gru. >> we are closer look at that indictment. i can't preview what our plans are at rest assured speedy all i would say is it would help i think the american public as a sanction these bad actors and these bad actors identities in a case that was built against was provided by the actions and working for the special prosecutor. it would do a great deal of benefit to the american public in terms of the seriousness of this threat is the president of the united states would not on a daily basis denigrate the mueller investigation and call it a witch hunt. an investigation that is created 30+ indictments come a number of of guilty pleas and obviously has been a very valuable tool in identifying these bad actors who in the past on an ongoing basis try to interfere in our election activities. mr. krebs, do you have indication of who attacked senator mccaskill activities, other elected officials? and what level of competence do have in t

so remember he was a kgb officer director of russia's vicious security police, the fsb.tens his regime security the most is democracy, especially when it's practiced in the former soviet space, the baltic states, ukraine. remember that russia invaded georgia in 2008 and then in ukraine in 2014 when they illegally annexed crimea. both of those decisions, i think, were made after georgia and ukraine were considered in the spring of 2008 aspiring nato members. that really scared vladimir putin and it should. >> jon: he stunt want nato on its doorstep. >> right. he will conflate the threat. he will make it appear as though it's a military threat. again, i think what really scares putin is that democratic ideals will make their way inside russia and the beacon of inspiration to vladimir putin's opponents who will see that they could look to ukraine and other nations inside the former soviet space as a model for their own efforts to try to counter vladimir putin's ruthless acto come crazy. >> they wanted to be part of russia. >> that's an old argument if we look back at histor

let‘s hearfrom martin mctague — policy director at the fsb — federation of small businesses.ep. as you mentioned, when we look at inflation, which is one of the reasons the bank of england would increase interest rates to bring down inflation which is above the 2% target, if this interest rate rise achieves that it brings down inflation, surely that is good news for small business? inflation is an important factor, but there are so many other pressures on businesses these days with a relatively high increasing cost. one of those components as the costs that could be affected by brexit. at a time when there is a lot of uncertainty about the outcome of the negotiations and many small businesses are completely unprepared for cliff edge change, this is going to add another layer of uncertainty and risk. what advice would you give to small businesses, worried about the impact of this interest rate rise? i would say that in common with a lot of other businesses, you will have to think more carefully about planning for the future. and maybe this means that investment plans, increasi