the fsb colleagues he denounced. the russian mobsters he was investigating. thought he was a traitor for working with british intelligence. widow marina has been asking how big was the conspiracy? who was behind it? how high did it go? dangerous questions, as she knows better than anyone. >> you think you play chess, but they play russian roulette. >> reporter: those who were closest to litvinenko believe the kill order may have come from the very top because litvinenko picked a fight with the wrong person from his past. none other than russian president vladimir putin. >> sasha was on a mission. he was trying to prove that putin is as corrupt as anybody in post-communist russia. >> reporter: the mission may have started years before when litvinenko made that flow chart of corruption in the fsb. the head of the agency at the time was putin. after litvinenko fled to london, and putin became president of russia, litvinenko attacked him relentlessly and by name. >> i and others said that this is a very dangerous thing to do because you're -- you're personalizing

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those facilities are basically open access for intelligence, russian services, whether it's the svr, fsb or any of the intelligenceth services there, they have full access into all of those types of wifi, cellular data or anything that you connect to. >> so having establish that, what do you think is going on here with this experiment? do you believe it? >> well, i believe it. i don't think they can do it. i think there are a long way off from being able do it. especially nowadays with all the different technologies to ulee login to the internet. but i think there is something here that the russian government and the president is actually trying to do. i think it's an intelligence related operation to funnel all of the communications that are coming out of that country through specific areas in their network so that they can monitor them. i mean, i think it's a classic intelligence gathering information of what is going on inside their country and don't get me wrong as you said earlier i think all nation states are going to try to protect themselves especially in sophisticated war type s

interested in, those who are investigating donald trump, is whether the russians and specifically, the fsbalong the lines of compromising information on donald trump. you know, it could be anything from shady business dealings that could later on be extremely embarrassing to trump, or more salacious stuff as we saw in some of the steele documents. so, that's what they're really interested in, because, of course, if vladimir putin and the kremlin have any leverage over the president of the united states, that, of course, would be very damaging and in some interpretations, could be, you know, donald trump could be then be called an asset or a controlled entity by the russians, and that is, of course, very dangerous. >> so, why might his work for oleg deripaska, why is it so interesting to investigators? as you said, we can't really keep them straight right now. >> i think -- i think what we've got going on is, there's a number of different lines of investigation. there's some really sinister ones. for example, could it be that donald trump was somehow, you know, had a conversation with putin

what those are interested in, those investigating donald trump, whether the russians, specifically the fsb the lines of kompromat, compromising information on donald trump. it would could be anything from shady business dealings that later on could be extremely embarrassing to trump if they were revealed or some of the more salacious stuff that we saw in the steele documents. that's really what they're interested in. if vladimir putin and the kremlin have any leverage over the president of the united states, regardless of how long ago it was collected, that of course would be very damaging and in some interpretations could be, you know, called -- donald trump could then be called an asset or some sort of controlled entity by the russians and that's, of course, very dangerous. >> so why might his work for the russian oligarch oleg deripaska, who is it so interesting to investigators? as you said, we can't really keep them straight right now. >> i think -- i think what we've got going on is there are a number of different lines in an investigation. there are some really sinister ones. for ex

presidential election that previous year, including sanctions on the fsb and the gru, two russian intelligence agencies. we also know that president obama during the transition, he ordered our own intelligence agencies to produce a report, a report on what exactly russia did in that attack on our election. by the first week of january 2017, during the transition, still before the inauguration, a declassified version of that intelligence community report was released to the public. assessing russian activities and intentions in recent u.s. elections. that's where we got the first official public assessment from america's intelligence community before trump took over. the attack on our election was ordered directly by vladimir putin that the attack was to prevent hillary clinton from being elected president and to hurt her presidency if she was elected. the russian government had a, quote, clear preference for donald trump. that's where we learned that the attack involved russian cyber attacks, hacking into computer systems and stealing material. that's also where we got the intelligence communi

precincts cannot go it alone against the full front full assault of the russian gr you the russian fsb so need to be to provide whatever capabilities i can so we can assure a collective dissent or defense across elections. >> as you reviewed hr one, tells tennessee we cannot have voter edification. it tells us, we can allow voter registration happened on the day of the election is no way to verify it. that seems to me to be a violation of the constitution. as has been read, as clearly articulated in the 10th amendment. and that's more than just security. that's dictating how we run our elections in tennessee. and quite honestly that's offensive to us down in tennessee. for mr. hicks and you have a question, you said there is about 1000 jurisdictions if i understood correctly. how many of those jurisdictions are identical? >> that would be difficult question to answer. i believe that camino, each individual jurisdiction conducts their elections and the way they feel is best. but the election assistance commission goes to the states and jurisdictions to offer our assistance, whether or n

he was the deputy head of russia's security service — the fsb and was apparently led out of these officesecurity giant , kaspersky. details of the criminal case against the men have been shrouded in mystery. both are said to have given sensitive information to foreign intelligence services. russian media call it one of the biggest espionage scandals in years. this russian newspaper claims mr mikhailov was paid $10 million dollars to hand over information to the us security agencies — including the fbi. here's olga ivishina from bbc russia speaking to me about the case earlier. these two guys who were arrested backin these two guys who were arrested back in the end of 2016 at beginning of 2017, the reports differ. they we re of 2017, the reports differ. they were accused of state treason, and other court has found him guilty of that treason. one of them, a colonel of the russian counterintelligence service. he got 22 years in prison. the other gentlemen, he used to work for comparison key security lab, that's antivirus company that deals with it security, he got 1a years in prison. there a