department of justice has expanded its charges against the gun rights advocate and russian citizen maria bhutto she's now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government. has been investigating what exactly can turn a lot biggest into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind o

department of justice has expanded its charges against the gun rights advocate and russian citizen maria bhutto she's now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government on the scale of what has been investigating what exactly can turn a lot be used into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media and political establishment. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to ma

charged by the department of justice with conspiracy to act as a russian agent twenty nine year old maria bhutto you know who recently graduated from american university in washington d.c. was arrested on sunday she was accused of developing world nations with those who have influence in american politics to advance russia's interests well her attorney made a statement denying she is an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the special counsel's office showed no interest in speaking to her so we brought up the issue with political analyst lionel. you're going to hear regarding this this russian citizen she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative. when american media say agent they think secret agent. i speak in eyes agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal or something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons withou

court has refused bail to russian citizen maria bhutto after she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to act as a crime an agent earlier prosecutors released court papers relating to her case the documents claim bhutto was in contact with russian intelligence officials and also that she offered certs in exchange for a job at a u.s. special interests organization. the twenty nine year old has appeared in federal court and entered a plea of not guilty contesting the charges against her and she's been denied bail so she will remain in federal custody pending trial documents presented by the federal prosecutors have a lot of really unclear words in them for example it says appears to have ties to russian intelligence services they believe they said that was in contact with officials believed to be russian intelligence operatives furthermore they stated that they have a handwritten note that says how to respond to f.s.b. employment offers so this is what they have a lot of very unclear statements in the document and furthermore they went on to allege that she has been covertly offering peo

yes in a detailed account of twenty sixteen election hacking and accused russian spy maria bhutto was arrested and denied bail lots to digest you bet so let's bring in political commentators jonathan harris and steve malzberg welcome bucko this hour good to be here gentleman in the words of the late great john mclaughlin issue one and we'll go to jonathan then steve in that alphabetical order nato bottom line it damage done it just seems to be that trump is on its high rates undermine our allies i mean to refer to the e.u. as our biggest photo and then to work to undermine nato to me i mean looking at this from a political angle this works really well in the hands of the democrats ahead of the midterms i mean it's almost as if trump is working for the democrats because this it does nothing but rally the base he is continuing to go after our allies and to strengthen people that are enemies of our nation and that's exactly who do with nato nato is now furious i mean the lying just i mean just one of the lies that stood out to me was when he said that the u.s. contributes ninety percent