the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down, and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him, simply, moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. >> vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace, shoveling documents, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> they are burning the secret files so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets, as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went o

and a kgb agent. he had boris nemtsov killed in the shadow of the kremlin. >> this is allowable behavior. >> it's nonsense, it's nonsense. there's nothing to comment on. >> over the course of putin's time in power, his regime has been accused of deaths of many of its critics, including a journalist and former kgb agent. >> there's not a single thing to sustain these allegations, but they take on a folklorish. >> it may stem in part from the evidence that nemtsov had been accumulating against the president. >> nemtsov was about to reveal information that would prove russia's involvement in the conflict in ukraine. >> that ukraine report was released a few months after nemtsov's murder. but there was an earlier nemtsov report published in 2012 that also was embarrassing for putin. it claimed the president had 43 planes, 15 helicopters and four yachts at his disposal. including one super yacht. then there are the palaces. nemtsov's report says there were 20 presidential palaces available to putin at any

and a kgb agent. he had boris nemtsov killed in the shadow of the kremlin. >> this is lousy behavior. >> it's nonsense, it's nonsense. there's nothing to comment on. >> over the course of putin's time in power, his regime has been accused of deaths of many of its critics, including a journalist and former kgb agent. >> there's not a single thing to sustain these allegations, but they take on a folklorish reality. >> it may stem in part from the evidence that nemtsov had been accumulating against the president. >> nemtsov was about to reveal information that would prove russia's involvement in the conflict in ukraine. >> that ukraine report was released a few months after nemtsov's murder. but there was an earlier nemtsov report published in 2012 that also was embarrassing for putin. it claimed the president had 43 planes, 15 helicopters and four yachts at his disposal. including one super yacht. then there are the palaces. nemtsov's report says there were 20 presidential palaces available to putin at

the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down, and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him, simply, moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. >> vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace, shoveling documents, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> they are burning the secret files so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets, as the crowd closed in. with the fire still raging, putin went o

the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. curtains, was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> reporter: putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down, police weren't going to help and he called for instructions. >> reporter: desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him, simply, moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. >> reporter: vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. >> he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace, shoveling documents, as he hears demonstrations out on the street. >> they are burning the secret files so fast that the furnace is blowing up. >> reporter: putin torched thousands of pages of kgb documents and secrets, as the crowd closed in

until last year the guy who went to kgb college, he was deputy chairman of that bank. he is no longer deputy chairman of that bank. he is now no longer deputy chairman of anything. the guy who went to kgb college is now the chairman, the head guy at another government owned russian bank. this one is the one that gets into american politics. january 26th, 2016 at a super market in new york fbi agents swooped in at the super market abdomen arrested a dude just doing his grocery shopping. this guy got handcuffed, taken out of there. turns out that guy they picked up was a russian spy and he worked at the bank. federal agents picked up that guy at the super market. they charged him with being an unregistered agent of a foreign power. they arrested him in march of last year, march 2016. the criminal dime was absolutely riveting. he fed home as intell to the russian spy services. he was particularly involved in trying to steal information here about u.s. government sanctions against russia, which russian institutions were going to be targeted for which people were going to b

thank you. >>> let's bring in jack bars ki, he was a kgb agent. he was spying on the u.s. close to the end of the cold war. that was until he was caught by the fbi. now he's an american sit zepp and telling a story in a new book called "deep undercover" my secret life as a kgb spy in america. you can imagine this is going to be an interesting perspective. jack good to have you here this morning. you became a spy for the kremlin. you were working undercover here in the united states. you're hearing all the allegations being made about the election and how russia may have tried to influence it. do you think it is possible that russia has actually somehow infiltrated the white house? >> i don't speculate. anything is possible in the intelligence realm. the bottom line is when it comes to intelligence matters, the real truth, if it ever comes out, may take 30, 40, 50 years to come out. like for instance what happened in the united states with regard to soviet spying in the '40s and '50s is now pretty much out in the open but it took a long time. so today we will not be able to

he was and is a kgb agent. he says you never leave the service except with extreme prejudice, of course. and he represented the people who ran the kgb, the ministry of defense and various other -- the power ministries of the soviet union. it meant the return of this psychological type to power in russia, and that psychological type greatly enjoyed the g.o. political and to this day they feel for that the way a person wloz leg is amputated feels their vanished leg. it's no surprise, therefore, that under this regime of former kgb, there is no interest in looking at the who rors or come communism. the extent that putinis an idologist, his contribution, if you want to use that now, is to creating a fusion of gateness and soviet greatness, which is a legacy which the russian people today have as a point of navigation as they look to the future. that legacy includes that discussed by my fellow panelist. what does the importance want? it is really important in national consciousness. for people of ukraine to understa

we know he graduated from a school that trains kgb agents. can you talk about vladimir putin and how he likes to bring in kbg agents to come in and help him out? >> it's a little bit different. when the soviet union collapsed, this was a big feeding frenzy about who would get the pieces that were being dismantled? and of course, kgb agents and folks who had some idea how to operate in a competitive environment were right there and a lot of those became oligarchs. and the ones that didn't want to play ball with mr. putin eventually either were eliminated or put in jail or left the country. so what we have now in place is a system that, an economic system, if you do business with russia, you have to be aware you are doing business with somebody who has the blessing of mr. putin. >> off of that, david chalian, back on this specific investigation and the house side. there was supposed to be a hearing yesterday, that got canceled. nunes wants to hit to comey privately, that's not happening. now he says, no meeting until easter recess. so then what

it came after the kgb. it is similar to the fbi here. they targeted email accounts of rush yan officials, among others. >> numerous employees of other providers who networks they sought to exploit and employees of financial services and other commercial entities. >> reporter: joo the two other suspects are described as criminal hammers who used their connections to run a money making scam. one has been taken into custody in canada. the other three people remain at large likely in russia. >> the yahoo case originated right here in the bay air. it was fbi agents in san francisco who took the lead in this investigation. >> our crime reporter henry lee is here with more on the case. >> reporter: frank and julie, the evidence is laid out in this 53 page indictment. although one man is in custody, arresting the other three and bringing them to trial in the bay area could be challenging. . >>> what we have here are four people, two officials of the fsb and two alleged criminal hackers accused of hacking into yahoo accounts. millions of accounts

vladimir putin is a former chief of the kgb that said the singlee greatest catastrophe was the collapse of the soviet union. he's a dictator and trying to undermine democracy all over the world. we know that from our intelligence agencies who, in their report at the end of last year told us that he had engaged in the deliberate campaign to undermine the election inpi america by engaging in ask of the cyber espionage and sabotage. now it's happening with france and all over the world.he there was brexit, there's america and now, the russians keep rolling through europe. democracy is under attack all over the globe. >> we have some new sound from jeff sessions who was in his home headed to the justice department.. he was responding to a question from an msnbc reporter. let's listen. >> i have not met with any russians at anytime to discuss any political campaign and those remarks are unbelievable to me, and i don't have anything else to say about that. [inaudible] >> whenever it is appropriate, i will recuse myself. there's there's no doubt about that.at >> it seems as if he will have to

is an arm of the kgb. r.t. provides cover slots for the kgb, sfb, svr. it's intelligence organization, russian propaganda. had pravda in my time, now it's r.t. he knew better. you don't take money from the russian government period, whether it goes through speech agent or not. i find it very troubling. everywhere in this russian crisis or whatever you want to call this thing and trump, you see the fingerprint of the kgb. whether it's hacking, trump advisers in touch with the people in europe, and it gets worse by the day. i just -- you too have to wonder what is going on here. >> jim, while congress is investigating russian intrigue, north korea is heating up. said diplomacy has failed and pyongyang is warning of war. how dangerous is the threat? >> consistent message you hear is biggest most immediate threat to the u.s. is north korea. you have terrorism no question, and russia and all. but -- saying that policy has faired over the last 20 years and fair argument. multiple administrations of both parties, clinton, bush, obama, tried negotiations, sancti

mountain view two defendants, are officials with the russian intelligence service the successor to the kgb, the indictment says the officials paid hackers to break into computers and collect sensitive information. one of the men was arrested tuesday in canada the other three are at-large and presumed to be in russia. >> we want to send a clear message to hackers everywhere you can try to hide but we will hunt you down we will expose you and we will bring you to justice. >> the fbi has a long reach. >> the group targeted yahoo and google accounts of us and government officials and journalists other victims include a nevada gaming official and a senior officer of a us airline be defendants were indicted on multiple charges. one man accused of stealing yahoo dater user base and even manipulating search results for erectile dysfunction drugs so he could get paid for diverting internet traffic to an online pharmacy. he is also accused of lining his pockets for personal financial gain like obtaining gift cards and critical information. it is an open question if the remaining three defendants wil

the head of the bank is kgb. one of those senior executives in new york was arrested for being kgb. did jared kushner know about this? >> we don't know. we don't know if he was knowledgeable of it or what they spoke about. wouldn't you think, david k. johnson, if you're going to do this, right, and you're going to be in the inner circle of the highest levels in government, shouldn't you know all these figures? shouldn't you do your homework about these figures? >> at the absolute most benign interpretation of this, >> jared kushner's behavior is so reckless, so thoughtless. it is inconceivable he has access to the president and secrets in the white house. this is just beyond belief. this bank is a front for russian efforts to undermine other countries' economics. it had a nest of spies in it, as michael just pointed out, so kushner's behavior here is beyond belief, moronic, even if you assume benign. this is further evidence that there are questions about whether the president of the united states is loyal to the united states or has divided loyalties in all of his actions. >> yeah.

the cia is there, the kgb and they are taking to an elite training site. it's like an island force. every agency has to go in and find the fox and come back out with the fox. the cia does in 30 minutes, the kgb gets it done in 30 minutes, and despite the luster of their leaders they knew that they were out gunned. they go out come in and everybody comes out with the fox the syrian come out after four hours and then i carried a fox. there carrying a severely beaten up rabbit. all the other agents are like, that's not a fox. the syrians have their leather jackets on because our mother jackets. their smoking their cigarettes and their leader says, he confessed, he said he's a fox. so that's who you're dealing with in syria. which is it's different than moving to other cities. you don't disappear into damascus because your relatives are also watching you. i don't know which one or more deadly. this is the passage i will spontaneously raise. this is about a syrian child, 13 -year-olds. this chapter takes place in the spring. i had just come back from cairo where i was in lala land thinki

but the question is, i mean, rt is an arm of the kgb. rt provides cover slots for the kgb, for the fsb, the svr. it's an intelligence organization. it's russian propaganda. he knew better. he was head of dia. you don't take money from the russian government, period, and i don't care whether it goes through a speech agent or not. so i find this very troubling. everywhere in this russian, you know, crisis or whatever you want to call this thing in trump you see the fingerprint of the kgb, whether it's hacking, whether it's trump advisers in touch with these people in europe, and, you know, it gets worse by the day. i just really -- you too have to wonder what's going on here. >> jim sciutto, while congress has been investigating all of this russian intrigue, north korea is heating up. today secretary tillerson said u.s. diplomacy there has failed and now pyongyang is warning of war. how dangerous is the north korea threat? >> you know, the consistent message you hear is the biggest, most immediate national security threat to the u.s. is no

or letters kgb, so i think it is a bizarre, bizarro world a situation with this relationship with the vladimir putin and i think we will have investigations and get to the bottom of trump relationship with the russians and his aides relationship with the russians and i agree with you 100%. host: do you hear from your readers? guest: i am super super sensitive, believe it or not, so it's hard for me to read-- they can be very tough sometimes on calm this and it's funny because when i let kevin right i call him he loves-- host: your brother. guest: he loves that nasty comments. keyframes them, but i think i would be debilitated under the pillows if i read all of them, so i don't. i would love to hear what readers think if it was not obscene, but as you know the internet has coarsened society and particularly women on the internet, so it's best morning-- me not to see that stuff. host: peggy dowd wrote in her chapter in the book about how her convertible top was/because she had a goldwater sticker on the car. guest: exactly that was exactly writes and things have obviously only gotten mo

liz: you know the kgb, you know how they used to operate. vladimir putin was at the kgb as we know. let us go to this attorney general jeff sessions situation. he has recused himself. that is enough for some republicans. not all. they would like an investigation. the democrats you expect them to pile on, they hate it. but you need to tell us is this a tempest in a teapot or when you have general flynn and jared kushner, the son-in-law meeting with the russians, not so much that they did, everyone keeps forgetting to say when they did when specifically asked. you tell this out of proportion? >> no. even if there's the slightest, lease plausible chance of russian influence on the administration, it's as grave as can you come on national security short of war. so we have to take it seriously, and liz, it's not political. it can't be political. the democrats and republicans have to grow up and investigate this soberly and rationally. liz: do you anticipate that the drip, drip of the leaks continues and what's at the end of the faucet? >> there are only two options going forward. if pres

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just out of college, he joined the kgb. he was an up and coming agent posted in communist east germany when the wall came down. the eastern bloc and ultimately the soviet union unravelled. putin was never a communist hard-liner but for him this was a humiliation on a national scale. he's called the collapse of the soviet union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. nato expanded, it left its mark on putin who was rising through the ranks. in 1998 he became head of the fsb which replaced the kgb. the russian economy was collapsing. boris yeltsin the first democratically elected and allegedly corrupt president of the new russia was running out of time. he decided to anoint a trusted successor someone who will protect him from prosecution, he turned to his spy master, the quiet man without a face. putin seemed loyal and capable. one of his first act was to grant yeltsin full immunity. putin had his own goals, he was going to reclaim russia's lost glory. for 17 years, he's ruled russia with an iron hand and proje

just out of college, he joined the kgb. he was an up and coming agent posted in communist east germany when the wall came down. the eastern bloc and ultimately the soviet union unravelled. putin was never a communist hard-liner but for him this was a humiliation on a national scale. he's called the collapse of the soviet union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. nato expanded, it left its mark on putin who was rising through the ranks. in 1998 he became head of the fsb which replaced the kgb. the russian economy was collapsing. boris yeltsin the first democratically elected and allegedly corrupt president of the new russia was running out of time. he decided to anoint a trusted successor someone who will protect him from prosecution, he turned to his spy master, the quiet man without a face. putin seemed loyal and capable. one of his first act was to grant yeltsin full immunity. putin had his own goals, he was going to reclaim russia's lost glory. for 17 years, he's ruled russia with an iron hand and proje

that is the successor organization to the kgb, allegedly working alongside russian computer hackers in a criminal sense. so, you've got an intelligence component to this, allegedly, and a criminal component to this, allegedly. i'll let you listen to the press briefing, which is beginning right now. >> -- general for the national security division at the department of justice. and with me here today is fbi executive assistant director la california and office of national affairs director vaughan airy. we're here to announce a major law enforcement action related to one of the largest data breaches in u.s. history. today we are announcing the indictment of four individuals responsible for the 2014 hack into the network of e-mail provider yahoo, the theft of information about at least 500 million yahoo accounts, and the use of that information to obtain the contents of accounts at yahoo and other e-mail providers. the defendants include two officers of the russian federal security service and intelligence and law enforcement agency of the russian federation and two criminal hackers with w

i don't know how pedestrian lights -- >> ex-kgb agent has a message for america. stop the infighting change mister putin is sitting in russia rubbing his hands because that's what the russians want to do and have always done, destabilize democracy. >> he says we are playing right into vladimir putin as hands. >> as the world waits for april the giraffe to have her baby a brand-new giraffe is sweeping the nation, the pregnant woman going viral for her impersonation. you have to see this. >> on this day 1933 the board game monopoly was invented. heather: maria sharapova failed a drug test at the australian open. ♪ ♪ i just want to feel this moment ♪ clayton: my mom's favorite. heather: hopefully are feeling the moment, you're watching "fox and friends". clayton: it is 20 minutes after the hour. the trump administration unveiled their highly anticipated health care overhaul. >> not all the gop lawmakers are on board. chris jenkins live in washington with the breaking details. is this a sign of trouble? >> reporter: it is a sign of trouble. a big yellow sign tha

by that time, noel field was already working for kgb, the political. but there is not a shadow of a doubt after you read this book that alger was a spy. and a pretty good one too. >> because of the effort to recruit. >> and other things. and my father had the same intergater in prison as noel field and it was through this intergate thary my father learned a great deal about allger hiss. and i also found letters in the secret police archives where i worked in both moscow and budapest, letters between his and fid that made it absolutely crystal clear that alger his was indeed a spy. >> how long did it take you to write this? >> i average, this is my ninth book and i average three and a half to four years. this was four years and a lot of time spent in archives. but call me strange, no, don't call me strange. i enjoy ar chiefl work because a lot of-- archival work, because yes, it is teedious but then you find something that others have missed and it's very rewarding. >> a writer's joy. >> it is, it is. and this is a story that really has been missed by o

special importance, committee on state security of the ussr, kgb, may 14, 1983, and then this subject head is bound to peak your curiosity. regarding senator kennedy's request to the general secretary of the communist party. ok. opening line, on 9/10 of this year, this is 1983, president reagan, right? reagan is president. made the speech in march of 1983, evil empire speech, reelection campaign coming up in 1984. on 9/10 of this year, senator edward kennedy's close friend and they know who this was, was in moscow. the senator charged him to convey the following message through confidential contacts to the general secretary of the communist party in the soviet union. senator kennedy like other rational people is troubled by the current state of the soviet american relations. this relationship coupled with a general state of global affairs will make the situation even more dangerous. here we go. the main reason for this is reagan's belligerence and his firm commitment to deploy middle range weapons within western europe. he goes through the document and lists different reasons why reag

the defendants are officials with the fsb, the successor to the kgb. they paid hackers to break into computers and collect sensitive information. he was arrested tuesday in canada where he was living. the other three are at large and presumed tok in russia. >> we want to send a message to criminal hackers everywhere. you can try and hide, but we will hunt you down. we will expose you and we will bring you to justice. the fbi has a long reach and a longer memory. >> the group targeted yahoo and google accounts of u.s. and russian officials. other victims included a gaming official and senior officer of a u.s. airline. they are indicted on conspiracy. they are used of stealing yahoo's database and even manipulating the database for erectile dysfunction drugs so he can get paid for trafficking. he is also accused of lining his pockets for personal gain. it is an open question as to whether the three remaining defendants will be arrested and face trial in san francisco. there is no extradition treaty between the u.s. and russia. >> these guys will travel s

with the fsb, it is an intelligence and law enforcement agency and a successor to the soviet unions kgb. the fsb unit that the defendants worked for, the center for information security, also known as center 18, is also the fbi's point of contact in moscow for cybercrime matters. the involvement and direction of fsb officers with law enforcement response was makes this conduct that much more egregious. the are no free passes for four state-sponsored criminal behavior. through the work of the national security division, the fbi, united states attorneys offices around the country we continue to pursue national security cyber threats using all available tools to investigate malicious activity and achieve it bad to the country, agency, and even the individuals involved. when possible and supported by the evidence we intend to charge those individuals and bring them to justice. as i wrap up i'm also pleased to announce that a fourth co-conspirator charge in the indictment, kari, karim baratovs arrested just yesterday in canada on a u.s. government provisional arrest warrant. i would like to

this includes oligarchs and russian criminals with links to this -- the kgb. the money flowed to over 5000 companies and accounts for over 27 thanks. -- thanks -- bamls/ nks. >> the money was also splashed on diamonds. u.s. banks handled a significant amount of the transfers as well. despite the extent of the suspicious of account activity and the systems that banks should happen place. this is leading to questions of why it took teams of local journalists with lesser means to expose a racket of global proportions. >> let's shed more light on the story. paul is the executive director of the organized crime and corruption reporting project. the group that uncovered the story. he joins me from peru. how did you get to know about these transgressions? >> we are following these money-laundering operations back to 2010 where we exposed the face of this. what we are exposing his -- is just a piece of the puzzle. it is something that has been ongoing out of russia for about 10 years now. it started with a smaller number and ended up with these huge numbers. they esti

. >> did he have connections to kgb? was he kgb at any point? >> nothing in his resumÉ says he was. he was here in washington in the '80s as a young diplomat. he was the first ambassador to nato after russia emerged from the soviet union. nothing specifically ties him on paper at least. the embassy in washington for the russian federation, you know, it includes the secret services. it includes the security services. he clearly knows those people even if he wasn't particularly -- >> did he have some overnight over the security services? >> the ambassador here in washington does have a role to play. it's also an opaque system. we don't understand exactly who runs what where. he understands how the services work. >> the "new york times" reporting jared kushner also had a meeting with kislyak and michael flynn back in december. so how damaging could this be for jared kushner? just another person in the trump transition that had a tie or a meeting with this ambassador. >> well, i mean, again, the real reason why general flynn and jeff sessions got in trouble because they didn't volunteer

all the ambassadors are co-opted by the kgb. they operate and recruit. the great ames, the mole inside the cia was run by a ministry of foreign affairs official in washington, d.c. we shouldn't be confused about that. what we should be confused about is why the contacts were not reported in writing with potential foreign intelligence services like the kgb. they are not our friends. this is just getting out of control very quick. we do need a special prosecutor, the senate intelligence committee or the house cannot handle this, it is too hot. i agree, sessions deputy shouldn't be handling there, either. >> david, when jeff sessions took a few questions today, to his credit, from the press, he knew they were going to be hostile. one question is, what do you think, at the time, and what did you think the motives were for wanting this meeting? he said i didn't think about it. do you think that's possible, he didn't think about it? he was a top surrogate for the trump campaign and he didn't think about why the russian ambassador wanted a meeting? >> well, let

contacts with russia with the kgb, they've accused kislyak of being a kgb agent or possibly a co-optee. which is very important i don't know that, but the c.i.a. would. the fbi would. that needs to be looked into. for me, for any, in any counterintelligence investigation, what you need to look at is the money. is anybody getting paid. is anybody getting business favors. carter page, manafort has been accused of taking money. in the ukraine, and even people the accusation is circling washington right now as we speak, that trump ultimately borrowed m eed money to support businesses from russia. maybe came through deutsche bank or somewhere else. to get to properly investigate this you have to take it out of the administration select committee or special prosecutor. this is not a partisan you know, view of it. you just have to. you have to get somebody who is neutral to take a look at this. at the end of the day, there may be absolutely nothing there but for a piece of mind in this country, we have to look into it, and somebody we trust. >> to reiterate the point you made, at this point t

we have maybe as many as 25% of the american voting public are siding with a former kgb officer and a former drosh of russian intelligence on an operation that helped engineer the american electoral process. >> why do you think that is? >> i don't know. i think part of it is part of the battlefield and cyberspace shaping that the russians have done for some time. they are conducting hybrid warfare which is this perception management war. they have their own media outlets and they tie in closely with bright batter news, for example. they have people who are sympathetic to russia's position. i have never seen anything like it. ten years ago it would have been called treason. but today it's called partisanship. this level of part shan ro sedanship is dangerous. this nation was attacked last year and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> one reason why people may not be reacting to it, the white house said that these are the enemies of 2 trump administration, people reacting to try to undercut the success of his speech last night. and what you have to look back to is the way the administ

the kgb? >> they can be the military intelligence, the gru or the , domestic and foreign intelligence services. it can also be individual hackers who do not formally work for these places but are certainly tied to them and employed by them. we know there are trolling factories in st. petersburg. anchor: and just briefly, this is presumably not where president putin would want it to be ending up? >> oh, definitely not. it has been counterproductive to hopes to a better relationship with the u.s. if they are involved in this, then it has been quite counterproductive or the longer-term interest. anchor: thank you for joining us. you're watching "bbc world news america," and other news north carolina's governor has signed a law to repeal the bathroom law that bans transgender people from using bathrooms in accordance with their chosen gender. there have been boycotts by companies and sports leagues. 2/3 of the senate approved the appeal bill. the vote came hours before they were about to lose key

the two intelligence agents work for russia's successor to the kgb. since the u.s. has no extradition treaty, it's not likely they'll ever stand trial. let's just say they won't be standing trial here. one of the hired hackers was arrested yesterday in canada. the other is thought to be in russia. >>> texas state senate has approved a so-called bathroom bill. the measure now goes to th texas house. it would require people to use restrooms in public schools and universities and government buildings that matches the biological sex listed on their birth certificate. and it would block any city ordinances that allow people to use the restrooms, dressing rooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity. >>> coming up, the bitter cold weather is taking a toll on dc's world famous cherry blossoms. we'll tell you what's being done to try to save them. >>> up next, prince george's county mother admits in open court to know you have a dedicated advisor and team who understand where you come from know you can craft an invest