spy. she didn't use the kind of spy technology we would expect, communicating on twitter and what's-up, with those her own age and older men. she was so flirtatious, men walked away wondering what her ulterior motive was, what she wanted from them. this gives you the various ways moscow runs its influence operation, that's what experts said when i asked about her spy tactics. look, vladamir putin has a number of seasoned operatives he can plant in the u.s. to run operations for him. he also will tap people like maria butina through other people he knows to gain information and access in the u.s. that's what prosecutors say is going on in this case, anderson. >> did she talk about ties to russian intelligence at any point? >> she did. this is one of the allegations that has come out against her from some of her classmates who wish to remain anonymous, there were a couple instances she