raid on that spa yang once owned. prosecutors offered him a plea bargain, but tonight, we have learned kraft has turned it down. for her part, yang says she knows nothing about alleged illicit activity. david, democrats are questioning whether cindy yang is a counterintelligence threat, but she vehemently denies she s a spy. she s scared and she thinks she s being targeted because she s chinese and a republican that supports president trump. david? tara palmeri with the interview tonight. tara, thank you. next tonight, president trump lashing out at the highly anticipated mueller report today. the president calling the report, quote, ridiculous, but he also said, let the public see it. and late today, the president unleashing a new attack on the late senator john mccain, who passed away nearly seven months ago now. his wife, cindy mccain, just today on the hate she s now receiving, and meghan mccain reacting, too. here s our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter
way direct it. one of the ironies is that we ve all been focused on finding fought there was any russian influence, russian interference in the election but here she is bringing this group of chinese businessmen to a fund-raiser and so maybe there s chinese influence that needs to be looked at. the intelligence community has been screaming from the rooftops about the counterintelligence threat from china. the trumps, as well as any other government official, would have gotten a counterintelligence briefing and would have been told they didn t just quince dentally become very popular with foreigners when they became more powerful and got a political position. they would have been told sophisticated intelligence services like the intelligence service in china would play to their preferences, like in the trump s case, business. so the trump team and any other operatives conservative operatives or gop lawmakers approached by miss yang or the investors she was bringing to meet them sh
research and influence what s being taught to our young people. officials are raising alarms, looking at one chinese academic program that s on campuses across the country, that is called the confucius institute. i sat down with the senator, and he filled us n. u.s. intelligence agencies continue to warn of beijing s spying. commercial espionage and the stealing of intellectual property. the chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat i can think of. eric: a report from the director of national intelligence is blunt. quote: china s intelligence services will exploit the openness of american society, especially academia and the scientific community. and now lawmakers are focused on new allegations of china s attempts to influence america
violated the terms of that treaty and has that capability. and china. so whether we withdraw or not, they are still going to have that capability. cia director gina haspel told lawmakers russia is very concerned about the u.s. decision to withdraw from the treaty. chris? chris: jennifer griffen reporting from the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. college campuses are a place for higher learning. but they recollected also unwittingly be harboring chinese spies. senior correspondent eric shawn reports tonight on how china is using institutes of higher learning to gain an advantage over the u.s. u.s. intelligence agencies continue to warn beijing spying activities in the u.s. the chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat i can think of. and how lawmakers are
are a number of countries out there that want to steal our secrets, russia, iran and china. name checking, russia in the criminals and terrorists, two different ways to abuse american law, to try to take internet technology, to take business secrets perhaps or, as we ve seen, disrupt our actual process. we also found footage of what was then former fbi director mueller talking about russian spies trying to penetrate u.s. institutions. the counterintelligence threat to the united states continues to persist as we saw with the recent arrest of a network of russian spies, foreign adversaries do not rely exclusively on such traditional agent networks. they increasingly employ none traditional collectors such as students, visiting businessman and scientists to target and penetrate the united states institutions. he speaks in a careful way but the nontraditional collectors is the idea that the