a lot of my sources, current and former intelligence officials, believe this meeting was a test by the russian intelligence services to see how the trump team would respond. when you tell someone, we have dirt, you re testing the waters to see what their response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation, does that mean the russian lawyer was a government operative? nbc news richard engel asked her in the spring of 2018 about her government ties. you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? translator: i am a lawyer. and i m an informant. she referred to herself as a government informer. and i think what she meant by that is that, like a lot of people in russia, she does not work for the government. but when asked to provide information about things she s
meeting was essentially a test, by the russian intelligence services, to see how the trump team would respond. when you tell someone, we have dirt, you re testing the waters, to see what their response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation, does that mean the russian lawyer, natali veselnitskaya was a russian operative? she was asked in the spring of 2018 about her government ties. you said your relationship with the prosecutor job is what? reporter: i am a lawyer. translator: i am a lawyer and i am an informant. she referred to herself as a government informer and i think what she meant by that, like a lot of people in russia, she does not work for the government but when asked to provide information about things she has learned in the course of her work, she provides it. what some of my sources have
and former intelligence official, believe that this meeting was essentially a test, by the russian intelligence services, to see how the trump team would respond. when you tell someone, we have dirt, you re testing the waters, to see what their response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation, does that mean the russian lawyer, natali veselnitskaya was a russian operative? she was asked in the spring of 2018 about her government ties. you said your relationship with the prosecutor job is what? reporter: i am a lawyer. and i translator: i am a lawyer and i am an informant. she referred to herself as a government informer and i think what she meant by that, like a lot of people in russia, she does not work for the government but when asked to provide information about things she has learned in the course of her
experts say, may have been the whole point. a lot of my sources, current and former intelligence officials, believe this meeting was a test by the russian intelligence services to see how the trump team would respond. when you tell someone, we have dirt, you re testing the waters to see what their response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation, does that mean the russian lawyer was a government operative? nbc news richard engel asked her in the spring of 2018 about her government ties. you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? translator: i am a lawyer. and i m an informant. she referred to herself as a government informer. and i think what she meant by that is that, like a lot of people in russia, she does not work for the government. but when asked to provide information about things she s
that willingness yens experts say, may have been the whole point. a lot of my sources, current and former intelligence officials believe this meeting was a test by the russian intelligence services to see how the trump team would respond. when you tell someone, we have dirt, you re testing the waters to see what their response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. if it was a sophisticated intelligence operation, does that mean the russian lawyer was a government operative? nbc news s richard engel asked her in the spring of 2018 about her government ties. you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? translator: i am a lawyer. and i m an informant. she referred to herself as a government informer. and i think what she meant by that is that like a lot of people in russia, she does not work for the government.