Telling his friends that he is worried about impeachment. And the reason why it is so nerverackinging for h ining nerveracking for him right now is they dont know what is coming next. Good day. With this breaking news, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Moments ago a russian woman who has ties to key players and the National Rifle association pleaded guilty in 23ed ral court for failing to register as a Foreign Agent. 33yearold Mariia Butina is a foreign student here in washington operated in Top Republican circles while reporting back to the circles in russia including is sergey lavrov. Joining us is intelligence reporter ken delainian, and jim vance, a former u. S. Attorney, and analyst fred ceglusi, and first, tell us what you saw there there. Yes, we saw her coming out from the court with green jumpsuit, and her hair pulled back in braids and she was stoic as they read the answercharges. And her answers were yes, no, oneword answers. And it with because guilty plea, and the judge to
interesting question, because clearly the russian services would have a field day with this, and they would double her up, and direct her. but here is the good thing about that possibility is that it is very, very likely that the u.s. intelligence community would have that kind of thing covered, and so they know since they have disclosed much of it the way that the communication was occurring and who she was directed by and they are already general generally going to have the intelligence services covered to russia, and if they were to attempt that, there is a high likelihood that the bureau or the nsa or the cia would know that and they might actually let that play out knowing what is happening on the other end and then a la manafort at the very end say at the very end, maria, you have been pretending to cooperate, and you have not been cooperating. and double, and triple, and triple-cross and who knows what is going on. right out of jean le curie.