of that risk is taken out of that equation by the process secret service puts forth. when police tried to detain lu jing, she bald her hands into fists and screaming, no, no, no, and began pulling away. she could have been an erratic person trying to get into mar-a-lago. no indication she is a spy. but in march another chinese national got past three checkpoints carrying a lap drop, four cell phones, external hard drive and she was convicted of trespassing, not espionage but a source says it was a potential probe of spying efforts. sources says they could have been informal intelligence operatives, not highly trained, sent into mar-a-lago to probe. certainly, they could have been trying to test the response time of security personnel and
telephoto lens try to take camp pictures or collect communications. what is surprising is how did they get on post? that is a very curious question. it s not that easy to get on to a military facility. the new york times reports that the episode in september has intensified concerns in the trump administration that china is expanding its spying efforts in the united states as the two nations are increasingly locked in auto geopolitical and economic rivalry. so i want to know from you, what s your best guess how many spies to do you think may be here in america working for china as we speak? so, unfortunately, that is a classified number. what i can tell you is that it is in the magnitude of we have counterintelligence officers, in the magnitude of thousands of chinese assets and agents that are in the united states. look, what the chinese do, they are very interested in economic espionage. they are interested in stealing military secrets, bringing them back to chinese research
answered at the trial is if yujing jang was a spy for the chinese. she wasn t charged with espionage, but a person familiar with the situation told cnn her case has been connected to a larger federal probe of potential chinese spying efforts. former fbi counterintelligence agent eric o neill says it s possible she wasn t a spy or that she could have been an informal operative, someone who was not fully trained, but who chinese officials loosely sent in to test security. to see how easy it is to get into mar-a-lago. and if she does get in there, she could have a basic knowledge of intelligence gathering to extract some intelligence, such as, what kind of people are in mar-a-lago? how do you get toward where trump might be? cnn has reached out to chinese authorities multiple times, but so far they have not responded to the suggestions that yujing jang might have been spying for them. friends and family of hers have described her to the miami herald as a mere tunnist w iop
will come out. we will learn the extent of the government spying efforts into the trump campaign. also breaking tonight, former trump campaign associate carter page just revealed that his contacts with the fbi informant stephan halper were extensive and continues for more than a year. spending a time period before and after the 2016 election. that s right. spying occurred. james comey says i didn t buy, but he signed the first fisa warrants. we are going to find out why and how hillary clinton s phony russian dossier that she paid for and never told a fisa court judge that she paid for it was used against the president and his allies. we also learned about media elites, rampant bias, and just whose inalienable rights were trampled on. as president trump pointed out, we could well uncover the role of some of our closest allies and argue great britain, probably australia, probably italy. but i m just guessing.
know that he is lying. a conspiracy hack through and through, and we have a lying partisan hack in charge of the house intelligence committee. that is scary. but rest assured, barr is not going to release sources and methods or highly classified intelligence, and let s not forget c that those who are now saying, oh, we can t release this, are the same people that were asking the attorney general of the united states barr to break the law and release the mueller report with grand jury testimony included. that is called selective moral outrage. we are about to see importanton evidence surrounding the biggest abuse of power, corruption scandal. it s set. the president declassified, it will come out. we will learn the extent of the government s spying efforts into the trump campaign. also breaking tonight, former trump campaign associate carter page just revealed that his contacts with the fbi informant stefan halper were extensive. and continued for more than a