Department officials of abusing their powers to spy on a former trump campaign adviser suspected of being an agent for russia, which convenient ly echoing administration claims at the time released over the republican trump-appointed fbi director s grave concerns about its accuracy. any one of those items would raise concern. every one of them, and there are more, raise questions that we will talk about tonight. first, joining us is sharon la freniere, one of the the washington post new york times co so correspondents on the russia lawyer now informant story. how has natalia veselnitskaya gone from saying she operates independently of any government bodies to admitting she as russian informant? i think what happened was that she was a little taken by surprise because we and nbc news obtained a series of e-mails,