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LAWRENCE: GOOD EVENING AMERICA
I’M LAWRENCE JONES TWOK CROSS
COUNTRY TONIGHT WE’RE EXPOSING
THE THREATS FACING AMERICANS
FROM ABROAD AND FROM RIGHT IT
NEXT DOOR.
STARTING WITH SPICE WITH THE TOP
LEVEL OF U.S. POLITICS.
LET’S BRING YOU TO HONOLULU,
HAWAII FEDS ARE CHARGED WITH A
COUPLE WITH POSSIBLE SOVIET ERA
KGP PRIMROSE USED IDENTITY TO
ENLIST IN COAST GUARD OBTAIN A
PASSPORT, AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
CREDENTIAL ALLOWED HIM A SECRET
SERVICE CLEARANCE.
THESE PHOTOS THAT YOU’RE LOOKING
AT RIGHT NOW OF THE COUPLE IN
KGB UNIFORM WERE SHARED IN
COURT.
PROSECUTORS CALL FOR THE COUPLE
TO BE HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
AND IN TAMPA, FLORIDA INDICTMENT
ALLEGES OPERATIVE WITH U.S.
POLITICAL GROUPS TO SPREAD
PRORUSSIA PROPAGANDA.
PROSECUTORS SAY ALEXANDER I KNOW
INDIVIDUALS IN FLORIDA, GEORGIA,
AND CALIFORNIA TO ACT AS
INSTRUMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL AND
SOCIAL MEDIA FEARS.
OTHER KRPGHTS WANT TO CLEARLY
UNDERMINE OUR DEMOCRACY SO WHY
ISN’T THIS GETTING MORE
COVERAGE?
LET’S BRING IN FORMER CIA
STATION CHIEF AND MOSCOW DAN
HOFFMAN AND FORMERRINGS DINA
INTEL OFFICER OF PUTIN PLAYBOOK
THANK YOU Y’ALL SO MUCH FOR
JOINING THE PROGRAM SO DAN WE
HAVE DEPENDED ON YOU FOR A LOT
OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.
SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED RIGHT
NOW?
>> WE SHOULD BE.
YOU KNOW VLADIMIR PIEWTEN ONE OF
THE WAS SERVING IN THE KGB FOR
HIM ESPIONAGE IS AN INSTRUMENT
OF HIS NATIONAL SECURITY
STRATEGY, AND HE’S GOING TO SEEK
TO USE WHAT IS OUR STRENGTH THAT
ISN’T WIDE OPEN CYBERSPACE AND
MEDIA TO HIS ADVANTAGE AND
THAT’S WHAT WE’RE SEEING IN THIS
CASE.
REBECCA ARE THEY TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT
ADMINISTRATION RIGHT NOW?
IT SEEMS LIKE THEY’RE BEATING
THEIR CHEST ALL AROUND THE
WORLD.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
THEY ARE TAKING CARE, TAKING
ADVANTAGE RATHER OF THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION.
WHICH HAS EXHIBITED TREMENDOUS
WEAKNESS, AND INABILITY TO
COUNTER THE RUSSIAN THREAT.
BUT LIKE DAN SAID, PUTIN HAS
HONED HIS SKILLS AND HE IS
CAPITALIZING ON 100 YEARS OF
RUSSIAN SPY CRAFT BECAUSE THE
RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR
DECADES.
THEY HAVE BEEN UNFILL
INFILTRATING ILLEGALS BURROWING
THEMSELVES IN, STUDYING US TO
EXPLOIT OUR VULNERABILITY SUCH
AS TREMENDOUS POLARIZATION AND
POLITICIZATION OF OUR SOCIETY.
>> DAN, FOR I GUESS FOUR YEARS
WE HEARD RUSSIAN, RUSSIAN,
RUSSIAN.
WE HEARD ABOUT ALL OF THESE
FOREIGN INTERFERERS IN OUR
ELECTION AND WHY SO MANY
CRICKETS RIGHT NOW ABOUT THIS?
>> I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT THE HOUSE AND SENATE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE SHOULD
FOCUS ON THERE’S NO QUESTION
THAT IT WOULD BE VALUED TO
HOLDING HEARINGS OPEN HEARINGS
ABOUT THIS.
AND ASKING THE DIRECTOR OF
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TESTIFY ON
THESE ISSUES.
JUST TO ISSUE SOME KIND OF BASIC
WARNINGS TO OUR CITIZENS BECAUSE
I THINK YOU’RE RIGHT.
THE MORE --
OUR CITIZENS KNOW ABOUT THE
THREATS FROM RUSSIA FROM CHINA
IN PARTICULAR AND THEIR FULL
THROTTLE ESPIONAGE ATTACK
AGAINST US BETTER OFF WE ALL
ARE.
>> REBECCA I WANT TO SWITCH
GEARS FOR YOU REAL QUICK.
YOU’VE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT
THIS PRISONER SWAP THIS EXCHANGE
WITH THIS MERCHANT OF DEATH.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS GUY?
I MEAN A LOT OF AMERICANS AGREE
WE NEED OUR AMERICANS BACK HOME
RIGHT?
BUT --
BUT OF RELEASING THIS GUY IS
THIS GOOD FOR NATIONAL SECURITY?
>> IT IS TERRIBLE FOR OUR
NATIONAL SECURITY, LAWRENCE, IN
FACT, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
BY RELEASING THIS CRIMINAL WHO
IS SERVING 25 YEARS FOR
CONSPIRING TO KILL AMERICANS,
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING
OUR SECURITY WORSE.
THEY ENDANGERING MANY MORE
AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY’RE
DEMONSTRATING TO PUTIN THAT
PLAYBOOK WORKS. EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY GRAB AN
EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY GRAB AN
AMERICAN AND YES, YOU KNOW,
BRITTNEY GRINER VIOLATED THE LAW
AND MANY AMERICANS CAN END NEW
RUSSIAN PRISON SO RUSSIANS CAN
GET ASSETS BACK AND THIS GUY IS
A BAD DUDE AND HE’S TIN
INDIRECTLY RELATED TO PUTIN
HIMSELF THROUGH WHO IS THE HEAD
OF THE COMPANY --
SO WE NEED TO KEEP HIM HERE IN
JAIL.
AND WE’RE PRAYING FOR BRITTNEY
GRINER AND PAUL BUT WE CANNOT
ACT BASED ON EMOTIONS WE NEED TO
BE RATIONAL AND NOT JEOPARDIZE
OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.
>> THERE’S ANOTHER AMERICAN
BEING HELD FOR SAME CHARGES AS
WELL NO WONGDIER THEY DIDN’T GET
COVERAGE.
DAN DOES THIS MAN GO BACK TO
THE --
GO BACK TO BATTLEFIELD?
WHEN WE RELEASED TERRORISTS FROM
GUAM THEY WERE BACK ON THE FIELD
SO WHAT ABOUT THIS GUY?
>> I SEE THIS AS A PUBLIC
RELATION WIN FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN
SAYING RUSSIANS LIKE SAY THEY
DON’T LEAVE THEIR OWN ON
BATTLEFIELD THERE’S SO MANY
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS KILLED BUT
VLADIMIR PUTIN WILL USE THIS AS
A PR STUNT TO TRY TO DEMONSTRATE
HE TAKES CARE OF HIS OWN AND
DOESN’T ALLOW HIS OWN --
HIS OWN TO VANQUISH IN PRISONS
IN THE UNITED STATES TO BE
VANQUISHED THERE AND HE’LL USE
THAT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF TO
DISTRACT PEOPLE AND DEFLECT FROM
HIS FAILURES IN UKRAINE.
LAWRENCE: BAD FOREIGN POLICY FOR
OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW AND PUTS