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CIA Head Expects Russia to Interfere in the Mid-Term Elections

Mike Pompeo said that there had been no significant decrease in Russian subversion.

On the eve of Donald Trump's key State of the Union address, the head of the CIA has warned that Moscow will try to disrupt this year's mid-term US elections. Secondly, the deputy head of the FBI has stood down, ahead of his retirement, after reports of friction between him and the President.
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Presenter Roger Hearing is joined by Delhi-based journalist and writer, Madhavan Narayanan and Kathrine Mangu Ward, editor in chief of Reason magazine in Washington.

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