Investigations into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election dominated the news for much of Donald Trump’s first term in office. Many allies now have been appointed to top jobs at the CIA and FBI,

Who knows what the Trump administration might do in terms of providing insight to the Russians about what intelligence capabilities Western nations have?” said former CIA Director John Brennan in an interview with MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe says intelligence sharing with Ukraine has been paused. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports more. Former Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary for Russia Evelyn Farkas joins José Díaz-Balart to provide more insight on how this could help Russia.

US authorities have stopped intelligence sharing with Ukraine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed on Wednesday. Following Washington suspending military aid to Kiev in the context of the Russian invasion of February 2022;

The CIA has fired some probationary employees as part of the Trump administration’s broad efforts to shrink the federal government, according to a spokeswoman for the agency.

If firing CIA officers would prompt them to "risk treason" by spilling nation's secrets, they need to part with the agency, which is the thinking of Director John Ratcliffe.

The CIA boss said he thinks pause “will go away” and that the US “will work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have to push back on the aggression that’s there.”

Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon,

The confirmation of the pause on intelligence sharing follows a heated exchange between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents

Recent U.S. intelligence has signaled that foreign adversaries are increasing efforts to recruit disgruntled federal employees in sensitive national security roles.

The U.S. Cyber Command is pausing its offensive operations against Russia. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the decision, which was confirmed Monday by a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operations.