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The Lead with Jake Tapper

DOJ: two alleged Chinese agents operate “police station” in NYC

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents and federal prosecutors have charged dozens of others with working to silence and harass dissidents within the United States. Plus, outrage in Kansas City after a teenage black boy is shot after showing up at the wrong house to pick up his brothers. The gunman was an elderly white man and was released after less than two hours in custody.  Also, the Republican led House Judiciary Committee is holding a field hearing in Manhattan today to focus on violent crime in New York.   To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

An alleged Chinese government spy operation in the middle of Manhattan, and that's just

0:07.8

the start of it, the lead starts right now.

0:11.9

Chinese dissidents in the US, harassed and intimidated from online to doorknobs.

0:19.6

The FBI says Chinese government agents were trying to silence their words against the

0:23.5

Chinese government, even operating a fake cop shop in New York.

0:29.1

Outrage in Kansas City as if after a black teenage boy is shot after showing up at the

0:33.8

wrong house to pick up his brothers, CNN is learning that the gunman was an elderly white man

0:38.9

and was released. After less than two hours in custody, why critics fear he may never be charged

0:44.6

with a crime. And live from New York, it's the House GOP. Their spotlight on crime in New York

0:52.3

today, in the backyard of the prosecutor, the indicted Donald Trump.

0:58.6

Welcome to the lead object tapering, what appears to be a brazen act of espionage by the Chinese

1:06.6

government as US tensions with that country boil over. The US Justice Department announced

1:12.2

today three cases suggesting Chinese government agents spied on US soil. Two suspected spies,

1:19.2

American citizens were arrested today for operating a quote, undeclared police station in Manhattan.

1:26.4

Both men, US citizens who apparently destroyed evidence when confronted by the FBI are set to appear

1:31.1

in a federal court soon. US officials say they operated an illegal Chinese police outpost in

1:37.9

the Chinatown area of New York City that was apparently used to harass Chinese dissidents living

1:43.6

in the United States on behalf of the Chinese government. In another case, Chinese security officials

1:49.2

apparently eavesdropped on Zoom calls in the United States in order to harass Chinese dissidents

1:56.3

who were on the calls. They disrupted the calls. They had a spy inside Zoom's corporate operations

2:03.2

allegedly. All this is high stakes diplomatic tensions between the US and China are reaching a

2:08.8

boiling point over the Chinese spy balloon flying over the US. Data privacy concerns about TikTok.

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