And playing the part of robert driscoll, who represents accused russian secret agent maria butina, as her defense attorney, that part will also be played by me. I know that sounds cheap. Its a delicate balance here. What were saving on the salaries of actors with speaking roles, were making up for in terrible acting by me. So whats going on here is that accused russian secret agent, maria butina, has been in jail a week and half. She was arrested last weekend right before the trumpputin summit in helsinki. She was actually arrested before the summit started even though we didnt find you about it at the time. The court didnt unseal the case against her until a few hours after the summit was concluded. The coincidence of those two events is interesting because she is accused of being an agent of the russian federation, right, secretly mounting an operation in this country on behalf of the russian government to influence the Republican Party around the 2016 president ial election. Since t
Salaries of actors with speaking roles, were making up for in terrible acting by me. So whats going on here is that accused russian secret agent, maria butina, has been in jail a week and half. She was arrested last weekend right before the trumpputin summit in helsinki. She was actually arrested before the summit started even though we didnt find out about it at the time. The court didnt unseal the case against her until a few hours after the summit was concluded. The coincidence of those two events is potentially interesting because shes accused of being an agent of the russian federation, right . Secretly mound aginfluence operation in this country on behalf of the russian government to influence the Republican Party around the 2016 president ial election. Since they unsealed her case, we have learned a lot of interesting stuff about what exactly the government is accusing her of. Its all fascinating. I think we are hardwired as humans to think that secret agent stuff is inherently