joined by pat leahy, deeply involved in trying to get alan gross freed. but they were also joined by republican senator jeff flake of arizona. that leaves bob menendez and krista is 1 for 2. i will take the top part of the cocktail shaker if you win with that one. one more question, one more chance. one of the spy stories that ended up in this week s news because of the cuba bombshell on wednesday, one of those spy stories that was fascinating was the story of anna montez. we talked about her on wednesday and thursday s show. she had a high-ranking job with the pentagon but was secretly a cuban spy. which is not known to be one of the spy techniques that she used to evade detection. a, passing invest between shopping carts at the grocery store. b, receiving num logical codes over short wave radio.
so this, if you are stuck in traffic and going nowhere soon, what do you do? you make the best of it, right? absolutely. you do this. new meaning to the word traffic jam. that s what happened. the accident an the pennsylvania turnpike brought everyone to a standstill. someone broke out the steel drums. everyone got into the caribbean spirit. they were having so much fun the drivers were actually disappointed when traffic started moving again. i don t know. maybe the first six or seven cars. but if i was like 20 cars back and i knew this was happening you d be ticked off. i don t think i d be stretching for the limbo contest any time soon. coming up what could be the most intriguing spy stories in years made into a film. the details in the skinny.
was hazing pledges at hofstra university. so this, if you are stuck in traffic and going nowhere soon, what do you do? you make the best of it, right? absolutely. you do this. new meaning to the word traffic jam. that s what happened. the accident an the pennsylvania turnpike brought everyone to a standstill. someone broke out the steel drums. everyone got into the caribbean spirit. they were having so much fun the drivers were actually disappointed when traffic started moving again. i don t know. maybe the first six or seven cars. but if i was like 20 cars back and i knew this was happening you d be ticked off. i don t think i d be stretching for the limbo contest any time soon. coming up what could be the most intriguing spy stories in years made into a film.
he was scheduled to do that public q&a on twitter at 2:30 local time on tuesday. the ambassador kicked off the session by tweeting i m happy to answer your questions. at 2:30 local time, the exact same time the q&a was scheduled to start, that is when the russian government released at that very moment the news that they had arrested this american spy. the guy in the terrible wig. the exact same time. that is not only the latest in a lifetime s worth of bizarre spy stories between washington and moscow. it s also a pretty good granular indicator of what it must be like to try to be the u.s. ambassador in russia these days under a man named vladimir putin. joining us now for the interview tonight, michael mcfaul. he left his post as u.s. ambassador to russia last week. now a professor of political science at stanford university. professor mcfaul, thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. you ve done your homework about me. i ve at least tried to.
he was scheduled to do that public q&a on twitter at 2:30 local time on tuesday. the ambassador kicked off the session by tweeting i m happy to answer your questions. at 2:30 local time, the exact same time the q&a was scheduled to start, that is when the russian government released at that very moment the news that they had arrested this american spy. the guy in the terrible wig. the exact same time. that is not only the latest in a lifetime s worth of bizarre spy stories between washington and moscow. it s also a pretty good granular indicator of what it must be like to try to be the u.s. ambassador in russia these days under a man named vladimir putin. joining us now for the interview tonight, michael mcfall. he left his post as u.s. ambassador to russia last week. now a professor of political science at stanford university. professor mcfall, thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. you ve done your homework about me. i ve at least tried to.