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night. i ll be back for my show plus catch additional episodes every thursday exclusively on peacock. the rachel maddow show starts right now. they ve already got you working triple time? this is the down side of being very good at what you re doing. then you have to do more and more. aid good time. an hour went pretty quickly. as a viewer i felt the same. that s a good sign. well done, my friend. have a great show. thank you. and thank you at home for joining me. it is good to be hear. so he spend 21 years spying against the united states. he did it for money and who knows what else. they did pay him. they paid him in cash and they paid him in diamonds which is a nice spy movie touch. he spied against the u.s. for the next 21 years. then the next 21 years after that, he resided in federal prison. 21 years as a spy against america and then 21 years and counting in prison before he died today in prison at the age of 79. it was stop the presses huge national n ....
that is all in. and i ll be back sunday at noon eastern for my show with jen psaki. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, jen. they ve already got you working triple time in. something like that. well, this is it down side of being very good of what you re doing then you have to do more and more of it. thank you. i had a pretty good time. an hour went quickly. some interesting things. i felt the same. that s a very good sign. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it s good to be here. so he spent 21 years spying against the united states, he did it for money and who knows what else, but they did pay him. they paid him in cash. they also paid him in diamonds, which is a nice spy movie touch. but he spied against the u.s. for 21 years, and for the next 21 years after that he resided in federal prison. so 21 years as a spy against america and then 21 years and counting in prison because of it ....
Prison without the possibility of parole when he died today at the age of 79. given the type of high-level secret information that hansen gave first to the soviets and then to the russians, given the body count attributed to him, robert hanssen s story is considered one of the most damaging u.s. intelligence disasters we have ever had as a country and we ve had a few. it is also just one of the darkest stories that we have when it comes to intrigue about russia, and there are quite a few of those stories. even just in today s news alone. today in russia, somebody figured out how to get a fake speech by vladimir putin broadcast on russian tv and radio. this is early this afternoon in russia time. it appears somebody hacked into at least one russian tv network and radio network. they broadcast a fake speech by ....
But even that movie breach from 2007, even that good movie is nothing compared to the real-live footage. this is real footage. look here. of the real robert hanssen being arrested. when that nerves of steel operation inside the fbi to catch him in the act actually did catch him in the act. this is the actual moment when he was taken into custody. he was at a park in fairfax, virginia. a place called fox stone park. he had just left a dead drop for his russian handler. the fbi had been watching him and they swooped in and arrested him. that was 2001. again, it was national news. a huge deal all over the country. hanssen pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage. he pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. he was arrested in 2001, sentenced in 2002 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. and that is where he was, in ....
Maybe learning about that his, to precedent can help us understand what otherwise feels overwhelming or super unfamiliar in today s news. that s the basic idea of the news podcast which is just launching today. with all the russia intrigue in today s news, right? with robert hanssen dying, this massively damaging russian spy, with the fake putin speech being mysteriously broadcast on russian tv and radio, with the dog eat dog between real russian soldiers and paid russian mercenaries who are supposed to be on the same side in the war. with all that crazy news today, the deja news moment that i ve been having today is one from 2018 from the trump administration. do you remember the do not congratulate saga? do you remember this? this was five years ago. ....