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He made his first public appearance in court yesterday, he was denied bail. is one brother says whalen is being used as upon. >> and espionage case, we would have someone who was also under arrest under similar charges for having transfer the information. >> reporter: a russian news outlet reports he received a flash drive with a list of employees working in the russian defense ministry. minute later agents arrested him. s lawyer says there is no evidence his client to the spy. rob: democrats no...

For release on bail while he awaits his espionage trial. >> are you being treated okay, mr. wheel season. >> reporter: paul whelan not allowed to answer cnns questions behind bullet proof glass in the high security courtroom. whelan was detained by russia intelligence service in his hotel room in central moscow in late december and charged with espionage. his lawyer saying he was given a classified flash drive. >> paul received information and i confirm the information is classified as state sec...

On the flash drive. and again these are the first pictures we have of paul whelan behind bulletproof glass there in the courtroom as bail was just denied. thank you so much, fred. president trump hoping to put the squeeze on democrats to end the longest government shutdown in our nations history by offering a plan that they wont accept. that is the state of play on day 32 of the government shutdown as over 800,000 federal workers prepare to miss a second paycheck on friday if a deal is not str...

All right. new this morning a russian state appointed attorney for the u.s. citizen accused of spying in russia says his client had classified information when he was arrested. paul whelan, his lawyer appointed by russia, told cnn before pretrial hearing where whelan was denied bail. he claims he was found with a flash drive containing russian state secrets when the american was detained last month in moscow. >> here is the rub and it sounds like a spy novel. he said he believed the drive contai...

That this was planted on whelan to justify his being arrested? >> reporter: i think the lawyer isnt going that far. he did sort of insinuate perhaps paul whelan was misled by whichever individual gave him the flash drive. its quite interesting because it was given to him inside his hotel here in moscow. we asked the attorney who the person was who gave it to him. he wouldnt elaborate on it. whether it was an acquaintance, someone else. he did seem to say it was not a member of any sort of servic...

Willen, the first since his arrest. he faces up to 20 years in a russian prison on espionage charges. fred pleitgen joining us by phone outside the courtroom in moscow. update our viewers. >> reporter: quite interesting. i just peeled away from a press statement that mr. whelans lawyer was giving after he had just come out of the court room. and one of the interests things that weve learned, first of all, he said that he believed that it would be a fair trial. obviously some believing that maybe...

They said it constituents state secrets when he entered moscow but he did not realize it. fred, whats going on there? >> reporter: i was inside the courtroom when paul whelan had the short hearing to try to get bail and didnt receive it. it was the first time we saw him since late december. he seemed to be in fairly decent spirits, smiling every once in a while. i asked him how he was doing. he didnt answer that. he was behind bullet proof glass. the hearing was short and said bail would not be ...

Information and was unable to do so so he was presented with this flash drive. >> were discussing the details and objecting. everyone is concerned with what happened. yet on the flash drive, he received the information, which a state secret. in reality, paul was expected to receive personal information that was not a state secret. information concerning culture. >> russian authorities say december 28, they caught whelan red-handed receiving the information and committing espionage as part of thi...

Government is saying it contained state secrets and he was caught in an act of espionage, saying paul wayland defended his innocence and did so from a glass box in the moscow court room. he will have to stay in the prison until february 26th. his lawyer says only have had access to 5% of the files in this case. whelans family said he was in moscow for a wedding and went to russia a lot. he had taken some of the guest of the wedding around before he was arrested and according to russian media rep...

Charge them. the alleged crime happened on january 14. the woman said she met chris brown in a nightclub. they went back to the mandarin oriental hotel in central paris where the woman said brown raped her in his suite. the role of the other two have not been established but drugs were involved. neither brown or his lawyer or publicist have commented. the publicist wont say why crews brown was in paris and the u.s. embassy in paris still said it will not comment on this case, period, shep. >> sh...