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Around and made a safe emergency landing at another airport in siberia. nobody got hurt. the lawyer for the american behind bars in russia on spying charges says his client did receive a flash drive with russian state secrets on it like moscow said he did it. but theres a but. the already said paul whelan didnt know the classified intel was on the drive and he never looked at it. whelan was in court today and here he is in a glass cage. his first public appearance since his arrest december 28. h...

Many as 70 wounded when a suicide bomber drove a humvee into the base. the lawyer for an american man being held on moscow in suspicion of spying says his client was given a flash drive containing russian state secrets before he was arrested. saying that paul whelan did not know that he had them and had not looked at them. he made his first public court appearance today. to some of the other stories beyond the borders tonight. we will be right back. ♪ thats why i switched to liberty mutual. th...

Investigators arrested whelan inside his hotel room. somebody gave him a flash drive. on that flash drive was classified list of employees at a secret russian agency. they gave him this drive to bring to america. joining us now is paul whelans twin brother, david. good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> shepard: how is your family doing? this cant be easy. >> its remarkable. i think paul case proves truth can be stranger than fiction. hes fortunate that as many of us who c...

Vladimir putin might have been willing to trade whelan for alleged russian spy maria butina who recently pled guilty to conspiring against the u.s. a russian news site says whelan was detained in his hotel room shortly after getting a flash drive of names of russian intelligence agents. but his family says he was simply visiting moscow for a wedding. cnn senior correspondent matthew chance has more. >> reporter: this may go some way toward explaining why he appeared on the radar of russian count...

Misdemeanor, least of all espionage. its slightly contradictory to what his lawyer suggested to cnn about 36 hours ago when he said that his client would not be in the moscow prison where hes being held had he not been charged. but it would now appear that the official russian position is that he hasnt been charged. theyre of course opening the opportunity for release for lack of evidence or, indeed, because it seemed as diplomatic expedient to do so. >> now a website said whelan was detained in...

Russians are very good at framing people. for all sorts of things, for drugs, now for espionage. when they announced that they observed him committing an act of espionage, that made my ears go up immediately. >> thats -- in a sense, thats what happened to you. you were a reporter. you have a source who calls you. then what happens? >> what happens in these case c that the russians get you to accept unwittingly some material which turns out to have secret value to it. that seems to be what happen...

U.s. that maybe russia is desperate to get back. so i think thats certainly a consideration here. whether or not, you know, he actually is a spy, that is something that i think we need to be careful about, because there is so much not known about him and he is an interesting figure to say the least. so i think we need to wait to see how this plays out. if a trade were made of butina that would be completely outrageous. she has already pled guilty. she admitted she was trying to influence the ele...

Has engaged on russian social media, like the russian version of facebook. many of the people on that -- on that site that were his friends, basically were former or current members of the russian security forces. what the rust bolt article says is that those people were prepicked by u.s. intelligence for him to befriend and to extract whatever information he could. we cant independently verify that report or its content. and, of course, the intelligence source may have actually had a, you know,...

Surrounding the arrest and detention of an american man charged with espionage in russia. a russian news site this morning says that paul whelan had information, classified information, on a flashdrive when he was arrested. all of this as whelans lawyers are appealing his detention and pushing for bail. lets go to my colleague, sam kiley, who has more. what is the significance of what his attorney is pushing for and frankly what this russian news site is reporting about what they say whelan had ...

Providing an explanation. what are you learned? >> reporter: yeah, rust bolt is the name of this privately owned russian news agency, and theyve interview what they say is an intelligence source who has sort of talked through the actual steps, the situation in which paul whelan, this u.s. marine who was arrested for espionage, was actually detained. he was in a five-star hotel in the center of moscow. he was in his room, apparently five minutes, it says, after he received a -- you know, a flash ...