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He said he was pretty cheerful. he said he wasn't depressed in any way. lacked sanitary items like razors and clean underwear. but that was being sorted out. he's applied for bail, as well. but he also warned that the russian legal system can be very slow and said it could be six months before this espionage case gets to trial. so he could be in for a long wait. >> matthew, stay with us. i want to bring in steve hall, a retired cia chief of russia operations. steve, what do you make of this, about this person, about what is going on? >> well, anderson, i hate to be smug, but you heard it here ...

Actual condition of paul whelan in this prison in a suburb of moscow. he said he was pretty cheerful. he said he wasn't depressed in any way. lacked a few -- some sanitary, sort of items like razors and clean underwear and things like that but that was being sorted out. painted a generally very positive picture of paul whelan's incarceration. and he's applied for bail, as well. but he also warned that the russian legal system can be very slow, and he said it could be, what, six months before this espionage case gets to trial. so, he could be in for a long wait. >> matthew, stay with us. i want...

We are talking about the black box with the claims or charges or suspicions against him and the espionage case apparently built against him. it sis a serious one. >> thank you, nathan hodge. china has become the first nation on earth to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. state television announcing that the lunar mission landed a rover near the south pole. we have matt rivers live for us with more from beijing. good to see you. >> reporter: good to see you, dave. this is a big deal for the chinese space program which has lagged behind the united states and russia. this was launch...

>> thanks very much. in the past few minutes, we managed to make contact with the lawyer, the russian lawyer representing paul whelan in the espionage case against him. he confirm said paul whelan has now indeed been formally charged with espionage under the russian criminal code. and he's being held in prison, which is a big former kgb prison, actually, in a suburb of the russian capital. according to the conversation we had with the lawyer, he said that mr. whelan is in good condition. also his mood is very good, and he's been treated well, according to the lawyer, by the authorities and the...

Security division in the justice department where she was the deputy chief in the espionage office for the department of justice. they brought someone into the mariia butina case. there was a moment where we have the transcript, her lawyer is arguing his client should not be in jail. his client you can see from the sketches, she's sitting there in an orange jail jumpsuit. her lawyer is arguing to the judge about the injustice of that and how unnecessary that is that she is being held in jail. the lawyer said, i submit to you, your honor, she is entitled to leave on her own there could be other...