Have. Welcome to how it really happened. Im hill harper. George michael musical singer songwriter charitable superstar but haunted by demons. He had the voice of a maestro, but the darkness of regret which turned him into a tabloid target. All alone on christmas home George Michael went to sleep and never woke up. This is how it really happened. You know that song, Last Christmas. Its one of George Michaels famous songs of all time. He loved christmas so much. It was his favorite day of the year and the saddest part of everything is he died on christmas. George and his boyfriend began spending a lot of time at his country house, which is halfway between london and oxford. Its a gorgeous area, very traditional, and it being christmas time there was this huge parade past his home, and everyone is Carrying Torches so its very spectacular. One moment im looking out the window and its a very sad ghostly image caught his face behind the glass sort of looking at a world but detached from it.
also a resident and dear chiefs fan, former missouri senator was at the event and got herself a selfie with the president. so, congrats to clare and all the chiefs kingdom for the super bowl victory. and on that victorious note, i wish you a good night. to all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with. me i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you for joining. us so we spent 21 years of 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. i also paid him in diamonds. which is a nice spy movie touch. but he s putting as the race for 21 years. and then, for the next 21 years after that, he resulted in federal prison. so 21 years as a spy against america, and then 21 years and counting in prison because of its. before he died today. in prison, at the age of 79. it was stopped the presses huge national news, when they first caught in 2009. from nbc news
.and that this maybe was a suicide. halperin: fadi s tweets shocked the world when he said that george wanted to commit suicide. that doesn t make sense. why would somebody who cares so much about another person do that after they died? telling: george michael s family was obviously incredibly upset with fadi fawaz. hilton: ultimately, he said his twitter was hacked. why would somebody hack his account and tweet that? there s no evidence that his account got hacked. lee: everyone wanted to know why george michael had died, but it took some time for the coroner s report to come out. the first one was inconclusive, so they had to do it again to figure out what exactly happened. not sure why they took so long. two and a half months now since george michael s death in his home in oxfordshire on christmas day,
of parole. and that is where he was in 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, and given the body count that is attributed to him robert hansen s story is considered one of the most damaging u.s. intelligence disasters we have ever had as a country, and we have 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 and today in russia somebody to get ahead to get a safe speech to vladimir putin, broadcast on the russian tv and nato. early this afternoon rush the time it appears that somebody hack into at least one russian tv network and radio network
evidence of it, to erase evidence of past russia, past soviet atrocities and it is amazing to me, it shouldn t be, but it is amazing to me that they used false pedophilia charges against gulag historians for that to justify bulldozing that memorial site. but that s what they did. and they did that repeatedly. it s an obvious and frequent enough political tactic in putin s russia, that in 2016, not long after our bizarre 2016 presidential election, the new york times ran a feature on how this particular tactic kept coming up increasingly in putin s russia. you see the headline there. foes of russia say child pornography is planted to ruin them. the story of a veteran soviet dissident who had resettled in cambridge england had somebody hack in his community and put child pornographer images on his