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Is This WSJ Reporter a Spy?

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0:00 if the Russians are saying it about almost anything you can take it to the bank that it's probably fake but I do believe Britney grinder did ████ up they should trade britty Grier for this guy they trade britty grer back switch it out Russians don't even get so many they want we're just traing somebody we don't want it's like white elephant how about that [Laughter] [Music] present all right this is some hot news to actually just came in this morning oh wow uh anybody familiar with the name Evan gershkovich no he has just been sentenced to 16 years for Espionage by Russian Court in a case denounced by us as a sham he's a Wall Street Journal repor oh the journalist guy all right and it's literally got sentenced this morning to Russian jail yeah well he's

0:51 already been in custody over they said he's being like like framed or some ████ not framed or like it's they say he's not a spy oh America's saying he's not yeah yeah for sure he's the first American journalist to be arrested onage charges in Russia since the Cold War he's been found guilty of spying and sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian Court uh in a case that the US government his newspaper and supporters have denounced as a sham the court in Yi tberg announced the guilty verdict and sentencing on Friday AKA today and the court heard closing arguments of this 32-year-old uh delivered behind closed doors this morning the case's rapid conclusion comes just weeks after gerkovich first appeared in a glass cage with his head recently shaved at the start of his trial on June 26th so all in all he's got years and the the thing that they

1:43 got a government contract over there for noise making congrats guys do people hear it in the videos as clearly yeah they hear that they laugh at that say sounds like a dump truck the commenters have good jokes of what those noises are too I like I love it so the speed of the trial uh has put into question whether the Kremlin is intending to use him as part of a prisoner swap deal with the US suggesting you're going to get another arms dealer they're well I mean you know that was a good trade Britney Grant arms dealer that was a good one yeah that was a good one but they are trying to get back let me see Merchant of death that was a ████ I think somebody who was detained for like a murder in Berlin or something like that I I don't know yeah isn't it that that he's being sentenced not only to like Russian prison but it's like a Russian hard labor Camp right that's a default huh damn

2:34 some Siberian ████ Work Camp what they call like a penal they call Colony yeah P Colony damn that who's going to be making Russian dolls all day dude one going into another just the little ones that just keep getting but that's how he's going to escape yeah that's how he escapes that's he hides in one he makes one so big that he's the the next one and then he dies cuz he there's no breathing holes nobody open there so many why didn't I think of that a ████ they gave up no he's got a straw that goes through oh that's not all them no he he would never so he's already spent 478 days in prison apparently wrongfully detained away from his friends and family prevented from reporting and doing this as you know can't do his job as a journalist um so the Wall Street Journal saying we'll continue to do everything possible to press for evidence release and support his

3:25 family um what's the line between where like a journalist is now a spy for the US when they're a double agent when there's somebody worth ████ trading for and also there is I mean again we've only seen this in movies but there is a possibility that somebody is playing both sides like that you know what I mean like somebody shows up as a reporter but really is also working for the CIA like or nonprofit organization people they always do that yeah so we're here to save lives and study you guys but I mean there's 15 days from this moment to still appeal oh great yeah we know we we know how appeals are effective right yeah ████ that ████ he's passionate about appeals this is the guy remember when remember when Tucker Carlson went to Russia and he was talking to Putin he was like let me can I just go talk to

4:17 him right now let me just leave with him right now and then Putin like was basically like haha yeah right I'm going to give away a bargaining chip basically oh that's what you said which seems like it's pretty clear what the kremlin's intention is right it's like literally a bargaining chip M so you sentence a guy to some astronomical you know punishment for quote unquote being a journalist they found vape pens in his bag too or no that's the number one reason they found a little Cricket well cuz a journalist's job is kind of spy-ish cuz you have to investigate you have to like learn ████ yeah that's what I'm saying like don't they all seem like spies but then they'll be like freedom of the press doesn't work in Russia dude there's no such thing I mean we arrest journalists pretty good over here too I'll tell you that that's true like a like we do that to our own yeah dude James Rosen bunch of dudes following his

5:09 arrest gers gershkovich uh was held in moscow's notorious lefortovo prison spending almost every hour of the day in a small cell being transferred to the city of eburg in the EUR more than 1100 mil east of the capital he passed the town by writing letters to his friends and family um he's allowed about one hour of walking per day this might be an off topic question but do you think in Russian prisons like there's still a lot of homoerotic stuff going on over there I think that's exclusively American that's that's my question Putin said that they're not gay they don't even have gay guys yet no and Iran said that they're not gay too yeah it's just America's kind wait to Jack each other off sometimes you can't wait to suck each other off and ████ each other off and just say it's like it's cuz we're suck together we jail yeah they're all in Thailand I think Thailand has like a 9.9% gay rate or some ████ the jail I

5:59 think it's 99.9 there's a 1 out of 10 gay rate well it's probably cuz the lady boys are so good yeah I think like it's like 9% cuz they don't look like guys dude the way people have been like have been like JK is so bad at numbers lately it's so ████ funny to me I am I'm bad at numbers no so 10 million gay didn't Kaylin C get like 57,000 points or something yeah I corrected it that one's the dumb that one makes them look dumb because for them to not know that he's that I fixed I corrected it was it was 62,000 corre NCAA record we always correct ourselves we're like a hair pin away our estimates are we're just talking to dumb Engineers that are always like actually it has to be it's like yeah we're getting we get a lot of actually sometimes yeah we have so many Engineers I was only 15 million off that one time to get actually who was it

6:50 elcone or whatever mhm the population there it you like what 50 million off yeah that doesn't matter aloh who's supposed to know that you know well There's 7 billion people in the world so like 15 million off is not there a billion of them in California they really does suck though if this dude is completely innocent they're just using him like that they probably are but that's the game think he's completely innocent I think he's completely innocent 100% I think so completely innocent you don't think he ████ up maybe like 1% and they're just stretching that ████ I think that you know that could be you got to show us the evidence that he's a spy what if they show a confession but then the whole time he's like beat up unless they have a picture of him with a magnifying glass in a dark room looking at confidential papers he's not and a pipe yeah he's not

7:41 a spy yeah it always seems weird to like trust the trial of something that ends up getting use political overseas leverage yeah I'd never buy it yep like it's so motivated to be guilty like if the Russians are saying it about almost anything you can take it to the bank that it's probably fake but I do believe Brittney Grinder did ████ up smoke weat should because she's a woman Ryan they should trade britty grimer for this guy they trade britty Grier back switch it out Russians don't even get sobody they want we're just traing somebody we don't want get it's like white elephant how about that present if you guys give us if you guys give us Caitlyn Clark we'll be really happy that's crazy you it seems like Russia's going B on everybody they're going bad on khabib dude they're they're

8:31 they're trying to get money yeah apparently apparently khabib he's a Russian national Treasurer right yep he owes like $3 million supposed to be Untouchable in to to the taxes in Russia and apparently he's in Abu Dhabi he's out he's running 3 mil I don't know oh I'd pay him anyway I'm so scared of them what are you going to do yeah how are you going to get away from them wait what I think con like anything happens Conor's just on the side just always talking ████ you're a ████ terrorist rat I knew this about and you married and like with something like good luck to your wife or cousin yeah yeah yeah do remember remember remember married a towel mate that's what he said remember pran dude the guy who who yeah he walked all those troops up towards Moscow and then Putin's like hey dude we're ████ Gucci pinky pinky swears and then Pan's plane has an error and he goes down that

9:23 was me at a later date if I owe the Russian government taxes I'm ████ paying dude ████ that's scary he could for 3 mil yeah I think so yeah easy I mean snowden's just chilling there Snowden is yeah he's just living life eating ████ caviar how do you think snow makes money you think they just like give him a stien or something I don't know or maybe he was smart and he saved money he does he drop shpping he does the speaking he does the speaking doesn't he is that what it is I thought he got paid to do speaking and he has a book and ████ I know he has crypto maybe that's what it is he sold a book maybe that's what it is and I mean it if he a book he could probably live pretty solid out there for some time I think his passive income from time Shar is way he said oh that's really smart that's I heard he has a couple airbnbs around Mongolia I heard he has a couple houses and he turned them all into duplexes oh

10:13 yeah the bur method he took yeah he took like a 2,000t house and turned into 16 units and they're all like surrounding The Orleans Hotel he's in the video conferences with thatch and he has a shirt that says bar

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