The Rachel Maddow show starts right now, right now. Good evening, Rachel.

Good evening, Michael. Working triple time, I see. No rest for the wicked. Everybody's all in all the time.

I'm learning from the best. Well, get some sleep. You've got about five minutes to sleep before you're due back here, Michael. Thank you, my friend.

Thank you, Rachel. And thanks to at home for joining us tonight.

Really happy to have you here on a Friday night.

Just after the election, three days after the election, a right-wing streaming network started airing a six-part

Russian propaganda special, attacking the FBI.

Now, I say it was a Russian propaganda special because, specifically, it was made by a producer

who has made a living making propaganda for the Kremlin.

One of the producers, the guy who financed and produced this film, this docu series, this attack on the FBI, he has been paid by the Kremlin

to produce videos that are designed to lure Westerners, including Americans, to leave the West and move to Mother Russia. That project was

funded by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, which is a state entity created in

the Kremlin by Vladimir Putin in 2021. This guy served on the board of a Russian propaganda outlet that was designed to look like an American news site.

It was launched in the months leading up to our 2024 election.

It was full of pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine content.

This guy has produced hagiographic biographies of pro-Kremlin dictators, including, I kid you not, an eight-part series,

singing the praises of the dictator of Kazakhstan.

And that was paid for by a charity controlled by the dictator of Kazakhstan.

He also created a pro-Kremlin anti-Ukraine film that was paid for by a pro-Kremlin

anti-Ukraine oligarch, who has been under U.S. sanctions for more than a decade.

He and his company produced another anti-Ukraine film last year that featured claims

smearing President Biden

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