while the biden administration is working to bring them home donald trump says, he's the only one with a lotion for gershkovich evan gershkovich the reporter for the wall street journal, who is being held by russia, will be released almost immediately after the election vladimir putin, president of russia, we'll do that for me. >> and i know believe you'll do it for anyone else and we will be paying nothing well, tonight we heard from president putin and he said that any possible release of evan gershkovich can happen only on the basis of reciprocity i source tonight his help free several americans who were detained overseas, including for griner, mickey bergman is the co-author of in the shadows, true stories of high-stakes negotiations to free americans captured abroad. >> and you, i mean, you have a window into this that very few people do. we cover this a lot here, but but when you hear what putin said tonight, that it has to be down the basis of reciprocity. what does that signal to you? and it also is