cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood has more on the message from these families. kylie, trevor reed s family, paul whelan s family, they were also there. their first public appearance together. what did they say? they were there. there were also family members of dozens of americans who are also wrongfully detained abroad. their message today was very clear, first and foremost it was that they want the biden administration to do everything in they re power to bring home their loved ones, no matter where they are detained abroad. syria, iran, venezuela, russia, just to name a few countries. the other things they were explicit about, these families want to meet with president biden. they saw how a meeting between trevor reed s family and president biden was one of the things that appeared to speed up the release of trevor reed who is detained in russia and was returned here to the united states last week, so they made it very clear that they too want to meet with president
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secure my release? david is his twin brother joining me now. thank you. i m sorry we re under these circum circumstances. i know you are pleased for the trevor reed. what answers do you have for your brothers questions of why not him. we have more questions. we don t know why not him. it s not clear why the government did have a concession they were willing to make. why they didn t try to bring home more americans. and there maybe a very good reason for that. but we don t have the answer. as you know, his parents met with president biden after a public campaign for his administration to do more to get their son released. particularly because of health concerns. the only family of a prisoner detained in russia to meet with the president. does your family want or expect to meet with the president? is that something you have been trying to do? yes, my sister has made numerous requests to meet with the president and none of them
have been responded to. your brother said russian officials from the very beginning of his detention. this is really fascinating detail that russian officials from the moment he was taken, mention the names of two russian prisoners that they planned to swap him for. or would swap him for. one was the russian prisoner swapped for trevor reed. and you can see in the video him actually passing mr. reed on the tarmac on the left during the swap. the other is an arms dealer named victor boot. nicknamed mer chchant of death. do you have hopes that swap will happen? could that be done? i don t think i could see that swap happening. it under lines a problem i think we are facing now. which is that the u.s. government has known pretty much since day one of paul s detention. which is 1,200 days. there were at least two people
tonight after more than two years the russian custody, american trevor reed is back on u.s. soil. he arived at an aair force base in texas this morning. that s him in the dark shirt and pants reuniting with his family. he s getting care. health problems and the activism and sags here in ukraine helped convince president biden to approve a prisoner swap with russia. tonight two other americans are still detained in russia. wnba player britney griner and paul wailen. serving a 16 year prison sentence after trial that u.s. officials called unfair. he was arrested on espionage charges in 2018. but strongly denied the claims saying he s a tourist. in a statement, we asked why was i left behind. i m pleased trevor is home, his family i have been held on a fictitious charge for 40 months. world knows this charge is fabricated. why hasn t more been done to
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