From the old bailey, heres daniel sandford. The subject of a nationwide manhunt, this was Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Injanuary last this was Constance Marten and mark gordon in january last year, this was Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Injanuary last year, as they tried to evade the authorities following the birth of their newborn baby, victoria, who they were worried would be taken into care like their previous four children. On the 1st of march last year, police found victorias body in a shopping bag in a shed on a brighton allotment. Today, Constance Marten gave evidence in the witness box at the old bailey, are weeping as she said she and mark gordon love their children more than anything in the world. Asked if she had been crawl to baby victoria, Constance Marten said. Talking quietly and with a very well spoken accent, she described how she became estranged from her wealthy family because of a traumatic event in her childhood, arguments over her grandmothers will and beca
wants for paul, so i m not really sure what the future holds. listen, i imagine it s bittersweet i don t know if that s the right term because you re happy for brittney griner s family, her wife and all involved. you said it s a great deal for all people wrongfully detained, but yet your brother is still there. how do you navigate that? what do you think moving forward your conversations with the administration and those who are involved in trying to get your brother home, where does that go from here? it s the same thing we ve been doing every day for the last 440 days. we heard the news yesterday. i prepared my media statement to go out this morning and we were back to work, checking russians media, looking for options that we could send on to the u.s. government, suggestions. really it s a matter of helping paul to survive until and if the u.s. government is able to find a concession that the russian government wants. it s not magic. it s just a ton of work. david, you hea
relationship with president putin in russia. if he couldn t bring your brother home, what makes you think president biden maybe able to? i m not sure that have many attempts were made during the first two years that paul has been a russian hostage to bring h him home and i think part of that is because the u.s. and russian federation have not had a very good relationship. regardless of who the president is the need really was something like this summit to kick start the ability for the two nations to discuss the irritants, as they are described, and paul is an irritant to the relationship. so that eventually his release can be discussed. do you think your brother is being used as a bargaining chip? absolutely, no question. the arbitrary detention of americans isn t just happening in russia, the countries that are doing it are trying to extract a concession from the u.s. government and it s a very
officially talking to and that s helpful. you are always looking at the possibility in a place like afghanistan for rescue missions. i don t see that right now. a lot of it is just waiting this out. the other thing is, let s don t forget sanctions. these groups that are not playing by the rule of law, they have to be under continual international pressure to make it not worth it to hold these people. yeah. i think the congressman alluded to that. bob, thank you very much. i m going to let you go. we appreciate your expert insight here. kenneth bae s sister terri is with us. is there anything you can give to her or assurances about what bring her brother home?doing to- oh, well she already met the secretary of state and they were in the halls of congress when they heard the president speak. they know that americans are very anxious to be supportive in
out. here s dad draining the pool. okay. all right. there you go. there you are. there you are. all right. all right. well, that one looks more fun. one final word from this dad. a thank-you for all the good wishes and prayers from our colleagues here and from viewers across the country. my 6-year-old son, paul, is back home after his third open-heart surgery just five days ago. hard to believe. paul s doing great. he is all smiles. his not-so-little 3-year-old brother, daniel, on the right is psyched to have his brother home, as are we. we re blessed. so once again, a big thank-you to the doctor is and nurses at children s national medical center. there are more challenges ahead, but really the biggest challenge is trying to get paul to take it easy for a few weeks. a more detailed thank-you and update on my blog, the daily