foreign aid, and so this footage of paul whelan incarcerated and it is fair to say that r.t. would not have access without approval of the kremlin, and so why broadcast this now? look, it is hard to guess exactly what putin s motives are, but once again, he is showing that he has had an iron grip on dissent within russia and that he continues to violate human rights. evan gershkovich is in a russian prison and the first american journalist taken hostage since the cold war, and paul whelan a marine veteran is serving a sentence for espionage, and these are folks that we believe are wrongfully detained, and as you know, there are folks around the world that are wrongfully held in different countries an different prisons and the biden
prison uniform. you see him at a sewing machine, eating in a cafeteria. outfront now is paul s brother, david whelan. david, as i understand it, these are the first images you ve seen of your brother in more than three years. what was that like for you to see him, and how does he look to you? he looks pretty good. i was a little bit surprised. i hadn t learned that the video was going to be coming out. we knew that r.t. had attempted to interview him in may, but we hadn t seen anything that came out of it. i think if you listen to it, it sounds very conspiratorial, doom and gloom, but if you turn off the volume and look at paul, i think you get a sense of how resilient he has been, and also what a sense of his life in the prison. for our family, it was very valuable to see it. you mentioned this had been shot. the reporter who visited the penal colony tried to interview him. i want to play that brief exchange that they had. sir, you understand when i say that i can t do an inte
emotional work. i don t know the president. well, but i mean, it doesn t necessarily work. it gets people upset. it gets them angry. it makes them fearful about threats and hyper you know, hyper hyperbole. and makes them afraid of things that can t even really be defined. meanwhile, ignoring. so many issues that like it s a kind of real appeal to you know your bass that you stoke up when sarah huckabee sanders did the response to the state of the union, she kept talking about crt. she didn t even bother to spell it out. mostly i would assume most average americans don t know what it s for the guy who came up with that. that s purposeful. he s made. his plan is make everything. c r t. and by the way all this diversity initiatives and crt and all those other things. are only
makes them afraid of things that can t even really be defined. meanwhile, ignoring. so many issues that it s a kind of real appeal to you know your bass that you stoke up when sarah huckabee sanders did the response to the state of the union, she kept talking about crt. she didn t even bother to spell it out. mostly, i would assume most average americans don t know what it s for the guy who came up with that. that s purposeful. he s made. his plan is make everything. c r t. and by the way all this diversity initiatives and crt and all those other things. are only there because we refuse to actually fix the real problem. the diversity in equity initiatives or a sav there are to pacify and mollify because we won t actually do the real thing. we won t actually
massive war ship sinking, and who should get the blame, i might ask? putin has been humiliated. he s been humiliated on the ground around kyiv, and now he s humiliated on the sea by a ukranian missile that they created themselves, they manufactured themselves. he has not been able to achieve what he s gone out to do in any of the areas. they ve moved to the south, of course. even mariupol continues as you say, 50 days on. nobody expected this heroic city to still be standing, and it is. so president putin cannot be happy. i saw that r.t., your counterpart in russia, r.t. is calling the sinking of that ship a planned sinking. so this is just humiliating for the russians, don. the cia director william burns spoke today. watch this.