sore muscles. absolutely free text g a r d e n +2231231. cnn news central tomorrow at nine eastern. this is cnn breaking news. and it is the top of the hour and bianna golodryga here with erica hill. we re going to take you straight to memphis, where justin pearson just days after being expelled from the tennessee state house legislation has been reinstated now by tennessee county board. let s listen in healthcare, not giving up the educational resources. killed people. people got a message. we re gonna build this movement. build this movement. we don t build moving. we re gonna build this movie. we are convinced that there is a different vision from memphis. it s a different vision for shelby county. the division for tennessee. people who have been pushed to the point. take away. the asian people who ve been marginalized. to the whale. i believe i believe it is a vision been ostracized to the well, white broken straight, focusing. not tomorrow, but right now. drops it right.
todd: that is good to hear, albeit under the circumstances. here is the president of the united states on bringing evan home. president biden: i m serious about bringing prisoner exchange in russia or anywhere else and that pros is underway. todd: are you satisfied with the job president of the united states is doing trying to bring evan home? i think we can see officials in the u.s. are doing as much as possible at the moment, we hear positive signs they are open to a prisoner exchange. but there has been no progress that we know about on that from them. it is just a wait and see game,
windows and waiting for something to change. waiting for some progress in his case, something to happen. todd: you have been writing letters to evan, how is he holding up? evan is strong regarding the circumstances. we speak often, we can exchange letters. we talk about his reading list, what he s reading, how he s keeping himself disciplined and focused on his routine to pas this period of time. he is holding up well, continues to track jokes, look out for helpless friends, talks to us about reaching out to his family. he s doing very well. he s focused on staying strong.
waiting for evan s trial to start, this is excontinuation of the trial. case of trying to support evan through this time. todd: you have covered russia and you know how the system works there, do you think this delay, this addition is because russiian negotiators have not figured out who to swap here? looking at brittney griner s case,y shoo was taken hostage and that took nine months of back and forth before there was an exchange and before her trial started. we just don t know. all we can do is hope that evan is staying strong through it. todd: thank you for keeping evan top of mind so he is not