so thankful for his return. they have all made it a mission now to raise awareness of the scores of other americans being unjustly detained around the world. so you were in a russian prison for 985 days? yup. and it s now been three weeks since you ve within back in the united states. how are you doing? i m doing well. i feel better every day that i m here. have you been able to fully grasp that you re free? no, so, you know, the last couple of days it s been been more real to me, but there s a time there where you you just don t accept at all that you re back, you can t understand that you re actually free. free, a reality that was almost unthinkable to this american son, brother and former marine just a short time ago, but today after enduring a hell few have lived to tell about trevor rowdy reed is back on u.s. soil, unafraid and sharing his story for the first time. you re a marine. one of your jobs literally in the past was to guard and protect th
we heard rumors after paul wheelan was taken and they want to trade for them immediately. hey, it s russia, you re not going to leverage them to let a couple of prisoners go gh. the reed family was convince federal they met face-to-face with president biden he would act on their behalf. you hear that president biden is coming to texas. when did you decide you needed to get his attention and why? we just knew he s going to be that close and he s neve worth and we re 45 minutes away there s no way people could to keep us from going there. the motorcade came by and that s when we saw me and that s started everything rolling. later that day paula received a call. my phone rang and it said the white house. oh, my gosh. it says the white house is calling you, and it is not in your contact list, oh, okay, so i i answered it, and then, you know, mr. president, had to put it on speaker phone so all
candidly critical at the team of the president s side up until today which includes sean spicer. the president values that. why he likes kellyanne conway so much. she s willing to go on camera and xroujoust with whoever is criticizing the white house or the president. and isn t this the time the white house needs to be the most unified? everything rolling in the same direction with the russia probe growing exponentially and this is highlighting the schism in there. this is a president who likes chaos. did it in the business world, in the campaign. likes having rival factions underneath him. this might be a moment not well served by that strategy. a great point. is this a reset six months in. new administration? the president no experience in politics. none of the people around him ever worked in a white house before. senior people in the administration. is this a reset, the president realizing we haven t got it right and got a new team, or is it, mr. scaramucci about to become the
i m not holding much hope for that for now. former governor and u.n. ambassador, bill richardson. always good to see you. thanks for coming on. thank you. this morning, president obama is taking a break from some of the those weighty issues on his plate for the annual white house tradition. in just a few minutes, the president and first lady will take part in the 135th annual easter egg roll. more than 35,000 people from around the country are joining the first family on the south lawn. this year s theme, be healthy, be active, be you. we will take you back out live when the president gets everything rolling. blach it s monday. a brand new start. your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visionary cloud infrastructure, global broadband network and custom communications solutions, your business is more reliable - secure - agile. and with responsive, dedicated support, we help you shine every day of the week
republicans say, well, this is our opportunity to screw over the poor people and get rid of the thins that we don t like. how is that a solution to the fact that we ve got health insurance monopolies, run away wars, and the most infernt energy grade in america. that doesn t help me. you go to the democrats. what s your plan? they say, well, keep spending. keep printing money. kick the can down the road. you re like, don t we at some point that s where the republican haves a point to use it completely insanely, but the republican point is hey, why don t we try to deal with this. the problem it s such a disingenuous point with the republicans. you re like, great, the republicans want to deal with this. you come into the room, we re going to chop this, we re going to chop that. keep the wars, keep everything rolling. what s the problem? you re like, hang on a second. and so i think that forget the democrats and the republicans. and look at this for what it is.