armor and what zelenskyy did another reason ukrainian moral seems to remain high. russian president vladimir putin is usually hundreds of miles away in moscow when he gives out medals. this past startling week, a tale of two nations and enthusiasm for the fight. moscow s manpower crisis so acute, this video is apparently from a russian prison allegedly showing the man called putin chef. afghan personally recruiting convicts for the front line. he tells prisoners that war is hard, if they get taken prisoner, take drugs or have sex with foreign men or women in the fight. an undesirable message to an undesirable crowd. russia increasingly less looking like a nation united in what it won t even call a war yet. even putin turning, here again undermining the kremlin that brutally put him in power. if you ask me, i would enact martial law and exhaust all possibilities to end the conflict with these demons. unlike a volunteer for russia, he said writing later quote we are at war with
to washington. i m rich edson in for bred baier. the defense is presenting its case in hunter biden s felony gun charges trial. the prosecution rested this morning. the big question this evening will the defendant take the stand when court resumes on monday. there is a new development in the criminal case against former president trump it. resulted in his conviction last week of 34 felony counts. it involves a social media post that may have foreshadowed that outcome. correspondent david spunt is in wilmington, delaware tonight with the details. hello, david. david: rich, good evening. this is an interesting development. the verdict in donald trump s manhattan case came out on may 30th, a day before may 29th, the judge announced today to both parties that someone posted on social media they are a cousin of one of the jurors and they said the juror told them that donald trump would be convicted. essentially foreshadowing that conviction a day later on may 30th. fox news reac
invasion of ukraine. by then, whelan had served two years of his 16-year prison sentence in russia. it seems like there is more that could be done. opportunity to bring him home and that didn t happen. bret: in 2020 negotiators were working on a prisoner swap. whelan for russian drug smuggler konstantin you re cheng co- what happened there. we took it to the white house there was no interest at the time. it s complicated. i bring donald trump wanted to bring paul whelan home he still talks about it and the rest of the americans being held. he didn t want to give anything in return. bret: your then co-swapped for trevor reed. he was in 2019 after accused of assaulting a police officer while intoxicated. investigator refused to take video evidence from the vehicle that i was in. bergmann says russia requested the two for two swap.
whelan and reed for you chen co-and merchant of death. we have to take in count counterpart might be playing us as well. hesitate tonight te o want to make a deal including booth convict wanted of conspiracy to kill u.s. citizens. no one should ever think that he can plot to kill americans with impunity. bret: as the president biden prepared to meet with russian president vladimir putin for the 2021 geneva summit. bergmann and richardson suggested the white house bring up the possible prisoner swap. families of the detained americans came up and we discussed it. bergmann says no official proposals were ever put forward. i am not going to walk away on this. bret: nearly a year later, only half the deal was executed. i did. how though? thank you. three months ago. reed returned to the u.s. you re chenko sent back to
russia and served as putin s oversight chamber. is this russia s effort to continue grabbing people? paul whelan, griner, griner gets released. when we went to negotiate over trevor reed and paul whelan that was end of february and the beginning of the war in ukraine. we didn t know brittney griner was already taken. bret: days before wnba player brittney griner arrested on smuggling charges. russian airport officials say they found cannabis oil in a legal substance there in her luggage. bret: bake breaking tonight. has secured the release of brittney griner from russia. price it s paying is drawing criticism. griner would be released viktor bout but the russians refusing to late whelan walk free. this was not a choice who to bring home. we brought home trevor reed when we had a chance earlier this year. sadly for totally illegitimate reasons russia is treating paul s case differently than