have been responded to. your brother said russian officials from the very beginning of his detention. this is really fascinating detail that russian officials from the moment he was taken, mention the names of two russian prisoners that they planned to swap him for. or would swap him for. one was the russian prisoner swapped for trevor reed. and you can see in the video him actually passing mr. reed on the tarmac on the left during the swap. the other is an arms dealer named victor boot. nicknamed mer chchant of death. do you have hopes that swap will happen? could that be done? i don t think i could see that swap happening. it under lines a problem i think we are facing now. which is that the u.s. government has known pretty much since day one of paul s detention. which is 1,200 days. there were at least two people
tonight after more than two years the russian custody, american trevor reed is back on u.s. soil. he arived at an aair force base in texas this morning. that s him in the dark shirt and pants reuniting with his family. he s getting care. health problems and the activism and sags here in ukraine helped convince president biden to approve a prisoner swap with russia. tonight two other americans are still detained in russia. wnba player britney griner and paul wailen. serving a 16 year prison sentence after trial that u.s. officials called unfair. he was arrested on espionage charges in 2018. but strongly denied the claims saying he s a tourist. in a statement, we asked why was i left behind. i m pleased trevor is home, his family i have been held on a fictitious charge for 40 months. world knows this charge is fabricated. why hasn t more been done to