humanitarian corridors. do something about the international atomic energy agency dealing with a nuclear reactor, p.o.w.s on both sides. i have a good sense from the russians but i m not a government official, and i was just there primarily to deal with the prisoner issue. and we have other americans that are there. i am cautiously optimistic. griner and whelan and others can t get home soon enough. coming up, new details on the shooting of a teenager eating in a mcdonald s parking lot. the officer involved has been identified. this is a tempur-pedic mattress. it s designed to help make aches and pains a thing of the past by relieving pressure points and supportiting your body inin a way no other mattress can. experienence the mattress
the price we pay for love. and now a nation stands together to grieve, to remember, and to love. randy kaye, cnn. i ll be back in london for cnn s live coverage of queen elizabeth s state funeral on monday. i hope you join me and the rest of our team starting at 5 a.m. eesh time. still to come tonight president biden meeting with the family of brittney griner and paul whelan, both who remain in jail in russia. what griner s wife is saying about the meeting next. or. his nose. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a comple, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v certain adults. it s not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable.
whelan was kwukted on espionage charges that he denies. he s been in prison for more than three years and faces a total of 16 years in prison. tonight s meetings at the white house took place separately. the biden administration has been pushing for the release of both americans, saying that they are wrongfully detained. and days ago, cnn reported that former new mexico governor bill richardson and his team were in moscow holding meetings with russian leadership. joining us with more is cnn political correspondent abby phillip, anchor of inside politics sunday. what did brittney griner s wife say about how the meeting went? i got on the phone with brittney brianer s wife for a few minutes. she was appreciative of this meeting. she s been pushing to meet with president biden for months now. she thought that a meeting with biden would be pivotal in the
process to bring brittney griner home. and she said she came out of this meeting feeling confident that the biden administration was doing all they could do to bring b.g. home. she said president biden wanted to reassure her and i think the other family members of paul whelan, who he also met with today, that he s committed to making this happen and that he was going to put forward pretty much any effort that it took. but she acknowledged that there have been some setbacks, so road blocks in that process, not the least of which is just the dismal state of u.s./russia relations right now. and mrs. griner has been pushing for a face-to-face meeting for a long time. she told you how she felt she needed to speak to the president. does she feel like she got what she want out of the meeting? she wanted to hear obviously president biden say that he had been able to strike a deal. but one of the reasons that she was so insistent on having this
home. the white house says there s been movement with russia but not a breakthrough. griner has been held since february on drug charges, whelan for three years on alleged espionage, which he denies. the white house offered to release a notorious arms dealer in exchange for whelan and griner. there s been so far no response from putin to that offer. thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. the very best this country can be was on display today as 15 migrants flown to martha s vineyard shared a state promising to shelter them and provide emergency services. today they were sent to a military base on cape cod after locals had donated man power and tens of thousands of dollars to help and also greeting them. cnn has spoken to more than a dozen of these venezuelans, all of those who say they re fleeing oppression in their home country. the man who s taken credit for