Russian officials announced and they are extending his pretrial detention by three months. he has been in custody since march on espionage charges the u.s. government the wall street journal both say he is completely innocent. there are no basis for their charges. eric: president george of the bush executive director the national security institute, he potentially released at the end of april. now it s been extended three more months it could go up to 12 months. what do you make of the charges and the fact they have evan still detained? honestly these charges are trumped up just like the charges were against bri brittany grined the charges against paul whelen and trevor reed before him but this is an effort to try to extort the united states for they want to get other folks out they got victor boot out the first person i got a cocaine smuggler out for trevor read back in 2022 print they re trying to make a deal here the