An extraordinary day. All he said that is that Kamala Harris this is a chameleon. She prints students to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of. The greatest of all time. And she has the chain to prove it live from london. This is Cnn Newsroom with Max Foster and Christina Macfarlane warm, welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. Im Max Foster. Christie is off today is friday, august the second, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. At Joint Base Andrews in maryland, where Three Americans took their first steps on us soil since being released. From russian prisons as part of the biggest exchange of his kind since the Cold War, us president Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, welcoming home, marine veteran Paul Whelan. He spent the past six years in prison next off the plane was Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich. She ran and to hug his Mother And Father before speaking with his colleagues also, returning to the u. S. Russia
That the charges against him as i have described it are observed, that he is not a spy, he is a journalist and his arrest they argue very firmly is simply a sign of the crackdown on free speech and free expression and on the Freedom Of The Press Inside Russia, and that he himself was always a political hostage taken because russia wanted a trade. Ultimately that is what has happened. He spent more than a year in prison. A young journalist, extremely ambitious, just in a new job with the Wall Streetjournal, extremely good at thatjob. He was then arrested. It now looks like he is going to be heading home. I know there have been a huge number of his friends. Otherjournalists and people who work with him in moscow and elsewhere have been campaigning and elsewhere have been campaigning and getting people to write letters and getting people to write letters and translating those letters tirelessly, even one of his Friends Reading Books together with him in prison, sending books to him and th
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According to a senior Administration Official, this swap ending a monthslong negotiation that was kept very quiet and was understandably very complicated. It ends a years long nightmare for so many. Both Paul Whelan who had been in russian custody for more than five years, and evan, as you see on the right side of your screen, evan, theyre in custody for just doing his job as a journalist wrongfully detained for more for a better part of a year now, cnn is learning more minute by minute. Weve got our Team Coverage here in the united states and around the globe. Start this hour once again with alex marquardt, who first brought us this Breaking News. Whats the very latest alex well, kate, omar, we may be at the beginning of what is truly a historic and very emotional they, not just for the families of the people Coming Home, but of course for this entire country that has been wrapped with this saga of these wrongfully Detained Americans in russia for several years, we are learning more f
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