on the aircraft and the blame fell on libyan intelligence agents and masud was allegedly the bomb maker. and this places him now to be facing these charges in a u.s. court shortly. incredible work. now just ahead. after 26 days, 1.3 miles traveled, orion is safely back on earth. what it means for the future of space exploration. plus, it s been a month, but no closure for the families of four college students murdered in their own beds. we ll have the latest on the investigation. and to the world cup, the remaining four teams are gearing up for the highly-anticipated semi-final round. we ll take you to qatar where the excitement is building. amanda? yeah, 28 teams down, four left. the calm before the semi-final
unraveling of the plot. masud now, perhaps, offering up details previously unknown. yeah, nic robertson, thank you so much. so the top u.s. hostage affairs official says brittney griner spoke about her ordeal as a russian prisoner during her flight to the united states, but ambassador roger carston told cnn on sunday that griner was healthy and in good spirits and mainly focussed on gratitude towards those who helped get her home. when she finally got onto the u.s. plane, i said brittany, you must have been through a lot over the last ten months. here s your seat, please, feel free decompress, we ll geoff give you your space, and she said oh, no. i ve been prison for ten months listening to russian. i m ready to talk. it was really amazing. officials say griner is
2012 when this is, to your point, jim, about how slow justice can be, to come about and bring those in front of a judge, he said that he was told to set the timer of that come bom to 11 hours meaning it would come down, would bring the plane down out of the skies over lockerbie, scotland. now, the sequence of events from giving that statement, the fbi didn t know about it until 2017 and it took them another three years before they could actually sit down with that libyan law enforcement officer, he said that he would come and give testimony in the united states in a trial if the libyan government said that he was okay to do that. here we are today, the suspect masud is now going to be appearing in court pretty soon and we will begin to hear the very beginning of those charges, details laid out against him. that he was involved centrally to kill 270 people. remarkable.
in court, but setting out the evidence by special agent from the minute rachel auto. it looks like the department of justice is fully prepared to deal with the admissibility of that confession taken by libyan officials. because they say in march of 2020, fbi agents interviewed the libyan law enforcement officer who obtained the statement from masud and this law enforcement officer expressed a willingness to testify at trial in the u.s. if the libyan government agrees to make the officer available. so today is a day for, i think, gratitude that masud has been brought to u.s. soil to stand trial. but there are more legal challenges ahead for the department of justice. gratitude, 100%. but it doesn t really quell the lingering questions. molly brought one up about how exactly the suspect ended up in u.s. hands. do you think there s a reason we haven t yet been told that? oh, i suspect there is.