the former president himself? anything is possible. all of that, plus the financial world bombshell, 11 musk dropping this last night, trying to get out of buying twitter, and the latest in to free brittney griner from russia. i will talk to the father of trevor reed who was just released from russia few months ago. right now though, across this country, americans are taking to the streets once again to stand up for their beliefs on abortion. in washington, d.c., a rally organized by the women s march organization is underway. organizations are attempting to put to protect abortion nationwide. what they re calling the summer of rage, marchers gathered this morning at franklin square before heading to the white house for a sudden. that event was given a permit for 10,000 people. in chicago, the march for life rally, described as the midwest s largest pro-life went, is that to happen this afternoon. rights relating to abortion are not guaranteed by the state constitutio
describing it all. a kafkaesque trial, his defiance, his struggles, and you will hear from his family who fought to get him home. he is so thankful for his return. they ve made it a mission to raise awareness of the scores of other americans being unjustly detained around the world. so, you are in a russian prison for 985 days? yes. it s now been three weeks since you ve been back in united states? how are you doing? i m doing well. i feel better every day that i am here. have you been able to fully grasp that you are free? no. so, you know, the last couple of days, it has been more real to me. there is a time where you don t accept that at all, that you are back. you can t understand you are actually free. free. a reality that was almost unthinkable to this american son, brother, and former marine just a short time ago. but today, after enduring a hell if you have lived to tell about, trevor reed is back on u.s. soil, unafraid, and sharing his story for t
so thankful for his return. they have all made it a mission now to raise awareness of the scores of other americans being unjustly detained around the world. so you were in a russian prison for 985 days? yup. and it s now been three weeks since you ve within back in the united states. how are you doing? i m doing well. i feel better every day that i m here. have you been able to fully grasp that you re free? no, so, you know, the last couple of days it s been been more real to me, but there s a time there where you you just don t accept at all that you re back, you can t understand that you re actually free. free, a reality that was almost unthinkable to this american son, brother and former marine just a short time ago, but today after enduring a hell few have lived to tell about trevor rowdy reed is back on u.s. soil, unafraid and sharing his story for the first time. you re a marine. one of your jobs literally in the past was to guard and protect th
President assuring britney griner s wife cherelle that the u.s. is pursuing quote, every avenue, to bring the olympic gold medalist home. joey reduce on trevor was freed from russian captivity through a prisoner swap just over two months ago said this, our government does silva negotiates with dictators with communist governments for the purpose of economic reasons, trade reasons, and yet when it comes to bringing innocent americans home, they are very a reluctant. joy reid is joining me now. joey, thank you for joining me on this. we appreciate it. let me just ask, and others on trevor interviewed abc news a few days ago. how is he doing? he is doing, well thank you for having me. and yes he has gained most was way back. he is going to the gym, eating healthy, enjoying his freedom. i can t help but think, because there is obviously an overlap right, brittani was taken into custody in moscow, in russia back in february. trevor at that point was still
English, and she is being allowed to communicate in english. by i think phone and mail. her letters, trevor was never allowed to do that until the end of his time and paul whelan was denied that for a few years. so we hope, we hope that they can endure their conditions until the president can get them home and he should get them home immediately. and this can be done tomorrow. joey take us inside the meeting that you had at the president before trevor was released. i know that you saw out the president, before his release. asking him, begging him to do a prisoner swap for your salon. it seems as f, according to reuters and their reports that this in fact is discouraged, to take up these meetings with the president. but nevertheless, you feel as if it was a scary meeting that helped your son come home. yeah, there is no doubt. we met with the president, he gave us no guarantees, but he