Conditions than trevor was in and they ve been there longer and we need to get them out before it s too late. and we d like for the president to meet with the rest of the families and hear essentially the same thing that we said to the president, but all the different situations that they re in. the key is they re all americans, they re held prisoner because of that fact and he s the top american and he needs to bring them home. has the release of trevor changed your hope for or your approach to trying to get your dad and uncle released? i would say it hasn t necessarily changed the approach, but, wow, did it lift our spirits. i mean, we were joey has been working with me and neda and all of the families, we ve been throwing this together for a couple weeks because we knew we would be here for the foley foundation event tonight and when we heard about this it was like, oh, my gosh, is this a manifestation of what could happen for all of us? and so we shared that joy together and
Made to improve their conditions and hopefully bring them home. indecision by who? by the white house. and so you want them to make moves here? yes. netta, your brother is in the infamous evin prison. what is your message to the white house? my message to the white house is that we ve seen how much joy happens when a family is reunited. we saw it with trevor and we hope that they will make those tough decisions and use all the tools that are available to them to reunite us with our loved ones. i think it makes the country happy, would make us happy. we have just been living devastated like this for too long. joey, you know their pain. we do. and they hit all the key points there. we need the president to continue what he has done for our son, there s so many americans that are in worse
Venezuela and netta whose brother is detained in iran. we re joined by joey reed the father of trevor reed a marine veteran who was released in that prisoner swap last week after being detained in russia since 2019. thank you to all of you for joining us as you are here with a message for the white house and president biden. alexandra, i want to start with you, your dad and uncle are part of what s called the citgo 6 american executives detained in venezuela since 2016. what is your message for the white house and for president biden? my message is that we have a sense that there s decisions that need to be made on this case and there s been a pattern of indecision and it s not just my dad and my uncle, there s several other americans still wrongfully detained in venezuela and all over the world, which is what s brought us here. our issues are shared with other families and we need decisions
I love you all. this is cnn breaking news. the breaking news is this, american trevor reed to be released from prison in russia, in a prisoner swap. joining me now is bianna golodryga. trevor reed a marine veteran imprisoned since 2020 on charges his family has always denied. a wonderful development for them. i want to focus on the peculiar nature of where we are. there is a war in ukraine where the u.s. and russia are on different sides and yet negotiations were obviously taking place. yeah, and we re hearing reports that the u.s. ambassador to russia actually flew back to moscow yesterday in anticipation
Like this would not happen in a day, it would be the result of weeks, perhaps months of negotiations and the fact that it came to be today in the midst of this war shows that russia and the u.s. at least have diplomatic channels open. and we should note in the past that not all the time, maybe not even oftentimes, but sometimes exchanges like this have because of those openings allowed for discussion of other issues. doesn t mean it happens here. the u.s. still at loggerheads with russia. the fact it took place in the midst of the war, a war where there has been increasingly volatile rhetoric from russia, even about threats of nuclear conflict and so on is notable. as i said at the beginning, first and foremost, about the freedom of a young american, a marine veteran, imprisoned under as you were describing, john, at best questionable circumstances. he was imprisoned according to the russian for endangering the safety of russian police