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Something tantamount to that. the most likely candidate were convicted of cyber crimes, something the kremlin would not see as a fair trade. meanwhile on the u.s. side chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell, the majority and minority leaders of the senate coming together. not something you see all of the time to denounce his detention and these charges. and to demand gershkovich immediate release. before we do, thank you brian. and of course all of us at fox news seek evan and call for his immediate rel...

China would never accept this kind of rule for itself, that we would get to veto who xi meets with. it is good to push back on all these fronts. paul: i want to raise the sad story about our reporter who has been reporting in russia, was arrested on false and unspecified espionage charges, he is in prison there now. two senate leaders, chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell issued a statement denouncing the detention brief lose. what should we expect from the administration? >> expect them to keep th...

Where they keep their dissidents and spies. weve heard this week that evens lawyers have finally been able to see him, via a statement from the wall streetjournal, his employer, we have heard that evan is in good health and he is grateful for the outpouring of support from around the world and obviously they continue to call for his release. us embassy still hasnt been able to consular access to evan and secretary of state antony blinken said that evan was wrongfully detained and that his depart...

Get access. russia has said that it will grant us diplomats appropriate access to evan gorshkov itch. in accordance with the russian law, but russian law is very opaque. its a very long, drawn out bureaucratic process, and unfortunately for evan, and for his family, of course, who are expect waiting very anxiously for some more news about how hes doing that consular access hasnt been forthcoming yet. i expect it will come. but the russians will wait will make the us different mats wait as long a...

—— evan gershkovich. the wall street journal reporter has been charged under article 276 of the criminal code of the russian federation, so thatis code of the russian federation, so that is a very interesting, of course the wall streetjournal reporter categorically denies the accusation, but he was lifted as he went on a trip outside of moscow, his colleague not hearing from him, raising the alarm, and then the first pictures emerging of evan clearly being detained by the russian authorities...

Is going to limit what we are able to report on. but we have seen that the russian government is willing not only to intimidate, not only to threaten journalists, but to detain them, to trump up charges against them. obviously, to use other practices, including the murder of dissidents as well as opposition figures. i thinkjournalists, dissidents as well as opposition figures. ithinkjournalists, quite frankly, should avoid russia until further notice. [30 frankly, should avoid russia until furth...

Will let that process play out. in my own mind, there is no doubt that he is being wrongfully detained, by russia, which is exactly what is it to foreign minister laffer of when i spoke to him over the weekend and insisted that evan be released immediately. susan, this has got — released immediately. susan, this has got to _ released immediately. susan, this has got to be _ released immediately. susan, this has got to be the - released immediately. susan, this has got to be the first - release...

It is much better though that i think she meets him here in california than that he travelled to taiwan. certainly, speaker pelosis visit to taiwan in august i think was seen pretty widely even in taiwan as not necessarily contributing to making taiwan more secure and so i think having the meeting in the us is a much better option. us secretary of state antony blinken has spoken out in support of the detained wall streetjournal journalist evan gershkovich. gershkovich was arrested last week by r...

Russia. "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich. the biden administration just did that very difficult and they made a tough decision about a trade in order to get brittney griner back. is that something that should happen here? >> i mean, this incident highlights the growing concerns about the press freedom in russia, where journalistic reporters are often targeted and harassed by authorities for their critical reporting. the detention of evan is just another example of the russian gove...

Industry, he was working as a news assistant at the new york times in new york in one of his colleagues said well, you speak russian why dont you give it a try? he did and he landed at the moscow times. he was fantastic. i tell you, the outpouring of support from his friends in the group of people who cover russia, which is a small and very tight—knit tribe of journalists, had to such an enormous respect for evan. new york, moscow times and then we hired him early last year about a month or so...