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Reporting. he published his reports, most recent report was published on march 28th, which i think is days before his arrest. so, there is nothing to these allegations. the russian government has provided allegations that kept him hidden away in a prison in moscow without providing information about his condition or what it is he is up against. >> ashley: what did you make of the state department demanding the release of not only evan but paul from prison? do you think the united states carries ...

To accuse him of espionage is absurd. >> ashley: michael do you believe whatever he was working on is behind his arrest? >> i cant say i know what evan was working on at the moment he was detained. but i think whatever that was is beside the point. russia has a history of detaining people, detaining americans for use in its own geopolitical policies and bargaining trips with the west and the united states. so whatever he was detained for was the work he was doing. >> todd: any sense what he coul...

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We will do everything we can to get evan home and paul whelan by the way. that hasnt stopped either. we have no allusions that its going to take a lot of hard work. we wont shy away from it. we will do that work. >> bret: you have been in contact with the administration. >> we have. the administration have stood behind us. we are optimistic that they are moving towards label willing evan as wrongfully detained. i think when this happens then you get an official recognition that the charges again...

With his russian counterpart, urging moscow to release the reporter, who works for "the wall street journal." today, a moscow court said gershkovich is appealing his detention. >> evan is a journalist. everyone you talk to knows avenue and is a jour journalist. hes not a spy. >> reporter: pjotr sauer is a close friend of gershkovich and a fellow journalist. is it possible he is essentially being used as a hostage by the russian government? >> yeah, its hostagetaking. we dont know why theyre doin...

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, Sen. Chris Murphy and Preet Bharara join Margaret Brennan.

Family of evan of the journalists has to request that we dont charge them anything. we dont work for the government . but we have our ways as we as you mentioned with griner and trevor read that had some success with the russians. i think the secretary of state did the right thing. calling foreign minister lavrov whos a practical guy, uh, at that level , i think the negotiations should happen. theres channels that are lower level that maybe if not worked, so well, but this one i think this call ...

Cold war. that youve seen the us journalists detained for espionage in russia. what do you what do you make of that? well i think there are three reasons why the russians did this one. uh the deteriorating relationship between the us and russia. its hit rock bottom, and thats not good. secondly this is an espionage charge. now, obviously, uh, evan was doing this job. hes a good journalist, but with the russians as they have with paul wheeling the espionage charges, something that is most serious...

The newspaper says the detention of its Moscow-based corresponded is ‘a vicious affront to a free press’

The American journalist has been detained in Russia on accusations of spying.