soledar is important more than anything as a symbolic victory after months of defeats in and around kyiv, kharkiv region, and kherson as well. so for them, after suffering these defeats to take soledar would be a victory, a symbolic, if not strategic victory. ben wedeman, thank you very much. appreciate that. cnn this morning continues right now. lisa marie presley, good morning, everyone, friday, january 13th and we are remembering lisa marie presley. looking back at the life of elvis only daughter. she was so young. we ll look at her life. also a special counsel now appointed to investigate joe biden s classified document scandal. who is robert hur and what does this mean for the president? in just a few moments senate majority leader, chuck schumer is going to join us at the desk. what he thinks of the president s handling of classified materials. we begin with more than 30 tornados have torn through the south with georgia and alabama hit the hardest
effort resulted in deportation and we were able to bring him home. the good news is that it shows that the russians, on some of these humanitarian cases like the trevor reed case, like griner, now with taylor, and hopefully with wheland, that they re ready to negotiate, they re ready to deal with these issues. i think that s the good news. and they deserve credit for turning taylor over to us yesterday without much incident. you were there on the ground, on the border with his mother. how is he doing? what is his health, how is his condition, how is he mentally processing this? he s doing well. it was a very traumatic moment with shelly, his mother, watching him cross almost like the bridge of spies movie process, the walk. he s a very nice young man.
todd: griner issuing an aapology moments before learning her fate. i want to apologize to my teammates, my club, the fans and the city, my mistake i made and embarrassment i brought to emthis, i never meant to hurt anybody or put in jeopardy the population. i never meant to break any laws here. todd: griner and her lawyers floating the idea of a prisoner upon swa, that trade former u.s. paul when heland in exchange for a russian prisoner. sources tell daily mail, that swap could happen in the coming weeks, stay tuned.
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he had requests from a friend. he thought he could help out because he had been to russia and he could help other americans from the family who hadn t been to russia to navigate their way around, get on the metro, that sort of thing. he s a very kind person. wheland runs global security for an automotive parts and manufacturer in michigan. family members say he s a fan of russia but wouldn t do anything illegal. state department officials continue to work on his release heather? heather: what sort of punishment is he facing? he family wants to know and others want to know. state news in russia said that he could be behind bars for 10 to 20 years for something like this. again, at this point, wheland s family just want to get him home. he said he was in moscow for a wedding showing people around the city because he s been there many times before, heather. heather: the family didn t know until they heard about it