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Doing and any efforts to bring him home? >> well, right now he just was able to meet with his lawyer for the first time in nine months last week. and what i hear from her is that he really wants to get the case going. he wants to be able to present a strong defense, show that there is no evidence against him that is legitimate and i think as we've gone along we've seen more about what they're accusing him of and it becomes more ridiculous every day. >> whats has the white house told you, told your family about their efforts to get your brother home? >> we know that they have and ongoing commun...

Legal representation and hopefully jason will get out. but we don't know when that will be. so a lot -- we have a lot of colleagues who do great things who put themselves in harm's way, who put themselves at risk and in danger as jason has just to report, just to tell the story. as the president said, to bring about a common link between our two countries just by informing each other of who we are and what we're doing. and jason was doing that. >> thank you very much jonathan, as well. still ahead, calls for calm in baltimore after vie lebtsolent protests over freddie gray's death.

and they should have cut in in on those riots. >> i don't disagree. but why don't we start right there and obviously we'll get to the massive tragedy in nepal in a moment but first let's start in baltimore because a lot happened there over the weekend. 25-year-old freddie gray will be laid to rest in baltimore today, but this comes as city officials and the gray family urge for calm after a tense weekend of protests, 35 people were arrested, six officers were injured in what officials are calling isolated pockets of incidents that left some businesses looted and cars vandalized. as...

Jason's brother ali is here tonight and i have told him personally we will not rest until we bring him home to his family safe and sound. [ applause ] these journalists and so many others view their work as more than just a profession, but as a public good, an indispensable pillar of our society so i want to give the toast to them. i raise a glass to them and all of you with the words of the american foerpts correspondent dorothy thompson. it is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. thank you for your devot...

Jason's brother ali is here tonight and i have told him personally we will not rest until we bring him home to his family safe and sound. [ applause ] these journalists and so many others view their work as more than just a profession, but as a public good, an indispensable pillar of our society so i want to give the toast to them. i raise a glass to them and all of you with the words of the american foerpts correspondent dorothy thompson. it is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. thank you for your devot...