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so thankful for his return. they have all made it a mission now to raise awareness of the scores of other americans being unjustly detained around the world. ♪ >> so you were in a russian prison for 985 days? >> yup. >> and it's now been three weeks since you've within back in the united states. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. i feel better every day that i'm here. >> have you been able to fully grasp that you're free? >> no, so, you know, the last couple of days it's been -- been more real to me, but there's a time there where you -- you just don't accept at all that you're ...

Russian was to be able to communicate with her family. >> on august 15th, 2019, the young couple attended a party, and after an evening of drinking vodka, trevor blacked out and became ill on the side of the road. police arrived on the scene and took trevor back to the station lobby to dry out. >> i don't remember anything until the next morning. i woke up in a police station. i was in a kreshcell, and i aske duty officer there like what happened? and she said you drink too much. it's russian vodka. we'll teach you how to drink later, and she said so you -- you can leave. >> no handcuffs, no a...

Talking to us. they realized that they had 40 security cameras there and that trying to say that all 40 cameras did not work was probably not going to go well, so then they ended up changing that story to say that i fought police in the police car on the way to the police sglags that never happened? >> my defense team did end up getting video from the road where they said it supposedly happened, and they were able to prove that none of that happened. >> so when lena saw you, she noticed that you had what appeared to be injuries. >> yeah, and she said your nose has like a black line across it. ...

Shift changed at the police station, and the new officers came in with a new police chief. he saw that i was speaking english with the duty there, and he asked like why is this american here, and after about three minutes they came back and told me that i could not leave, so i did try to ask them why, but they wouldn't answer me, and after that the fsb showed up immediately. >> the fsb is a successor argue toys to the kgb. when lena did get there she said what crime are you charging him, and they said he assaulted police officers here tonight in the police station. she said are you guys stupid...

Tomorrow a liar and a coward. >> that's a remarkable thing to tell a russian court. >> that's truly what i believe. >> when the sentence came down, did you turn to your dad? did you turn to lena? >> well, i knew what was written on that sentence before the judge actually started reading, that and i actually looked over at my dad at that point and shook my head at him, like, yeah, they are going to screw me right now, and when they read off the sentence of nine years, i was not shocked by that, but lena did have a reaction, and she said are you kidding me? nine years in prison? she started cryi...