will hear updates on the draft san francisco public bank and municipal financial corporation christin evans, san francisco reinvestment working group.. collin to back up the department. >> i apologize so - >> well, thank you very much christen and thank you for coming today. >> yeah. my pleasure we came to the commission some of you will remember last year to tell you we're start light work the creation of plans to create municipal financial corporation very interesting time to talk about banking but i'll make the case to even makes that more critical we really think about christin evans, san francisco reinvestment working group. a public banks as part of the stable options for insuring economic violate xhoilt vielt so today an update on we have done and how we got here and our timeline go forward and commissioner will check in with you and why i think and colleagues will be walk you through certain i know both the plans are long if you tried to venture over 50 pages and sections you might want to focus on and provide feedback on. >> okay. >> so why san francisco notes a public bank a funda

christine all right, ryan and for us, thank you. ryan wall street journal reporter evan gersh. novich has now been officially designated by the u. s state department as wrongfully detained by russia. herskovitz was arrested in late march charged with espionage last friday. the state department designation allows the administration to explore options such as a prisoner swap to secure his release. cnn's claire sebastian joins us from london and claire both the trevor reid and brittney griner . the two americans who have been recently been brought home from russia were also designated as wrongfully detained. does this indicate that maybe another prisoner swap could be imminent or possible? you know, i think it potentially increases the likelihood christine certainly it's clear given that designation that the onus will be on those political and diplomatic discussions. the us now clearly sees evan gorski, which is essentially a political hostage, which means that they don't probably believed that his case is going to be resolved legally. having said that, if it happens, i'm not sure

christine romans. this is tuesday, everybody just minutes from now in russia. wall street journal reporter evan hershkovitz is set to appeal his detention. he course was arrested for espionage earlier this month, a charge he and the wall street journal strongly deny. cnn's claire sebastian is live in london with the latest for us and claire. what are we expecting? to see in today's proceeding. christine. this appeal relates to his pretrial detention, so not the espionage charges themselves. but the so called restrictive measures against him. the fact that he is being held in moscow is notoriously formative of prison for a period of two months. he has served about 2.5 weeks of that, so that is what we're going to hear discussed. today, it seems pretty unlikely given the severity of the charges against him those espionage charges that he could be bailed or move to house arrest or something like that. obviously if politics is at play here, as well as the u. s government, clearly strongly suspect that makes the situation even more bleak for him as to whether we will see him. we don't know if he wil