we are learning about the role that ella milman played.ing that with everybody in the government and in germany. >> yeah. this story is incredible. i need to give full credit to the team of reporters on the story who have been really relentless in covering evan's story ever since he was arrested 16 months ago. some of the detail -- a lot of the detail that emerged when we published that story yesterday is emerging now for the first time, including to many people in the newsroom. you met ella. you have interviewed her. we have gotten to know her over this time. it was very clear to me early on that she was formidable. we would often talk about her as being such a great reporter. it's something that is quoted in the story. you could sort of tell where evan gets his great reporting skills from. this gripping detail in there. i encourage people to read it. how she identified the potential paths and at times those paths evaporated and she picked back up. i remember going to see her and her husband and their incredible daughter in philadelphia l

that is evan gershkovich embracing his mom ella milman after lifting her into the air. can you imagine. president biden giving former marine paul whelan the american flag pin right off his own lapel. and also kirma shayva, she was reunited with her husband and daughters, including her youngest, the one in the gray shirt there who turns 13 years old today, remarkably i was told by jake sullivan that she was supposed to be going to a taylor swift concert tonight in poland, but she was told she couldn't make that trip because there was a more important visit that would be taking place. as for president biden, it was a chance to bask in what he described as a wonderful moment after an extraordinarily trying few weeks. jake sullivan said this morning that biden's determination and personal diplomacy even as his own presidential bid was faltering was critical to ensuring that this deal got done. >> these are very tough decisions, and the president has to weigh as do the other leaders, has to weigh giving up criminals to get americans and other citizens home, but at the end of

back on american soil after 491 long days, unjustly detained in russia, a huge hub for his mother, ella milman, who the wall street journal reports okay worked in the shadows to in-depth article with at incredible new details, wall street journal recounted how ella directly pled with president biden, with german chancellor olaf scholtz, and even traveled to moscow to be interviewed by russia interrogator in the hopes of attesting to her son's character, despite warnings from the fbi that she's it could be arrested while doing so. she also wrote weekly letters toto her son, quote, recounting the history of a family that had survived the russian civil war, world war ii, soviet anti-semitism. and now this is our term. she wrote, joining us now is jeremy berke evans a good friend and former roommate? i can't imagine what you're feeling in this moment. but i was struck last night. and, you wrote an amazing piece last year. i think the wall street journal that really kind of gave such a great personal insight into who evan was as a person and what was hilarious about last night, maybe not the word i