we also sought to release mark vogel as well as you saw from jake sullivan. we are actively continuing to do so and are engaged in active instruction of how to get that and how to get a pass to get him home. i don't have anything to read out on a recent conversation with their family. speak of the federal reserve yesterday signaled since the pandemic, does the white house believe is a good idea question asked the guy will not comment comment on any potential decisions they are independent we respect that so i won't on that. >> to circle back, jake did make the point that he believed this would not have happened if the president was not the one in the oval negotiating. >> sandra: okay, john we have been watching a very emotional reaction from jake sullivan as he detailed the swap calling it the most complicated in history. he did say to expect those who were freed to arrive in the u.s. tonight there they were as they were holding the american flag and we will look forward to welcoming them back on american soil this evening. >> john: from the white house to fo

mark was not included." biden was asked about vogel this morning when he departed. listen. >> what about mark vogel? >> we are not giving up on that. >> dagen: joey, it is astonishing that he wasn't brought home as well. this mother might never see him while she is still alive. >> it is heartbreaking. i want him to be returned home. you look in this country and we have people in jail for decades over drug possession charges. some of it trumped up and some of it false, that is the truth of it. president biden address that issue. you have two people brittney griner and mark vogel broke the laws and went to jail for it and got the book thrown at them because they are americans. in my opinion, it is not the same basket as evan gershkovich who went to do his job approval from the russian government to do and was accused of being a spy. so i don't want to see a butcher release to get mark vogel home then i want to see a butcher to get brittney griner home. i want a government that imposes enough fear and the hearts and minds of our enemies and everything they do or at least enough respect their enemies do

of course, in the case of mark vogel we have spoken on this before we have called for marc's humanitarian release and we will continue to engage and work through our team in moscow and continue to have conversations. of course, look, they are continued to be american citizens detained in legal systems around the world. not of course just in russia. this is a responsibility we take seriously. we are monitoring those cases and assessing additional ways we can engage. and look, regardless whether an american is designated as wrongfully detained or not, which of course as you all know is often the vast minority of cases, the united states works hard to ensure american citizens have appropriate consular access, that they have appropriate representations in the various foreign legal systems and more. end of that work will continue. that work did not stop given the good news today. >> thank you. and can you also give you said that blinken had spoken to those who had been released. he spoke to reporters not long ago as well. we got the audio of that. he understandably sounded very tired. can you

mark vogel's sister joined us from her home.ou for being with us. >> thank you for having me. it is really important i tell mark's story. geoff: some families are rejoicing today as they reunited with their loved ones but your family still has to wait. how are you holding up? >> it has been a heart-wrenching 36 hours. i spoke with mark yesterday morning on the phone. when i realized he was still there, everyone else had been pulled out of the penal colonies, my heart really sank. it is hard to give up hope. for the entire day, i roller coastered around sinking it is about 4.5 hours from moscow and maybe they would be driving him down. it was really hard to let it go. geoff: when you spoke with him, what did he tell you? how is he doing? >> he was kind of in the dark. he knew something was going on and he saw a little bit of news about paul. constantly looking at the television and new stations in the penal colony he is in. he knew something was going on but he does not speak russian so he was not exactly sure. he called. i did n

listen to what they said. >> of course in the case of mark vogel we spoken about this before, we have called for his humanitarian release and we will continue to engage and work through our team in moscow and continue to have those conversations. >> reporter: we are learning, neil, more details about specifically how the u.s. worked with the german government which was the linchpin to today's prisoners swap negotiations began in earnest between the secretary of state antony blinken and who raise the issue of getting americans out particularly evan gershkovich more than a year ago with his counterpart in germany initially not receptive. the secretary of state and president went over the 4 ministers had and directly to the german chancellor to try to get this deal done. it began the process we are seeing the fruits of today. neil. >> neil: just amazing peer thank you very much for that jillian. to put it in perspective there were 7 different countries involved in this mega swap or whatever you want to call it. you had the u.s., germany, poland, slovenia, norway, russia, belarus and of c

mark vogel. he was a teacher when i was the ambassador. he was my son's history teacher. he is a fantastic guy. fantastic teacher. one of the best i have ever had the privilege of knowing. it is the olympics time now. last time i saw him, we were in uncle sam's bar at the embassy when the united states hockey team beat russia. it is tragic for the family. they had hopes. they were on a roller coaster ride that he might be included and didn't make the cut. i know these things are complicated. i was part of the swap in 2010. i don't know all of the details. i think cautiously we should be optimistic that if there is some momentum now with this complex deal, maybe mark will get out of jail sometime soon. >> you have been digging into how the deal came together and specifically the timeline. >> what officials say, this began in earnest in december 2022. brittney griner was released. then paul whelan was not. that is something the ministration decided they were going to try for to get him released. discussions began. then evan gershkovich was detained and the idea of doing som

there are still negotiating with russia to get pennsylvania schoolteacher mark vogel home, and effort harris may need to pick up if she's elected and president biden does not get that done during the remainder of his term. >> bret: this was quite a process. a lot of secrecy, a lot of making sure they got on that plane. >> so many moving parts, when you have six countries and russia converging on one tarmac in turkey. there is a lot of things that can go wrong. and there was pressure on every party involved including the press which got a bit of a preview, not a lot of information. not to allow any of this leak. anything that would derail this, jeopardize the transfer from happening would have been absolutely horrific. >> bret: glad it's happened. jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn, thank you. we are still awaiting a possible military response from iran following the death of a top hamas official in the air strike in tehran earlier this week. ordering a direct air strike on israel as a response. of mourners shouting death to israel and death to america. meanwhile, the hamas leaders

same thing. historical exchange of prisoners since the second world war, so they say, but why was mark vogels accused in the same way as britney greiner, but there was no nba or wall street journal behind them, yes he has influenced many around the world, one of his students works at your studio, it's completely unfair that he wasn't brought home with the others as part of this exchange, biden administration , nothing would be lost from this. biden was also criticized for the supposed wide publicity of the exchange. by bringing home journalists accused of spying, the white house is provoking new arrests of americans abroad, which means giving adversaries leverage over the united states and allies. russian army over the course of a week, it carried out 11 group strikes on ukrainian military factories, assembly shops and storage areas for combat drones, as well as on ammunition depots, military echelons and militant deployment points. during this time , zelensky’s formation lost another 13,600 soldiers and mercenary officers, 14 tanks and 42 other armored vehicles were destroyed, as well as al

a historic exchange of prisoners since world war ii, so they say, but why wasn't mark vogel included?in the same way as britney greiner, but there was no nba or wall street journal behind them. yes, he has influenced many around the world, one of his students works in your studio. it is completely unfair that he was not brought home with the others as part of this exchange. the biden administration would have nothing to lose from this. biden was also criticized for widely publicizing the exchange, allegedly returning home journalists accused of espionage. the white house is provoking new arrests of americans abroad, which means giving opponents leverage over the united states and allies. anna voronina, vesti. over the course of a week, the russian army carried out 11 group strikes on military factories in ukraine, assembly shops and storage areas for combat drones, as well as warehouses. supplies, a military echelon, a point of deployment for militants. during this time , zelensky’s formation lost another 13,600 soldiers and mercenary officers. 14 tanks and 42 other armored vehicles w

and mark vogel, the american teacher held on charges of bringing a small amount of medical marijuana into russia. his family tonight saying we are completely heartbroken and outraged that mark has been left behind while the u.s. government brought other americans home. tonight, the biden administration saying it is actively working to get his release, as well. >>> let's get straight to nbc news white house correspondent, veronica alba. she joins us from joint base andrews. what is happening there? this is an exciting, exciting hour. >> and historic evening to be sure, here, stuff. we do believe that president biden is on his way here now to joint base andrews in a motorcade, traveling from the white house. so he should be here in the next 15 minutes or so. and that is tracking with what we expect will be the landing of that plane, that aircraft that is carrying those three u.s. citizens who will be here. and i can tell you right now i see a separate motorcade arriving on the tarmac that we believe to be that of vice president harris'. one of the two of them are going to be coming here

a ballerinia, mark vogel, teacher. >> steve: he has makings of a book, i wonder if he will go back to does he want to go back to the front lines or will he say i'm going to do something new. >> kayleigh: can't wait to follow the story or read that book. ronald rowe, will hold a news conference and up ddate. >> a whistleblower claims mr. rowe is to blame for the security lap that led to the shooting. >> brian: cb cotton joins us. >> josh hawleys a whistleblower claims secret service director rowe directed cuts for events and this whistleblower claims threat assessment agents were not on the scene and no evaluation was done. we took the claim to secret service who said it would respond to josh hawley's request for information through channels. they want to see if the agency answers about technology failure during the assassination attempt. one of them, we learned through acting director rowe, 30-second window between local officer first spotted would-be assassin's gun protecting trump, rowe testified urgent warning was testified over the radio system and stayed siloed between local and

it comes in the face of criticism from the family of mark vogel, an english schoolteacher from pennsylvaniacan see him here on the right being detained at a russian airport in 2021, where he was found to be carrying a small amount of medical marijuana. he's now serving a year sentence. in a statement, mr vogel�*s family said... three of the released americans have landed in the united states, meeting the families along with president joe biden and vice president kamala harris. evan gershkovich, paulwhalen kamala harris. evan gershkovich, paul whalen were then flown to san antonio, texas for medical and psych logical evaluations. jeremy boehner ports on the moments leading up to that homecoming. president biden invited the families of the released americans to the oval office, and they rang the play. pare americans to the oval office, and they rang the play. are not as aood and they rang the play. are not as good as _ and they rang the play. are not as good as your— and they rang the play. are not as good as your families - as good as your families are feeling, but i'll stand around —— they'

being unlawfully detained in russia, china, afghanistan, pennsylvania lawmakers say one of those is mark vogel, a schoolteacher arrested in 2021 with a small amount of medical marijuana that was prescribed by his doctor for chronic pain. he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. us authorities say baseless charges, sham trials, unjust imprisonment is a strong reminder of russia's disregard for human rights and oppression of innocent americans callously used to free imprisoned russians. stuart: trump said the seniors shouldn't pay taxes on social security benefits, that would increase deficits by $1 trillion. 114,000 jobs added to the economy in july, an appointment went up to 4. 3%, the job market is cooling, the economy clearly slowing. how the white house is responding to that next. it's odd how in an instant things can transform. slipping out of balance into freefall. (the stock market is now down 23%). this is happening people. where there are so few certainties... (laughing) look around you. you deserve to know. as we navigate a future unknown. i'm glad i found stability amidst it all. gold

three americans were released yesterday, mark vogel is still imprisoned in russia. ill be endless task trying to get mark back home. a lot of what we've seen in last couple years, what can we do we're not doing right now. my concern, his mother is 95 years old. they are really good people. guy is imprisoned, guy doing his career of teaching diplomat's children. why weren't they protected and why are we having such a hard time getting them out. >> dana: we need to keep his name front and center. good to have you both. >> bill: jobs report is not good and may not be good for remaining term for joe biden. a assign of slowing economy, some people dropping the r word. larry kudlow takes it up, he's l live. the deployments and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up to 100% of your home's value. so if you're in a situation where you need some help financially, give us a call. ♪ ♪ have you always had troubl

. >> mark vogel was not part orkf the release, but officials saytg they are actively negotiating hwith him home,. laura. >> laura: great news,news thank you so much.onth now, three months ago we brought you a story that got very little media attention. two jordanian nationals here illegally were arrested for trying to force their way onto the marine corps base in quantico right now, today we found out those two illegals were allowed to go free on bond. they are out of custody by immigration judge, and thisatio happened in june with a promise to stay away from quantico and other military bases and, and tn were sent on their way pure adjoining elf paul mauro fox news contributor and former nypd inspector. paul, a source has told box there is no reason any man had ties to terrorist organizationr and no derogatory informationed was determined.okay okay, i don't even know if that is grammatical, but yourre reaction tonight to that. >> there are troubling aspects,n to this, first of all, one is at student over state, but the other one, he enters the country through the southern border inl. a

. >> pennsylvania teacher mark vogel was not part of this release, but officials say they are activelyith russia to try to bring him home, laura. >> laura: great news. thank you so much. now, three months ago we brought you a story that got very little media attention. two jordanian nationals here illegally were arrested for trying to force their way onto the marine corps base in quantico. today we found out that those two illegals were allowed to go free on bond. they are out of custody, by an immigration judge. this happened in june. they promised to stay away from quantico and other military bases and they were sent on their way. joining me now, paul mauro, fox news contributor and former nypd inspector. paul, an i.c.e. source has told fox there was no reason to believe either man had any ties to a terror organization and that no derogatory information was determined. okay, i don't even know if that's grammatical, but your reaction tonight to that? >> there were some troubling aspects to this. first of all, one of them is a student, but the other one, hamdan, he enters the country i

russia still holding pennsylvania schoolteacher mark vogel and the president said today his team is in talks with russia to try to get him out. >> what more can you do? >> meantime the white house is rejecting claims from some of trump's allies that russia only took this a deal because the prospect of a trump win in november meant this would be a better opportunity for them. white house denying that. >> thank you for that. jacqui heinrich at the white house. what's it like to be a hostage coming home after you spend so much time away from home wondering if you'd ever get back. who better to ask than kevin. you will remember him the marine veteran former 1979 hostage with this gentleman went through with along with all of his colleagues. they got home but our back-and-forth that was. i was thinking of you when i was seeing this release today and swap and people questioning what was behind the swap. didn't really have to be done this way, the half-full glasses a lot of americans were held and others are now free some of the others that were traded in vladimir putin that obviously causes

this was supposed to include him to but the swap does not include pennsylvania teacher mark vogel who officials say they are still actively trying to bring home from russia. officials also claim that no money had to be exchanged and no new sanctions were put in place to make this all happen. >> trace: life russ in the new york. that is alive look at joint base andrews in the car you saw, that was the vice president kamala harris arriving at joint base andrews. we are told the president is about eight or nine minutes away from coming to joint base andrews. we are being told that resident biden has jake sullivan with him along with... and five others. so he's got a pretty good contingent along for the ride with him. we don't know if there will be comments, if the president will speak if the vice president will speak. we will bring you the information. you can see it live on the left-hand side of your screen. meantime the prisoners swap was a big win for the biden administration after many months of negotiations between the u.s. , of five nato allies and of course russia. it did not take

president biden and vice president kamala harris greeted them and said they were worried about mark vogel who was jailed for a small amount of marijuana. >> we are not giving up on that. do you want me to tell you ahead of time? >> former president trump speaking on fox business that the president gave up too much in this deal and it will only encourage more state-sponsored hostagetaking. speak of these deals are so bad. these deals are going to lead to tremendous kidnappings. once you agree to do it which he has a great all the time it's only going to get worse. it is a terrible precedent. >> now that they are here at brooke army medical center they have a three stage process of reintegration that ends with of them home and reunited with their families. but to emphasize they through prison uncertainty and arduous journey that ended about three or 4:00 a.m. when they got here so the primary activity is rest. john? the one from brooke army medical center that is mike for us with the latest good report. center? >> sandra: john a live look at the dow jones industrial average as the stock mar

there are still efforts continuing to get other wrongfully detained americans including the teacher mark vogel who's being held in russia back home, ana. >> it is just so, so heartwarming to see those images of the embraces, the kisses, the big smiles, jesse, now back home. what is next for these americans? >> yeah, so ana, after those three freed americans touched down in the u.s. at joint base andrews in maryland, they got back on the plane after that meet greet. they came here to san antonio, texas, and what's next for them in the return to american society effectively is they're going to participate, according to a u.s. government official in post-isolation support activities. behind me here at this army facility. this is brooke army medical center. that is what is next for them. this is the same facility, the same type of support activities that brittney griner went through when the wnba star was released from russian custody. when the group touched down here in texas overnight, we did hear briefly from paul whelan who spent years in russian custody. here's part of what he had to say. >>

they were especially interested in the fate of mark vogel, an ex-us embassy employee convicted of drugton is doing the same with moscow. discussion of the possibility of further exchanges and, in general, communication channels are working. tonight the wall street journal rejoiced at the news of gershkowitz's release. can you talk about how the administration is trying to make sure that this doesn't happen? will encourage more arrests of innocent americans, especially since there is an imbalance between the release of innocent americans. what does this all mean? vladimir putin is doing everything possible to show the valor of russian security forces. i think this is a great deal for vladimir putin. he managed to bring back the fsb colonel who killed a chechen dissident in broad daylight in the center of the german capital, as well as many other people who are of interest to russia and this. years sentence, and they served 14 years in prison american prison, when you saw all this, broadcast at night, i got goosebumps, how you got goosebumps, tears of joy for the fact that our fellow cit

american school teacher mark vogel. he's been in prison in russia for r the last three years. this is after he was arresteds for enteringafte russia with a small amount of medical marijuana he was using forf medi his back pain. i'll send it back to you. all right. thank you so much. u.se: thangreat to have evan ba. u.se: thangreat to have evan ba. >> migrants crash the border with jet skis. >> happy memories just come easier on the water. our founder, johnny morris, our founder, johnny morris, and his da firsthand. >> they created a boat. it's more affordable. it's more affordable. trackesouri ect one best selling, fishing and pontoon boats and pontoon boats powered by mercury built in missouri and sold factory direct at bass factory direct at bass pro shops in selec lifelonr own. as little as $5 a day. you can ow ben a bran st od newn and make lifelong memories and make lifelong memories of your own bass pro shops voted america's best outdoor retailer save even more and retailer save even more and suppor you join the club. you join the club. >> meet the jennifermopp. and y an

and i wonder whether you have a message for somebody like mark vogel, madam vice president. that's right. evan evan. evan. come on. evan, would you talk to us for one minute? one second. welcome back. welcome home, welcome home. maybe he'll come and see. evan, how's it feel? yeah. i traveled a little. i. to the far. harden. i got harris on my cell. i don't know. so there you have evan gerskovic. he's addressing some of his media colleagues over there. he's a couple of times he's walked over in that area. he has not walked over. you heard our own kevin corke saying, evan, evan, come over here. what are your thoughts on this? he did not make his way over there toward the microphones, but he did on a few occasions, make his way over to what we believe are some of his colleagues at least, and some of the documentarians at the wall street journal who are doing a documentary on him. and then you saw the others walk off, but you heard twice from the president. you also heard twice from the vice president, which is which is not usual in these types of situations. but but apparently

there's going to be certain amount of survivor's guilt that there are others like mark vogel still left behind and they won't want to say too much for fear of hurting the cases of other folks still being detained. and i think you also saw that that was the other bit of message control we saw from president biden. he was given the opportunity to bash vladimir putin, and he did not saying stop is something he said publicly before, but he didn't go any further because there are still people they'd like to get out before the end of this presidency just moments ago, we were watching the motorcade is leaving. it just tells you it's almost the idea of the time that goes on. 45 minutes about after landing, the president and the vice president are headed back to continue in the work of their administration. and we have mj lee who has, been on that tarmac, who has been covering this. so closely and we are just thinking about the image is seared in our brains for me it's the teenage daughters hugging their mother in this moment, mj, you have some information about what paul whelan, what evan gersh

john on facebook who says mark vogel should have been included in the swat.harlotte on facoo says i just would like to say that this shows politics behind the prisoner swap with russia and elections every year. we do get things done when you were desperate to stay on top of the game. deb on facebook says this is what happen when you have a great relationship with allies and don't watch tv all the time. here is joy, savannah, georgia, republican. caller: yes. something has been on my mind about russia. all our prisoners and everything, why is it that we can go up in space again, and we are allies with russia going up in space? they don't capture are astronauts going up with them back and forth? i know we pay them to take them up. [indiscernible] host: you are right. there is coordination with russia in space. you are absolutely right. ramah, missouri, independent -- ron, missouri, independent. caller: i'm glad we made the swap, but it is all political. they do the same thing at this time of year, it could have all been done earlier. we just allow politics to g

vogel was sentencd to 14 years in a penaln medical marijuana. in a statement to cbs news, his family said "we are complete the heartbroken and outraged that mark hasn left behind while the u.s. government brought other americans home." president biden vowed to fight for fogel. >> we are not giving up -- we are not giving up on that. >> reporter: the agreement led to the release of 24 prisoners by seven different countries. among the freed russians, a convicted murderer, several spies and hackers. on "cbs mornings," national security advisor jake sullivan justified the trade. >> at the end of the day, the president looked at this deal, and he said, what we are getting, the value of human life, the value of putting families back together, the value of standing up for freedom of the press far exceeds what we are giving up by sending a few more criminals back to russia. >> reporter: in his formal request for clemency, evan gershkovich asked if vita mayor putin would sit down with him for an interview. tonight, the kremlin said it is ready to consider the request. nancy? >> nancy: that would be a fascinating interview. weijia jiang at the white house,