now, we should say that the us special presidential envoy, roger carstens, who you've mentioned, thetage affairs, has praised you. he says, "there's probably not a week that doesn't go by when i don't call mickey bergman about 8.30 at night when i'm heading home to ask some advice." he has acknowledged what you do, but i... one wonders what it is, why it's not possible for a government to do it. and we have... you will know of families who are very critical of the us government because they haven't secured, for example, the release of paul whelan from russia. yeah, well, first of all, roger carstens is a good friend, and we've been doing this for years now together. and i trust him. and we share information again on the informal part that, you know, we're able to talk and secure and give each other information that is useful. here's the thing with it, sarah. imagine, even if the russians and the americans decided, "hey, we're going to get together right now and we're going to talk about hostages and prisoners." and they sit in the room. they're wearing certain suits. there are certai

i hope that moving to trial, will accelerate that process and not delay it roger carstens is the chief us hostage diplomat. >> words angel yesterday and he was asked about this development and he said it would not slow them down or stop them from doing that. so we're very hopeful. >> but you have paul whelan is zero, obviously evidence there. >> and the kremlin keeps doing it alsu kurmasheva, who's are reported for radio for your radio limited she has been there seized for no purpose for being a journalist she's been there for over a year. so this is a vigil for the kremlin and the sooner that the us finds a way to stop at the better it's really horrible, terrible, terrible indeed, a paul beckett, let's hope that evan comes home soon and paul as well. and coming up by pope francis said to be part of a truly historic group photo with world leaders over at the g7 summit in italy will take you there when it happened. stay with us urine, the cnn newsroom wednesday, cnn celebrate juneteenth special performances by john legend, hadi lewbel, smokey robinson. we still have a lot of work to do.