We have to do that,” Reed said in an interview that aired Sunday with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
While Reed was able to return home to Texas, American business executive and Marine veteran Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since 2018 and has been sentenced to 16 years on spying charges.
“I waited about 10 minutes for ― for Lina to get there, and in that 10 minutes, the shift changed at the police station, and the new officers came in with a new police chief,” Reed said.
“There’s blood all over the walls there where prisoners had killed themselves or killed other prisoners or attempted to do that,” Reed said.
Elizabeth Whelan, Paul Whelan’s sister, told CNN she would like to see the president “finish the job” and secure the release of everyone wrongfully detained
And so I would say to the president, please, bring my brother home and bring them all home,” Whelan said