'We appreciate President Biden’s call to us today, assuring us that the U.S. government is doing everything in its power to bring him home as quickly as possible,' detained journalist Evan Gershkovich's family said.
"We’re making it real clear that it’s totally illegal what’s happening, and we declared it so," Biden told reporters before he boarded Air Force One on Tuesday.ByWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the family of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, an American who the U.S. said has been wrongfully detained in Russia.
"We appreciate President Biden’s call to us today, assuring us that the U.S. government is doing everything in its power to bring him home as quickly as possible," Gershkovich's family said in a statement shared by Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal's parent company. Just before boarding Air Force One at Maryland's Joint Base Andrews, Biden told reporters earlier Tuesday morning that he had tried to speak to Gershkovich's family on Monday and said he would try to call them again from the plane. Biden is flying to Ireland and the United Kingdom as part of a trip this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement.
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