President Joe Biden Brings Up Jailed North Texan Trevor Reed In Meeting With Vladimir Putin

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

June 17, 2021

President Joe Biden said he discussed the cases of two Americans detained in Russia during his meeting with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, pledging to “follow through” on that discussion.

“I raised the case of two wrongfully imprisoned American citizens, Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed,” Biden said during a news conference Wednesday following the summit in Geneva.

“The families of the detained Americans came up and we discussed them. We’re going to follow through with that discussion. I am not going to walk away on that,” he added.

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