Marine veteran Paul Whelan and others are home after being held in Russian prison. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who is co-chair of the congressional hostage task force, joins Peter Alexander to discuss her efforts to help get them home.
On their first full day of freedom Friday, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other U.S. residents released from Russian captivity began heading down the same road to recovery that an American who survived six years in a miserable Venezuelan prison took two years earlier. José Pereira was one of what became known as the “Citgo 6,” a group of oil executives who were jailed in 2017 by Venezuela on trumped-up embezzlement charges.
“They took a lot of notes,” he said. “They wanted to know about our experience, but I think they also wanted to learn from our experience so they could help others in the future.” At the end of 10 days, they participated in two group sessions in which they revisited their ordeal while in Venezuelan captivity, Pereira said. “They made you talk about everything you went through and talk about how you survived,” he said.
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