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WSJ asst editor on getting journalist back from Russia

Wall Street Journal assistant editor Paul Beckett, who was tasked by the Journal with coordinating its effort to secure the release of reporter Evan Gershkovich, discussed the Journal's open and "loud" approach. "The Russians didn't give us much of a choice because they came out and said he is a spy — total nonsense. But what were we going to do, then, I mean, we had to very, very quickly and very loudly, make it very clear to the world that he works for the Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal only," he said in an interview with Ed O'Keefe on "Face the Nation." But Beckett also said he thought the Biden administration "had an idea of what it would take to get him back from the moment he was seized. And I don't think that changed. For all our noise, I don't think the dynamic changed."

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U.S. still working on freeing Marc Fogel from Russia, says Jon Finer

Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer says that the U.S. hasn't forgotten about Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher detained in Russia who was not a part of last week's prisoner swap. "We think about Marc Fogel every single day. And not only think about him, we work on his case every single day," Finer told Ed O'Keefe on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "And we're going to do what we can to try to bring Marc home as soon as possible."

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