Evan Gershkovich Back on U.S. Soil After Historic Prisoner Swap

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A.M. Edition for August 2. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other U.S. citizens reunite with their families after the most complex prisoner swap with Russia since the Cold War. Plus, WSJ columnist Dan Gallagher unpacks a bumper week of tech earnings. And, the U.S. recognizes Edmundo González as the winner of Venezuela’s disputed presidential election, diailing up pressure on strongman President Nicolás Maduro to step down. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.0	He's free.
0:25.0	We've got the latest as the journals Evan Gerschkovich and other prisoners held by Russia
0:31.0	are welcome back to US soil.
0:33.0	I meant what I said, alliances make a difference.
0:38.0	You stepped up, they took a chance for us.
0:40.0	It mattered a lot.
0:42.0	Plus a look back at a mixed week of tech earnings and at broader market jitters heading into today's U.S. jobs report.
0:50.0	It's Friday, August 2nd.
0:51.0	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Wall Street Journal and here is the AM
0:54.4	edition of What's News? The top headlines and business stories moving your world today. Journal reporter Evan Gerschkovic has been reunited with his family after arriving back in the US overnight.
1:15.0	Gerschkovich earlier in the day had been handed over to US authorities in Turkey
1:19.3	after being jailed in Russia for more than a year on a false charge of espionage.
1:24.0	Gerskovic has just landed now in Texas, where he'll be evaluated medically and psychologically
1:30.3	at an Army Medical Center before beginning his reintegration process.
1:35.0	Among those freed along with Evan were former Marine Paul Wheelen, journalist Alsu Kermacheva,
1:41.1	and Vladimir Karamirza, a twice poisoned British Russian dissident, who had this to say on a phone
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