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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Russia Denies Visit With Detained Journalist

The Fox News Rundown

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News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

U.S. embassy officials are being denied an opportunity to meet with journalist Evan Gershkovich who was arrested two weeks ago. Now, the State Department is designating Gershkovich as 'wrongfully detained' which gives the administration additional tools to help secure his release. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Rich Edson, FOX Senior National Correspondent at the State Department, about the detention and what is being done to try and get him out. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Greg Gutfeld.

0:01.0

I'm Tammy Bruce.

0:02.0

I'm Steve Ducey, and this is The Fox News rundown.

0:08.8

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023.

0:11.8

I'm John Saasie.

0:13.2

The U.S. State Department is getting involved now in the case of a Wall Street Journal

0:16.3

reporter who was recently arrested in Russia and has since been charged with espionage.

0:21.4

But for now, Evan Gershković is locked up abroad in a place that's not so friendly

0:25.6

to Americans.

0:26.6

U.S.-Russian relations haven't been this bad since really the Cold War.

0:33.3

This is The Fox News rundown, evening edition.

0:41.9

From The Fox News Podcasts Network, I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor and editor

0:46.7

of the Transome.com Daily Newsletter, and I'm inviting you to join a conversation every

0:51.2

week.

0:52.2

It's The Ben Dominic Podcast.

0:54.5

The implications of Russia detaining an American journalist are huge, and not just

1:01.4

for the reporting question, of course, but for journalism as a whole.

1:05.0

It's a big problem if reporters can't get into places and show the world what's happening

1:09.2

there.

1:10.2

And in this case, that place, Russia, is waging war on Ukraine, along with cracking down

1:14.1

on their own citizens, President Biden even speaking out on this case Tuesday before

1:18.1

he left for Northern Ireland.

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