Madeleine Albright once predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a historic error.

May her memory be a blessing.

The lead starts right now.

A brief moment of diplomacy as Russia agrees to a prisoner swap and frees US marine

veteran Trevor Reed, but what about the other two Americans still detained in Russia?

Plus, the Kremlin accused of blackmail after Putin turns off the taps supplying

to European nations with gas, the provocative move going beyond Ukraine's borders.

Housing crisis, what is pushing the cost of rentals so high and how the lack of affordable

housing could soon leave many lower income renters without a place to live?

Welcome to the lead object tapper, and we start today with our

world lead and a homecoming nearly three years in the making.

Right now, US citizen and former marine Trevor Reed is on his way back to the United States after

nine hundred eighty five days of detainment in Russia. Reed's release is part of a prisoner swap

authorized by President Biden that sends a convicted Russian drug smuggler back to his home country.

Russian TV releasing this video earlier, which they say shows Reed being escorted to a plane

at an airport outside Moscow. One driving factor for President Biden in these

negotiations were told was his fear over Trevor's deteriorating health as family has been raising

concerns for months now about Trevor's possible exposure to tuberculosis and the lingering

effects from his bout with COVID. Trevor's mother Paula confirmed that there is a doctor on board

the plane flying him home during a CNN interview this morning and sharing her plans for the moment

she is reunited with her son.

I'm going to try not to cry because he doesn't want me to cry, but obviously I'm going to cry a

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