One of the Americans not released today is teacher Mark Fogle, who was sentenced to 14 years in a Russian

penal colony back in 2022. He was arrested in 2021 at a Moscow airport for carrying medically prescribed marijuana.

Earlier this evening, before I spoke with the Deputy National Security Advisor,

Mark Fogle's sister, Anne, joined us from her Montana home. And Fogle, thank you for being with us.

Thank you for having me.

It's really important that I tell Mark's story.

While some families are rejoicing today as they've been reunited with their

loved ones your family still has to wait. How are you doing? How are you holding up?

It's been a heart-wrenching 36 hours. I spoke with Mark yesterday morning on the phone and he, when I realized that he was still in Rybenskin and everyone else had been pulled out of their penal colonies, it was, my heart really sank.

But it's really hard to give up hope.

And for the entire day I roller coasters around thinking that you know

Rybinski is about four and a half hours from Moscow and I thought that maybe they would be driving him down or it was just really hard to

To let it go

When you spoke with them, what did he say? What did he tell you? How is he doing?

He was kind of in the dark. He knew that something was going on and then he saw a little bit of news about Paul, you know, they're constantly playing the

television and news stations in the penal colony that he's in and so he knew something

was going on but he doesn't speak Russian so he wasn't

exactly sure and he called and I I didn't want to I know this is crushing him so I didn't want to tell him what I knew but we at that point in time we were calling our senators and

calling the ambassadors that we've been in touch with and we were trying to get

something activated for him and so it was a

crazy day of phones and messaging and emailing and it's all for not.

The National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, said today that the administration is working to secure your brothers release from Russia.

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