Carlson concluded his interview with Putin by asking about Gershkovich’s imprisonment — and pressed him on the potential of his launch. The WSJ reporter has spent 250 days behind bars and not using a trial.
“Evan Gershkovich, who’s the Wall Avenue Journal reporter. He’s 32. And he’s been in jail for nearly a yr,” Carlson started his line of questioning.
“It is a large story within the United States. And I simply need to ask you instantly, with out moving into the main points of it or your model of what occurred, if, as an indication of your decency, you’d be prepared to launch him to us, and we’ll deliver him again to america?”