Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell have released a joint statement blasting Russia for detaining Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on “baseless, fabricated charges.'
Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the 'total outrage' surrounding the detainment of reporter Evan Gershkovich.
by the Russian government's Federal Security Service on charges of espionage on behalf of the United States. "We strongly condemn the wrongful detention of U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and demand the immediate release of this internationally known and respected independent journalist," Schumer and McConnell said Friday in a joint statement. The Wall Street Journal has dismissed any notion that Evan Gershkovich was doing anything other than working as a journalist.
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