David Whelan, whose brother Paul Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence in a Russian labor camp, and former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul join Andrea Mitchell after Brittney Griner received a guilty verdict and 9 year prison sentence. Whelan explains how the Russian government has isolated his brother by imprisoning him far from the U.S. embassy. “He's about 8 hours from Moscow. It's not the normal way that it works in Russia,” says Whelan. “But they put Americans out about 8 hours away from the embassy, which makes it hard for the embassy to provide consular support.”
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