To us, it's unbecoming of a world leader to speak like that about … a private citizen but especially about a foreign citizen who we know is innocent.

Joey Reed

We need to do absolutely everything we can, as Americans, to advocate for those Americans who are being held illegally overseas and do every single thing we can possible to get them out.

We've said all along, for months and months, that we believe President Biden is a compassionate and kind man, we knew if we talked to President Biden and told President Biden about Trevor Reed President Biden, and what Trevor's gone through as an American, and the way that President Biden's been treated, in particular it would cause President Biden to take action such as an exchange, which they had been reluctant to do up to that point.

We believe that that meeting with the President is what made it happen.

He listened intently to everything we had to say until we were through talking. We couldn't have asked for more.

We want to talk to The President and say,' You're the only man in the world who can bring The President home and you can do it today,' what we were told second hand was that there wasn't enough time.

The President said,' I don't have anything to say to The President. I think that they have forgotten about me,' we have not( forgotten about The President). We love our son and we're going to fight to our dying day to bring him home.

We would hope that both President Joe Biden Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden Biden can come to some sort of an agreement to release our son and American Paul Whelan, who we believe are both imprisoned illegally and innocent.