When American teacher Marc Fogel is sentenced to fourteen years in a Russian prison, his family strives to remain united | dG1fY0MwRVNrZzExMFk
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00:00Hello. Room 4039 in Moscow.
00:04He's an extraordinary person.
00:07He's incredibly empathetic.
00:12He really made you feel seen.
00:15I always kind of viewed him as the luckiest person on the planet.
00:20But this does seem to be a harsh reality check.
00:26Fogle is a teacher who was arrested when he tried to enter the country with medical marijuana.
00:31People who had a lot of experience in Russia thought that he would be out in five or six
00:35months. Mark Fogle was sentenced to 14 years last summer. We know that Mark was set up because he's
00:43an American. The U.S. government has resources to bring him back a person who was wrongfully
00:48detained. Mark is a hostage. He will die in a Russian prison unless the U.S. government brings
00:56him back. They want to use Mark as trade bait for Russians that are incarcerated here in the
01:03United States. Tragically there's other Americans in the queue. My mother is almost 95 years old.
01:11She's sad every day and she's trying to hold on in the belief that she'll see her son again.
01:17Mark I'm doing everything in my power to get you home. We will keep trying and I will keep trying.
01:28It's Mark on the phone. It's Mark.
01:30Hey I love you. We're going to come up in about 10 seconds but it's just great to hear your voice.
02:00So
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