Sister of Paul Whelan, American held in Russia, doesn't get requested meeting with Biden
CBSN
Washington — As the U.S. ambassador to Russia was visiting Paul Whelan at a labor camp in Mordovia, his sister was in Washington seeking a meeting with President Biden to urge him to find a solution to bring him home.
Elizabeth Whelan did not get an audience with Mr. Biden while she was in the capital this week meeting with administration officials. She last met with the president a year ago in the Oval Office. The White House has been in touch with her about scheduling a meeting with the president in the future, a senior administration official told CBS News.
Elizabeth Whelan told CBS News earlier in the week that she had requested the meeting to ensure the president's advisers "have given him a complete picture of what it might take to bring Paul home, and I am not sure that that has happened."
