“The Russian government made this public before the US government had the time to either know or contact Mr. Whalen’s family, which tells me they really wanted to manipulate this narrative,” @sam_vinograd says about the US man detained in Russia https://t.co/KYEINcpdUp pic.twitter.com/QBe0AEcpBW— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) January 1, 2019