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Iran, like north korea, venezuela that are hostile, take americans hostages and use them as bargaining chips. we have to develop a hostage policy where we try to prevent all of this. put sanctions out there. i think the president deserves credit for the step he took because this was a humanitarian release. at the same time were battling the russians over ukraine, over nuclear weapons yet this exchange happened. maybe the russians are sending a signal that we need to start talking more. im not su...

And paul whelans family is wondering why more is not being done to bring him home. >> the state and the white house work on these issues 24/7. its not that easy from the way it looks from the outside. russia take people, and arrest people as bargaining chips, and somebody that we have legitimately arrested and its a balancing act for mr. whalen and his family, but i think they are negotiating about this all of the time and when the time is right and when the stakes are right that it will happen....

And their healing can begin. phil black, cnn, in the kyiv region. >> kidnapping people at bargaining chips. shelling evacuees and the horrors of this war, this is not warfare the way americans or european allies or for that matter the ukrainian armed forces try to practice it. recent events show this was certainly the way russia has and does . that commitment to barbarism is one of the reasons cited by the nato allies for supporting ukraine. another, general milley put it a few militants ago, th...

Because he deliberately tried to remember as much as possible. he says sooner or later one of us had to be the first to be released and thats why we rye to remember the names of other people to let their relatives know they are alive. volodymyr says there were about 200 ukrainians in detention while he was the. he hopes all would get home quickly so the suffering their families are enduring can end and their healing can begin. phil black, cnn, in the kyiv region. >> kidnapping people as bargaini...

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You can see he looks a lot less comfortable, shall we say. he is filmed from several angles and hes shown a phone video of viktor medvedchuk�*s wife, where she is speaking english and makes that appeal to borisjohnson to intercede, and try to get that prisoner swap done. he is filmed watching the video, and at the end, he appears to agree with what she is saying. its very difficult to draw any other conclusions from watching them, but what is clear that the russians are seeing any british nati...

They say they are hoping for a quick resolution to allow both men to return safely to their families. all the foreign office will say is that they are in touch with both families but have called on the kremlin to treat all prisoners of war humanely. that a second video, of aiden aslin, is quite different from a much wider frame and he looks a lot less comfortable, shall we say. he is filmed from several angles and shown a phone video of the businessmens wife where she is speaking english and mak...

Table in the united statess mind and the big question is can russia actually give anything at this point that will disarm the crisis or are we going to see talks break down later today? >> thats talk more about the bargaining chips because president biden was just talking about the threat to democracy here in the u.s. and here he is dealing with it on a global stage overseas. what can they actually do to get putin to back off because just having these talks, these men being seen as peers, is exa...

Of force by north korea as a way of perhaps gaining more bargaining chips with the united states. to this point, poppy, the biden administration took a more subdued approach dealing with north korea compared to previous administrations. the trump administration specifically according to kcna the claim to have successfully test fired hyper sonic missiles according to the joint chief of staff they also say they likely launched two short range ballistic missiles. a fleury of missile tests from nort...

Ashley and todd. >> todd: thank you. new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez testing positive for covid despite being double va xed. >> ashley: misinformation circulates on child cases and chicago schools do not have class for fourth straight day. good morning, alexandria. >> the chicago teachers union is providing no instruction for students, shutdown of school entering second week. many seeing this as union using covid-19 and kids as bargaining chips, including democratic mayor lightfo...