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In addition to the 6 to $7 billion. i cant stress enough how poorly negotiated this is and i would say sandra, top iranian officials have said publicly they think they should take american hostages in order to balance their budget. and so president biden is giving them the win that they are looking for. >> gillian: morgan, this is gillian. jump in and clarify. we dont know yet how many prisoners the united states is going to release in exchange, its unconfirmed. as soon as word breaks we will br...

House arrest. they will stay in house arrest until money is transferred, $6 billion, which is money that iran earned from oil sales to south korea in this instance, money being held in south korea will be converted into qatar to a currency that iran can use. the u.s. treasury is going to take care of this, and this was all going to be spent, they say, on humanitarian nonsanctioned food, medicine, other kinds of aid. that taking place will take some time, and once this takes place, they will, of ...

>> i know the negotiations have been ongoing since february on and off. can you say that this is going to result in any movement potentially for another version of the iran nuclear deal? >> were focused on these individuals and getting them home. thats what this is about. this isnt about linking it to nuclear negotiations or anything else. as i said, were going to continue to put pressure on iran in the region. we just added military resources in the iranian gulf for that purpose, and were going...

Five americans who were detained have been moved to house arrest. its the first step in a planned prisoner swap between teheran and washington. the deal would include the release of roughly $6 billion in iranian government assets which had been frozen by u.s. sanctions. thats according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. that money, which would be overseen by qatar central bank could only be used for food, medicine or other humanitarian purposes. joining me now, david rohde, nbc ne...

In august so congress is out of session so the white house has less scrutiny over it. according to the letter of the law, this deal, they are only going to be able to use it for food and medicine and those sorts of things. thats pretty easy to get around. in the obama administration when they did the jcpoa, there were $90 billion of sanctions released given them and spoiler alert for the audience, the money was not used as iran said it would be, for infrastructure, new schools or hospitals or an...

Send back an unconfirmed number of iranian prisoners and unfreeze about $6 billion of frozen iranian oil revenue. >> sandra: we are learning the details right now. the move comes amid growing tensions over irans nuclear program and terrorist activities. mark meredith has the breaking details. what are we learning about this deal? >> sandra, good afternoon to you. news of this broke just in the last 30 minutes or so after a letter was published by a lawyer based here in the united states who was ...

Americans are being held together and are able to talk to each other. they are able to have better food and have their own bad and their own shower. when they were living in the prison they were in dormitories with eight or 10 people. lets just say not so high quality food so it a step forward. i think all of them no better than anyone got until its done, its done. >> stay in touch. we want to keep covering that story until the plane has taken off and landed. >> thank you. >> coming up next the ...

Defeat russia. >> we will continue to support ukraine as long as it takes in terms of the kinds of capabilities that they will need going forward. that will be a continuing discussion that we have with the ukranians and with our allies and partners. >> in other breaking news the biden administration and iran have apparently agreed to a prisoner swap. the deal involves iran releasing 5 iranian american prisoners, while the u.s. will send back an unconfirmed number of iranian prisoners and unfreez...

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