wrongful detainee families, how they communicate with us, how they give us updates or let us know what the reality is of what is and what isn t possible. so delicate, so difficult because everybody who has something like this going on in their family wants 100% of the focus on them, as they should. is there is there maybe a point that he has that yes, i do think he has a point. i mean, his brother was a former marine, was arrested on espionage charges. i always think the government should error on the side of transparency and openness, touching base with folks like that. when i was at the state department, i dealt with some of the hostage families. i think the u.s. has to be open-handed about it and clear. i think the detention of ms. griner has put this in high relief. i think maybe a policy will change a little bit. on another issue, i wanted your thoughts on fbi director christopher wray and counterpart issued their starkest warning
applied for these ids, where he had a cache of weapons, knives, daggers, swords, the parents intervened and basically said disputed that these were his knives, that he posed a danger. even though the highland park police filed a clear and present danger report, it did not meet the legal threshold to prevent him from obtaining this id. so, i think what you need to do is raise the cost on the people who are enabling people with red flags. this is usually the parents or the people close to these individuals. raise the cost on them for basically concealing or facilitaing material information that, you know, should be used to prevent these people from obtaining firearms. and i think on that point, the shooter was asked point blank by law enforcement officers, are you going to hurt yourself? do you have any issues with any
charges, saying it was not her intent to break the law. she was packing in a hurry. so, the plan here, according to the lawyers, they are now counting on leniency from the russian courts with recognition of that, lack of intent to commit a crime. of course, there is now perhaps consideration this might speed up a verdict and get to, as i was talking before, get to a point where the russians are willing now to talk about prisoner exchanges. just earlier today we heard the russian deputy foreign minister say there was nothing to talk about between the two countries on prisoner exchanges until this court hearing, until this process had concluded. and also relations improved. one step at a time. but, you know, one way to look at this is a step closer to those prisoner swap negotiations. what s your reaction to that? i think matt s interpretation was correct. i m sure she was advised by the