charge versus he says it s trumped up but the russians say he s a spy. they ve always considered me to be at a higher level than other criminals of my sort and for whatever reason i m treated differently than another individual here from a western country that s also on a charge of espionage so even though we re both here for espionage, i m treated much differently than he is, and my treatment is also much different than others held for espionage in other prisons. any sense and you ve spoken to him before as well as this very important exclusive, the timing today critical, why he believes the russians are doing that? is it because he s an american? is it because he s an ex-marine? a combination of all of the above. i mean he doesn t know for sure and the russians haven t come out and said that but the fact he is an american, they believe
the tougher for paul whelan who obviously doesn t have that kind of public profile, an ex-marine, has been in russian prison for four years, is in poof health. frankly, the one who putin wanted to get out of this was viktor bout. now that the u.s. doesn t have him to offer, as abby and others made the point before, it s going to be a really tough thing. what is it that you can give the russians that would make a difference here? that makes you begin to think that the only thing comes out of prisoner swaps at a moment that biden knows sooner or later he s going to be in negotiations with vladimir putin about ukraine. nick, to pick up on that ukraine point, there s a very important question of why now. none of this is happening without vladimir putin saying, okay, go ahead with this. so do we have a sense of beyond viktor bout what else putin may be trying to get out of this? could this be him trying to wage
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma plans to execute a man for the torture slaying of his girlfriend’s three-year-old son in 1993. Richard Stephen Fairchild, who turned 63 yesterday, is set to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Fairchild, an ex-Marine, was convicted of killing Adam Broomhall after the child wet […]