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About what youre talking about, the idea of trying to do all that you can to bring him and others home. what might be the process now in terms of a shift in the leverage, the idea that victor bout has now win in that prisoner exchange, i know john kirby never spoke about bout being the bargaining chip, but i wonder what leverage the united states has to try to compel that good faith bargaining and good faith negotiation by russia. >> and i understand thats a very good question to ask, but as you...

You can get one home, bring her home. we didnt have any options here. we were the weaker player and they played us. >> jonathan, i want to bring you in here because if you think about the leverage that phil is alluding to, were talking about other americans who are believed to be wrongfully detained like paul whether or not he detain whelan and others even in iran and other places across the world. i wonder what resources are available to bring him home. >> thanks for having me here tonight. its...

Biden either. that comment from a star football player does highlight the geopolitical problem here. our standing in the world under the biden administration has foughten so far that joe biden does not have the leverage to get a marine home, and has to do this very one-sided swap, somebody who basically did nothing, like you pointed out for somebody called the merchant of death who all experts agree, when hes back out there in russia, he will do things that potentially could kill americans in th...

Quite sometime to bring her back and they lost leverage when trying not to get mr. paul whelan back, as well >> carley: historic moment when an american wrongfully imprisoned in enemy country and back on american soil. you are looking at the plane that was holding brittney griner at kelly field in san antonio, texas. brittney griner now at a hospital to be evaluated, this whole situation is bittersweet because paul whelan has been left behind, mark fogel, and david barnes. wheelhas spoken out an...

He guaranteed the family at that press conference, i guarantee the family were still working on this. we are going to get him home. and marc polymeropoulos, im curious about your take here as we said yesterday, there are never any perfect deals in these moments. they said the state department and the white house said russia said its this deal or no deal. what do you make of the exchange? >> i think as we look at something like this, you know, we have to look at this soberly. i dont see this as k...

From several officials across the administration that the voice was brittney griner or no one. the whelan examly are understandably disappointed but they agree absolutely with that decision that someone should come home instead of no one. so in terms of that, a little bit more so jims point, give us a sense just how difficult is this? as i look at this as an outsider who is following this, russia held all the cards here. >> correct. they were -- they definitely walked into the negotiation with l...

The eve of the invasion for ukraine, that was it. they released griner and they can say david whelan is a spy, thats what they allege and now they can hold out for somebody else in u.s. prison. >> the biden administration officials say they have new forms of offers. what can that be? theyve given up their biggest leverage which is viktor bout. what can that be? >> we have identified him as the most prominent russian in u.s. custody. there are various russians who were swept up in spy operations,...

Monthses, i thought when she wasnt in the news, this poor girl still sitting in a russian prison. think about what paul whelan is going through, there are mark fogel and david barnes, who are in russian cap captivity. yesterday this revelation that viktor bout was the number one guy russia wanted, have we lost leverage in getting those three people home if we gave one for one, the guy putin wants most for brittney griner and there is question of why vladamir putin would want this guy so much whe...

Some way to caucus unofficially with the democratic party, she is going to stay in her committee assignments but because she needs leader schumer to give her those committee assignments, does he have a little bit more leverage here than we might think? >> listen, she is, she is still effectively caucusing with democrats, she will still chair two sub committees, she doesnt go to caucus meetings anyway, and in a lot of ways, this doesnt really change much. shes still culturally, shes much more pro...

On the table, this individual has been there four years and i can only imagine the hope he has when he hears news about individuals and exchange being likely, it is past time to bring this american back to the u.s. and hopefully the administration has a very robust plan and action plan to make that happen. >> todd: chad, does our leverage in this negotiation improve if joe biden didnt handle the afghanistan withdrawal so poorly decreasing our standing in the world and decreasing the leverage wit...