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Negotiate this better and have more leverage. what weve seen with ms. griner, maybe that equation changes now. if youre a family of someone who is being held somewhere around the world, youve got to think, well, maybe i want to get more publicity about that, and maybe that is the right thing, but i do know that the -- people at the state department, white house, consider this super important, and theyre touching base on these issues daily, 24/7, not only with the families, but with the countries...

Household name and an issue that the biden administration had to address. >> one of the political conversations, jeff, interesting, one of the presidents best friends, the man who has his senate seat chris coons saying its great brittney griner is coming home. he worries every time you pay a price do you encourage someone to take an american hostage. >> it was clear over many months putin was only going to release brittney griner in exchange for this person and thats the risk is that the more we...

Continues around the globe, and it as clear the u.s. government needs to be more assertive that actors like rusher are going to the u.s. needs a swifter more direct response in to be prepared in advance. in russias case, this may mean taking more lawbreaking crimina convicted russians into custody. its not like there were plenty around the world. >> interesting. they are effectively saying akamai first of all, gracious upfront and secondly, they are basically saying weve got leverage if we want ...

Increased dramatically. in the last decade, the number has spiked 175%. the detention of americans like trevor reed, released in a prisoner swap earlier this year, and griner, offers the kremlin leverage, which many anticipate vladimir putin will use as the biden administration attempts to secure the release of paul whelan. these swaps are complicated. one former u.s. law enforcement official says that viktor bout served years in prison, is no longer a threat to the u.s. this official sees this ...

Differently than another individual here from my western country thats also on a charge of espionage. >> as we noted, the united states officially declared him as somebody who is unlawfully imprisoned in russia, even though russia has charged him with espionage. what more can the united states do in terms of offering something? clearly russia believes they have some leverage by keeping him? >> well, this was the debate that president biden had to go through internally, because he knew that once ...

The russian concocted a fairy tale about paul. shut him up with the stupid usb drive back on december 28th in 2018 and said it had state secrets. held a sham trial where no evidence was produced, and then sentenced him to 16 years for this quote/unquote crime of espionage, and its all theater, and its all to be able to have some sort of leverage over the u.s., and to be able to have a prisoner that they consider high value, but its ridiculous, because paul is not a spy. and at the same time it p...

Outcome for the american people, and for brittney griner, of course, that is true as well. >> let me play a little bit of what the senator today said about viktor bout. >> he is a pretty terrible character, pretty heinous person, and was clear over many months that putin was only going to release brittney griner, in exchange for this person. and thats the risk, is that the more we engage in such exchanges, the more americans are at risk of being scooped up and held as leverage to try to secure t...

With them is wrong. >> a point there about leverage and timing and saying it is wrong to work with this white house until they get the gavel. we talked to everybody here. we heard from biden white house officials and i now welcome a republican congressman, byron donalds from florida, back to "the beat." nice to see you. >> good being back with you. >> what do you think of what kevin mccarthy says there and is that your view or is there any place you might try to find common ground with president...

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