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I think what is most interesting, i mean, while we were waiting to come on — i dont know if you heard it, shaun — there was an interview where paula garren was interviewing one of the agents of the deal, and i think it was somebody from nato, and she was making the point — look, russia benefits considerably for this deal. it was the un secretary general. thats who it was, sorry. no, no thats fine. he said, "we need the grain," basically. the world needs the grain or else there will be appa...

>> but its the regular people, the workaday people who always w suffer under these inane policies, always without fail. >> we were peasants compared to them. they dont believe that youou protection because they dont care about your protection. they dont care if you die.are they dont care a about young people dying in the middle of the street and drive by shootings because they are protected by armed security. >> these people do not care about you. your lifeou or anything other than political lev...

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The team is very aware that every single step is gonna be scrutinized. they are going to be inevitably -- there are elements that you did not prepare for. you did not have any control over them. theyre gonna look bad and be heavily scrutinized. the problem is that this was an element that could not be prepared for. this is the thing that fluctuates me sometimes as an american. i understand the power that the united states government holds. we dont yield that leverage strongly enough when it come...

But many countries much prefer larger diplomatic deals. the iranians for instance want not only prisoner swaps, but sanctions relief, debt relief, all kinds of other political concessions in these cases. >> do you think that is different because shes a star? i mean, she is a global star not just an american star, but globally? >> brittney griner is a superstar athlete and olympian and not only beloved by her team and family in the united states, but as we saw in the trial this week, beloved by h...

Likely russia would want sanction relief rather than a prisoner swap. are you seeing that that potentially really could be the equation here? the use of that leverage? >> it is difficult to know. it is really difficult to know because these governments will never come out and say brittney griner or these 40 other americans arrested abroad, theyll never come out and say theyre hostages or make explicit demands. instead they might imply that they want sanctions relief or a prisoner swap. they migh...

A foreign power rests you, they bring you in on charges. they use you as a leverage tool against another government. britney griner is a hostile government detainee. there are certain behaviors that they force you into. the first one is that they always force you into a confession. they wear you down, they give you bad conditions. once you have confessed, they hammer you. ten, 15, 20 years for whatever snake oil. they secretly come to the united states and say, hey, remember those spies you have...

Not consistency we dont look good. and rhetoric will not stop iran to get a nuclear bomb. we know they lied and cheated but why would we start a second meal without having additional leverage and additional control. and again make some sense and demonstrate that we are not standing strong with our allies. in the middle east to make it clear. these are not people on the fence. they openly death to america. it is death to israel and death to america is not pro-israel policy it is a pro-america pol...

And the hospital should be successful to take care of wherever they are in the world. but the money and the palestinian authority without asking anything in return still have a law to incentivize a people to kill israeli hands and get paid more money and israelis are killed. how we show up and give money without having any preconditions to those meetings just demonstrates we arent using our leverage where we need to. it is very simple. we appreciate and love all people and we want the best for t...

That we do, we used to craft in right before any kind of trip. because it will be over-analyzed. so he has to be very careful not to slip. i said i know we have a lot with the saudi relationship. we deal with counter-terrorism and the threats from iran. we have a lot that we should have been stronger on and for example taking syrian refugees, stopping their crisis in yemen. but get something out of it that is strong related to human rights. fly some political prisoners back on your plane, someth...