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Deal until yesterday. i think the one person they really want is a murderer from germany. -- he killed somebody in open daylight. in a park on a bicycle. he is in german captivity. that is a person they really want out. i think that is very difficult for the united states government to work with him. but there may be others. i dont know for a fact. there may be other criminals that could be traded. and i do know for a fact that the biden administration continues to work on these issues. for paul...

And we mostly did when i was in the obama administration. in this particular instance, i think it was right to take the deal. because if you didnt, there wouldve been no deal. it wasnt like there was a better option. of course, we would wish for all americans, paul whelan, mark focal, to be part of this deal, three innocent americans for one criminal. but that was not the deal on the table. it was a very hard call. but i think they made the right decision. >> the timing of this is lost on no one...