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Woe dont have a timetable. what have you learned thabt and the conditions set here. >> theres an aggress i free week expectation. that all violence will cease in eastern ukraine. before the end of this year. really there was much old much new in this summit. the old, what was being suggested prisoner exchanges. demining. and possibly elections in held areas in the months ahead. what was new the two men putin and russia and ukraine. zelensky turning up in a rental and putin coming in in a black a...

Foreign wars. theyve been in the presidents ear for a couple of years on this issue. the saudis themselves have had a checkered recent past with a lot of american politicians. were coming up on the one-year anniversary of the kashoggi murder. there are people like chris murphy who have been trying to rein in our alliance with the saudis. it creates a lot of division from both parties on this front. >> we do know robert obrien is more of a career guy at the state department. hes not out front lik...

Throughout the country for too long for that war to stop now. with the conflict blocked and stalemate many hope the talks will result in a cease fire allowing food and aid to reach those who need it most. now from his with a think tank european council on foreign relations hes covered yemen as a journalist speaks to us from beirut good morning our talks set to begin today in sweden what are you expecting will we see deescalation truce whats likely to come out of them. i mean at this point whats ...

Of facing starvation. there is only one message to those who are gathering today in sri then that is the message of peace for this brutal war the brutal war on children raging throughout the country for too long for that war to stop now . with the conflict locked in stalemate many hope the talks will result in a cease fire allowing food and aid to reach those who need it most. now from. the think tank the european council on foreign relations is covered yemen is a journalist speaks to us from be...

Getting the u.s. finally to move decisively. and to get 16 european nations to move with them. just go down the list. france, germany, sweden, all of europe, poland is standing with britain as is the united states. and i think its -- >> you know more about -- ive been to parties in your honor where ive seen the number of spy theres. so i know how many you know. and im serious. theyre all there. what about -- i saw "bridge of spies" a fantastic spielberg movie. what i noticed is the honor in pris...

Even after the visit of a chinese envoy recently. frequently for prisoner exchanges, theyve asked to senior people to come, and among them have been president carter, president clinton, the former governor of new mexico, who would go in periodically, and that was governor richardson. and we saw jim clapper, the former head of the director of national intelligence go in and do a release. you would think if they wanted to get a serious negotiation going they would ask for one of those four or some...

Exchange, which is how you characterized it, which i think is exactly right, its a problem that every country faces. and all i can say is that the toughest regime in the world on these issues is the israeli government. and they routinely do prisoner exchanges. not doing it becomes an obstacle and the feeling is, lets move on. so you could say, yes, the obama administration did something wrong. but i pound out netanyahu have been prisoner exchanges that are far more lopsided than prum just did. >...

The israeli army will be disciplined as they always are. they will not pay much attention to that. they will prosecute the kind of came pain they have planned on prosecuting. after the campaign, they will figure out prisoner exchanges and things like that. this is what they have done in the past. the fact that there is one israeli captured, they will not let that hold the mission hostage. >> we have heard and seen reports where when there were air raids on gaza that israelis were cheering on the...

Security of this country. it is imperfect, and it may sound like an excuse, but it is reality. i will ask mr. president. thank you. >> thank you. there is of course a great deal of detail, technical legal detailing what constitutes a pow versus a detained combatant or privileged or unprivileged, i dont think we need to get into that to answer your question what we had here were detained combatants held by opposing forces in the same armed conflict. and as such, this exchange falls within the tra...

The past, but it is not the character of the holding party, it is a character of the detainee that inspires and motivates our commitment to the recovery of servicemembers held abroad. we dont see this as setting a particular precendence vote because it does fall within that prisoner exchanges and that have been in the past locations where the united states has dealt with nonstate actors were holding servicemembers in order to achieve the recovery. >> can you give us a specific example of that? >...