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Contained. that means taking the sanctions program thats been developed and rolling it out further. there should be no spy swaps. there should be punishing sanctions on vladimir putin and his oligarchs in exchange for taking american hostages. >> do you think that the domestic lay of the land here with the government shutdown was an issue in taking several days for u.s. officials to meet with wheelen. what do you make of how the u.s. has handled this case so far? >> im sure there was a bit of a ...

25 british diplomats and they are expecting this to be about the same time. this could continue on but again, the bad actors here are the russians. they are the ones trying to kill admittedly, former russian spies but in the uk who have been traded for spy swaps. it is really on the gist of the activity. >> arthel: meanwhile you have three of the members of nato working together. how significant is this coordinated blowback for nato to try and stop the russians from doing what you just mentioned...

Difficult as iraq was, afghanistan will be that much harder. is it reasonable for any president to say we can fight this but only until a certain point? >> you end up undermining when you do that and there are two different perspectives here. you can say we dont say theres a hard deadline, theyll never get their act together and i would say if you put a hard deadline, then the bad guys will wait us out and the folks who you are hoping to assume power responsibility will be afraid to make the tou...

Difficult as iraq was, afghanistan will be that much harder. is it reasonable for any president to say we can fight this but only until a certain point? >> you end up undermining when you do that and there are two different perspectives here. you can say we dont say theres a hard deadline, theyll never get their act together and i would say if you put a hard deadline, then the bad guys will wait us out and the folks who you are hoping to assume power responsibility will be afraid to make the tou...

>> i think you end up undermining, when you do that, and this street two, there are clearly two different perspectives here. you can say we dont say theres a hard deadline, theyll never get their act together and i would say if you put a hard deadline, then the bad guys will wait us out and the folks who you are hoping to assume power responsibility will be afraid to make the tough decisions they have to make. thats the debate right now. i would like to see the president be more firm in saying w...

Without prison time and without answers. i just dont understand it. >> shannon: there may be much more we dont know and maybe well find out. all right, panel. well come back on another topic. coming up, we want you to go to the home page at foxnews.com/specialreport. you can learn a lot more about past spy swaps between the u.s. and russia. stick around, the panel is going to talk about changes in policy and personnel. big ones at the pentagon.

Spying in the united states and britain and other countries over the course of the next 24 hours. nothing is being confirmed, john, either by the kremlin or by the white house or the justice department in the u.s. again, we are expecting that something could happen, if you believe the rumors. >> you know, if we look back at the history of cold war spy swaps, some of chthem have been there are public. do you expect to see a public swapping? and who this person the russians are willing to trade fo...

Meeting somewhere where these people are handed over basic sfli. >> yes this is sort of a new-age spy swap, isnt it? but during the cold war, a number of spy swaps took place at the bridge outside berlin. the protocol would be worked out by the respective governments, perhaps a lawyer representing each individual, there would be a protocol, and the individuals would be brought to the bridge, carefully escorted into the middle. its like a minuet. and would would walk to one side and one would wal...

Without prison time and without answers. i just dont understand it. >> shannon: there may be much more we dont know and maybe well find out. all right, panel. well come back on another topic. coming up, we want you to go to the home page at foxnews.com/specialreport. you can learn a lot more about past spy swaps between the u.s. and russia. stick around, the panel is going to talk about changes in policy and personnel. big ones at the pentagon. [ male announcer ] theres scientific news about cen...

United states. >> that is right. >> several spy swaps took place in the cold war and one of the most notable was in 1962 when the kgb agent rudolph abell was exchanged for francis gary powers who was shot down and imprisoned by the soviet union. since then, britain exchanged peter and helen kroger for gerald brooke. and then in 1976, eye toely sha ran ski was included in a swap for several kgb agents, and the one like powers took place at the glienicke bridge connects pottsdam to what is known a...