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schumer. cnn will bring you the presidents remarks when they begin. lets start with the new gdp report. with me is matt egan. walk us through the report, the numbers, what you see. >> so broadly consumers were still spending. it is a slowdown for sure but overall that was a positive contributor to gdp. on the other hand, government spending slowed down. when we look at where consumers are spending, its an acceleration of what weve seen. we spent less on physical items. services, howeve...

Exclusively reported details on yesterday. the u.s. is offering to release a russian arms dealer imprisoned in the u.s. named vickor boot in exchange for brittney griner and former marine paul whalen. natasha, what are you hearing now? >> reporter: we are learning that the biden administration is deeply frustrated that russia has not responded in a substantive way to this offer that administration officials believed they would jump at of course because victor boot, an international arms smuggler...

The russians have made it critical clear what they want. they want a trade. they want a guy, his name is victor boot. even when i was ambassador almost a decade ago by now, we were already in discussions about a trade for him. they just recently did a trade, remember, to get trevor reid out of jail and now the russians want to repeat that. so i think that is going to be the deal at hand and it will be a tough call for the biden administration to try to do that or not. >> so, ambassador, vickor b...