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President biden and how and whether to engage vladimir putin. in general when he has been asked this question about are you going to talk to him, are you willing to talk to him, he has mostly said, look, i dont want to have a conversation with him unless he is serious about giving signs about wanting to end the war but i thought a really telling moment from earlier this year was in his interview with jake tapper where he was asked would you be willing to have a conversation with putin on the sid...

They said they werent get information from the russian side but they were hoping the prisoner swap would happen. were going to see if we can get word from them how they feel about all this. one of the things you guys were talking about and we were seeing as well was the russians seemingly becoming more and more open to the swap happening. they are extremely angry at the beginning when the u.s. made public it had put forward a substantial offer and when it came out that viktor boot and griner wer...

Documents. we were there pleading with him on 9/11, shook our hands, say dont worry, help is coming, we will declassify the documents. less than 24 hours later, he invokes state secrets on us, and he brought a nuclear weapon to a fistfight between us and the d.o.j. we now know he did that to protect the saudis. so you know, the president cant have it both ways, right? he cant have it both ways. because he knew exactly what the saudis did. >> sadly, brett, youre not the first person he looked in ...

Understand what the documents said. and amid griners testimony today, cnn was first to report on a potential prisoner exchange between russia and the u.s., with the biden administration reportedly offering convicted russian arms dealer viktor boot who is serving a 25-year sentence in the u.s. in exchange for brittney griner and paul whelan another american in russian detention. and the secretary of state blinken in a press briefing today would not comment on the details. only telling reporters q...

What kind of dangerous precedent could a potential prisoner swap set should russia attempt another prisoner swap in the future? >> so this is playing out pretty much how i thought it would, because brittney griner is such a huge celebrity and has so much pull, it makes it that russia would try to get the biggest player they can and that is viktor boot and they have been telegraphing for months that they want him in exchange for the americans and this is longstanding. so on the other hand, the bi...

The sister of Paul Whelan, a former Marine who has been detained in Russia for four years, called on Tuesday for the Biden administration to do more to bring him home.

Are some top stories making news this morning. 40 house republicans have joined 60 democrats, in a letter urging the deficit-cutting supercommittee to consider all options for raising revenue to help shrink the nations massive debt. several dozen of those republicans have previously signed a pledge. americas poorest of the poor has climbed to a record high of one in 15 people. the data shows poverty has spread widely across metropolitan areas. a manhattan federal jury has convicted a russian...