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Exhibiting the kind of profound indifference to the racial contours of the jeff session nomination that i wouldnt have expected from somebody as savvy as mitch mcconnell. If they did that on purpose to be racially provocative, to stir you racial currents here, i think thats scary and gross. If they did it accidentally, i think its political malpractice. But i think theyve just turned this issue and Elizabeth Warren and the Jeff Sessions nomination into a much hotter, more hotly contested and sort of scarier thing that its been up until now. It was remarkable. Do you think it changes any votes ...

Bring home paul whelan from russian captivity. his brother david is speaking out on why president biden was able to do something former president trump wasn't, to your point, bring the former u.s. marine home. >> i think we understood that there was -- there were really two options, one option for brittney griner to come home, and one option for nobody to come home, and i think president biden made the right choice. the trump administration was not prepared to or interested in working on wrongful detention cases, and the tools didn't exist during the first two years of policy detention. we are...

Obviously, our hopes are a little bit dash that he didn't come home now. we will keep working on. it's >> in that conversation with the white house, when they informed the brittani would be coming home, did they tell you why paul was not? >> i wasn't part of the conversation, so i'm not sure if that came up. i think we understood that there were two options. it was one option, for brittney griner to come home. there was an option for nobody to come home. i think president biden made the right choice, which is an american can come home if they can come home. >> i know your brother, paul, didn't...

Way, that your brother would not be part of such a swap? >> absolutely. all of the detention cases are separate cases. they're separate individuals and the american government has to work on each one separately. although they've made an offer that would bring both of them home, the russians are sticklers about parity. if the u.s. government kicks out 25 russians, the russian government will kick out 25 americans. the fact that the offer that appears to have been made to the russian government includes one russian for two americans, i could absolutely see the russians coming back and asking for...

April, you asked the obvious question, why was paul left behind. he was actually taken into custody before trevor reed. your brother arrested in 2018, refr reed in 2019. do you think that the administration would have put this deal on the table only for your brother or only now it's on the table because brittney griner, a wnba star, is also being held? >> it's really hard to tell. i think that the u.s. government, the biden administration in particular, is moving much faster with wrongful detention cases. so, it may be that where there was reluctance to do any sort of deal before, now people a...