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Our family is completes once again. my son and i have waited three long years for this day and it's hard to express how excited we are to be reunited with xiyue. he was swapped for pane iranian doctor in chicago who was accused of violating sanctions against iran. senior american officials defended the swap saying no money was paid for wang. the president said he would like to host wang and his family at the white house. but they did not set a date. jon: wang's release is spotlighting other cases of americans held prisoner in iran. reporter: this morning a senior

Official defended the swap saying the u.s. paid no money for wang's release, and the sanctions campaign against the iranian regime continues. officials say the negotiations really intensified over the past 3-4 weeks and that the president would like to host wang and his family at the white house though nothing yet has been scheduled. leland and kristin, back to you. leland: rich edson's at the white house. the president is headed out to florida in an hour and a half or so, we'll see if he has anything to say. kristin: well, american intelligence officials say the saudi military student suspect...

Our family is completes once again. my son and i have waited three long years for this day and it's hard to express how excited we are to be reunited with xiyue. he was swapped for pane iranian doctor in chicago who was accused of violating sanctions against iran. senior american officials defended the swap saying no money was paid for wang. the president said he would like to host wang and his family at the white house. but they did not set a date. jon: wang's release is spotlighting other cases of americans held prisoner in iran. reporter: this morning a senior

Pretty incredible. leland: and then you think about families with hostages overseas. i'm leland vittert. wang was first detained while doing research in iran for his ph.d.. his release comes as part of a prisoner exchange, drawing big distinction between this and the within that happened under the obama administration. rich edson at the white house with the latest on all of that. hi, rich. >> reporter: good afternoon, leland. a senior u.s. official says wang is in germany and that he's doing very well and will soon be on his way back to the united states. president trump tweeting, quote: taken...

Releasing this innocent man from princeton held on trumped up charges. ed: this is a broader context and the president may not get credit for from his critics, but we've seen prisoners released from north korea. and we had a democrat on who said that the president is not respected around the world, but when he's getting prisoners released, what does that mean? >> he's showing that they're -- i asked around may of 2018, secretary pompeo at fair affairs committee about mr. wang and he launched into a magnificent defense of him and they're working tenaciously so often behind the scenes to ensure ...