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The prisoner exchange that swapped Griner out of Russia in return for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout’s release from a U.S. prison shows there are still open channels for diplomacy between the two co…
Reasons right now given the political situation. >> reporter: one former u.s. official believes putin has strong motivation to keep holding griner. the fact that she's a u.s. olympic gold medalist. >> remember, she was seized in february right after the olympics when russia was roundly embarrassed yet again for doping of its olympic athletes. and so this might be also a way of getting revenge at the u.s. olympic committee. >> reporter: another american held in russia, trevor reed, on tuesday had a court appearance by video, where his appeal was kicked back to a lower court. his parents are wor...