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kevin mccarthy called it a weakness from the biden administration. you said the biden administration is giving priority to a celebrity over a veteran. elizabeth whelan, paul whelan's sister said a few minutes ago nobody should be sniping like that, people should rejoice an american is freed and the white house has made it clear that the offer from russia was bout for griner or no deal. >> yeah. >> the guy who negotiates these deals is roger karsten. i'm sure you know him. retired army lieutenant colonel. holdover from the trump administration. we all wish paul whelan was coming home, but why was your reaction the why it was? >> look, jake, a tactical victory. i'm glad she's coming home but it's a strategic loss and national security council and the commander-in-chief need to be looking at our policy. the reason the iranian regime, taliban, putin himself, continues to take americans hostage is we continue to make concessions. and our approach to getting
to moscow to be flown to the united arab emirates where on a tarmac that griner crossed paths, walked in opposite directions on the tarmac, passing by the man for whom she would be traded. that's the convicted russian arms dealer, viktor bout, a man who has been described in the west as the merchant of death for his efforts to sell arms to columbia to kill americans. as it relates to paul whelan, he was the other american that the u.s. had been so focused on trying to get out. he's a u.s. businessman, a former u.s. marine. the white house making very clear the president among them, that it remains their priority to get him out. but officials tell us that for all of the americans' efforts in this back and forth, the russians made very clear that it was griner or no one. you get one or none. and ultimately the president, yasmin, made the decision to go ahead with it. >> what a stunning moment and picture that you painted for us with that exchange as brittney
he's a dangerous person. one of the most prolific arms dealers in the world convicted in a u.s. federal court in new york. conspiracy to kill americans. >> bring in cnn matthew chance. why was securing viktor bout's release so important to the kremlin? >> good question. sort of raises the question why over so many years since his detention back in 2006 the creme lippe bending over backwards and trying to negotiate on every level to get viktor bout back home. there's been all sorts of speculation that viktor bout, of course, ran a massive arms smuggling enterprise has closely been connected with inner circle of vladimir putin. very much denies that. that he's got the dirt on russian operations or russian attempts to arm rebel groups arounded world in 1990s and 2000s when arming smuggling was at its height. a big win putin getting bout back.
family of another american who was left behind. paul whelan, been in russian prison for almost four years. officials from the department of justice expressing frustration that an earlier deal allowing bout's release, which u.s. officials proposed, included griner and whelan. lawmakers also expressed apprehension about normalizing prisoner swaps. >> i think it's good news. good news for brittney, for her family. that's the risk, that the more we engage in such exchanges, the more americans are at risk of being scooped up and held as leverage. >> reporter: whelan is serving a 16-year sentence for espionage charging he vehemently denied and spoke exclusively to cnn's reporter from a penal colony saying pleased for griner but greatly disappointed he wasn't included. >> i don't understand why i'm still sitting here. i was led to believe things were moving in the right direction and that the governments can negotiating and that something would happen fairly soon. >> reporter: and despite the
>> well, until there are prisoners in both country, i think this is possible, yes. >> thank you so much. appreciate your time today. then, of course, there's paul whelan. one of the two americans left out of the prisoner swap despite months of discussions. we'll talk to his sister next. also ahead, two major pieces of legislation passed today and now headed to president biden's desk for his signature and the pacific request for police in idaho almost four weeks after the murders of four college students. could this indicate the way their investigation may be handled? a lot of ideas. so when she wants a plplan based on what matters most, she turns to fidelity. at fidelity, anyone can create a free plan. a plan that can change as your priorities do. and nina's free plan? it leaves her free to focus on what's important right now. that's the planning effect. from fidelity.
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paying to house. violent acts, conspiracy to commit murder, fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, these are people who do not value human life. they put profit and power over human life and these are the folks this chaotic open border are helping to conduct business and harm and kill americans every single day. >> ainsley: is this because of the open borders? >> ashley: absolutely, it is directly tied. we can source this fentanyl to the border issue sourced out of mexico and california. you see the devastation it is having, as a mother, not just as attorney general, mother and wife of a law enforcement officer, i have been working
>> tucker: so when people on martha's vineyard think of illegal immigration, they really think groundskeepers and waiters, people who work at the back end of the kitchen, people who clean up or prepare the food. that's what illegal immigration is to them. they're not really thinking, none of us are thinking that people might be showing up for pakistan. they didn't walk. by the way, isn't pakistan the place where they asked for jihadis to kill americans? why are they walking on a road in texas? both men admitted they were here illegally, each paid thousands of dollars to be smuggled into the united states. this is very common now. it's not the immigration you remember. who are these people? do they mean us harm? it's not simply a matter of competing for jobs with american citizens. it's potentially a grave threat. a lot of people are coming off
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