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The region, and we had worked on this case when we were working on griner and trevor reed, mentioning it at high levels in moscow. but this was more rural grassroots, the attorneys that helped us in kalinigrad. this was a unique effort that resulted not in a prisoner exchange. right. it was just a deportation. so i don t think the russians necessarily are changing their mode, but different cases require different approaches. i ask you, ambassador, because we all remember when brittney griner came home and the president said, for some reason, and i m paraphrasing, essentially russia is unwilling to make a similar deal for paul ....
Effort resulted in deportation and we were able to bring him home. the good news is that it shows that the russians, on some of these humanitarian cases like the trevor reed case, like griner, now with taylor, and hopefully with wheland, that they re ready to negotiate, they re ready to deal with these issues. i think that s the good news. and they deserve credit for turning taylor over to us yesterday without much incident. you were there on the ground, on the border with his mother. how is he doing? what is his health, how is his condition, how is he mentally processing this? he s doing well. it was a very traumatic moment with shelly, his mother, watching him cross almost like the bridge of spies movie process, the walk. he s a very nice young man. ....
Was detained by border patrol after crossing in kalinigrad. this morning, he is home. joining me, one of the people who negotiated his release, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, bill richardson. you literally just two hours ago got back, so thank you very much for joining us. well, thank you. this was a good news event, we brought back taylor dudley, the hostage. his mother went with us to the russia/poland border. this is not a high-profile case. it wasn t like the griner case, the taylor reed case. but the good news is through local efforts with local russian officials in, a grassroots ....
Wheland, they are treating the case differently. yes, and i think the good news here is that the big high-profile important paul wheland case, because he s an american marine, he s been there four years, that is the next effort. and we re very engaged in that, as is the biden administration. unfortunately, i think that is going to take another prisoner exchange. i don t think it s going to be a straight case like this one with taylor. but it gives me hope. this is a good news story. to me, it s important to focus on the positive. and despite the horrendous relationship that we have with russia right now because of ukraine, there s still positive initiatives like these humanitarian cases, trevor reed, griner, now taylor, that are being resolved. they re being resolved and they re reuniting with their ....