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requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. >> we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. let's start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. >> reporter: what we've learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians put forward their own request and they said we don't wa...

Possibility that they would potentially get krosokov back. they told the united states, if you're offering bout, we want krosokov. this was not viewed by the u.s. as a serious proposal. it was it was not proposed at the lavrov blinken level. it was proposed at lower levelings. it gave the idea of the swap russia might be looking for and said indicated to the united states that russia might not be serious about the swap at all because it was just not viewed as something the u.s. and germany would actually be willing to do. it was viewed more by the u.s. government as an attempt to buy time, as ...