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as a huge surprise given the well-established history inside trump world of pressuring potential witnesses in key investigations. washington post lays it out like this, quote. evidence across multiple state, federal and congressional investigations points to a similar pattern. trump and his close allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention extending vague assurances that staying loyal to trump would be better than crossing him. meanwhile, trump publicly blasts those who offer testimony against him in bluntly personal terms offering a clear example to other...

To be happening there. >> the u.s. doesn't want to do these negotiations in public, as they say, and they're extremely wary of setting any kind of precedent where this all just becomes a horse trading game. you know, when you do deals like this, you essentially create an incentive for bad actors to grab americans and demand prices for them. there was a similar dynamic, you may recall, with al qaeda and a lot of terrorist kidnappings we had sort of in the mid 2010s, and there was a big fight where the europeans were paying lots of ransoms. there was a big argument about whether this was incenti...