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Stengel, former top state department official. eddie and rick are msnbc contributors. and joining us in a couple of minutes will be kevin blackistone from "the washington post." renee, i start with you. just your reaction. >> when i woke up to so many text messages and emails, i couldn't believe it. i went and -- first of all, i just cried, because i was just saying yesterday on "we need to talk" that she was consuming a lot of my thoughts. every article that came out, every time you hear about the treatment that she could be enduring. when you -- when i even just think to the fact that i play...

Griner was the only deal we could get it and now is the only time we could get it. we took advantage of that to get one american home. but we're going to stay focused on mr. whelan. this was not some choice between the two. so, i would push back on this notion that we deliberately, you know, we chose brittney over paul. there was only one way to get one american home, and that was this particular deal, so, we're going to stay at it. we were working on it yesterday, we're working on it today and i can guarantee the whelan family that tomorrow and every day here after, we're going to continue to...

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