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Weeks russia was not going to release whelan. was not going to be okay with any of the different alternatives and types of, you know, swaps they were trying to come up with to get both so the white house felt like they had to get brittney when they could. the other thick they noted, white house officials noted was that president biden, they said is ready and willing to meet with paul whelan's family. it sounds as though meet with them more personally to try to explain to them everything that is going on and why it has been so difficult to get him released. >> and for the diplomatic angst here ...

They have no russian spies in captivity. and they have no one to trade. so the bottom line when the whole deal was almost blowing up, according to my sources, a u.s. official says they were told by the russians you get one or none. their unwillingness to release whelan, the decision was made by the president to have brittney griner come home. and paul whelan is saying that that was the right decision. to bring at least one person home. but now there's a different statement coming from paul whelan's russian lawyers, who say they don't think this is the end of the road they think the russians an...