Page 49 - Victor Boot News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Process will continue to move forward. >> facing almost certain conviction after a lengthy trial, the admission could get the trial oversooner since russian officials won't talk about a prisoner swap until the trial is over. russia state media say they want to get back a arms dealer, victor boot, serving a 25 year sentence in the u.s. if the president gives up boot for griner, he should demand the release of paul whelan, an american business man falsely convicted of spying in a russian prison labor camp since 2018. >> our criminal system and our justice system and our fbi, they don't like to d...

The russians have made it critical clear what they want. they want a trade. they want a guy, his name is victor boot. even when i was ambassador almost a decade ago by now, we were already in discussions about a trade for him. they just recently did a trade, remember, to get trevor reid out of jail and now the russians want to repeat that. so i think that is going to be the deal at hand and it will be a tough call for the biden administration to try to do that or not. >> so, ambassador, vickor boot also know as the merchant of death for his widespread international crimes drawing an equivalent...

In jail for 20 years. i dealt with conversations about him when i was ambassador. they want him out of jail. i would say to my american colleagues this is not setting a precedent or a terrorist organization. this is a government and consider the swap not just brittney griner but paul when he lane and mark fogel. >> what is so special about victor boot to vladimir putin or the kremlin? why is he so desirable to get out? >> to us he is a criminal and indicted and in jail rightly so for things he did. to putin he worked for those guys. he helped them. running weapons. running drug deals around th...

Part of the white house. we'll see if we get more of a response from the administration today when we hear from the white house press secretary or perhaps even from the president later today. >> our thanks to mike memoli. joining us is retired add midterm james stavridis. admiral, i know you know how high the stakes are and the relationship between putin and the white house, the u.s. and nato. what the official media in russia says they want trade for victor boot, the notorious arms trader, terrorist, 25-year sentence, jailed, convicted in the u.s., and that's very high price, some would argue...

Years case believes that is time served enough. trevor reed was released and april, that took him almost three years. and there's another marine named paul whelan who has been wrongfully detained since 2018. so maybe there is a situation complicated though it is, where there is a two for one exchange. griner and paul whelan for this victor boot, this arm stealer. but, this trial like you said, it is a sham. it is less than 1% rate of acquittal for criminal defendants in russia. so she is going to be sentenced in a trial that is going to last another two months, over 0.7 grams of marijuana. so,...