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in the biden administration, we brought home nine americans from venezuela. we've already brought americans home from russia so we will find a way to do this and progress and you have a good team again, the state department's working hand in glove with the national security counsel. we're partnering with pretty much a broad group of people to include members on capitol hill, ngos, and of course, the family, the gershkovich family who i will be visiting in the coming days >> so mr. carstens, yesterday, the united states government declared the reporter wrongedly wrongedly detained what tools did that give you prior to him being labeled wrongfully detained? >> most importantly, it now obligates us by law to pursue his release. prior to that wrongful detention determination, we will check on citizens, of course, their safety and security is our highest priority, but once that determination is made, we are now legally obligated to seek
countries handle kidnappings by nation states. let's just look at what's happened in america over the past few months. we've had a wnba player traded for a merchant of death. a lot of critics of that trade said that it would encourage future kidnappings now we have a "wall street journal" reporter and word that other war criminals or merchants of deaths may be traded here as well in china, china has been holding mark sweden for over decade now, wron wrongfully holding him but i suspect that if he ever gets out, there will be a trade there for somebody who has broken international law what does britain do what do other countries do in this case? and compare that with the united states if we keep doing down this path. of course, we have conflicting values one is, don't negotiate with
like this say to themselves, this is a direct assault on our freedoms it and means that the republican party, so many of whom, why they may not agree with this decision, it has been deafening silence. they are not in tune with where our voters are, 80% of american people, and certainly not the young people, who say, why do i want to vote for anyone who will give me less rights than my mom or grandma had this is a generation that believes in rights they respect each other. they look at people much differently than some of the older members of the republican party might look at the world. >> all right democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota, as always, thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> it was great to be on thanks >> all right see you soon so katty kay, i want to ask you, in your capacity as an international reporter to talk about how countries, other