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Speaker 1: His name is Victor Boot, and he's known as the

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Speaker 1: or nine seven to Patriot. Wheelan was detained in Russia

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Speaker 1: Oh but we got Britney Grinder back, right, Van Jones CNN.

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Speaker 1: We had to get it done. You can't allow black

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Speaker 1: respond to that. Who cares if an American's dying over

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Speaker 1: their rotting in prison who actually served as country? Who

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Speaker 1: cares if she was only there for nine months while

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Speaker 1: he's been there for four years. But there's also a bigger, bigger,

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Speaker 1: much bigger precedent here that we also need to just

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Speaker 1: put into perspective. You have to look at what this

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Speaker 1: actually means, Look at what this means for our foreign policy.

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Speaker 1: Now you have Biden. Not only does he saying leaving

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Speaker 1: a marine Paul Wheeling behind in Russia for Britney Grimer

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Speaker 1: and a swap that is a catastrophe, but you've now

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Speaker 1: just given the rest of the world and bad actors

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Speaker 1: of the world everything that they need to know about

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Speaker 1: you and how you will respond to swiping America. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump Junior tweeted this out earlier. He said, you guys

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Speaker 1: know how to make sure Putin keeps arresting Americans and

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Speaker 1: severely punishing them. Trade him an arms dealer aka the

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Speaker 1: merchant of death, someone guilty of conspiring to kill Americans

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Speaker 1: and aiding a terrorist organization for an American hating w

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Speaker 1: NBA activists. Great trade, he said. The same administration pushing

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Speaker 1: gun control here at home, making it harder for law

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Speaker 1: buying citizens to defend themselves and their families. Just release

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Speaker 1: an international arms dealer who conspired to kill Americans. Just

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Speaker 1: let that sink in, folks. It's about control, not guns.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's no way that these people around the

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Speaker 1: world are not going to look at this data, this

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Speaker 1: information and think to themselves, maybe we should keep doing this.

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Speaker 1: This is not going to stop Americans from being imprisoned

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Speaker 1: around the world. That's going to give dictators and tyrants

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Speaker 1: now leverage over the United States of America. What's the

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Speaker 1: downside now of taking an American and holding them hostage? Really,

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Speaker 1: what is the downside? Someone tell me what that downside

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Speaker 1: is now, because I want to know. So back to

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Speaker 1: the sixteen minutes twenty ten expose about how bad the

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Speaker 1: guy is. We traded today, the media not telling you

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Speaker 1: any of the story in twenty twenty two. That's why

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Speaker 1: I had to go back to twenty tend to remind

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Speaker 1: you of it. And always thought of Victor Boudez untouchable.

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Speaker 1: And I also frankly didn't think that anyone could get

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Speaker 1: to him. A challenge Zarani from the White House threw

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Speaker 1: out at a meeting with Mike Braun and his DA team.

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Speaker 1: The DA had just pulled off a string of extraordinarily

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Speaker 1: successful captures of high value terrorism targets around the world,

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Speaker 1: like in drug Lords. D E agents lived for the hunt,

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Speaker 1: and Mike Noban had even gotten a sniff on this guy.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, arman, When when I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: there next to one and my guys are sitting across

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Speaker 1: the table from him, the very best that our government's

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Speaker 1: got to offer. And he tosses this out on the

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Speaker 1: table and I look him in the eyes and they're

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Speaker 1: looking back at me like we'll do this, this, we

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Speaker 1: can do this. But it was about a five percent

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Speaker 1: chance in the back of my mind, and so um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I wished them well and I went back

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Speaker 1: to the White House Mike Bronze thinking ninety five, okay,

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Speaker 1: five and ninety five hundred. He was he was going down.

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Speaker 1: He was in our crossairs. The d EA supervisor put

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Speaker 1: in charge of the hunt for Victor Boot was Lewis mileone.

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Speaker 1: We felt that we could create a scenario that would

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Speaker 1: that would pull him in. The plan was to pull

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Speaker 1: Boot out of Moscow with a huge arms deal. He

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Speaker 1: couldn't refuse to do that. The d EA hired an

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Speaker 1: undercover agent to contact a trusted this a set of

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Speaker 1: boots named Andrew Smollion. The d EA operatives said he

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Speaker 1: had a big business deal for Boot. I'm thinking in

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Speaker 1: terms of fishing here, it's almost like you've thrown the

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Speaker 1: line in the water. Is a little bit of bait.

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Speaker 1: This is a business proposition and you're waiting to see

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Speaker 1: if anything comes back with a nibble. We're really waiting

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Speaker 1: to see what exactly what Smollan says. And you know

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Speaker 1: what he says about Boot and that as it comes back,

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Speaker 1: spoke to boris anything possible with farming equipment. That's correct.

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Speaker 1: Boris was code for boot farming equipment for weapons. That

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Speaker 1: exchange led to the island of curas Out, a few

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Speaker 1: hundred miles off the coast of Columbia. It was here

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Speaker 1: that Boots Bunny Andrew Smollion would first meet the two

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Speaker 1: d EA undercover operatives posing his officials in the Colombian

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Speaker 1: rebel terrorist group known as the FARC. I tell you

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Speaker 1: this story all. I let sixteen minutes tell you the

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Speaker 1: story from twenty ten, because I want you to understand

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Speaker 1: how important this guy was. This is how important it was.

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Speaker 1: White House Press secretary, by the way, very upset, stormed

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Speaker 1: out of her White House Press briefing after telling the

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Speaker 1: American people that, you know, Brittany Griner's release, she represents

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Speaker 1: the best of America. That's her words, not mine. And

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Speaker 1: then she gets angry and storms out of the room

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Speaker 1: after the media isn't taking everything that she's saying. You know,

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Speaker 1: just verbatim. Right, they're actually asking some questions about why

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Speaker 1: four years, not nine months. Listen, the US Africa. Can

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Speaker 1: answer the question or you get okay? Okay, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: maximum security Russian prison is wrongfully detained today again telling

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Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about this administration. They'll

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Speaker 1: get you back if you're a woke liberal African American

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Speaker 1: we'll let you rot in prison. Back on Mark Vogel

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Speaker 1: for a second. He's doing a fourteen year sentence for

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Speaker 1: less than an ounce of caught. Would you say he's

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Speaker 1: been wrongfully detained? There's a long kes one to classified

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Speaker 1: that way. Again, I can't. I can't speak to any

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Speaker 1: to the State Department. Everyone has a different classification. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to get ahead of what the State Department

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Speaker 1: is looking to move forward, or how they're they're diplomatic conversations,

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Speaker 1: or how they're looking to move forward with that particular person.

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Speaker 1: But we want, we want Americans to know that their

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Speaker 1: it really seriously? Because if Ben Ferguson goes over to

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Speaker 1: anybody else, and I don't feel you fit your woke mold.

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Speaker 1: Does my life really matter because you say that Britney

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Speaker 1: Grinder represents the best of America when she actually is

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Speaker 1: be played at w NBA Games. President Biden keeps his promises,

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Speaker 1: and today he fulfilled a deeply important promise to bring

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Speaker 1: Brittney Grinder home to a family that loves her, a

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Speaker 1: team that misses her, and a country that has marveled

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Speaker 1: at her strength and courage. Britney's safe return home is

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Speaker 1: the product of months and months of painstaking negotiations that

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Speaker 1: were the culmination of extraordinary efforts across the US government.

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Speaker 1: Officials from the White House, the State Department, and across

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Speaker 1: the administration worked tiresly and relentlessly to see this moment through.

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Speaker 1: As the Secretary of State set public in July, we

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Speaker 1: have been engaging in intense negotiations with Russia, pursuing many

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Speaker 1: different avenues over the course of last six months to

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Speaker 1: secure Brittany's release, and we know Brittany fought tirelessly too.

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Speaker 1: Throughout her ordeal. We saw Brittany, a two time Olympic

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Speaker 1: gold medalist for Team USA, demonstrate strength, courage, and dignity.

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Speaker 1: As the President said this morning, she represents the best

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Speaker 1: of America, the best of America. Okay, so all the

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Speaker 1: Jones is right. If you're an American citizen that is woke,

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Speaker 1: it's African American lesbian, that is an icon, a celebrity,

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Speaker 1: your life matters more than an American citizen who serves

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Speaker 1: their country, and they're willing to trade you because they

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Speaker 1: value that life so much more. And they're willing to

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Speaker 1: trade you for an arms dealer that's going to go

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Speaker 1: out there and is going to now be involved in

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Speaker 1: murdering countless people around the world, including countless people in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: That is why the Russians needed this deal now. They

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Speaker 1: He understands the black market better than anyone, and he

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