WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.759 on the iHeartRadio app. It is August second. Shannon's out today. 4 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:12.800 Back on Monday. A lot to get through today, man. 5 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:16.399 I was reading through a couple of different descriptions of 6 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:21.440 the incredible deal to get Evan Gershkevich and three other 7 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:27.160 Americans or American interests out of Russia and the twenty 8 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:31.039 other people that were involved in this massive, massive prisoner swap. 9 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:32.719 So we'll go through some of the details about that. 10 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.719 Gavin Newsom, governor of the state of California, is now 11 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.719 asking that Harvey Weinstein be brought back here to California. 12 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.640 Just let them die in New York. That kind of 13 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.119 seems like what's going to happen. Wall Street's not having 14 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.479 a great day. The dal Jones industrial average was down 15 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.719 more than nine hundred points earlier. Next hour, we'll give 16 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:54.679 it a little bit of time to breathe and then 17 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.039 talk about what's going on on Wall Street, and then 18 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:01.600 a couple of fun things. Number One, how dogs help 19 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:06.920 their owners become healthier. As a renewed dog owner, I 20 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:09.519 suppose I've had a puppy for about a month. Now, 21 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:13.400 I feel healthier, or I'm supposed to. Also, what's going 22 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.920 on with all of the stuff that you put under 23 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.560 the airline seats. We'll be doing Terror in the Skies 24 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:21.120 a little bit later since it's Friday. Also, we do 25 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.599 a lot of fun stuff here on KFI, including the 26 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:26.640 nine news Nuggets you need to know at the end 27 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.719 of our show. Also what you Learned segment, so you 28 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:32.640 can always let us know what you learned this week 29 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.319 on The Gary and Shannon Show. All you got to 30 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.640 do is leave us a quick message on the iHeartRadio 31 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.040 app Talkback. You just hit that little microphone, say your piece, 32 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.519 tell us what you learned this week on the Gary 33 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.560 and Shannon Show, and we'll get to that late in 34 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:47.120 the show today. 35 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.680 That's when it became real. We flew over Ireland, then 36 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.840 Canada and into America, and then I knew I was home, 37 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:54.959 looking forward to seeing my family down here and just 38 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.560 recuperating from five year, seven months and five days of 39 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:00.959 just absolute nonsense by the Russian government. 40 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:01.719 Well that is a. 41 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:04.560 Paul Wheeland, former marine who was arrested a few years 42 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.159 ago on a actually was a pleasure trip. He was 43 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:12.159 actually in Russia to help a friend to go to 44 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.560 a friend's wedding, but to also help that friend's family 45 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:17.439 kind of negotiate their way through Russia, a place that 46 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:20.439 he had been many times. Of course, Evan Gershkovich, the 47 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:25.560 Wall Street Journal reporter, was the biggest name supposedly of 48 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.120 the Americans that were released in this deal that came 49 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:32.879 together yesterday. But as you look at what happened, this 50 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:38.919 was an amazing amount of international foreign relations, diplomacy, balancing Act, 51 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.840 magic Act in some cases, and all of it was 52 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.680 all of it was very very well put together. You 53 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.039 don't have to like the whatever, you don't have to. 54 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:51.120 There's not a political statement one way or the other. 55 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:55.039 This was an incredibly well put together plan that even 56 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:59.560 up to the very end, until the plane carrying Americans 57 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.719 much down in Anchor A, Turkey yesterday, there was still 58 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.639 a chance that this thing was going to go sideways. 59 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:11.120 And yes, there is some criticism of the kinds of 60 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:17.000 people that we release in order to get back journalists, 61 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.479 basketball players, marines on vacation, that kind of thing. We 62 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:25.639 give back bad guys, We give back actual spies, weapons, 63 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:29.960 weapons dealers, and murderers. So all of that goes into 64 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.360 this story about how this prisoner swap, the largest, the 65 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:39.759 most impactful prisoner swap we've seen since the Cold War, 66 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.120 and how all of it came together kind of by 67 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.000 the seat of everybody's pants. 68 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:49.919 Evan Gershkevich was a reporter. 69 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.840 He was talking about how he, in fact, he was 70 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.120 working on a story specifically about how Vladimir Putin had 71 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:05.000 taken on a policy of stealing, slash, kidnapping foreigners, most 72 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.319 of them Americans or Western you know, citizens of Western countries, 73 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.439 capturing them and then using them as pawns, you know, 74 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.600 drumming up some fake espionag charges and then using them 75 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:21.639 as pawns to try to deal with these other countries 76 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.160 and get his favorite bad guys out of those other 77 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.680 countries' prisons. He goes to a restaurant, does Evan Gershkevich 78 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:33.920 actually to meet one of his contacts, and is picked up. 79 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.240 And again it's because he was putting pressure on and 80 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:42.079 asking questions about Vladimir Putin and his policy of kidnapping foreigners. 81 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.439 And the Wall Street Journal, the reporters that work with, 82 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.279 the editors that work with Evan Gershkovich realized that specific 83 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:56.560 day that they couldn't find him, and he wasn't responding 84 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.639 to his phone. It was he wasn't responding to any messages, 85 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.480 and his phone stopped pinging, his location was off, and 86 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.720 they knew something was wrong. So they contacted his mother, 87 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.240 Evan Gershkovitch's mother, Ella, and that was just a year 88 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:17.680 or so ago, and they told him sorry. They told 89 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.759 mom Ella that there was a problem and that Evan 90 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:26.000 Gershkovich had become basically the character in the owned the 91 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:29.199 story that he was writing about Vladimir Putin's kidnapping of foreigners. 92 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:36.319 While this happened, the Americans had been at least in 93 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:41.639 conversations about getting Paul Wheelan back from Russia in exchange 94 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:45.680 for somebody. And one of the things that they were 95 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:51.519 trying to do was wrap up the Alexi Navalney imprisonment 96 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:54.000 in all of this and work a deal where they 97 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.279 could get Paul Wheelan, they could get Alexi Navalny, and 98 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:01.199 the Germans would give up the bad that we've all 99 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:05.240 heard about, this assassin that killed somebody in Berlin, and 100 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.439 the Germans were dead set against this. Well, a wrench 101 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:13.279 gets thrown into that in February, when Alexi Navolny died 102 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:17.240 in prison. So if you go back a few years 103 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.800 before that, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, had been 104 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.879 calling the German National Security Advisor his equivalent, basically to 105 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.560 see if in fact they could work out a deal. 106 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.279 And the White House was working to see if Russia 107 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.000 would accept a deal that would bundle a bunch of 108 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.639 the Russians that we have here in America. But they're 109 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.480 all non violent charges, non espionage and things like that. 110 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.240 The problem is Russia doesn't care about them. They don't 111 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.079 care about their citizens the way we do. They don't 112 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:50.120 care about somebody who gets caught on some financial crimes 113 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.759 thing here in the United States and we put him 114 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.959 in jail through the American legal system. They just don't 115 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.560 give a writ. So they wanted the big guy. They 116 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.120 wanted the guy out of Germany. In November, this is 117 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:07.600 November of last year, Washington orders offers the Kremlin four 118 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:11.839 undercover operatives for military and foreign intelligence agencies that were 119 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.639 held in Europe. They're called illegals, and they create you know, 120 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.800 this false identity. These are the ones that the movies 121 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:22.120 are made out of. There's a third, a Russian military 122 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:25.879 intelligence officer using the identity of a Brazilian academic, and 123 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:29.600 Poland had arrested a fourth born in Moscow Spanish passport 124 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.759 on espionage charges near the Ukrainian border. So all of 125 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.040 these things, all of these characters are playing a part 126 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.639 in this. But there is a there's a very important 127 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:45.839 press conference if Vladimir Putin gives and there's a comment 128 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.319 that he made in that press conference right before the 129 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.879 end of the year, which was clearly a message to 130 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.439 the United States and to Western countries about exactly what 131 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.360 deal he would be willing to make. We've been telling 132 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:03.560 you the story about what happened to get specifically to 133 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.040 get the prisoners back. There's a massive prisoner swamp that 134 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.959 involved twenty four different people, several different countries, and we'll 135 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:12.879 get back to that here in just a second. For 136 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:15.879 the third time in the last four seasons, Mike Trout 137 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.680 he's not going to play a full season of baseball. 138 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:20.480 He's going to miss the rest of this season. They 139 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.079 said there was a second meniscus tair of his left knee. 140 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.680 His rehab assignment in Triple A lasted two innings. He 141 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.879 came back to Southern California for evaluation after he had 142 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.159 some discomfort in his knee. The MRI came back clean, 143 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.000 trout cid. He expected a restart of his rehab process, 144 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.600 and then his leg hurt really really bad, so they 145 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:43.559 said there's another one that's going to have to another 146 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.879 meniscus tear that's going to have to be surgically repaired. 147 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.159 Day seven of the Olympic Games, we're going to see 148 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:51.840 twenty five sets of metals handed out today, knockout stage. 149 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:56.159 The men's soccer tournament is underway, France taking on Argentina 150 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.639 and a massive quarterfinal US trailing Morocco. We saw of swimming. 151 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.320 We'll do a lot of track and field today. There's 152 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:06.200 some three on three basketball and swimming, all of that stuff. 153 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:11.879 So this prisoner swamp, in fact, I would Jacob, would 154 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.159 you say, this is kind of a breakdown of everything 155 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.559 that we're doing, this prisoner swamp, everything that we've known 156 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:18.120 absolutely Okay, then hit the button. 157 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.480 So why doesn't somebody tell me what they think. 158 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.480 Is going on? Those can be hard explain this to 159 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.200 me like I'm a two year old. Okay, you need 160 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:34.960 a breakdown with Gary and Shannon. All right, So you 161 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:36.759 remember the name Alexi Navalney. 162 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.159 He was this British dissident, sorry, a Russian dissident who 163 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:44.000 had unveiled a lot of stuff about Vladimir Putin, how 164 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:49.120 he was an absolute maniacal tyrant who was hoarding money. 165 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.440 One of the key pieces of what made Alexi Navoalney 166 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.600 as famous and as hated by Putin as he was 167 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.960 is he put together a video that showed Vladimir Putin 168 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.759 one point two billion dollar Black Sea mansion, and Putin 169 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.159 hated this guy, so he put him in prison. There 170 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.720 were discussions to get alexiing Navalney out of prison, or 171 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.720 at least pressure internationally to do so, and one of 172 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:18.559 the things that they were talking about was trading this 173 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:23.960 Vadim Kasakov, who is literally a Russian hit man who 174 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.279 had killed a guy in Berlin in a park in 175 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.600 broad daylight. The Germans captured him, the Germans put him 176 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.240 in prison for the rest of his life, and there 177 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.600 were discussions about if the Germans were able to give 178 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.799 up this hitman, maybe Alexi Navalney gets out of prison. 179 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.799 While that is all going on, in the background, Evan 180 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.000 Gershkevich last March gets picked up by the Russian FSB 181 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.559 stuck in jail. They accused him of being of being 182 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.639 a spy. And it's all because he was putting similar 183 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:57.519 pressure on Vladimir Putin. In fact, he was talking about 184 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:02.200 and working on stories about Vladimir Putin and his let's 185 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:06.080 see his propensity to kidnap foreigners and hold them hostage. 186 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:08.840 Basically. Now, again, all. 187 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.200 Of this is a very weird thing because the United 188 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.399 States has been working with Germany trying to pressure or 189 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:17.919 entice Germany to give up this Russian hitman so that 190 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.759 they can get some of their prisoners back. Now, in 191 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:27.399 January of this year, Evan Gershkovitch's mom flew to the 192 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:31.799 World Economic Forum in Davos to meet with Oloff with 193 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.879 a guy with Oloff Schultz's chief of staff, Olof Schultz 194 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:40.519 being the German Chancellor, to try to convince him and say, listen, 195 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.759 you have the key to getting my son out of jail. 196 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:50.360 The key is this Russian hitman. In February, just this year, 197 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.159 Tucker Carlson sits down with Vladimir Putin and brings up 198 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.320 the issue of Evan Gershkovitch. And near the end of 199 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:02.639 this conversation that he had with Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson says, 200 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.679 Evan Gershkevich is not a spy, clearly, he's just a 201 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.679 kid and he's just being held hostage. Maybe maybe it's 202 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:14.080 a bad look for you to hold this reporter in 203 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.320 an attempt to get a hit man, convicted murderer out 204 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:21.759 of jail in Germany and putin leans in. If you 205 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.519 saw this interview and he said what he wants in 206 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.240 return is a person serving a sentence in an allied 207 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:32.759 country of the US, a very very clear message because 208 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:36.600 remember in December he had done the same thing. He 209 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:40.919 said that he wanted one specific person. Everybody knew who 210 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:46.399 he was talking about. Well, again, February is when all 211 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.960 of these different countries come together at the Munich Security Conference. 212 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:55.919 This is an un you can bet not on the agenda, 213 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.320 but definitely something that everybody was talking about was this 214 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.600 form of what they thought was going to be a 215 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:06.799 deal to get Alexi Navolney Evan Gershkevich out of Russia 216 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.600 in exchange for Vadim Maxic kassik Kov or whatever's name 217 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:15.919 is this Russian hit man. But that day Alexi Navolney 218 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:23.879 dies in a prison in Siberia. He dies mysterious circumstances, 219 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.279 and at first there was some concern that the whole 220 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:32.559 thing was going to blow up. In May, the German 221 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:38.679 Federal Intelligence Service opened its own investigation, introducing new stipulations. Okay, listen, 222 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:45.639 if we are going to release Vadim Kasakov, then Germany 223 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:53.720 gets as many prisoners back as possible as possible. Smash 224 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:58.879 cut to July. President Biden sends a letter to Oloff 225 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:06.679 Schulz a request that this be finally done, where Germany 226 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.240 releases this guy that they have convicted of murder and 227 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:16.039 in fact from his self quarantine in his home. Remember, 228 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:19.240 the president tested positive for COVID, had to leave Vegas 229 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:22.720 go back. This was the day that he announced he 230 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.360 was dropping out of the presidential race. He was on 231 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:30.480 the phone with Slovenia saying, if you can put together 232 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.799 your end of the deal and release some of your 233 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.639 people to Russia, this whole thing may come together. 234 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:43.480 Eventually. They were able to pull. 235 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:48.440 All of the strings, dozens and dozens of lear jets 236 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.200 back and forth across Europe, putting together this whole plan, 237 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.279 making sure that all of the prisoners were going to 238 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.639 their respective places. And even yesterday when I was listening 239 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.279 to some of this, originally were listening to different reports 240 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.799 from different news agencies. They were very careful to say, 241 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:10.279 until the planes touched down in anchor A, Turkey, we 242 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.759 don't know if this is real or not. Obviously, the 243 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.039 Americans are back on American soil, so that's that is 244 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.639 a done deal. But the amazing amount of work that 245 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.879 it took from all of these different countries. News out 246 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.919 of DC is that Vice President Harris's campaign has announced 247 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:29.799 raising three hundred and ten million dollars last month, considering 248 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.759 it wasn't even a full. 249 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.840 Month for them. 250 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:37.279 The Democratic National Committee the affiliated entities far outpaced former 251 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.840 President Trump's campaign, but Trump's campaign still brought in one 252 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.039 hundred and thirty nine million for the month of July, 253 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.759 which has nothing to sneeze at. So the vice president 254 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.480 Vice President's campaign says it goes into August with three 255 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:53.240 hundred and seventy seven million on hand. That's above the 256 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:58.559 three twenty seven that is for Trump's team. Several suspects 257 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.480 have been arrested in violent protests that came after the 258 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:05.240 fatal stabbing of three kids in Northwest England. Prime Minister 259 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.240 there Caro Starmer has condemned the unrest, says it's far 260 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:09.039 right hatred. 261 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.240 He's found to end in Mayhem, says. 262 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:13.639 The police across the UK will be given more resources 263 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.919 to stop a breakdown in law and order on our street. 264 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.519 Speaking of more than thirty two hundred people arrested on 265 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:26.200 college campuses over the spring during those pro Palestinian tent encampments, 266 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.240 many of the students have already seen those charges dismissed, 267 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:30.960 but the cases have yet to be resolved for a 268 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.320 bunch of other people at campuses, they said they saw 269 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:34.559 the highest number of arrests. 270 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:35.759 This is a new. 271 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:41.759 Analysis from the Associated Press. We're talking about this very 272 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:47.320 very detailed prisoner swap that led to this probably the 273 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:53.559 biggest since the Cold War deal to return Russian prisoners 274 00:16:54.159 --> 00:17:00.720 to Russia and hostages arguably back to the countries that 275 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.759 from who whence they came? Four Americans came back last night. 276 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:08.599 There were eight Russians that made their way back into Russia, 277 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:13.759 greeted by Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and the biggest one 278 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.920 in terms of name recognition, the biggest Russian was Vadim Kazakhov. 279 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.759 This guy is a Russian hit man, former intelligence officer 280 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.640 who was convicted of murdering a guy in a park 281 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:32.559 in Berlin. This he was found guilty of murder back 282 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.519 in twenty twenty one in Germany. They said that he 283 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.680 had committed an act of state terrorism on behalf of Russia, 284 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.599 carrying out this very public execution to get rid of 285 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:53.359 one of the Kremlin's opponents. And the murder itself was 286 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:58.599 of a guy named Zeleem Khan kang Goshvili. They said 287 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.200 that he was a rebel leader, and Russia said he 288 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:05.920 was an Islamist extremist who was targeting Russian security forces. Now, 289 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.960 the reason they know it was Vadim Krazakov, among others, 290 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:13.319 is his tattoo on his left shoulder. You could see 291 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:18.319 a tattoo of a crowned panther skull encircled by wings. 292 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:23.119 That is a very specific tattoo that links him, I 293 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:27.160 use that word importantly links him to the special force 294 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:32.880 of Russia's Interior Ministry called the Lynx. It's been deployed 295 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.440 to fight terrorism in other places around the world and 296 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:40.039 the Caucuses. And his right forearm also has a tattoo 297 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:41.839 of a snake poised to strike. 298 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:44.079 So here's the thing. 299 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.319 This Vadim Krazakov has been doing all kinds of work 300 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:54.440 for Vladimir Putin, and they were both former officers in 301 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.960 the biggest spy agency there in Russia, the FSB. 302 00:18:57.559 --> 00:18:58.880 That's probably where they met. 303 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.319 Asakov may have even been a member of the personal 304 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:08.480 security detail for Vladimir Putin. Family members say that he 305 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:12.160 talked about having shot target practice with Vladimir Putin at 306 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:18.160 an FSB shooting range. German prosecutors said that Krasokov was 307 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:22.079 probably working with the FSB department that specializes in wet 308 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.440 operations abroad when he pulled this murder back in twenty nineteen. 309 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.559 He's a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. 310 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.599 He served in an Interior Ministry special forces unit and 311 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:35.920 an elite FSB anti terrorism squad. German prosecutor said that 312 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.759 he was involved in killings inside Russia. There was a 313 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:42.279 Russian businessman back in twenty thirteen who was killed. Another 314 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:44.599 one would have been in the year two thousand, a 315 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:49.119 former advisor to Putin who got into an argument with Vladimir. 316 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.079 He was killed by a guy who approached on a 317 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.480 bike and killed him with a single shot to the head. 318 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:58.160 Oh remember that shooting in twenty thirteen. 319 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:02.359 Also a guy who rode up on a bicycle shot 320 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:05.680 the guy point blank. Oh and then in twenty nineteen, 321 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:08.799 the guy in Germany was killed by a guy on 322 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:14.519 a bike riding up shot point blank. Throughout the entire investigation, 323 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.559 Vadim Krazykov claimed that he was there as a tourist. 324 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:19.759 He was there because he was having an affair with 325 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.440 a married woman, and he said his name was Vadim Sokolov. 326 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:30.559 In fact, until yesterday the Russian government also said that 327 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.799 he was just some tourist. It wasn't until yesterday that 328 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.000 they admitted that he was an FSB agent, that he 329 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:42.920 was a military card carrying member of the FSB, and 330 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:47.400 that he was in fact Putin's buddy. They got who 331 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:53.000 they wanted, and we got an important journalist back, among others. 332 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:57.759 The politics of this thing now are playing out. Was 333 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.759 this a last minute thing before President and rides off 334 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:04.559 into the sunset? Was there something to fear of whether 335 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:06.640 or not President Trump is going to be back in office. 336 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.319 The Kremlin, like I said, had acknowledged for the first 337 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:12.240 time that some of the Russians that were held in 338 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:16.559 the West were in fact spies. Of course, families of 339 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:21.400 free dissidents meanwhile express their joy at the surprise release. 340 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:25.359 In fact, I talked about Evan Gershkevich's mother, Ella. She 341 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:30.359 was called to the White House and was told nothing, 342 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:33.200 just that she was going to be meeting with the president. 343 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:37.160 And she told the Wall Street Journal, well, usually they 344 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:39.759 don't ask you to meet the president if it's bad news. 345 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.160 So President Vladimir Putin hugged each of the eight Russian 346 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.759 retorneys at at Moscow Airport praised them with state awards. 347 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:50.880 Among them was that Vadim Krazykov that I've been mentioning, 348 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:54.359 this Russian assassin who was serving a life sentence in 349 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:57.880 Germany for the twenty nineteen killing of a former Chechen 350 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:02.279 fighter in a park in Berlin. Now there was some 351 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.200 criticism about that kind of a deal, the kinds of 352 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:09.440 people that we give back to Russia in order to 353 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:14.680 get something like a journalist out of captivity. Jake Sullivan 354 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:15.960 is the National Security Advisor. 355 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:19.079 These are hard decisions, As the President has said, you 356 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:21.160 have to think hard about who you release in a 357 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:24.880 prisoner exchange. That's been true for decades. But at the 358 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.400 end of the day, the President looked at this deal 359 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:30.519 and he said, what we are getting the value of 360 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.839 human life, the value of putting families back together. The 361 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:36.440 value of standing up for freedom of the press far 362 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:39.680 exceeds what we are giving up by sending a few 363 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:41.119 more criminals back to Russia. 364 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:44.039 Now here's another undercurrent in all of this. 365 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.519 Obviously I mentioned when I was talking about the breakdown 366 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.039 of when each of these conversations was taking place. The 367 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:55.559 day that President Biden dropped out of the presidential race, 368 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:58.599 he had been on the phone with the leader of 369 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:01.880 Slovenia to try to get them to buy into this deal, 370 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:05.480 because they became an important piece in this gigantic trade deal. 371 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.200 And there are questions about whether this is now a 372 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:15.920 political thing. Was there something to President Biden not having 373 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.880 to run for office that helped push this thing over 374 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.319 the edge? Is there something in there where he's got 375 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:24.920 nothing to lose, he's not up for reelection. Can he 376 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:27.799 make a deal now that he doesn't necessarily have to 377 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:28.359 answer for it. 378 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:30.039 I still get it done, even though I was to 379 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.119 seeing in a second to not I'm stuck with me 380 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.400 as president for a while. There's no way out. Okay, 381 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:38.680 they got me for at least another one hundred or 382 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:40.279 ninety days or so. 383 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:41.799 So that did not even do. 384 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:44.200 With that It had to do with the opportunity of 385 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.960 trying to convince it that's the one last country to say, Okay, 386 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:49.079 they'll step up now. 387 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:54.240 There was also part of that undercurrent is do foreign 388 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:58.640 allies of ours have some concern about whether or not 389 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:02.400 Donald Trump is going to be elected president and if 390 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:06.000 that would have impacted anything going forward, would Russia have 391 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.559 been more reluctant to give up the prisoners that they have, 392 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:11.880 or would our allies be more reluctant to get involved 393 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.440 in a deal like that. Ohio Representative Warren Davidson, Republican 394 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.720 on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House, said maybe 395 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:19.839 there is something to that. 396 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:23.880 The expectation around the world that Donald Trump may well 397 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:27.039 be the next president is resulting in shuffling in foreign policy. 398 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:32.400 If you look at NATO countries, they're trying to insulate 399 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:36.440 their policies in Ukraine from the Trump administration. So world 400 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:40.160 leaders are reacting to the possibility, hopefully the probability that 401 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:42.799