here to react, managing editor, katie frays. thanks for being with us. morning. your response, as he said yesterday, this is the 17th civilian released from another country. this shows president trump, he s not asking for something in return for the release of these hostages. he s better known or the world stage and not asking for much. he s not actually. and we had the anonymous source saying there was no quid pro quo. venezuela didn t get anything from this for releasing josh holt. we have to give credit to senators orrin hatch and bob corker. this is the reaction from dictatorships and regimes of looking at america s new president saying this is not someone who is going to apologize. this is not someone that s going to cow to us. this is a president that is going to say give us our american citizens back. we ve had four just in the last month. of course with north korea as
of that prison. so you really have been very very brave. clearly holt obviously very relieved to be home. but it comes at a time, you know, the nicolas ma deur rah-rah jet stream is a dictatorship by all accounts. the u.s. has increased and targeted sanctions. it comes on the heels of chavez where things began to deteriorate. a tense administration. they re going to continue their pressure on that country regardless of his release. as you said, this is a big deal for the trump administration. the 17th civilian, a hostage that has been released under this administration. that was josh holt s home in there, orrin hatch, the senior senator of utah who is not running for reelection. this is a big moment for him as he s leaving office. as you can see, they haven t been with their son for two years. he made a joke in the oval office, wasn t quite the vacation i was hoping for.