prostitution on a global scale. he has also been indicted in american federal court for bribery. he s right now in vienna fighting extradition. if vienna sounds familiar, that s where rudy giuliani said his indicted associates parnas and fruman were heading before their arrest. reuters, which has done excellent reporting on this subject, reports both men had been working for firtas for several months. we learned from the washington post after consulting lev parnas, firtas hired the new legal team over the summer. the husband and wife team that are on fox news all the time and at one point going to be trump s lawyers until they weren t. these guys, parnas and fruman have overlapping gifts. they work for giuliani and stump for the president. one of their gigs. they work for two right-wing conservative media star lawyers who defend the president on tv, also being paid by a mob-linked oligarch in court.
prisoners. ain t that complicated to me. they can debate it on the hill, debate it in washington. i don t see why this is so difficult. ken, where do you stand on this? i think phil is exactly right. i mean, this is not a very difficult issue. especially when we understand that the five guantanamo detainees that were transferred very likely to have to be released back to afghanistan relatively soon anyway because of the specifics around their case. they re taliban, not al qaeda. they were not prosecutable in either a military court or a american federal court, and because the war in afghanistan, the u.s. involvement in the war in afghanistan is winding down, we were probably going to have to let them go anyway. it wasn t much of a trade. let me make sure i m understanding you, ken. you re saying they could not have been tried with what they were charge the with, they were held in guantanamo bay for. they could not be charged in