society. that s what the experts here can help her do. and monaco, as we heard from john kirby, was this deal always griner for bout? do we know anything else? this particular it ration, those were the terms. what we have learned from senior administration officials is after months of these talks and behind the scenes communications, sometimes the terms were being played out in public. that s something that the white house felt wasn t as helpful. we do remember a couple months ago when they came forward and put their proposal on the table, the u.s. wanted to see it they could get both brittney griner and paul whelan home in, change for that russian arms dealer. the russians for their part never really seriously responded. they didn t offer any kind of a counter offer, according to official n that moment. at least not publicly. there was a lot of discussion