the few people who knew marie worked for the cia. but even she didn t know exactly what marie did. we loved her as a sister. we respected her as a sister. and with her job she traveled a lot. we knew she worked for the government, for the cia and that was it. and you never asked what she did. never asked. but now elaine had a lot of questions. starting with what could possibly have induced marie to leave 8-year-old marcus and infant marquis home alone? that was preposterous. that would have never happened. so, elaine started to compare notes with friends and family. but the conversations weren t about the cia. they were telling me different incidents and different things that they had with andre. andre, marie s husband, things he was saying and doing didn t add up. first, there was jean s story about what she saw that saturday morning when andre showed up at her home
what are the details of this potential swap? reporter: well, listen, this was a potential swap that the biden administration put on the table back in june. and what they proposed was putting on the table viktor bout, his nickname is the merchant of death, he s a convicted arms dealer, he s se serving a 25-year prison sentence in the united states. the united states offered to send him back to russia in return for getting back brittney griner and paul whelan. now, the problem being that the russians came back through some secret channels and actually made a counteroffer, saying they wanted another russian added to the list, that russian is actually serving a life long prison sentence in germany for murder right now. so the biden administration said that wasn t a serious counteroffer. those conversations weren t exactly productive. what we re watching for now is if they can come back to a place where they re having perfect tiff conversations over this and there does appear to be some
ireland, a position he later resigned in the immediate wake of gymnajanuary 6th. what the committee is trying to understand is how serious those conversations about the 25th amendment were and what was the reasoning for some of these high ranking officials to even bring it up. this would have been an unprecedented step. it would have required agreement from vice president mike pence as well as a majority of the cabinet members. but mark short, pence s former chief of staff says those conversations weren t that serious inside the white house. take a listen. that wasn t happening in ten days in the administration. so regardless of your feelings about january 6th, the reality is this was a political ploy by nancy pelosi and democrats in congress to try to put pressure to exert this, and it was never going anywhere in our white house. reporter: now, the committee has already spoken to a number of other cabinet officials including jack rosen and chris miller, and they ve also heard test
questions. starting with what could possibly have induced marie to leave 8-year-old marcus and infant marquis home alone? that was preposterous. that would have never happened. so, elaine started to compare notes with friends and family. but the conversations weren t about the cia. they were telling me different incidents and different things that they had with andre. andre, marie s husband, things he was saying and doing didn t add up. first, there was jean s story about what she saw that saturday morning when andre showed up at her home looking for marie. he had a bruise on his lip. andre had a bruise on his lip? he did. he said, oh, i bruised it playing football with andre jr. really? it looks kind of fresh. then there was kelly clayton who spent the better part of sunday calling andre s house hoping marie would show up. and with each phone call, andre seemed to have a new developing
that was preposterous. that would have never happened. so, elaine started to compare notes with friends and family. but the conversations weren t about the cia. they were telling me different incidents and different things that they had with andre. andre, marie s husband, things he was saying and doing didn t add up. first, there was jean s story about what she saw that saturday morning when andre showed up at her home looking for marie. he had a bruise on his lip. andre had a bruise on his lip? he did. he said, oh, i bruised it playing football with andre jr. really? it looks kind of fresh. then there was kelly clayton who spent the better part of sunday calling andre s house hoping marie would show up. and with each phone call, andre seemed to have a new developing story. first, it was this