from government sources unlocking some of the mystery behind the talks. one crucial move, a trip to moscow in february. coordinated with the white house. by former u.s. ambassador and his team. which privately works to free american detainees. they met with top russian officials one day before they launched the invasion of ukraine. they were ready to talk. i must say that the tension was very high. i must be honest. i wanted not to stay very long. i sensed the invasion was going to happen. he says he and his team came from the meeting with a sense of what the kremlin was willing to do. not just regarding reed. but also paul wailen another american being held. i sense they were ready to move ahead. with reed. on the whelan case, they wanted to see how the reed initiative went. at that time he didn t know basketball star britney griner
gas prices, you re trying to cutback. what type of average family is going to buy a sports car for six figures. it makes no sense to me. reporter: let s talk about the jobs promises. back in 2009 as we just showed the vice president touted that this new delaware plant would be opening, the company said they thought they could add 2,000 new jobs, in fact they ve laid off a hundred or more workers. how do they get that so wrong? first of all the government should not be in the job of being a venture capitalist, picking and choosing which companies to invest our taxpayer money in. that s what they ve been doing, that happened with solyndra and we saw it happened there, belly-up, bankrupt. they put a lot of money into chrysler. we lost billions of dollars on chrysler. now we re moving to fisker. it s greed initiative. we are going towards company that push obama s energy agenda, which is all about green energy. to put money into fisker into this auto company which never rolled an autom