they wanted. certainly there are plenty of issues they wish could have been different. but white house officials make clear to some degree this is just the reality in divided government and part of their pitch beyond not defaulting is what could have been in that simply is not because they had these negotiations. how critical that is given what house republicans started with. whether or not that is actually enough to get it across the finish line, in large part that is up to house republicans where democrats make clear they are not involved in the whipping process trying to get votes on their side. for thousand white house officials are keenly focused on house and senate democrats trying to make the pitch this is the deal the president wanted and what the president got and while it certainly isn t the deal everybody dreamed of going into this moment, there is a reality and one that portends no default, which is probably more important than anything else. phil mattingly, cnn, the white
to in a lot of ways. at least for all but the most conservative members of the republican caucus. i would say that this is a good deal in the sense that it s not going please everybody. you know, we ve really come out in the middle. both sides have to give some things up. it s quite interesting that the republicans pushed strongly for work requirements as part of welfare. understandable, a reasonable issue. the republicans have thought fought for it for a long time. but what s fascinating is when you actually tally up some of the estimates, it may end up giving out more entitlement benefits because of the some compromises made. you ve got new work requirements for older people. you don t have them for veterans and other groups. so all of these things are estimates. but to me, the fact that there is bipartisanship again in this deal. i mean bipartisanship. when was the last time we used that word in a sentence about
the deals happened just by the president s son who by the way had an addiction problem. it didn t matter because joe biden wasn t in office during this time. that s not true. these deals were initiated when joe biden was vice president, and multiple members of the family were involved in the scheme. sean: isn t the deal with china or the bank of china. you have corroborated that is true. the 1 billion, the $1.5 billion deal with the bank of china. wasn t that ten days after then vice president biden flew on airforce two with his son hunt are on the plane. wasn t that ten days later? we have been told that by multiple people in the biden orbit during that time. we requested the bank reports to have one hundred percent evidence. i can tell you that we re pretty confident that many of these deals that were done during the
evidence on it is legitimate, is that, well, these deals happen just by the president s son , who by the way, had an addiction problem. and it didn t matter because joe biden wasn t in office during this time. that s not true. these deals were initiated while joe biden was vice president and multiple members of the family were involved in this in the scheme, isn t the deal with china or the bank of china, if you corroborated that, that s true. the one billion that became a one point five billion dollar deal with the bank of china, wasn t that 10 days after vice then vice president biden flew on air force two with his son hunter on the plane? when that deal was made, it was in the 10 days later we ve been told that by multiple people that were in the biden orbit during that time. as you know, john , we requested the bank records and the bank violations just so we can have 100% evidence. but i can i can tell you that we re pretty confident that
moment. kylie atwood is at state department. how did this play out? reporter: months in the marking. we reported over the summer that the biden administration had put a deal on the table with russia to try and get out both brittney griner and paul whelan. that isn t the deal that came to fruition today. of course, the white house and cherelle griner, who is brittney griner wife, welcoming the news that brittney griner is coming home after serving in russian prison for about ten months with cherelle saying they re family is whole again today and not all families are whole today because paul whelan who has been detained in russia for about four years now, was not part of this swap. and president biden essentially said from the white house today that it wasn t a choice. that was the only deal that the united states could pull off. and we spoke with a senior administration official this afternoon and excuse me, this