dependents from the embassy and handful of foreigners. they flew for some 800 miles at about, you know, just tree top level. very low flight. very, very slow in the hercules aircraft. they need to keep it low to avoid any ground fire, make sure they surprise any dangerous elements on the ground. they did not take any fire going in or coming out. special forces were on the ground for less than an hour. and the important thing is that these large number of americans remain in the country. many of them duel nationals. but they are being advised to try to work with the other international organizations and principally nation states that are trying to get their people out. there are now a lot of focus on trying to put road convoys together from khartoum, the 500 miles, 800 kilometers, a very large convoy organized you about the unite the nations. they are running some convoys of
expose relationship and that could somehow expose the un as being a western ptant, expose the un as being a western plant, but expose the un as being a western plant, but what we see now isjust how hopelessly corrupt the united nations how hopelessly corrupt the united nations has been if you have russia as one nations has been if you have russia as one of nations has been if you have russia as one of the five permanent members. then this means all the un is going members. then this means all the un is going to members. then this means all the un is going to be as a place people can make is going to be as a place people can make speeches, not a force where people make speeches, not a force where people can make speeches, not a force where people can agree what to do because i can people can agree what to do because i can be people can agree what to do because i can be no people can agree what to do because i can be no consensus if one of the five permanent membe
me they are shaking trees. they are looking for more people. they re looking for more organizations, potentially it is possible they may have to look for other nation-states, other countries people in other countries. but they are definitely looking for other people, and clearly, it may not end with this 21-year-old jack to know max b26. neil: do we know how we got access to this? it seem like a road low ranking figure, and i.t. worker, not trying to discourage his position but he seemed to get hands his hands on stuff you would assume much more higher up officials would have. people were wondering how this 21-year-old was able to get a hold of this classified information. i mean, really serious information and our colleague gillian turner is reporting that he had top-secret clearance to top-secret documents, and he would have likely had to sign a nondisclosure agreement, that is standard practice to do something like that.
countries handle kidnappings by nation states. let s just look at what s happened in america over the past few months. we ve had a wnba player traded for a merchant of death. a lot of critics of that trade said that it would encourage future kidnappings now we have a wall street journal reporter and word that other war criminals or merchants of deaths may be traded here as well in china, china has been holding mark sweden for over decade now, wron wrongfully holding him but i suspect that if he ever gets out, there will be a trade there for somebody who has broken international law what does britain do what do other countries do in this case? and compare that with the united states if we keep doing down this path. of course, we have conflicting values one is, don t negotiate with
handled this so far? well, the administration has put themselves in a really difficult position, bill. these are difficult circumstances when nation states grab american citizens under questionable circumstances. it happens in every administration. certainly not the biden administration is not dealing with something we didn t in the trump administration. having said that, bill, the biden administration put themselves in a difficult situation about how they handled the bright knee griner exchange in september. many said they were making a bad mistake by exchanging a merchant of death victor boot, responsible for hundreds of u.s. forces either losing their lives or being injured in exchange for an american citizen with essentially a misdemeanor amount of cannabis.