his life should be valued just as high as a celebrity basketball player and so should whelan the marine wrongfully detained in russia. brian: do you know what pieces we have to trade for him if we are going to go down that road again. to my knowledge, we don t have two merchants of death in u.s. custody. that s what is really shame about the viktor bout swap we lost all leverage when we gave up bout for griner. this should have been a deal we got whelan fogle and griner. one for one trade given we traded the merchant of death somebody who had blood of americans on their hand. led to chaos and violence all over the globe. we gave him up one o. one trade. that is patently offensive. we should have got all three of our wrongfully detained americans back from the russian physicals we were going to give up viktor bout the merchant of