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Bout home? that s a good and important question. i think by understanding the extent of the efforts the kremlin made to get bout out, we begin to get an understanding of just how valuable he is to president putin. remember, russia spent decades trying to negotiate the release for bout. if you look at this on paper, the track records of griner is very different, of course, than the track record of bout, a man who was called the merchant of death. he was convicted in a u.s. court of plotting to kill americans. in fact, so dangerous did the united states consider bout that they launched a very complicated sting operation in 2008 that led to his extradition to the united states. already, of course, russia celebrating the victory of his return home. he s been featured on russian state television speaking about his release. take a listen. translator: in the middle of ....
There is pressure to get griner and bout out, and bout has been in jail for a while, and he can sit there, and while longer, and get extra concessions. but bout said there is progress being made, and this is information coming from the russian side. what you think? well, we don t know. and it is hard to evaluate, because he is not privy to everything that is going on, and it is looking like there is a lot of direction, but we have a ways to go if they did in fact insist on throwing in mr. christakov in on the deal. and he is in a german prison, and they want him back, too, well. i mean. you know. well. the people they want back, a convicted murderer and arms dealer and we have a wnba star. thank you very much. ....