deal to release grbrittney grin and paul whelan. jennifer, what can you tell us about this offer? that s right, we have learned that the biden administration is prepare to send victor boot, this convicted russian arms dealer back to russia as part of a deal to try to bringwhelan ho. boot is currently serving a 25 year prison sentence. secretary of state antony blinken publicly announced yesterday that the administration has offered a, quote, substantial proposal to moscow to try to get these two wrongfully detained americans back home. blinken did not go in to specifics about what was in the proposal, but he did say it has been on the table for weeks now and that it has the direct backing and sign jooff of joe biden. prisoner swaps do require the president to signoff. so this is a significant signal. prisoner swaps are generally quite controversial in the administration and other administrations have generally avoided using them because there is a fear that other government
Story leaked and the president confirmed it on the tarmac and now it is a big public issue and if pa elosi backs down, she los face. so i think the quiet negotiations are over and my guess is that nancy pelosi will go to taiwan and the u.s. government will have to support her with a huge massive military operation. and what president biden is going to try to do is convince president xi that it is not his idea, that he doesn t support it, and there is a good chance that president xi won t believe him because in their system the president says something and everybody does it. so that isis a massive diplomat signaling but the soup that they are this is largely of their own recipe. let s talk about brittney griner. and paul whelan has been held since 2018. we know the white house has made an offer for prisoner exchange for those two for this notorious arms dealer. do you think that the criminal lynn kremlin will accept this? it is pretty unusual.