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right. how do you have time to do anything else? all i do is work. all i do is work. sounds like it. all right. fascinating times. turning now to the deal the white house announced with tehran to move five americans from prison on house arrest in exchange, sources say, the white house has agreed to free up $6 billion in iranian assets for humanitarian purposes. the money had been held up. let s bring in coordinator for strategic communications tat white house, rear admiral john kirby. tell us about this deal. we re still negotiating the deal, joe, so we re careful about how much we put out in a public space. we re glad these five americans are now out of evan prison. that is a good thing. it is a good first step. there s a lot more steps to come here. now, i ve seen the speculation and the criticism about this $6 billion. i think you characterize it exactly right. i think it is important to remember, again, without getting too far ahead of where we are in the negotiating proces
back and forth, about 30 of my relatives from my father s side. reporter: 30? back and forth, yes. some of them were detained in the camps for a few years and then released, and some of them are still serving. my father is serving 16 years in prison for nothing. my uncle is serving life sentence for nothing. my uncle in law, who was taken from hospital bed, is serving 15 years in prison for nothing. reporter: the chinese embassy in washington tells nbc news, china is ruled by law. it cannot be accused of torture, persecution or arbitrary detention against uighurs. it s not about human rights, ethnicity or religion, it is about fighting violence, terrorism and separatism. but this year, a u.n. working group concluded the detentions of uighurs was based on discrimination and their muslim faith. two years since he was
hasan told us he is innocent. what do you fear will happen if you re sent to china? if i m sent to china, it ll be death for me. because china without any judgment put me in prison, maybe torture, something like this, for me, equal to death. joe, we talk about these countries in the middle. we talk about the competition between the u.s. and china. these countries in the middle, countries like morocco. one of the questions for lawmakers in washington, and i think for the biden administration, is what is being done? it is clear that a country like morocco is under pressure from china to send hasan to china. what is being done in washington to put equal pressure on morocco to say, this man has been in prison for two years, hasn t faced trial, and the u.s. sees that his position is different. that s where the battle is in
quo. there is no indication that there s a verbal and formal agreement, but those discussions have been going on. and there s a lot of speculation that if the prisoner exchange goes ahead, which it s still early days now. all we know is that some of the prisoners are being taken from evan prison stage one. but that is a possibility. jason, you have personal experience, terrible experience as a washington post correspondent we re showing some of the other prisoners, not jason s experience. apparently just been released. what from your expanse is going on, what is happening to these men and one woman who are now apparently going to be reunited with family. i m happy to know that these four and now fifth american have been released from the walls of evan prison. it s one of the worst places in the world. but you know, their saga is far from over. and as ben will remember in the
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