Biden Throws Shade At Trump During Press Conference About Release Of American Prisoners In Russia

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President Biden took a shot at former President Donald Trump when asked by a reporter about the prisoners freed from Russia.

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00:00And this is a good day.

00:03What did you say when they answered the phone on the other side?

00:07I said, welcome almost home.

00:09How do you keep countries, these so-called abductor states,

00:14from simply taking more Americans in order to get more of their prisoners home?

00:18How do you end these perverse incentives, sir?

00:21By advising people not to go certain places.

00:24Tell them what's at risk, what's at stake.

00:27Sir, President, where would you advance these negotiations,

00:30and can you speak to the complexity of working with six countries to secure these places?

00:35Well, look, I'm not going to take the time now, but I'll do this later in the week.

00:41I particularly owe a great sense of gratitude to the Chancellor.

00:51The demands they were making of me required me to get some significant concessions

00:56from Germany, which they originally concluded they could not do because of the person in question.

01:03But everybody stepped up. Poland stepped up. Slovenia stepped up. Turkey stepped up.

01:08And it matters to have relationships. It really does.

01:12These things matter.

01:15Pardon me?

01:16Could this improve relations with Russia?

01:18Is there any avenue for that after this prisoner exchange deal?

01:22As my sister might say, you're lips to God's ears, man.

01:26Did you speak directly to Vladimir Putin about this?

01:29Would you be willing to speak with Putin on the record?

01:32I don't need to speak with Putin.

01:34Anyway.

01:36How did you weigh that decision of letting somebody out?

01:38It sounds like that way before tonight.

01:41I got home innocent people.

01:46All right.

01:49Are you speaking with President Erdogan or the leaders about this?

01:57Say that again?

01:58Are you speaking with President Erdogan or the leaders about this?

02:01Yes, I've spoken to all the leaders about this.

02:04And by the way, as a father, look, you heard me say this before, and I mean it.

02:10My dad had a simple proposition.

02:13Family is the beginning, the middle, and the end.

02:17Blood of my blood, bone of my bones.

02:20I can't think of nothing more consequential.

02:22I mean it sincerely.

02:25And having lost family in a different way,

02:28and not knowing what's happening, the circumstances of their accident,

02:32their health, it matters.

02:37Mr. President, what did Germany ask for in response to their cooperation?

02:41Nothing.

02:43President Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out

02:47without giving anything in exchange.

02:50What do you say to that?

02:51What do you say to President Trump now, former president?

02:54Why didn't he do it?

02:55He's president.

02:56Thank you, guys.

Biden Throws Shade At Trump During Press Conference About Release Of American Prisoners In Russia

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