Forward Bound.

Dimely Silesera Fox News.

President Biden and Vice President Harris will greet the three Americans, including Wall Street

Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich, freed from Russian prisons as part of a multi-country prisoner

swamp.

The president said it was his own longstanding friendships with US allies that made this historic

release happen.

Today is a powerful example of why it's vital to have friends in this world.

Friends you can trust, work with, and depend upon.

Especially on matters of great consequence and sensitivity like this.

A senior official told Fox that Russia was blocking this trade unless they got back notorious

FSB hitman, Vadim Krasicov.

Fox is Jackie Heinrich at the White House.

Krasicov was jailed in Germany

for the killing of a Chechen rebel in a park in Berlin.

White House National Security Communications

Advisor John Kirby

says no one's happy about letting Krasikov go,

but it's part of negotiations.

The President was willing to make that tough call in order to get all these

individuals, not just the Americans all

of them released and it took some tough calls by our allies and partners

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