The prisoner swap with Russia.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The U.S.-Russia prisoner swap. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced a prisoner exchange between several European nations, the U.S., and Russia to secure the release of three U.S. citizens, one U.S. legal resident, and twelve others. Eight prisoners were sent back to Russia in return, three of whom had been held in the U.S. The swap was the largest of its kind since the Cold War, involving seven countries and 24 prisoners.
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| 1:01.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. |
| 1:19.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, |
| 1:29.6 | some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saltland. On today's episode, we're going to be talking about the prisoner swap between the United |
| 1:36.2 | States and Russia. |
| 1:38.3 | A pretty big story happened toward the end of last week, so we didn't get to jump in on |
| 1:42.4 | it right away. |
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