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Eliana Johnson. Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going

right with the American news media. And Eliana Johnson, greetings from afar. Are you, are you in Washington? Are you,

abroad? Where do we find you today? I'm just on a brief jaunt, 24-hour jaunt outside of Washington,

but I will be back this evening. You're very jaunty. That's very jaunty of you. Yes, quite so. But, but we have

some breaking news this morning. Yeah. Won't be breaking by the time. That's what you do in the

page one meeting. Yeah. Yeah, it won't actually be breaking by the time we post this tomorrow,

Friday. But as we record this on Thursday,

we learned that the U.S. and Russia have struck a deal, a prisoner swap deal that will free

Americans, the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich, and the U.S. Marine Paul Whalen as part of a big prisoner swap.

And what we don't know is who exactly the U.S. is releasing in exchange for this.

But Whalen, of course, was left behind when the U.S. made the deal to get the WMBA player

Brittany Griner back. So I was pleased to see that he was included in this swap. And I think,

in fact, the Biden administration would have, it would have been a huge scandal if he

if he was not yeah the interesting part of this and again we don't know who all I'm seeing some

preliminary reports about who's on the list it's a lot of people that the Russians are releasing

to a smaller number of people that US and NATO. and NATO allies are releasing, but I don't

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