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_Published 2024-08-02. The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free._


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## Transcript

I stand on there. Yeah. President Biden gave me his pin from him. Tell us about. That's the American flag. He wore it on his Lapel. So we were chatting and he took it off and gave it to him. So keep saying. Did you describe the moment of coming back? Oh, it. I was ne. You know, it didn't feel real until we were flying over England. I'm a British citizen, Irish Citizen, Canadian and American. So as we came over England and I looked down, you know, that's when it became real. We flew over Ireland, then Canada, and into America. And then I knew I was home. So getting off the plane, seeing the president.

The Vice President, that was nice. It was a good homecoming. So looking forward to seeing my family down here and just recuperating from five years, seven months and five days of just absolute nonsense by the Russian government. I was a n to hug your sister. I was very nice. Yeah. I hadn't seen her in a couple of years. So yeah, it's nice to reconnect with family like that.

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