and aaron solomon, whose chief legal analyst at esquire digital. welcome to the w. how much pressure was on the us to free greiner? after 10 months in russian detention, there was an enormous amount of pressure, and this pressure was mounting month by month. there's actually a very interesting parallel between what happened a year ago with a lot of brittany spears. his own fan starting the free brittany movement and brittany grinders and starting another free written movement. her fans over social media as well as traditional media kept a lot of pressure on the u. s. government not to put this on the backburner. efforts to bring her home as you, as you just pointed out, have been going on ever since she was 1st attained in mid february. why do you think this will happen now? well, as president biden talked about this morning during that press conference with sharon greiner, the united states, i believe, really has been working on this as a priority item. for a long time, prisoner swaps are very, very delicate things. and i don't believe that they're ever done in iso