obviously, mark fogle, the u.s.s been unjustly detained and is serving, i think, a 14-year sentence for that small amount of medical marijuana. we do know though that the administration's actively talking with russia to try to get him out. they wanted him a part of this deal and paul whelan was in the same position when brittney griner came back and he had to wait and the administration said they learned a lot from dealing with russia on this exchange and they want to apply it to active talks to get mark fogle home. griff: one last thing, we did learn a lot about putin in the-- when the russian spies were released, the children, these children, when putin greets these children you're seeing in this video he says beu beunos noche, and it's like a scene out of the "the americans". jacqui: and they didn't know they were russian. the u.s. military is sending more war ships to the middle east as iran threatens to attack israel after the leader of hamas was killed in iran's capital. alex hogan is covering these mounting t

the president and jake sullivan, the national security adviser, are focused on the case of mark fogleout of this deal? is it realistic to think he can be home by the end of the biden administration? >> so i want to say a few things. one, predictions about future events like this is not a business i want to be in. but we think about mark fogle every single day, and not open think about him, work on his case every single day. we are going to do what we can to try to bring mark home. we worked to try to get mark included in the deal that consummated last week and we are right back at it to get mark back to the united states and united with his family. beyond that i don't want to get into the details. >> more specifically, what is the administration doing to ensure that the next mark fogle or paul whelan or evan gershkovich, isn't captured? either in russia or elsewhere? >>that's a really good and important question, ed, and we're doing a few things that are novel in this administration. one is, we have created a list of countries for which there is a heightened alert for americans who tr

and then third, it's also a day of sadness for me, because one of the americans left behind is mark fogleknew mark when i was ambassador. he was a teacher to my kids. i wish he was in the deal. there's still hundreds, if not thousands of russians, including people close to the navalny group, that are still sitting in jail. four got out, but hundreds of thousands are -- hundreds if not thousands are still in jail today. >> michael, of course, we're all curious if you could answer that question about the historic significance of this, and also is there any concern about the precedent it sets? i'm sorry, mr. o'hanlan. >> first of all, ambassador mcfall did a great job laying out why this is a good day and i agree. but yes, there has to be concern about the process, the mechanism, and the incentives that have now essentially been sew solidified by this deal. it makes it clear to vladamir putin if you want to get other russian bad guys out of western jails, just kidnap some americans. it's a tough call about who you're going to let go. i would not let a mass murderer go back to russia if they

you have, as jake mentioned, the american teacher, mark fogle, who is still in russia, i believe jakethat that the u.s. is going to work on getting him out as well. you have musician michael travis lee, you have russian american dual citizens such as kenia carolina and others in russia. -- xenia carolina and others in russia. and you have, i can name only a handful of them, mark sweden and kai lee -- henry kai in china. some advocacy and human rights groups believe there are anywhere between 11 cases to as many as 200 americans or dual americans held in china. and of course, in afghanistan, you've got ron corbett george glasman, mahmoud habibi, three americans held in afghanistan. what is this department's message to the americans who are still out there? and what is it -- does today bring any insights or any experience that will now be applied in trying to get more americans home? >> so, our message is pretty simple, and it is that while today is a good day, that the work doesn't stop, and to the american citizens who continue to be wrongfully detained or held hostage around the worl

mark fogle, a big name, is not among us, but the two big names for the u.s. that are.ns back from those various or areas. this swap took a lot of deal making in the process. there was a lot of working behind the scenes to this. we had to work with german officials, again, 12 german nationals coming back, 3 u.s. citizens, 1 legal permanent citizen. so in addition to those two that are on the screen there, you're also getting the russian-american journalist. and we're getting vladimir care rah her sa. again, this is a huge prisoner swap, multiple countries involved. we do understand that the president of the united states is going -- we expect him to speak about this. s this is something that he has championed going forward. we do know that this deal was complicated by the death of no voteny, the opposition -- that vatny. we know from jake sullivan, the national security adviser, that they did press forward after that death to try and still make this deal happen. this has been months in the making in order to get to this position. there will be criticism from capitol hil

. >> but there's still one american left behind, teacher mark fogle, he's been in prison in russia fornter russia with about half an a ounce of medical marijuana. his 94-year-old mother is slamming the biden administration for not including him in this prisoner swap. >> israel confirming hamas' top military commander was killed during a strike in gaza last month. he was said to be the has tear mind behind the hamas led october 7 attacks on israel. israel's defense minister saying this is a significant milestone in the process of dismantling hamas as a military and governing authority in gaza and in the achievement of the goals of this war. the white house also announcing new defense and a military deployments yesterday to help israel defend themselves against iran and a its proxies, former president trump filing to have his conviction in the new york hush money trial overturned, pointing to the scotus ruling that presthat presidents have iy for acts. they say the attorney violated the immunity. therefore, the case must be dismissed, this as chuck schumer is taking the first step to adv

reporter: i do have to mention the white house saying they are trying to get mark fogle out of russiaill americans there trying to get out but this is the deal they were able to make and get these folks home to their families. liz: good stuff thank you very much, edward lawrence. back to the markets here. investors are hacking away, not chipping away, hacking away at qualcomm. it is down nine and one-third percent. the semiconductor maker is one of the biggest losers on the nasdaq even though it reported a third quarter beat. shares are falling after ceo cautioned its most profitable business that be smartphones and handsets is making a slower than expected recovery. despite sales rising 12% year-over-year during the quarter, qualcomm warned that the handset world demand growth will be "flattish" this year. so, what does that mean for qualcomm's chip architect firm, that be arm holdings? shares of arm are also in trouble here down 16.7% that's the second-worst performer on the nasdaq. the chip design company also reported a first quarter fiscal year 2025 beat but you know washington i

among those still in russian prisons today, mark fogle, a school teacher, u.s.n black, a ballerina and dual national and former u.s. army paratrooper michael leak. on the ramp at andrews, president biden was asked if he had any message for putin. the u.s. president replied with a one-word answer, stop. jon? jon: lucas tomlinson at the white house, thank you. take a live look here at former president trump and senator j.d. vance's rally underway right now in atlanta. we just heard from the vice presidential candidate. the presidential candidate is coming up. for more on the state of the race, let's bring in fox news contributor tammy bruce. she has a new book out called "fear itself: exposing the left's mind-killing agenda." she says the book uncovers how the left uses fear as a control tactic and how the perpetuation of chronic fear forces people to retreat from society. she is also a fox news contributor. you know, when you think about fear, that image of former president trump with his first in the air under the american flag after that assassination attempt u

there's also mark fogle. he's also in prison.out names, because we don't know details. but my prediction, this is going to be a really joyous day for some families and a really sad day for others. to your point about the future, there are rifts, this is immoral, this is horrible to have to do. i remember when we debated this back in 2010 swapping people and one russian categorically denied he was a spy. i knew him personally from before. yet we made a decision this was our moment to try to get him out and we went for it. when you talk about killers like this guy krasikov that we've been talking about, there's literally not many people worse than hired assassins that killed an innocent opposition person living in georgia. that's about as horrible as it gets. so it's a really hard call. i think it's the right call at this moment in time. if it happens, i support this swap. at the end of the day, you have to make a trade off under difficult circumstances. i'm not in the camp that thinks, well, now that we've done this prison swap if