I Just got to ask you one last question and that's about someone who's very famous in the United States probably not here. Evan Gersovitz who's the Wall Street Journal reporter. He's 32. Um, and he's been in prisoned for almost a year.

Uh, this is a huge story in the United States and I Just want to ask you directly without getting into the tales of it or your version of what happened. If as a sign of your decency, you would be willing to release him to us and we'll bring him back to the United States We have done so many gestures of Goodwill out of decency that I think we have run out of them. We have never seen anyone reciprocate to us in a similar manner. However, in theory we can say that we do not rule out that we can do that if our partners take reciprocal steps.

When I talk about the partners I First of all, refer to Special Services Special Services are in contact with one another. They are talking about the matter in question. There is no taboo to settle this issue. We are willing to solve it, but there are certain terms being cuss via special Services channels I Believe an agreement can be reached.

So typically I mean this stuff has happened for obviously centuries. One country catches another spy within its borders. It trades it for one of its own. Intel Guys in another country I Think what makes and it's not my business.

But what makes this difference is the guy's obviously not a spy. He's a kid and maybe he was breaking your law in some way. But he's not a super spy and everybody knows that. and he's being held hos AG in exchange.

which is true with respect. It's true and everyone knows it's true. So maybe he's in a different category. Maybe it's not fair to ask for you know somebody else in exchange for letting him out.

Maybe it degrades Russia to do that. Wow, that takes some balls. You know you can give a different interpretations to what constitutes a spy, but there are certain things provided by law. If person gets secret information and does that in conspiratorial manner, then this is a qualified as Espionage And that is exactly what he was doing.

He was receiving classified confidential information and he did it covertly. Maybe he did that out of carelessness or his own initiative. Considering the sheer fact this is qualified as Espionage. The fact has been proven as he was caught red handed when he was receiving this information.

If it had been some far-fetched excuse, some fabrication, something not proven, it would have been different story then. but he was caught red-handed when he was secretly getting confidential information. What is it? But are you suggesting he was working for the US government? or NATO or he was just a reporter who was given material he wasn't supposed to have. Those seem like very different, very different things.

I Don't know who he was working for, but I Would like to reiterate that getting classified information in secret is called Espionage and he was working for the US Special Services some other agencies I don't think he was working for Monaco as Monaco is hardly interested in getting that information, it is up to Special Services to come to an agreement. Some groundwork has been laid. There are people who in our view are not connected with special services. Let me tell you a story about a person serving a sentence in an Allied country of the US.

The person due to patriotic sentiments eliminated a bandit in one of the European capitals during the events in the caucuses. Do you know what he was doing I Don't want to say that, but I will do it anyway. He was laying our soldiers taken prisoner on the road and then drove his car over their heads. What kind of person is that? Can he even be called human? But there was a patriot who eliminated him in one of the European capital.

Whether he did it of his own valtion or not. that is a different question. EV that I mean that's a completely different I mean I mean this a 32y old. Like most, he committed something different.

He's not just a journalist. I Reiterate he's a journalist who was secretly giving confidential information. Yes, it is, but still. I'm talking about other people who are essentially controlled by the US authorities.

Wherever they are serving a sentence, there is an ongoing dialogue between the special services. This has to be resolved in a calm, responsible, and professional manner. They're keeping in touch so let them do their work. I Do not rule out that the person you refer to Mr Gersovitz May return to his motherland by the end of the day.

It does not make any sense to keep him in prison in. Russia We want the US Special Services to think about how they can contribute to achieving the goals our special services are pursuing. We are ready to talk. Moreover, the talks are underway and there have been many successful examples of these talks crowned with success.

Probably this is going to be crowned with success as well. The go, but we have to come to an agreement. I Hope you let him out. Mr President Thank you.