Steve Witkoff: “We presented the arguments for Edan Alexander being…”

“I'm not, by the way, I'm not saying they're reasonable people. No, I got that. Contextually more reasonable than what we experienced here. And when I say that, I mean the following. We presented the arguments for Edan Alexander being released, and he was the last American that was being held captive who was alive. There were two other Americans who had, who had died. We were waiting to get their bodies back, but he was alive. We wanted to get him out alive.” (08:45–08:56)

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