Christie: Deal on Release of American Prisoners in Iran only Encourages Them to Take More Americans

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CHRISTIE: "No, look, Kaitlan, you do the very best you can, you continue to work as hard as you can to get them returned home, but you don’t get them returned home to make matters worse. They are now — Americans are now more of a target for Iran than they were before, because they took five this time, maybe they’ll take 10 next time, and then they’ll be looking for 12 billion or $15 billion. This never ends. It’s a slippery slope that you slide down. As a leader, you have to say no to that type of thing. I would not have had a problem with exchanging five hostages for five hostages — for five prisoners, rather. But I would not have given them $6 billion. This empowers that regime to export terror and encourages them to take more Americans in order to try to get more money from assets that are frozen because of their own terrorist conduct."