This is the newest flag that flies over the White
House.
There's only three flags that fly over the White House.
This is one of them.
Oh yeah, President Biden gave me his pin from his.
That's American flag. He wore it on his lapel,
so we were chatting and he took it off and
gave it to him.
So it's a keepsake. Oh,
it's nice. It was nice.
You know, it didn't feel real until we were flying
over England.
I'm a British citizen, Irish citizen,
Canadian and American. So as we came over England and
I looked down,
you know, that's when it became real.
We flew over Ireland, then Canada and into America,
and then I knew I was home.
So getting off the plane and seeing the president,
the vice president, that was nice.
It was a good homecoming.
So looking forward to seeing my family down here and
just recuperating from five years,
seven months and five days.
Just absolute nonsense by the Russian government.
To hug your sister, it was very nice.
Yeah. I hadn't seen her in a couple years.
So, yeah, it's nice to reconnect with family like that.
She's done a lot, you know,
my brothers, too, My parents,
you know, sometimes some harsh words with the government,
having to keep them accountable for taking care of us.
But in the end, you know,
here I am. So Secretary Blinken,
Jake Sullivan, the bearded guy that's over here somewhere.
Roger Carstens, Where did he go?
And his team, I mean,
they worked tirelessly. And there are other government agencies.
That, you know, you'll find out about,
you know, the people who arrange the rendezvous with the
different prisoners from different countries,
you know, that agency, other agencies.
So a lot of people and a lot of agencies
went into making this happen.
So I'm, I'm, you know,
very appreciative of all that.
Around the world who are praying for you to come
back home,
your message to all those people have been praying and
see are seeing you now and are so thankful that
you're an American.
I just say thank you to everybody you know,
thank you for all your prayers,
your your, you know, good wishes.
Thanks for doing everything you did.
You know it it all.
It all helped. So I had I had thousands and
thousands of letters and cards coming in.
You know, so many that the FSB stopped giving them
to me.
But yeah, there were people all over the world and
they,
you know, they were sending in.
Small amounts of money in their letters,
you know, there was just tons and tons of support.
You couldn't believe it. So I went on a two
week vacation.
You know, the FSB grabbed me,
said I was a spy.
I'm apparently a general in the army,
a secret agent for DIA.
This is the nonsense narrative they came up with.
And they, they just, they wouldn't let it go.
So, you know, this is how Putin runs his government.
This is how Putin runs his country.
Yeah, I'm glad I'm home.
Yeah, I'm never going back there again.
Thank you.