Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, talked with Newsmax on Tuesday shortly after returning to the U.S. with Air Force combat veteran Joseph St. Clair, whose release from a Venezuelan prison was secured by Grenell earlier in the day.

Grenell secretly traveled to Antigua on Tuesday morning to meet with Venezuelan officials and gain St. Clair’s release. The U.S. asserted St. Clair, 33, was wrongfully detained by Venezuelan authorities while he was traveling along the Colombia-Venezuela border last fall.

“We just made it back,” Grenell told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” by phone from Washington Dulles International Airport. “We went early this morning to a third country, a neutral country. And I met with Venezuelan officials. We’ve been negotiating.

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