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Evan GerskovichCNN
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Rodger Carstens is the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs for the Obama administration.
He was part of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War .
He says he felt reasonably comfortable as the deal was coming together at the at the target location in May .
The U.S. was willing to make these hard decisions, he says.
CNN 's John Sutter : It was a good day for Obama administration.
He says it was a day of good news stories, but critics say it will encourage Putin to take more Americans hostage.
Sutter says he's down to just over 20 cases of Americans being held hostage in the world.
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