horrifying months behind bars, wnba star brittney griner s family, friends, and teammates can finally breathe a sigh of relief now that she s back in her home state of texas. in my capacity as president of national action network, we heat keep the pressure on president biden to do everything in his power to bring brittney home and he has delivered. i have said all week, i gladly applaud the administration for the hard work of ensuring brittney s imprisonment finally came to an end. her and her family remain as strong today as ever because her journey is far from over. i want to specifically recognize brittney s, cherelle, who has remained steadfast, was extremely patient and gracious, and poised during the whole ordeal. i traveled to chicago during a
paul whelan who has been unjustly detained in russia for year. this was not a choice of which american to bring home. sadly for totally illegitimate reasons russia is treating paul s case differently than brittney s, and while we have not yet succeeded in securing paul s release, we are not giving up. we will never give up. putin is difficult to read but what is your sense of what happens now? in saying they treat it differently, mr. whelan is charged with espionage and the russians obviously treat that he says he is innocent. he says flatly he is completely innocent but treat that as a much higher offense than drug smuggling obviously but what next, and if you could not get paul whelan home for viktor bout, what would the price be? what would the president have to do? well, i think paul whelan s brother was correct as he mentioned earlier on cnn that there has to be another prominent russian, you know, maybe a spy, somebody that they can trade. right now i am not understand who
it came in and we want to go to him right away. you might have known last night there was something happening but that news not released until today in case this very delicate situation got upended. we had heard rumblings of a prisoner swap might be in the works after fox news received a tip that plain clothes u.s. marshals had moved viktor bout. going back to what you mentioned about paul whelan not being on the flight. president biden standing this morning explained where whelan wasn t on the flight. president biden: sadly for totally illegitimate reasons they are treating paul s case different from brittney s. we are not giving up. we will never give up. we remain in close touch with paul s family. 32-year-old brittney griner
could have gotten two. bill: two biff been a good day. a good day for brittney griner and her family. she is coming home and the hell that she experienced is now over. yes, sir. bill: i imagine she lands around 4:00 or 5:00 this afternoon, maybe even in washington, d.c. dana: her wife said she and brittney will continue to try to help bring whelan home as well as anybody else being held unjust fileably around the world. awesome, good day for brittney. bill: breaking this hour president biden facing growing backlash over how he handled the crisis at the border with even some democrats voicing their value in a trip south. do you think it s important for president biden to go to the border for himself? i think it s important for the administration to recognize it s a crisis. we all know it s a crisis. i ve been clear about that and so when you have a crisis in your country, you should deal with it. is there value to the
happy day. and i got to think that the greatest of all time, that s god. god for making this happen. it is real that there s a god and if you serve him, you will experience what we experienced today which is to me, a modern day miracle. what do you want to say to brittany and cherelle right now? i love them. i love their strength. i love what they re going to do as well. they re going to fight for other wrongly detained prisoners abroad and much strength and prayer to paul whelan s family and him. and, you know, for other prisoners who are locked up in their own country on, like, minimum drug offenses, brittney is coming. we hope their ordeal turns out,