their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the cente
reed who spent nearly three years in a russia prison, describing what conditions were like there. for the next nine years of her life, unless things change, brittney griner will serve her time in a russian penal colony, she s sent to a remote all female lockup located about 300 miles southeast of moscow. we want to go straight to frederik pleitgen live for us in moscow. what s the latest on brittney griner s location? what do you know? reporter: hi, there, don. we ve been in touch with her legal team. they acknowledge this is a difficult situation for her. this is in an area of russia that is about 300 miles away from moscow here. i was looking at the village that this peal colony, penal colony two, is in. brittney griner s lawyers tell us despite the circumstances she s doing fairly well. obviously happy about the support she s getting from the united states. but definitely the situation for