we have a circled on our calendar. thank you so much julie tsirkin. more developing news right now with the release of some new pictures today of britney griner s escape from russia, and her first moments on u.s. soil. also, new word from her wife as griner spent another day at a military facility in texas. nbc s marissa park is outside of brooke army medical center in san antonio for us. welcome, first of all when you hear about how brittani s doing? well, as we know she s in the process of decompression before reintegration. a lot of this process involves staying away from the public eye and talking to people about everything that she s been through behind closed doors. but we are learning more about those moments when she first learned that she was coming back home. of, course some of the first moments when she did land on u.s. soil. take a look. this is an instagram post from her wife, cherelle griner, and largely it was just expressing gratitude to everyone who brought. here quo
of many, she continued as beachie and i start our journey to heal our minds bodies and spirits. i want to personally say thank you to some of the hands seen and unseen that help make it possible for me to see my white again. it was really special to see just as long, long list of everyone that they were thinking. you can take a look yourself. but now within the last hour, you mentioned the voters that we are seeing, this very first photo that we re seeing from the plane that she was on her way home. and nbc actually spoke to the u.s. special presidential envoy for hostage, false that s roger parsons. he explained his moment on the plane. actually, one of the more interesting ones what he was talking about how he was trying to give her space, thinking that she would need that, instead, he said that she was craving human connection. she wanted to talk. take a listen to what he had to say about her very first moments on u.s. soil. what brittani got off the plane, she of course connect
flag in this aircraft hangar, in san antonio, texas. she called everyone over to take photos with her. as she was doing, that she would often with their names with, look them in the eye, shake hands with them. that to me was probably the best moment of this whole recovery. seeing brittani and from that big american flag, taking photos with all the people that would try to bring her home. it shows the kind of woman that she. is so when you asked how brittani is doing, i think that is just so telling. not only graciousness expressed, but also you could really see just the resolve and the grit that got her. there remember, that carson s is one of the main key players that help to get this negotiation on the ground. he also mentioned whelan. it s so important to mention him because everyone is talking about how we line is something they are also focusing on. he said that there is a meeting tomorrow happening with all the people involved in type of these negotiations. he didn t say more,
quantum of evidence that we have against individuals. . what is the impact of making a referral. if we do make referrals, we want to be very careful about how we do them. but i think we re all certainly in agreement that there is evidence of criminality here. and we want to make sure that the justice department is aware that. we re also getting a new look at britney griner s first moments back on american soil. early today on msnbc, the special presidential envoy gave a new emotional details on griner s return. when brittani got off the plane, she connected with cherelle. and shortly, she sort of have a huge american flag in this aircraft hangar in san antonio texas and she called everyone over to take photos with her. as she was doing, that she has some other names, were shake hands with them. that, to me, was probably the best with this whole recovery. seeing brittani in front of that big american flag taking photos with all the people that were shows you the kind of woman