family, and my thoughts and prayers are with them today. they have to have such mixed emotions today. we ll keep negotiating good faith for paul s release that. i say that to the family, i guarantee you. i urge russia to do the same to ensure paul s health and humane treatment are maintained until we can bring him home. the last nine months you all have been so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. so today i m just standing here overwhelmed we motions, but the most important emotion that i have right now is sincere gratitude for president biden and his entire administration. it s a happy day for me and my family, so i m going to smile right now. thank you. again, we are here at the top of the hour obviously with joyous news, willie. morning joe has also learned this morning that the negotiation was hammered out in
she should have been all along. i m overwhelmed we motions but the emotion i have now is insear gratitude for president biden and his entire administration. griner was first arrest in the moscow at a russian airport. authorities say they found car trinls that they say contained cannabis oil within her luggage. she pleaded guilty, said she never intended to break the law. she was sentenced to nine i repeat, nine years in that russian penal colony. now, russia, i will mention, is not the only country that has had very harsh and unjust drug sentencing policies in the world. at the same time and in addition, it was viewed by many international experts as not about keeping russia safe from cannabis vape oil but rather a tool of vladimir putin s ongoing battles with the united states, that this was never about her to