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The Chris Plante Show

12-8-22 Hour 1 - Griner Freed Via Prisoner Swap

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

Government, News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In hour 1, Chris talks about the breaking news that Biden had secured the exchange of WNBA player Brittney Griner with a prisoner swap for an arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death. We play audio of Biden making the announcement, and CNN reacting joyously. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday.To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Moments ago, standing together with her by Sherelle and the Oval Office, I spoke with

0:06.7

Brittany Griner.

0:08.4

She's safe, she's on a plane, she's on her way home.

0:12.7

After months being unjust and detained in Russia, held under untalable circumstances.

0:18.1

Brittany will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and she should have been there

0:22.6

all along.

0:24.6

It's untalorable, it's untalorable, he's going to untalor it because I might think it

0:31.5

was intolerable, but that's me English as my first language.

0:37.1

That's Joe Biden on the prisoner swap Cold War style for WNBA player and former Olympiad

0:46.5

Brittany Griner, while Joe Biden left US Marine veteran and two tour Iraq combat veteran

0:57.4

Paul Wheelan in a Russian prison, falsely accused of espionage and Joe Biden, you know,

1:07.4

he's got his priorities in order, right?

1:09.5

He was there with Brittany Griner's wife at the at the White House this morning with

1:14.8

whom he has met repeatedly, Paul Wheelan's family, the combat veteran from Iraq arrested

1:22.8

and falsely charged by the commies in Russia, well Joe Biden said today that he hasn't been

1:28.4

forgotten.

1:30.3

I can assure you Paul Wheelan and his family are pretty sure that he has been forgotten,

1:35.7

but Brittany Griner, you know, she throw the ball, throw the ball and that's a big deal,

1:42.1

and she's, you know, a female African American POC, WPOC, woman, person of color and LGBTQ,

1:51.7

so you know, the Democrats like to have abbreviations for everything.

1:55.5

And so she is out, she's on a plane on her way home, and all we had to do was give up

2:02.8

the merchant of death, Victor Bout, Victor Bout convicted in 2011, serving a 25-year

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