Biden’s Plan To Get Brittney Griner Home
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🗓️ 28 July 2022
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Summary
The U.S. announced Wednesday that it has officially proposed a deal to Russia for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner as well as former Marine Paul Whelan. Griner also got the chance to speak for herself in court during her trial.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.75% on Wednesday, continuing its efforts to bring down inflation without causing a recession. This is the fourth rate increase this year, and it comes as inflation continues to hit record levels.
And in headlines: the suspect in the Fourth of July parade shooting near Chicago was indicted, President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping will talk one-on-one today, and over 780,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will soon be available in the U.S.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, July 28th. I'm Priyanka Eribindi. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Treville Anderson and this is What A Day, where we are trying hard as hell to not |
| 0:13.5 | listen to the leak of Beyonce's album before it officially comes out on Friday. |
| 0:17.7 | Queen B wants us to wait, so I'm gonna wait. |
| 0:19.6 | I personally like track 12. The whole album is fired though. Sorry Beyonce, you'll be |
| 0:24.4 | all right, girl. Let it be known. I did not. I did not listen to it. Do not come for me. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates again because of inflation. |
| 0:35.6 | Plus, there is a campaign against Instagram's TikTok-ish makeover. |
| 0:39.6 | But first, today, another major update in Brittany Griner's case in Russia. |
| 0:43.8 | The US has officially proposed a deal for the WNBA Stars release, as well as the release of Paul |
| 0:49.1 | Wheeling. He's a corporate security exec from Michigan, who was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years |
| 0:55.0 | in Russian prison on espionage charges. Here is Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday. |
| 1:00.7 | We put a substantial proposal on the table weeks ago to facilitate their release. |
| 1:05.9 | Our governments have communicated repeatedly and directly on that proposal. |
| 1:09.6 | But Russia has not yet responded to it. Blinken statement, however, is the first public |
| 1:15.2 | acknowledgement of concrete action the US government has taken to try to get Brittany in particular |
| 1:20.2 | home. Here is hoping that it works. What is this potential deal in tail exactly? |
| 1:25.7 | Well, we don't have explicit confirmation from the State Department of this, |
| 1:29.3 | but experts have suggested that a trade might be the best option. |
| 1:33.2 | And see an inside, it's several government sources that said, in exchange for Griner and Wheeling, |
| 1:37.5 | the US will hand over Victor Boot. He's a Russian arms dealer once known as the quote-unquote |
| 1:43.2 | merchant of death. Excuse me? No, no. We like no part of that. Well, Boot was sentenced to 25 |
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