Basketball superstar Brittany Griner just got sentenced to nine years for bringing some

Hashish oil into Russia.

I've never meant to hurt anybody, I've never meant to put in jeopardy the Russian population,

I've never meant to break any laws here.

I made an honest mistake and I hope that in your ruling that it doesn't end my life here.

It's a wildly disproportionate seeming sentence for the crime she was charged with, but Brittany

might get out much earlier than that via prisoner swap and it might be the most lopsided prisoner

swap in the history of the practice.

These are hard deals.

Victor Boot is a real horrible criminal.

Brittany Griner, Paul Wheelan, they're innocent Americans, so when you do these trades, they're

uncomfortable trades.

One of the greatest athletes alive for one of the most notorious arms dealers in history.

Brittany Griner for the merchant of death ahead on today's explained.

So let's just get right out the gate with this question.

Victor Boot for Brittany Griner, fair trade?

I don't think it's a fair trade, but I think it's a necessary trade.

I think that Victor has actual blood on his hands for many conflicts and has done horrendous

things or empowered people to do horrendous things.

For the years he was trafficking in weapons to Charles Taylor in Liberia, the RUF in Sierra

Leone, Laurent Cabele and Democratic Republic of Congo, the Northern Alliance, the Taliban

in Afghanistan.

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