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The Beat with Ari Melber

Brittney Griner freed in US-Russia prisoner swap

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, December 8 and reports on WNBA star Brittney Griner freed in a US-Russia prisoner swap. Plus, new heat on Trump as the DOJ seeks to hold the Trump team in contempt of court. Rev. Al Sharpton, Maya Wiley, David Corn, Michael Steele and Rep. Byron Donalds join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Thank you so much. I'm Ari Melba and I'll tell you. Talk about extraordinary. We're following two.

0:04.8

Huge stories right now. The Garland Justice Department making a rare escalation in the stolen documents case against Trump.

0:11.5

Seeking contempt, I repeat, seeking legal contempt of the former president. That is a rarity. We'll get into that tonight.

0:19.8

We have it coming up as we track the

0:21.9

other breaking story riveting the nation and really much of the world.

0:28.6

American athlete Brittany Greiner is on her way home. And finally, we are looking here right

0:35.1

now at extraordinary brand new video.

0:40.2

It's via Putin's Russian State television.

0:45.7

You can see some of the faces blurred out for security reasons, according to Russian State TV.

0:56.9

But you can also see what we are witnessing, the actual prisoner exchange on a tarmac in Abu Dhabi, the Olympian, WNBA star, and now former Putin prisoner,

1:03.0

Brittany Griner, exchanged. You see her walking there in this high-stakes diplomacy breakthrough,

1:09.9

in exchange for convicted Russian arms dealer Victor Boot. It's really something to behold this on the tarmac to see this unfold right now.

1:13.9

Now, Griner departed from a detention center in Russia initially under sort of the early dawn

1:20.8

cover of darkness. She's been detained in Russia for 10 months. she then boarded a plane home.

1:29.0

Cameras also show Griner on that plane.

1:31.8

We can report at this hour she's believed to be on the same plane en route to San Antonio, Texas, in her home country.

1:40.8

Here is a remarkable moment when she learned she would be going home.

1:46.1

What's your mood?

1:47.7

Happy.

1:48.5

Happy? Well, are you ready for one flight?

1:52.1

Yes.

1:53.1

Do you know where I'm heading to?

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