Brittney Griner freed in US-Russia prisoner swap

The Beat with Ari Melber

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Government, Daily News, Politics, News

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Thank you so much.
0:01.1	I'm Arie Melbara and I'll tell you
0:02.3	to talk about extraordinary, we're following two.
0:04.8	Huge stories right now.
0:05.8	The Garland Justice Department making a rare escalation
0:09.0	in the stolen documents case against Trump.
0:11.4	Seeking contempt.
0:13.3	I repeat, seeking legal contempt of the former president.
0:17.6	That is a rarity.
0:18.6	We'll get into that tonight.
0:19.7	We have it coming up as we track the other breaking story
0:23.2	riveting the nation and really much of the world.
0:26.1	American athlete Brittany Griner is on her way home.
0:32.8	And finally, we are looking here right now at extraordinary brand
0:36.8	new video.
0:37.5	It's via Putin's Russian state television.
0:40.6	You can see some of the faces blurred out for security reasons
0:43.9	according to Russian state TV, but you can also see what we are
0:48.6	witnessing the actual prisoner exchange on a tarmac in Abu Dhabi,
0:53.0	the Olympian, WNBA star, and now former Putin prisoner,
0:57.0	Brittany Griner, exchanged.
0:59.3	You see her walking there in this high stakes diplomacy breakthrough.
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