Hour 1 : BREAKING NEWS : Brittney Griner is Being Released
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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:39.5 | in ESPN. And thank you so much for being with us this morning. Guys, incredible, incredible |
| 0:43.3 | news. Steve and I all start with you, your reaction. |
| 0:46.7 | Relief. Very, very happy for Brittany Griner and her wife, Sherella, and the whole family |
| 0:52.1 | to WNBA community, the NBA community, and the anybody associated with the game of basketball |
| 0:56.2 | knows what Brittany Griner has meant to the game. And as an American citizen, obviously, |
| 1:00.9 | we're happy to see her home. Obviously, we'd be remiss in neglecting to mention the importance |
| 1:06.1 | of Paul Wheeling ultimately coming home. His brother, so as brother David Wheeling on |
| 1:10.2 | on CNN this morning, class exemplified, recognizing the importance and the relief that we |
| 1:16.3 | should all feel the fact that Brittany Griner has been released. Nevertheless, still hoping |
| 1:20.5 | and praying that his brother, ultimately, who's been detained in Russia for the last four |
| 1:23.9 | years would ultimately get released. But what it comes down to is that she's home. Pressure |
| 1:29.5 | was brought to bed. The United States, obviously, had been working behind the scenes for quite |
| 1:33.1 | a long time. The Biden administration is to be applauded in all of this because they |
| 1:37.5 | put forth their due diligence. And it's important to recognize the fact that while we bring |
| 1:42.4 | up Brittany Griner, we also bring up Paul Wheeling from this perspective, the Biden administration |
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