This is video from just moments ago in San Antonio, where basketball star Brittany Griner

has touched down now on U.S. soil after her release from a Russian penal colony. She was freed

yesterday as part of a prisoner swap after 10 months behind bars. And there she is stepping

off the plane just moments ago in San Antonio.

Good morning. Welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Friday, December 9th, along with Joe and me.

We've got the host of way too early White House Bureau Chief at Politico and author of The Big Lie.

Jonathan Lemire, U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC News, Katty K, and former CIA officer Mark Polymeropoulos.

He's an NBC News security and intelligence analysts.

Guys, good morning to all of you.

Willie, if you look at them lined up, can we have that three shot just so we can

explain what everybody's going to be talking about here?

So we've got Caddy.

Caddy's going to be talking about the Harry and Megan special

and the response. Quite a story in the Times. Mark is going to be talking about his problems

with the Griner, Victor Bout Swap, and Jonathan Elmere is going to be talking about along with Polymopolis,

just how horrible it is being a Red Sox fan and how our heart breaks a little bit more every morning.

So, Willie, that's about it. We've lined it up. And, of course, I'm going to talk to you about Baker Mayfield. Did you hear about Baker last night?

Big comeback for Baker, a couple days after he signed with the new team, yeah.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Here's Baker Mayfield.

Sorry, I just kind of took that one over. Not on Lloyd's this morning, I promise.

So Baker Mayfield, Willie, did? He got cut by the Panthers, right? Yeah, yeah, he got cut by the Panthers on Monday. He comes in last night. He's been with the team for literally like 48 hours, quickly learns the basic ins and outs of the playbook, gets in, meets these guys. He came in after the first series. They

had another quarterback in and wasn't going great. So they said, let's take a shot with Baker.

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