The prisoner swap for Brittney Griner

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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US officials are sending the “Merchant of Death” — a notorious arms dealer named Viktor Bout — back to Russia in exchange for the WNBA star’s release. We revisit our conversation with author Douglas Farah, author of “Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible.” This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One more to go, standing together with her white shrel and the oval office, I spoke with
0:05.6	Brittany Griner.
0:06.6	Big news for Brittany today.
0:08.4	She's safe.
0:09.8	She's on a plane.
0:11.0	She's on her way home.
0:12.8	After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under untolveral circumstances.
0:18.2	Brittany will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and she should have been there
0:22.7	all along.
0:24.0	What President Biden did not mention Thursday morning was who the United States had to
0:29.0	give up to get Griner back.
0:31.5	The merchant of death.
0:34.0	These are hard deals.
0:35.3	Victor Boot is a real horrible criminal.
0:38.0	Brittany Griner, Paul Wheelan, they're innocent Americans.
0:40.7	So when you do these trades, they're uncomfortable trades.
0:44.2	One of the greatest athletes alive for one of the most notorious arms dealers in history.
0:49.8	In the wake of this historic prisoner swap, we're revisiting a today explained episode
0:54.4	from August on the merchant of death, Victor Boot.
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