Welcome Home, Brittney Griner
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
WNBA star Brittney Griner is finally free from Russian imprisonment, 294 days after she was first arrested. U.S. officials negotiated her release, which involved a 1-for-1 prisoner swap for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout.
And in headlines: the House passed a landmark bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, tens of thousands of academic workers in the University of California system continued their strike, and the FTC sued to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 9th. I'm Trayville Anderson. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day. |
| 0:06.8 | The only thing aside from Christmas music that can legally be played over the PA system |
| 0:11.8 | at our nation's finest department stores. |
| 0:14.3 | Yes, this is part of our, you know, long plan to dethrone the official, |
| 0:20.4 | unofficial Queen of Christmas, Mariah Carey. |
| 0:22.7 | I mean, Trayville said that those were fighting words. |
| 0:24.9 | I don't care. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm not coming for me, Mariah. I know my place. |
| 0:31.1 | On Saturday's show, a bill to protect same-sex marriages at the federal level is heading |
| 0:35.3 | to President Biden's desk. Plus, a newly elected member of Congress said he's having trouble |
| 0:40.2 | finding an apartment in DC. |
| 0:42.5 | Listen, we all know that struggle. |
| 0:45.1 | Yes, we do. |
| 0:46.1 | But first, after 294 days, Brittany Griner is finally free. President Biden announced |
| 0:52.6 | yesterday the WNBA stars release from a Russian penal colony. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm glad to be able to say the Brittany's in good spirits. |
| 0:59.4 | She's relieved to finally be heading home. |
| 1:02.6 | And the fact remains that she's lost months of her life, experienced the needless trauma. |
| 1:07.9 | She deserves space, privacy, and time with her loved ones to recover and heal from her |
| 1:12.6 | time being wrongfully detained. |
| 1:14.8 | For those who might not remember Brittany Griner's saga started back in February when she landed |
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