Good evening, looking at a lot of pictures of Kelly Field Air Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Sometime the coming hours of plane carrying WNBA star Brittany Griner will land there and

she'll step out onto American soil after a flight from Abu Dhabi.

Prisoner swapped straight out of the Cold War took place there, nearly ten months.

She was in the custody of the Russian criminal justice system.

Her wife, Sherel, at the White House today, is word came that Brittany was free and safe,

clearly overjoyed and by her own admission overwhelmed.

So, over the last nine months, you all have been so privy to one of the darkest moments

of my life.

So today, I'm just standing here overwhelmed with emotions, but the most important emotion

that I have right now is just sincere gratitude for President Biden and his entire administration.

The administration bringing Griner home in a prisoner swap, which played out on the

Tom McAnaboo Dhabi for arms dealer Victor Boot, who'd served, been serving a 25-year sentence

in the U.S. for charges, including conspiring to kill Americans.

The trade, Griner for Boot, leaving out another American, Paul Wheelan, who's been in prison

in Russia for almost four years.

He spoke exclusively today to see then Jennifer Hansler.

I don't understand why I'm still sitting here.

My bags are packed.

I'm ready to go home.

I just need an airplane to come and get me.

I was led to believe that things were moving in the right direction and that the governments

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