35 Burst results for "Brittany Greiner"
The Officer Tatum Show
AOC, GOP Rep. Gosar Talking in House Has Twitter Abuzz
"This article says that Twitter freaks out over AOC, chatting with GOP lawmakers during speaker vote. Somebody made reference that it wasn't on the 2023 bingo card. It says observers tune into the house speakers vote on Tuesday were surprised to find known rivals Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Paul goes off from Arizona, chatting casually in the House chambers. In a clip captured by C-SPAN and Wiley shared online gosar and Ocasio-Cortez seated alongside one another are engaging in what appears to be a friendly conversation during the break after House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy speakership bid fail short of the required 218 votes. The exchange was shocking, largely because of the lawmakers continuous history with one another, which came to a head when gosar tweeted an animation spoof video depicting violence against AOC and President Biden. At the time AOC accused gosar of being a white supremacist. Kosar was censured, censured, which is a different word and censored, censured, and stripped of his committee assignments as a result.
The Officer Tatum Show
The God Connection
"Ladies and gentlemen, general ladies, welcome back, glory be the God, man. I just, I feel like that there's something moving here. There's something moving here. In the spirit realm, and if you're not paying attention, you're gonna miss it. This is bigger than a football player falling unconscious in front of the world. This is bigger than McCarthy and the Republicans not finding a way to get their stuff figured out. It's something that God is doing and my whole thing is this. You know, this is how I feel about God. And this is how I think that you can judge whether or not you go into the right church or you connected with the kingdom. This is a good indication. I look at God as being the cell phone provider. Think of this follow me. And I believe that God gives cell phone service to those whom follow him and who are called, and that have the spirit of God in them. And when God is ready to do something, he sends out a text message to everybody on the data plan. And if you have a connection with God, you will see that text message come through and you are understand what's happening and what to do about it. I'm telling you right now and I'm declaring right here on the radio that God is doing something right now that you do not want to miss. And let me just take a step back for people who don't believe in God that may be listening to this. Do not believe. The foul idle minds of fools who try to describe God that they have created in their own mind.
The Officer Tatum Show
Damar Hamlins Charity Foundation Approaching $7 Million in Donations
"I want to give a quick update on the young man demar Hamlin, I don't know why it's so weird for me to say his name. I just don't remember his name doesn't ring in my mind. Like demar Hamlin, it's not like a Ray Lewis or something. It just doesn't ring in my mind. However, his the GoFundMe account, I wish I only go for me, man. God, dang, they bring in the bacon. People, millions of millions of dollars raised over all these platforms, but regardless of that. His GoFundMe is called chasing M's foundation community toy drive. And his original goal was $2500, which is weird as an NFL player. You would think other players would hook you up or something. He ended up raising 10,000, but after this incident, 200, I mean, this is as of, I don't remember when I printed this, but this was like not too long ago that we printed this. Oh, at 9 a.m. this morning. So that was pretty a pretty long time ago. I could probably look up the numbers as of right now, but I mean, he's at 62, $6.2 million raised 205,000 donors. So there's a lot of small donations, and I think the biggest donor was like $20,000 in the course, all the guys in the NFL supported. And I just want to say this because I said this yesterday, but it's been on my heart to say this. It's that God works in mysterious ways. If you can not, if you can not see that this is a God thing, then I think you are not in a position to kiss the blessings of God when they come through.
The Officer Tatum Show
Cori Bush Says Republicans Are Using Byron Donalds As Prop
"My producer of God man just send me something that Cory Bush said, that lady is a complete trampoline. She's a trampoline, okay? Y'all thought I was gonna call it a T word. I want to, but I ain't because I'm a Christian. But this trampoline had the nerve to proclaim that Byron Donald is an Uncle Tom upholding white supremacy. These people are completely stupid. And can I just say that, I can not just say it how I feel it, they're completely stupid. You know, and this is one of the things that as a black man, you have to deal with the racism of the Democrat party, not only from black from white people, you gotta deal with it from black people. People are voting for Byron Donald because they feel like he can give them a great opportunity to Speaker of the House. Let me just say this. I don't know Byron Donald has experience, but the boy know what he's talking about. You may want somebody with more tenure, I don't know. But he knows what he's talking about. He's confident he's smart. He's bold. I wouldn't mind having him as a Speaker of the House. But people are voting for him in the course of Democrats or afraid. What are they afraid of, mister Tatum? They are afraid of a powerful black man. Who can get in there and set the record straight on the Republican side. Because they've been lying to black people for centuries.
The Officer Tatum Show
Who Are the Republicans Against McCarthy
"If your constituency don't want you to vote for McCarthy, you don't vote for McCarthy. And if a Republican person can not come together and get votes on both sides or enough votes to win, then he can't win. You know, it's interesting that the people who have decided not to vote for McCarthy. Because if you look at the state of Arizona, I think all of our representatives. Andy Biggs, Eli crane, who else we got Paul gosar, which was people that I think very highly of. So majority of our representatives is against him. Matt Gaetz Byron Donald is now again some unapologetic. From Florida, chip Roy from Texas, some of the notable name people, I don't really know the rest of these people as well, Lauren boebert, from Colorado, you know, you got one, that's if you go with the state of Arizona, you got one, two, three people from the state of Arizona. You got one, two, it looked like two or three people from that are floridians. They're from Texas, you got at least four people from Texas on this list. A three or four people from Texas, it seems like there's a consistency here in certain states that do not want McCarthy to be the speaker.
The Officer Tatum Show
McCarthy Loses Sixth Speaker Vote
"We still do not have the Speaker of the House. There's so many mixed emotions, so many makes feelings when it comes to McCarthy, and I'm gonna tell you guys the truth, nothing but the truth so help me God. I have no idea. What's going on on this? I don't understand because I see Republicans whom I respect that are saying. McCarthy is not the option. He's a rhino. He's not going to do what's best for the party. In protest, they're not voting for him. And I also have Republicans that I respect are saying vote for McCarthy. He's a good guy. He's the one for us. When you look on social media, you will see that 90 percent of people on social media is given the middle finger to McCarthy. But 90% or 80% are probably around 85, 90% of politicians are in support of Kevin McCarthy. I have no idea what the thing. I have no idea what to believe. Byron Donald is one of my favorite representatives. And he don't support McCarthy. And I think he's a rational reasonable person. I hear his testimony. He don't support it. Jim Jordan is one of my favorites as well. He supports McCarthy. Donald Trump came out in a lengthy statement on true social and made mention that we need to come together as a party. This is pretty much embarrassing and we need to get behind McCarthy. But I thought McCarthy was establishment just like Mitch McConnell. So what do you believe? What is the truth?
The Dan Bongino Show
Biden Traded the Merchant of Death for Brittney Griner
"You might have missed it but Brittany griner the WNBA players she was apparently headed back to the United States now in a prisoner swap With the merchant of death so yes the Biden administration swapped in international arms dealer with probably a sea of blood on his hands for Brittany griner from WNBA And as an angle I haven't heard discussed yet today that quickly I'm going to bring up and I want to move on to so that mother stuff because I do really have a show to you that I got the receipts to back it up here You're looking at Fox nation at home if you're watching We have four pages full of stuff that the team and I have put together for you But don't you find the timing of this interesting Shows you how the Russians operate Tim you see where I'm going with this Did you listen to podcasts Why don't you get the cheap No okay good good I rarely get a virgin ears from Jimmy Listen to the podcast sometimes So you live time He gets to he's got a video connection or a audio connection going to the studio there somehow How he does it I don't know He's probably got my house wired He's got it bugged Yeah he's got a bug He's like Jim Bakker from the FBI So here's how the Russians work Did you notice that they waited for the last election of the cycle the Herschel Walker Warnock runoff to break before they announce this You think that's a coincidence This is how the Russians work
AP News Radio
Brittney Griner asks supporters to advocate for Paul Whelan
"WNBA star and former Russian prisoner Brittany griner is asking supporters to advocate for another American who still being held in Russia, in a social media post griner says advocacy for her release and letters of support made a big impact, and she's asking supporters to do the same for former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, whose serving a 16 year prison term in Russia for espionage charges the United States says are baseless, Whelan was arrested four years ago. The U.S. had attempted to secure the release of both griner and Whelan, but Russia agreed to swap only grinder for convicted arms dealer Victor boot, grinder writes, I hope you'll join me in writing to Paul Whelan and continuing to advocate for other Americans to be rescued and returned to their families. I'm Donna water
The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
"brittney griner" Discussed on The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
"Years as little things as you want. Santa is always listening. Oh wait, wait, I have this. How about you have a stocking? It's also Miami Heat up. I love it, wait. What does it say? Says he. Oh, that might be okay. I only have, I only have sports branded stuff, obviously. I only care stuff that has logos on it. It has to keep logo. And all the snowflakes. I love it. I love it. Okay. Okay, so for me, number one, it's somewhat not realistic, which is, I mean, if you know me, I'm very optimistic. I'm very glass half full. But I tell it like it is. So I'm just going to say it. So my number one thing for every team for each team is to stay injury free. No more injuries. No more injuries if there was Santa. Christmas wish, Santa listen up, that no one gets hurt, you know? For the rest of the year and this play these games, man. Yeah. So that's my number one thing. My number two thing would be let's have at least at least half of all the conference games in the power 5, go to overtime. Oh. Yeah. Chris, you want free basketball. I want free basketball. I want drama. I want edge of the seat. I want to be hollering at the TV. Whether I'm calling the game or not, I want my headset to be crooked. Yeah. I'm here for the action. I think that's it. I think I just want injury free and I want overtime basketball. Those are my two things. All right. I got a couple things. Well, first and foremost, I would like the inaugural Christie winter Scott classic to be just the best event in all of the Christmas tournaments across the country. And that's on December 23rd. Jazz hand. So I'm very excited for that. So that's my first wish. My second wish is to, again, wish for no injuries like no more injuries. My third wish is going to be for the Miami hurricanes to find their footing. They've had some injuries. It's just been kind of up and down because of how many new people they have. Especially at this big positions like point guard, they're working with a bunch of new players. So I want some continuity there and hopefully a sense of the conference season for my own sake. I want especially want chase Shelton back because I had her very high on my draft board and I just want to see more of her. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm trying to think. All the Christmas wish do I have? Well, I want no more injuries for my own basketball team as well. Or the Washington Wizards because they're getting pretty tough to watch for the both of us. A lot of so hard. That's what I'm saying. No injuries. Like, we're done with them. And our other wish would have been for Brittany griner come home and to be back in our lives. And she is. So we got that one. Thank you for the show. Yeah. Play us as a society. Yes, I liked it. I'd say playa. Because that's what the word is in Spanish. All right. Play a plan. And just like my last wish is the same thing, I think we always say is that everyone enjoys the game and continues to love it and get more of it, educate everyone about it because it's such a lovely game. That means so much to us, especially when we get to put it in perspective, like we can with BG coming home. It just feels even that much more special. And something that means so much to us. So we want to wish you a Merry Christmas happy holidays, whatever you're celebrating or not celebrating, just have an awesome week. And we're sending our love to you and we hope you're watching hoops. Whatever you're doing. And make your family watch basketball. My family's gonna watch so much basketball. They're coming here this year. So it's like, you're coming to my house? Basketball is on. Every TV can't escape it everywhere. I might put him more TVs. So just so there's more. And your laptop, everything running. Yeah. Oh, I love it. No, we wish you guys happy holidays. All the best with your families and health, happiness, and joy, you know, those are the three things that money can't buy, right? So stay true to it. You're not new to it. You know where that joy resides in this right in here and, you know, it'll always be here on court side with Christy and Gabe on the her hoop stats podcast network. We don't have to go home, but we got to get up out of here and get some eggnog and some holiday things, even though I don't like eggnog that much better. I have to make a cookie dough. It's Puerto Rican egg dog. Oh. I'm going to Gabe's house because you're going to have basketball on all over the house. So I'm going over there to get the Puerto Rican eggnog. Folks. And he said, go heat. So, I mean, that's fine. It's a heater on that one. But anyway, go Seahawks. And go hoi is and everybody stay safe out there. We love you guys for watching. And checking us out today and listening to our banter about the lovely game basketball. We love it so much. We love you guys a lot and happy holidays. We'll see you next time for Davey bringing up Kristi winters Scott. This is bye bye. Bye.
The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
"brittney griner" Discussed on The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
"And I will be very happy to see you playing basketball again because it is a joy yeah, and so the mark off season is coming out next week. And we did it before Britney was home. And now she was playing. So it might be a little wonky, but look at the Phoenix team now. I'm like, oh, Fiji's back, like this is gonna look real nice. We'll talk about all that when free agency rolls around, but just wants to say, we're so happy for her. And it feels like a weight off our shoulders. I can't imagine what it feels like for all her family. And everyone who had worked so hard to make this happen. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I know, you know, scholar digging Smith, I know she's expecting her second baby, and you know, I know she made comments last year, I mean, the questions that you're asking, right now, basically insignificant to what we are going through. As her sister. So I just, you know, I felt for them, then, you know, the whole team, like I said, you know, missing their sister on the court in the locker room. And as a teammate, but even bigger than that is that their family too. I mean, the team is your family too. I don't care. Have you been on a team you know what I'm talking about? If you haven't been on the team, ask players who are on a team, what that is, because it's very special. And it's a lifelong bond that you can not replicate and so just to know that she's going to be back in that environment where the inclusivity where she could be herself where she can just play the game that she loves and be around people that are like minded in that sisterhood man to me I'm just like I'm thrilled for her like I can't stop smiling because I can just only imagine her walking in that locker room and how she's going to be just embrace not just physically but emotionally as well and the compassion like you said of what she's been through. And now she's back. I mean, that's just, man, that's a lightning rod to me. Anything going through. It's going to be amazing. So I can't stop smiling right now. Just thinking of it. So I know it's going to be an amazing moment for sure. Yeah, it's going to be very emotional. And I'm not sure we're ready for it. But I think it's very exciting. And again, just so happy to have a beach and home. Yeah. Can't wait to see her on the court or doing anything, honestly, just whatever. She wants to do. We're happy to see your home. And I also definitely, and we're definitely going to hear a lot more about the other Americans are in her situation. I think the help a lot of people, because if you don't think WNBA players are going to do that, you have not been paying attention to what this league has been doing for years and years and years. I mean, they step up. They don't just say things. They do it. So I'm just so, so, so excited for her to be home and for everyone involved. So yeah, man, that first moment when she comes back, it's gonna be crazy. And we have to get, we had a long time to get prepared for it. But I do want to move on to some college basketball. All right. Yeah, let's go, let's get into it. I know it's so hard to transition because it's like, we just want to spend like 30 minutes saying we're happy and we're excited. We was here at the Cory. You're doing stuff. But we have some stuff to talk about on the court. I think it starts with the Maryland turpins. I think you're familiar with them. A little bit. I think we'll have one. Okay. I gotta tell you. Talk to me. I'm confused. This is a confusing basketball team. How so? We've said this for years, haven't we? For the last couple of years, it's confusing basketball team because all right, let's look at their schedule. Okay, so they lose to South Carolina. Without diamond. Diamond without diamond Miller. They beat Baylor on the road on the road. Come back, lose to the paw in the Thanksgiving tournament. Yeah. And kind of handily too, to depaul team that's okay. Then they beat Notre-Dame on a diamond Miller buzzer beater, which was diamond dagger in South Bend. Yeah. In a hostile environment. Hostile. Come back home, lose by 23 to Nebraska. I know, I don't know. Then they beat Purdue by only three points, then beat you come by 7 points. Yeah. Why, how? What's happening with this team? I think they're still trying to find out who they are, right? I think they have a lot of pieces. Like you said, diamond Miller was missing in the South Carolina game. And that game was like a three, four possession game until the little dust up and review of play and then all everything fell apart for Maryland after that. And South Carolina had their way in college park. But, you know, the depaul game, they throw a lot of different defenses that you make you adjust quickly, they struggle in that game to get any continuity
The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
"brittney griner" Discussed on The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
"Always by my guy. Gabe Abraham Gabe, you know what? It feels like it's been a month of Sundays. We've gotten together here, courtside. It's been a myth. It has been a minute. We are back. And it's been far too long. We just talked for like 30 minutes because we're catching up with each other. But Christie has been doing some wizards games, and so we're just a studio shoes. Just, you know, superstar stuff that she does. All hoops. And I've been getting used to coaching high school basketball and as I told Christy, she told me one time that she's stays up until three watching tape and last night I did the same exact thing. There you go. They got you. I'm glad I have a mentor like Christie the warrior about that kind of stuff. But as we are back, we have some huge news that is just amazing to share, obviously you see Christy with her Britney griner shirt. That's right. Everyone knows that Britney's back home from Russia captivity, thanks to the efforts of just so many people from the Biden administration to Britney's wife to Britney's agent to the WNBA to the players to the fans to all of us. Kept saying her name and making sure that we could talk about her and she's now home. And now Christy, even better news, she's announced that she intends to play for the Phoenix mercury next year, which is like it is all Christmas come early and this is just one of the best gifts I think we've received in the past few years. It's amazing news. Oh, I mean, tremendous news today. Gabe and, you know, regardless of whether she played again ever in any capacity, whether it be a USA basketball, or there be in the WNBA with Phoenix. I mean, the fact that she is back here and alive and safe and with her family. Oh my gosh, like that to me is the true gift, but the extra with the cherry on top is her wanting to play again. And it's a safe haven. I mean, just being around the game. I mean, for me, even now, it's a safe haven just to be in a gym. It's like, I don't know, it's cathartic. So I know for her to get back and to be able to play the first thing that she did was dump the ball. She had the ball in here for a thing. It was Duncan. How exhilarating must that have been for Brittany griner to do that? But we love you, BG. And I know she said she wants to thank so many people face to face. And look people in the eye who really stayed with her through this whole ordeal. But I mean, just to know that she's back and to know that she wants to play, I mean for us, it's a bonus to be able to see her. Her gifts on the court, once again, but also to see that sisterhood back in place and the puzzle piece that was missing all last season for Phoenix, which must have been emotionally devastating. Every practice to come in and not see her face, every game, to come in and not have her presence in the locker room. I mean, just being on a team, you know what that feels like. And you know when people are there, knowing people are missing and just to know that they're going to be back whole again, it just does something for my spirit. And I know it does something for theirs. So it'll be interesting to see how all of that welcome home BG things feel as the season unfolds in the WNBA because I know when she comes here to D.C., I'm grabbing her, so. Yeah. I just already know that. And that day. Who knows? But I'm grabbing her and I'm not letting go. And yeah, and I hope my kids can go to the game when they're here because, you know, they've been huge fans of Brittany grinder over the years. So they can give her a big hug as well. Yeah, we'll see how long the love fest lasts when she's born 30 and ten on you. In the season, like we know BG is gonna do. You know, well you said about basketball being a safe haven just like us thinking about her in the gym coming home and, you know, you just want to be in a place where you feel safe. You want to be in a place where you feel at home and I know for you for me for WNBA players for WNBA coaches, that place is a basketball court. Absolutely. Or being with our family and she got to do both. So that's just so incredible. I can't imagine the emotion of it. And I'm just so happy for her. I feel like she, it's remarkable how much she can feel comfortable and safe immediately after this entire ordeal to come home and say, yeah, I want to play it. Yeah, I want to go say thank you to the people who helped me. I want to go advocate for other people who are in my situation. So I need to be out there. I need to grab the platform to do it. I think that's just remarkably brave and takes uncommon amount of courage and compassion from both Cheryl and Brittany griner. And just really want to say thank you to them for providing us with an example.
AP News Radio
Brittney Griner says 'it feels so good to be home' and vows to play this upcoming WNBA season
"First public comments since being freed from Russia, griner says on Instagram, she plans to play next season for the WNBA's Phoenix mercury. It's what women's basketball legend dawn staley said last week she hoped to hear. We want her back in her happy place. Grinder remains under contract with the mercury and coach Venice and I guard said when grinder was freed, the team was ready to welcome her. Hopefully, it's a big hug and just how much we love you and happy we are to have you back. Grind or post it, it feels so good to be home. And thanked everyone for their help in freeing her in a high level prisoner swap. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Brittney Griner prisoner swap AP Sports Story of the Year
"Britney grinder's return to the U.S. after ten months of captivity in Russia is the AP sports story of the year. It played out at the intersection of not just sports, but politics, race, and gender identity and wartime diplomacy. An openly gay black basketball star held overseas on drug charges by a nation waging war on a neighbor. It further strained relations between Washington and Moscow, who swapped grinder for Russian arms dealer Victor boot. The entire saga boosted not just grinder's profile, but the issue of wrongly detained Americans and government efforts to bring them home. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
Mark Levin
Jim Acosta: Shouldn't Folks Be Happy Brittney Griner Is Home?
"Now of course we know what Jim Acosta is he's a carnival Barker He's a fraud and a phony in a fake And if CNN goes under Jim Acosta will be working with Brian stalter Sort of an announcer at some I don't know Some event maybe some county fair Anyway cut ten go It was quick It was pretty quick the way you know someone the right really pounced on this shouldn't folks just be happy that Britney grinder's home Let's just wait Let me answer that for you Jim Is your name Jim is a really Jim It's not a matter of being happy that brittney griner is home You don't bastard It's a matter Of who was released and unleashed on the world A mass murder number one arms dealer on the planet A terrorist who is responsible for the death of thousands including black people Brown people yellow people White people Isn't that something that consider you have to be a suck up the Biden and the Democrats all the time you moron
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Van Jones: Young People Will Remember Brittney Griner's Release
"Lot of headlines about the Britney griner prisoner swap for the merchant of death. I want you to hear van Jones yesterday on CNN. It just shows this president got it done. He cared enough about this individual person to get her home. It was shocking. I think for young Americans to see an icon like that, snatched, locked up, treated like garbage, and 9 years, ten years for bringing some cannabis oil medical medically. So these are decade defining images. I guarantee you there are going to be young people ten years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now who will remember this moment because she is an icon. And it's really, really extraordinary. People don't talk about, oh, well, this other guy, he's so terrible. There's a lot of terrible people in the world. There's a lot of trouble with people in Russia, but what you don't have and what you can't allow to happen is to have a black female icon, treat it like garbage, an American do nothing about it. Something was done about it and people are going to be proud about that. Sometimes they say the quiet part out loud. You can't let a black female icon be treated that way. She's a black female icon, and that's why she needed to come home. The U.S. Marine, he can rot. Paul Whelan can stay home.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Russian 'Merchant of Death' Swapped for Brittney Griner
"We're going to start on a political note. And that is the Biden regime's trade of a Russian arms dealer, a very bad guy, Victor, merchant of death, boot. Serving a 25 year prison sentence for conspiring to kill Americans, trafficking anti aircraft missiles, providing material support to terrorists. So this guy is traded for Britney griner, the WNBA player, and she is now back on a plane back in the United States. And even some people on the left are and some of the Democrats are like, wait, what is this? What do you make of all this? Well, I make that he likes some terrorists. And apparently, apparently, you know, people are like, oh, why would he do that? Is he not a good negotiator? What's the deal? I think Biden has a little bit of hatred towards America. And this is blatantly it shows it, right? Because this man think about it, this man is a true terrorist. Unlike the January 6th defendants, right? This man is an actual terrorist who actually wanted to kill Americans. Trafficked aircraft missiles, guns, AK-47s. I thought Biden hated all that, right? No, I mean, there's a marine in Russian captivity. A U.S. Marine and Biden opted not to get that guy out, but to get griner out.
The Officer Tatum Show
The House Passes the Respect for Marriage Act
"The marriage act. The respect for marriage act. That is now passed a bunch of cowards and now going into Joe Biden's desk where he will stumble over there and scribble something on a piece of paper to make it into effect. This is my whole thing here. Marriage between two men is not a marriage. That's not marriage. That's called a relationship. And in America, you can have a relationship if you want to. You can do whatever you want to do. But that's not marriage. You can call it whatever you want to call it, but it's not marriage. Marriage is between a man and a woman. And, you know, it bothers me that we just go down and slippery slope. The further we go, the further into the battery we get. Just like a marriage between 30 year old and a 16 year old ain't a marriage. That's not marriage. You can't marry a minor. In some cases, they let people marry minus. But generally speaking, you can't marry a minor. You can't marry a kid. Some things, I think should be preserved in a conservative manner. Because this is what's going to happen. When they get out here and they go marriage between two men is a law. What's going to happen if they go to your church and they say, I want you to marry me and my husband. And according to the Bible, two men shall not be together. Especially not in marriage, according to the Bible. Don't get mad at me. I didn't write the Bible.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Family of American Prisoner Paul Whelan Reacts to Brittney Griner Deal
"Brittany griner is coming home. She's coming home. Free at last. I'm free I'm free. But not Paul Whelan. Nope. He doesn't check the right boxes. He's just a former marine. Nobody really knows who he is. Just kind of and Whelan's brother, congratulated Brittany griner on her release. And he said, there is no greater success than for a wrongful detainee to be freed and for them to go home. The Biden administration made the right decision to bring miss griner home and to make the deal that was possible rather than waiting for one that wasn't going to happen, she will be reunite, reunited with her family, Brittany is free and Paul. Paul is still a hostage. Our family is still devastated. I can't even fathom how Paul will feel when he learns. Paul has worked so hard to survive nearly four years. Of this injustice. His statement went on to note that the Biden administration notified the wheel and family that Paul will be left behind in the exchange. The second time, the Biden administration has left Paul behind. In a prisoner exchange, the last one was in April, you think that they're ever going to let a former marine come home?
The Officer Tatum Show
Candace Owens' Court Battle Is Officially Over
"I got some people calling in let me see what they talking about. But I want to give Candace Owens to shout out. For winning that court case against fraudulent fake black Republican candidate Kimberly klacik. Kimberly klacik sued Candace Owens for $20 million because Candace Owens exposed to her regarding her FEC reports. And I said, exposed her meaning she just asked the questions, why are you spending this distance and as a politician because according to your FEC reports, this seems suspicious. Instead of coming back and saying, hey, let me explain these things. Let's have a conversation. Let me explain them or whatever. You don't have to have a conversation. She made up all these lies said Candace Owens made up stuff about her and she sued her for $20 million. But ladies and gentlemen, as of recently, I think it was yesterday came out that Kimberly klacik lost the lawsuit. It was a frivolous lawsuit. And she knew she was wrong. And she ended up sitting with Candace and having to pay her a $115,000. But, you know, her cowardice, corny, wack, drug using self isn't going to come out and apologize, she's not going to be an honest woman because she was on social media talking big trash. I remember swatching it. Talking about, oh, I beat Ken, it's ha ha. Let's see you in court. All this other stuff and now she lost and she quiet.
The Officer Tatum Show
Micah Parsons Apologizes After Viral Tweets About Brittney Griner
"The NFL linebacker, mister Parsons, who was a tremendous football player, mind you. But I want to go back over to stuff that he said because in my mind, I'm thinking, why did he apologize? And then it's like, everybody's apology is dead. I communicated with somebody that I respect. Why can't you communicate with somebody respect, but still disagree with them? I don't think he should have apologized for this. And let me read his tweets again. He said, wait, no. We left the marine. And then he goes on to write, we still not voting for you. It's what parson said in a tweet for Joe Biden. Because I believe he had the wisdom to say, we got her, but didn't get a marine. You're doing this for votes. From black people. This is one of them cares you can dangle over the black man head and say, look what we did for y'all. Now we get y'all votes for another 20 years. But Parsons in my opinion had an educated opinion about it. And he made a statement that I believe that is a sentiment of many people in this country. But then, somebody, some woke black dude, veteran, somebody on this team, or somebody stupid, I wouldn't say stupid, but somebody who's who I think is less bold about the statements that they make, must've told him he better apologize or else. He said I just spoke, this is the tweet he wrote after he deleted his other tweets. Just spoke to some people that I respect and trust, I should have been more educated on the topic and not tweeted out of emotion for my family and others who have served. For that I apologize, he goes on to say, also, if what I've been told about also, if what I'm told about the attempts to bring the marine home are true, then the best outcome was accomplished. I pray mister Whelan comes home, but I'm extremely happy for Britney and our family. I am not too prideful to admit when I made a mistake. I respect what he said, but you didn't make a mistake. You know what? You don't have to delete what you said. You can add context to what you said.
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How Biden Caved to Putin With Prisoner Exchange
"You know, I wish they could be honest with us. And say, hey, she's a high profile person. Listen, it makes more sense to bring her home. If we lose a basketball player, that's popular that's going to look bad on us. So we brought a home. I'm just going to keep you real with y'all. We'll try this again and get way back, but we had the brain pretty grinding back. It's politically expedient to do that. Just keep it 100. Just keep 100. Think about this. You know what? You know how whack it betrayed that is? It tells you what negotiators we have on the table. They go, Putin tells him if you want the basketball player, give us this guy. If you don't want to give us this guy, CC, let me tell you how they framed it. She said it was Brittany griner and nobody. Well, you didn't have to give up the you didn't have to give a Victor guy. Victor bow, you didn't have to give him up, did you? They say Brittany grinder and nobody, he said, when we ain't giving up, Victor bout. So screw him, we'll put him to death in America. You give us both our people and we put him to death. What you want to do? I think that could have been a good argument. But no, they go, Russia, Vladimir Putin, spit on a picture of Joe Biden and then said, you give us this man back or else. We're going to put this boy to work. Oh, this girl that looked like a boy to work. And he said, okay, we'll do whatever you want to do Vladimir.
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"I believe we're sending the message that it is good business to deal in the capturing kidnapping, detaining of American citizens. I just don't think this is the right way to go about it. My basic premise with Russia is that they are so far off the rails in regard to international law and human rights and doing, they're going to grab whoever they're going to grab whether there's a trade or not. They're operating now and their own logic, which is why they invaded Ukraine and have done all these things. I do think the question about other countries, particularly China, because there are big country and can do it. May give this positive. And I think that that is something that has to be considered. It has to be considered by people who want to travel to these areas as well. I mean, I don't think anybody in the right mind right now would want to travel to Russia as a basketball player or a tourist because the risk is too high, but I don't think that will change if they give Brittany back. I don't think that that basic equation will change. Swapping prisoners, of course, isn't a new practice. We even saw one earlier this year between Russia and the United States and we covered on the show with Trevor Reed. Is it ever even are these trades ever sort of comparable crimes or suspected crimes or accusations or whatever it might be? No, I mean, they really aren't. If you look, you have the Palestinian Israeli swaps all the time when you get hundreds of people out of prison in exchange for three students. Numerically, it may not be equal. But I think again, in situations like that, you look at the preponderance of what brings the most good to the most people. At the end of the day, you have to calculate our Americans better off and their security better off by doing the trade than not, but ultimately the president of the United States has to make that decision. And I think in this case, it's the right decision. But I don't think you can look at it in terms of absolute fairness because in this case it is horrendously unfair. Do you think there's something that these sort of international prisoners swaps teaches us about how the world works? Well, I think it shows that every country has specific interests that it wants to protect and defend. And I think one of the things I would like to think about with the United States in this particular case is we are willing to show compassion and a level of mercy that Russia would never be able to share in a similar situation. I don't think it makes us necessarily morally superior, but anything like that, but I think that being able to show compassion, especially when a sentence has been served Victor boost been in for 11 years. He was actually held since 2008 in really crappy conditions in Tyler. So he has those three years added on to it. So I think that the sum of what he has paid if he stays in prison here and gets out in two years. If we can just do it now and get Brittany back and save her life in a way, I think to me that is an act of mercy for Victor and an act of compassion for Brittany. Douglas Farrah is one of the authors of merchant of death, money, guns, planes, and the man who makes war possible we spoke back in August of this year, President Biden said this morning that Brittany griner would be home within 24 hours, but Paul Whelan remains detained in Russia. Sadly, I totally illegitimate reasons Russia is treating Paul's case differently than Britney's. And while we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul's release, we are not giving up. We will never give up. Our show today was produced by Hadi mawa de edited by Matthew collette, fact checked by Laura bullard and Victoria Dominguez and mixed by Paul Robert mountie, will use some tape from 60 minutes thanks 60 minutes. I'm Sean Ramos firm. This is today explained.
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"Your podcasts. There are over 550 million firearms in world wide circulation. That's one firearm for every 12 people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11? Today explained back with author Douglas Berra, who we spoke to back in August when the news of this trade first hit, that's when I asked him who concocted this trade, one of the best basketball players who ever lived for one of the most notorious arms dealers who's ever lived. I don't know, and I think I would like to know. I remember when it was because my co author and I were talking, he was sending me messages. He was monitoring everything and I was traveling and saying, they're talking about Victor boot now. They're talking about Victor for griner. In the coming days, I expect to speak with Russian foreign minister Lavrov for the first time since the war began. I plan to raise an issue that's a top priority for us. The release of Americans Paul Whelan and Brittany griner, who have been wrongfully detained and must be allowed to come home. And I was like, what? He said, it might actually be serious. And I was like, what? But Douglass was pretty sure this originated somewhere near the top. I don't know who was behind it on the U.S. side. I think the fact that secretary blinken sort of owned it a few days ago clearly shows it was made at a very senior level. It wasn't some cowboy out there thinking creatively and trying to do something. We put a substantial proposal on the table weeks ago to facilitate their release. Our governments have communicated repeatedly and directly on that proposal. And I'll use the conversation to follow up personally and I hope move us toward a resolution. How are we supposed to wrap our heads around how insanely lopsided this is, your rough estimation is Victor boot may be responsible for the deaths of,
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"In fact, they publicly acknowledged it at one point. But their tradeoff and their conversations with us was, do we let our people on the ground die from lack of ammunition and food? Because this guy is a criminal or do we deal with the criminal and get the people on the ground what they need? So how does he end up in prison in the United States? Initially, there is a arrest warrant put out for him by Interpol, the international police, a red notice for his arrest. He goes back to Moscow. On what grounds on what crime? Weapons trafficking and violations of numerous laws in Belgium primarily where he had had a hub of operations. And so he goes back to Moscow 2001, 2002. And then over time, the U.S. intelligence services and the British and others who are monitoring him began to pick up clear indications that the farc rebels in Colombia who at this time were a major also drug trafficking organization. We're trying to make contact with Victor boot. And so they set up a sting operation where they sent in the people who pretended to be far could have done this successfully in the past operations to present themselves to intermediaries, Victor boots as farc convinced Victor booth that they were in fact farc and got Victor boot against long odds to actually travel to a country, Thailand. They'd had an extradition treaty with the United States, which seems it seemed preposterous when it happened because he was always very cognizant of whether there were extradition treaties or not. For some reason, he decided to go to Thailand and then he said in the meetings with the undercover agents that he wanted to give them weapons. He hated Americans. He knew the weapons would be used to kill Americans. Wow, he said all that. Eduardo and commandant, they talk about how they want sniper sites for the rifles that they have so that they could quote start blowing the heads off American pilots.
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"What makes him the merchant of death, it's such a incredible, powerful and horrifying title, was he wildly successful in comparison to other arms dealers around the world? Oh, without question. If he could move this stuff and drop it with pinpoint accuracy to any desert to any jungle to any other remote place in the world right into the hands of what I refer to as the potpourri of global scum. Many people could sell you lots of AK-47s across Africa. I was living there in the times of the war and covering the wars. It wasn't hard to acquire crappy old Soviet weapons. It wasn't hard to acquire a few hand grenades. But what Victor boot brought to the table was the ability to deliver attack helicopters. Deliver anti tank weapons that could be fired through entire villages and burn a village down with one shot. The fact that you could bring in high caliber machine guns. Rocket propelled grenades, no one else could do that. After the wall came down, $32 billion worth of arms were stolen and resold from Ukraine alone. One of the greatest heists of the 20th century. The primary market was Africa. 11 major complex involving 32 countries in less than a decade, a gun runner's wet dream. And so as he built his reputation, both sides of the same conflict would hire him on numerous occasions. So in what was then Zaire, you had mobuto, the dictator who had been there a long time being chased out of office by Laurent Kabila's forces sweeping across the DRC and Victor was selling weapons to both sides and while Kabila's forces were trying to kill mobutu literally as he was fleeing the country. He flew out of the country on Victor boots aircraft. So he had armed the people who were trying to shoot down his own airplane and the president. And that's what made him so incredibly successful was that he could do all of that. And one of the questions I asked in my co author asked a lot of people, why did both sides tolerate this? Why didn't someone kill him? And there was like, well, you don't kill the mailman. Bleak. He's the one person who could deliver. You just don't kill the mailman. Are you stupid? And I was like, well, maybe I am maybe I am, but that was consistently the answer he did what he said he would do at the price he said he would do it at. And that made him unusually successful. Who was his supplier this whole time? Is it just Russia? It was the entire former Soviet bloc where all of these arsenals had been abandoned. Ukraine wasn't the only former state with an unpaid army in stockpiles of guns. There was Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Belarus, all there for the taking. So if someone showed up and paid the commander a $1000 and said, I'll take this load of weapons out. Thank you very much. Fine. And most of the Soviet era major arsenals had air strips built into their facilities so he could land there, load up and fly out and it was apparently a relatively easy process. It sounds like he did a lot of dirty deeds, especially on the continents of Africa, does his involvement in them play a central role in accelerating the conflict or accelerating the end of the conflict. How important a player is he in these conflicts? Is ability to supply weapons to some of the worst warlords on the planet was, I think, transformational for those wars. Elevating bloody conflicts from machetes and single shot rifles to AK-47s, not by the thousands, but by the tens of thousands. When these wars started, most people had hunting rifles and machetes, and they were nasty and they were hellacious, but when you add AK-47s and light anti tank weapons and RPGs, obviously the human toll escalates dramatically. He transformed these young adolescent warriors into insidious mindless maniacally driven killing machines that operated with assembly line efficiencies. Victor boot in my eyes is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth. On the face of the earth. Without a doubt. Do we have any idea the amount of people he armed? Do we have any idea how many people his arms may have killed? I don't think anyone's ever done that calculation. But if you look at the wars, you have Liberia, you have Charles Taylor, which are tens of thousands of victims of that war. And neighboring Sierra Leone, where they're fighting over weapons and the group supported by Charles Taylor. Another tens of thousands. He was in the Angola conflict, arming both sides of that conflict. He was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, arming both sides of that conflict. He then was supplying weapons to the northern alliance in Afghanistan and then to the Taliban. So I think easily tens of thousands of people were directly impacted by the weapons that were being supplied by Victor boot. Douglas and I were mostly talking about Africa and the Middle East, but I asked him about something that's often overlooked when people talk about Victor boots resume. He was, at times, an ally to the United States. And Douglass said, this is one of the primary reasons he thought this trade should be on the table, whether just or not. The most recent case where American officials and American private security firms were colluding with Victor boot was during the Iraq War. In fact, during the Iraq conflict, when hardly anyone would fly supplies to U.S. troops on the ground, Victor boot flew hundreds of missions for U.S. and British and other forces into a war zone that was very important to us. And as my co author, Steve Ron documented in the book, American officers who are making those decisions understood who Victor boot was. In fact, they publicly acknowledged it at one point. But their tradeoff and their conversations with us was, do we let our people on the ground die from lack of ammunition and food? Because this guy is a criminal or do we deal with the criminal and get the people on the ground what they need? So how does he end up in prison in the United States? Initially, there is a arrest warrant put out for him by Interpol, the international police, a red notice for his arrest. He goes back to Moscow. On what grounds on what crime? Weapons trafficking and violations of numerous laws in Belgium primarily where he had had a hub of operations. And so he goes back to Moscow 2001, 2002. And then over time, the U.S. intelligence services and the British and others who are monitoring him began to pick up clear indications that the farc rebels in Colombia who at this time were a major also drug trafficking organization. We're trying to make contact with Victor boot. And so they set up a sting operation where they sent in the people who pretended to be far could have done this successfully in the past operations to present themselves to intermediaries, Victor boots as farc convinced Victor booth that they were in fact farc and got Victor boot against long odds to actually travel to a country, Thailand. They'd had an extradition treaty with the United States, which seems it seemed preposterous when it happened because he was always very cognizant of whether there were extradition treaties or not. For some reason, he decided to go to Thailand and then he said in the meetings with the undercover agents that he wanted to give them weapons. He hated Americans. He knew the weapons would be used to kill Americans. Wow, he said all that. Eduardo and commandant, they talk about how they want sniper sites for the rifles that they have so that they could quote start blowing the heads off American pilots. Boots response immediately is, yes, they let them run for a while because he was on such a role. And that's what ultimately he's convicted in the U.S. of trying to sell arms to a designated terrorist organization. The farc knowing that the weapons could be used to kill Americans. That's what
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"Equation <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Silence> <Speech_Male> will change. <SpeakerChange> Swapping <Speech_Male> prisoners, <Speech_Male> of course, isn't <Speech_Male> a new <Speech_Male> practice. We even <Speech_Male> saw one earlier this <Speech_Male> year between Russia <Speech_Male> and the United <Speech_Male> States and we covered on the <Speech_Male> show with Trevor <Speech_Male> Reed, <Speech_Male> is it ever <Speech_Male> even are these <Speech_Male> trades <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> ever sort of <Speech_Male> comparable <Speech_Male> <Speech_Male> crimes or suspected <Speech_Male> crimes or <Speech_Male> accusations or <Speech_Male> whatever it might be? <Speech_Male> No, I mean, they <Speech_Male> really aren't. 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"What makes him the merchant of death, it's such a incredible, powerful and horrifying title, was he wildly successful in comparison to other arms dealers around the world? Oh, without question. He could move this stuff and drop it with pinpoint accuracy to any desert to any jungle to any other remote place in the world right into the hands of what I refer to as the potpourri of global scum. Many people could sell you lots of AK-47s across Africa. I was living there in the times of the war and covering the wars. It wasn't hard to acquire crappy old Soviet weapons. It wasn't hard to acquire a few hand grenades. But what Victor boot brought to the table was the ability to deliver attack helicopters. Deliver anti tank weapons that could be fired through entire villages and burn a village down with one shot. The fact that you could bring in high caliber machine guns. Rocket propelled grenades, no one else could do that. After the wall came down, $32 billion worth of arms were stolen and resold from Ukraine alone. One of the greatest heists of the 20th century. The primary market was Africa. 11 major complex involving 32 countries in less than a decade, a gun runner's wet dream. And so as he built his reputation, both sides of the same conflict would hire him on numerous occasions. So in what was then Zaire, you had mu Bhutto, the dictator who had been there a long time being chased out of office by Laurent Kabila's forces sweeping across the DRC and Victor was selling weapons to both sides and while Kabila's forces were trying to kill mobuto literally as he was fleeing the country. He flew out of the country on Victor boots aircraft. So he had armed the people who were trying to shoot down his own airplane. And the president and that's what made him so incredibly successful was that he could do all of that. And one of the questions I asked in my co author asked a lot of people, why did both sides tolerate this? Why didn't someone kill him? And there was like, well, you don't kill the mailman. Bleak. He's the one person who could deliver. You just don't kill the mailman. Like, are you stupid? And I was like, well, maybe I may be I am, but that was consistently the answer he did what he said he would do at the price he said he would do it at. And that made him unusually successful. Who was his supplier this whole time? Is it just Russia? It was the entire former Soviet bloc where all of these arsenals had been abandoned. Ukraine wasn't the only former state with an unpaid army in stockpiles of guns. There was Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Belarus. All there for the taking. So if someone showed up and paid the commander a $1000 and said, I'll take this load of weapons out. Thank you very much. Fine. And most of the Soviet era, major arsenals had air strips built into their facilities. So he could land there, load up and fly out, and it was apparently a relatively easy process. It sounds like he did a lot of dirty deeds. Especially on the continents of Africa, does his involvement in them play a central role in accelerating the conflict or accelerating the end of the conflict. How important a player is he in these conflicts? Is ability to supply weapons to some of the worst warlords on the planet was, I think, transformational for those wars. Elevating bloody conflicts from machetes and single shot rifles to. AK-47s, not by the thousands, but by the tens of thousands. When these wars started, most people had hunting rifles and machetes, and they were nasty and they were hellacious, but when you add AK-47s and light anti tank weapons and RPGs, obviously the human toll escalates dramatically. He transformed these young adolescent warriors into
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"Is not restricted from that. But we still have no idea when she might be released. Absolutely none. Has the shaken the faith of other WNBA players that they can spend the off season playing in Russia for more money? Is this basically the end of that phenomena? Well, it seems clear that nobody's going back to Russia. One, just, you know, the state of the world. But if somehow there were some resolution and there was something like a normal stable government over there without Vladimir Putin in power, would it happen? It's really hard to say because you just can't imagine that. All you know is that for the time being, Russia is completely off limits. But they're also really needs to be a conversation about who people are getting into business with. The NBA had a an owner of a team that was a Russian oligarch and the English Premier League. There are football teams that are owned by oligarchs or oil money from the Middle East. When you go into business with an oligarch or if you're a player who goes to get a paycheck from oligarch, these are not plucky business people who started a lemonade stand and built it into something. No, they're part of a criminal enterprise, and that's who you're getting into business with. So beyond Russia, there is a larger question to be had in the sports world about.
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Just search, stay tuned with pre wherever you get your podcasts. Find slimer for the dark and that's what the sellout crowd is waiting for. They explained we're back with ESPN investigative journalist TJ Quinn and TJ, you've spent the past two months following this Britney grinder's story, but you just mentioned the Trevor Reed story, former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed is back in Texas tonight after his surprise release from a Russian prison camp, part of a secretive high level prisoner swap. Tell us why that story is so important to Britney story. Trevor Reed is crucial to her story. He was former U.S. Marine who had actually worked in president Obama's detail in The White House, his family said that he was over there learning Russian and visiting his girlfriend. And Reed was arrested after a drunken night when officials say that he hit a cop. And Paul Whelan was accused of espionage. Whelan now asking his brother, why was I left behind? Why hasn't more been done to secure my release? Whelan is a corporate security director for a company out of Michigan that does business in Russia. And the U.S. government followed pretty much a similar path of just watching what happened with their cases, not really reacting. They got through their trial, independent observers watched this and determined this is ludicrous. These charges are ridiculous. And so at that point, once they were convicted, the U.S. government started saying they're both wrongfully detained. Trevor Reed started to get sick. He his parents believe that he contracted tuberculosis over there and it was untreated. He looked horrible. He looked like he could hardly walk. He looked like he'd been walking shackled. In fact, when we both saw that video this morning first time we started crying. And you saw a real split in strategy. Paul Whelan's family has been fairly low key about it, but Trevor Reid's parents, both of their own volition and through advice they got were really pushing hard saying we need attention on him, our son is over there may be dying in a Russian prison with his terrible care, finally just last week, a deal was cut where he was sent home in exchange for a Russian pilot who had been convicted in this country of trafficking, pretty much a straight trade. And there was immediate reaction of why can't you get all of them out? What about Paul Whelan? His family was very upset. And the number of people I've spoken to at the State Department said, look, here's what's different about Trevor Reid's case. One, his health. There was an emergency. They had to get him out. But they also really kind of flinched at the idea that it was the public campaign of the reeds that got him out. The people you talk to in states say, hey, look, we've got as much motivation as anybody. Maybe not their families, but we have all the motivation we need to get them out of there. Just personally, politically, ethically. The president is focused on that. And we would say to him, we are going to continue to do everything possible to bring you home. And there's frustration from them that there's not more public trust in what they do. And that is the real conundrum for a lot of these families and for the State Department and I've talked to people around Brittany griner about this. Essentially what they're doing is asking an unbelievably skeptical public to accept that institutions are operating the way they should and the people who run them are acting competently and in good faith. We are just not built to think that anymore, not in this culture in society. So, you know, the people around Brittany that I talked to kept saying, look, no, we have faith in the people who are doing this. We think that they're really doing their best. But they also started to get impatient. And once Trevor Reid came home, that was a big deal to people around Brittany griner because they recognized okay, maybe Britney's case is different, but it means that there is an open channel. You've got two hostile governments that aren't quite at war with each other, but the U.S. is certainly supporting Ukraine. And just the fact that they were able to strike a deal for him gave them a bit of optimism. They didn't have before. You know, hearing Trevor Reid's story and hearing that Russia got something out of detaining him. They got a trade with the United States, a one for one trade. It does sort of make me think again that Brittany griner could be detained, not just because she had some hash oil on her. If she did, but because she is great leverage for Russia against the United States, if they want to trade her for another detained Russian, the reality is it doesn't matter if she did it or not, frankly. You know, if she did, fine, you know, they can still trade for. If she didn't, well, it doesn't matter in the Russian judicial system because if they say she did, she did. The U.S. government says there's absolutely no proof that Paul Whelan committed espionage over there, but the Russians said he did and they convicted him and they've got him in jail. So what's the difference with Brittany griner, what changed at this point was there was some indication that the U.S. government got that there is a deal to be made. And once that happens, it really doesn't matter whether she actually did what they accused her of. And even if she did go over there with vape cartridges and violate Russian law, they still want to try to get her out. So it becomes all about a negotiation. And the sign that was really promising to Brittany griner supporters was it wasn't just that the U.S. government reclassified her as being wrongfully detained. It's that former U.S. ambassador Bill Richardson, who is worked for years with his organization privately to negotiate for hostages around the world. They got involved. I think this is a good sign. The Russians actually made this deal right now. Maybe they're sending a signal. Maybe they're ready to talk. I'm not sure. I don't think so. But I think it's good news for Britney and for Paul Whelan. And I'm going to do everything I can to get them out. They were deeply involved in Trevor Reed's case. They're allowed to do things that the U.S. government is not. The government is restrained by U.S. law about what kind of negotiations they can have, who they can talk to, involving third parties and some sort of trade. Bill Richardson is a private citizen.
Today, Explained
"brittney griner" Discussed on Today, Explained
"There, that it's time to start moving. So mom's the word when everyone finds out, but now here we are almost 80 days later. Do we know what Britney's experience has been? Has she been able to speak out about this publicly? She hasn't at all. The only connection to her has been her representatives to her lawyers. U.S. consular officials were able to visit her back in March and reported that she was okay. What I'm hearing from people around her is that she's good considering. I mean, she's in jail in a foreign country. She doesn't speak the language, supposedly there are people around her who do speak English. She has reading material, the other reports that it was tough to find a bed to fitter, which would make sense. She is 6 foot 9. And that she's doing okay considering. But there's no way to independently verify that. It's tough. BG is us. We are BG, you know, that could have been us. We're really most concerned about her health and safety, especially her mental health. We want her home. Just imagine showing up for the start of a season and the biggest player in the game is not there. You can't just pretend all of a sudden that Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan or somebody just isn't there. And it's been tough for players who wanted to speak out more, but now they know that they have some freedom to start doing that. I think about her every day. And I can't wait till she gets back here with us. And he saw some incremental increase in how much they were talking about her. At the WNBA draft a few weeks ago. She continues to have our full support. First statement out of the commissioner's mouth was about Brittany griner. And certainly we're trying everything we can every angle working through with her legal representation, her agent, elected leaders, the administration, just everybody in our ecosystem to try and find ways to get her home safely and quickly as we can. And then just last week, there was a discussion about putting a decal on the floor of games. The WNBA is honoring grinder with floor decals of her initials, BG, and the number 42 in all of its arenas. And these are all deliberate, it's all strategic to slowly start to ramp up the amount of tension that her case is getting. And the U.S. government is now talking about her too. Well, that was the big change. It's a U.S. government will now negotiate more aggressively to win Britney greiner's release and will not wait for the Russian legal system to play out here. The people around her were just sort of waiting for permission or a sign that now it's time to really start speaking out. A State Department spokesperson saying in a statement they have now determined that the Russian Federation has wrongfully detained griner and that a special presidential envoy for hostage affairs will lead the interagency team for securing her release. When you talk about protests, you got to think about, well, who is it that you're actually protesting? Are you trying to create public pressure against Vladimir Putin? Because that's probably not going to work. This is somebody who launched an invasion united much of the world against him has been hit with the biggest sanctions and geopolitical history. And that didn't change him. So it seems unlikely that a hashtag is going to influence what he does. The real pressure that they want to create is with the U.S. government to try to force The White House and the State Department to make her a priority to cut a deal and get her home. And.
Today, Explained
"brittney griner" Discussed on Today, Explained
"And maybe a little showtime. The two handed finish she is like nobody who has ever played and then she is dominated every level she's ever been. She's also become kind of a cultural icon as well for her sexuality for her struggles with mental health issues. She's become someone who really is more than an athlete to the people who follow her. She's talked about the struggles she had growing up about standing out the way she did. Always bigger, deeper voice, flat chest, big feet, and I remember I forgot the girl's name, but she came up to me and she was with her friends. She was like, look, she's not a girl and she literally grabbed my chest and like had like patted me like that. I was like, look, I was so embarrassed. I mean, one thing about her is there's never been a room that she's walked into where she was not the absolute center of attention. She's 6 foot 9, so her whole life has been people staring at her, sort of picking her apart and she has talked about the anger and frustration that built up and what a release basketball became for her. She was the best high school player in the country. She got a sign with Baylor, won a national title there. All American, the number one overall draft pick in the WNBA when she went professional, perennial, all star. I mean, what stands out is her size and she plays a sort of physical dominant game, both defensively and offensively that stand out, but she also she dunks in games, which is not common in the WNBA. Or just roll perfectly slam dunk Brittany grinder you know, you watch her and it's just a skill in her game that's beyond just the sheer size she has. So it's fair to say that she's one of the best players in the WNBA. One of the best players in basketball history. What is one of the best players in basketball history doing in Russia? The women who play in the WNBA, which is the highest level of basketball played in that sport, can only make a few $100,000 at the most. There's a hard salary cap for what they can make. There are limited marketing opportunities for women who play professional basketball, but in Russia, like as in a number of countries in Europe and the Middle East, she's able to make more than a $1 million playing for one of the teams there, that's owned by oligarchs. So there's this long history of WNBA players making something that'd be a good salary for most people, but really low for someone of their skill. Going to Russia, turkey, where they make much higher salaries. And so she has been spending her off season, making three, four, sometimes 5 times the salary she could make in the U.S. by playing in Russia. I didn't become aware of it until my junior and senior year in college and I started to realize that the WNBA doesn't make as much money as people assume as much as we assume. I didn't know coming in as a rookie. It was only going to make $40,000. By the way, it's not just the money. It's the way they were treated over there. I mean, they get the full treatment they get private jets. Every need is attended to, you feel less like an employee and more like a star. And you can see why that would be attractive. So it sounds like there hasn't been any question about safety concerns. I don't recall anybody really raising safety concerns. And I think one reason is when you are going over there under the protection of an oligarch, it is the equivalent of walking into a neighborhood when the local crime boss says, you know, so and so is okay. No one's going to touch you. And that really is how the oligarch system works in Russia. So let's talk about how Brittany griner ends up being detained in Russia. Where does that story start? That starts February 17th when she flew over there as she has many times and landed at the airport outside of Moscow. You watching the video that customs officials released and she's just going through the baggage check like normal and then she gets pulled out of the line. What happens after that is in dispute. Authorities say griner was taken into custody at the Moscow airport in February. Customs agents allegedly found vapes with liquid cannabis or hash oil in her carry on which is illegal substance in Russia. She actually has not said one way or the other or nor have a representatives. And from that time on, she was in custody, but there was no attention to it in this country. Russia didn't announce it, they kept it very low profiling. Her representatives were almost immediately in contact with the U.S. State Department. And the advice that the State Department gave them was look, you need to keep a low profile right now. There are two directions this can go. Russia has nominally at least a criminal justice system. It is, I think, quite demonstrably corrupt. And subject to the rule of one man, Vladimir Putin and his government, but there is one and it does operate. And until they have some idea of how she's being treated, it's better for you to keep a low profile because the other path is if she becomes too valuable. If there's a ton of attention to her, well then she's a potential asset to Putin and his government for something that they want to trade for. And that was not the road you wanted to be on. They followed the State Department's advice and kept a very low profile until about three weeks later in early March, Russian customs officials did announce it in this country. We heard about it. I think first The New York Times, that she had been detained. And then there was this immediate response over here. Wait a second. How can one of the world's best athletes have been in detention for more than two weeks and nobody knew about it? That was intentional. They really wanted to keep a low profile. She's got lawyers over there trying to see, can we work this out through the criminal justice system? And then when you had a number of members of Congress and prominent athletes, you know, raising the issue of, if this were a male athlete, if this was LeBron James or somebody, people would be going out of their minds. But in this one case, the people who support Brittany griner, lament the inequities in women's sports in this country, but here's where to their advantage because they felt like, okay, let's just, let's keep quiet as long as we can. See if we can work this out because if she becomes essentially a hostage to Putin, then you're in a whole new world. As I recall, because this was happening so close to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it felt like Russia maybe was trying to get a little leverage on the United States. Potentially, by detaining this star athlete for having hashish oil on her. It's entirely possible, and people who follow Russia immediately thought of the fact that there is a well established history of Russian law enforcement planning drugs on people in order to arrest them. This is what they do. And even though the war hadn't started the invasion hadn't started yet in February 17th, they knew it was coming. So for those inclined to think this was a setup, the pieces were there. There's Russia's history of doing that. The fact that she's high profile, easily identifiable, the fact that she's also a 6 foot 9 black lesbian, which in Putin's Russia is a warning to all good Russian mothers look what will happen to your children if you liberalize like the west, they knew that the motivation was there and that she was potentially a chit to trade for something if they wanted it. But there are also a number of people who said, well, wait a second. They're not making a big deal out of this. They arrested her. It's entirely possible that she did do it. And just because they're politicizing it or they may be willing to trade for her doesn't mean that necessarily she didn't actually commit the crime. She was she was accused of, who knows. But what's become clear to the U.S. government at some point is that Russia is open for business. And that they don't need to wait a year for her to go to trial. You can hold someone pretrial detention for a year over.
The Lead
"brittney griner" Discussed on The Lead
"Geopolitical negotiations. I met him once in the Clinton administration when he first came in. I don't think he has the edge, but he's clearly been very unhelpful to the United States. He very crafty guy. He hasn't played it straight, but he's, you know, he's somebody that he's a big player here. And when I asked Tom firestone about those two guys, you know, he made it clear that they wouldn't have gotten to where they are today if they were not exceptionally good at what they do. They're obviously both well respected. I mean, karstens would not have been appointed to that position. Unless there was great confidence in him and his ability to resolve these highly sensitive matters. Of karstens is obviously involved in the Reed case and successfully got mister readout. Richardson's has been involved in a number of these situations, you know, readers out. So I think that speaks well for both of them. There will, of course, be other people involved as well, but overall it looks like this very high powered team will not be giving Britney grinder's case a lot of attention. And so overall, this feels like a very positive development. It definitely seems like it, as Tom firestone pointed out, the U.S. government probably wouldn't have made this change in approach or announced a publicly if they didn't have some degree of confidence that they'll be able to get Brittany grinder out. When they make this statement, they are basically raising the profile of the case. They're drawing public attention to it. So it puts more pressure on them, self created pressure to do something to get her out. So it will hopefully succeed. And, you know, considering where things stand with U.S. Russian relations at the moment with all the sanctions over the war in Ukraine with talk about nuclear war, the fact that the two sides seem willing to talk and to negotiate at all is definitely a positive sign for Brittany griner as well. I had previously been very pessimistic about the ability of the U.S. government to do anything given the current political situation. But look, the result in the Reed case speaks for itself. He is now a free man a month ago. He was not. So I think that that's encouraging that they are getting behind this case in this way. Wanders, thanks for digging into this and breaking it all down for us. My pleasure tip. Coming up, what to watch for when Brittany griner team, the Phoenix mercury, and other teams around the WNBA, begin the season this weekend. We get support from whoop, the world's most powerful personalized digital fitness and health coach. 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The thing with the mercury is there's so top heavy that the regular season is just perennially a slog for Phoenix because they invest so much of their cap into superstars that it's hard to have the depth to fill out for a full regular season. And I think we saw that last year too when they finished 5th and then made the run to the WNBA finals. So with or without grinder, I wouldn't expect this team to have a ton of regular season success. I'm a little concerned just defensively, you know, Britney's a huge force in the middle and deters a lot of shots. So as far as the mercury concerned, I think they're going to be like super high powered offensively. You know, any time you can combine scholarly and smith's tarazi and Dina Charles, that's a lot of scoring power, but I do worry a little bit about their defense. I think on the whole it's gonna be like a slightly average above average team during the regular season not to say that that can't change during the playoffs, obviously, but I wouldn't expect them to be lighting the doors on fire, you know, during the 36 games to start the era. This is Diana chassis's 18th season. And I mean, 18 seasons is insane to me. So what can we expect from her? I think we're going to see some load management from Diana tarazi, like I wouldn't expect her to play more than 28 games, you know, just to be conservative in terms of preparing for the playoffs and then also because this is a shorter regular season given the fact that the WWE has to finish in time for the World Cup, which is happening in September. So I don't think this is like an all WNBA season that we should be expecting from Diana Ross. I think she'll look really great sometimes and then some nights it'll look like she's in her 18th WBC's and then four years old and probably unable to summon it all the time. But I'm just excited to watch her play because when she's going, there's literally nobody in the link that's more fun to watch than to try. Definitely. Now you mentioned this a little bit before, but Phoenix just missed claiming their fourth WNBA championship last year losing to the Chicago sky in the finals. So let's now talk about last year's champion. The sky are led by hometown hero Candace Parker, and this is a team that seemed to come out of nowhere to win that title. So do they have what it takes to repeat? Well, nobody in the WNBA has repeated in 20 years. The last team to do it was the Los Angeles sparks in 2001 and 2002. And even though I think Chicago has probably the most talented team in the WNBA this year or at least among the top one or two most talented teams, it's just hard to bet on that repeats through ending just because there's so many factors that go into whether a team is going to be peaking at the right time and Chicago, like you mentioned, you know, they finished the regular season 16 and 16 last year and then just played their best.
ESPN Daily
"brittney griner" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"These generations. And so what you're describing TJ to be blunt again here is another paradox. This is a progressive cause in theory, women's sports being funded dramatically by people who are complicit in an autocratic regime. Yeah, progressive in this case is in the eye of the beholder. The oligarchs who run these teams and pay these salaries. I don't think they're in it for the cause. The economics of it are such that both in terms of money and in terms of social capital that they place great value in these teams they own and the success of those teams and they're willing to pay a ton of money to do it. And what those athletes now are going to have to confront is the same question that the English Premier League and the NBA have to confront right now. You know, you had a Russian oligarch, Mikhail prakaram, who owned the nets until a couple of years ago. And it's a huge fight in the UK right now with the Brahma vich being forced to sell Chelsea, one of the, you know, one of the great franchises in that country's history is in utter chaos because of it. And people know where oligarchs get their money. These are, you know, these are not stupid people running these organizations. They could Google and figure out how all the guards get rich and who supports them. But they were willing to live with it because the money was so good. And that falls on the athletes too is if you're taking the check and you like the money and you like the attention and maybe there's good reason socially to do it. But this is who you're getting into business with. Well, TJ, I do wonder now if we are at a turning point, a real one because of the invasion of Ukraine because of the reckoning out in the cold light of day that you're describing that maybe this isn't a side job that people are going to eagerly sign up for despite the benefits financial and lifestyle that you've described. Like where are the WNBA players besides Brittany griner now? Where are they geographically at this point who usually play in Russia? Well, a lot of them are home. Others are going to be looking at teams in Italy and Israel and turkey. Look, with all those countries, there are hot button geopolitical issues without a doubt. And if anybody, I don't care what sport it is, men's women's U.S. UK, Russia, the way some owners make their money. People are going to have.
ESPN Daily
"brittney griner" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Possible.