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brittney's in good spirits. shea's relieved to finally be heading home. >> reporter: the u.s. wanted to trade bout for griner and american paul whelan but russian refused. in an exclusive interview whelan told cnn he's surprised he wasn't included. >> i am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release. i'm happy that brittney is going home today and that trevor went home when he did, but i don't understand why i'm still sitting here. my bags are packed. i'm ready to go home. >> whelan told cnn that the russians see him at a higher level than griner. he's been charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years. >> this was not a choice of which american to bring home. the choice was one or none. i wholeheartedly wish we could have brought paul home today on the same plane as brittney. >> reporter: the question is how

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Alex Wagner Tonight

released under this administration. today we are able to do that with brittney griner. >> one more, does the president have any plans to greet brittney at the white house. what is the ticker tape parade gonna look like? >> so, don't have anything to preview, as you know. the president biden -- the president -- also the vice president and secretary blinken had an opportunity to speak directly to brittney as she was flying back home. he said welcome, welcome home. welcome home to brittney. and so they also said she was in good spirits. don't have anything yet to share on that. but obviously we are thrilled that she is back and we are going to continue to fight for every american that is wrongfully detained. >> 294 days, it is great that she is finally coming home. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre, thank you as always for joining us. >> thanks, alex. >> now, let's turn to michael mcfaul. former u.s. ambassador to russia and nbc news international affairs analyst. michael, it is great to have you.

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Early Start With Christine Romans

speaking out about the release of brittney griner and their inability to free brittney gr griner. >> i'm absolutely supportive of it. i think to prolong the punishment of one american in a foreign hostage situation in the hope that you might be able to bring home two of them is absolutely the wrong call for the u.s. president. an american in that situation who has the possibility of coming home, i think the u.s. president has to bring them home. unfortunately for my brother and our family, it's not our family member, but i think from the perspective of americans, that's the right decision. >> there should be no american standing against getting home a wrongfully detained american who is held overseas because hostile foreign countries are trying to start problems over here. they're trying to create dissension and difficulties. it may be one of the reasons why brittney was held wrongfully in the first place.

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Early Start With Christine Romans

but it's my job as president of the united states to make the hard call to protect american citizens everywhere in the world. >> reporter: she was caught with cannabis oil entering russia spent ten months in russian detention but now she's spared from a brutal 9-year sentence in a russian penal colony. the trade for notorious weapons smuggler viktor bout was finalized in the last 48 hours. griner was moved from her prison to moscow before being flown to abu dhabi where the exchange took place on the tarmac of a small, private airfield. >> i'm glad to see brittney is in good spirits. she is relieved to be finally coming home. >> reporter: the u.s. wanted to trade for both prisoners but russia refused. whelan said he was surprised he wasn't included. >> i am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release. i'm happy that brittney is going

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home today and that trevor went home when he did, but i don't understand why i'm still sitting here. my bags are packed. i'm ready to go home. >> reporter: whelan told cnn that the russians see him at a higher level than griner. he's been charged with espionage and sentenced to 16 years. >> this was not a choice of which american to bring home. the choice was one or none. i wholeheartedly wish that we could have brought paul home today on the same plane as brittney. >> reporter: the big question is how to get paul whelan home. who will the russians want in exchange? is the u.s. willing to do it? whelan clearly frustrated told cnn russia got the better of thursday's deal. he said griner was traded for a world class felon and now russia is dangling him, paul whelan, over russia's head and will ask for something big. >> alex, thank you for that. paul whelan's siblings are

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CNN This Morning

this morning. >> what a day yesterday. obviously we knew for a couple days that negotiations were intensifying, this has been a ten month process and the brave men and women of the state department, administration, that's why you heard so much gratitude, it's an amazing outcome for brittney and her families, her parents, her wife, and i can't imagine what's going on in texas in a reunited situation. so much joy and brittney deserved to be home, she was wrongfully detained we're happy she's reunited with her family today. >> can you give us an idea of the past few days. you said you had been working with the wnba and the state department to get her home and you couldn't say anything while you were working on it. but what can you share now? >> when the state department deemed her wrongfully detained

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we've been working with a special envoy for hostage affairs knowing how complex the moment was and the situation and how hard these men and women of the state department are working. you know, they would say we're all brittney all the time and obviously working on all wrongfully detained americans around the globe. really just the courage they showed, the resilience that brittney showed. this was not an easy ten months and we're anxious to get to talk to her. we're anxious to talk to her, the wnba players kept her front and center and they're rock stars as well. >> she wrote you letters from there. i know she wrote you a few months ago. i wonder what you wrote to her and what you'll say to her when you get to talk to her? >> i will say her letter handwritten before she got moved further outside of moscow was inspiring. she was hanging in there. she ended the letter with

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Morning Joe

propose a one for one swap where you could choose either brittney griner or paul whelan or was it brittney griner or nothing? >> in this case, the deal was bout for brittney, that was as far as it was going to go. so we were left with, do we bring brittney home and execute this swap, get an american citizen home to her family where she belongs or get none of them. it wasn't going to work getting both of them. we are still working them. we're going to be careful what we put out in the public space in terms of ongoing negotiations. we know now, and we know better what the russians are looking for with respect to mr. whelan. >> the russians never posed a bout for whelan swap, one for one? >> they put paul in a different category. and so the only person that they

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Americas Newsroom

other americans being held. what can you say to those families today to reassure them that they won't be forgotten? >> thanks, dana, for having me. we know. yesterday you talked about the joyous today. it is for the griner family. it was bittersweet at the white house. we're very glad to see brittney released but we're reminded every time you get one american home, it is a reminder there are still others being held unjustly overseas. families that will miss them that will be sitting at the table with an empty chair. we're mindful of that and working every day. you may not see it. you and i may not talk about it on tv but i can assure you the national security team is working very hard to get all unjustly held americans and wrongfully detained americans back home where they belong. a lot of that work understandably and rightly has to be done quietly and out of the public eye to try to affect the proper negotiations.

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>> to the u.s.? >> to the u.s. >> everything will be fine. >> russian state media also released video of the prisoner exchange which took place at an airport in the united arab emirates. the video appears to show griner crossing paths with viktor bout, the notorious russian arms dealer the united states traded for griner's release. former u.s. marine paul whelan remains in russia, where he has been since 2018, on espionage charges. secretary of state antony blinken said yesterday the administration continues to engage with russia to secure whelan's release. >> this was not a choice of which american to bring home, the choice was one or none. i wholeheartedly wish we could have brought paul home today on the same plane as brittney, just

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