Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens recounted the poignant moment when he met Griner on the tarmac in the United Arab Emirates to accompany her back to the US.
“I said, ‘Britney, my name is Ambassador Roger Carstens. I’m with the US Department of State. And on behalf of the President of the United States Joe Biden and Secretary of State Tony Blinkem, I’m here to take you home,'” the envoy told host Dana Bashon on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“And at that moment I think that every person realizes that it’s going to happen, it’s setting in; certainly Brittney felt that way.”with international arms dealer Viktor Bout on Thursday after being busted at a Moscow airport with cannabis oil.in Mordovia, Russia while the US negotiated her release with the warring nation.
Brittney Griner “looked great” on her flight home to the US after being held in a Russian prison for 10 months.After her ordeal, Carstens thought the hoopster would want to spend the long flight home deep in thought, but Griner had other ideas. “When she finally got on to the US plane, I said ‘Brittney, you must have been through a lot over the last ten months. Here’s your seat, feel free to decompress, we’ll give you your space.’
“And she said, ‘Oh no. I’ve been in prison for 10 months now listening to Russian. I want to talk. But first of all, who are these guys?'”Roger Carstens, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, describes his experience meeting Brittney Griner after she was released from a Russian prison.
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