During a diplomatic visit to Cambodia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is ready to discuss a potential prisoner swap after WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on drug charges. NBC News’ Kelly Cobiella and legal analyst Danny Cevallos explain how Griner reacted to her sentencing and where negotiations to a prisoner swap stand a day after her conviction.Â
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Shouldn’t we release American prisoners for marijuana first ?? The hypocrisy !!
Imagine trying to smuggle drugs into or around the USA !!
Biden is a hypocrite !!! Many Americans in prison for marijuana in the USA !!
I am super grateful Brittany is locked up 🤘
Should the USA release Mexican drug smugglers?? Ah the hypocrisy
There's nothing to discuss… Russia can have her.
Go to Nebraska with what she had and its a automatic felony! I smoke everyday. Do the crime do the time!
Not a good idea. The prisoners they want in return are at a whole new level and this will turn on us. Sorry.
What about that teacher that’s in there with her?
IF YOU CAN'T DO THE TIME, DON'T DO THE CRIME ! "GRINER IS GUILTY" LEAVE HER THERE "BRING PAUL HOME.
SHE'S NOT A PAWN, SHE'S A CRIMINAL
As it was said in a old tv show beretta, if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime !!! You should try kneeling and see if that helps !!enjoy your new country !!!
Unlike visa, the race card is not accepted everywhere.
THERE ARE PEOPLE DOING LIFE IN PRISON FOR WEED HERE IN THE US.
O, we care about people being locked up for weed now. I want to know what Kamala has to say. Maybe she thinks this is hilarious too.
Republicans kiss Putin's butt because racism…
Nah too late. You keep that trash. Thanks
9 years is harsh but if they get her out they better let out the 40,000 + in jail in the states for pot.
Hope we can get her back home. I write about addiction
https://youtu.be/Xaz2DcTjedgHard She’s NO drug addict . Bad enough being in prison let alone be an American in a Russian prison especially during today’s crisis.
Biden just needs to start absorbing Russian businesses in the U. S.
Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals
I can’t believe we are even discussing the possibility of trading a refer addict, entitled wnba player in exchange for a genocidal mass murder who if let lose will no doubt cost countless more innocent people their lives. He’s already killed thousands of bystanders in cold blood. Surely this is a joke, a sick, disgusting joke at that. This isn’t a viable option.
Well that sucks
It’s not like she’s innocent. This is BS
Shows how the US favors the wealthy and famous above all else. She's a terrible basketball player, but being famous means she will get extradited out of the US for drug possessions while tens of thousands of Americans are arrested for the same offense.
2 stones are not worth an arms dealer