We want her home. We're really most concerned about her health and safety, especially her mental health. Just imagine showing up for the start of a season and the biggest player in the game is not there. Grindr when you talk about protests, you got to think about who is it that youre actually protesting? Are you trying to create public pressure against vladimir puden? Cause that's probably not going to work. It seems unlikely that hashtags is going to influence what he does. The real pressure that they want to create is with the us. Government to try to force the white house and the state department to make her a priority,. to cut a deal and get her
A week before Russia invaded Ukraine, it detained WNBA superstar Brittney Griner. Now the United States is turning up the pressure to get her released. ESPN’s T.J. Quinn explains.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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