Trevor Reed's Story Is Crucial to Britney's Story.

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Trevor reed was released from a russian prison camp, part of a secretive high level prisoner swap. His parents believed that he contracted tuberculosis over there and was untreated. The people around brittany grinder kept saying, looked, no, we have faith in the people who are doing this. But they also start to get impatient.

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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