Kirby: ‘Nobody's Doing Backflips Here … That [Viktor] Bout Is A Free Man’

John Kirby discusses Brittney Griner’s release after ten months. “What message would it send the world, let alone the American people, if we just let these people languish forever and not make any effort to get them home,” Kirby said on Meet the Press NOW.
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[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

'Wrongfully' detain... someone who knowingly smuggled their cannabis vape oil into a country where it's illegal.

[@AlexSanchez-tr5fu]

These people should be fired for saying wrongfully arrest

[@sedgwickmcalaster7785]

We do the same thing with the American legal system if she had been a nobody she'd still be in prison

[@asha8443]

It was a bad trade. Period.

[@lucasnarelaguilar402]

You released the “lord of war” to a country actively in a war. This will result in many deaths. She also broke the law in a foreign country, so it’s not a full unjust retention. Glad she’s back but simply not worth the lives it will cost.

[@AlexSanchez-tr5fu]

Big win for Russia

[@ALLforROME]

Send her back please! 💯

[@antoniogomez1290]

Send Griner BACK and save our true American service man!!!! Boycott the WNBA

[@B86432]

They had to choose between grinder & Paul they chose Griner 🤣🤣🤣 you never get to talk about gun control ever again

[@georgewashington1106]

I'd like to be selling used cars to everybody who thinks trading an international arms dealer for a basketball player is a good deal. I'd make a fortune.

[@rayjay238]

Not doing back flips but running to the camera to pat yourself on the back. An arms dealer for a basketball player.

[@wolfcrewe7474]

Don’t want to mention the CIA working with him and being just as responsible as Viktor Bout?

[@LifeStyle-vi5rp]

Very bad deal. Now Putin have an extra soldier to fight in Ukraine

[@mickeyandres2651]

Griner is a convicted and self admitted world renowned drug smuggler ffs.

[@AlexSanchez-tr5fu]

This admin keeps lying about wrongful detaining

[@11GW]

chuck knows this a terrible deal he just can't say it

[@ericafitzgerald]

Imagine how many innocent people will die now that Viktor Bout is free. The United States constitution doesn't follow you when traveling to foreign soil. She should've known what she was bringing to Russia out of all countries, but athletes really think they are above the law.

[@leonardmacaulay9833]

When “didn’t” she commit the crime ? So trade a person that took illicit drugs (accidentally or not) but fits almost every virtue so craved for by the MSM and put “The Merchant of Death” back on the street. So if our travels have to be altered by “security threats” should thank Ms Grindr ?

[@RoniForeva]

The BS this man is saying is the reason why i stopped watching MSM

[@ksmith2852]

Those poor people that risked their lives to capture the arms dealer and