top of the hour, this thursday morning, quite a day of news, i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm erica hill. we do begin with this major breaking news, brittney griner is now on her way home to the united states. the wnba star released this morning in a prisoner exchange with russia. exchanged for convicted arms dealer viktor bout. here's president biden this morning at the white house. >> it's my job as president of the united states to make the hard calls and protect american citizens everywhere in the world, anywhere in the world, and i'm proud that today we had made one more family whole again so welcome home, brittney. >> cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, state department, the

u.s. and its partners, its allies have been working this for months since she was detained on february 17th. who do we know about the details of the exchange and how this negotiation came to be? >> reporter: well, that's right, jim. this has been an effort that has been under way by u.s. officials since much earlier this year, of course, we'll remind folks that brittney griner was detained in russia just days before russia invaded ukraine and that effort got under way pretty swiftly to try to get her and paul whelan out, but we should note that u.s. officials were trying to secure the release of both of those americans, obviously they're incredibly elated that brittney griner is on her way home today, but what they're making clear is that it became clear to them that they weren't going to be able to get both of these folks, both of these americans home with the president saying this was not a choice that they really had to go with this swap, one for one,

viktor bout who is a convicted arms trafficker serving a 25-year prison sentence here in the united states for brittney griner and i want you to listen to what david whelan who is paul whelan, the other american who is still detained in russia said earlier on cnn this morning, really expressing his concern about how the united states will now be able to get his brother home. >> someone from the white house let us know which was very kind. it's hard to process this in realtime which is what we had to do last april when paul was left behind before and trevor reed came home and it's a great day for the families of the wrongfully detained and we feel wonderful for them. but we do worry about what's in paul's future. i think it's become clear that the u.s. doesn't have any concessions that the russian government wants for paul and so i'm not really sure -- i'm not really sure of what the future holds. >> so, of course, questions as to what the united states can

now put on the table for russia to try and secure paul whelan's release. but, of course, we should note that brittney griner's wife, cherelle griner was saying this was a happy day. the biden administration and cherelle committing to get paul whelan home, guys. >> so gracious of the whelan family to express their happiness for the griners but in an understandably difficult moment for them. thanks so much. cnn senior white house correspondent mj lee is also with us. the president spoke earlier this morning. he was flanked by brittney griner's wife cherelle and the vice president and that's when we heard from cherelle for the first time. both her and bg as she said to continue that fight for paul whelan and other detained americans. >> reporter: the president right off the bat began his speech by celeb celebrating. he stepped out into the room as you said with brittney griner's

wife, cherelle and said the hell and nightmare that brittney griner and her family have been through over the last few months are now over and that she is expected to arrive back in the united states within the next 24 hours, but the other message that was so clearly delivered from the president is how much paul whelan remains top of mind for the president. he wanted to make sure that anybody who is watching including whelan's family heard this from him. >> we never forgot about brittney. we've not forgotten about paul whelan who has been unjustly detained in russia for year. this was not a choice of which american to bring home. we brought home trevor reed when we had a chance earlier this year. sadly for totally illegitimate reasons russia is treating paul's case differently than brittney's and while we have not yet succeeded in securing paul's release, we are not giving up. we will never give up. >> reporter: so there are two things going on here, one is the

celebration of brittney griner's release but second is the recognition, the regrettable and unfortunate recognition as u.s. officials have been saying that paul whelan ultimately had to be left out of this deal and officials have been making very clear that this was a very difficult decision for the president personally, that it was in recent weeks that russia made clear that whelan simply could not be a part of this deal that they would only really accept griner's release and that it was in recent days that president biden personally gave the green light to accept that deal, but, again, that it was not an easy pill to swallow as much as he believed that this was the right thing to do and what the u.s. could get at this time and i guess the other thing i would just finally note and emphasize is just how much pressure the president had come under in recent months to get brittney griner out, whether it's from celebrities, from members of the media, members of her family, of course, and it had become a big priority and problem and now that brittney

griner is free and out, i think that pressure that ramped up pressure will now certainly turn to paul whelan as the administration really continues to promise that they are going to do everything that it can to get him out but as kylie said, we don't know exactly how that is going to happen. >> yeah, with those concerns that david whelan expressed as to what there is in terms of bargaining power, negotiating power. mj, appreciate it. >> he's already been there four years. let's speak to international security editor nick paton walsh. you were the last journalist to sit down for an interview with viktor bout. this mer comment of death as he's been known for the arms dealing he's done, remarkage in interactions with him while he was behind bars . tell us more about him. >> reporter: this was sort of 13 years ago while he was awaiting extradition from thailand to the united states where eventually he was convicted for plotting to supply weapons to colombian terrorists who were, in fact, american agents pretending to be colombian agents. essentially what happened in

thailand he agreed to meet meet people from the drug enforcement agency and agreed to provide them weaponry. he was arrested and then there was an extradition process in thailand which took months, ages as russia and his lawyers tried to held him back to keep him outside of the u.s. justice system which eventually put him away for 25 years. he's not served all of that sentence. this is a very capable man and the enormous disparity here, jim, is between what he says publicly, which is no one ever did nothing wrong. i'm an innocent man. i'm not an arms dealer. i'm essentially a pilot that's been a tradesman in conflict zones passing around innocent goods and the enormous resources moscow has used to get him back to russia. he's a key figure, frankly, in the '90s and early thousands and i think it would be fair to say mythologically among russians in terms of their geopolitical swagger and ability to move arms around conflict zones and choose

people to back all things i should point out, he still denies, but at the same time, too, he's a man who himself openly talks about his relationships with key figures in afghanistan and africa, warlords, et cetera. he says, of course, through the innocent product of supplying his trade around there but there's been multiple investigations and analysts who point out his role as a key arms dealer. i've seen home video that puts him close to conflict zones in africa so clearly a man of a very rich and dark past that moscow urgently wanted back but one who had a great value to the united states as well, hence, the complex sting in thailand. now he's back finally in russia. jim. >> and an enormous disparity between the crimes he was convicted of and the crimes that the u.s. calls wrongful, right, that brittney griner carrying a small amount of cbd oil in the country. nick paton walsh, good to have you on the case. >> cnn senior international correspondent frederick pleitgen

has reported extensively and at brittney griner's trial. the charges between viktor bout and brittney griner vastly different. you just noted in our last hour too being there in the courtroom, the evidence was lacking. >> reporter: the evidence was lacking and in many ways her legal team said had been mishandled as one, one of the strategies they sort of followed to try to get her a more lenient sentence but seemed as though attending that trial, pretty much every single trial date that brittney griner had that the odds were definitely very much stacked up against her. there was that then talking about the evidence, you know, being handled in a faulty way and talking about the fact, you know, jim was just saying those cartridges containing that cbd oil. there was very, very little actual cannabis oil in those cartridges. they said it was i think less than 0.7 of a gram in total and one of her lawyers said afterwards after she was

sentenced. most people in russia get away with a slap on on the wrist, something like probation and brittney griner got more than nine years in jail from that russian court. so it was definitely one gut punch after the next for brittney griner in that court and obviously being sentenced there in the end and just going there was very difficult for her. she was always brought in in handcuff, she was always made to sit inside a cage. they tried everything to bring in character witnesses, russians talking about how great she was, how important she was to basketball and russia, what a great teammate she was, how important she was to her team and none of that seemed to make any sort of difference and so in the end, her legal team was telling me, guy, that they believed a swap was the only way she would get out of this and certainly it was extremely difficult for brittney griner when she was moved to that penal colony in mole do-- moldova.

>> frederick pleitgen, appreciate it. joining us here, you and so many others have worked so hard for this. >> i mean, my heart is just racing and so happy and i feel so joyful because our sister is finally free. this is a huge moment for everyone who has shown compassion, who has shown empathy for our sister. and this morning, we woke up to a powerful visual of president biden, vice president kamala harris and brittney griner's wife cherelle announcing the news in which cherelle honestly just moved me so much. she had powerful words and she

said that her family's breathing a huge sigh of relief that her wife is coming home but she also mentioned something very, very important, that the work is not done yet. she explained that she and bg will continue to advocate to help bring others wrongfully detained home including paul whelan and so for me personally as someone who plays in the wnba, someone who has known bg since i was about 10 when i picked up a basketball, this has been the wnba players association's fight, this has been the fight of so many black women particularly, this has just been a huge moment and sigh of relief for her family and we are just grateful that this has come to fruition. >> you know, such an effort that players like yourself were involved in on social media. the free bg movement to keep her case in the public spotlight, in effect, keep pressure to get her released. i wonder going forward, given her treatment by russia here, does this end the interest of american players going to play in russia given they might

calculate they face the same risk? >> well, the fact of the matter is we never really -- we hoped but we were trying to make sure that the priority was she got home and no matter what people say about both parties involved, both countries involved, brittney griner is home and to me that's the central fact and the wnba as people know typically our players play in the wnba but then also play around the world. but i think this moment really just brings to highlight more so that the wnba, we represent something that is truly powerful. we use our platforms not only to provide, you know, the best quality basketball but more importantly to advocate for others, you have seen this time and time again in 2020 whether it is our advocacy during the election to 2022 helping bring our sister home and so, you know, i know a lot of people probably want to dissect the politics of this, but i think the real moment here is that she's home and that her family is really trying to help bring more wrongfully detained people home as well because this is

something that we did not think was guaranteed and it was accomplished and this is powerful. >> that was such a powerful moment this morning. hearing those words from cherelle griner, her commitment to help on behalf of other detained americans and their families. i also think it's notable. this has been talked about but having you here to drill into it, the engagement and the activism, the necessary activism of the wnba on behalf of both brittney griner and so many important causes in this country. how has that changed things for you as players and how are you harnessing that moving forward because you have such a remarkable platform and i have always been so impressed with how you do not back down. people might tell you to dribble that ball, there is no reason to keep dribbling that ball without also using that platform and you

have all done it so beautifully and so consistently and passionately. >> i always say that the wnba is not new to this. we are true to this. and we the wnba are always at the forefront of social advocacy because we understand the power of our representation. as a league predominantly of black women and most of us with our college degrees, it is not just a game for us, it is a platform for us to make real meaningful change, no matter the circumstance. you know, especially for our communities that we represent, and as we've seen in brittney's situation we stood together as we always do because we have learned that the power of the collective is real and we've also learned that time and time again whether it was in 2020 with our advocacy in the wnba bubble with the elections or even now in 2022, helping our sister who was wrongfully detained come back home. you know, i think that this moment here is huge because of

what brittney griner, our sister, represents, simply by existing, particularly as a black queer woman who is often criticized or often ignored. we take a lot of those criticisms generally in the wnba and this shows to the world that she, that we are worth fighting for so bg coming home, i think, you know, is so emblematic of the direction that our society is moving and that direction that, you know, sports operating at the intersection of culture but also advocacy, it's real and it matters and it is important. >> chiney, what will be the welcome be like for bg when she comes back to the justice department. >> amazing hopefully. however the circumstance is, i'm just so happy for bg and cherelle, her wife, her family. i just -- i just hope she gets whatever she wants to help bring peace of mind and if she wants

her sisters of the w there, i think we come back home in droves to really celebrate with her because we missed her and we're so happy that this moment is here. >> can i ask you quickly, have you had a chance to speak with cherelle at all? >> i have not but, you know, sisterhood is in my blood. my older sister nneka ogwumike is president of the wnba p.a., i'm vice president. a little real nepotism there but we got elected so it was all good. but my sister has done an amazing job working with our executive director terry jackson to have constant communication and by the way, people in the wnba, our players have constantly been writing to brittney to keep her spirits up so there have been so many communications by all the key stakeholders and i can't wait to talk to brittney myself so i think everyone will get in line for that. we're happy, relieved and grateful. >> they say she'll be home within hours, chin.

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right now speaker pelosi is speaking on the house floor discussing a landmark piece of legislation, the respect of marriage act would protect same-sex and interracial

marriage requiring every state to recognize another state's legal same-sex marriage. >> manu raju on capitol hill with the very latest for us. this bill, of course, would be one of speaker pelosi's final pieces of legislation. where do we stand? >> yeah, this is going to pass in a matter of moments then they'll send it on to joe biden's desk that would repeal the 1996 defense of marriage act that would define the federal union between a man and a woman, also denied -- allowed states to deny another state's marriage license if it were given to a same-sex couple. that will no longer be allowed under this legislation after the repeal of the defense of marriage act although it will require states to recognize another state's legally valid marriage. it does not set a national law. does not say that all states must recognize same-sex marriage or that it is the law of the land. it does it on a state-by-state basis and also has some changes

in there that would allow religious institutions like churches to deny a same-sex marriage and not lose their tax-exempt status. those were provisions added on the senate side in order to get republican support. but it did get enough republican support to overcome a filibuster in the senate eventually passing that chamber and now it is on here to the house in which it is expected to be approved on a bipartisan basis. the question will be how many republicans ultimately support this. back when it was initially the defense of marriage act was initially approved just 67 members of the house voted against it, a much different situation here where we will see overwhelming passage repealing that law as a sign of the sea change on this issue from democrats. some republicans as now we're moving to a significant piece of legislation to protect gay marriages across the country. >> yeah, think of that. just a generation ago a bipartisan piece of legislation that defined same-sex marriage out of legal marriage and now you have bipartisan legislation doing the opposite. manu raju on the hill. >> thank you.

speaking alongside president biden from the white house brittney griner's wife cherelle understanley emotional, grateful for her release. >> today my family is whole but as you all are aware, there's so many other families who are not whole and so bg is not here to say this but i will gladly speak on her behalf and say that bg and i will remain committed to the work of getting every american home including paul whose family is in our hearts today as we celebrate bg being home. we do understand that there are still people out here who are enduring what i endured the last nine months of missing tremendously their loved ones. >> gracious, gracious mention there of the folks able to celebrate today and those who are not. abby phillip back with us along with van jones and, abby, you mentioned russia takes hostages all the time. foreigners, americans, they use them as bargaining chips.

particular concerns about brittney griner though as a woman, a gay woman, a black woman in a country that targets them specifically, right? there's legislation passed there to outlaw. i wonder what were the particular concerns about her during her time in prison there? >> reporter: yeah, such an important point. this is not happening in a vacuum. i mean i think it would be already a very big deal because brittney griner is a huge star. she is a legend in women's basketball and was also a huge star in russia as well, so that alone would be enough. but i think that there was a sense in the griner camp in including cherelle griner when i spoke to her that there were other things that made her vulnerable as well, she is a black woman, a lesbian black woman as well, i think russia understood how important that was in general, but specifically

to president biden. they are keenly aware that biden has a constituency here in the united states that is powered by black women, that this case would be of particular importance to that community and so that actually raised brittney griner's value on the bargaining table and for her family, i think that that made this all the more difficult and painful and elevated their concern that russia would try to hold out on making a deal for as long as possible so they could get as much as possible out of it. >> well, they certainly got something that they wanted. unfortunately, it's impossible to ignore, though, and, abby, i know you touched on this last hour. we just spoke with chiney ogwumike about this, the role that her fellow wnba players played, van and the role of black women in general in making sure she got home. in making sure that brittney griner stayed in the headlines. >> you know, absolutely, and

first i just want to say abby has done extraordinary work on this from the very beginning on air, off air and she's not alone. this outcome is a result of two different kinds of power. it's the power of the people especially african american women who said, this cannot stand. this cannot stand. you cannot have an african american icon just snatched off a plane and treated like garbage and nothing gets done about it and it was an everyday thing on social media and they forced everyone to come to the table, male athletes, lots of people, this would have been swept under the rug. they refused. the power of the people and also the power of the presidency recognizing as abby said this is his key con spit wen si. this is the backbone of the democratic party under assault overseas and you can put griner's name next to the first black woman vice president, the first black woman on the supreme court, this is a president who understands who brought him to the dance, who brought him to the party and he is not letting

go of the hands of black women and black women continue to pull forward the country on every single issue including this one but this was personal, it shows the power of black women and the power of a president who knows who brought him to the party. >> to her credit, abby, cherelle mentioned the family that didn't get good news today, right, in fact, the family they called it, the whelan family called it devastating news because this had been discussed as a two for one trade, both griner and whelan for viktor bout, this merchant of death, right, who was convicted of many crimes here, what is the reality going forward for the whelan family given that there is no obvious bargaining chip right now that russia is clamoring for in exchange for him? >> yeah, i think that david whelan, paul whelan's brother said it this morning that what's clear as a result of all that transpired there isn't anything at the moment that it seems that the united states has that russia is willing to trade him

for. that i cannot emphasize how despairing of a realization that is for this family who's been waiting for years and seen other prisoner exchanges happen and throughout this process, you know, the griner case has been the most high profile of all the cases even though it's been shorter than both trevor reed and paul whelan who is still there. but they knew from the beginning that pushing for a swap was the only way that this was going to happen and the kind of swap that they've been pushing for has been one that included paul because right now, i mean, when you look at the facts, a convicted arms trader traded for a wnba star who was carrying a minuscule amount of cbd oil is not a fair trade so russia really, i think, held out for a very long time and speaking to people around the griner family this morning, you know, it's not totally clear what got them to finally say yes to some kind of

deal even though it's not obviously the one that everybody wanted. >> right, and it really does make you wonder, it really does. so the important thing is that she's coming home but does make you wonder. abby phillip and van pointed out, i will second that, it's been incredible reporting for so long on this, abby, van, great to have you both here this morning. >> thank you. still ahead, a team hired by former president donald trump to search his properties for any more classified documents, well, they found some. they found two with classified markings. where exactly the team tracked them down and what it means for the ongoing mar-a-lago investigation, that's coming up.

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high-powereds rifle at the substations. for more on what lessons we're learning and a possible broader threat to our electrical infrastructure, david terry joins me now, the executive director of the national association of state energy officials. david, thanks for taking time this morning. >> good morning, jim. thank you. >> so first of all, we should note this is the second attack of this kind we've seen. this attack in north carolina and another one in 2013 back south of san jose. there are thousands of these substations across the country with minimal protection perhaps beyond a chain link fence. are they under threat now from groups like this? >> i think the short answer is, yes, and i have to say first just to the thousands that were impacted in north carolina, this is obviously a serious, even life-threatening event. i think governor cooper has shown great leadership in that situation. i think the kinds of threats that are out there are related to what you hinted at, which is the electric grid is a massive

interconnected for the most part machine. it's impossible to protect every node but we have known since that 2013 attack state, federal, industry leaders have taken steps to protect critical nodes. but there remain substayings in particular we can't protect infinitely unfortunately. >> i remember a similar response both after the oklahoma city bombing and after 9/11 where you had steps taken across the country to secure federal buildings and government buildings and talking about thousands of them. it's hard to prioritize when you have thousands of these. given your experience and a look at the threat across the country, is this a situation where communities have to secure power stations with, for instance, walls around them that could stop gunfire like this or is that going too far? >> it's not going too far but we have to be selective about it. there are particular substations

and particular power plants, many of those have been identified, if not all. it is challenging to protect them in that fashion. there are two piece, one is the hardening of infrastructure, and that certainly continues to occur, but the threat increases even more rapidly, but the second part is to be more resilient so you see state energy working with utilities in the department of energy. i think deputy secretary turk has shown great leadership there as well to work on things like microgrids and backup power for mission critical facilities like hospitals and nursing homes so it's a multiprong approach. part is that hardening. guns and guard for shorthand, certainly there's a lot of room for that for improvement but also the resilient sidey verse finding how we serve those critical needs in every community. >> there was an fbi bulletin warning about domestic extremist groups and we now have

investigators speaking of this openly who have spoken about targeting critical infrastructure. are there particular groups, kinds of groups that you've received warnings about and that authorities should be looking at here? >> there are and certainly we have discussions with u.s. department of energy, department of homeland security, governor's offices and utilities and others and can't talk about those publicly but what i would say is that the challenge we have is the physical and cybersecurity infrastructure is constantly changing, the threat to that and we have elevated the level of alert generally on these substations right now but we've been working that for quite a while and i think it continues to be that two-prong approach in trying to address the resilience, the recovery when these do happen. >> they are foreign actors who have the cybercapability to take down stations like this. david terry, good to have you on. >> thank you. still to come the first episodes of a candid docu-series

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even made some themselves. makes you wonder... what will they do for an encore? ♪ some new details this morning in the new docu-series featuring the duke and duchess of sussex, harry and meghan, released overnight on netflix. in this series they talk about their love story, their lives as royals, harry also describes the

challenges of navigating the relationship with the media and how he felt it was different from what others in the royal family had faced. >> as far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they've been put through as well so it was almost like a rite of passage and some of the members of the family were like, right, but my wife had to go through that so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently? why should you get special treatment? why should she be protected? and i said, the difference here is the race element. >> joining me to discuss royal watcher, host of the "when marry met meghan podcast" with us. picking up on that sound bite we played from prince harry, he was noting what was different in terms of what meghan markle had to go through in those moments when it was revealed they were dating was her race. and how that became such a focus, especially when it came to tabloid media in the uk.

what did you learn new here? what do you think people will take away from it as they try to understand that moment? >> well, i think that first of all i have to commend everybody involved with this documentary this they do not shy away from talking about race, not just there with prince harry, but prince harry admitting that he has implicit bias, harry saying that he's very proud of the fact he has mixed race children and the fact that the documentary talks frankly about colonialism, about racism, about how the british isles have profited off oppressed brown people around the world and how when abolition happened in the uk, the people who were paid off were not the former enslaved people, it was the slave owners who were paid off, so i think a lot of people will be surprised how head-on this documentary really approaches racism, but i think they'll be delighted with some of the details of what harry and meghan, what their life is like as a couple, how they first met.

you saw an instagram post of hers where she looked like a dog and he said that's the girl for me. i need to meet her and so there are delightful moments like that. there are people we're hearing from for the first time, doria, meghan's mother, is just wonderful in this documentary. she's so regal. she's so classy. she's so kind and so composed and she talks frankly about the fact that she wishes she would have talked more openly with meghan about racism at a younger age, so i mean we have people like that showing up on screen. we have important issues being discussed. it has a lot of things that i think people are going to want. >> buckingham palace says it will not comment. this is the first three episodes, the second three, the final episodes will drop next week. do you anticipate that anything in those episodes would change the decision from the palace? to speak out? >> i'm curious about the next set of episodes, because in this set of episodes for the most

part, no specific family members on harry's side are really called out for being complicit in any of the wrongdoings. we hear a lot about how meghan's father, meghan's older half-sister samantha, how they, you know, curried favor with the press, accepted money to essentially say bad things about meghan. we so far have not really heard about any specific family members on harry's side and what they may or may not have done wrong so i think a lot of people in the next set of episodes will be looking to see are names going to be named? will there be another moment where meghan says kate made her cry. >> kristen, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll be right back .

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