WATCH: TheView host says she was on calls with Biden administration about Brittney Griner
While celebrating Griner's release from Russian imprisonment on Thursday as a part of a prisoner swap, Hostin said,"I was on phone calls with the White House."
She further explained that her presence on these calls was because of her status as"a member of the WNBPA Board of Advocates." "We have been on this, and let’s make sure we do the same for Paul Whelan," she added."We’re going to stay on it and never forget that he’s there." "It’s not an equal swap," Alyssa Farah Griffin said, adding that she is happy about Griner's release.
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