Former Marine Paul Whelan said he was devastated when a Biden administration official told him WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner was being ... 2018 after attending a wedding in Moscow and ...

MARGARET BRENNAN: You were in Moscow in 2018, as I understand it, for a friend's wedding. And Russia ... MARGARET BRENNAN: ...

The former Marine was released in August after more than five years of detention in one of the biggest prisoner swaps since ...

Whelan was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020 after being arrested in Moscow while attending the wedding ... as well as Griner, for helping to get him out. “Brittney was a great help, ...

Whelan, according to Brennan, was in Moscow in 2018 for a friend's wedding, but according to ... he not only learned that WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in February of 2022, but that ...

while her wife was wearing a white wedding gown. The last picture on the post featured the couple standing next to each other at a mini golf course. Brittney Griner's wife announces winning the ...

"And as I'm looking, I said, 'Hey, look, it's Brittney. Brittney's on TV," Whelan said. "It was one of those incredible moments." Griner, who had been released from Russian detention in December ...

In an interview with CBS’ MARGARET BRENNAN to air in its entirety this weekend, Whelan also has kind words for former fellow detainee and WNBA star BRITTNEY GRINER, who was freed in an earlier ...