Roger Carstens, the Biden administration's top hostage negotiator, said he greeted Brittney Griner at the airport in Abu Dhabi with a simple message: I'm here to take you home.Mr. Carstens, the special presidential envoy at the State Department for hostage affairs, laid out more details of Thursday's prisoner exchange for Ms. Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who had been detained in Russia since February, as well as continued efforts to bring home Paul Whelan, another American currently imprisoned in Russia, in an interview with CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.
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