Jean-Pierre: [Griner] should never have been detained by Russia.

[Griner violated Russia law and was legitimately arrested]

Jean-Pierre: This is not a decision that [Biden] made lightly.

[trading an international arms trafficker for a drug possessor]

Jean-Pierre: [Biden] felt a moral obligation to bring Brittney home.

Reporter: In this prisoner swamp, why did Russia get such a better deal?

Jean-Pierre: Our choices was Brittney, or no one at all.

Reporter: They gave up a professional athlete, we gave up a prolific arms dealer, who was convicted of trying to kill Americans, who was called 'The Merchant of Death'.

Jean-Pierre: The professional athlete is also an American citizen.

Jean-Pierre refused to describe Marc Fogel as being 'wrongfully detained', as she has for Griner. Fogel is incarcerated in Russia for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. Not one 'reporter' has ever challenged the ridiculous claim that Griner was 'wrongfully detained'.

Jean-Pierre refused to take a question about the US/Africa Summit by the same reporter she always ignores, then promptly ended the press conference and stormed off like a child.

Mr. Biden: The middle class built America, and unions built the middle class.