LEMON: “Griner on a plane back to the United States.”
JONES: “Coming home.”
LEMON: “Free — coming home.”
JONES: “Coming home.”
LEMON: “This exchange we were told it was happened at the Abu Dhabi airport. You see there on your screen the podium at the White House. The president expected to speak, supposed to start at 8:30. He’s a little bit late, but he’s going to speak. And we’re told that there may be some family members there.”
JONES: “Yeah.”
LEMON: “The president and the Vice President on the call when this happened and making this decision. What do you make of this?”
JONES: “It is huge. It is huge. First of all, that’s a decade defining image. When you saw her wife sitting there, Kamala Harris is there, the president’s there. Such a human image. And yet, it just shows this president got it done. He cared enough about this individual person to get her home. It was shocking. For the — I think for young Americans to see an icon like that snatched, locked up, treated like garbage, and — and just 9 years, 10 years for bringing some cannabis oil —“
HARLOW: “Medical — medically prescribed.” [crosstalk]
JONES: “— medical — medically prescribed. So these are decades defining images. I guarantee you, there are going to be young people, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now who will remember this moment, because she is an icon. And it’s — it’s — it’s really, really extraordinary. And people are going to talk about, ‘Oh, well, this other guy, he’s so terrible.’ You know what? There’s a lot of terrible people in the world. There’s a lot of terrible people in Russia. But what you don’t have and what you can’t allow to happen is to have a black female icon treated like garbage, and Americans do nothing about it. Something was done about it, and people are going to be proud about that.”
LEMON: “We got the two minute warning from the White House. So expect — the president expected to step up to that podium in just about two minutes now.”

[“Icon”? Come on, man. — Ed]