Joe spoke with Thomas Firestone, Partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, former Assistant U.S. Attorney on Brittney Griner's release and prisoner swap for a Russian arms dealer, Bloomberg Government Congress reporter Jack Fitzpatrick on where negotiations stand on the spending bill to fund the government just days before the deadline to avert a shutdown. Plus, our politics panel Bloomberg Politics Contributors Jeanne Sheehan Zaino and Rick Davis on the Brittney Griner prisoner swap for a Russian arms dealer with no release deal for former US Marine Paul Whelan, Pentagon funding passes in the House with the military Covid vaccine mandate stripped out, and landmark legislation passed that would enshrine marriage equality in federal law, granting protections to same-sex and interracial couples.