the growing list of states are abortions are no longer legal. and new threats of prison and fines for providers. plus, the court s next move. could other rights be at risk? the landmark rulings now called into question after one justice s comments about birth control and same-sex marriage. the nation s new groundbreaking gun law. today, president biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill, making this vow. lives will be saved. but will it help stop yet another mass shooting a chance to change history. the new efforts under way to shift a decades-old policy about who can and cannot donate blood. and mowing with a mission. how a simple good deed has helped unite new neighbors. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. tonight, abortion rights are changing by the hour across our country following yesterday s landmark 5-4 supreme court ruling to overturn roe vs. wade take a look at this. these states in red are where abortion is no
neighbors against neighbors. a fight over who gets to use the river that fuels life. we visit two states that are facing off. hello. welcome to the lead. we begin this hour with our world lead. a pair of escalating international crises. russia and the united states are now indicating they re ready to hold talks about a prisoner swap. just a day after a russian court convicted american basketball star brittney griner of drug smuggling, and sentenced her to nine years in prison. potential prisoner swap talks could include fellow american paul whelan who has been detained in russia since 2018. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first another crisis unfolding. china is taking dramatic new steps of retaliation for house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan including sanctioning pelosi and her family. plus, military escalation. taiwan s defense ministry reports dozens of chinese war planes crossing into its air defense territory today. in return, the white house summon
plus, wnba star brittney griner is set to take the stand in russia, while the family of another american also held by the kremlin, also on drug charges, calls for more attention to his case. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and merrick garland saying moments ago that the justice department will not hesitate to hold donald trump accountable for the events around january 6th even if trump is the republican nominee for president. if that s where the evidence leads them. listen to what else attorney general garland just told nbc s lester holt. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. so if donald trump were to become a candidate for
watch. it is tough to see officers kneeing him in the side and the back as all of them are leaning on top of him. this happened outside of a convenience store in arkansas. the local sheriff who says the suspect is in jail was wanted for threatening a gas station clerk in a neighboring town. all three officers are suspended or on administrative leave and an investigation into the arrest is now underway. we have a closer look at all of this with omar. the man was taken to the hospital and treated and he is now in jail. what more are you learning about what happened here? reporter: for starters, the video is ugly and hard to watch as that plays out. the central question that i think at the top of everyone s minds when you watch that is was that amount of force necessary, smael with those three law enforcement officers there and it s also the question at the center of a now state investigation into how an initial call for allegedly being spit on and threatened ended like this.
devoutly comes as a government watchdog reveals the secret service erased messages from the day of the insurrection, after investigators asked for them. a 10-year-old girl raped and forced to go across state lines to get an abortion. a former federal judge appointed by george w. bush is now standing up to trump, debunking his election lies point by point. he is my guest. let s go out front. good evening. breaking news. a source telling cnn that a washington police officer has corroborated details regarding the heated exchange the former president had with secret service detail when he was told he could not go to the u.s. capitol in march with the rioters after the rally. according to a source, the officer who was there, in the motorcade, not second hand, he was there, has recounted what he saw to the january 6 committee. you may remember we first heard this was a heated exchange. trump wanted to go, and his detail said that he couldn t. we heard about that from cassidy