we ll have the latest reporting and analysis in moments for you. also this hour, new covid concerns on multiple fronts with another spike in china and a new sub variant here at home. we continue to cover that major development. the arrest in connection to the murder case involving four university of idaho students. nbc news can confirm the person in custody is that man right there. 28-year-old bryan kohberger. this is according to court records and four law enforcement officials confirming that to nbc news. he s being held in pennsylvania. he s at the prison there. police in moscow, idaho v announced a 4:00 p.m. eastern press conference to provide apt update on this case, but the moscow police department is not yet confirming the arrest. let s bring in correspondent steve patterson for the latest. it s been an hour since we have been getting this. anything new in the last hour? reporter: just the timeline. we ll have that press conference from moscow police later on today.
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don t think this is going to be a track record for anything going forward. as it is, there are still four other american citizens in jail here in iran. and their future is totally unclear. ali arusi, as always thank you. impeachment inquiry. new today a critical development on this. this morning s big headline, the white house and president trump rejecting the house judiciary committee s invite to participate in the next phase of the impeachment process. so for the latest on the new developments, here s nbc white house correspondent peter alexander. the white house rejecting house democrats invitation for the president to participate in their impeachment proceedings. the white house counsel pat sip loan anyway a blistering letter calling the investigation baseless, adding you should end the inquiry now and not waste additional time.
states. right. so that s not good for america. the terror threat matters to everyone here, but obviously it s miles and miles away and we have to take our leaders at their word. how do wes know how much of what the president is telling us is true? and i take you back to, what was it, december 22nd or 23rd when the white house put out a video with the president saying, announcement, isis has been defeated. when you talk about the united states possibly pulling out, saying the job is done, the president actually told us essentially that in late self. we re in march and we know that to not be true, at least today. well, and secretary bolton also contradicted that. right after the president said that, secretary bolton said that isis is still a major threat there. so there seems to be some confusion within his own circles as well. all right. a ali arusi, our bureau chief on
big question is what is he going to do that s better, stef. good question. let s go to nbc s tehran bureau chief ali arusi. tell us what s going on there. tehran has made repeated threats to walk away from this deal if trump walks away from it. we re getting some mixed messages out of tehran. officials have indicated that as long as tehran wasn t excluded from the global financial trading system, it could consider respecting the accord. if they said they see the financial benefits from this deal, even if america walks away, they re saying that s fine by us. america can walk away and we ll deal with the europeans as long as they honor their end of the bargain. but i ve got to say, that s a pretty tall order. for the europeans to suddenly ditch america, their strategic relationship with them,