make a safe return home miguel almaguer, msnbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, new details in the growing story coming out of the doj that we just broke on msnbc minutes ago. what we know about the two people arrested for operating an illegal overseas police station of the chinese government right here in lower manhattan. plus, inside a massive prisoner swap in ukraine a live report on the ground where more than 100 prisoners of war were just released as part of the major exchange with russia what kevin mccarthy calls a ticking time bomb. the republican leaders no holds bars speech on the country s debt before the new york stock exchange plus, the white house responds a very different view of the problem by the biden administration and their take on the upcoming debt ceiling battle our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments let s begin with house speaker kevin mc
troops, and how did this swap come about reporter: yeah, so this is interesting because an adviser to presidential zelenskyy, he says the 130 ukrainian service members who have been returned, that it was part of what he describes as a big easter swap according to ukrainian officials the ukrainian service members, prisoners of war who are now back in ukraine, they range in age from 28 to 51. they say that they are all back safely they released video of some of that journey, but initially, reports of this exchange first surfaced from the russian side of things, specifically the private military company, the wagner group they have operated heavily along the eastern front lines in the bakhmut area there was a post on their official telegram page with video that appeared to show the leader of that group ordering men in military uniforms some of them with russian flags