Marine, sentenced in 2020 to 16 years for spying. And also designated by washington, as wrongly detained dual citizens send your karelina and amateur ballerina from la and journalist alsu kurmasheva are also in custody. Ivsc gordon black has all gordon black, a staff sergeant in the u. S. Army, and us school teacher marc fogel critics suspect the kremlin has been collecting us citizens as bargaining chips for a future deal with any country. But even now, that deal could still be months or perhaps years away. Matthew chance, cnn london. Thanks for joining us. This situation room starts now happening. Now, breaking news, team biden digs in amid rapidly escalating calls for the president to drop oh of the 2024 race. We ve learned one new democratic defection in particular has left president biden s seizing also tonight, vice president harris in the spotlight as she makes public appearances and privately talks with panic democratic donors, avoiding questions about the president s canada so
California s overwhelmingly voted to keep gavin newsom as their governor. Instead of handing the governorship to trump supported radio host, larry elder. Here is governor gavin newsom tonight, thanking voters for rejecting trumpism, and larry elder in the state of california. Anne we said yes to all those things that we hold dear as californians. And i would argue as american, economic justice. Social justice. Racial justice. Environmental justice. Our values were california s made so much progress, all of those things were on the ballot this evening. And so i m humbled, in grateful to the millions and millions of californians that exercise their fundamental right to vote and express themselves so overwhelmingly, by rejecting the division. Fire rejecting the cynicism, by rejecting so much of the negativity that s defined our politics. Leading off our election color tips at this hour, msnbc national corresponded steve kornacki, steve what are the latest numbers? we got him like here law
Fewer social freedoms and possibly tighter controls on the media. There s a lot to digest there, but first thing s first, voter apathy never a good thing. Thank you very much ali arusy from tehran. And a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. We be gain with new reaction over the vote of voting rights. The senate expected to take up the vote for people voting rights bill, that will be tuesday, but its future could be in limbo after senator mitch mcconnell voted to block that bill. Speaking on msnbc earlier, jim clyburn says republicans isn t be able to block this type of legislation. Voting rights, like all other constitutional rights are not subjected to filibusters and now this reducing from 60 from 55, they didn t get it from me. What gets it from me to remove the filibuster from constitutional issues as we have done for the budget because i do believe that it is very, very important for us to do that. Also, in
induce georgia and reportedly several other states to flip the results of the election. mr. clark reportedly drew up documents falsely claiming that the justice department was investigating serious fraud in the presidential election, and therefore advising georgia and other state legislatures and states won by jody joe biden that in light that serious supposed fraud in the election that the justice department was supposedly investigating those states should reconsider sending biden electors to the electoral college. in other words, they should think about sending trump electors to the electoral college, effectively calling their states for trump, even though biden had won. now, the the broader picture here of course is that the u.s. justice department has brought criminal prosecutions against more than 600 americans who took part in the physical attack on the capitol on january 6th. but that physical attack really appears to have been just one part of a larger effort to fli
documents falsely claiming that the justice department was investigating serious fraud in the presidential election and, therefore, advising georgia and other state legislatures, the states won by joe biden that in light of that serious supposed fraud in the election that the justice department was supposedly investigating, those states should reconsider sending bidenns electors to the elector college. in other words, they should think about sending trump electors to the electoral college, calling their states for trump even though biden had won. now, the broader picture here, of course, is that, you know, the u.s. justice department brought charges. but that physical attack really appears to have been just one part of a larger effort to flip the election results and keep trump in power even though he had lost re-election. the u.s. justice department for all of those prosecutions against allse of those individuals, they have shown no outward sign at all that they re investiga