i m pleading to biden administration to step up. do the right thing. do what was a promised to this man who fought alongside the very troops that you told him w would never leave our allies behind. the fbi interviewed abdel wasi sofiya january 3rd us attorney s office in west texas is overseeing the case jury selection is slated for februar. lawmakers lawmakers on both sides of the il are pleading fo president biden too step in and on for a pardon. think q even as china struggles with a massive new covid away is no let up in the regime s efforts to steal us economic trade and technology secrets for more on cybersecurity and other challenges were joined by national counterintelligence bill at any i want to play the sound back from the fbi directo chris ray back in november get
beginning of the end of this war. how are you feeling today how are you feeling? well. how is this moment for you? the moment is very important, that is the biggest occupied, since 24, of februar so the biggest city and now so ukraine came to - as the conflict nears, on year, there s still no end i sight. ukrainians fear the world is losing interest in the war, as putin employs a brutal new tactic, mass targeting ukraine s infrastructure just as temperatures plummet he could not take ukraine as completely, or quickly as he had hoped, now it seems he i so being to starve and freez the country into submission. richard engel, nbc news. from the gas pump to th grocery store, inflation sen prices soaring through the roo last year. nbc news business reporter - breaks down the numbers.
nearly four-point to million texans have no electricity. the most wind power capacity and the united states, but the texas turn binds iced up during a cold weather event in februar of 2021, electricity output collapsed. naked texas regulators ordered rolling blackouts. all those federal and state subsidies for wind in solar events have caused an overbuilding of wind in solar i texas. it is cheap energy. big companies love it, they lov the virtue of it because they say look at us, we are at zero carbon, right, what they really like of course is that cheap wind energy. what they re not paying for is the reliability of the grid. the texas grid like the california grid is becoming increasingly unreliable and difficult to maintain.
reserves again and that says it s not political. is not politically motivated at all. it s motivated to make sure i continued to push what i ve bee pushing on and that is making sure there s enough oil that s being pumped by the companies s that we have the ability to be able to produce enough gas we need at home. oil we need at home. at the same time keep moving in the direction of providing for alternative energy. it s an unintended promo for your book. that s the answer that it s not political? it so political. the buck stops with everybody else but this president. it stops with vladimir putin. the put price hike and he blame the russian invasion of ukraine except that happened in februar gas prices have been going up since january 2021. nearly a year earlier and now complains a wheel companies thi
detained at the airport in februar accused of carrying vaping cartridges she was taking part in sports. it is a terrible message that she should be arrested it is also a terrible message to bring some forbidden essences and materials to this country, and it is prosecuted by russian laws the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs is now leading the u.s. effort to secure brittney griner s release. the u.s. government is now approaching this as a hostage situation. i would strongly disagree with that we can t call her hostage. she violated russian law and now she s being prosecuted reporter: nato leaders now warning of a long conflict in ukraine. it may be one view russia agrees on are we in for a long conflict here yes, it will be a long lasting crisis. we ll never trust the