wall street journal, was detained in a small town just east of moscow. the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter. the kremlin says he was quote caught red handed, but refuses to provide any more details. its track record on this sort of thing. does not inspire confidence ahead. we will have the latest from russia plus overnight, the army says. several people have now been killed this after two blackhawk helicopters crashed near fort campbell will be on the ground there in kentucky. also right now homes are evacuated in raymond, minnesota, after a train carrying ethanol derailed early this morning. we ve got new details for you on that. we re also keeping an eye on the vatican as pope francis is in the hospital undergoing treatment for a respiratory infection ahead. we ll have an update on his condition. but we begin this morning with that alarming headline out of russia . american journalist herskovitz is right now in russian custody after the wall street jour
sandra: one of those breaking news thursday afternoons, john. also keeping our eye on nashville as hundreds gathered there to call for gun former at the state capitol. hundreds of young people from high schools all over the area, at times became very tense and confrontations with security happening as you see on the screen there. as there was a big debate and calls for gun reform. there were also those who were making the case for good guys with guns to protect the schools. so things got fiery there at the capitol building. obviously a lot of chanting happening there, and signs were up and that confrontation with security, this all went down a couple hours ago. since taking office, president biden and his team have labored to suppress viewpoints with which they disagree. and in doing so, they have infringed upon the individual freedoms of millions of americans. john: republican senator eric schmidt dropping that accusation on the weaponization of government, he was test
rachel: that s rick. he is making tortillas. these are the aoc style, the ones she wants us, to way she wants us to make it. look at that, he s making to have tee a yas. tortillas. that s my tortilla press, by the way, i brought it in today. people might not know this about rick, he is an excellent cook that specializes many mexican cooking. pete: this is a fact. rachel: he s amazing. pete: he is. let s see what he can do in the green room on a hot plate. rachel: we had that big debate about corn or flour. he s making fresh tortillas for us. pete: you said you can t make electric stove tortillas. i prefer to heat hem over a flame. you have to make them like that when they re fresh on a skillet, but if you want to reheat them, they re nice over a flame. but the point i think you guys said you chose flour over corn. let s see if you try fresh corn tortillas, if you peel the same, because that s what rick is making. will: if i want a straight taco, it s a corn tortilla. if
Five american hostages are on their way home, as political backlash is growing on the terms of the deal. Republican president ial candidate Chris Christie is here. Plus a cnn sitdown tonight with Democratic Party powerhouse, gavin newsom on 2024 speculation and the state of his own party. Also a big break just a few moments ago, as the mystery of the missing u. S. Fighter jet. How does an 80 million plane vanish from thin air . Im catkaitlan collins, and this the source. Hostages no more tonight, as Five Americans are on their way back to the United States. They were freed early this morning after being wrongfully detained in iran for years. Three of them were in prison for over five years, and two others have not yet been publicly identified over their own privacy concerns. What led to their release is leading to Harsh Criticism from some republicans tonight because the u. S. Unblocked 6 billion in frozen iranian oil revenue and dismissed charges and released five iranians of their ow
And we had standards of what he would accept and not. And that process intensified. We had very intense negotiations in doha. And were grateful to qatar and oman for helping in this. And when the arrangement came together on terms that we could accept, the president made the difficult but right decision to move ahead. One of the we had an activist on earlier in the show who expressed concern that this only incentivizes Hostage Taking by governments such as irans. There is no question that President Biden with a statement just three days ago on the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini about the support for the rafrn why not people. And at the height of the protests last year, about one this three were using anticensorship stools stools United States. And we see an opportunity to bring home five american citizens and as you said, in the case of simak namazi, he was in prison for five years. Sharghi the same amount of time. And iran really gain no benefit. There are no funds. Iranian h