if it s got to be clean, it s got to be tide. we re going to circle back in a minute to conversation about guns but let s shift now to the conversation dominating capitol hill. we re learning more about some of the compromises and cuts from democrats social spending package, negotiated after a flurry of white house meetings led by the president himself. nbc news confirms reporting by the washington post that president biden wants democrats a 1.75 to 1.9 program for a program likely to lose the tuition to community college and child care tax for a year. and rethinking clean energy proposals. sources say there will be a focus on renewable energy, however, in the package. a final agreement has not yet been agreed upon so these
counsel s office ty cobb and the broader white house counsel s office, as well as the other lawyers representing other players who are part of or have attracted scrutiny in mueller s russia probe and the congressional russia probes. in case people forgot, it was don mcgahn who, when sally yates told him that mike pence had excuse me that mike flynn had lied to vice president mike pence about the russia investigation, don mcgahn s response was, why would the department of justice care? matt miller, what is your take on all of this? i think you re exactly right to raise that point. a lot of people when looking at the obstruction of justice questions focus just on the president s firing of jim comey. but you really have to go back to the initial conversations between sally yates and don mcgahn, where she warned him that flynn lied to the american public and had had an interview with the fbi. she would not answer his question about whether he told the truth in the interview. that m
man, back home in united states. public pleas and secret meetings led to his release. now we re learning more ab the diplomacy and deal making done behind closed doors that led to gross s freedom and a monumental shift in u.s. policy. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has more for you. carol, this is a truly remarkable piece of diplomacy conducted in secret over more than a year and a half in multiple countries, principally canada and the vatican and somehow kept secret until yesterday. it had everything, even a cold war spy swap before that moment when alan gross stepped foot back on american soil. i guess so far it s the best hand-ku i ll be celebrating for loong time. allan xwroes s emotional return to the u.s. became a reality only after 18 months of secret con tants and shuttled diplomacy. to president obama and the nfc staff, thank you.
sanctions. the pentagon tonight announced that the u.s. will put on hold all military to military engage maenlts between the u.s. and russia. that includes exercises and bilateral meetings and port visits and planning conferences. when there are international crises like this, when there are cross-border invasions, it s the u.n. security council that is supposed to act to resolve those matters, right? the u.n. security council met about this issue on an emergency basis on friday and they met again over the weekend and then they met again today. and although those u.n. security council meetings led to some very pushy speeches, because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, they have the right to veto anything that goes through that body and so nobody expects that anything useful will actually come through the u.n. it would have to go through russia in order to go through the u.n. security council and it s not going to go through russia. there s also the matter of the
the treasury and the state department are expected to presenting the president ideas for that as well as plans for potentially freezing the assets of individual russian officials. plans even for freezing out the whole russian banking system, which is sort of a nuclear option in terms of economic sanctions. the pentagon tonight announced that the u.s. will put on hold all military to military engagements between the u.s. and russia. that includes exercises and bilateral meetings and port visits and planning conferences. when there are international crises like this, when there are cross-border invasions, it s the u.n. security council that is supposed to act to resolve those matters, right? the u.n. security council met about this issue on an emergency basis on friday and they met again over the weekend and then they met again today. and although those u.n. security council meetings led to some very pushy speeches, because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, they