a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
post. the latest missing records are from two officials inside of the trump administration acting homeland security secretary chad wulf, and acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli, we will get to all of those stories and more throughout the course of this hour, but we start with the latest efforts of the united states to win the release of wnba star brittney griner from a russian jail. russia s foreign minister now says he is open to talking to secretary of state anthony blinken about the u.s. proposal for russia to belize griner and former marine paul whelan in exchange for the release of a russian arms dealer named victor boot. russia gave no indication of whether they would agree to that offer or for the timing of when the foreign minister might be able to talk to anthony blinken. griner s trial on charges of having to vape cartridges of hashish oil in her luggage is expected to wrap up next week with a verdict, according to her lawyers, they say that griner s had a doctor
the total inability to do anything meaningful when it comes to changing laws. there s one thing the governor it appears, and i reached out to his office and have not heard back as yet, but it appears that he hasn t asked for a bill sponsor for this legislation that he s leaning on the legislature. to take up as yet, so let s see how serious he is in that regard. is he going to whip votes for it? is he going to lean on republicans to actually follow this through and usher? this legislation through is a whole another question. sarah here thoughts on us. i feel like we re in an outrage cycle that we cannot escape. every time we have one of these incidents. the onion, the satirical website post the exact same headline, which is you know how outrageous this is, says the only country that this happens regularly, too, and they post every single time, and it was a good reflection of how a lot of americans feel, which is every time something like this happens . we grieve. we complain. we mourn.
is back because that was a nonsensical set of charges that relate against her. and it s up and a lot now. this is what happens. people get caught up in trumped up charges and get sent to jail and treated for somebody. on the other, hand we can be very unhappy that paul whelan is still in there and not out. but this weird outrage and this outrage cycle that s moving around republican circles seems to have missed the fact that we actually got brittney griner out. and even paul whelan s family is sort of saying, this is misplaced outrage. i agree. and i think it s pretty scary, to be honest, because if we do not have consensus on basic fundamental national security interests and issues in the united states of america, we are going to be in trouble in this era of power competition with china and russia. and this need not be a political issue and you are exactly right, that s exactly the way to frame it. we can hold two thoughts in our mind at the same time. celebrate the fact that we hav