it s 10:00 a.m. here in washington. i m garrett haake, and we are following breaking news in kentucky. new details this morning about a deadly crash overnight involving two military helicopters during a training exercise. right now at least nine people are reported to be dead according to the new york times. and we re expecting an update momentarily. an american journalist detained in russia. russia claiming the wall street journal reporter was caught red handed. the paper vehemently denies the allegations. what the white house is saying about this latest escalation. another fiery train derailment, this time in minnesota forcing evacuations of a nearby town. some of the roughly 22 cars carrying ethanol. this just weeks after that toxic disaster in east palestine, ohio. we ll have the latest on the continuing efforts on the ground. and a wild story from the halls of capitol hill, sources telling nbc news a food service worker was arrest ds and accused of recording au
western allies and others throughout the world are increasingly isolating russia, and so russia responding in increasingly provocative ways. a senior administration official saying for the moment the white house has been in touch with the wall street journal to learn more about the case. the wall street journal itself saying in a statement that they vehemently deny the fsb allegations and seek the immediate release of their sbrep intrepid reporter. i want to bring in tom firestone, a former resident legal adviser to the u.s. embassy in moscow. if you re behind closed doors here at the u.s. embassy or the white house, what kind of steps are being taken right now? what s your level of concern about an american facing a very serious charge in russia? i think the level of concern is extremely high, somebody compared this to the whelan case. he got 16 years, of course. so these cases we re going to get very little information about the case as one of your
votes and sensitive information they wouldn t want getting out to just anyone. according to court documents we obtained exclusively, this man told police he left his phone in the room to record because he claimed that he was married to the vice president of liberia and wanted to provide his wife, the vice president ofw3xd liber [póith american political information. i shouldlp note there s no reco that he is, in fact, married to the vice president ofoki] liber. we have reached out to the á president andt( have not heard yet. yet. the securitye1( are saying is a one off. they re putting place the phone cabinet that you showed a picture of on your screen. they are now winding down all o they enter the room and this employee, including the now senators and staff and officers upñr here are going to
what do we know about this appeal and the latest on former vice president testifying, he is going to be in washington tonight. right, we ll see how long this ultimately plays out. we now have an appeal from donald trump to keep the testimony of mark meadows and these seven other key aides from testifying. these are individuals who the treasury trove of information, if we re talking about mark meadows specifically, he was with donald trump on january 6th, and of course in the weeks leading up to it. it was cassie hutchinson who was of course the aide to mark meadows who testified to the january 6th select committee, and we would expect that she has provided similar testimony to the special counsel s office, that it was mark meadows that just days before the january 6th attack in which cassie hutchinson said he said, quote, things might get real, real bad on january 6th. and the testimony that hutchinson provided as to information that meadows is
colleagues said. the case has already been rolled over until may 29th. they typically do this. they have a long pretrial investigation phase. it will be rolled over for several months. we re unlikely to get much information, get even less information than we got in the brittney griner case because the charges are espionage. a lot of it will be done behind closed doors. tremendous concern about mr.ger gershkovich s fate in russia. this kind of stuff does not happen in a vacuum. i don t think it s out of line to look at this as almost certainly a political arrest in some capacity, but feel free to correct me if i m wrong there. what does this tell us about kind of the way russia continues to escalate its stance against the west and against the united states in particular? exactly right, these typically do have political motivation. in this case it appears there s absolutely no evidence to