ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
there. bragging being like, come get my gun. come get my gun. you can t take it. well, listen, second amendment defenders. the next generation coming up is not a defender of the second amendment and those are going to go away unless you come to the table and try to figure out how to mitigate this problem. alright i m gonna turn to something else. and that is well. we ve been talking about capitol hill, but also just the degradation of politics right now that we are seeing on capitol hill, the latest example is between congressman mike johnson and delegates. stacey plaskett, let s watch. objection we can examine because he s not here. there you go. you can examine. it s a document. he s gonna examine him for what he wrote and the intent behind what he said. okay just point out that that s that s uh, unanimous consents are for documents and we ve got the document right here and he handed to you, mr chairman. i would ask unanimous concern now recognizes ms wasserman, german. i plaskett tw