Russia, frustrated with his future uncertain as we come on the wear, with brittney griner set to land in texas. her first time stepping foot in this country in nearly a year, after this elaborate secret multi-nation operation, freeing her from a russian prison. this hour, the new and dramatic details behind the scenes of how this all went down. and more on who russia got in exchange as the focus now turns to the other american held by russia, paul whelan. we understand president biden is set to call his family this hour. paul s sister elizabeth is set to join us with more. you will not want to miss that. also this hour, the fast-moving talks of keeping the government open. how the lawmakers are getting closer or not to the deal as the kwlok ticks down. plus the new damning report putting the nfl on notice. congress calling out what they described as a toxic workplace culture at washington commanders. more on the new reaction on that. as we re joined by an attorney for former commande
A very trump friendly message. one other race in georgia of note. a potentially competitive district. held by a democrat for 30 years. republicans believe they could have a chance because of a little bit of redistricting changes to the district. they had hoped national republicans had, hunt would win. he will fall short here. losing to chris west. we will see what happened in this one. republicans nationally had been had big hopes on hunt for a chance of flipping the district. you make a good point. on if it s not a trump endorsed candidate, the republican party increasingly is candidates who are parroting donald trump. we appreciate you joining us. the commissioner of the nfl is in the hot seat. roger goodell is appearing before a committee that s looking into allegations of toxic workplace culture made against the washington
Committee. they have been at this for several months trying to get these key documents behind the beth wilkinson investigation. that s one of the things you will hear about today in this committee hearing. it s been mentioned several times. this was an investigation done by a lawyer of the washington football team and the toxic workplace culture there. the nfl s commissioner today saying that they got oral reports on that. there s questions about why there s no written reports around that investigation. goodell says it s to protect the people who actually complied with the investigation. a new memo that you just referenced from the committee lays out several bullet points that puts the owner at the very center of this. i will read a few of the things. for example, they say that lawyers for snyder made a dossier with emails, texts, phone records and social media posts from others who made public accusations against the team. they also allege that during the wilkinson investigation, snyd
Oversight committee is holding a roundtable on reports of toxic workplace culture at the newly named washington commanders. six former team employees are detailing their experiences with the team. i asked commander s president jason wright about that when i talked to him wednesday as he announced the team s new name on the today show. this was wildly widely regarded as a toxic workplace. what have you done to fix that? the rebrand has coincided with very rapid and very real and irreversible change in the organization. ali vitale is with us on capitol hill. the league has not released what they found. what are we hearing from these former employees so far? reporter: that s the central piece of this, craig, from the employees we re seeing testify in front of the oversight
Looks like they are going to go ahead with that as well. my fingers are crossed even though i believe they have been stonewalling for all those months. he has to be held accountable and that is the bottom line and i will continue to raise my voice until i don t have one anymore. sean: you know what, i know a lot of people have been cheering you on. congresswoman, we will give you the last word. how do you see this playing out on both levels come of this in the nursing home issue? first, i want to thank janice dean for her courage in speaking out. she has experienced the smearing and retaliation that anyone who has opposed governor cuomo faces on a day-to-day basis. we saw that in today s reports, the toxic workplace culture, the top cuomo aides who are paid for by the new york state taxpayers, smeared and illegally retaliated against these brave women who came forward so we are going to continue to fight for accountability and justice for every new yorker, not just in this case, bu