In russia. The administration released this picture. President biden and Vice President harris will welcome them tonight. It will be Evan Gershkovich from the wall street journal, russia american journalist, u. S. Veteran paul whelan, and a putin critic, vladimir kara murza. He was jailed for criticizing Putins War in ukraine. The president was with the families of the released prisoners today. The administration also released this image online. How Big A deal is this . Diplomatically, it is the largest Prisoner Exchange with russia since the cold war. Under putin, russia held these individuals after public trials, which american Officials Stress were show trials. They are basically impugning Russias Justice System as completely under putins control. Vice president harris just spoke about this break through by the Biden Harris Administration late today. She was, to be clear, balancing campaign and official duties. She was prepared to Leave Houston for d. C. For the meeting i just menti
And the future of Travel President biden is pushing for 50 of new vehicles to be electric. How might that change the way that you think about cars . From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Its been Infrastructure Week all year long, but after months of negotiations, this week could soon be coming to a close. Today, the senate voted 6727 to invoke cloture. Cloture blocks any further debate on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. 18 republicans joined democrats in voting to advance this bill. The exact timeline of when and how it gets wrapped up is still in the air. Now the clock is ticking on 30 hours of debate, over which amendments to include. Any amendments would require the support of all 100 senators before consideration. At the same time, theres also a Big Push to move forward on a faster path. If the senate can agree on amendments and on shortening that 30hour debate period, this process would speed up dramatically. Tennessee Republica
Electric. How might that change the way that you think about cars . From nbc News World Headquarters in New York, im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Its been Infrastructure Week all year long, but after months of negotiations, this week could soon be coming to a close. Today, the senate voted 6727 to invoke cloture. Cloture blocks any further debate on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. 18 republicans joined democrats in voting to advance this bill. The exact timeline of when and how it gets wrapped up is still in the air. Now the clock is ticking on 30 hours of debate, over which amendments to include. Any amendments would require the support of all 100 senators before consideration. At the same time, theres also a Big Push to move forward on a faster path. If the senate can agree on amendments and on shortening that 30hour debate period, this process would speed up dramatically. Tennessee Republican Senator Bill hargetty is blocking that path. Now, this week, the nonpartisan co
On the justice Departments Pursuit of the January 6th perpetra perpetrators. Now you are seeing the other side of the picture what was actually going on in at the highest levels of the Justice Department that was sort of fuelling that fire of the Big Lie. There was an actual attempt to have states overturn their results . Thats correct. We started this reporting back in january. We found that there had been a lot of pressure from the White House to have the Acting Slate of officials including the acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen and the acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donahue to both investigate voter fraud, allegations that had already been vetted and found to be not credible. They were also being pushed to make some sort of public declaration that the election was in doubt, the kind of declaration that would seed the public mind with doubt. They were being asked to go before the Supreme Court and see if the Supreme Court would vacate the results of the Election Something the
President biden says the longterm effects of covid19, socalled Long Covid will now be recognized as a disability by the federal government and that is as officials within the biden administration announced a new Vaccination Mandate on the entire Va Hospital system. Veterans affairs is going to require all docs working in facilities have going to have to be vaccinated. Jennifer did you know that explains whenever a Veteran Or Step foot they deserve to know could we have done everything in our power to protect them from covid19. Covid19 57 groups including the american medical Urging Vaccination for all Healthcare Workers and all State Employees in california now have a choice. Get vaccinated or wear a mask and get tested. Individuals choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us. In New York, workers need to prove vaccination or wear masks and get tested, too. In the City Government Employee does not wear a mask indoors and they are unvaccinated there unfortunately will h