the release of terrorist aafia siddiqui, who s serving a life sentence in federal prison in fort worth and has tied to isis and al qaeda. let s bring in nbc news morgan chesky. and nbc chief investigator officer morgan dean. morgan, what are you seeing on the ground? well, a wide perimeter has been set up around congregation beth israel synagogue in colleyville, that is 30 miles outside dallas, alicia. authorities have been on the scene for hours. we learned from colleyville police this call came in for them to respond at 10:41 local time this morning. that is when they found out that this hostage situation had developed and that a man believed to be armed had entered that building where they were holding services at the time. that s what started this ongoing dialogue that is still happening as we speak. we do know that this man who is believed to have been taken at least a rabbi and three others hostage inside synagogue is in ongoing talks with federal authorities. fbi ho
for the reauthorization of the voting rights act in 2006 and now will not vote for it. our democracy is fragile as you have said but it only change in democracy that occurs is when the american people demand it and we must continue to demand it. this as a republican party trying to explain why not one of the 50 gop senators appears willing to support the actions necessary to protect this right this time around. when the senate reauthorized that law a decade ago it passed 98-0. why don t republicans including yourself support restoring the voting acts now? the supreme court decided, the supreme court decided that the conditions in 1965 are different than they are now. imagine that. we have had an african elected president out united states and to the vice presidency and elected to the senate in south carolina. now anyone can t see the circumstances have changed they re not believing their lying eyes. in a moment i m talk to congressman and house majority whip jim clybu
i was confused. i saw cnn tonight. what show am i? what is happening hear? you re not having the kevin mccarthy amnesia, are you, don? i thought you liked me. you called me annie oakley yesterday. i called you laura oakley. what a joke. a d-o-k-e. that was corny. i know. it true. he is being really selfish but the australia government made missteps as well because i ll put that aside but maybe he should be looking out for the bigger picture, which is the people there getting no publicity. they re not focused on what they re supposed to be doing. the attention isn t on the players but all on him and he as one of the other players said, i m sure the others are thinking the same think, he made the decision not to get vaccinated so these are the consequences. i mean, you know, here in the states we hear the same argument, i have the right to do what i want. it s a free country. we consider our president. we talk about the leader of the free world. you know, that sor
the s.w.a.t. team responded to congregation beth israel, the synagogue in colleyville about 17 miles northeast of fort worth. they responded to what is, what we now know, to a hostage situation. abc news is reporting there are four people being held hostage including the rabbi of that synagogue. the rabbi of that synagogue is named as rabbi charlie citron walker, known to be the full-time rabbi of congregation beth israel. right before 2:00 there was a live stream of services there this morning for the sabbath today, a religious day, obviously, for jews. and on this live stream it was cut right before people could kind of hear muffling in the synagogue. you couldn t really see much, but there was a fixed camera shot of the pulpit, you could hear the faint voice of a man heard in the background. the fort worth telegram is reporting that this man repeatedly mentioned his sister and islam, and he said a few times that he didn t want to hurt anyone, and he mentioned he had childr
overcoming opposition and passing voting rights in the senate. these bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself. while i continue to support these bills i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, another protector of the filibuster, seem to believe when it comes to protecting democracy the cure is worse than the problem. in their minds eliminating the filibuster, a maneuver done many times before to bypass the 60-vote threshold, that that is somehow worse than republican states like texas and georgia making it harder to vote and installing partisans to perhaps put the thumb on the scale in a close election. how big is the threat? consider this last year 19 states enacted 34 laws that restrict voting and alter the vote counting process. hundreds more were introduced. more are coming this year. and threats of violence an