Massive multinational Prisoner Exchange with russia. The largest since the Cold War. A senior Administration Official saying the deal was in the works for two years but was finalized in the last two weeks. We are waiting to hear from President Biden at any moment from the State Dining Room in the White House. The turkish government announcing it took place in the capital. You can see some of the planes. In total, the u. S. Negotiated the release of 16 people from russia, including five germans and seven russian citizens who were political prisoners. Vladimir putin is getting back eight russians including someone that he has long sought, a convicted hitman. He has been in a berlin prison. He killed was convicted of killing two chechens in daylight in berlin some years ago. We cannot stress enough the level of diplomacy that this took involving four of our allies. After Griners Exchange for a russian Arms Dealer in december of 2022, the u. S. Was left with no high level russian prisoners
Good Evening And Welcome to our special coverage of night two of the Republican National Convention in Beautiful Downtown milwaukee, wisconsin. Super glad to have you with us tonight. I am Rachel Maddow here with my beloved, cheerful, well hydrated colleagues joy reid, jen psaki, ari melber, lawrence odonnell. We will be talking with her shortly. We will be here, any minute we are expecting the President Ial Nominee Donald Trump to be entering the hall at the rnc in milwaukee. If i look shifty and not making eye contact, im trying to keep an eye on the monitors to know when that happens. Both the Secret Service and local Law Enforcement pay some increasingly tough questions about Saturdays Assassination Attempt against Trumpeter Rally this past weekend. Cnn was first to report that Nbc News has confirmed that the Secret Service had ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. Iran has singled out a number of diff
Continue as we get a live updat and send you images of obtained exclusively by fox news of cramped conditions inside a migrant detention center in texas amid fears that crowds of sick or untested vaccinated migrants are the president breaking the internet today by wearing a pantsuit. Why its barking memories of seven years ago when former in moment that became new is pantsuit gate. We begin with the latest in the war of words between tallahasse and washington courtesy of florida governor rhonda santos. Good evening, mark. These not going to impose any kind of steep white mask mandat or require kids in his state to wear a mask for school but president president biden is criticizing the governor for these decisions intimate desantis is firing right back. I m the governor who protect the jobs and education and businesses in florida. The governor is defending hi position not to impose sweeping new pandemic restrictions even as democrats accuse him of putting florida s kids at risk for it.
Everywhere, and we ll leave that tragedy to the professionals who need to take a look at it. And the president and first lady are on their way at this very moment. Gina mccarthy, thank you so much for being with us. New day continues right now. Announcer: this is cnn breaking news. Good morning. I m john berman with erica hill this morning. We have two stories breaking right now. President biden and the first lady on their way to surfside, florida, wheels up moments ago. The president no doubt will summon his skills as consolerinchief when he touching down. He plans to meet with family members of the victims. There is new video of the water gushing into the garage moments before the building collapsed. The bodies of on 10yearold and 4yearold child the latest to be recovered from the rubble. And alan weisselberg s surrending. There s no case that donald trump or members of his family will be charged at this time. We have just received a statement from the trump organization. I want to r
good evening, i m mehdi hassan. day 372 of the biden administration. and back in 1994, when he was senate judiciary committee chairman, senator joe biden guided liberal justice stephen breyer s confirmation on to the supreme court, 28 years later. 28 years later, biden will get the chance to replace breyer, who had 83 is the courts oldest member. he s expected to retire at the end of this term. to borrow a line from the president, this is a be ftc. bfd. i m also grateful to the senate judiciary committee, especially chair senator biden. president biden said it was up to breyer to formally announce his retirement. justice breyer has the right an opportunity to decide what he is going to do, to announce it. there has been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make the statement he is going to make and i will be happy to talk about that later. nbc news now reports biden will appear with wry or at the white house to more. this will be biden s chance to put his ow