Is cnn breaking News Welcome to inside politics. Im Dana Bash and we are following big Breaking News today. Americans, evan Gershkovich And Paul whelan are in american custody after a massive massive Prisoner Swap with russia. It involves 26 people and seven countries. At this exchange happen at an airport and awkward turkey, you see that airport there . It. Happened just moments ago. President biden confirmed the exchange. The deal also included Washington Post columnist vladimir Kara Murza, among others now we havent yet seen, of course, the people who are coming off and historically, just to put this in context, this has not happened, nothing close so this has happened since the end of the Cold War any moment President Biden will address the nation from the White House and we will of course, bring that to you live cnn and journalists are in place across the world working their sources and theyre going to bring you all the latest details. Matthew chance is in london, Kylie Atwood at
Hour on house speaker nancy pelosi s future. Up first the choice for senate republicans. Pursue the truth or give donald trump another pass? give him a pass does appear to be sadly the safe bet this hour. Ten senate republicans would be needed to break from their leader and join democrats to approve a commission to investigate the january 6th capitol insurrection. The commission bill passed the house yesterday. 35 house republicans voted yes. That is not a small number especially given the house gop leadership urging a no vote and the former president donald trump making clear this is a loyalty test. Democrats this morning sending a very clear message. My senate republican colleagues must now ask themselves are they going to join us in pursuing the truth? or are they going to cover for donald trump and his big lie? to my republican friends and i do have them, take back your party. Let s get straight up to capitol hill and cnn s lauren fox. Describe the fate of this bill in the senate.
on top of all of that, many texasans are dealing with burst pipes, a gas shortage, and stores running out of food and bottled water. i ve got down all of the blankets out of the attic that, like, for everything extra blanket we had and we piled on the couch and slept on the couch and depended on body heat. and that s probably what we ll do tonight. i m out of candles. can t charge batteries. we ve got flash lights. w we can t recharge the batteries. there s no propane to be found. there is none in the area. no water. and i have a 7-year-old, and it s tough. i don t think any of us was expecting this. so, it s all about survival right now until they can restore getting warm. we have a dog, baby, a cat all in our bed. you re angry, you re cold. you just want to cry because you re, like, so frustrated. it s awful. story after story here. and on top of it all the winter storm is also impacting the covid-19 vaccination effort. 19 states have been forced to cancel or
the one truly unanimous thing is the jury s decision. by most accounts, the right verdict under wisconsin law. to which adam swerver of the atlantic said it is one thing to argue the jury reached a reasonable verdict based on the law and another entirely to celebrate rittenhouse s actions. that celebration is under way, however, among right wing content crusaders. it s been under way since friday afternoon. they re lionizing the 18-year-old, lifting him up for promoting a pro-gun culture. can you see fox is in bed with rittenhouse, filming it late at night for a documentary for tucker carlson s unit. he had a crew embedded behind the scenes with rittenhouse throughout the trial. and a portion of the interview with the 18-year-old will air on monday. so fox is using the rittenhouse story to drive subscription for its streaming service, and the right wing media has also seized on this moment to slam the rest of the media for the trial coverage. i do think there s an important c
donald trump tried to sacrifice mike pence s life to kill democracy. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, february 21, and we have a lot to get to including former president trump continuing to compare his legal woes to the persecution of alexei navalny. it is beyond grotesque. a guy who has been accused by a judge of rape, a guy who has been accused or been found liable for sexual assault by a jury. massive fraud. massive fraud. hundreds of millions of dollars defrauding creditors. and the thing is, i just got to say really quickly, the thing is, nobody is questioning whether donald trump stole papers from the white house. whether he stole nuclear secret, whether he or had sex with a porn star and paid her off. no one is questioning it. illegally right before an election. nobody is even questioning that. and that guy is comparing himself to alexei navalny. it is grotesque. and he continues to refuse to criticize vladimir putin on top