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where a hostage situation is still underway. police have confirmed that one of the hostages has been released and will be reunited with his family. we are going to bring you the very latest from the ground in just a minute. plus, how some in the grand ole party have become anti-reality. and you don t have to be a diplomat to get around visa laws any more. or do you? sydney, australia is trying to figure that out. we re going to explain how tennis star novak djokovic is involved. and the supreme court ruled this week the government has no business telling you what to do with your body except, of course, if you live in texas. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. let s start with the very latest on the breaking news out of texas. nbc s morgan chesky is on the ground for us. morgan, we know one of the hostages was released already. have we heard what led to that release? what s the situation looking like at this hour? reporter: yeah, ayman, the colleyville poli ....
hostage was released an hour ago unharmed and should be reunited with family. we don t know what led to the release. we do believe there are still at least three individuals that are still inside. congregation beth israel synagogue, which is about a quarter mile from where i m standing, and we do know that ongoing talks are happening with fbi hostage negotiators and that individual, that man who is pleased to be armed and inside and has been inside that synagogue, ayman, since 10:45 this morning. that s when the initial call went out to the local police here, saying that there was some sort of situation happening in this rather small synagogue in this suburban neighborhood. that s about 30 miles outside dallas. and since that point in time, whenever that synagogue s live stream for their services was interrupted by this man, we have seen federal and state authorities converge on this scene, expand their footprint here to about a quarter to a half mile perimeter, and tel ....
increasingly convinced vladimir putin may be ignoring those warnings. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. yes, the state department and the rest of the administration say they are ready for any eventuality whether that is for diplomacy or russian military escalation. everything we have seen and heard today suggest the latter is increasingly likely. russian troops ready, and the stage is set. all putin needs now is the excuse. he could have that very soon. russia is already working actively to create a pretext for potential invasion. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate russian operatives feigned urban war ferrari and using explosives are already in eastern ukraine ready to carry out acts of sabotage and may be planning operations against russia s own forces. we have information that they prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. russia is ....
what to do to curb it. if you look at this they ve been doing this poll-driven drive against corporate america saying it s greed that is increasing the numbers when i actually think it is a lot deeper than that and inflation pressures are coming from all the money thrown at covid and other things in the last couple of years. bill: the thing is you can go to georgia and talk about voting rights but this cannot hide. talk about gas prices and food prices and everybody feels it and now it is playing out in a way that unfortunately the economists predicted. we haven t seen numbers like this since the early 1980s, dana. dana: we ll talk about it a lot this morning and have good he personal for you as well. numbers on inflation are colliding with supply chain issues and staff shortages. pictures of empty store shelves across the nation are going viral. honestly i looked for march 2020 when everybody was stockpiling and the shelves were bare. pretty much all produce is g ....
further, you shared an account of your communications with president trump with a local news outlet in your district which recorded that you had a very heated conversation and that you urged the president to quote health get help to the capitol. and blito reported that you shared an even greater degree of detail with your colleagues in a widely-attended conference call on january 11th. on that call, according to the report, you stated that president trump had admitted, quote, some degree of responsibility for january 6th in his one-on-one conversations with you. the letter also cites mccarthy s floor speech in the days after the insurrection, acknowledging that trump bears responsibility for the attack and addresses mccarthy s own culpability in continuing to amplify the expresident s big lie in the wake of the insurrection. citing his visit to mar-a-lago on january 28th, days before impeachment, posing with donald trump for a photo. and that is where we start today wit ....