Vp Vetting Team here In Washington with the expectation she makes a final decision by this tuesday, cnns Alayna Treene, and Priscilla Alvarez joining us now im going to begin with priscilla. So priscilla, as we look at this decision here, shes meeting with her team, any sense of whether the focus is on a Battleground State in this decision or just more a broader whos a better campaigner with me. So according to a source, her top consideration is electability. So who is going to strengthen her chances on the electoral map and especially on this condensed timeline. The Democratic Party abruptly shifted candidates. So that is something that they have to consider as they look toward november. But she doesnt have a close and personal relationship with any of these candidates either. So its over the last several days, there has been polling, there has been focus groups, there have been conversations that she has had with President Biden and with advisers to also consider who would be the bes
Also kurmasheva, and vladimir karamurza are expected to land on us soil. This evening. Actually karamurza will be heading to germany, but the other three will be arriving at Joint And Base andrews. We want to share with you this photo posted by president Joe Biden on Social Media showing the released prisoners, families with him in the Oval Office. You see two young women, theyre huddled over a phone extensively speaking with a Loved One over the speakerphone there, the families then joined the president as he addressed the american people confirmed coming the elaborate and historic deal that he reached with multiple allies, at least seven nations involved in making this day happen and this is the first photo of the now freed Gershkovich And Whelan holding up an American Flag shared on Social Media shortly before they boarded their Flight Home from turkey, which is where the swap actually happened standing between them, we should point out is russian american journalist alsu kurmasheva
Now, Breaking News Freed Americans, Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan Palin are on their way back to the u. S after their lengthy and for this event, and russia, theyre released part of a whole story, Prisoner Swap between moscow and the west bigger than any exchange since the Cold War. Vladimir putin personally welcoming back russians returned as part of the deal, including a roster of convicted and accused criminals from an assassin, spies. We are breaking down every angle of this sweeping deal. President bidens role in it. And what happens next this hour, ill talk with the principal deputy national Security Adviser, john finer live. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and Around The World. But blitzer is off today. Im Pamela Brown and youre in the Situation Room skis. Cnn Breaking News and lets get right to the major Breaking Story. Americans deemed wrongfully it held by russia now on their way back to us soil, the result of a Landmark Prisoner Exchange that has been years in
Im michael holmes. This is cnn newsroom. First to germany where the Death Toll has jumped to at least 81 in dangerous Flash Flooding in the western part of the country. In one district alone, 1300 people are assumed missing. Some regions receiving more than a Months Worth of rain in just 24 hours. At least 12 people have died in belgium, meteorologists describing it as the heaviest rainfall in a century. Nina Dos Santos is tracking developments. Weeks and weeks of rain. What is the impact of the floods . Reporter thats right, michael, the impact as you see is loss of life, severe devastation to a number of buildings, infrastructure is being blown up. Across one part of the three stricken regions of germany, one of the most populous regions, were seeing some of the Telephone Lines having been cut off, Hundreds Of Thousands without power, indeed running water and basic supplies. It is a pretty dramatic situation and in one part of the vehicle stricken part of the country, authorities rec
Good evening. No president should have to do what this president did today when he spoke up in defense of the right to vote and the Obligation Elected Officials have to graciously leave office when the voters say its time to go. After nearly 2 1 2 centuries as a Functioning Democracy that should obviously be a given. Sadly its not, which is what made president Bidens Speech Today in philadelphia so significant, the fact it was even necessary. And sadly, it is. Whatever else you might think of his specific legislative agenda on Voting Rights, the filibuster, even who youd prefer to see in office. After four years that tested nearly every Pillar Of American Electoral Politics and after Month And Month of lies that have corroded public faith in elections themselves, it has become clear that the institutions and traditions of democracy are in need of defending. Traditions, for one, such as not concocting a convoluted Conspiracy Theory to explain away the simple fact of losing an election.