Veteran Paul Whelan come along with 14 others, are out of russian prisons. Their brutal ordeal is over. And they are free. Norah the new details behind what went into the Prisoner Swap and who was released to russia in exchange. It is difficult to send back a convicted criminal to secure the release of an innocent american. Norah the Cbs Evening news starts now. To american journalist and a u. S. Marine veteran are free tonight following one of the largest Prisoner Exchanges between the u. S. And russia since the end of the cold war. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. Here they are holding The American flag. You can see Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, smiling from ear to ear. They are in the air right now, headed for Joint Base Andrews in maryland, where they will be met by the President And Vice president late tonight. The White House calls it the most complex exchanging history, and heres why. It happened in turkey and involved eight
Since 2006 he has been an author of a podcast and is a graduate of the writers work shop, and has worked many jobs. A tennis instructor, aid to a u. S. Senator, line cook, telephone solicitor, Book And Movie reviewer and an author before he found his place as a paramedic. In addition to being paramedic he is the Ems Coordinator another John Dempsey hospital in farmington, confident. Id like to welcome peter canning. Hi, Peter Hang on. One second. There you go. Greets to everybody. Thank you for joining us. Before we get started with your presentation would would you you tell us about killing season. Killing season is a book here just came out and its about my experiences as a paramedic over the last 25 years and following the opioid epidemic. Ill tell you i started to learn things in the course of my work, and i wanted to bring my experiences and the voices of my patients to other read sores they could be changed in a way i was changed in my view about the opioid epidemic. Im look forw
I want to start with the news out of texas. Nbc s ali vitali has been following all of the twists and turns from d. C. Ali i. What is going on? steph, they killed the bill but only for now. By walking off the floor last night, they made it so there weren t enough lawmakers present in order to actually vote on this bill before the midnight deadline but this only bought democrats time. As you said, the governor is stepping in and we heard from lawmakers last night this was one of the last arrows in their quiver as they tried to stop this legislation. Listen. We use all of the tools in our toolbox to fight this bill, and tonight we pulled out that last one. They were prepared to cut us off. They tried to silence us. We were not going to let them do that. We killed that bill. Again, steph, they killed that bill for now. We re going to see the next chapter of this unfolding in very short order because last night governor abbott called for a special session almost immediately after this bill
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