make a safe return home miguel almaguer, msnbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, new details in the growing story coming out of the doj that we just broke on msnbc minutes ago. what we know about the two people arrested for operating an illegal overseas police station of the chinese government right here in lower manhattan. plus, inside a massive prisoner swap in ukraine a live report on the ground where more than 100 prisoners of war were just released as part of the major exchange with russia what kevin mccarthy calls a ticking time bomb. the republican leaders no holds bars speech on the country s debt before the new york stock exchange plus, the white house responds a very different view of the problem by the biden administration and their take on the upcoming debt ceiling battle our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments let s begin with house speaker kevin mc
tracy, visited the wrongfully detained wall street journal journalist, evan gersh kovich fr the first time ever. russia accused him of espionage and he s facing 20 years in prison nbc senior white house continue kelly o donnell has more details on the visit this is something that the u.s. government has been wanting to do for the weeks, now two weeks, more than two weeks he s been detained what did we hear from the ambassador good to be with you, chris, and this is a significant development because this allows the united states government to have had one-on-one direct contact with evan gershkovich and to see how he s doing in confinement. he s wrongfully detained as the united states has declared that, and that s after a very careful assessment of his background, determining that he is, in fact, an accredited reporter this was an inappropriate and
honoring the victims and the survivors. nbc s kathy park is there just beyond the finish line i see a few people walking behind you, looks like they made it what s been the mood on the ground there, kathy? reporter: hey, chris, good afternoon to you well, as you mentioned, we are just yards away from the finish line, and the wave of people you see behind me just finished 26.2 miles. they started in hopkinton, they cross over eight cities and towns and finally made it to boston quite a feat, the energy is very light. there s a lot of excitement, especially for those who wrapped up this race just moments ago. but obviously this comes on the heels of a very somber anniversary, as you mentioned this weekend, there were several events and programs held to remember the lives lost, the survivors, and also the first responders who rushed in that day to save so many lives. in fact, on saturday, there was a dedication right at the finish line, a special dedication with
nbc s emilie ikeda joins us from outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware also joining me, joyce vance is still here, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst. so how did the judge explain the delay and how might affect the schedule going forward assuming the trial does go forward? reporter: i can tell you, we were hoping for official insight on this as to why the trial was delayed by about 24 hours from the judge. it was merely a formal announcement lasted a few minutes, short and sweet. he said this kind of delay is kind of unusual. he underscored how he has not gone through a trial lasting more than two weeks without a delay, and says they anticipate this sort of thing to happen and build it into the anticipated time line, in this case, running about six weeks. this all comes as you mentioned, those reports swirl around the idea that there could be these last minute settlement talks happening at the moment. keep in mind that settlement can be reached at any point until a
administration and their take on the upcoming debt ceiling battle our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments let s begin with house speaker kevin mccarthy, speaking to a different influential floor this morning at the new york stock exchange garrett haake joins me from capitol hill mccarthy s speech was focused oon the debt ceiling, what s the goal here? i think you had two goals, first to start floating elements of what will be the house plan once it comes together to raise the debt ceiling at least into next year by rolling back spending levels to 2022 levels he didn t get into a ton of specifics beyond that. you ve got a plan that s coming into shape there on the house republican side. but really, i think his bigger goal was to try to jump start negotiations with president biden by raising the stakes a little bit, both by shaking up things on wall street and nationally, trying to make this a key issue again. just listen to some of the rhetoric he used to d