the face, broke a world record he s a beast respect to joey chestnut, the lead with her, right now trump back on the hill for the first time since january 6, attack. the leader starts right now from nancy pelosi to taylor swift. donald trump was on a tear and private meetings with house and senate republicans begins his direct quotes from republicans in the room coming up plus his face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. they re very first since the 2020 election breaking now, on the lead, some brand new accusations against us supreme court justice clarence thomas coming from a top senate democrat, will bring you those details. but first, the major ruling today from the, us supreme court and the significant setback for the anti-abortion movement. but not so fast welcome to the lean on jake tapper, a huge day for the us supreme court today. and i don t just mean that bombshell unanimous ruling on abortion medication also, democrats are now leveling a brand n
up to 20 years in prison on espionage charges, accusations the u. s government and the wall street journal. both adamantly deny he is still being detained or denied. i should say consular access while he awaits his next court date tuesday in a russian prison job. biden spoke with his family aboard air force one that was yesterday. so joining us now the u. s special envoy for hostage affairs, roger carson s , he is working to secure the release of herskovits as well as other u s citizens deemed by the state department to be wrongfully detained around the world. he was on the plane with brittney griner to escort her back here to the united states after she landed in the a. we re so grateful to have you on this morning. thank you so much, sir. for appearing. don thanks for having me let me add. this is the newest information that we have just this morning, russia s deputy foreign minister said. quote on this issue we are acting in full compliance with our laws, naturally taking into accou
internationally. let me ask you, i am sorry to interrupt you diana. you spoke to one of your sons captors? yes, yes i spoke three times to alexander cody because that was a part of his, he did plead guilty to all of this count. the part of his deal was his willingness to talk to victims families. where are we now? when i spoke to roger carson s who is very involved now in the u.s. organized, effort sort of multi faceted effort to try and get people detained, he pointed to you. he said you have been instrumental and causing the u.s. government to have sort of a all government approach to getting people released. you said we have made a lot of progress since jim s killing. but not enough? well we, have we have but it s difficult. it s very difficult and that s
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12 hours talking about everything under the sun. we actually tried to give her some space. you know, you probably want to decompress after ten months in a russian prison. she said no, i want to talk. i want to relate to people. i found someone who was just absolutely wonderful. kind, generous, interesting, and above everything, authentic. wow. that was the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, roger carson s, updating us on the mental physical health of wnba star, and olympic gold minute is, brittney griner. griner s back in the u.s. after being detained in russia for ten months. she was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony for possessing minimal amounts of cannabis oil. you may think ryan into turn be a cause for national unified celebration, her freedom has been met, in part, by backlash. several conservatives have argued that griner is not patriotic enough to have been rescued. including the fact that she said the national anthem should not be played during ba