louisiana, expected to slam ashore tomorrow. it adds insult to injury for hospitals across the coast already at a breaking point with covid patients. this is american voices. lots of news today. we ll begin this hour with the fight for voting rights. today thousands marched through the streets of d.c. and other american cities like phoenix, miami, and atlanta. the protesters united against the gop s sustained attacks on voting rights made possible by state legislatures and gop control. today the new president of the afl-cio, the largest federation of unions in the united states, spoke to nbc news on the sidelines of a rally in phoenix. we are concerned about what we re seeing in terms of voter suppression all across this country and really in my opinion the action is out in the community and on the ground. that s why i wanted to be here in phoenix today because these activists are ready to march, ready to mobilize, educate, register voters. we want to be good partners o
slip, there was no curse word there, there was no encoded message. i promise you that if i was going to put a secret coated message in a script i would go like to make it less subtle. that ll be your secret code if i ever say then you will know that i m sending a code. that ll be ordeal. but no i didn t accidentally swear or disclose classified information. i don t have any classified information. who trust me with it? that is going to do it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. i just think that they wore warming up the bleak machine for me. have you ever been believed on your show? i have not been believed. as much as i deserve it, i have yet to be bleeped. speaking of classified information, you are going to love this transition. a chairman adam schiff is going to join us with his reaction to the revelations today. he might know this answer and might not be able to tell us and that is, when
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 police sai
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 tell ever
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