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where today president biden is gearing up to hold his first press conference in months as the administration is planning public reset of his tarnished image. all the details with ashley. ashley: the president is set to hold only his tenth news conference this afternoon, his first in several months. of his nine previous press conferences, six were solo. public reset of his failed agenda as senior white house official says the dynamic with the president needs to change. the reset man is said to be making conversations with congress less of a priority and focus on talking with americans, although his approval rating continues to drop, jen psaki insisted press sect. psaki: this has been a lot of progress made, we need to build on that. the work is not done. the job is not done. ashley: senate majority leader chuck schumer is proposing a talking filibuster to persuade manchin and kyrsten sinema to allow vote to overhaul the u.s. election system. we must consider an ....
of baltimore, and conservative peer ed vaizey, who was culture secretary under david cameron. welcome to context. borisjohnson is attempting to shift the conversation away from lockdown parties, and the drinking culture in downing street towards true blue, conservative policies which he was elected to deliver. this morning an announcement the royal navy will lead efforts to stop the flow of migrants across the channel. there are proposals to end plan b restrictions, now omicron cases appear to be easing in some places. and over the weekend, newspapers were briefed the bbc licence fee will be frozen this next two years and the licence fee scrapped altogether in 2027. those plans were confirmed this morning in the house of commons by culture secretary nadine dorries. today i am announcing that the licence bill fee will be frozen for the next two years. and that it will rise in line with inflation for the following four years. the bbc wanted the fee to rise to over £180 by the ....
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 poli ....
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 tel ....
administration to manipulate the count for republican political gain. the issues include crucial technical aspects of the count, including the privacy of census respondents, use of estimates to fill in missing population data, pressure to take shortcuts to produce population totals quickly and political pressure on a crash program that was seeking to identify and count undocumented immigrants. most of the issues affected the population estimates used for reapportionment, which has a big impact on the balance of power in congress. the count affects how congressional districts are drawn up. that s a process that s contested because redrawing maps allows the party in control to redistribute power. it happens every time. it s happening right now. on friday, the ohio supreme court threw out a gerrymandered map and as of january 5, 2022, 34 cases are pending challenging congressional and legislative maps in 12 states as racially discriminatory and/or partisan gerrymanders. th ....