chris jansing reports. at this hour, republicans take their battle against the justice department to the next level. will they vote to hold the attorney general in contempt for refusing to give them audio tapes of president biden s interview with the special counsel. we re tracking the action. also, terrifying moments in georgia after a man hijacks a bus full of passengers. how the high speed chase came to a deadly end. the ice sting across the u.s., eight men with suspected ties to isis arrested in three major cities after crossing the southern border. how did they escape detection for so long. plus, breaking news, the fed out with its latest decision on interest rates after u.s. consumers got some promising news on inflation. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we begin on capitol hill with nbc s julie tsirkin where speaker mike johnson is expressing confidence the contempt vote against attorney general merrick garland will pass.
that s not the point, the point is what happens when you to what you write. they tell a story really compellingly about what happened with the letter that she wrote to her father. with the letter that she wrote to herfather. when with the letter that she wrote to her father. when you sit down and look at one thing after another, you can see precisely how this happened. i also think we will see british media doesn t do mental health very well. i ve worked in new york and it s very different there. the suicide issue will be either pooh poohed or ridiculed. but can you imagine i ve worked in my professional life, in the last 10 15 years with a lot of people who are globally famous or running global businesses that have millions of people have opinions about them that aren t positive. that s a really tough thing to live with. you are i walked down the road and someone says something negative about us, it ruins our day. just imagine what
themselves several days ago said they were playing on attacks. we ve seen indications that they re moving in that direction. next question. travis? i want to follow up on the suicide issue. this has been a huge problem for years and years and a lot of time that the department and military branches have invested in trying to get active. toes the secretary have any initial assessment on why he believes this is so difficult problem and what can be done that is different than has been done in the past? my second question involves ukraine. you mentioned the secretary is traveling to poland again. we have thousands of members there, the 82nd. can you give us an update on what they re doing there, whether they are involved in exercises with the poles, whether they re hunkered down. what is their status and what
0 activism and advocacy as it concerns sexual predators that stems back decades and that is concerning. you wrote your note on the harvard law review on sex crimes. your note is your major academic work on the law review prevention versus punishment toward a principled distinction in the restraint in it you argue and i quote a recent spate of legislation reports to release sex offenders by requiring them to notify local law enforcement and submit to civil commitment for indefinite term. many say it violates the rights of individuals that have been sanctioned for their crimes. the contusionalty of sex offender statutes depends on their characterization as essentially preventsive rather than punitive. you explain if they re viewed an punitive, they re unconstitutional. if they re preventative, they are not. throughout the course of your note, you argue they should be viewed as punitive and therefore unconstitutional. indeed in the second to last page you go through each of those for ca