wall street journal, was detained in a small town just east of moscow. the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter. the kremlin says he was quote caught red handed, but refuses to provide any more details. its track record on this sort of thing. does not inspire confidence ahead. we will have the latest from russia plus overnight, the army says. several people have now been killed this after two blackhawk helicopters crashed near fort campbell will be on the ground there in kentucky. also right now homes are evacuated in raymond, minnesota, after a train carrying ethanol derailed early this morning. we ve got new details for you on that. we re also keeping an eye on the vatican as pope francis is in the hospital undergoing treatment for a respiratory infection ahead. we ll have an update on his condition. but we begin this morning with that alarming headline out of russia . american journalist herskovitz is right now in russian custody after the wall street jour
the president and vice president fighting with each other, but that s sort of human interest. what we really, um as people observing a legal proceeding one and i was, you know what s legally relevant number one. did mike pence, hear or perceive any threats from the former president? number two? did the president ever expressed that he lost that he knew that he lost the election number three did the president ever for exhibit any knowledge of any violence that might have transpired on january. 6th number four. did the president know he was going to impede or disrupt the actions of congress? all of those questions go to some of these legal issues that the president s basing far beyond the question of whether these two outsized personalities in american politics who might run against each other for president sort of have a beef with each other. really? what the question is, was their acts of conspiracy and did the president was the president aware of them and some of those conversations g
tonight to the white house for ukraine documents and, separately, a letter seeking documents from the vice president. also today, reaction from joe biden. all this talk of the president about corruption comes from the most corrupt president we ve had in modern history. he s the definition of corruption. he s indicted himself by his own statements. this is not about me. it s not about my son. he talks about how we should handle whistle-blowers. he talks about there will be a civil war. this is ta guy that s unhinged. he is unhinged. this guy like all bullies is a coward. he does not want to run against me. back now with our team of experts. van, you saw the former vice president fighting back there. how do you assess how he is handling this as of tonight? look, i mean he s actually making the most important point. what is all this about? why do we have all this shenanigans, all this nonsense?
handle whistle-blowers. he talks about there will be a civil war. this is the guy that s unhinged. he is unhinged. this guy like all bullies, he s a coward. he does not want to run against me. that s what this is about. back with our team of experts. you saw the former vice president fighting back there. how do you assess how he is handling this as of tonight? he s actually making the most important point. what is all this about? why do we have all these shenanigans, all this nonsense? the idea of trump, the invincible, the trumpzilla, is not true. he is terrified of joe biden. he saw the same data we saw this summer that shows, as joe biden say says, he would beat him like a drum. they want to dirty him up, mess him um, and it s important for joe biden to point that out. at the root, that s what this is about. when you talk to republicans,
debate most right now is donald trump, democrats against each other while he is working right now to take away american healthcare. i don t understand why democrats on the stage are fear mongering about universal healthcare. makes no sense. we cannot keep with republican talking points on this. the republicans are trying to kill obamacare. this idea is a bunch of malarkey. get your head around this. they are ripping obamacare on the democratic debate stage vii years after it passed with the vice president fighting to keep who wants to keep it who is concerned about donald trump getting rid of it. they once medicare for all which is unaffordable and not possible, defend the obamacare and ripped by 9 different people for doing it. there was a good moment with the marijuana comment.