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And a third. nasdaq sunk 4 points. american basketball player brittney griner is back in the u.s. this evening. she arrived overnight after being released from a russian prison. but, the price president biden paid is too high for many of his critics. the senior national correspondent rich edson is at the white house tonight. rich, good evening. >> and good evening, trace. an agreement months in the making, which saw an american citizen on a minor drug charge traded for a russian international ar...

Russia is responding to economic sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine with a series of threats to Western intellectual property, and as U.S. attorneys try to figure out whether those public statements have any teeth, they are struggling to provide long-term planning in the region for clients.

For republicans, give mcconnell majority again but who arent so devoted to the lies surrounding the 2020 election. >> again, i would go back to that tea party comparison i made earlier. you know, if you go back in 2010, 2012, 2014, republicans shot themselves in the foot. they came out of the primaries as very anti-establishment people who held not very wide-spread views. in a lot of places they ended up losing general elections because they had the wrong candidate on the ballot, not because the...

Now support his performance. hes had a tough couple of weeks. hes under fire right now. unfortunately, veterans are caught in the middle again. if you look back this is what happened for v.a. secretaries a lot lately. obama lost shinseki, bush lost nickelson. its been turbulent for the v.a. and vets are caught in the middle. >> should he be fired by the president? >> our members are unhappy. as an organization we havent taken a formal position but talking to veterans across the country, his stoc...

Over whether or not theres a good strategic reason to send more american troops into the middle of that syrian war and why the president has changed his mind about that. it is presumably easier to blame the previous administration for bad things that happen somewhere than it is to argue for what you want to do differently. so theyve come up with this closed door strategy on syria at least where they are not arguing for what theyre doing. theyre not announcing it or explaining it. not making a ca...

Because the white house is not telling us that information on its own anymore. thats a strange decision on their part. eventually well find out these are not covert actions that these u.s. troops are taking. these deployments are not classified. so by just not announcing when troops are going and what troops are going, theyre not keeping the information actually secret. well find out. theyre just obscured a little. they buy themselves a little time in which they dont have to answer any questions...

About wikileaks founder julian assange. the door may be slamming on some help for homeowners. a vote is planned for today to end a package of white house mortgage modification programs. republicans say barely anyone is using those programs and eliminating them would save the country some money. the programs offer help by modifying mortgages for homeowners who are in trouble. democrats say killing the program will end up hurting the economy. new video in of a water main break in philly. water sho...

>> how old do you start saying that, when youre 80, you start saying that. >> lets turn to somebody who is definitely not 80. >> hes in the heat. >> hes hot. >> remember when then candidate barack obama said this about raising taxes. >> i will cut taxes, cut taxes for 95% of all working families because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is waive taxes on the middle class. >> a lot of people agree with that. a battle is brewing in washington over whether or not to extend the bu...

That is a big drop. and the lowest level in nearly two years. but is it good news? poppy harlow with cnnmoney.com. we see it over your shoulder there, jobless claims sank to a two-year low, it sounds like were moving in the right direction. but please, give us perspective here, poppy. >> look, the headline on this is its a better report than last week. the claims are down nearly 30,000 from the prior week. but overall, the bottom line on the report is its not good at all. more than 400,000 ameri...

And when they act out in the open. every administration likes to play up its strengths and downplay its weaknesses. their behavior is weirder than that. theyre now writing their own essays, making their own public blog posts. theyre having to do that because the white house is not telling us that information on its own anymore. thats a strange decision on their part. eventually well find out these are not covert actions that these u.s. troops are taking. these deployments are not classified. so ...