earlier than previous known. in fact, for more than a year. and the death toll is rising tonight in kentucky. homes completely under water. in just a matter of hours, we will speak to a pastor whose church was entirely washed away. let s go outfront . good evening to you. i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett. outfront , breaking news. the white house responding here on outfront after putin ups the ante on a prisoner swap deal. cnn exclusively reporting that president vladimir putin is demanding even more when it comes to the swap. according to sources, not only does he want viktor bout in exchange for brittney griner and paul whelan, the russians also now want a convicted murderer to be released. he was sentenced to life in president there. you broke the story. what more can you tell us what about the russians are demanding here. reporter: yeah. what we are told is earlier this month after they proposed the deal for viktor bout for paul whelan and brittney griner, they
and she broke barriers as the youngest woman in congress. now, almost three decades after she left public office, this fighter wants to get back in the political arena. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and another major development in what has been a monumental week for january 6th investigators. the latest twists, more missing text messages from the period leading up to the capitol attack. according to the washington post , texts from donald trump s acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. department of homeland security said texts were lost in a reset of their government phones at the end of the trump administration. today a source tells cnn that the january 6th committee did interview chad wolf several months ago the same time they met with cuccinelli. that was before they learned of the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that
things they care about. we don t have to make things up when the republicans do their big tax bill in 2017, they said it will reduce your taxes to the average middle class person. it was aimed at the rich. we are talking about exactly what this bill does. we don t have to make it up because we are aiming directly at the american people and what they want. so, let me say this. say no to something is easy. it gets mistaken that no, say no, that is tough. there is no strategy or counting to saying no. it s simple, it is easy. legislating is about getting to yes. i ve always been a yes person. not a no person. always wanted to get something done. if you ask me, what helped you get the stun? some people have asked me that. i put it in one word, persistence. i just tell you a brief story for those of you who haven t heard about my dad. my dad passed away in november, he would have been 99 on flight day, june 14th. he was i won t go into the whole story, but he was a brilliant par
descent into assism. and a major effort to free brittney griner and paul whelan from captivity in red sox and i ll be joined by olivia juliana, an amazing young woman who turned a disgusting attack by matt gaetz into an opportunity to raise money for abortion services across the country. we begin with the new signs that the justice department is moving the ball in its investigation into the january 6th news. the house january 6th committee has spent the summer laying out its laser-focused investigation into the former president s actions leading up to the attack on the capitol, and while these hearings have been block birth and widely watched, if you found yourself frustrated asking where is the accountability you were not alone, but it s important to just keep in your mind alongside your work worries or where your kids socks are or what date your credit card is due and all the real things rattling around there, the state of democracy and whether or not the state owns your b
game? let s bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book the 100-year their mono. marathon. michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour fury around speaker pelosi s itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she s kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so if she changes that approach when she gets back, then trip will have had a huge impact probably on her. as you know, she was quite the china hawk back in the 90s, demonstrating in beijing on behalf of tiananmen students who were killed, doing a whole series of things to hurt china badly. she then shifted over to a more moderate view, and if she shifts back now to how she was in the 1990s, that will b