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a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it's really amazing what we're seeing happen. it is. it's very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that's also unprecedented, so we're seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we've never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we've seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney...

colleagues it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much. i regret not to have been successful in those arguments. >> and there's big breaking news from moscow. appearing at her trial today wnba star center brittney griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges but said it was accidental, just one day after president biden spoke with her wife cherelle by phone. her plea to perhaps accelerate the end of the trial, perhaps lead to negotiations to her release. we'll have more coming up this afternoon at the white house. the president awarded the medal of freedom ...

>> also, we have to talk about paul whelan. we've talked to his family, and they are concerned they don't have the celebrity. they don't have the resources that griner has had. they've been trying -- he's been there for four years, and they've tried four times letters to the white house asking for any kind of contact with the president. they talked to the national security adviser the last time on may 4th. but they say they've gotten nothing back and not really any details. there's a lot of frustration from these other families, a whole group of them, there's 66 people detained wrongfully arou...

You want to start to get a dialogue. there are different ways, and police have a lot of techniques in the hostage negotiation program where they can find out if he has a cellphone. they know there was a family dispute, and i'm sure they have a cellphone number. they'll start communications with him. another thing that's important, you have to have an inner perimeter. you said earlier they were moving the crowds back. that's important, because the only people that will be allowed inside the inner perimeter will be the s.w.a.t. team, the emergency service personnel, and they'll also have the neg...

To be facing? she was so kind to him, calling him baby, you're going to be okay, we all have our problems. he's got some problems. >> reporter: right. michael hill has a lot of problems he does face. he has some serious charges he's been hit with, and on top of that we already know he has a history of mental issues. the public defender's kaufs in dekalb county says he has been assigned public defenders that specialize with mental health issues. his first court appearance september 5th, ashleigh. >> martin savidge, great job in covering this. it could have been such a different story and i'm gl...