thanks for is spending time with us on ari melber and the beat. "the reid out" starts right now with joy reid. >> tonight on "the reid out." >> i spent a lot of time with the families of evan and paul and alsu. as you can imagine, most of the time those are tough

conversations but not today. today -- excuse me. today was a very good day. >> national security adviser jake sullivan with the great news. three americans and one u.s. resident are finally free after the most complex prisoner exchange since the cold war. also tonight, remember when people said trump became a changed man after the assassination attempt? well, now he and his party are back in their comfort zone ramping up their racist rhetoric against vice president kamala harris. and the fallout. good evening from chicago where we begin tonight with breaking news. right now four u.s. residents

are on their way home after being released from russian custody in a landmark multi-national prisoner exchange. president biden posted this photo showing evan, paul and alsu on their way back to the u.s. where they're expected to land in just a matter of hours. this swap is the largest that we've seen since the cold war. it involves seven countries, two dozen prisoners and nearly two years of complex and incredibly fraught negotiations. the president called the deal a fete of diplomacy speaking earlier at the white house along the side of those who have been freed. >> now their brutal ordeal is over and they're free. moments ago the families and i were able to speak to them on the telephone from the oval office. they're out of russia. earlier today they were flown to turkey and soon they'll be wheels up on their way home to see their families. this is an incredible relief for

all the family members gathered here and it's a relief to the friends, the colleagues all over the country who have been praying for this day for a long time. >> president biden shared a photo on social media of that moment that he mentioned, where the families were able to speak to their loved ones for the first time since they regained their freedom. this is, as the president mentioned, a huge deal for them. they've waited months or even years to see their son, mom, dad, brother again. it's also a huge win for joe biden and a reminder of the power and influence of the american presidency in the world on the world stage. just something to think about when you are voting this fall. according to nbc news, biden has been working on this exchange since december of 2022 shortly after brittney griner was traded for victor bout. the precise deal only came together in the past couple of weeks, to the point where president biden was on the phone with the slovenian prime minister discussing the swap

just one hour before he announced he was dropping his bid for re-election. vice president kamala harris reportedly played a critical role in the negotiations. she spoke with reporters on her way back from houston this afternoon. >> as we celebrate today's news, we also must keep front of mind that there are other americans that are unjustly being held in places around the world and we will never stop fighting for their release. >> it all comes despite donald trump's repeated insistence that he was the only one who could free these prisoners if and only if he won the election. he posted on his social media site back in may that evan gershkovich will be released almost immediately after the election but definitely before i assume office. vladimir putin will do that for me but no one else. no answer of how he was going to do that. back to earth one where this is an historic moment for the

country and a joyous one for these four individuals who have spent far too long unjustly detained in russia. evan gershkovich, reporter for "the wall street journal" who was arrested in march of 2023. just last month he was convicted of espionage in a sham trial and sentenced to 16 years in prison. paul whelan, a former marine who was detained in 2018 when he was there for a friend's wedding. he had been serving a 16 year sentence in a penal colony. alsu kurmasheva. last month she was sentenced to 6 1/2 years for, quote, spreading false information about the russian army. at the white house today president biden sang happy birthday to alsu's daughter who

turns 13 tomorrow saying she gets to celebrate her birthday with her mom ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday, dear miriam ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> donald trump could never. and then there's vladimir kara-murza, he's been in prison since 2022 on charges of treason and spreading false information after speaking out against putin's autocratic destruction of ukraine and something he's discussed with me on this very show. >> the only strategic end game to this, the only solution, the only way to stop the seemingly unending streak of crimes and repressions and wars of regression that vladimir putin has been leading is to have this deranged murderous dictator out of power. only russians can do this.

obviously nobody is advocating regime change from the outside. the free world stands in solidarity and helps the russian people get the truth, get the objective information. >> joining me now is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons, michael mcfall and msnbc international affairs analyst nahira hawk. keir, can you walk us through the logistics of this? it's amazing to think that president biden was on the phone doing these negotiations up to -- while he had covid, he announced he was no longer running for president. >> reporter: yeah. what's also amazing is that he managed to persuade a number of u.s. allies, particularly germany, to agree to be part of this because it is from germany that vladimir kara murska was

released. the jury said it was a very difficult decision to make and at the same time he is welcoming a german home from belarus tonight and that's being captured on video just as president biden is being captured on video, will be, welcoming those families back. then i should say, though, that at the same time we've seen pictures of president putin welcoming those russians back to russia, including karasikov and including other spies. for example, a couple who -- man and wife, husband and wife spies, and their children. putin holding up flowers as they walked down from the airplane. so it is a night when we kind of are seeing images we haven't been able to.

cold war many think is not the right description. >> here's president biden speaking about the importance of allies today. >> anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do. they matter. today is a powerful example why it's vital to have friends in this world, friends you can trust, work with, depend upon, especially on matters of great consequence and sensitivity like this. our alliances make our people safer and we began to see that

again today. >> and i will add that the german chancellor, senior administration official said biden had spoken to olaf schultz in february. he said for you i will do this. you know, i think sometimes when people vote for president they think of voting for a character that they want to have in their living room for the next four years, but this is a sort of reminder. there's a gravity for this office. donald trump can say whatever he wants, but, you know, at least one of these people was taken while he was president and he did nothing to bring him home. paul whelan. talk about that a little bit. the second question i'll ask you is does this indicate that for vladimir putin he may be rethinking whether donald trump is going to be president again if he decided to do this deal with president biden in office? >> joy, first of all, it's great

to be on your program on this day. i know how many times you've had vladimir on your show. everybody just kind of see what an eloquent principled leader he is and speaker. it's great we're going to have his voice back in this fight. number two, to your point, allies matter to the united states. we're better off when we have allies. we can do more things when we have allies. we're rightfully focusing on the allies. we had many allies, poland, slovenian allies involved in this incredibly complex swap. sings the cold war. i know the cold war pretty well. this compares with even the most complex and biggest swaps during the cold war. and we should give credit to our diplomats as well and to underscore the point about biden and harris versus mr. trump and mr. vance, they believe in allies. they believe in diplomacy. trump doesn't believe in allies and he doesn't believe in

diplomacy. he wants to go it alone and he wants to do things in a unilateral way. you can't get big, complex diplomatic achievements like this one done with that kind of attitude. >> president biden was actually asked about his predecessor, and here he is talking about trump's big boastful plan that he could do this and only he could do it. >> president trump has said that he could have gotten the hess stages out without giving anything in exchange. what do you say to that? what do you say to president trump now, former president -- >> why didn't he do when he was president? >> touche. it could be an ad. let me bring you in here. part of the negotiation to lease, to free evan gershkovich, he had to write a letter for presidential clemency. he had had over 16 months of

imprisonment. after this release would putin be willing to sit down with an interview? that's an incredibly brave and profound thing. i'm going to talk about vladimir kara-murza. the bravery of these people. some of them were committing incredible acts of bravery while they were in captivity. >> so much of what the journalists have been doing is bringing us the real story. they're bringing us the story of what's going on behind the iron curtains. we're able to see that and that's part of what makes this a political challenge and makes many of these journalists ripe for targeting by regimes like russia, china, iran. north korea's had these challenges too. it's part of a pattern we've seen as we come into this phase of democracy versus autocracy

that these regimes are using tactics like isis and al qaeda. now they are granting visas to the journalists, welcoming them in, then turning them into political pawns and prisoners. it then creates a churn of trying to figure out how do you uphold the values and principles of american democracy and pro tekding the individual, individual rights while also suddenly being stuck in an archaic alternative universe legal process. >> indeed, it is a harrowing and terrifying situation. i can remember interviewing brittney griner and reading her book. it's terrifying to think of what they've been through. i want to get back to you. i've interviewed him multiple times. he was a frequent guest. he's literally -- he was on "the reid out" as well. one of the bravest people i ever met. before when he was getting

de-miced, i asked him, why in the world would you go back there? i asked him, why would you go back? he said, absolutely. i'm a russian politician. this is what i have to do. one of the bravest men and most committed. i nt wa you to talk about him for a minute if you can, ambassador mcfaul. >> i've known vlad for decades. i've watched his career. i've watched the up and downs of the opposition movement there. the there were glorious times when it looked like they were surging and it looked like they were going to bring democracy back in 2011, 2012. he was then part of the harder period when he was on your show when they were mostly in opposition trying to figure out what to do. he went through the same tortuous decision that alexi navalny went through, whether to go back. many people, including myself, did not think he should go back.

he had such a strong voice. like he said to your show, i have to go back. we should all be thankful that he is alive. he's not been in good health. we know what happened to alexey navalny and now i think he will help to rejuf night the political opposition living in exile not going back to russia any time soon. >> it's hard to think alexei navalny could have been returned. brittney griner said great day. we'll talk more about it later. head over heels. happy for the americans. a day the americans come home, that's a win. that's a win. she would know. she is in the olympics. so thrilled because she always talked about the fellow members. in the back of her book is a list of people still detained. she was still working for them. let me have you close this out and talk about vice president harris. she played a role quote from nbc, she met with the chancellor

of germany in munich to help pave the way. she's also met with the prime minister of slovenia to help bring them into the negotiations. that is her qualifications. she has this experience under her belt not talking on a fake twitter account but actually doing good work. i think that should stand her in good stead with the voters. what do you think? >> she has been part of the biden national security team and now she is seeing the reveals she has been a leader in so many circumstances. she has laid out an agenda that is very consistent with what we know to be driven by allies, engagement with those who have like-minded interests. leveraging america's power to be good for the american middle class, but she's actually done the work of that. and we're seeing that come to fruition today. we're also seeing that biden is allowing her to have these moments to shine, to share her story so she can now show the american public that she's ready to be command beer in chief.

>> yes. thank you all. keir simmons, we lost his feed. thank him as well as ambassador michael mcfaul. the prisoners will arrive around 11:00 p.m. eastern. we will have full coverage of that on this very network. don't go anywhere. up next, trump and his ghag cronies have recently doubled down against kamala harris. suddenly referring that they haven't referred to her as black in all of these years. that depravity is next. choose from furnishings fit for the dorm, vintage finds, and more. when you want unique items to help you feel at home, even when you're away. etsy has it.

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if there's one thing we know about donald trump, it's that he craves being in the spotlight. he will do anything to be the center of attention and will throw a temper tantrum when someone else takes his place so perhaps it comes as no surprise that he raised his latest racist attack yesterday against vice president kamala harris questioning her race, specifically among a group of black journalists. beyond showing his utter desperation in the face of a challenger who is galvanizing voters to keep him far away from ever entering the oval office ever again, it is putting on display how his little vaudeville act is wearing thin. where his campaign is centered on rage and anger, harris's is optimistic and full of energy. last night vice president harris

responded by saying, the american people deserve better. >> it was the same old show. the divisiveness and the disrespect, and let me just say, the american people deserve better. the american people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. we deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us, they are an essential source of our strength. >> and today the dnc began its virtual roll call vote to formally nominate kamala harris for president. harris's official nomination will be made monday when the vote closes coming exactly two weeks ahead of the start of the democratic national convention right here in chicago.

joining me now is congresswoman jasmine crockett of massachusetts and andrew doud. what a difference a couple of weeks makes. democrats seemed divided and in disarray over what would happen with president biden and it seems like three months ago but it was actually like two weeks ago but are you -- were you personally surprised at how quickly the party and also young folks, tiktokers, you name it, consolidated in a really kind of euphoria around vice president harris? >> i actually really was surprised, but i'm thankful because i know how amazing of a person our vice president is, not just when it comes to being a politician but she's just a good person. and so it could not happen to anyone better than the vice president. so i've been really excited to see it. i think there had been an idea

democrats had kind of checked out. it wasn't so much that, i think they were just looking for that fire to be lit. as someone who is known as being a fighter, i think that they love that she is pushing back and she is pushing back hard because for so long the democrats kept trying to say the democrats were weak. right now the only person that looks weak is trump. he doesn't have an answer for the vice president and all he wants to do is talk about her behind her back. as she stated in atlanta this week, if he's got something to say, say it to her face. well, we'll just see if he absolutely decides he's going to skip out on that debate or if he's actually going to, you know, join her on stage. >> yeah. because she's going to be there, matthew doud. it may just be a town hall with the vice president. to that very point, republicans are starting to, it seems, freak out a little bit. this is some reporting from politico playbook. just ask hill republicans who are privately freaking out over trump's latest broadsides. we spent last night working the

phones calling republicans and we tell you virtually every republican we spoke with was flat out distraught by what they perceive as a self-inflicted wound not only for trump, but for republicans down the ballot. there's signs republican confidence in trump is slipping. the trump camp launched new ads that has only once voted for a democratic candidate -- only once in the last 40 years and guess who that was? barack obama who won the state of north carolina in 2008. this feels like a 2008 moment, matthew. >> well, actually, i think it feels like a combination of both 2008 and 2012 actually. it is a combination. i think the media has made a mistake to look back at 2020 and somehow thinks that's what it's replicating. it's not. there's much more enthusiasm. much more likely high turnout in democrats than actually in 2020. when we think about this race, i

think we have to think about those two barack obama elections, and that's where i think it is -- that's why i believe north carolina is absolutely a swing state in this election in the course of this. it's interesting to me that the only swing state that's been added to the other ones is one that's been red before. there's been no blue states added to the swing state column of this. to me what's evidenced in this whole effort in the last two weeks and especially the last 24 hours is how far out of sync donald trump and the republicans are for where america is. they don't seem to understand that america already is a multi-cultural society, that america is already a multi-racial society. we're already there. that's us. that's who we are. look at the panel tonight, democrats, republicans, black, white, men, women. they don't seem to understand -- maybe they do understand it and for some reason they don't like it and they want us somehow to go back to 1952 or whatever.

in my view, donald trump is the most racially divisive, hate-filled person that ran for president since george wallace, since george wallace. >> i mean, very clearly. >> he is our george wallace. >> yeah. absolutely. and, i mean, i think there's a generational issue, too. you are a perfect person to speak to this, jas. it's almost like donald trump is stuck in the '80s or maybe even the '60s or '50s. for younger people, if you are under 50, if you are a gen xor, you are so used to multi-racial people, it's not a thing. look at how many millennials have multi-racial kids. how many nonwhite americans are made to nonamericans. he's awkward in defending her. they seem so retroand even their celebrities are like hulk hogan,

kid rock, whereas, your girl, meagan d. stallion is coming out for kamala harris. it's almost sort of -- they don't seem to be in this century is what i'm saying. >> no. i mean, i think a central part of this campaign is we're not going back, right? you have heard the vice president say that over and over and over. matthew dowd just repeated it, so obviously it is starting to get somewhere. that's what you want people to do, you want them to have a theme that catches fire and they can repeat because when we look at the policies that are coming out from the republicans, when we look at project 2025, when we look at the supreme court that is basically trump's supreme court, everything is about taking us back to a dark part of our history, and what we're saying especially our vice president as a black woman, for those that don't know she's black, she black, as a black woman saying we won't go back because we honor those that bled, died, risked their lives

for us to make sure that we move this country forward. we just saw the president down in austin, texas, this week, and what he was he doing? he was commemorating the work of a great texan, lbj. we want to move this country forward, and that's the option you get with a kairgs, or you can go back to the 1960s where they have the likes of byron donald glorifying the jim crow era that he's married to a white woman that he wouldn't have been allowed to get married to. >> very quickly before we go to break. president biden just added another 25 million borrowers for student loan debt relief. that is a forward-looking policy. senate republicans had the opportunity to extend the child tax cut. they're obsessed with people having babies. they voted it down. only the democrats voted in favor of it and of course bernie sanders. this is a retropolicy. don't go anywhere. congresswoman jasmine crockett,

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2012 campaigns against president barack obama, it's because that's what it is. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate? you know what, i wish he would. i think it's a terrible pale that's hanging over him. >> nobody ever comes forward and nobody knows about who he is until later in his life. it's very strange. he may have one, there's something on that birth -- maybe religion, something that says he's a muslim. i have people who are studying it who can't believe what they are finding. >> absolutely. they cannot believe what they're finding. >> back with me are congresswoman jasmine crockett and matthew dowd. as i recall president obama did release it and then he mocked donald trump at the correspondent's dinner. birtherism caused him to get the

highest percentage of white voters since like carter. it turned white voters off. >> yeah. that's what's fascinating about this. i actually don't think right now donald trump is being strategic. i just think he can't help himself. he's like your grandfather who's lost his mind who's now walking the streets screaming racial epithets at people and you're like, get in the house. please, get in the house. that's where he is today. it was -- at some point in time it was like an entertaining archie bunker, oh, it's entertaining. some people saw him that. now he's gone completely full scale into this angry and i agree with the congresswoman, fearful, scared, you know, child is what kind of he is in this. and the adult in the room is the vice president. >> yeah. yeah. he's sundowning. just to see how incoherent all of this is, congresswoman, donald trump made campaign donations to kamala harris. he said it was proof he's not

racist. back in 2020. i'll note that kamala harris is a black woman and he donated to her campaign so i hope we can squash this racial argument. they show a picture with her family in india like it's a flex. why is it that you can easily pick her out in that picture but you can easily tell which one is kamala harris and which one is her sister? because she's only partially indian. it is -- one more thing. some questions about kamala harris's eligibility said john eastman in an op ed. donald trump says about that, i heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements and by the way, the lawyer who wrote that piece is a highly qualified talented lawyer. he's quoting the lawyer -- your thoughts, congresswoman. she's black. she's not black. >> listen, this idea of i don't know when she turned black. sir -- sir, because we know that if she would have applied to be

one of you in your daddy's apartment you would have put a little c by it and she wouldn't have made the cut. just cut it. let's stop playing. but also when it comes down to trump being able to pick talent, let's just do a quick evaluation. i mean, when we look at rudy giuliani, i know that rudy giuliani has lost everything from his law license to his money to his dignity. heck, he was even losing his hair die, okay? he has lost everything along with any other lawyer that's ever associated with him and so you now we get to j.d. vance when he picks a v.p. running mate and he also picked another loser, right? like because now single cat ladies are coming for their ticket. i mean, this guy is a loser and i just need america to step unone more time and remind him just like they reminded him four years ago that he's a loser and he is only good for entertainment but when it comes to running this country, we need

someone who is serious and who is qualified and the only person in this race that is serious and qualified is the black woman and her name is kamala for those who have a problem with trying to figure out how to actually pronounce her name. >> amen. you know, matthew, it's so incoherent that i don't think he realizes that his vice president's wife is not black. so his vice president's -- his vice presidential candidate's kids are multi-racial. how are they explaining that to usha? who's going to explain to usha that you can only be one race? >> that's for j.d. vance to go out and call the vice president a camillian for a guy that's changed his name three times. three times during the course of this and he's also the one that's on the ticket of the guy he called hitler and he calls the vice president a camillian. >> a camillian. >> i think what this is is this is actually the time, the best

time in america rate now because karma is coming and karma has a name. karma has a name and it's kamala. >> kamala. >> and seen. congresswoman jasmine crockett and matthew dowd, thank you so much. whew. coming up. more of the fallout at the nabj over there. disastrous decision to invite one donald sundowning who needs his jello trump. we'll be right back. ed gutters.

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why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that? >> well, first of all, i don't think i've ever been asked the question in such a horrible manner, first question. you don't even say hello, how are you? are you with abc? because i think they're a fake news network. a terrible network. >> and just like that donald trump's appearance at the national association of black journalist's convention went immediately off the rales confirming that inviting him in the first place was a grave mistake. the debacle was effective for showing or reminding people who trump is. from a journalistic standpoint, unclear. joining me now is a column nist for the washington post and the dean of the columbia school of

journalism. karen, i want to start with you. you resigned publicly from the board that chairs this convention, and we are here in chicago, that's why i'm in a different studio than i'm normally in. that was after the invite. did seeing the event change your mind about whether it was the right thing to do? >> absolutely not. i mean, you know, again, and i want to -- i want to clarify, right, a couple of things. first of all, it's not that i've written this for years. we've probably dealt with this for years. it's not that trump or someone like him should never be platformed -- >> right. >> -- or given interviews. i think for me it was a matter of is this going to help or harm this particular community of journalists that is convening as a source of inspiration, of respite, of, yes, kind of safety

from these attacks that we get while just doing our jobs. i just knew that we've seen ten years of trump steam roll through fact checking, spew lies and from a journalistic standpoint, how could idea fend that? >> yeah. >> it was much more than trump but rather charade, journalistic charade of things. i couldn't do it. >> we step back. this is a journalistic conference. the point is to advance journalism and advance journalism done by black people. you know -- and yet a lot of the drama around the way that this came down and the way it happened, i mean, i'm hearing about people filming people in line, people made to feel uncomfortable in the room, people who are not journalists in the room attending, shouting, making it sound like it was the crowd that was cheering, i think there was so much around it that felt like a trump rally that,

you know, i wonder if from your point of view, you teach journalists, you train journalists, was that forum even an interview in a real sense. three of whom did try to hold him to account. did you see that as a useful interview of a presidential candidate? >> no. i actually thought it was a broader indictment of a set of presumptions that we have about journalism and how we carry out, you know, our professional protocols. so, you know, if i were to say, you know, there's a principle of if there's a fire, you throw water on it, and we go, okay, if there's a fire, we throw water on it. you do that long enough you think, okay, we're good at this. the then someone gives you new information and says, then someone gives you new information and you say this is a grease fire. if you follow the old protocols, you'll just make the problem worse. that's what we've been doing emit forically. we've been following the old protocols, in a circumstance where we have new information.

with a candidate like him and a person with the track record you have, you are much more likely to create an avenue for disinformation and less likely to do the thing, you know, we pride ourselves on doing, which is holding people with power to account. and so the balance sheet on that is clear after a decade of experience and seeing, you know, him on public forum us of many different varieties. somehow we have not seen the knowledge. >> and there have been effective interviews with axios, the gentleman from axios did a strong interview. lester holt did good interview, but they work one on one, and when the person who is interviewing him has access to immediate fact checking. you have to be in the moment. you have to interrupt him. you can't do -- with three people on stage, not all of whom have the same goal on that

stage. it just felt like the interview. then the back ground to it. the question of whether the vice president was given the same courtesy. the question of how it all came together. it is such a distraction to this convention. >> yeah. you know, again, for me as someone who cares about the interview and who cares not just about the health of journalists and the health of the communities that we represent. a part of the disappointment and the visceral anger, i think that came yesterday was the idea that this was a chance for america, trump to respond to what issues that black voters cared about. how many of us can really reasonably say that from trump or the moderators, we learned anything more about what black voters care about. anything more about their priorities. anything more about that. we had one or two questions about sonya massey, the woman

who was killed by the police officer with the shocking video that would set it off the day before it. so also it is like what do we mean when we are sending black journalists? you don't ask black questions if that makes sense? >> absolutely. >> or black fact checking. i think there's opportunities to do these sort of frankly performances where you do lead with that context of that, so you are also a part of sharing more information and more truth about our community, and i feel like sometimes maybe there's a perception that we have to ask questions about j.d. vance. >> yeah. >> the same questions he would be asked in a forum that is not this? >> that's not this. this should have been, still needs to be, i think, a form about us and about again, the black community. so even to have historically black owned media excluded from the panel, local media excluded

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sheila jackson lee was a change maker. she worked with all her heart to lift up the people of her city, of her state, and of our nation. to honor her memory, let us continue to fight to realize the promise of america. a promise of freedom, opportunity, and justice. not just for some, but for all. [ applause ] >> vice president kamala harris earlier today delivering a eulogy in houston for the late representative sheila jackson lee. today's funeral marks the fourth day of events honoring the congresswoman who passed away july 19 at the age of 74. sheila jackson lee leaves a legacy of a pioneering political activist who played a leading role in the effort to protect women from domestic

violence and to recognize juneteenth as a national holiday. a cause she championed and found bipartisan compromise to bring across the finish line. >> the act or the thought of racial divide crushes to the floor on this bright and sunny day. as we bring from the senate, the legislation that i offered the juneteenth international independence act. >> and speaker pelosi. i want to thank the whip, mr. clyburn, the chairman, mr. jeffries, and all the leadership on both sides of the aisle that have brought us to this point. thank you, and i yield back. >> may she rest in power. that's tonight's read out. tonight on all in. >> the brutal ordeal is over