officials are saying that when it comes to a potential prisoner swap to get brittney griner and paul whalenamerican wrongfully detained in the country to get them released, that the ball is in russia's court now. they are essentially acknowledging quietly here that it is russia who is going to determine if they're going to accept a deal that the biden administration put on the table. the secretary of state is publicly asked for the russians to accept that deal but the russian foreign minister came back essentially and said we want those negotiations to be quiet. telling the biden administration to keep those to the quiet channels but dana, i do want to note that president biden has just put out a statement and i think you guys are probably getting that but i do want to read that to you because it's significant that the president of the united states has felt a need to put out a statement in the moments following this nine-year sentence for brittney griner and i'll just read that to you. president biden saying today american citizen brittney griner received a prison sentence that is one more

they left paul whalen in the gulag for too long. these deals are never neat and tidy, they're often politically unpopular and they leave a sour taste. as a country we have to decide whether we willing to bring our people home and what we're willing to do to get that outcome. >> thanks for joining us. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> the biden administration plans to declare monkeypox a public health emergency to contain the virus. two sources confirm that a declaration could come any moment now as the biden administration scrambles to catch up with the virus's quick spread. those efforts will be led by an newly appointed monkeypox response team. the team met for the first time this afternoon as the cdc confirms more than 6,600 cases now nationwide. joining me now, chief white house correspondent kristen welker at the white house and dr. ann ramoyne, she has researched and tracked monkeypox in the congo for 20 years and she was on the committee that declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international c

. >> we have made a substantial offer to bring her and paul whalen home. we urge russia to accept that proposal. ourationa sity team are focused on every single day. >> reporter: people familiar with the proposal say the u.s. wants to trade griner and urms serving a sentence in the u.s. the biden administration says they will pursue every avenue to bring greener and whalen home as soon as possible. >> the commissioners of the wnba and nba released a joint statement calling the verdict unjustified and unfortunate but not unexpected. they also say the leagues are committed to griner's safe return to the united states. we know a lot of you are commenting about this on social media. we're watching it. oakland congresswoman barra lee calling the sentence disgraceful. curt and former pro basketball players saying, bring our sister and our friend home. >>> still ahead on kpix 5, streaming on cbs news bay area, gun violence in oakland again. how an officer end up in the middle of a gunfight. >>> if you've been on a plane lately, you kind of felt the squeeze. how t

russia. poor whelan, we have made a serious proposal to the russians to try to get brittany and paul whalen, who is also wrongfully detained home, where they belong. and we urge the russians again to seriously consider that proposal to act on it. and let's get these 2 americans home where they belong. this is a russian being held in the us who could be part of the exchange. victor bowed to serving a 25 year sentence for smuggling and supplying weapons to columbia as far as movement, which is classified by the u. s. as a terrorist organization, the russian government has been reluctant to comments. we still think that any information exchanges on this theme should be discrete. megaphone diplomacy, st exchange views won't lead to the results were at a time in history where the u. s. in russia have very bad relations that doesn't help. but even in spite of that in may, there was a prisoner swap between the us and russia, where trevor read was held, and russia was brought home in exchange for the russian prisoner. so there is precedent for it happening and i think it will happen here to brittan

the restoration has been reportedly working on the deal to bring greiner and paul whalen home and extendis laser focused on this from -- >> i don't take it is a great trade but she has to come back and i know that -- have friends who takes pleasure in this because of how she trashed america, how she track but i think that is one way to look at it. you should want her out precisely because of her political statements just to prove her wrong. maybe she will extend for the national anthem when she comes back because she will realize that where she is right now is not america. right? she did not have -- did need not read her rights but she was shocked by that. you know, and america will try to get her out and probably sure she will but i just hope that she stands for the flag when she gets out. but with biden, it is kind of a problem with incendiary rhetoric, how does biden talk to putin when you call him a war criminal already? how do you call up a war criminal? all of these things end up being connected. >> to your point, harold, that is unity what greg is talking about. unified in wanting

we have the brother of paul whalen who has been in russian custody since 2018 and former um -- u.s. ambassador to russia. what is your reaction to everything you have seen in court today clerk. the court dismissing the guilty plea. and what your family has been dealing with for years and years. >> i don't have any surprise at all. i think it was a foregone conclusion. it was a matter of time and frankly, it is probably a good thing that the trial is over and the conviction has been head and the was government and the russian government can get to work on bringing her home. >> david, if you will stand by with me as well because griner's attorney, the russian attorney, is speaking. let's listen. >> there russian reporters gathered there. we are just waiting. i think they are continuing to speak in russian. we will go back to that when they are speaking in english. david, apologies to you. mike mcfarland also with us. ambassador, let's talk about what happens next. we have to see where she will be taken and what secretary antony blinken does in the immediate future. he is at a dinner r

paul whalen has sat in jail for a number of years and haven't had the same publicity. we're going to grab it and squeeze it for everything it's worth. it's not surprising they came out with so-called counteroffers. this guy was a bicycle assassin who gunned down a political person who gunned down a person in the middle of a park. >> so when did this happen? does this drag on for years? does it happen sooner than that? >> i have no idea but it certainly could drag out for years. look at how long whalen has been sitting in prison. look at how long navalny is going to sit in prison. they're perfectly happy to have this play out. when they get to the right point, when they feel like they can cut a deal, when they reached that tipping point when putin perceives it to his advantage, but i think in the words of the congressman, it's important to note that the u.s. does look after its own citizens and will despite how unseemly it might seem, how unequivalent it is to trade this, we are looking out for the best for our own citizens. i simply say don't go to russia. you'll be vu

wants paul whalen released. >> there's a special channel agreed upon by presidents.cans decide to rely on public diplomacy and make loud statements that will take some steps, that is their business and i would say their problem. >> gillian: let's bring in pro basketball player and human rights activist, enes kanter freedom. thanks for being with us. all the russia watchers are saying this is one person, one athlete that got sucked up in this geo politics. russia is coming down hard to punish the united states. you know very well what it's like to be that one person that gets caught up in this war between two global super powers. how do you feel about this? >> first of all, she pled guilty and the sentence is harsh. i want her to return back home because i know how russian james can get tough. i know one thing that she misses the national anthem. every word in the national anthem in the russian jail. i've been following her case very closely. the one thing i say, we cannot be sending a merchant of death, a person that sold illegal weapons in africa, asia and we can't

for less than one gram of cbd oil and now russia wants to talk about a deal to release grine and paul whalen, another american. do you see a swap happening soon? >> i think, you know, you wouldn't want to get falsely opti optimistic. there is precedent for this kind of swap. that's encouraging in the sense there is definitely a playbook, if you will, for this but russia is negotiating from a position of strength because they have these prisoners and i think that again, they're looking to get as much as they possibly can get, you know, the united states already proposed a very unequal trade, i should point out, viktor bout that russian arms dealer is a massive international criminal and the united states has already proposed to russia to swap him for brittany grinder and paul whelan that have done nothing in any way comparable. again, i just would say russia may be taking its time about this. there is a possibility of it happening but remember, this is, you know, they have the power because they have the people in their control right now. >> yeah. that's the sad reality for these two american

that she gets home to be with her wife, to be with her family, to be with her teammates as well as paul whalenjake, we have put a substantial offer on the table to make that happen, to make sure that they come home and we urge russia to take that deal seriously. obviously, i cannot, for obvious reasons, we cannot negotiate in public and we cannot say more than what we've already said and you heard from the secretary, secretary blinken this week and the national security adviser, this has been top of mind for not just the president, but his national security team and we are going to do everything that we can, took every measure that we can to make sure that she and paul come home to their families. >> are there conversations going on? when we hear from the biden administration that the ball's in russia's court that they haven't responded to the very public offer? >> as you know, the public offer as we mentioned before has been out there and has been on the table for them for weeks. the moment that we put that out there and said there was a serious offer, a substantial offer on the books, we hea

russia's top diplomat hinting at negotiations for the return of wn star brittney griner and american paul whalen

russia's top diplomat hinting at negotiations for the return of wn star brittney griner and american paul whalen. that is happening as tensions boil between the white house and china. why the white house took the step of summoning the chinese ambassador. today israel launching a serious of air strikes in gaza, who they were targeting, and the incident civilians that may have been caught up in the cross fire. >>> good day to you. i'm peter alexander in washington. for my friend hallie jackson. and joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie vitale and anna palmer. with great gratitude we are all inside with some air-conditioning on this stifling d.c. day. allie, let's walk through this kyrsten sinema, the deal the democrats got. talk about feeling the heat. the at democracy were very concerned how this was going to end up. republicans wither trying to peel off sinema's vote. what twos from here? what happens next? >> yeah, peter, thankfully we are going to be in air-conditioning all the rest of the weekend, too, because the senate is working both saturday and sunday now that they

. >> well, we certainly want brittany home and paul whalen, another american being held by the russians. but we don't want to do this in a way that incentivizes them too, to accuse more americans and the ground hold it hostage for another trade for some other notorious drug dealer or arms dealer. >> and we have a response from the white house this afternoon. president biden writing, quote, today, american citizen brittney griner received a prison sentence that is. >> one more reminder of what the world already knew. russia is wrongfully detaining. brittany, according to the white house. now. >> it's unacceptable. that statement goes on to say and the president calls on russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends and teammates. the president goes on to write. my administration will continue to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring brittney and paul whelan home safely. as soon as possible. and we're following new developments in the death of breonna taylor. the department of justice announcing federal charges against 4 current and

of course we have paul whalen there too so there is at least, you know, something that perhaps mighta bargaining chip for both of these americans if they work both on russian soil and hear the state department at home. potentially a third party. but that's what we were watching for, to see what would be said on behalf of brittany griner on a very grim day. again, will cain is with me now. we were holding out hope that this was going to be different. >> will: probably false hope. this is an incredibly sad situation for brittany griner. setting aside from one moment her culpability, just comparing punishment to the crime. pretty greiner seems to have taken an illicit drug into russian. that she is now paying a penalty that you highlight today is close to ten years in prison. that is injustice. to see an american citizen detained as a political pawn as i think ari fleischer just characterized in russia for a larger geopolitical purposes is sad and an injustice. it is also worth pointing out for one moment, harris, the nature of injustice, brittany griner and many athletes have pointed o

did declare griner is being wrongfully detained along with paul whalen, an american serving a 16 year sentence in russia for espionage. the u.s. is negotiating a deal for a prisoner swap with russia. washington offered to give them a russian arms dealer that is serving time in the u.s.. >> still ahead on the kron 4 morning news and east bay family shaken up after a man held a boy at gunpoint all to steal their families. french bulldog more on the story coming up. plus, iran says it had nothing to do with the attack on a well-known author. we'll have the latest on his road to recovery. and lawmakers are questioning the fbi's raid, a raid of former president donald trump's home in florida. we'll tell you why they say the department of justice needs to release more information about what they found. >> well, crews are working to contain 12 wildfires near california's coastline that were caused by lightning. the 6 rivers lightning complex fire began on august 6. it burned nearly 17,000 acres on the humble trinity county lines. and it's now 17% contained. well, it also prompted several eva

the state department is working to secure griner and american paul whalen is released. the u.s.use is concerned that rodman's interference could complicate those efforts. if rodman makes the trip to moscow, it will be the first time he has attempted to help diplomatically with a foreign leader. he's also known for his relationship with a north korea's kim then there's this ukraine posts. a photo of a russian tour is wearing a speedo saying the picture helped ukraine's army locate of russian air defense system occupied. in occupied crimea. you can see the military hardware in the background. ukraine's ministry of defense tweeted, thank you and keep up the good work. fewer people are expected to travel this labor day weekend. a study from travel insurance companies square about finds that labor day travel bookings are down 30%. they largely blame. >> fluctuating gas prices, even though they have gone down since the summer peak. many travelers also seem to be hearing about travel nightmare. is turning others from heading out themselves? new research may explain that new decline mar

the us has proposed to swap involving grindr and paul whalen and other american imprisoned in russia for a russian dealer jailed in the us the breakthrough comes a day after a russian judge convicted greiner of drug smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in prison calls for an investigation are being made into thursday night's clash between oakland unified security guards and activists occupying an elementary school shuttered by the district. well now that you sides in this ongoing dispute are blaming each other for the chaos at parker elementary. to oakland the district released a statement saying the school was empty when staffers entered changed the locks and reset the alarm. the statement says somehow people were able to get back in prompting the clash parents and activists who have andpied the building for two denied being trespassers. this isn't trespassing. this is a community building. this is everyone you see standing around here. this is what this was intended for. this was the first confrontation between the two sides since the occupation began. the us jobs market is su

has declared griner as being wrongfully detained along with paul whalen, an american serving a 16 yeariating a prisoner swap with russia developing news back here at home. the iranian government denying having any involvement in the attack on offer rushdie rushdie was stabbed friday while attending an event in new york. his agents say he saw it as agent says he suffered a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and one of his eyes, the spokesperson of iran's foreign ministry is blaming the author and his supporters for the stabbing. he says no one has the right to accuse iran in this regard. rushdie has faced death threats for more than 30 years for his novel, the satanic verses. >> doing a lot of thinking. >> about what the experience was like for my parents and grandparents and relatives who were incarcerated during war. 2. >> right now in san bruno, there's an exhibit going on about the japanese internment camps happening in the same place where thousands of japanese americans, mostly u.s. citizens, were taken against their will just 80 years ago. the exhibits called sohn say gra

would also get former marine paul whalen.iday marking the highest level of contact between the 2 sides since russia invaded ukraine. john michael green is joining the warriors. a new stretch ford introduced yesterday at the chase center. says he hopes to bring the level of >> testing toughness. the news carried with him his entire career to the team and playing here for the dubs was an unexpected opportunity. he could not pass so know they wished that they want to hear one need to be a part of the program and >> no, i got on the phone with jerry my. we talked for a good man and we've been on the chess is a great no, it wasn't a hard for that. you come here, have a business or you can yourself up for life. so just happy to be here. >> all the niners are keeping their spot as the 5th most valuable franchise in football and some of the wreck about according to this more its business website sportico the team is worth almost 5.2 billion dollars, which is up from last year, but not enough to move positions on the list. the rams ar

russia. poor whelan, we have pro, made a serious proposal to the russians to try to get brittany and paul whalen, who is also wrongfully detained home, where they belong. and we urge the russians again to seriously consider that proposal to act on it. and let's get these 2 americans on where they belong. this is a russian being held him, us who could be part of the exchange. victor bowed to serving a 25 year sentence for smuggling and supplying weapons to columbia as far movement, which is classified by the u. s. as a terrorist organization. the russian government has been reluctant to comments. we still think that any information exchanges on this theme should be discrete. megaphone diplomacy, st exchange views won't lead to the results were at a time in history where the u. s. and russia have very bad relations that doesn't help. but even in spite of that in may, there was a prisoner swap between the us and russia, where trevor read was held in russia was brought home in exchange for a russian prisoner. so there is precedent for it happening and i think it will happen here to brittany griner i

and that's a nonstarter. >> paul whalen's been present over there in russia for five years.or both of those americans. >> it's go to carley shimkus with some additional headlines this morning. >> i certainly do an organist or the fox news alert. one person was killed and two others critically injured at the mirage. police believe a fight broke out on the eighth floor before shots rang out. the hotel wasn't locked on for over an hour. the suspect there is still at large. fox weather alert, a lightning strike outside the white house last night leaving for people in critical conditions. did you hear about this? u.s. secret service and u.s. park police saw that massive bolt and immediately got to responders to lafayette park. two women the two men were found near a tree and life-threatening condition with no word on how they are doing right now. twitter is slamming comments made by elon musk in a countersuit over his abandoned attempt by the social media giant. elon musk claiming he walked away from the deal in part over the number of spam account on the site. twitter is a cute

russia said any talk of a potential swap for griner and jailed american paul whalen. >> a russian journalisthas been covering that country for close to a decade and paul firestone former president legal adviser at the embassy in moscow. mary, let us get a sense of what happened in the courtroom today. can you give us this idea of what the mood is there and certainly, how is this playing out across russia because brittney griner is popular in russia. >> she is. see has a lot of fans where her club is where she played off-season for the wnba and the court today, the mood has been changing and at some points you can see brittney smiling and trying to communicate with her lawyers and telling the translator, but when they came to actual sentence the mood obviously, you know, went downhill because the judge dismissed all of the evidence that the defense his presented asking for leniency explaining that she had a prescription in the united states for medical marijuana and that she as a proearn if athlete used that occasionally to relieve pain from multiple traumas they sustained and they did not ta

of americans hearing about it are getting very invested in it, most americans don't know about paul whaleng. stuart: the international arms dealer, the merchant of death as they call him has valuable information about how our intelligence services work, they want him back to tell them about our intelligent system, it's not an equal exchange by any means. >> that's why anthony blinkenenr secretary of state, this was too rich of a package for the first go around, you've been doing this a while, you make money, you know how negotiations work, you don't give them baby to the cow or the bathwater in edith 2. we won when you give away like this they will come back at you for more later on. would you travel to russia now? >> no. i wouldn't rush travel to russia 10 years ago. i've lost friends who are russian but i don't like the russian government, of course i wouldn't go there. we want now you run the risk of being nabbed and used as a political pawn. >> i have cbd cream in my bag. it doesn't have thc in it but they don't know that. stuart: let's change the subject because i need you to explain

paul whelan? >> i'm not going to comment on those sensitive negotiations right now. we've made it clear the russians are holding gri and whalenisoner swap on the table. we're going to continue to pursue that, that's a very delicate moment and i'm not discussing specifics. >> and how concerned is the president that the iranian government has not claimed the taxi on salman rushdie? >> yeah, we're concerned about the violence that iranians are stirring up around the world. and we're concerned about any attacks of people here in the united states. that's one reason why we took action, to snuff out the plot against john bolton. so we are concerned about iranian activity. and we've got a very close eye on that. >> and, finally, ron klain, i just want to end where we began and ask one more thing about the inflation reduction act. and that would be as it pertains to politics. the president's approval ratings are not a bfd. and democrats are getting ready for the midterms. how does the white house plan to communicate the benefits of this legislation effectively? >> yeah, mika, so i think it's very important that we do tell the america