# Current with Christine Romans – Oct. 21 | NBC News NOW

https://mins.news/en/video/110012

- NBC News, 2026-10-21 19:03 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0AOgjevus

> President Trump heads to South Carolina to campaign with the midterm elections less than two weeks away. The program also reports that an American prisoner held in Russia has been freed as envoy Steve Witkoff meets Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that a California man says ICE agents broke his arm during a violent arrest.

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