Historically black colleges just as black History Month begins. Plus, Vladimir Putin accuses United States and nato as using ukraine as a pawn. And with just two days left before the Beijing Olympics kick off, the fbi is urging american athletes to leave their personal phones at home. Announcer live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. Welcome to the show, everyone. It is wednesday, february 2nd. Americas colleges are on alert after several threats of violence right across the country. That includes at least a dozen historically black colleges that received bomb threats on the first day of black History Month. In minnesota one student is dead and another critically injured after shooting at the south education center. Authorities arrested two suspects tuesday evening and heres what happened earlier. Have a look. Officers arrived and discovered two students had been shot on the sidewalk outside of the school. Officers quickly determined that the suspects had fled the scene
Electoral college results. The times adds that days before the insurrection, they both met with john eastman, the lawyer who insisted that pence had the power to stop certification of the vote. The Washington Post has reported that jacob clashed with eastman and his advice. Maybe it is no surprise, then, that the committee had nine hours of questions for jacob. Here is Committee Chairman Bennie Thompsons take. We are glad that he came. And obviously it is all part of the work that we do. He is a great patriot. He loves this country more so than other people who do not. And this afternoon another Committee Member explained what investigators hoped to learn. Understanding what that pressure was and what plans were in place and what pressure was applied on the former Vice President , to what extent was the former president or the people surrounding him involved in orchestrating and hatching this plan . That is the work of this committee, to get all of those facts and details. Today, donal
Electoral college results. The times adds that days before the insurrection, they both met with john eastman, the lawyer who insisted that pence had the power to stop certification of the vote. The Washington Post has reported that jacob clashed with eastman and his advice. Maybe it is no surprise, then, that the committee had nine hours of questions for jacob. Here is Committee Chairman Bennie Thompsons take. We are glad that he came. And obviously it is all part of the work that we do. He is a great patriot. He loves this country more so than other people who do not. And this afternoon another Committee Member explained what investigators hoped to learn. Understanding what that pressure was and what plans were in place and what pressure was applied on the former Vice President , to what extent was the former president or the people surrounding him involved in orchestrating and hatching this plan . That is the work of this committee, to get all of those facts and details. Today, donal
Are you in the path of the storm . More on when and where were going to see the snow and ice coming up. Also this morning, the Washington Football Team just revealed its new name. Its commanding attention. Im going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. We have our team covering the crisis in Eastern Europe. Courtney kube, Richard Engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. Courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. We know french troops are also being sent to the region. Talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. Theres even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, theyve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. We heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. The military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from making an incursion into uk
Be imminent. And braeeaking now. Fda advisers will meet in two weeks to consider a request just submitted by pfizer seeking authorization for its Covid Vaccine for children under age 5. Ill ask the u. S. Surgeon general if this is a final, critical step for getting the country back to normal. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with the january 6th investigation. The Focus Sharpening On Former President Trumps attempt to pressure his Vice President to interfere in the 2020 president ial election. Heres cnns congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. Tonight, the january 6th select committee honing in on the inner circle of former Vice President mike pence. Any comment. A key witness in their investigation spotted meeting with the committee today. Greg jacob, a former chief counsel who advised pence to resist a Pressure Campaign from former President Trump and his al allies. In an oped he wr