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
Legal basis for directing National Security agencies to take such an extreme action. As we reported on this broadcast yesterday the New York Times lays out the multipronged effort by trump and his allies to get just one federal agency to bite and join the crusade to overturn the result by seizing machines. Trump reportedly tried to get doj to seize the machines and then rejected by ag bill barr so then a plan for the Defense Department to do it. Only to get pushback from white House Counsel and Lo And Behold his own lawyer Rudy Giuliani. So then giuliani was asked if he could look into whether dhs could seize the machines. Giuliani said, sure. He tried but then he too was rebuffed by secretary Ken Cuccinelli and now another attempt by trump to get an official to agree to the plan. The New York Times Reporting This, quote, Cuccinelli Who told giuliani that the Homeland Security department didnt have the authority to impound the machines later encountered trump at a meeting on a differen
Political discourse. Senator Lisa Murkowski this morning saying why she stands by her criticism. When there is a conflict, when the party is is taking an approach or saying things that i think are just absolutely wrong, i think its my responsibility as an alaskan senator speaking out for alaskans to just speak the truth. A new reaction to former Vice President mike pences harsh rebuke of his former boss, Calling Donald Trump wrong. Pences former Chief Of Staff saying why the vp chose now to speak out. And he extended those remarks a little bit this week to the federalist society, primarily because the president s comments about the Vice President had the ability to overturn the election i think merited response. Of course theres nothing in the 12th Amendment or the electoral count act that would afford the Vice President that authority. Joining us now, Josh Lederman in wilmington, delaware, sahil kapur on capitol hill and erin in ukraine. Josh, ill start with you. With a russian invasi
Political discourse. Senator Lisa Murkowski this morning saying why she stands by her criticism. When there is a conflict, when the party is is taking an approach or saying things that i think are just absolutely wrong, i think its my responsibility as an alaskan senator speaking out for alaskans to just speak the truth. A new reaction to former Vice President mike pences harsh rebuke of his former boss, Calling Donald Trump wrong. Pences former Chief Of Staff saying why the vp chose now to speak out. And he extended those remarks a little bit this week to the federalist society, primarily because the president s comments about the Vice President had the ability to overturn the election i think merited response. Of course theres nothing in the 12th Amendment or the electoral count act that would afford the Vice President that authority. Joining us now, Josh Lederman in wilmington, delaware, sahil kapur on capitol hill and erin in ukraine. Josh, ill start with you. With a russian invasi
Political discourse. Senator Lisa Murkowski this morning saying why she stands by her criticism. When there is a conflict, when the party is is taking an approach or saying things that i think are just absolutely wrong, i think its my responsibility as an alaskan senator speaking out for alaskans to just speak the truth. A new reaction to former Vice President mike pences harsh rebuke of his former boss, Calling Donald Trump wrong. Pences former Chief Of Staff saying why the vp chose now to speak out. And he extended those remarks a little bit this week to the federalist society, primarily because the president s comments about the Vice President had the ability to overturn the election i think merited response. Of course theres nothing in the 12th Amendment or the electoral count act that would afford the Vice President that authority. Joining us now, Josh Lederman in wilmington, delaware, sahil kapur on capitol hill and erin in ukraine. Josh, ill start with you. With a russian invasi