these men had been facing decades if not life behind bars anyway, but what kind of message, what kind of precedent, in fact, does this send now? so this is a completely different case and a completely different message that s being sent to the country. this federal trial forced americans and forced those jurors in that courtroom that were deliberating and everyone else that was part of that trial in observing that trial to speak about racial tensions, to speak about racism, to speak about racist hate, to speak about the motivation that even on february 23rd, we re talking about 2020. that s despite having an african-american president, despite having a history that we ve been through, that still in 2020, racism exists and it still exists to the point that because of a person s color, their race, their creed, that they can still be hunted down as if they were animals, and that s
forward, do you think? well, the hope, don, is that it sends the message that you can t think you re going to kill us and get away with it because on the federal level and state level, we can come after you. but when you think about george floyd and the video there and you think about the video and ahmaud arbery, you think so much about what technology has done to help us see for ourselves the evidence. and with trayvon martin, the anniversary of the tragedy happening on saturday, you can only try to fathom if we have video there and we have video in breonna taylor s case what measure of justice they would have received. marcus, tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of your son s death, sorry, being killed by these men. georgia lawmakers made february 23rd ahmaud arbery day.
shooting war at any moment. vladimir putin is using own interpretation of history as a justification for this agrelings. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight with that side of the story. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. today february 23rd is defender of the far land day. a day that russia celebrates its armed forces which is often accompanied by fireworks and artillery fire. u.s. officials say a full scale russian invasion now appears imminent. they have, as we have said for a long time, significant combined arms capabilities readied against ukraine right now. and they are ready to go right now. senior defense officials say they are as ready as they can be. 80% of their forces in forward positions over the weekend defense secretary lloyd austin said russia s forces were uncoilg. today we are told they re
about the staff at chernobyl, who hadn t been able to rotate out since february 23rd. and he s again repeated his offer to go to ukraine to negotiate between the sides about this issue to ensure that the safety and security of these nuclear sites can be maintained. us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said the united states is considering a deal, which would involve poland supplying ukraine with fighter jets. he said it was considering providing poland with the threats the us was considering providing poland with the jets. yesterday, president zelensky appealed to the us senate for russian made planes, because his military knows how to fly them. what ukraine wants is more air cover more planes like these, keeping the skies free from russian attacks. and so now there s a plan for the west to give more jets to ukraine for its own pilots to fly. america s top diplomat was visiting moldova today where he confirmed poland might give some
going further into ukraine. it s way too early for this. it s way too early for this. good morning. and welcome to way too early. it s way too early here, but in ukraine, it s practically lunchtime and we ve seen a bunch of developments there overnight. we re going to bring them all to you, including the news that ukraine is asking its citizens to leave russia asap. we re going to get to that, i m hallie jackson in for jonathan lemire on this wednesday morning, february 23rd. listen, we have news. you know the back story. the context here, president joe biden putting new sanctions on russia as he s denouncing moscow s actions on eastern ukraine. saying it s essentially the beginning of a russian invasion. and that speech from the white house, the president condemned vladimir putin s decision to formally recognize the breakaway regions, and send troops in. he said, listen, this is just the beginning, we re going to