this is exactly what was feared. proud boys dominic pezzola was one of the first rioters to breach the building. just to see this throughout the day, he follows just a minute behind. at this, point the proud boys have been a critical player in five major advances. they aren t done. it is becoming clearer by the day that there was a plan. it was deliberately encouraged by the proud boys in the proud boys had violent intensions. a recent court filing that justice explains that a confidential informant from the past boys told the proud boys would ve killed mike pence if given the chance. the fbi says that they wanted to kill mike pence. the part of the capital was chanting hang mike pence. donald trump knew mike pence is
empire. it s hard to know exactly what he s aiming for. in the case of ukraine, clearly he wants ukraine to be part of the russian sphere of influence and to deny it to europe and to nato and the united states as part of their sphere of influence, but how far he s willing to take it, whether he s actually going to try to invade and occupy ukraine or if he s going to try to get a land bridge from crimea to dombas or not invade at all. that s up to putin. he s an absolute dictator so it s pretty hard to second guess what his immediate intensions have to leave it there. thank you both. turning now to the state of the economy and an unexpected jump in weekly jobless claims which rose to 286,000 last week, the highest level since october. cnn s matt egan is joining us now. matt, what is driving these numbers up, and how do they compare as we take a step back to where we were a year ago?
the u.s. and its nato allies continue to try to de-escalate tensions along ukraine s border. on wednesday the white house said that it had adjusted its language and was no longer describing the possibility of a russian military offensive as, quote, imminent. by friday the new york times reports that russian troops were entering final stages of redness for the possible invasion of ukraine. according to the times, quote, though the kremlin s intensions are unclear, ukrainian officials are now newly worried about the crimian peninsula where russia has deployed 10,000 additional troops. back in december we first reported that putin had shipped about 90,000 troops to ukraine s eastern border. just over two months later there are now more than 130,000 troops stationed along ukraine s east, north and south all of which border either russia or belarus. on thursday the u.s. accused russia of hatching an elaborate plot to fake an attack by russian troops by ukrainian
i was listening in real time, it was pretty jarring when president biden says he s now convinced president putin has decided to invade ukraine. defense secretary lloyd austin backed that up saying an attack on ukraine could come in short order. in moscow, what has the response been for the president president biden, being so overt essentially about what he believes the intensions of russia actually are at this point? reporter: you know, phil, really as they ve been doing with all the deadlines, et cetera, they re basically laughing it off. in fact, kind of mocking it most of the time. there hasn t been a lot of strong reaction to president biden s most recent comments. but you know, in addition to this kind of military standoff, there s really an information war that is raging, and you could kind of think of it as a split screen with three different images. the most striking was this morning moscow time that you had president putin with the president of belarus with whom russia has
sitting in the kremlin even at the last minute of the 11th hour to decide whether or not to pull the trigger. we ll see whether this full-scale invasion warned about again from the united states actually comes to fruition. ukrainians are taking something seriously. the president volodymyr zelenskyy has requested the parliament to impose a state of emergency from midnight tonight. whether that s anything to do with this new warning they ve got from the united states or not is unclear. but the intensions with tens of thousands of troops poised on the border of ukraine are running extremely high right now in ukraine. matthew chance, grateful for the live report from kyiv. straight to moscow now and try to understand vladimir putin s