so it is tough, it doesn t happen often, but if there is a case for it, this is it. the proud boy leader enrique tarrio charged here was not on the grounds of the capitol on january 6th, but still charged. this gets to a bigger question here, right, do you need to be physically involved, right, in this or just involved in the planning? and what does that mean for other senior folks who may have incited this? it is a couple of things. number one, for any conspiracy, j jim, it is an agreement between two parties, a meeting of the minds to do something. the indictment lays out a number of communications, graphic ones, talking about war and how we need to go to war. so there was an agreement there. number one. number two, it has been a criticism lodged against the justice department that they were only going after people who were in these sort of little guys who were foot soldiers or whatever. what this shows here is that there is broader planning and agreement among people higher up o
attacks in the last 24 hours. though did say there have been persistent shelling in many places along the front lines. as all of this is unfolding, we re also learning new details this morning about how the u.s. is helping ukraine. sources tell cnn the u.s. helped confirm the identity of russia s prized warship before ukraine successfully targeted it with anti-ship cruise missiles last month. we should note the pentagon denied providing any specific targeting information. i want to begin with cnn s senior correspondent sara sidner joining us from ukraine. as we look at what s happening, there is so much focus on mariupol because it has been a weeks long effort to get people out to safety. where do we stand on the possibility of evacuations today? reporter: yeah, erica and jj jim, all eyes are on mariupol. it is because of the intense fighting that continues there, bloody battles acording to commanders there are unfolding on an hourly basis there as
more superintendents leaving school districts still struggling across the country. and the pandemic and the politics has become such a part of the conversation that it is actually becoming a part of the interview process for candidates. case in point, just last week, here in miami-dade, the school board asked the three finalists in a public meeting about politics at a tallahassee in masks and how that would be part of their decision making moving forward. j jim, bianna. leyla santiago, thank you for covering. the fbi is investigating a series of bomb threats in the past two days targeting more than a dozen historically black colleges and universities. we re going to be live with new details coming up. and we re just moments away from the opening bell on wall street. stock futures pointing higher this morning as investors awaited manufacturing data and earn fings from exxonmobil and
thinks. let s bring in asha rangappa and j jim. you re going to be on defense with this asha. clinton, they voted with the full chamber and there was a delineation of duties and powers that both sides could access. why don t they do that here? well, the house can create its own rules. impeachment is so rare that i think these, you know, few instances don t constitute the kind of precedent that this letter tries to delineate. honestly, chris, this letter is kind of a legal embarrassment. i would not be proud if one of my undergraduate students produced this. it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the impeachment process and what actually takes place in a how inquiry versus in a senate
j jim, you are in the east room? reporter: yeah, and you saw at the end the president was egging on the president of latvia to call on a baltic reporter, not one of the u.s. reporters who were all clamoring to get that final question. looks like we just lost our connection with jim acosta. you about he was makib but he was making a point that the president sort of jokingly when he said get one of the reporters from the baltic nations, he said fake news/real news. once again a little surprising that in front of these foreign leaders who have come to the united states he is attacking the mainstream american news media. really disappointing. and these are vibrant democracies and they are living at the door step literally of russia. so the concerns that they brought are real. and i think it is disappointing that our commander in chief would insult the media there in front of them. let s talk about his decision, he says he will meet with general mattis soon to