Theres new hope. The bombs and the gunfire in syria will stop at sundown on monday. The u. S. And russia have announced a ceasefire deal. Our Nic Robertson has the details now on the peace plan. Reporter so key to the association of hostility is working. Secretary kerry said for the United States to put pressure on the opposition to keep good on their obligations and for russia for their part to keep assad good on his obligations. He said the United Statess assessment was that was what russia would do. This is how he put it. Today the United States and russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume Movement Towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. The Obama Administration, the United States is going the extra mile here because we believe that russia and my colleague have the capability to press the assad regime to stop this conflict and to come to the table and make peace. Reporter another key point of this Peace Agree
administrators want to send a clear message of their own. we re here, we ve been here for 150 years providing education, outstanding, excellent education to our students and that s our mission, so no, we will not be deterred. the guidance on this from authorities so far has been short and sweet. the fbi advising that while the investigation continues, the best thing the public can do if they see anything, if they hear anything, to speak up. wolf? thank you. joe johns reporting for us. joining us now from the campus of howard university here in washington, d.c., the school president, dr. frederick. thank you so much for joining us. at this moment, do you have any sense who s behind all these tl threats and are you getting the support you need from federal authorities? yeah, wolf, we don t have an idea right now of who is behind this. we do know that it s motivated
wolf, back to you. joe, thank you very much. joe johns reporting. let s discuss with cornell william brooks, the former president and ceo of the naacp. also with us cnn senior political analyst nia-malika henderson. cornell, thanks very much for joining us. we saw scores of protests in the wake of jetform floyd s murder one year ago. is there still a strong motivation based on what you can tell for change right now in our country? absolutely, so, wolf, first of all, it s great to be with you, particularly on this occasion. what we saw in the wake of george floyd s death with at least 26 million americans taking to the streets all across the and the largest civil rights demonstration in american history both large in terms of its geographic breadth and in terms of its height and the number of people involved.
obvious reasons. for this administration in light of the president s deference to russia and putin. and if you know, i ve listened to joe johns reporting and the issue he brought up with potential engine sales to china. well, that certainly has to be factored in. put i will say that we have, the united states has a strong, moral and i believe ethical commitment to help the ukrainians defend themselves against the russian incursion in eastern ukraine of course in light of the seizure of crimea. and of course it s hard not to juxtapose this with the push by president trump to bring russia back into the g-7. so i hope this is resolved
country. after the dust-up to april ryan in that exchange at the press conference last week, what do you expect to hear from the president after this tour of the museum today on these issues? well, you know, very likely poppy, he will be more subdued in his tone and discussing the symbolism of the african-american museum. a lot of controversy about where that was going to be placed along the mall when it was being built. joe and i had covered that several years ago. but i think you are going to hear donald trump be a little bit more softer in his delivery in how he says things. i do think we will hear him talk about, you know, the cent-semitism, this wave of anti-semitism we ve heard going across the country. this is in many ways an easy layup for donald trump to come out there and to talk about black history month, the contributions of african-americans to this nation. quite frankly, if he s smart, he ll try to tie some of his