minute. although when you talk about daylight between the ukrainians and americans i think we all hope tonight it is the ukrainians and their optimism that end up carrying the day. now let me go to seth jones and retired army general james spider marks currently the head of geopolitical strategy. and john siper. so, seth, let me start with you. i went through these exclusive images you had. president biden said today he believes and convinced putin has made a decision to invade ukraine. it s not imminent but it depends on what he thinks. it is a move. i know you ve been studying these satellite images carefully. what stands out to you the most?
significant, john, and this is just another, in a series, of really significant legal losses for the former president this week. in this ruling, the judge said that plaintiffs in three civil suits these plaintiffs include members of congress and police officers who were at the capitol on the day of the insurrection that they may be able to seek information from the former president about his role in the attack. now, these lawsuits allege that the former president conspired with others, like his former attorney, rudy giuliani, his son donald trump jr., and extremist groups, like the oath keepers and the proud boys to sow doubts about the 2020 election, which um can culminated in the violence at the capitol. now, trump s lawyers have tried to argue that when he was speaking at the rally that preceded that violence, he was acting in his official capacity and that he should have immunity but the judge rejected that. john, that is incredibly significant because he may now have to sit fo
whether, on d-day to delay the d-day landings. putin could certainly stop. there s no indicators that he is just yet, though. synchronization matrix, a new term but really describes what you have seen. over the last few days. also, biden, his relative servitude that the russians are going to attack kyiv, the ukrainian capitol, city of 3 million people, like the population of chicago, how would the russians go about doing that? i don t know, john, but what i could say is it could. in a series of ways. it could be just a massive artillery barrage on the city and that could kill a lot of civilians which would be horrific and it would be a war crime. it could be a limited assault and i ll give you another key word tonight to start thinking about, spetsnatz soldiers the
january 6th to go forward. she wrote in her opinion in the opinion, the president s january-6th rally speech can reasonably viewed as a call to collective action, end quote. may be deposed for accounting reasons right now. do you have any sense of how concerned he might be or his advisers are for these civil cases surrounding january 6th? they are less concerned around the january 6th civil cases. they are certainly not thrilled but that is a different bucket. anything that in the former president s mind relates to his family business or to him directly, not related to january 6th, he is much more concerned about. however, it is interesting, john, that in this suit, you know, you had a bunch of defendants who successfully argued to be removed from the suit. most notably, the former-president s son. rudy giuliani was removed. he left donald trump saying, essentially, this is often an unprecedented moment that that him citing free speech
and that is the refrain here. ukraine and russia are deeply tied. putin is right about that. he s just wrong about what those ties mean. ukrainians we met here in laviv are fiercely patriotic and will not yield easily. thanks so much for joining us and reminder that this weekend, to watch new original series on the life of linden shjohnson, j triumph and tragedy sunday 9:00 eastern. president biden says he is convinced that vladimir putin has made up his mind to invade ukraine and it will. within days. the president gave specifics about a possible attack including it will target the country s capital of kyiv, i m john burman in for anderson, this is by the far the most definitive we heard from president biden about the plans and scope, especially about kyiv, a city for millions. ask twice, this is what