Ignored but he also said diplomatic talks should continue. As we speak, members of two key Senate Committees are gathering for a closed door briefing by defense secretary lloyd austin, and secretary of state, antony blinken, were expecting russia to be a very big part of it. In ukraine, the countrys Foreign Minister is kicking off a news conference, one day after president zelensky warned if a conflict breaks out, it will not be just between ukraine and russia but a full scale war in europe, the likes of which we have not seen in 80 years. I want you to look at this new satellite imagery, it shows the build up of russian forces. This shows tents and equipment in belarus, to the north. And this one in crimea, you can see the massive numbers of fighting vehicles lined up, ready to go. On the other side of the border, Ukrainian Forces are digging in, getting ready for a fight. I want you to look at this picture, it says it all. The ukrainians are now using Vladimir Putins face for their t
frustrated after more airline chaos. the faa grounded all u.s. flights for about 90 minutes because of an outage of a system that sends critical safety messages to pilots. there are now more than 1,200 cancellations, 7900 flight delays. it s been less than two weeks since southwest s meltdown. flights have been gradually taking off. at this hour, it s not known what caused the system s failure according to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he says there s no sign it was terror related. there was an issue with irre irregularities with the messages. we have to figure out why it happened. why it wasn t stopped from being disrupted and the original source of the errors. when there s an issue in the faa that needs looked at, we ll own it. same as we ask airlines to own their companies and operations. we re at the world s largest airport, atlanta s hartsfield-jackson. what s the situation at this hour? reporter: flight operations have resumed as normal for the most p
especially tonight. and adidas cuts ties just now with kanye west over his anti-semitic rants. that is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. brittney griner was again before a russian court today and received no mercy. the court upholding griner s nine year prison sentence rejecting the nba s star plea for leniency. she was convicted in august after russian authorities say that they found vape can sifters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at moscow airport. this was swift reaction after the appeal that didn t go anywhere, slamming the court proceeding as a quote, sham, vowing the biden administration is doing everything it could to bring her home. kylie atwood is live at the state department for us. what are you hearing about this now? reporter: the conviction has opinion upheld. meaning that she is still found guilty of smuggling drugs into russia. this trial essentially brings the end of the judicial process for brittney gr
maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans, and that is a threat to this country. history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. i will not the will of the american people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence claims of fraud. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. and that s where the maga republicans
asked to turn those security cameras off when this search occurred and refused to do so. i want to read to you what one person close to former president trump told us when we asked do you think that this is a good idea? should he release these tapes? here is what that person said. quote, it s one thing to read a bunch of numbers on an inventory list, it s another to see law enforcement agents actually carrying a dozen plus boxes out of president trump s home knowing they probably contain sensitive documents. i don t see how that helps him. so, again, this has drawn mixed reactions inside the former president s orbit with some aides saying it s a good idea, release the footage, get it out there. among those steve bannon the former white house chief strategist to president trump. others saying we should hold back. maybe continue to tease this but don t ever actually release the footage, brianna. look, it depends on where you re looking at this from. for the people who think t