there have been some remarkable images coming out of ukraine and as you just heard from the woman i was speaking with as she was leaing her town near irpin outside of kyiv. the russians did not allow pictures to be taken and destroyed phones of those who have taken it. lindsey adarria, here are some of her work in ukraine. i have to tell you this whole thing is hard to watch and hard to cover. the photos we are going to show you are difficult to look at. they were on the front page of the new york times but it is graphic. i want to warn you of that. you can see ukrainian soldiers
quite some time. and so the political ramifications, though, are evident and going to be pleaing out over the next several months. especially as we get closer to the midterms. and especially as this is a key issue for republicans. this is an issue they win on. this is a wedge issue that former president donald trump had used over and over again and current republicans are using that same playbook. and especially as we get into those summer months when migrants tend to the number of migrants across the border tends to increase this is going to very likely be a big political issue for democrats and republicans in the midterms. hallie? leigh ann caldwell live for us on the hill. thank you coming up breaking news from the justice department just in the last hour, announcing charges in a big gun trafficking ring. we re live on that next. plus the house just voted to make cannabis legal across the country. so when can you light up? give it a minute. we ll have more. well, the stock is
all pleaing with everybody to go and get vaccinated, to get boosted if you have been vaccinated, too. we know booster will be more effective with this omicron variant. to put this in context, as of yesterday, we had over 870 hospitalized patients in northeast ohio in our cleveland clinic hospitals. with covid-19 infections. about a quarter of these patients, 26% of them, are hospitalized in our intensive care units. these are the sickest patients there. you know, and these patients, when you look at their outcomes, about two out of ten of them, 18%, will not make it out of this intensive care unit alive. and this is the sad story here. if they re on a ventilator, about three to four out of ten are not going to make it out of the intensive care unit, out of the hospital alive, too. these may be numbers, but these are really human lives. these are the brothers, the sisters, the mothers, the sons,
terrorism. alexandria hoff has details there washington. reporter: the national school board association is now walking back some of that harsh language used in the letter saying there was no justification for it. in a follow-up to members, the nsba apologized for initially relating the actions of some parents to, quote, domestic terrorism. attorney general merrick garland has also been forced to play defense. saw federal involvement as an effort to silence parents about school curriculum. we are not investigating peaceful protests or parent involvement at school board meetings. there s no precedent for doing that. reporter: one example the nsba initially gave of a threatening parent was scott smith who was arrested this summer. he was pleaing for answers after his daughter reported being sexually assaulted in a bathroom by a male wearing a skirt. i believe they had full intentions on trying to shut that thing down early because every time we clapped, you know, or tried to supp
washington post pointing out, pleaing that he had been vindicated. the inspector general was asked about this at the hearing today. we ll talk about. former fbi director james comey said this week that your report vindicates him. is that a fair assessment of your report? you know, i think the activities we found here don t vindicate anybody who touched this. so you heard the man s answer. do you view as a vindication of comey? in a top line sensuoe, absolutely. what the president has been complaining about for the last two plus years, three years s that political bias asknd political motive influence ds the work of the fbi. the inspector general said definitively that did not happen. the inspector general made a very important finding, that there were numerous procedural