at the white house, marking the 30th anniversary of the family and medical leave act. let s listen. i had my brother and sister and chris knows them both well. i asked them to come into the incoming governor. we elected an incoming governor. we hadn t had a progressive senator in delaware for a while. it was very conservative. used to be a red state. we didn t call it that then. and so but a group of senators who were really so good to me, saved my sanity, starting with mike mansfield and the distinguished senator from south carolina fritz holings, they said come and stay six months. at the time i thought they they said you have to help us organize. we had 58 democratic senators. that shows you how smart i was. but the point was that i started commuting every day, 260 miles a day on the train to come home with my kids. that s because i was really, really lucky. i had a sister who is my best friend and a brother who s my buddy, five years younger. they gave up they liv
con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the lead starts right now. my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this look to the rest of the world? plus, a despicable act. a young new jersey politician shot to death just steps from her own home. was she targeted or was she a victim of random violence? but first, russia ramping up strikes against ukraine, with warnings of a larger offensive on the horizon. cnn is in one town hit more than 70 times in just one day. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. russia s renewed offensive against ukraine may already be beginning. that s the assessment of volodymyr ze
time again for that annual rodent ritual in pennsylvania. pung tawny phil, ladies and gentlemen. sorry to report that phil woke up and saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter. according to the weather service noaa, though, phil has only been right about 40% of the time over the last decade. so, actually, it means there will not be six more weeks of winter. i always wanted to go to this, but i only remember the day that it happened. you have got to set your timer for this. looks like fun, i mean are there other black people in oh, no. again, you would make history going there. on this day in black history, victor blackwell became the first black person to attend. next year. black history month. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. republicans vote to kick