more history will also be made in the high court in minutes. judge ketanji brown jackson will be sworn in as the first black female justice on the supreme court. she will take the oath just after justice stephen breyer officially retires. let s start with cnn s jessica schneider. she is live at the supreme court for us this hour. quite a way to round out the term. reporter: absolutely. two big decisions from the supreme court. first in that 6-3 decision the supreme court really restricting the epa s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. and at the same time the supreme court here is sending a signal that for big issues, big decisions from the epa and even other agencies, those big issues and decisions could eventually be struck down by this court if they weren t explicitly written out by congress as agencies having the power to do. so this is what the chief justice john roberts wrote in his opinion saying it is not plausible that congress gave epa the author
prosecutors as we speak are asking for a sentence of nine and a half years in prison. i m going to go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen who is live outside the courtroom near moscow. fred, what is the latest? what are we hearing about how that sentencing will go? yeah, i mean it really is significant information that we re getting, dana. first of all, you re absolutely right, the court has found brittney griner guilty. as we see on our screens right now, the judge is still sort of reading out the verdict and what exactly the specifics of this verdict are. but there s something that s very important that the judge has read in saying that they have found brittney griner guilty with criminal intent. that means that the court believes what the prosecution has said, that they believe that brittney griner intentionally took narcotics to the russian federation, obviously talking about those two vaping cart ridges. you ll recall one of the cases or one of the things that the defense
cell in the courtroom, the judge ruling she acted deliberately when she tried to carry cannabis cartridges into the country. the wnba star gave a heartfelt apology. i want to apologize to my teammates, my klug, the fans, and the city of ekat for the mistake i made and the embarrassment i brought onto them. this adds to a stalemate between moscow and washingwashington over a prisoner. cnn s kylie atwood is at the state department. jeremy diamond is at the white house. let s check in with fred pleitgen. i understand griner s attorneys are speak. let s listen to them and then i ll come back to you. reporter: this correspondents to what s happening. it s totally going against the actual part of the russian penal code. we will appeal and we re very disappointed and surprised by this decision. how is britney feeling? she feels bad. any word a possible exchange? no, no one is discussing that was. it s a question for the administration. if appeal will not be granted. do you thi
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us today, a suspected leaker who shook up the world by posting top secret us intelligence documents online. sees the inside of a federal courtroom plus new cnn reporting on an intriguing avenue of investigation for the special counsel jack smith wants to know if donald trump is using an army of lawyers to intimidate potential witnesses telling his version of events and ron desantis just make himself unelectable. florida governor s science, one of the nation s most restrictive abortion laws, barring the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy. it s a priority for the republican base. but it is very much at odds which with where most americans stand up first for us, though. hiking boots and handcuffs. this morning, the 21 year old allegedly behind a global intelligence disaster, appearing for the first time in front of a federal judge today, prosecutors leveling tw
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on