happening now, breaking news. united states conducts another retaliatory strike in the wake of that deadly attack on american forces in jordan. u.s. officials confirmed the operation successfully targeted and killed an iran-backed militia commander in baghdad. also breaking tonight, more chaos on capitol hill. the united states senate rejecting the bipartisan border bill despite months of negotiations. what the sudden failure can also mean for aid to ukraine and israel. plus, final preparations for tomorrow s unprecedented u.s. supreme court arguments on donald trump s colorado ballot ban. we have exclusive new reporting on the trump team s strategy just ahead of the historic hearing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. first up tonight, breaking news. the united states launching a targeted retaliatory strike against an iran backed militia commander blamed for a
mirage. in biden s world, inflation is not at a four-decade high and 64% of americans are not living paycheck to paycheck. democrats are already cheering on the con job, chuck schumer s wetting himself with excitement. i think the president will do a very good job at selling the accomplishment. from what i hear there are like 40 million people to watch. it s not the super bowl but a heck of a lot of people. jesse: and general psaki thinks her old boss can seal the deal. people will get big, progressive, bold joe biden. he s done a lot of stuff, accomplished a lot of stuff, and nobody really knows about all those things. they can t make the speech about that, they know that. you can t do a list of all the things you ve done. people will tune out. they don t want to know about data. he needs to tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you sit in the oval office and karine can tell you and he can story tell for six hours. he needs to do that in the speech tonight
community under scrutiny from the senate intelligence committee this morning, as they deliver their annual report on the major global threats to the nation topped by mounting concerns over china and its authoritarian leader. the ccp represents both the leading and most consequential threat to u.s. national security and leadership globally, and its intelligence specific capabilities made it the most serious and consequential intelligence rival. judiciary committee chairman dick durban. and the push by a congressional majority, backed by president biden, to overrule a local washington, d.c. criminal code. the first challenge to home rule for the nation s capital in three decades. on this international women s day, the groundbreaking story of navy captain janet days, the first african american woman to be commander of the naval station in norfolk, virginia. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where the senate intelligence committee is putting the decisi
second degree murder, and calls are growing for police to form a justice and we are asking the chair of the memphis city council in the minority leader in the tennessee state senate about what part of the city and state have. they want a meeting with president biden to discuss just that, accountability. they re calling for national reforms within the justice system. we are talking to congresswoman, maxine waters, y all. and just a few moments, we re going to find out what the congress plans to ask for, and why. plus, in the lead up to black history month, we re celebrating some pioneers in our community who are living black history right now. starting with dana kennedy, she s the first african american to have a major publishing company. it s one of our living firsts. i have something to say. and then today since the release of videos showing the vicious beating a 29 year old tyre nichols by memphis police officers, we ve heard a lot. anger, fear, sadness across america. th
for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi