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here is what we know right now. for the first time in 14 months you can board a plane or a train without your mask if you choose. the tsa, uber, amtrak and public transportation systems in major cities like washington, d.c., and philadelphia are all lifting their mask mandates after a federal judge in florida struck down the cdc s requirement. delta, united, and jetblue were among the airlines to announce today that masks onboard are now optional. some pilots even picked up the intercom mid flight to share the news. here was some of the row action. the transportation administration will no longer enforce the federal mandate requiring masks onboard aircraft and in airports. finally! finally, you hear one person say. in her ruling the federal judge in florida said the cdc was relying on a 1944 law, the public health service act, that did not support the mandate as necessary for, quote, sanitation. wearing a mask cleans nothing, judge mizelle wrote. it traps dropl ....
expire next month, congressman cuellar is joining us to discuss what it means to the southern border. this morning russia is warning the united states to stop arming ukraine according to a white house official. the conflict on the ground is intensifying. military analysts telling new york times, russia forces appeared to be close to capturing mariupol in the southeast. still holding out, amidst fear of resistance. russia announced last night its biggest warship sank in the black sea. russia says the trip was damaged by an ammunition explosion following by a friday. two republican lawmakers became the first u.s. officials to visit ukraine since russia s invasion. this is the white house is considering sending a senior administration to ukraine to show solidarity. joining us now is gabe gutierrez and also peter baker, chief white house correspondent at the new york times and also ralph sanchez is with us as well. he s actually on a train that s going towards lviv. gab ....
prosecutor s now filing and how his lawyers may be laying the groundwork for a mental health defense. what we re learning about the january 6th committee s new interview with stephen miller. someone the committee says was involved to get the 2020 election results overturned. i m chris jansing. here to start us off, matt bradley and colonel brandon kerny, courtney let s start with this briefing we just had from the pentagon. and i want to play a little bit of what press secretary john kirby said about the impact of the damage to that russian warship. it s designed for air defense. that s that s what this ship is designed to do, not unlike our own cruisers. so it s going to have an impact on their capabilities, certainly in the near term. whether it has an impact on their naval capabilities in the long term is just a was just unclear right now. courtney, what more do they know about the status of this warship and what exactly happened to it? so it seems to b ....
are you in the path of the storm? more on when and where we re going to see the snow and ice coming up. also this morning, the washington football team just revealed its new name. it s commanding attention. i m going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. we have our team covering the crisis in eastern europe. courtney kube, richard engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. we know french troops are also being sent to the region. talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. there s even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, they ve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. we heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. the military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from mak ....
to register for assistance. earlier this week, i visited fema headquarters in washington. to thank the emergency responding personnel for working 24/7 here in florida and throughout the southeast, and in maui, and hawaii. i want to reiterate that appreciation today. i also convened my entire cabinet as part of a whole of government response. and that response is to increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather events, and be aware we are going to use all the resources available in the government to do it. nobody can deny the impact of climate crisis. at least nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. just look around. around the nation and the world, for that matter. historic floods, intense droughts, extreme heat, deadly wildfires. ones that have caused serious damage like we ve never seen before. just since being president, in two and a half years, i ve flown over more land burned to the ground as a consequence of wildfires then ....