we ve had conversations with the former attorney general. we re proceeding methodically and working our way up. i think you ll see the anatomy of the big lie begin to unfold. january 6 committee member elaine luria joins us live tonight. also tonight, anti-vaccine mandate protesters rally in d.c. you have the freedom to determine what happens to your body. we live in a free country, why can t we be free? meantime, a beloved houston-area deputy killed during a traffic stop. these are not assaults. these are not attacks. these are brutal, brutal murders. finally, the cryptocurrency craze critics say don t listen to celebrity endorsements as bitcoin tumbles 50% from its november high. fortune favors the brave. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. news as tensions escalate. the top diplomat sending a blunt warning to russia coming close to a red line that moscow must not cross. if a single additional russian fo
are released to congress. he said he should shoot someone on 15th avenue. he was trying to shoot. how to convince putin not to invade ukraine. let there be no doubt if putin makes this choice, russia will pay a heavy praise. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. president biden begins his second year in office facing challenges everywhere he looks. a war is brewing in eastern europe, rising inflation is taking bite out of your paychecks and though there are signs omicron may be peaking, the covid death toll is back above 2,000 americans a day for the first time since last summer. time magazine said storm clouds in the oval office with the president beset by crisis. at his news conference, biden insisted we re in a far better place than a year ago but also acknowledged the frustration and anger that so many americans are feeling. you have to look at things we used to look at
significant response if a single russian force enters ukraine in an aggressive way. we ve also learned of a kremlin plot that vladimir putin is planning to install a puppet government in ukraine. waiting in the wings, an estimated 100,000 russian troops already stationed at the ukrainian border. with fears of an invasion growing, president biden held a meeting with his security team at camp david this weekend. for the very latest let s go to cnn s clarissa ward in kiev, she s live there for us. clarissa, how much power does the u.s. have right now to stop what seems like a steady drumbeat for war? our top diplomats in washington are making all kinds of warnings but it doesn t sound like the message is getting across. reporter: well, i think at least the diplomatic process has not reached a total dead end, jim. we saw those talks in geneva between secretary of state anthony blinken and his russian counterpart seg rgey lavrov. they at least agreed to keep talking. it s hard t
students to stay home. let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin s troops on the move. alarming new evidence reveals putin positioning more troops for war. in a moment, i will talk with someone who has seen new satellite images and will share exclusively what they show. including, ukraine surrounded by russian forces now on three sides. the crimean peninsula, russia, and belarus. the images revealing more russian ships anyway coming into the black sea. russian forces, also, shown to be moving more of them toward the ukrainian border by both truck and train. this comes on top of russia moving more military equipment into belarus, to the north of kyiv, for military exercises. putin s saber rattling, the focus of what was a high-stakes face-to-face meeting between american and russian top diplomats today. after 90 minutes, there was no breakthrough. that was the shared view between the two countries. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken w
tens of thousands of russian troops sit along the ukraine border. the u.s. embassy says the shipment includes 200,000 pounds of lethal aid. the pentagon is also working on new military options for the biden administration, should russia invade. sources are telling cnn the u.s. embassy in ukraine has requested authorization from the u.s. state department to evacuate all nonessential staff and their families. cnn s international and diplomatic editor, nic robertson is in moscow for us and cnn s arlette saenz and at the white house. while a diplomatic solution remains possible, how much of this is in vladimir putin s hands? yeah, i think the next step is clearly in his hands. what he s waiting for at the moment is a written response from the united states to russia s security proposals, demands as they re seen by nato. he already knows the answer. he knows the answer to putin s question that ukraine should not be allowed to join nato and nato should roll back its borders to 19