this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
fierce fighting in key areas of the donbas. another big primary day from california to new jersey. we will have steve kornacki to break it all down. we begin with the january 6th hearings. ali vitali and ryan reilly and eugene daniels. ali, first to you. the company members have been projecting confidence, new evidence, things we haven t seen or heard before. are they going to have a difficult task ahead with so much of the country distracted by inflation, gas prices, the gun issue, of course, other things than what happened last year? there s other things going on up here on capitol hill. but this is the culmination of a year of work for the january 6 select committee, finally coming to fruition in primetime thursday night. they have a challenge before them of trying to elevate this hearing into something that is historic and compelling for the attention of the american people, many of whom watched what happened in real time on their television screens that day. it s w
confirmations were pushed through today. that means for the first time since july, the joint chiefs do have a full slate of senate-confirmed officers. that includes admiral lisa frank kennedy, tuberville saying he s standing by the block cade we means they will have to continue to do them one one. thank you foror joininin us, cnn news with abby phillips starts right now. the gaza skylights up with rockets and flarest risks losing the war of public opinion. that s tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in washington. to want, the sights and sounds of war, caught on cnn s cameras, lighting up the sky in gaza, can the united states tell it s ally how to fight a war? and can the leader of the free world stitch together democrats viscerally torn apart by israel s campaign. just in, sources say that president biden and his administration are all warning israel that it has weeks, not months to uproot hamas from gaza. and that every image of a dead palestinian child
If we have that photo available, that would be great. i did talk to him just last year when he came to the u.s. i knew juice. i talked to him last year when he came to the u.s. to push for fighter jets and advanced air defense systems. here s a bit of that conversation. our need is to defend our cities against this threat. unfortunately, russians are taking not only military objects but civilian infrastructure. yeah, colonel vinman, what are your thoughts on the loss of a fighter pilot like juice in that country? there were two others who were among the dead in that crash. they think it was a training accident. and what does this say about this need to ramp up the f-16 training and get that capacity going for the ukrainians? sure, i had the honor to meet juice also actually not too far away from the capitol when he
Fearful, we must help ukraine. i was just talking to colonel vinman in the green room here. putin is not threatening. he made a mistake. he gambled that the west would lose interest, a divided interest in america, now you have the new u.k. prime minister. putin s best is as he did 14 years ago when he took crimea, cry, complain, point at him for a new months and then walk away. john s conversation with the colonel just