even though she didn t want to get into the details until breyer announcing this decision that it s a hypothetical, she did appear to confirm the big looming question, whether or not president biden intends to stand by his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to serve as a justice on the supreme court when that vacancy becomes official. just to give you a sense of how much the president s day has been up ended by this news, he was meeting with a number of ceoearlier today. we were in the room. all of the reporters in the room trying to get a quick reaction from the president to this news. take a listen. as the opportunity to decide what he or she will do and announce it on their own. there s been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he will be make. i ll be happy to talk about it later. thank you so much. you really can t underscore enough what a momentous decision this is for a sitting u.s. president to make. now president bid
time in decades. he didn t govern the way he just described he wants republicans to do if they take over in the next election but he is now a trump accolade and he s speaking from the per sspective of what donald trump would want. if they do take control, are still going to have to question whether they will listen to donald trump or whether they are going to prove they can govern. the best thing democrats say they would have going for them, politically for 2024 is republicans to act like that in 2022. thank you. top of the hour. welcome to cnn newsroom. right now in the white house situation room, president biden is speaking with his european counterpart and the nato secretary general about the situation in ukraine and the announcement we just got from the pentagon that up to 8500 quote combat capable u.s. troops have been put on alert in the event that putin decides to invade ukraine. tens of thousands of troops have amassed along the border. with us is cnn pentagon
currently ranked number two at u.s. news and world report. 19 that strommer, a professor asked her student what is they thought the average american makes in annual wages. think about that, how would you have answered that question? well, she then tweeted their response, quote, i asked wharton student what is they thought the average american worker makes per year. and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. one of them thought it was 800,000. the professor said the real number is $45,000. and the washington post reported that according to the social security administration, the average u.s. annual wage was in fact $53,383 with the median wage at $34,612. we don t know how many students responded to professor s question, that 75% of the students, three quarters of the class got it right been placate the blogosphere. as one tweet put it, that s the average of who they know, which is why rich people usually don t feel rich. this was borne out by another who pointed out t
first, breaking overnight, new york attorney general s office saying for the first time that her office has uncovered significant evidence that the trump organization misrepresented the value of its assets to boost its bottom line, the a.g. now asking a judge to order the former president, his children don junior and ivanka trump, all to sit down for questioning and hand over documents. also cnn was first to report that the january 6 committee has now obtained phone records for trump s younger son eric and don junior s fiancee, kimberly guilfoyle. these are the first known subpoenas targeting the trump family. and later today, the national archives will release trump-era white house documents to the january 6 house committee. it s a small batch of documents out of a much larger pool requested, but it s the first time the panel will get any of the white house records that trump wants to keep secret. all right. let s bring in cnn legal analyst. great to have you with us. the
to block any trump comeback. we begin though with the looming moment of truth for voting rights. the senate will be gavelled into session momentarily, and we will hear from the democratic majority leader, but the more critical action today will be in private. democrats caucus tonight and the current explain for a vote tomorrow. the current math adds up to a stinging defeat for the president and his party. let s get straight to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju. a big day for the democrats, but math isn t changing, is it? reporter: it s not changing, and the question is how far do democrats continue to push this issue and try to set up future votes once this certain-to-fail vote happens which will occur tomorrow. now, the way it will play out is this. in a matter of moments chuck schumer will address the senate and talk about what he views as the way forward, and the way forward tomorrow, a key vote to try to overcome a republican-led filibuster to pass two swe