any capable american president would have responded to the massive military build-up on ukraine s border with preemptive crushing economic sanctions and an iron clad guarantee to help ukraine defend itself should russia invade. deterrents was lost with biden weakness. republican congressman michael mccaul says president biden is playing right into vladimir putin s hands. i think this president has made so many concessions with nothing in return. that s why putin smells weakness. he wanted this and i talked about it for a long time. his legacy issue. if we don t provide that deterrent he will go in. harris: in a few moments pentagon spokesman john kirby will be in focus and hear directly from the administration. i want to go to jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon. jennifer. we re just getting the first images of new u.s. weapons shipments landing at the airport in kiev. these images are coming live from kiev s airport as a plane carrying assistance that inclu
fair and secure election in 2020 are quitting left and right and where others are going to extraordinary measures to protect themselves. they have to. not only are some officials facing the possibility of felony convictions for honest administrative errors or for helping voters who run into problems with their ballot applications. the traditionally drama-free work of serving voters has turned dangerous. from bomb threats to countless threatening phone calls. you rigged my [ bleep ] election, you [ bleep ] piece of [ bleep ]. we re going to try you and we re going to hang you. the justice department s election threats task force made its first arrest today in connection with these actions and says it s received more than 850 referrals on such possible crimes. tonight we re also looking into a newly uncovered plot by trump campaign officials to put forward fake gop electors in seven states that president biden won. sources tell cnn it was led by rudy giuliani. he and other
i need some recovery time. yeah. she just, she needs a break. you know, normally, in the normal world of congress they never did anything on fridays. they never made news on fridays. that was kind of against washington rules to make news on fridays. you re going to ask them to go back to the good ole days? yeah. let s return to what we used to call regular order, please, sir. and we ll see what we can do. what i desperately want to know from congressman schiff and the investigators right now. go ahead. well, there is that reference in the ivanka letter today to the outtakes from trump s video message he did on january 6th and the committee says it believes that the previous iterations of that video that he taped, a, exist and, b, show what he really thought and what he really wanted which was for people to go home. i m desperate to know does the committee really believe those things have been preserved and do they think they re going to get them? it is one thing
inauguration, democrats are in reset mode right now, looking for ways to slice up and salvage pieces of the agenda, i ll ask about the path forward. and the president is on clean-up duty after his marathon news conference. he s warning that any, any move by russia into ukraine will be considered an invasion. we ll go live to ukrainian capitol where officials fear biden s remarks yesterday may have given a green light to vladimir putin. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage with new moves by the january 6 select committee now seeking information from the former president s daughter ivanka trump, our senior legal affairs correspondent paula read has the latest on the investigation. reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6th, moving in on former president trump s inner circle, requesting a voluntary interview from ivanka trump. i m very proud of iva
world to persuade trump to stop the violence, which he for 187 deadly minutes failed to do, or outright refused to do. the breaking news today, the select committee now breaching the innermost ring of trump s family circle. his daughter ivanka is being asked by the committee for information on her direct contacts with her dad, the expresident, at key moments on the day of the insurrection. among those moments, according to a letter from committee chairman bennie thompson to ivanka released today, quote, as january 6th approached, president trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade vice president pence to participate in his plan. one of the president s discussions with the vice president occurred by phone on the morning of january 6th. you were present in the oval office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation. the committee also appears to zero in on ivanka trump s efforts as the insurrection unfolded to get trump to step in and stop the violence