Latest proposal which would lower the cost from the original 2. 25 trillion to 1. 75 trillion. A spokesperson for one of the gops lead negotiators on the bill say theyre further apart than they were before. This comes as the gop remains staunchly against an independent commission to investigate the January 6th Insurrection And Attack on the united states capitol. Just 35 republicans in the house voted in favor of the commission. A vote in the senate could come this week. Right now a Grand Total of zero senate republicans are publicly for the legislation, which would create an independent commission styled on the famed 9 11 commission to investigate the violent mob which tried to kill them, hang Mike Pence and destroy american democracy in the process. The gop continues to play partisan politics saying the January 6th commission is a partisan ploy. Its not. As these republicans who acknowledge the Reality And Gravity of the situation explained on the house floor. The american people and
Buckle up, lets get smarter. In just one hour, President Biden will hold one of his most consequential calls of his president with russian president Vladimir Putin on the other end of the line. Theres a ton at stake. I want you to take eye look at satellite photos, those are Russian Troops, thousands of them literally on the door step of ukraine. And there are fears of invasion and it could be imminent. And biden is advising putin you must stand down. The question is does putin have any interest in listening im bringing in peter alexander, matt bodnar in moscow. And the big guns, Richard Engel from ukraine. Peter, this seems pretty simple. Biden wants to tell putin dont invade or else. And heres the thing, what exactly is or else . Yeah, its a big issue that the urs has been confronted with over the last decade dating back to that Annexation Of Crimea in 2014. As you said, this is a Call Taking Place at 2 00, the president will do it Via Video Conference in the situation room. And were
announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. officials now believe russia has assembled about 70% of the military force it needs to launch a full-scale invasion of ukraine. the latest satellite images show russian forces gathering strength in belarus. some are positioned less than 50 kilometers from ukraine s northern border. in neighboring poland, senior u.s. military members arrived on saturday, as nato looks to reinforce its eastern flank. this as the head of nato is due to meet with the polish president. french president emmanuel macron heads to moscow on monday in part to try to revive negotiations between kyiv and pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. russia s chief negotiator recently offered this dismal assessment. translator: we hope to be more constructive there and will have something to tell you, because today, we have nothing to brag about. as much as we want to move forward, the progress that we have equals almost
a fiction you called it. yeah. look. it s if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i d love to see what gets produced. and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president would have to have sensitive compartmented information in his residence? no, look, in a normal administration a president is quite likely to write memoirs, he ll want and deserves access to highly classified information, arrangements are made for former presidents and indeed for former cabinet officers who leave under happy circumstances, that scifs are set up that they can go to and look at this c
members and really weakened america s credibility on the world stage and after two years of appeasement by the biden administration of iran that we ve got to recognize that the weakness of this administration has emboldened the enemies of freedom around the world. war is raging in eastern ureuro and now war in the middle east. we see china menace in the asia pacific. we have to meet this moment with american strength. we re the leader of the free world, the arsenal of democracy, i would tell my old colleagues, it s time, let congress work its will, crunch the numbers. let s get resources to secure the southern border of the united states as well. but this is a time for american leadership and american strength and that s the pathway toward peace around the world. and among our allies. and those are all things included in this package proposed by the biden administration. come back soon, former vice president mike pence, thank you. thank you, poppy. cnn this morning cont