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also tonight, states like florida and texas are pushing back harder than ever against president biden s vaccine mandates, and there is by the way some breaking news on that news just minutes away. plus new concerns tonight that backs mandates and labor challenges are spilling over into the airline industry. there is already chatter of airlines cutting flights to avoid a repeat of the travel knight wears southwest passengers entered this past weekend and still today. where will it leave your holiday travel plans? would begin with economic woes challenging president biden and creating a drag on the u.s. pandemic recovery. mark meredith is digging into the details for us tonight. good to see appeared from rising prices to supply georgia does, americans in many places are struggling and experts say the u.s. and global economy really remain in a fragile state. so now the biden administration facing plenty of tough questions about how it plans to proceed. there are differ ....
be imminent. and braeeaking now. fda advisers will meet in two weeks to consider a request just submitted by pfizer seeking authorization for its covid vaccine for children under age 5. i ll ask the u.s. surgeon general if this is a final, critical step for getting the country back to normal. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the january 6th investigation. the focus sharpening on former president trump s attempt to pressure his vice president to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. here s cnn s congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. tonight, the january 6th select committee honing in on the inner circle of former vice president mike pence. any comment. a key witness in their investigation spotted meeting with the committee today. greg jacob, a former chief counsel who advised pence to resist a pressure campaign from former president trump and ....
consequences. i hope very much that president putin steps back from the path of conflict. even as we far prefer the course of diplomacy and dialogue, we are continuing to prepare down the course of defense and deterrence. reporter: the united states is hoping yesterday s sharp stand-off at the united nations intimidated russia. i think what was important is that the russians hear almost every member of the security council tell them that they agreed with us that the path of diplomacy is better than the path of war. reporter: today the u.s. and russian ambassadors saw one another in normal diplomatic meetings. a diplomat told cnn. the united states is waiting for substantive diplomacy to resume and theres no time line for when the kremlin will respond to the proposal that the united states gave them last week. now, president putin said today that he hopes that there is a solution. he said that won t be easy and he s not ready to talk about what that solution wo ....
warning that any invasion of russia and in to ukraine could have dire and deadly consequences for the 40 million people that call ukraine home. we heard as you mentioned from the defense secretary, lloyd austin and mark milley, both men urging russia to deescalate the situation and try to make things better to bring some peace to the region. however, both men also talked about what could happen with the 100,000 russian forces on stand by. conflict is not inevitable. there s still time and space for diplomacy. there s many people and highly dense population centers throughout ukraine. the war were to break out on a scale and scope that is possible, the civilian population would suffer. the u.s. say they offer support to the ukrainian military. the white house says they re also open to potentially providing more commission support to ukraine. there s been a lot of concern about its economy because of the threat of an invasion and its potential conflict. we re also l ....
we begin with lucas. u.s. officials say 5,000 more russian troops have arrived in belarus as the u.s. will be ready for anything. at u.n. head quarters in new york, the president s u.n. ambassador sounded the alarm. colleagues, the situation we re facing in europe is urgent and dangerous. the stakes for ukraine and for every u.n. member state could not be higher. russian s actions strike at the very heart of the u.n. charter. this is as clear and consequential threat to peace and security as anybody can imagine. and the sa-22 greyhound arrived in belarus by hail. the center bob menendez vowed to release the mother of all sanctions on russian if they attacked. the pentagon said today where they were not heading. the president has been very clear, we won t see american troops on the ground in combat with the russians in ukraine. the russian ambassador to the u.n. fired back at her american counter part rejecting allegations from the west saying moscow has no pla ....