classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn s m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. reporter: a momentous day for the joe bide
after his partner was killed during a shooting over the weekend in harlem. we ve got the latest on the violent crime wave sweeping this country, and what lawmakers and law enforcement are doing about it. we start this morning s broadcast with president biden warning that a russian invasion of ukraine would quote change the world. this morning, he is weighing new steps to make sure that does not happen. on tuesday, biden says he s considering hitting vladimir putin himself with sanctions a move the kremlin says would effectively end relations between washington and moscow entirely. on the military side, the pentagon is in the process of identifying 8,500 u.s. troops that could be sent to europe. the united states has already sent its latest shipment of grenade launchers and anti-tank launchers to ukrainian forces. there is still hope that diplomacy can save the day. political advisers from russia, ukraine, germany, and france are meeting in paris. the first time russia and ukr
russian invasion of ukraine. vladmir putin directly if russian forces enter ukraine. watch. this is all putin. i don t think his people know for certain. would you see yourself personally sanctioning him if he did invade ukraine? yes. you would? i would see that. cnn has this story covered from multiple angles. what did he say? he said those troops could deploy in the near term. he didn t offer specifics own when they might deploy or to where they might deploy. the u.s. right now still keeping it options open. the pentagon came out yesterday and said as many as 8500 troops got prepared to deploy orders which is a heads up of get ready, you may deploying soon to europe. the pentagon is keeping options open saying it might be more troops and wouldn t just be in it was in response to the nato response force activating the bolster eastern european allies there but the pentagon and the white house could also see and move unilaterally here if they see fit. what were t
the world. we re getting new details from the commander in chief on what could trigger a u.s. top deployment as top pentagon officials brief capitol hill today. the state department briefing when the news conference starts with our teams standing by here in washington and around the world. also this hour the biggest names in the january 6th investigation entering not guilty pleas including the head of the oath keepers stewart rhodes. what else happened in federal court and inside congressional investigation. jamie raskin a member of the select committee is here live with us one on one in a couple minutes. i m hallie jackson in washington along with other nbc news team to start us off. peter alexander at the white house, courtney at the pentagon, garrett haake at capitol hill and matt bradley in kiev. let me slew blanket apology in case i have to interrupt any of you. we want to hear from that end of washington on the latest. we heard from president biden who was clear about
is that even though so much has been looked at, a steady drip of what we know might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ex-president s efforts to overturn the election result. the latest bombshell coming from conspiracy theorist, alex jones, who was at the capitol on january 6th. during his broadcast monday, he said he took the fifth more than 100 times in his interview with the select committee. politico reports on what jones referred to as the quote, unofficial testimony that he delivered on his show, quote, jones described the questions the committee asked him about his contacts with gop fund-raiser, carolyn wren. who he described as a liaison for logistics relating to trump s rally. quote, my contact for the fifth and sixth was carolyn wrenn, he said. all this comes as focus by the committee on recently revealed plans to get the u.s. military to seize voting machines. plans that resulted in an executive order being crafted. one that was not signed and ultimatel