at the white house. he plans to stay on until the end of the term in june and until a replacement is confirmed. he is 83 years old and the oldest and most senior liberal justice. he was nominated in 1994 by president clinton. with us now is jessica schneider. tell us what more we know about his decision. we know he understands the political realities of this moment for democrats. he is someone who previously worked for the senate judiciary committee before becoming a judge and has said in the past he would consider two things when deciding to leave. his health and the court. so with no known health issues, it s clear the court s is his main focus. he s been facing unrelenting political pressure over the past year from progressives. they have been demanding he step down to leave plenty of time for president biden to name a successor, but at the same time, he has been really outspoken about the perils of viewing the supreme court politically. he published a book in septembe
1,000 points. it s enough to make your head spin. even if or maybe especially if you are the president. despite covid, growing tensions over ukraine, a stalled agenda, it s a question about inflation that appeared to hit a major nerve with president biden yesterday. will you take questions on inflation then? thank you. thank you all. you think inflation is a political liability ahead of the midterms? more inflation. what a stupid son of a [ bleep ]. by the way, the president later called and apologized to fox s peter ducey who asked the question. ducey said it was a nice call. whether it s the white house or your house, the frustration and concern over higher prices is real. you feel it firsthand. maybe in transactions you make every day. so it s, you know, tough for a good headline like low unemployment, stock market rebounds to outweigh that direct effect. let s bring in justin wolvers. the stock market gets all the headlines but it s just a piece of the economy.
cnn international diplomatic correspondent nic robertson in moscow. let s begin with you. secretary of state antony blinken meeting with foreign mini ministers. an effort to project unity among nato allies on the response to russia. what is the plan today? what are they discussing? precisely that. we ve listened to a number of different foreign ministers going into this meeting. latvian,e estonian, lithuanian and the european union stands alongside the united states, indivisible in terms of european union security. that russia, they re telling russia to deescalate the tensions, absolutely standing by behind ukraine. in fact, the european commission president today announced another $1.35 billion of financial aid for ukraine as it goes through this difficult situation and of course, those baltic nations, particularly concerned with learned in the last few hours that the russian neighbors sending 20 warships plus support vessels into the baltic sea. the danish foreign ministe
are enduring. we re mourning and we re angry. this was just not an attack on three brave officers. this was an attack on the city of new york. after the omicron wave, what experts say could come next this year. if you re vaccinated, covid does not have to dominate your life. also tonight, a virginia mom charged after threatening a school board with violence if her children were forced to wear masks. i will bring every single gun loaded and ready. and finally, what we know about arnold schwarzenegger s multivehicle crash friday in los angeles. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom with us. right here in washington, d.c. this weekend, intensity fired up gatherings on similar themes. today marks the 49th anniversary of the landmark roe versus wade decision, which made abortions legal in the united states. well, this year, a different mood has fueled the annual gathering of anti-abortion activists in washington. optimism, if not celebration.
trump and his al us. we now know trump campaign officials were directly involved in efforts to install bogus pro-trump electors in at least seven states trump lost, and that effort was apparently led by rudy giuliani. now, this news is on top of all the new developments from new york to georgia this week. we ve learned the new york attorney general s investigation into the trump organization turned up several misleading statements and add missions in financial documents, so now she wants to get donald trump, don jr. and ivainuku under oath and the fulton county d.a. has requested a special grand jury and just in, a source telling cnn the january 6th committee has received hundreds of trump white house documents just two days after the supreme court rejebtd trump s executive privilege claim to keep these documents secret and now the committee is setting its sights on the inner circle speaking records from the family and ivanka trump, all of that as the former white house press