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minister lavrov made no commitments about where the diplomacy will lead. translator: i can t say whether we re on the right path or on the wrong path. we will understand this when we get a written reaction from the americans to all our proposals. reporter: the stakes are high. russia planning to deploy s-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in belarus. and continuing to bolster its troop presence of more than 100,000 soldiers along all of ukraine s borders. and ukraine s defense minister is now accusing the kremlin of sending tanks and artillery to pro-russian separatists in the country s occupied dombas region claiming they re actively recruiting mercenaries and sending them to the temporarily occupied territory. cnn learned the pentagon is working on a series of military options for president biden to beef up the u.s. military presence in eastern europe as a deterrent. the two foreign ministers committed to meet again and either side counted out the possibility of an ....
ukraine. and you re grounded. how one woman s anti-mask moves changed the travel plans for more than 100 others. hello and welcome to the lead. we begin with our health lead and the strongest case yet for getting a covid booster shot or should i say strongest cases yet. three new cdc reports show that adults who had gotten their booster shot had the best protection against hospitalization because of covid and against emergency room and urgent care visits. the new data suggesting getting a booster in the age of the omicron variant is now less of a nice to have and more of a must have. this as we are learning that unvaccinated adults over the age of 65 are nearly 50 times more likely to be hospitalized for covid than their fully boosted peers. across the u.s. today, more than 160,000 people are hospitalized with covid right now. that s a record high. but as cnn s omar jimenez reports, the number of daily cases are actually trending down, even as some hospitals are g ....
to take you there live. the president is facing a big foreign policy on this friday. a potential russian invasion of ukraine. our secretary of state, tony blinken, just spoke for 90 minutes with his russian counterpart. what we re learning about that meeting, and whether russian aggression is inevitable. plus you want to see why voting rights are so critical right now? new voting laws in texas are taking root and a harris county judge says one in three, 33% of the vote by mail applications in her county is being flagged for rejection. i ll talk to her about that, especially with the midterms looming just a few months from now. and we re also learning about a new push on capitol hill to pass some sort of election legislation on the federal level. not exactly what activists and most democrats had hoped for, but there does seem to be some movement afoot. but we are going to start with our team standing by for president biden, mike memoli, also with me jake ward. michael ....
from the national archives to the january 6th committee. plenty of reading to be done and new details coming in almost by the minute with new reporting from our capitol hill team about just what s in these documents and what those lawmakers specifically wanted to see. including, they hope, draft speeches from january 6th for then president donald trump. they asked for a never enacted executive order on election integrity and a memo on a potential u.s. lawsuit against president biden s 2020 win. also breaking this afternoon the nationwide pause on a federal vaccine mandate with a judge blocking enforcement on president biden s requirement for federal workers. the white house press secretary just asked about it, we will have that coming up. and right now in texas the first court appearance for a man arrested just hours ago charged with threatening elections workers and other officials in georgia, including the governor and secretary of state. the prosecutor saying thi ....
and figure out what and who is behind these mysterious attacks. kylie, this is very interesting and i know it s going to raise a lot of eye brows and a nlot of new qu questions. thank you so much for your reporting. new day continues right now. b good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, january 20th. i m john bedrrman. briana is working nights this week. casey hunt here in the chair to mark the one-year anniversary with the biden presidency. good to be here. the white house is trying to make clear the president did not somehow give permission for v vladimir putin to launch a minor incursion into ukraine. his remarks at his one-year news conference raised alarm of what he sees as a likelihood of a russian invasion. and that was in addition to other major developments in the news conference, one where for the first time he said bhe woul be willing to break pup his domestic agenda bill. refused to say the nex ....