have shown how far xi is willing to go. nathan law is a self-exiled activist from hong kong and lo join us what pro-democracy countries expect from president biden. sandra: international effort to avoid war. leaders from the u.s., germany, and france are trying to prevent a devastating conflict between russia and ukraine. something that could happen any day in the words of a senior biden official. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you on yet another week in february. john roberts in washington. the french president is now in moscow to meet with vladimir putin in an attempt to lower tensions and now we have reports of at least two ceasefire violations by russian-backed separatists in ukraine. sandra: general keith kellogg with more in a moment. john: steve. russia could take the capitol in just 72 hours, kyiv, three days time. 83 ba at all battalions, 130,000 troops, deescalation up to the worst case scenario, a full scale in
everyone. very busy news day. a lot going on. most notably, a critical nato summit in the final day. president biden is about to meet one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy. we will take you live to lithium-ion. and we are learning which gop presidential candidates we might see on the debate stage next month. and we are about to find out if inflation schoocooled off or heated up in the last month. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. and it is an important hour this hour. president biden will be set to meet one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy as the high-stakes nato summit in lithium-ion comes a close. now, zelenskyy has been meeting face to face with nato leaders throughout the course of the day as he pleads for more weapons and an invitation to join the alliance. president biden has been clear that russia s brutal war needs to end before ukraine can join nato. zelenskyy has been openly frustrated with nato for not
john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse. it would surpass the population of houston if title 42 is not renewed. 18,000 pouring into border states every day. bill joins us from the border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there? john, good afternoon to you. del rio sector getting hammered with activity, nearly 2,000 illegal crossings in just 24 hours, an
sustained, deep and dark role in providing all of this support and capabilities to hamas in terms of this particular gruesome attack on october 7, we don t currently have that information. we ll continue to look for it. if we find it, we ll share it with you. thank you, jake. looking back at the last few days, how did israel miss this attack coming? that s a question for you to ask the israeli government. obviously the israeli government has placed a high premium on its intelligence capacity as it relates to hamas and the west bank and relates to hezbollah. why it is they didn t have warning from this is not a question that i can answer. what about u.s. intelligence? anything that crosses your desk that suggests this was come something. we did not see anything that suggested an attack of this type was going to unfold any more than the israelis did. your meeting in the situation room today, we saw images earlier. at some point the president has seen the images of the
here s the story. the former prosecutor whom irs agents said kept them from investigating the biden case the way that they thought it was leading and they thought they say fit today, she s answering questions about all of that behind closed doors with congressional investigators. that happened one day after the president s son risked a contempt charge, which is likely headed his way, and dodged their questions after he gave what amounted to an opening statement of his own on the sidewalk outside congress. no doubt though leslie wolf was likely asked about this based on the irs whistle-blower accusations against what she did. did u.s. attorney leslie wolf confirm your investigative effort that you had sufficient probable cause for search? yes, she did. thanks very much. you told congress that u.s. assistant attorney wolf said whether the juice was worth the squeeze. that s a quote. and that optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search war