good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, january 7th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with a rare opportunity for a struggling president to reenergize his party and to make history in the process. supreme court justice stephen breyer set to announce his retirement at the white house today, giving president biden a chance to deliver on a campaign promise to nominate the first african american female justice to the bench. let s get a sense of the timing, short list, and republican plans to slow down the process. jeremy diamond is there. jeremy, if i also in on the details. reporter: well, we learned yesterday justice breyer is set to retire after 30 years. he was tight-lipped on this. without a formal announcement, the president would not weigh in. but today they are set to make this official. and this opening gives biden a chance to nominate a justice to the supreme court and potentially make history
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.
this was an attack on the city of new york. after the omicron wave, what experts say could come next this year. i do think that if we do it right, we are going to have a 2022 in which covid doesn t dominate our lives so much. reporter: 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 multi-vehicle crash friday in los angeles. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. we begin tonight with breaking news out of the uk. s that where a new government report says vladimir putin is looking to install a pro-russian government in ukraine as the kremlin considers whether to invade and possibly occupy that country. a memo from the british foreign office says moscow may be considering a former ukrainian politician as a candidate to lead the puppet government
asserts they have uncovered significant evidence, those are her words, what what she calls misleading and fraudulent practices by the trump organization to obtain economic benefits. this is an escalation in her language and also the first real specifics of some of the wrongdoings she is alleging. james is turning up the heat particularly on trump s children. she claims that they have been closely involved with the transactions in question. investigators now taking legal action to compel ivanka and don jr. to appear for sworn testimony. let s bring in senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig and director to president trump and resigned in december 2020 and voluntarily spoken with republican members of the january 6th committee. let me start with you, elie. let s talk a little bit about the january 6th committee s decision to issue the six recent subpoenas. that s the other piece of this story. you ve got on the one hand the trump ag excuse me, the new
u.s. lawmakers that met with ukrainian officials during a visit in recent days are warning that if russia invades, it would be the biggest mistake of vladimir putin s career. have a listen. ukrainians are going to fight for their lives. there will be a long term counter insurgency. it will be bloody. we ll go live to the region in just a moment. plus, this morning new details in the civil investigation of trump organization. new york s attorney general claiming she has uncovered significant evidence of what she called misleading and fraudulent practices and now turning up the heat on two of trump s children. don junior and ivanka trump. this as we learn of subpoenas that for rudy giuliani and others in the january 6th probe. also, this morning several major airlines have suspended flights to the u.s. after they said signals from the new 5g cell phone service rollout could disrupt essential airplane instructions. let begin with the top story now. tell us what exactly t