and it includes history. listen. i have made no decision except one. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. it s long overdue in my opinion. i made that commitment during the campaign for president, and i will keep that commitment. get to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins at the white house. the president said he didn t want to share much about what comes next but he shared an historic deal. it s also notable he put a timeline on here saying he will, his intention is to let everyone know who his nominee is by the end of february. so what that is going to kick off internally at the white house is a very extensive process of vetting. and the president has already he said he s been looking at the backgrounds of potential replacements. he s going to study this carefully. he ll look at
and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, javelins and east gander missiles, the u.s. and russia flooding the zone around ukraine as president biden warns u.s. troops could soon be headed there. pictures of 300 anti-tank missiles arriving in kyiv today as president biden says the troops are ready to go to eastern europe. i may be moving some of those troops in the near term. this would be the largest k i we move in with those, it would change the world. the white house believes this could happen. today telling reporters the biden administration believes an invasion by putin is, quote, imminent. that warning comes as russia is making new and aggressive moves along the ukraine border. we have seen a consistent accumulation of combat power by the russians in the western part of their country around the borders with ukraine and belarus. in addition to the troops, can you talk a little bit more, can you have specificity about with weaponry they are piling on
president s view? imminent has a pretty intense meaning, doesn t it? okay. that s still the belief. yes. imminent, she said. as that was happening, the effort continued to make the effort as costly and possible to putin with another shipment of military equipment to kyiv, javelin anti-tank missiles designed to stop russian armor. the administration today also sought to reassure allies like germany which relies on moscow for natural gas, announcing it s working with other suppliers to cushion the blow if russia cuts them off. it also issued this warning to belarus, ukraine s unfriendly neighbor and putin s ally to the north. just as we have been clear with the russian federation about the severe cost that would befall them were this to move forward, in recent days we have also made clear to belarus that if it allows its territory to be used for an attack on ukraine, it would face a swift and decisive response from the united states and our allies and partners. as f
i may be moving some of those troops in the nearer term. this would be the largest if we were to move in with all of those forces the largest invasion since world war ii. it would change the world. mr. biden is willing to impose sanctions on putin himself. bipartisan talks are underway should russia invade. more on that in a moment. in less than an hour top diplomats from europe, ukraine and russia will sit down in paris for talks about how to avoid war. cnn has reporters around the world covering this story. melissa bell in paris, nic robertson in moscow. let s start with sam kiley live in ukraine. sam, good morning. the white house is calling an invasion imminent. officials in kyiv is saying it s not imminent. why aren t they on the same page? reporter: i think it s a very different approach in terms of national reassurance from the perspective of the foreign minister making statements to reinforce his own president s statement. there is an exitent threat of invasio
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