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now it is vladimir putin s time for choosing. invade ukraine or back down. plus, a cnn exclusive. senator mitch mcconnell prefers he and donald trump just ignore each other, but a new interview highlights a likely mcconnell/trump midterm crash. the republican leader says it s critical gop candidates avoid trump s big lie. and spiking crime is an every city challenge. the new york mayor vows to lead the fight and his plan relies on reviving a controversial police unit. we begin with the ukraine standoff. the white house holds two classified briefings to brief lawmakers and bring them up to speed on the security situation in ukraine. president biden says he is now ready to send 8500 more american troops to eastern europe. nato has put more assets in the region. the intent? to add military muscle to the diplomatic pressure and get vladimir putin to back down from a potential ukraine invasion. whether the russian leader takes that off ramp, though, is an open question ....
has become more and more clear just how damaged we as a country are. the insurrection exposed both the deepening fault lines in our population and cracks in the very structure of our democracy. it opened a wound many of us want to heal from but find ourselves quite honestly unable to. a sentiment president joe biden reiterated thursday on the anniversary of the attack. the way you have to heal is recognize the extent of the wound. you can t pretend. this is serious stuff. we got to face it. that is what great nations do. they face the truth. deal with it. and move on. president biden is right here. how can we heal when our cries for justice and accountability have largely gone unanswered, when the people and the party that stood to benefit from overturning the election results refused to even acknowledge the realities of what happened on that day? when after a year of investigation no one has been held accountable outside of some of the foot soldiers in trump s mob. ....
the insurrection expose but the deepening fault lines in the population. and cracks in the very structure of our democracy. it opened a wound marion knee of us want to heal from but find ourselves very honestly, quite unable to. a sentiment that president joe biden reiterated on thursday, on the anniversary of the attack. watch. the way we have to heal, you have to recognize the extent of the moon. you cannot pretend. this is serious stuff. you have to face it. that is what great nations do. they face the truth. deal with it and move on. president biden is right here. how can we heal when our cries for justice and accountability have largely gone on answered? when the people in the party who stood to benefit from overturning the election result refused to even acknowledge the reality of what happened on that thing? when after a year of investigation, no one has been held accountable outside of some of the foot soldiers in trump s mob? national healing process is nec ....
dozens of miles in the middle of winter. i want to bring in first kristin powers, a reporter with wjla in washington. you have been kind of in the middle of this as you re getting reports of people being stranded. what s happening right now? yeah, kate, i was stuck in it since about 2:00 a.m. at this point though, there s some people who have been stuck on i-95 for 21 hours and counting. so right now, i actually was just able to i call it escape, vdot was saying they re letting people off the nearest exit closest to them and that was true. i got off of woodbridge. i ll turn the camera around and you can see. i see people who got off, including a lot of truck drivers, they re now lining those side roads, you know, trying to find a different route. but i also saw a truck getting gas. i saw a lot of gas canisters on the side of trucks there. so that s what s happening here, but back on i-95, i just checked in with a colleague who is closer to stafford. stafford is the ....
vladimir putin of severe sanctions if russia invades ukraine. u.s. intelligence agencies say russia has been building up military forces on the border with ukraine. 75,000 troops, enough to begin an offensive within a matter of months. here s c.i.a. director bill burns. we don t know that putin has made up his mind to use force, but what we do know is that he s putting the russian military, the russian security services in a place where they could act in a pretty sweeping way. in case that happens, the white house says it s readying a range of sanctions aimed at putin s inner circle and the russian economy more broadly. we have consulted significantly with our allies and believe we have a path forward that would impose significant and severe harm on the russian economy. you can call that a threat. you can call that a fact. you can call that preparation. whatever you want to call it. for more on this high-stakes phone call, let s bring in white house reporter jas ....