acknowledging being part of the 2020 fake electors plot. and star actor and director regina king tonight mourning the loss of her son who has died at the age of just 26. and we begin tonight with breaking news in the very tense situation between russia and ukraine, and it s likely to have a ripple effect across the world. an explosive new finding by british officials that the kremlin has a plan in place to install a pro-russian government in ukraine as it considers whether to invade and possibly occupy that country. a memo from the british foreign office says moskow may be considering a former ukrainian politician as a candidate to lead what will essentially be a puppet government. tensions between russia and ukraine have grown for months with moskow amassing about 100,000 troops on their border with ukraine and giving no straight answers as to why. cnn s nic robertson is in moskow. so tell us about this new reporting and the significance of it, nic. reporter: you know,
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.
[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, i m going to kick the shit out of you for two and a half hours and you re going to love it. there have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. is it really possible that in 1990 martin scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that has something to say that hasn t already been said a million times? it s going to be a good summer. and you watch the movie and you re like, yeah. see you later, thanks. what are you doing? you re leaving your car? he watches the car for me. we tried to capture the exuberance of that world. it s dangerous and threatening, but they re having a wonderful time. over there. oh, thanks a lot. goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. it was the mob as a job. what do you do? what? what do you do? i m in construction. and the balance of these two families, of your mob
death of george floyd. what we know about how this is going to play out. and desperately needed aid is now arriving in tonga, more than a week after a volcano eruption and tsunami there, but volunteers say there are still major challenges ahead. we are so grateful that you re joining us this sunday, january 23rd. thanks so much for waking up with us. good morning to you, christi. good morning, boris. good to see you. of course. let s talk about what we re learning out of new york this morning. yeah, really a tragic story. new york city police officer jason rivera, the deadly shooting that claimed his life, the 22-year-old was killed friday night when he was responding to a domestic violence call. his partner, 27-year-old wilbert mora, was critically injured. the rookie cop grew up in an immigrant community where he said relations with police were strained and that s why he decided to join the force, to help. yesterday mayor eric adams honored rivera and the ot
minister boris johnson hold on? in hindsight i will talk about all of that and more with richard haass, anne applebaum and david miliband. also, stocks are volatile, inflation is stubborn, oil hits seven-year highs and china s growth starts to slow. what is going on with the economy? now we need to get inflation under control. i will talk to rana foroohar of the financial times. but first here is my take. what does vladimir putin want? it s a question washington finds hard to answer because, let s face it, we americans rarely put ourselves in other people s shoes. two important essays by dmitri trennen in foreign affairs provide some clues. both suggest that putin has stated power for over 20 years not by being a reckless gambler but rather by being careful, even rational. trenen points out that putin has watched four waves of nato expansionism since he took power. his military incursions have usually been reactions to events rather than grand initiatives of h