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counterpart railed against the west, and the russian president once again accused the west of escalating the conflict. he also announced russia is now suspending its participation in the start nuclear arms reduction treaty. phil mattingly is in warsaw for us. phil, tell us what the u.s. reaction was specifically to the news from vladimir putin that he was going to suspend his participation in the new start treaty? it was a split screen, not one that was planned. that state of the nation address framed everything the president detailed in his lengthy remarks in warsaw. when it comes to what president putin said about the new start treaty, u.s. officials were quick to respond that it would be irresponsible and compliance wise, russia has not been fully comp compliant over the last few years, and so there s gray area here, middle ground, but it underscores what is the dissolving of the u.s. and russia relationship, and the result of russia s invasion of ukraine, it s a central
anger. could that turn florida blue? it s still a long shot but it does give dems another opportunity to say look, voters, this is what happens when you let the other guys win. and while dems have this opportunity, republicans are hoping for their own opportunity on an issue they think they have the upper hand. let us start with abortion. joining us now, washington post national reporter covering abortion, car caroline kitchened matt dixon. you guys have done a lot of reports on what s happening in florida. matt, this ruling, talk to me about the political underpinnings of it. yeah, it s a huge win for democrats here in florida who haven t had a win in a decade or more. the biden campaign released a memo yesterday first given to nbc news that sort of said they re going to build their florida strategy around the issue of abortion and really tieing it to yesterday s two-part rulings. so democrats are really hoping this is going to sort of put florida s battleground state ag
approximately 140 police officers were injured on january 6th when a violent mob stormed the capitol. one of those officers was james blasting game, a 17 year veteran of the capitol police. this is how he described that day to pbs news hour. you just hear just noise and people running at me, as far as i can see, from the crypt all the way to the north side, center side of the capital, is running at us. as bad as it looks on film, believe me, it was much worse, they can stitch together as much footage as they want to, and i m telling you, and anybody that was in that scrum will tell you, there was much worse in person than anything you will see on film. officer blassingname and another fellow officer became the first members of the capitol police force to sue the person they say is responsible for that attack, not any of the individual rioters and not the far right groups that helped organize the riot. those officers sued the man at the very top, donald trump, who urge