Protecting the u. S. Capitol on January 6. How the committee is zeroing in on the former president s role. It is wednesday, july 28th, 5 00 a. M. Here in new york. Im laura jarrett. And im crieshristine romans. Were live in beijing, washington, nairobi and tokyo. And that is where we begin with Breaking News this morning, Simone Biles has pulled out of the Gymnastics Allaround final to focus on her Mental Health. Coy wire is in tokyo for us. We know takes Pressure Cooker, we know the olympics is high stress, high pressure. Takes pree know the olympics is high stress, high pressure. And Simone Biles saying Mental Health is more important here. Yeah, especially at the olympics because these opportunities only come once every four years. Biles considered the most dominant gymnast of all time now crowned a champion by many for putting her Mental Health first on the worlds biggest stage. Usa gymnastics releasing a statement saying that simone will continue to be evaluated daily to determine
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
u.s. troops have been placed on heightened alert for possible deployment to eastern europe. pentagon spokesperson john kirby says despite calls for russian president vladimir putin to step back from ukraine, he s actually sending new troops to the border. they continue to add tactical groups to their western border, to the border with ukraine. and in belarus as well. they ve shown no signs of de-escalating but they are adding more force capability. president biden held a conference call on the crisis and touted total unanimity. hi, nic. hi, christine. we ve just heard from dmitry pes could have, president putin s spokesman talking about that potential deployment of 8500 u.s. troops towards eastern europe. the kremlin s position on this is they are concerned because this is building tensions. this is what they ve heard in the last month or so, that it is the western allies. nato, the united states who are essentially trying to build up a pre pretext. they say the ukrai
world, it is tuesday, january 25th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we do begin with the drum beat of war. the united states placing up to 8,500 troops on heightened alert for possible deployment to eastern europe. a russian invasion of ukraine appearing all but certain and imminent, and according to the pentagon, the u.s. troops will be ready for any contingencies. president biden held an 80 minute secure video call with european leaders. we are told they discussed preparations to impose, quote, massive consequences and severe economic costs on russia if it invades ukraine. again, that s after the fact. the president said there is total ewe nam anymorety the u.s. and its allies frankly there s been questions about ancon september that vladimir putin has been testing. the world seems to be testing president biden. breaking this morning, north korea test fired two cruise missiles. this is according to the south korean military. this is the fifth such action this year by
north carolina himself is the first former lawmaker to be held in contempt, criminal contempt of congress in nearly 200 years. just before last night s vote, the panel unveiled more alarming text messages sent to meadows, including a text from a currently sitting lawmaker as yet unidentified, revealing that lawmakers in the white house discussed plans to overturn the election as soon as the day after november 3rd, election day. we ll have more on that in a moment. here is congresswoman liz cheney. some of those text messages, madam speaker, came from members in the chamber right now. members who understood that a violent assault was under way at the capitol. members who pleaded with the chief of staff to get the president to take action. mark, one member said, he needs to stop this now. in all caps. tell them to go home. potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. also this hour, president biden departing for kentucky