you cannot govern. i m very happy that i m going to get my moderna shot. vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. i m begging of you please don t take she has a good singing voice. breaking overnight, at least ten rockets strike an air base housing u.s. troops in iraq. steve: no deaths are reported. iraqi officials only saying they were saying no significant losses, no one yet claimed responsibility for the attack, ainsley. ainsley: the base is the same one that was struck by iranian missiles last year, last february leaving more than 100 troops with brain injuries after president biden ordered strike in syria killing one person. steve: payback. brian: we will take a look at the story as it unfolds. jennifer griffin giving us more information. mobile rocket launcher and they were able to find where it was launched from and how much longer we are going to be there. meanwhile, we are happy to be here and we are happy that pete hegseth isn t because he s live at family restaurant in nor
rising possibility of russian military action at any time. at the same time, president biden is considering moving troops within europe closer to russia s border as well as in the black sea and increasing bomber flights over the region. even as we re building up deterrence, even as we re building up defense for ukraine, we re also engaged in diplomacy and dialogue. that s the preferable path forward for everyone. it s the responsible thing to do, and we ll pursue it as long as we can. at the same time we ll continue to build up the defense and deterrence that is necessary. the optimism, the fight against the omicron variant is growing in the u.s. across the country as the national 7-day average of confirmed cases finally begins to shift downward after a record setting surge. there is still pressure on hospital workers in some western is southern states where omicron cases are at their peak, and vaccination rates are low. our nbc news poll contains bad news for democrats w
significant response if a single russian force enters ukraine in an aggressive way. we ve also learned of a kremlin plot that vladimir putin is planning to install a puppet government in ukraine. waiting in the wings, an estimated 100,000 russian troops already stationed at the ukrainian border. with fears of an invasion growing, president biden held a meeting with his security team at camp david this weekend. for the very latest let s go to cnn s clarissa ward in kiev, she s live there for us. clarissa, how much power does the u.s. have right now to stop what seems like a steady drumbeat for war? our top diplomats in washington are making all kinds of warnings but it doesn t sound like the message is getting across. reporter: well, i think at least the diplomatic process has not reached a total dead end, jim. we saw those talks in geneva between secretary of state anthony blinken and his russian counterpart seg rgey lavrov. they at least agreed to keep talking. it s hard t
comforting in boston and they were ready to do business. they were ready to do civil war which is what this fellow was talking about. and you know we ll talk about the actual statutes in a second. you tell us a little bit more about this you read the statue. it s such a tight fit legally on the fact pattern it s such a tight fit to what they did and what sedition is. if this were a law exam question, you can write it and you can attach the actions to the statues in about well, federal prosecutors filed new charges against 11 members of one of the groups of playing essential roles of the january 6th attack of the u.s. capitol. as pete williams reports, investigators say they were planning for even more violence after the siege. reporter: the most high profile t charges, the leader o the far right oath keepers accused of conspireing ten other members in the group tod carry out g acts of violence to stop congress from formally counting the electoral college vote for the
fate in the australian open could come at any moment. hello and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin in our health lead. a new warning from the top health experts. today dr. anthony fauci, and the acting fda commissioner say omicron is so efficient at spreading that almost everyone in the u.s. will at least be exposed to it. even if you re vaccinated and boosted. that does not mean, of course, that everyone is going to get infected or get sick. just exposed to it. the biden administration says it will send 10 million test kits to schools every month to help keep classrooms open. and the white house is actively exploring, we re told, making high-quality masks more available to americans. those efforts all could make a critical difference. right now a sliver of good news as cnn s nick watt reports. cases appear to be peaking in some places such as new york which means case counts could soon be coming down. omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of