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
the boston red sox hero elected to the baseball hall of fame, with his first year on the ballot. with david ortiz in. the question is who s now out? it s way too early for this. good morning. and welcome to way too early. the show that loves david ortiz like a member of its own family. frankly, even more than some of its cousins. i m jonathan lemire on this wednesday, january 26th. let s start with the news. president biden has no intention of moving u.s. troops to ukraine. but says america has a sacred obligation to reinforce nato forces. it comes as russia signals a possible invasion of ukraine, something the president said will trigger, quote, enormous consequences. what s going to happen, what putin does or doesn t do. and i may be moving some of those troops in the near term, just because it takes time. we have no intention of putting american forces or nato forces in ukraine. but, as i said, there are going to be serious economic consequences if he moves. there
is that even though so much has been looked at, a steady drip of what we know might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ex-president s efforts to overturn the election result. the latest bombshell coming from conspiracy theorist, alex jones, who was at the capitol on january 6th. during his broadcast monday, he said he took the fifth more than 100 times in his interview with the select committee. politico reports on what jones referred to as the quote, unofficial testimony that he delivered on his show, quote, jones described the questions the committee asked him about his contacts with gop fund-raiser, carolyn wren. who he described as a liaison for logistics relating to trump s rally. quote, my contact for the fifth and sixth was carolyn wrenn, he said. all this comes as focus by the committee on recently revealed plans to get the u.s. military to seize voting machines. plans that resulted in an executive order being crafted. one that was not signed and ultimatel
they re going to lay down the law and not do it. we re not there yet. i m in favor. it s coming, don t worry. i m in communication with your kids on this, don t worry. planning the revolt. thank you, my friend, much appreciated. happy new year. and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour, happy new year to you as well, good to have you back with us. in washington, dc they celebrated the first day after the holiday by getting a huge pile of snow dumped on the capital city and shutting down most of the federal government because of it. happy new year. this is how we re starting. in addition to most federal offices being closed because of the snowstorm at the capitol today, the senate is supposed to be in session this week. they were supposed to taking at least one senate vote today. but that all got slid to tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician, the doctor for the house and the senate, sent a sobering, detailed letter t
they were supposed to be taking at least one senate vote today, but then they all got slid into tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician the doctor for the house in the senate sent a sobering detailed letter to the democratic and republican leaders of the senate. telling them that you know, regardless of the stall, senators ought to be staying home now anyway. apparently, the covid testing sites they have set up at the u.s. capitol, the positivity rate, the rate at which tests that are coming back positive, it had been under 1%, until recently, until the omicron wave of the virus started to hit in d.c.. the capital physician advised senators today that as of right now, the positivity rate at that testing that has gone from under 1% to over 13%. he described the number of covid cases on capitol hill right now as, quote, unprecedented. saying, quote, thousands of individual with coronavirus infections identified at the capitol daily. this i