periods norah: we are in ukraine as russian forces advanced with eight at the center of an urgent meeting between president biden and top congressional leaders. this is an existential moment for the free world. we must take care of america s needs first. norah: cbs evening news starts now. good evening, i m norah o donnell, thank you for being with us. 40 million people in the path of a severe storm threat rolling across the country, heavy snow caused travel chaos at the nation s airports with more than 3,000 flights delayed, and the biggest threat from this dangerous weather will come overnight from missouri to michigan, massive winds, hail, and possible tornadoes. we are going to have more on that dangerous system in just a minute. first, we want to begin tonight here in washington with the age-old story of congress reaching into the last minute to get its job done. the issue is a potential government shutdown friday night and the decision to fund ukraine or r
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 here in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace on the presidents day. as we come on the air the world continues to absorb the shock waves from the death of alexei navalny as tributes pure in around the globe as the sickening reality sets in that vladimir putin was silenced yet another of his critics, the world seemingly stands united in their grief and their outrage at the injustice and the certainty that navalny would still be alive but for vladimir putin. and yet here at home there has been one notable exception, the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president who said silent on navalny s death, who did not utter his name until today, three days after the world first learned that the russian opposition leader was dead and still trump notably has not condemned vladimir putin. no. instead in a twisted kind of metaphor trump likened himself and his legal battles to the now martyred alexei navalny. it is not just trump, it is also trump
roadblock. plus, the widow of alexei navalny, putin s fiercest critic is accusing the kremlin of hiding his body to cover up his murder as the kremlin denies putin s involvement in his death. former president donald trump takes his legal losses to the court of public opinion, promiing to the appeal the fine in the new york civil fraud case, what that could look like. and dangerous weather taking aim on the west coast, 35 million people under flood alerts. we re going to have a live look at that forecast. hey, everybody, good to see you. we re going to begin with new developments in the israel-hamas war. this morning the international court of justice began day one of six, historic public hearings into israel s nearly six decade long occupation of palestinian territories. the hearing is happening before the same court that last month ordered israel to prevent its forces from committing a genocide in gaza. it s coming as efforts towards a new cease fire appear to stall
oversight committee chairman james comer s sham impeachment inquiry of president joe biden, was not in washington testifying on behalf of house republicans, that maybe would have made sense. do you know why? he was at a hearing of his own, in federal court in las vegas. because alexander stern of, the same person who s supposed to be the star witness, is charged with fabricating claims about the president and his son hunter biden. in relation to a ukrainian energy company. and for that, he could face up to 25 years in prison. a judge did release him on under strict conditions, including gps monitoring, and somewhat fittingly based on his shadowy reputation, i think it s fair to say, we don t even seem to know what this guy looks like. we can t even show you a picture of him. today, also a new filing, just a few hours ago released from federal prosecutors, added a pretty shocking, yet somewhat kind of predictable twist to all of this i wonder if you re ready for this. russia
you show, it they re used for ukraine, shameful backlash towards those who would try to get away from something like that. that, effectively, loses itself. when transparency doesn t work because there s no shame, there is in fact pride doing it, you need a new tool box. all right, that s going to do it for us tonight. i m going to see you again this weekend, saturday night, 6:30 pm eastern, i will be part of our special coverage of the south carolina republican primary again, 6:30 eastern saturday night. i will see that. now, time for the last word with brought lawrence o donnell. good evening. i have nothing better to do a saturday night. i will be dropping by. joining you at the table. we have senator sherrod brown joining us tonight, which is always a pleasure. thank you very much for how you primed your audience for what we are doing later this hour with ben wiggler on the wisconsin mayor linda miracle. it shouldn t be a miracle that democracy prevails in any situation