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elevates as russian invasion could be nearing. welcome everyone, this is your world. resident biden hooding call wit you crazy and president vladimi wilensky. what are we learning about that? and what did come from it? let s talk to mark meredith who is life in washington with the latest details from that call. once ago, ukraine president thought it tweeted out his thoughts on the call yesterday. the president saying he think the u.s. for its ongoing military assistance and that th two leaders also discussed the potential for more financial support. we are waiting for the official readout to come from the white house, but earlier today we heard from the russians who had said there is little ground for optimism despite all of the continued diplomatic efforts fo everyone involved. unless you hours it can seem a continued buildup of russian forces near ukraine that s afte u.s. officials send russia a formal response of rejecting it request to be an ukraine from joining n ....
jessica schneider. huge news. reporter: this has just been confirmed by our wolf blitzer that at 83 years old justice stephen breyer, the leading liberal on the court, he will retire. we re still not exactly sure of the time line, but presumably not until the end of this term which ends usually at the end of june. this retirement announcement comes after what has been a persistent drumbeat of calls from progressives to retire from the court dating back to about a year. it was about a year ago when the progressive group demand justice actually hired a mobile billboard that drove around capitol hill in front of the supreme court urging breyer to retire. now we know he will retire presumably at the end of this term. justice stephen breyer spoke with us last year, and he talked about what would prompt him to retire. he said it would ultimately be about two things, his health and the court. we don t know about any issues with his health, so presumably this is all about the ....
creating these fake documents, these forgeries, in which he asserted the electors from their states even though they really weren t. they were not the real electors. they sent those forged documents, signed, them they sent them into congress to be counted into the electoral college. that s not on the show, we talked about new reporting from politico which reports that investigators at the national archives have themselves opened a federal investigation into one set of these forged fake republican electors from arizona in the case of that reported investigation. we ve also reported on attorneys general and at least two states referring this matter formerly to federal prosecutors to that u.s. attorneys and their states as a matter of potential federal criminal prosecution. well now tonight, the story most forward, thanks to a very rare interview that s score with deputy general lisa moore knock oh. cnn has the u.s. justice department commenting on the record for the first ....
the top name in speculation right now judge katanji brown jackson, joe biden recently appointed to the d.c. circuit court of appeals to replace merrick garland. jackson is a former clerk of justice breyer, confirmed in a 53-44 majority by the senate. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, chief legal correspondent and host of the beat ari melber, kelly o donnell and slate legal correspondent dahlia lithwick. pete, you broke this news. justice breyer himself has not announced it or made it official but can you tell us anything about the decision-making process behind his decision to retire? well, our understanding is he came to this decision within the last several weeks. he s obviously in good health. he is 83. he s the court s oldest member but that apparently did not his age or health did not play a part in this. we re told he s well aware of the current political climate. in the past supreme sort justices did not time their decisions in t ....
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 y ....