. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom president biden is asking for another 33 billion to help ukraine with weapons. president biden then issued his own warning today. the cost of this fight is not cheap. but caving into o gregs will be more costly if you let it happen. we are back as they defend their country or we stand by as the russians continue their atrositys and aggression in ukraine. the bush defense secretary vladimir putin may be trying to dig in like a chance russ growth when you crane. now on the ground, ukrainians report their towns are being bombarded among three eastern regions, kharkiv, donetsk and the regional government in donetsk says russian shellings damaged 27 homes in one vivenlg they assess russia is making slow and uneven incremental advances. anderson cooper joins us, we heard a lot of explosions went off after the u.n. secretary general was in kiev meeting president zelenskyy. so what have you learned? reporter: yeah, allison, kiev s
and new today, former vice president mike pence s chief of staff is speaking out after the vp called donald trump wrong. marc short on nbc s meet the press says pence was crystal clear from day one that he did not have the authority to overturn the election. he had gotten legal advice that said, you can t decide which electoral votes are yes or no but you could adjourn this session and delay things, had he gotten legal advice to do that, was the vice president considering it? no, chuck. i think unfortunately the president had many bad advisers who were basically snake oil salesmen, giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do. but our office researched that and recognized are you chalking this up to bad advisers or was it the former president? i can t answer that question. i think he did get bad advice. the vice president counseled the president from the very beginning that i don t think i have that authority. nbc corresponde
good evening, everyone the effort to offer covid vaccinations to virtually all americans, including the youngest among us, is close tonight pfizer confirming late today it has started down the road of seeking emergency use authorization for its vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years who are currently ineligible child cases stood last week at over 800,000. that s less than the previous week but still extremely high pfizer for now calling for two lower-dose shots for the youngest group. if approved, the first injections could begin within weeks but the news comes with a nagging dose of reality, reluctance of among many parents to have their kids vaccinated tom costello now with late details reporter: with 3.5 million new pediatric covid cases, january alone, the potential that shots could be going into very young arms within a month is welcome news for millions of parents. every day i m worried about them contracting covid. i would say that we re very cautious. reporter
ignored but he also said diplomatic talks should continue. as we speak, members of two key senate committees are gathering for a closed door briefing by defense secretary lloyd austin, and secretary of state, antony blinken, we re expecting russia to be a very big part of it. in ukraine, the country s foreign minister is kicking off a news conference, one day after president zelensky warned if a conflict breaks out, it will not be just between ukraine and russia but a full scale war in europe, the likes of which we have not seen in 80 years. i want you to look at this new satellite imagery, it shows the build up of russian forces. this shows tents and equipment in belarus, to the north. and this one in crimea, you can see the massive numbers of fighting vehicles lined up, ready to go. on the other side of the border, ukrainian forces are digging in, getting ready for a fight. i want you to look at this picture, it says it all. the ukrainians are now using vladimir putin s fac
eastern and northern borders. cyber, electronic warfare grand and control, logistics engineers and other capabilities along ukraine s borders, putting russia in a position to move quickly if vladimir putin wants to. joining me is erin mclaughlin in kyiv, and courtney kube at the pentagon. this is not the totality the pentagon had at its disposal but they are moving them, and there was a moment in the news conference today where they talked about how they would protect the pentagon, protect u.s. nato allies. you mentioned that caught your attention during the last pentagon briefing. what did you make of that today? right. there s two groups of troops that would be moved here. the 3,000 we heard about today, 2,000 from the united states and 1,000 already there in europe. it s important to point out, the u.s. military has between 75 and 8,500 troops to move, and this is the u.s. moving these troops into poland, romania and germany at the request of those governments, so to go