why? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, on the brink. president biden holding a call with key u.s. allies for roughly 80 minutes tonight over growing fears russia is on the verge of invading ukraine. the president saying everyone is on the same page. the call comes as 8500 u.s. troops are now on heightened alert to possibly deploy. as president putin shows no sign of backing down. as their presence on the border enlarged or changed in a qualitative way that ises ses escalating? yes. they are continuing to add battalion troops to their western border, to the border with ukraine. and in belarus as well. the numbers there are increasing. so they have not only shown no signs of de-escalating, but they are in fact adding more force capability. they are in fact adding more force capability. this is just how fast the situation along the ukraine border has deteriorated over the past few days. i want to show you this new video tonight. okay, s
party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it s worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country, even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate, and in places where it s likely gonna be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall, it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s a pretty f
happy new year, jen. i think you and speaker pelosi just launched a thousand memes. there will now be toys that when you activate them, they say, in nancy pelosi s voice, just win, baby. that is now going to be a thing from here on out. we re waiting. marketing people out there, order them. order them. exactly. we ll sell them on the show. just win, baby. just win, baby. thanks, jen. much appreciated. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, we have two major parties in our country. a week from today we re going to have the first votes in one of those parties, in the republican party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominating contest this year. and you know all that. but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the orga
but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
southwest, and places that don t get a lot of rain, l.a.x. and phoenix, also seeing delays and texas because of the low cloud ceilings. listen to warnings from the transportation secretary pete buttigieg who says that the airlines have to stay on the game and so do to passengers with the big days ahead, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and friday, and the potential of bad weather out there over the weekend. listen. we know that the weather is coming our way. it is why you want to make sure that you are keeping in touch with the airline. the big thing that we can control though, that airlines need to control is how resilient the system is to that weather. of course, a lot of people are going to be driving. tomorrow is one of the worst driving days according to aaa, and sunday and monday, take advantage of the low traffic because of the holiday. all right. sunday and monday does not sound great, but we will try it, pete. thank you so much. appreciate it. the next hour of cnn