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u.s. troops have been placed on heightened alert for possible deployment to eastern europe. pentagon spokesperson john kirby says despite calls for russian president vladimir putin to step back from ukraine, he s actually sending new troops to the border. they continue to add tactical groups to their western border, to the border with ukraine. and in belarus as well. they ve shown no signs of de-escalating but they are adding more force capability. president biden held a conference call on the crisis and touted total unanimity. hi, nic. hi, christine. we ve just heard from dmitry pes could have, president putin s spokesman talking about that potential deployment of 8500 u.s. troops towards eastern europe. the kremlin s position on this is they are concerned because this is building tensions. this is what they ve heard in the last month or so, that it is the western allies. nato, the united states who are essentially trying to build up a pre pretext. they say the ....
really rich white christian men and their wives, many with inherited wealth, a small merchant class and lots and lots of poor people and people of color, mainly black people who were de facto unequal. indeed until the 20th century which many consider to be the great american century. women couldn t vote, black men could vote on paper but faced everything from local trickery to lynching to stop them. immigrants were routinely routed to urban ghettos and ramped segregation and a free for all for industrialests to exploit ununionized workers and drill and mine and pollute at will. by the end of that century, largely due to progressive democratic presidents, democratic legislative super majorities despite the dixie cats and forward looking supreme court justices a lot about america changed. and most people think it changed for the better. but not everyone agrees that the new deal, the end of child labor, the ability of american workers to unionize and expanded women s liber ....
fight omicron. with the use of two antibody drugs because they don t work against this variant. welcome to meet the press daily. there is a lot of unrest inside both parties these days. today s headlines makes it pretty clear from the left and the right. the current climate with an unpopular president, unpopular parties, plural, they don t match the make-up of the parties and frustrated political bases. all of it is a recipe for bolo politics. this year s primaries and perhaps november s mid-terms. right now democratic groups are not happy with kyrsten sinema for an effort to change senate rules to make it easier to pass voting rights legislation. after democrats officially censured her for her stance, the powerful group emily s list officially pulled support. and last night voter latino launched a campaign called adios sinema. some democrats are fuming behind the scenes with ron clain. they re accusing him of steering president biden into difficult political waters. ....
levers it can right now. the pentagon says we have roughly 8,500 troops on heightened alert. president biden and our european allies have been communicating about countermeasures to any russian aggression. we re going to have more from the white house, more from the pentagon and ukraine in just a few moments. also, in just the last few hours, pfizer announced that it is testing a vaccine tailored specifically to protect against the omicron variant, and we re watching the markets very closely again this morning. right now, as you can see, the dow down once again, down almost 420 point, things once again quite volatile there on wall street raising a lot of questions. so stephanie ruhle is going to join to us try to help answer some of them. also this hour, our country s crisis of conscious. after january 6th laid bare this morning. you know capitol police officer eugene goodman right there, you ve seen the video. the man facing down the mob there on january 6th and you ve ....
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 ult ....