this just into cnn. the date for the state of the union is set. house speaker nancy please i officially invited president biden to deliver the address to congress on march 1st. in a letter to the president, she says, quote, i am writing to invite you to address a joint session of congress on tuesday, march 1st, to share your vision for the state of the union. also developing right now, the supreme court hearing oral arguments on president biden s covid-19 vaccine and testing mandates. with details on that just ahead, plus the cdc director dr. walensky on the offensive amid confusion over the agency s messaging and guidance. what she s saying now. and this hour former new york governor andrew cuomo in court after prosecutors declined to pursue a forcible touching charge. we re getting destroyed out there. we need a plan!
the job numbers, as was mentioned. you kind of live in the political moment you re in. i think they ll be smart about it in terms of trying to get it definitely rolled out before the state of the union. he s going to want to be able to talk about that, single that out as a major point for him. i think sooner probably rather than later. but february is a short month, it s going to come up pretty fast. right, i just took a quick look at my calendar here. the state of the union is set for tuesday, march 1st. and i was able to remember the supreme court justice i couldn t remember in that moment, that is justice breyer. justice breyer. i m not going to ask any of you any questions because we don t have enough time for any of you to answer a question. so i m going to leave it there. sochi hinojosa, kurt bar della, anna palmer, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. i ll take this opportunity to
in this country and see people die for democracy in ukraine, shameful what texas is doing to its voters. secondarily, if you can vote in-person on tuesday march 1st, do not let your voice be denied or intimidated by all restraints that are being placed on voters with poll watchers and others intervening factors that may cause you to be intimidated by this process. don t be intimidated. please, ask the official precinct workers who are there to help you. they re allowed to help you. particularly those persons who may be disabled, who now have to vote in-person, because they cannot vote by mail ballot because it s been rejected. this is a crisis. i expect the justice department to challenge texas. they already have one lawsuit against texas. but this bill has to go. it is a dastardly bill and the only reason it was put in place is because they were absolutely appalled at the number of voters that came out in 2020 that helped contribute to president
morning. chris jansing picks up the coverage right now. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is tuesday, march 1st. we have so much to cover including an extraordinary speech from the ukrainian president, pleading with european leaders not to let down his country. that speech coming under the dangerous and deadly escalation in the war in ukraine as russia, frustrated by a lack of progress six days after it invasion, is stepping up attacks on civilian areas. this is video from this morning, a shell hitting an apartment building in a southern city where there s been intense fighting for days now. and it appears to be a russian missile hitting a government building in kharkiv s freedom square in the heart of ukraine s second largest city, a city now surrounded. at last count, roughly 660,000 ukrainians have fled their
consider this country has been able to stand up and keep them back for a moment. but that he will up the ante and that he is unafraid of bombarding and killing civilians. remember, grozny, aleppo, this is putin and his war machine. civilians all the way. that s how they do it. that s how they try to win. and it is something that is going to be very difficult for the world to tolerate. and that is what volodymyr zelenskyy is standing up in the face of, speaking to the european parliament. christiane amanpour, thank you so much. and new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, march 1st. overnight, a devastating aerial attack on kharkiv. this is ukraine s second largest city. you can see while it was a direct hit on a government building in the historic freedom square of that city, ukrainians