select committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. and the uvalde texas school board suspends its police force, and it s expected to discuss the superintendent s retirement, all following cnn s exclusive reporting on the school massacre. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the firestorm over president biden s surprise warning of a potential armageddon following russian president vladimir putin s nuclear threats. let s get straight to our cnn white house correspondent, mj lee. mj, we ve heard the administration say they take the nuclear threat from russia seriously. we have not heard talk of armageddon before. does the white house now think americans have reason to be concerned tonight? well, wolf, anybody who was listening to the president s comments last night may have had good reason to feel concerned, because this was a pretty remarkable warning that we heard directly fro
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w
Secretary blinken tries to find Common Ground but agrees to the pause for the first time. We have to ask. Indeed, it must be asked. Where is the outrage . Where is the revulsion . Where is the rejection . Where is the explicit condemnation of these horrors . No member of this council, no nation in this entire body could or would tolerate the slaughter of its people. Another trump codefendant takes a plea deal, Pleading Guilty in the Georgia Election interference case. I believe in and i alue election integrity. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse. The former president comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen in civil court in new york. House republicans narrow their speaker search with no guarantee the next frontrunner will come close to the 217 votes needed, but now its head to head, just two men left standing. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. Lets get the latest on capitol hill where the House Republican conference is in its fifth vot
reporter: the big change over the past couple of days here in ukraine has been the plunging temperatures with the first snow of the winter covering the ground. this as russia continues its missile strikes against energy infrastructure targets, causing power cuts and shortages across the country. russia may be on the defensive, but it is, at this point, far from defeated. erin? thank you very much, matthew chance, with that exclusive report from kyiv tonight. i want to go now to john brennan, the former cia director and the author of undaunted: my fight against america s enemies at home and abroad, which is now available in paperback as well. director, thank you for your time. when you hear this phone conversation, and it s a full conversation in lots of detail. what do you take away from it? well, erin, i think as those conversations indicate, as well
have a particular responsible to speak truthfully to the american public. former cia director, john brennan, thank you very much. the paper back edition of his memoir undaunted: my fight against america s enemies at home and abroad is available now. we appreciate you coming on the show this morning. thank you. still ahead on morning joe, the federal government wants to bring more transparency to what your next flight will cost you. we ll explain how they ll do that just ahead. and a far-right conspiracy theory sets off a member of the january 6th committee. we ll have his impassioned response to republicans. morning joe is coming right back. super emma just about sleeps in her cape. but when we realized she was battling sensitive skin, we switched to tide hygenic clean free. it s gentle on her skin and out-cleans our old free detergent. tide hygenic clean free. hypoallergenic and safe for sensitive skin.