happened yesterday in the courtroom in just a moment. plus russian president vladimir putin gives a rare national address announcing significant moves in the war with ukraine. the russian president also talked about a plan that kyiv is calling a desperate sham. and president biden will surely have something to say about all of that when he takes the podium later this morning at the united nations general assembly. we ll preview that and the other topics he will likely focus on in his speech. good morning, welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with major moves from russia this morning claiming that the west is, quote, trying to destroy us. vladimir putin announced overnight he s partially mobilizing the military in russia while also approving a move to annex portions of ukraine. in a rare prerecorded national address, putin said, quote, russia will use all the instruments at its dis
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fighters stick to the cease fire agreement. the american ambassador to the united nations says so far, syria is not holding up its end of the bargain. the regime has unleashed yet another wave of horrific violation against its own people. resulting in the deaths of scores of syrians daily. the government s use of shelling and heavy weaponry in particular in homs has reached levels that surpass those before the cease-fire. syrian government troops in armor have not been withdrawn from cities and returns to barracks. protesters are still being intimidated and murdered by government forces. the status of thousands of detainees remains unclear. and pressures little progress has been made on the issue of human terrier access with an estimated 1 million civilians still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. the united nations security counsel has called upon the government to take concrete action. the syrian government has ignored this counsel. in the united states, our patie
nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and we re also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfl s labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 2011 season. david mattingly is live in atlanta where the negotiations are going on. what is the word, david? reporter: kyra, everyone watching and waiting so far. the players ended yesterday without having a final vote. if they vote today, it will take at least half of the players voting yes for the collective bargaining agreement. then all eyes will be here on atlanta where the owners will be meeting about an hour from now. it will take 75% of those owners, that is 24 out of the 32, to ratif
obama has just summoned congressional democrats to aarr white house. to be clear, democrats only. we re also hearing the top two house republicans, john boehner and eric cantor are to meet with mr. obama at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. so clearly a busy afternoon shaping up at the white house. tell you what, i want to take you now straight to senator coburn who is live for me. sir, good to have you on the program. let me just begin with this. we mentioned these meetings at the white house. my question is, is the fact that there s a democrats only meeting happening now at the white house, does that, sir, signal to you that we have entered a new phase in these talks, these debt reduction talks that the president is now starting the process of essentially selling your gang of six proposal to his people, that the process of the arm twisting and the lining of support is under way? oh, i don t know that you can assume that. it may be that he s going to talk to them about a short-term