investigate further or are they satisfied with the virtual events given to them by their own personnel at the scene? for afghans, there are demands for answers, certainly and a horror that they recall that is so different from the pentagon narrative. >> we will stay on top of this excellent reporting, nick peyton walsh, thank you so much, for our viewers, thanks for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >> outside the u.s. ambassador warns russia has its weapons locked and load and ukraine is in the crosshairs when it comes to the entire region is now bracing for potential war. plus senate minority leader calls january 6th, a violent insurrection. other top republicans still today cannot bring themselves to agree. why? and an american born skier wins gold for china and tonight takes on those criticizing her for switching her patriotic allegiance.

good evening, i'm erin burnett "out front" tonight, locked and load, the u.s. ambassador michael carpenter says russia is locked and loaded and they are pointed at ukraine. >> russia has locked and loaded its guns, and it's pointing them at ukraine. >> his exact word. this comes as putin says he did not reach a deal with the french president emanuel macron after their meeting in moss cow. he engages in the back and forth. macron saying he made progress and putin had agreed to de-eescalate, putin saying he did not agree to mill ter de-escalation. so what does the united states see? action, guns locked and loaded. in a buildup. >> they continue to search troops and equipment on the border of ukraine.

we believe they're in a position where they can invade at any time. >> at any time. we are all now living on a knife's edge and putin is the one holding the hand him. as of tonight, he has six russian warships headed to the black sea for more naval drichls russia's defense ministry with more propaganda and pictures like the ones we are showing you now, combat helicopters bombing mock enemies. all of that happening. as in europe today the response was more meetings to try to prevent a war that would engulf the continent. the leaders of germany, poland, france, all meeting, vowing to have putin's back as putin cements his control over the presence e peninsula and more. europe still believe, it can have europe's back and categorically not be in combat. which leaves ukraine hanging out there in the crosshairs alone, today the president delivered a personal message to putin.

>> i didn't want to play a translation on that pause we wanted you to hear it the way putin heard it. because the exact translation is, he says my about ukraine. it seems to me that this is already a little too much, well, my ukraine when it's a lot too much coming from putin. we played this in russian to make a point. whether it was a sign of strength for zelensky or an unintentional sign of sub servience to speak in putin's language than his own. that is what zelensky felt he had to do. these are all word, zelensky is now planning action, military exercises for ukraine along the boarder are now scheduled to start happening within the next 48 hours. keep in mind ukraine is one of the largest armed forces in europe and a ground war in ukraine would be cat traffic is

as russia vastly outpowers ukraine in the air and sea and zelensky's drills are happening at the exact same time russia will conduct its own military drills with belarus on the ukraine border. you have three countries conducting war games miles from each other when everybody is completely locked and loaded ready for war. it's a recipe for potential disaster. sam kylie is live in you crepe. so what is putin's game right now? >> reporter: well, erin, here i am, 30 miles from the border. that is the question that every sid i have spoken to in the second largest city here in ukraine is asking themselves. i have to say, the city, itself, does not feel like it's on the brink of war. it has a russian-speaking majority. putin is playing a bit of zelensky's response almost call-in response in terms of

ensummits. what happened was vladimir putin, the russia president said on the earlier peace accords agreed back in 2015, the minsk accords, it was ukraine's duty to take it, pretty as a result far idea about the associated with sexual assault, frankly, to, it's your duty, my duty to take it, was the phrase used by vladimir putin and begged back at him my zelensky saying, it's a beautiful country. but it's not my country and trying to have a diplomatic solution to it. the longer the diplomatic efforts go on, the harder it might be to invade, if it gets through the winter thaw. the ground is supposed to be hard warning up for a potential invasion later on this month, then coming into march and so on, it gets much bulgier and

could turn into a quagmire. >> as you said live in the second largest city in ukraine kharkiv. i want to go to the native supreme commander of europe and peter colby from the cia central eurasia division. you got ukraine, belarus, russia, in final preparations at this hour for these military exercises in the context of all three countries almost fully positioned for an actual war. how real is the risk of something going wrong? >> well, i think the risk is real. you have to understand, this is all putin's strategy. he sees this as a full page effort. number one, ramp up the tension, you go the diplomatic concession, see if you can break nato or ukraine's spirit. if you do then maybe he doesn't, if you don't, maybe he does use the military. then phase 2 is quickly get it over with, shock and awe of the world with the power of russia's

new military, scare nato, scare and press china and then phase 3 is ride it out. where in the united states, they put tensions in, threatening energy cutoffs, a lot of other things. put the pressure on and do things you can break the spirit of nato and ukraine in this. it's a big, bold move by putin. >> oh, you know, you see this, the u.s. ambassador to the ocsc saying let's lock and loaded guns and point them at ukraine. these are diplomats saying this, they're not saying it to throw fuel on the fire, they're saying it in concert. when you hear zelensky you know respond to putin in russian saying stop using the word my as the modifyer ahead of ukraine, putin stop saying my ukraine. do you think, paul, that that was effective against putin?

>> well, we're in a hostage crisis here. we got a gunman that's holding a pistol up to the head of the hostage. the hostage is trying to remain calm, trying not to panic, trying not to spook the gunlman at the time macron came in and the first job of the hostage negotiator is to keep the gunman talking. second, to keep not give the gunman an excuse to pull the trigger. and third is to try to give the gunman a reason to walk away from the situation. this government, however, is extraordinary paranoid and suspicious and is cary of a trick. so he's going to, well, keep talking. he's going to keep opened his options to shoot the hostage. >> general clark, macron claims that one thing happened in his meeting with putin. you know, which is evade, agree to deescalate, soon after, kremlin says, no, we said no such thing that occurred.

i understand there is diplomatic dance going on here. but, general, from your experience when you see what's happening here, you see what france is saying. you see what germany is refusing to say when it comes to the in order nord stream 2 pipeline, do they understand it is a risk in the bway the united states surey sees a risk? >> i think he is starting to realize it. up until this week, europeans said, he's not going to invade. it's a bluff. the united states is hyang it. they're doing it for their own reasons to get europe to side against china or something like that. and these currents have been going through europe. i think now it is starting to sink in. macron's general election campaign. naturally he wants to go and be a leader. he has been jealous of angela merkel's row. it's his chance to sign, macron

is experienced. he goes to moscow. he's going to solve this problem. he went down to see president zelensky and told them get those minsk accords implemented immediately. well, there is a lot of going back and forth in ukraine on this. essentially those minn minsk ac will have civil discord and civil disobedience andrieiots and other things. zelensky will be looked at as a traitor. this is kind of the scenario putin wants in this phase, if he can break zelensky or the ukrainian government, that's the kind of provocation you use to step in as a peace-keeper. then he's secure. if he doesn't, he has to sort of figure out the next step. he's got a lot of tools in his pocket. >> right. a lot of tools in his pocket, obviously, a lot of guns at the

ready. so, paul, when these meetings are happening. they're happening in mass co-, right? you are getting big nato countries to go to moscow, to the kremlin. then putin is holding these meetings at the table. do they know that? there is optics to why they are matching the table. so yeah, he is top doc in the optical sense, right? the meetings are at the kremlin, they're not in paris, they're not in ber lip. could the optics here are really strange. so when you look at this from your perspective, cia, what point is putin making? >> one of my friend say this is what you get when you let a case officer choose the table so putin knows the power of optics, the power of perception. he's well schooled in making anyone that is in his presence look subservient. look smaller. look like they're being schooled. so there is no mistake that that was part of the effort there. but i think the cold distance

you saw across this huge table also reflected putin's extreme paranoia about covid. he's been in ice lakeisolation two years. xi is the first leader he's seen. someone isolated listening to a small circle of advisers and who is really trying to exercise his power in that regard. >> all right. thank you very much, both of you. it is amazing when you think about it. there is no part of life right now, including this situation that there isn't covid somehow at the heart of it. physically, mentally. it is pretty stunning just to consider that. all right. thank you both so very much. i appreciate it. "out front" next a growing number of republicans speaking out saying it was a bad idea to go after the only two republicans on the january 6th committee. why speaking out now? plus the cdc on the defense as states start lifting their

mask mandates. and all eyes on the fed. this is a crucial day coming. how the fed will respond to what's expected to be another record report of inflation. how much worse will it get before it gets better? the president and doctor eo of the san francisco federal reserve is my guest. >> >

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. new tonight, top republicans at odds over the rnc resolution that censured congressman adam kinsinger and congressman liz cheney for simply second on the january 6th select committee. the statement called to what happened on that day legitimate discourse. well, today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell rejected it. >> well, let me give you my view what happened january 6th. we're all here. we're here. we saw what happened. it was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next that's what it was. >> that's what it was. loud, clear, saying it, the truth. mcconnell also said it is not the job of the rnc to pick and

choose which republicans it supports. well, compare that to the house gop conference chair today who defended the censure resolution and refused to call out the rnc to using the words legitimate political discourse with this defense. >> you this i that january 6th was legitimate political discourse, the rnc over the weekend? >> as republicans have been very clear, we condemn the violence january 6th and the violence on 2020 as violent criminals attacked federal buildings, including parts of washington, d.c. so we have been clear in that condemnation. house democrats did not condemn the violence that happened all of 2020. >> now cnn special correspondent and john avalon, senior analyst and author of the new back, lincoln and the fight for peace, out one week from today. except i already have a copy.

i hope everyone will go there. john, senator mcconnell calls it what it was, let's give it the credit today, a violent insurrection, some how saying this at this point more than a year later is hard and controversial, in fact, impossiblen for many elected republicans. you know, you have to struggle to understand why, john. >> it's a choice. let's not, you know, make it any more difficult than it is, these are grown adults, elected representatives. mitch mcconnell said the truth. it was a violent insurrection to stop a peaceful transfer of power. the decision to hide behind the what aboutisms or defending the base or former president trump is some mix of spinelessness and career-i career-ism. it's completely clear of reality and fact. they may make short-term politics. it will look like hell in the eyes of history. >> manu raju was on capitol hill

and he talked to kevin mccarthy, too. i wanted to play that exchange. >> reporter: i refer to january 6th as political discourse? >> that's not correct. the rnc were talking about everybody knows, anybody who has broken, any damage that will call for those people as we said from the very beginning should be in jail. what this is about the six rnc member who's january 6th has suspend who weren't even here and were in florida that day. >> just to be clear, it's interesting mccarthy went to such a level of detail what they were talking about. it's good he did. the resolution says representatives kinzinger are participating in persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in political discourse, not talking about january 6th in florida

that day. what is mccarthy doing here? did he just make something up? >> i don't know. but here's what i do know. liz cheney and adam kinzinger drive kevin mccarthy crazy, day in and day out. and the fact that he did not make this republicans on the committee who would be acceptable, i think also makes him crazy day in and day out. because he does not know what's going on behind the scenes. kevin mccarthy, unlike mitch mcconnell, finally mitch mcconnell, but kevin mccarthy is still playing to an audience of one. donald trump. he wants to be speaker of the house if republicans when in the fall and everything else falls by the wayside. that is his goal. >> john, you know what's amazing is legitimate political discourse, calling writers

discourse is harder to call out actually than the censure, there republicans coming to the defense saying it is a bad idea for the republican party to be censureing them. here are three republicans. >> i think the way in like this is invoke it and frankly not very constructive either. >> i think that we as a party need to recognize that people are worried about the economy, they're worried about the continuing struggles with covid, they're looking ahead and that's what they want us to do. >> anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us. >> so just to be clear, romney, okay, we expect him. but the other senators not so much. you are seeing people that before didn't say anything that are saying, hey, look, this

censure idea is a bad idea. do you see growing republican senators speaking out here? is this something or not? >> i think it's the beginning of seeing the cult start to crack. you are seeing in the wake of mike pence friday night calling out trump finally in clear terms. you've seen you know people like larry hogan and chris christy speaking out even more clearly. now these senators, not just mitt romney and bill cassidy, those that go out and rationalize him in the past saying this is too far. and you know the old saying one man with courage makes a majority. well, six senators start to send forth ripples of hope for maybe some of their colleagues saying, you know what, maybe telling the truth isn't the end of the world. maybe it's the smart political thing to do. >> and let's hope we do. of course, jamie, there are republicans, though, that are open about making crushing cheney as their number one goal.

she is running for election. marriagery taylor greens the only thing is making sure cheney loses. >> that's priority number one to me, it's one thing, we can play small ball, that's kicking liz cheney and adam kinsinger out of our conference, which i want to do. i want to finish the game, i want the "w" that means defeating liz cheney and making sure she never comes pack. >> is congressman cheney concerned? is she worried about her situation? >> so, let's just talk about marriagery taylor green for a minute. i don't think liz cheney is scared of anyone, i certainly don't think marjorie taylor green. cheney has said all along that this is about democracy, the constitution, rule of law, politics. she knows she has a tough battle in wyoming. wyoming is the trumpiest state there is. more people voted for trump than for liz cheney. not a lot but more.

i think that liz cheney has made it clear she's put this on the line, every day she doubles down. whether she wins or not, she's not going away. and she sees this as more important than any political fight. >> that's a pretty significant thing to say. sometimes whether you win or not, you are not going. thank you both very much. and next, the cdc standing by its guidance, even the war states are lifting mask mandates. stacey abrams is my guest, what would she do if elected? plus a new report expected to show record inflation is not s slowing down? if that's the case, how long will it take to get inflation under control?

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maskless with masked students behind her. georgia's democratic gubernatorial primary in georgia's house of representatives. i appreciate your time, so, obviously, we've all seen the picture. we've all seen the coverage of the picture. did you make a mistake by taking a photo maskless in the classroom when it appears that everyone else including all the children were wearing them? >> yes. i will say this i when to the read to kids for an african-american read-in day. i approached the podium with my mask on. i followed the protocol. i told the kid i'm taking my mask off because i'm listening to kids listening remotely as well, the kids were socially distance from me. i told them that's what i was doing. the excitement because it was so much fun working with those kids, i took a pick. that was a mistake. protocols matter in protecting our kids is the most important thing and anything perceived as undermining that is a mistake and i apologize. >> let me ask you, at the heart

of this i understand, you are apologizing for making a mistake. at the heart of this is why we are in this situation to begin w. right. some people still believe in mask mandates, others feel it is long past the time. especially when adults are no longer wearing mask mandates and mandates have been lifted. yesterday four democratic governors set specific time lines to lift mask mantates in schools in the next few weeks. a new jersey governor wires crossed saying he has received quote overwhelmingly positive reaction to his decision. so, do you think it's time to lift these mask requirements in schools? would you lift them in georgia? >> covid protocols will be there for a while. unfortunately in. dpa, we're not in a place where that conversation is ready. because we have one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.

we have 40% of our county's without general pediatricians. we refuse to expand medicaid so, so many families don't having a says to healthcare. i believe our job is to educate children. i know parents have to balance education and that is a complicated issue. i think each governor has to evaluate what's happening where they are. we have to look to the cdc and recognize we are shifting from pandemic to endemic. some states will get there faster than oughts. my responsibility if i am lucky enough to be the next governor of georgia is to look at the science to follow the protocols and to set the right example. right now that example is that we wear masks whenever possible. but we recognize we xant be a hard line about this. because situation change and we have different moments where we have to make decisions, that in this instance, i would say as the governor of georgia, my job will be at that time to look at the science to look at the situation, and to make the best decision to protect our kids. >> all i understand.

at the heart of it, i'm a parent. my kids wear masks in school. they say they don't mind. but you know one thing you said stood out to me. that is because you were reading. you wanted them to see you read, your expression. that is a part of the reason people feel the the way you feel. your natural instinct. i wanted to be share that. does it concern you these mask mandates are preventing their teachers from doing that same thing? >> our teachers are interesting asked to teach in small classroom sizes, teaching oversized classrooms with limited resource. not every classroom has the ability to have well-vent lated classrooms and the ability to make sure every child is protected. mandates make sense when you ask a teacher to protect the whole classroom. i live with my parents immunocompromised and my niece 15 who wears a mask. my responsibility was to explain to those kids why i was doing something they weren't dock and

as soon as possible to put that mask back on. i took it off because i was speaking remotely and wanted all of them to hear me. the harmer point i want everyone to take from this, this is complicated. we cannot make this about politics or scoring political points. this has to be about how do we protect our families? how do we navigate what is going to be a part of our community for quite some time? and as we shift from pandemic to endemic, we've got to be able to have these conversations in a civil and thoughtful manner and not use it as a lolly to score points. >> i want to ask you another question that is of major important cause for you and passion. the supreme court's conservative majority just upheld alabama's new congressional map that map a lower court found diminished the lower power of the state's black voters. the supreme court says it will hear arguments over the mask, that puts a key voting privilege on the table. how concerned are you by that?

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tonight president biden bracing for a new report expected to show another record inflation. the president holding and i vent for strong jobs numbers and talking about manufacturing in the u.s. >> my first four years as president, the economy created 6.6 new jobs. 6.6 million. that never happened before in american history. >> "out front" now mary daly, president and ceo of the san francisco federal reserve. i appreciate your time. so the white house, wall street, americans are on edge, right? watching how the federal reserve is going to respond to what is expected to be another great inflation number. prices rising way too quickly. do you expect the inflation problem will continue to get worse before it get better? >> we should have it be worse before it get better. it is definitely going to get better. the main message is federal reserve, we are focused on this.

you've heard so many of us say that without any big surprises, we would be looking to raise interest rates as early as march. that's certainly my view and that is going to start the process of helping get inflation in control. but another big factor that will help ease inflation pressures is getting covid behind this not only nationally but globally and allowing supply chains to recover in the way that's financial to be necessary for us to move forward and get supply and demand pack in balance. we don't need the headline data to tell us. i think every american consumer out there feels it each day. inflation is too high, it's been too high for too long. >> it comes as there is always fears act wage increases are good. when they feed into inflation, that's what's not good. and, obviously, the u.s. economy did add 467,000 new jobs in january, double than anybody had expected. the highest estimate, in fact. wages were up nearly 6%.

but how does this factor into what you are saying? you are talking raising interest rates as early as march. how aggressive do you think the fed should be in raising rates? >> well, that's a terrific question. really, we have to be appropriate. we can't be ofly aggressive and we can't be too slow. we have to be just right. and just right is hard and data dependent. you take the first rate increase in march. we will have to watch. what is happening as fiscal rolls off? does that impinge spending? what happens as supply chain recovers? what happens when we raise interest rates? how does the economy respond? all of those things will matter for what we do next. that's the important thing. we need to be data dcht and focused. i will say that ultimately it's jobs and prices that matter for americans and that's true. we need price stability. absolute lit. but we also need good job growth and we have to have policies that support both. >> obviously, sometimes those

two can come into conflict. right now, though, you do have strong job growth. you can recently said i saw that the fed will be un-- will unlikely be able to push inflation back down to 2% by the end of the year. 2% has been the general starting considered at price stability. that means with plenty of rate increases, which are reflected. inflation won't be defeated 11 months from now. how long do you think it can be for the united states to get back down to 2% inflation? >> getting down to 2% and relief american viewers are different things. i don't think we will get to 2% fully by the end of the year. because we have so many bottleneck supply chains that have to work themselves out. covid has not left. we haven't moved from pandemic to endemic, especially in many countries other than the united states, those things are going

to impinge supply insurance that which impin hims inflation fully back to 2%. we will see progress. relief is going to appear as supply chains get some relief but also as the fed mofsz policy to get supply and demand back into balance. so i am both optimistic we can get inflation down to much more comfortable levels. i am also a way they're we don't have all the tools because ultimately supply chains are really about getting covid under control, not just fed policy. >> all right. i appreciate your time, thank you very much. >> thank you. and next, an olympic gold medallist. born and raised in the united states of america. trained in the united states of america. now facing backlash for choosing china as her country for the winter olympics. tonight she responds. and an inside look at one of the towns that could be putin's first target if he invade ukraine.

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shuai. who disappeared for several weeks after accusing a powerful chinese official of sexual assault last year. sparking international concern. she later denied making the allegations. peng met with olympic officials in the weekend and was in the audience for gu's winning moment, mentioning gu by name in an interview with a french outlet, calling her our chinese champion. >> and erin, as a chinese american born and raised in the u.s., from my experience in china, there is an expectations you should speak and understand the culture perfectly. eileen gu fits that bill and she won gold, but the case of ye showing in china isn't an option. she's called a failure for failing and not speaking chinese fluently. gu is for china an image of soft power. erin. >> thank you very much.

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tonight, as russia continues to surge troops along the kia cranian border, cnn getting a first hand look at one of the towns that could be putin's first target if he invade. sam kiley is out front with tonight's inside look. >> kharkiv, ukraine, russian troops and ships muster on land and at sea, and few places in ukraine feel more vulnerable than kharkiv. >> kyiv is only 30 miles from the russian border. a city of about 1.5 million people, at least 75% of them speak russian, as a mother tongue. demonstrations like this are important because this city could be one of the first to get attacked in the event of an invasion. >> zelensky, the president, has

warned as much, and u.s. officials are saying vladimir putin could order an attack at any time. >> every day, i'm trying to be calm. and i'm trying to go through my daily routine, but i'm trying to have the thought, okay, where are my documents? where is food? where is my mom? do i have enough money? >> in a city that's been identified as a potential russian target by the ukrainian president, there are attempts to carry on as normal. but for many, this is the new normal. >> i don't want to flee, so i need to protect my city, my home, my family. >> ukraine has expanded its military, but it's a long way behind russia in military might.

so it's taking these wrecked t-64 tanks from the 1960s and rebuilding them from the chassis up. to rush to the front lines. much like ukraine is trying to build and defend a democracy and a landscape much haunted by the russian dominated soviet union. sam kiley, cnn, kharkiv. >> and thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. so the party that once compared itself to a big tent now looks more like the big top. with members divided over what should be in the center ring and what belongs in the side show. john berman here in for anderson. today in a very stark statement, the senate's leading republican criticized his party's decision to censure congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger for serving on the january 6th select committee. he also made how h