that's it for us tonight. i will be back next week. "don lemon tonight" with don lemon starts right now. >> hello, laura coates. how was your week? >> hello, don hemmen. it was good. it was a good week. i tell ya, it's been a long week of so many things, i am not certain what comes for the weekend with all the news, right? >> yeah, well we got the super bowl and we have that pesky situation happening in ukraine

for a long time with russia and ukraine. i have been telling everyone -- the viewers and also my team here -- i have a really bad feeling about ukraine. probably, for maybe well over a month now. i have a really bad feeling about ukraine. i don't know where this is going to go but i think it's going to escalate and it's going to far worse than we think. that's just the feeling that i get. let's hope that that doesn't happen. >> well, i don't often say this but i desperately hope you are wrong, don lemon. and i hope whatever magic eight ball you got is just -- is on that verge, you know, when it doesn't fully do the pyramid, it is on the verge. i hope it's wrong because there is so much at stake, so much going on. and, you know, especially in politics, the idea of another military presence and force from the u.s. abroad? >> yeah. >> going to have consequences. >> it's geg to have consequences and i am not sure america has the stomach for it -- all americans. thank you, laura. have a great weekend. i will see you next week. >> i hope you have the stomach for some good food on sunday, though. >> we ordered the wings.

rer we are ready. super bowl party. small group. it's going to be great. >> that's how he is telling you, america, that i am not invited. >> this is "don lemon tonight." thank you so much for joining us. so as you heard from the conversation that laura and i were just having, the world on edge. really is. the warning couldn't be more urgent. americans in ukraine, get out now. russian invasion could happen at any time. and the president won't send troops in to get you. >> we encourage all american citizens who remain in ukraine to depart immediately. we want to be crystal clear on this point. any american in ukraine should leave as soon as possible, and in any event, in the next 24 to 48 hours. the president will not be putting the lives of our men and women in uniform at risk by sending them into a war zone to rescue people who could have left now, but chose not to. >> that's the warning. get out now. and this tells you just how deadly the situation is.

in the wake of the warning that americans may now only have hours to get out, the state department is making phone calls to any who are still there to find out if they are planning to leave. again, this is deadly serious. with ukraine surrounded on three sides by thousands and thousands of russian troops, the white house says vladimir putin hasn't decided whether to act but national security adviser, jake sullivan, bluntly laying out what an invasion could look like. aerial bombing and missile attacks. civilians killed. a ground invasion by a massive force. and the possibility of a rapid assault on ukraine's capital. president joe biden, expected to hold a call with vladimir putin tomorrow morning at 11:00. they haven't talked since the end of december. and the situation's only gotten more dangerous since then. and with fears growing of an invasion in ukraine, right here at home, we've got some newly-released videos of the scene in the capitol rotunda as

rioters flooded the seat of our democracy on january 6th. we are not bheeping the profanity. okay? not bleeping the profanity, so you can hear and see it exactly as it happened. this video -- shot by someone in the crowd -- shows a battle in the rotunda and tense shoving matches between rioters and officers. one officer, punching a rioter several times. there is also new police body-cam footage. this one shows an officer, identified as nr, rushing into the rotunda to join the line of police trying to talk down that mob. rioters shouting, are you guys proud of yourselves? and who are you guys? we are the people.

legitimate political discourse? i don't think so. and we all know it got so much worse when police were beaten to within an inch of their lives for trying to defend the capitol and our democracy. and as the january 6th committee keeps digging for the truth, we are learning tonight the former president still hasn't turned over all the documents the national archives wants. that is according to a source familiar with the situation. another source saying that the archives had to threaten to go to congress and the doj to get those 15 boxes of documents the former president took with him when he left washington in disgrace. boxes he reportedly stored in his personal suite at mar-a-lago. documents. he is required, by law, to turn over. which he sure seemed to know when he was yelling at hillary

clinton's e-mails. >> she showed great negligence, and the real world is negligence in what happened. she put us all at risk. >> if i got a subpoena, think of this -- if i got a subpoena for e-mails, if i deleted one e-mail, like a love note to melania, it's the electric chair for trump. >> hillary was a criminal. she deleted her e-mails. people go to jail for that. >> but her e-mails! but her e-mails! lock him up. where are the conservatives, the trump supporters saying lock him up for -- at this point, appears to be much worse than what hillary clinton was accused of. remember, he was commander in

chief. and in the face of all that, there is what's looking more and more like a showdown on our border with canada. you are looking at truckers and other protestors covid restrictions -- protesting, i should say, covid restrictions at the bridge that carries about a quarter of all trade between the u.s. and canada. the protestors defying a judge's order to clear the border crossing by 7:00 p.m., which was more than three hours ago. the mayor of windsor, threatening to start towing vehicles, one by one, tonight. the protests hurting workers on both sides of the border. workers in michigan could lose 51 million in wages this week. they are hurting workers. 51 million. $51 million, they could lose in wages this week. and homeland security warning the protest could spread, potentially affecting the super bowl. so, why is the right cheering while our economy is being damaged?

>> and let me say the canadian truckers are heroes. they are patriots and they are marching for your freedom and for my freedom. >> well, you just know ted cruz, didn't you, would be him. we have got a lot more on this, coming up. so, stay tuned. i want to get right to the latest on the threat of the russia invasion of ukraine. cnn's mj lee is at the white house for us. on oren liebermann is at the pentagon. good evening to both of you. this is really serious at this point. mj, i am going to start with you. big shift in tone from the white house in the last 24 hours. they are making it very clear that russia could invade at any moment, and president biden is set to talk to russian president vladimir putin tomorrow. what do we know about this high-stakes call, mj? >> yeah, don, this is a phone call that is set to take place tomorrow morning. president biden will make this phone call from camp david, which is where he is going to be spending the weekend. and interestingly, a white house official told us earlier tonight that, initially, the kremlin had

suggested that monday is when the phone call should take place. but, that the white house had countered with saturday, so that's why now the phone call is happening tomorrow, instead. that back and forth, clearly, does seem to suggest that, from the white house's perspective, they would rather have this dialogue happen sooner, rather than later. and in the big picture, it of course shows the u.s. still trying to engage vladimir putin in diplomacy. but of course, diplomacy, so far, you know, we are about two actually learn in the coming days whether those diplomacy efforts have actually worked or not. biden and the aides that are close to him -- his senior aides have been pretty clear in recent days, that trying to do diplomacy with vladimir putin is certainly very tricky and challenging. that he is somebody that the president, himself, finds unpredictable. he has said repeatedly, you know, he is not someone whose mind i am going to try to

pretend to be able to read. in fact, he has said i don't even know if vladimir putin, himself, knows what, exactly, he wants to do. so, we will hopefully get that readout once that has happened tomorrow. the last time the two leaders spoke was back in december, don. >> yeah. oren, the u.s. ordered 3,000 more troops to poland. so tell us more about the u.s.' preparations ahead of this possible invasion. >> from the military perspective, one thing is clear. there is no plan right now to send the military into ukraine. there are defensive weapons going into ukraine from america but not troops, themselves. more now going to poland, the 82nd airborne, an elite unit that's able to adapt to a number of different missions. in this case, we reported earlier-this week, on wednesday, that part of that mission they will be going into ukraine to do is to assist americans who are going kmg out of ukraine. give them temporary shelter if they need and see how else they can help. part of this mission and jake sullivan made this clear was to make sure that nato allies are

reassured, reinforced, and to try to provide a deterrent across from russian president vladimir putin as he makes that decision or doesn't make that decision. and it needs to be clear to him that nato stands united, and that if he makes that decision to move into ukraine, that he will feel the full brunt of sanctions, and know very well that if he goes even an inch further, nato stands ready to initiate article 5 there. >> oren, we are seeing russian troops on three sides of ukraine, and biden's national security adviser made this prediction. listen. >> if a russian attack on oou crane proceeds, it is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks, that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality. a subsequent ground invasion would involve the onslaught of a massive force. >> you talked a little bit about this, but what are you hearing from pentagon about possible scenarios here? >> bottom line is if they decide to go in, it will be ugly. whether that's a smaller incursion on the east side of ukraine or whether they go all

out. sullivan also said russia has enough forces, and perhaps the intent to try to take over large swaths of tare tire, and major cities, including the capital of ukraine, kyiv. if they try to do that, first, they will meet a ukrainian military that's, at this point, well armed. certainly, not as well as the russians but well-equipped at this point. and if they stick around, if they try to occupy ukraine or greater parts of it, insurgency from ukraine's population. it will be ugly, horrible, terrible. these are words we've heard in the pentagon about how this would look if they try to move in. but that decision, whether he's made it or not, is unclear. and again, that's the bottom line is the hardest part of all of this -- what is putin's decision? what is his calculation? and let's not forget that the u.s. is also looking for an increase in cyberattacks, information warfare, disinformation, and a potential false-flag operation to signal that it's coming but at this point, i think it's clear that the u.s. government thinks this could very well be coming in the

next few days here. >> oren, mj, thank you very much. we will be following. thousands of russian troops surrounding ukraine as we have been talking about this evening. countries around the world, urging their citizens to get out now. will vladimir putin invade ukraine? former-defense secretary weighs in. that's next. unitedhealthcare medicare plans offer more... like the “visit a doctor anywhere our rv takes us” plan. and the “zero copays means more money for rumba lessons” plan. find the right plan for you from unitedhealthcare. get medicare with more.

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president biden set to speak with russian president vladimir putin tomorrow, as the white house warns russian forces could strike ukraine at any moment, even while the beijing olympics are still going on. the administration warning americans to get out of ukraine now. the pentagon sending an additional 3,000 troops to poland to reassure nato allies. but tonight, the kremlin accusing the white house of whipping up hysteria. lot to discuss with former-defense secretary william cohen. secretary, thank you so much for joining us. um, i had been telling you that i have a bad feeling about this. i hope that i am wrong here. um, but let's discuss. the white house issuing this dire warning, russian attack ukraine could come within days and i want you to listen to what just tonight what the house intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff, is talking about -- watch -- about putin. >> i find it hard to conceive that he would go to the trouble of this massive buildup for the

second time, merely as show of strength. so, there could be a very substantial invasion of ukraine. uh, it could include trying to take down the capital of kyiv. try to change the government and as the intelligence community has declassified, it also may involve a false-flag operation where they stage something and blame ukraine for the outbreak of hostilities. >> this point, do you see any signs of an invasion, that an invasion won't happen? >> i don't. again, it's always possible but if you look at what he has done, i don't think it's at all consistent with the training exercise. you don't invest that kind of money and operational involvement if you are just training for a limited period of time, for a limited purpose. i think, um, that putin sees this as his opportunity.

he has looked at the united states. he's seen the deep divisions along -- across our economy. um, racially, religiously, and certainly economically, and he is saying the united states is divided and, frankly, i'm helping to divide the united states throughout the country. perhaps, up even on our borders with canada and elsewhere so i'm dividing the united states from amongst themselves. i'm dividing. i tried to, you know, divide the europeans. i haven't succeeded there but i think his own calculation is that if they impose these sanctions, i can weather them with the help of the chinese. i can work around them over the hong long-term and perhaps short-term but they will grow more tired of the sanctions and i think that is part of his calculation. now, had the former ambassador to ukraine on and he suggested there is a ramp that putin can take saying i wanted your attention, i got it, now let's sit down and talk.

but understand what putin has done. once again, they are playing the victim. if you listen to them, this is a disinformation campaign. no. it's an information campaign that we're waging. and once again, the russians are saying the devil made us do this. the devil is making us kill thousands of ukrainians. why? because they are breathing the fresh air of freedom, and that is a threat to our cleptocratic way of life here in russia. so, we are the victims now, we are the aggressors even though they are marshaling 100,000 people on the borders and threatening the -- the defeat of the ukrainians. one thing that adam schiff did not say, in the intelligence world, they talk about a decapitation strike and that is to go after the leadership and remove them. now, that's possible. they have that option in mind as well. the ability to go into the capital. they may have special forces already on the ground. they may be in a position to take out the leadership, and

then put their own folks in charge and say it's all over. no need for you to rise up and defend yourselves. we control everything now. so, many options available. tomorrow, i think president biden is saying i will give it one last shot. this is crucial to world stability because the stock markets are going to react to all this. the economies are going to be affected everywhere, and russia will emerge from this in a way in the world's eyes that they are the bullies. they are breaking rule -- >> let me jump in here. what -- this is -- this is a concern. people want to know what the role -- what role the u.s.' troops, the u.s. military being sent to nato countries in the region -- what happens with them if russia invades ukraine? >> they stay there. hopefully, they're reinforced. they stay there not just for a week or two or a month but on a permanent-rotational basis. that we beef up all of our -- um, our support in the nato

countries. after all, nato doesn't have a separate force. it is comprised of all the materials of the nato members. but if we hold that unification, then we have a very powerful force that is facing the russians in the future. so i mean, there are -- don't think this stops with ukraine. that is why other nato members -- the baltics are concerned about it, lithuania, estonia, and elsewhere. also, in perhaps even poland, at some point in time, if it goes unchecked. so, these forces will be stationed and they will be upgraded, reinforced, and on the ready to see if russia intends to go beyond ukraine if, in fact, they go into ukraine. >> it's frightening. i mean, it really is frightening. we are so happy to have you here, and hear -- you know, get your expertise. secretary william cohen, thank you. i appreciate it. $51 million in lost wages. that could just be the start here. trucker' protests in canada, putting the economy on the line in both canada and the u.s.

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here is our breaking news. look at the pictures on your screen right now. that is windsor, ontario. that is where a canadian judge issued an order allowing police to begin clearing people who have been protesting covid-19 mandate force days at the ambassador bridge. it is a bridge which connects to

detroit here in the u.s. now, the protestors are still out there after a 7:00 p.m. deadline to vacate the area. they, earlier, allowed one lane of that bridge to re-open. blockades at several points along the border slowing the movement of goods and impacting production at ford and general motors' plants. joining me now is business journalist mark stewart. mark, thank you very much. let me -- let me get this. good evening. thank you. >> good to see you. >> general motors is flying one to two cargo planes a day from can that to the u.s. they are trying to ensure they get car parts across the border. ford has been running factories at reduced capacity. workers in michigan could lose over $50 million of wages this week because of these blockades. just how hard is this hitting the industry? >> this is a big deal because -- >> the auto industry -- >> it is hitting the auto industry, and so many other industries. think about what we have been dealing with lately. we have a supply chain that is already stressed.

this is adding more tension. to the automakers, and so many other sectors of our economy. here is something that people may find interesting. canada is our number one or number two largest trading partner, depending on -- on which list you look at. and that bridge between windsor ontario and my hometown of detroit, michigan, it's responsible for 25% of all of the trade. so, this is -- these blockades are really putting a block on the economy. this is impacting everything from produce to auto parts. the list goes on and on. >> you said produce, auto parts, others? >> any industry is affected. i mean, not everyone can afford to fly things in on a plane, like some of these big automakers are. so, you know who is really hurting are small businesses. and businesses around these auto plants that have had to shut

down. >> yeah. i was saying to you during the break -- um, you know, that -- that this was -- i believe in the right to protest. and that is an american right. but this is -- you think this is something quite different because of what it's -- what it's doing to the economy? >> well, this is obviously having an economic sting. >> billions of dollars? >> billions of dollars. and it will likely, according to the economists i have talked to and some of the analyst reports, it will have some kind of impact. maybe not long-term. but in the short-term. but the other thing to -- to keep in mind here is that these businesses are -- have no choice but to depend on these truckers to move goods. they can't necessarily get an airplane or -- or do something on rail. so, it is so widespread. >> because executives are telling you that this is a north american version of the ship stuck in the suez canal last year, right? >> yeah. i talked to the head of the detroit chamber of commerce, and that is the analogy he said. this is very much like that ship stuck in the suez canal.

>> impacted billions of dollars. >> billions of dollars and this is happening in north america. >> yeah. so, then, what is -- what's the solution here? because you can't -- can you complain about the supply chain and that workers are hurting, that the economy is hurting if you are blocking and causing, to an extent, the supply chain to hurt and workers to be hurt and wages to be hurt? >> well, there are so many philosophical issues at stake here. but what it is perhaps doing is raising this conversation about how we are going to live during the pandemic, and hopefully post-pandemic. you know, the -- the chair of the federal reserve said the course of the economy is going to be determined by the path of the virus. i think this falls under this umbrella. this will likely cause many governments around the world to reexamine their policies towards vaccination. corporate america is having that conversation today, and will likely in the days ahead. >> yeah.

so, you know sunday is the super bowl. >> sure. >> homeland security is warning similar-style protects could start happening within our borders. what is the effect here? what are the consequences? >> well, look. any disruption of any moving part of our economy as we have seen because the supply chain's so strained, it can have a lasting impact. a lasting bite. i mean, authorities here in the states are very well aware of what's happening. the other question is, too, is that we are facing a truck driver shortage here in this country. about 80,000 fewer than we should perhaps have. that's also happening, at the same time that truckers are protesting. so, these different -- these different ideas are going to have to reconcile, or we are going to have continued economic detriment. >> problematic. very problematic. and we could see sunday what happens with the super bowl if it affects it. thank you, mark. >> take care. >> a source telling cnn trump still has documents that should be in the national archive.

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the justice department releasing new video from january 6th capturing a showdown between police and rioters at the capitol rotunda. that as tonight a source telling cnn the former president is still in possession of documents being sought by the national archives. adding to the growing list of questions over his handling of official documents. let's discuss now, cnn senior legal analyst and former-u.s. attorney preet bharara. he is also the author of "justice is a guide for young truth seekers." preet, good evening to you. for months, the national archives has been trying to get ahold of important documents from the trump presidency that were being stored in mar-a-lago, in violation of the law, even threatening to go through

congress or the doj to get hold of them. so, why wasn't law enforcement involved earlier in this? >> well, i don't know that it is a matteror matter for law enforcement. i think there are a lot of questions about what the folks at doj are doing and they have a lot of fish to fry, including figuring out who was responsible for and -- and inciting the insurrection on january 6th. there are a couple wrinkles here when you talk about who potentially committed a criminal violation. you know, with uz it accidental? was it negligence? how did the documents get to mar-a-lago? it looks very suspicious, and maybe there is a smoking gun somewhere that suggests there -- somebody should be held responsible up to and including the former president but the second wrinkle is, you know, the president of the united states can argue that he has the ability to declassify things. he is an authorizing figure in the intelligence community. um and so, that's not necessarily, you know, a full response to any legal action that might be taken. but it's complicated.

it's not as simple as some people seem to think it is. >> if trump is still holding some of these sensitive documents that archives want -- that they want -- how could this play out legally? >> well, i think there is -- there is a process going on between the national archives and the trump folks. some of the documents have been turned over. i just don't know enough details to understand why it is the case that not everything has been turned over. is there some argument to be made, is it unclear whether those documents are -- are ones that were created after the presidency or not? i don't know. there's -- there doesn't seem to be a good explanation for it. and given the fact that a number of those documents have been turned over, i can't give you an explanation as to why they all have not been. >> the january 6th committee looking for answers into gaps in the official white house' call logs on january 6th. congressman raskin -- jamie raskin -- raskin saying this earlier tonight when asked if he believes they could get the president's cell phone records from that day. here it is. >> well, we don't know exactly

why there is this huge gap. we don't know whether, you know, that's something like watergate where someone deleted it or it's just he was using his cell phone or someone else's cell phone. we plan to get to the bottom of it and we view all of it as discoverable, as you are saying, erin. i mean, we have a right -- and the supreme court has been repeatedly clear about this -- we have a right to get the information that we want in order to comply with house resolution 503, which commands us to give a complete report to the american people, congress, about the events of that day. >> so, how strong is the case here? how strong of a case does the committee have if they subpoenaed trump's phone records? >> well, i think they have a very strong case to get whatever records that they want. remember when you subpoena phone records, you are not getting the actual content of conversations. those are things of the past. they're femoral. they have gone away. what you are trying to do is establish connections between people, moments of communication, pinpoint times so i think they have a very strong case to get all of that. now, when representative raskin

and others talk about gaps, not quite sure exactly what that means. it sounds like it's the case that the committee is aware of conversations that took place between donald trump and other people, including mark meadows. maybe, vice president pence and others and so knowing those conversations took place and not being able to pinpoint an actual toll record, you know, an actual record of a call from the trump phone to the other person's phone suggests a gap. what it really suggests is, as representative raskin also mentioned, is that the committee probably doesn't have or may not even know which devices were used for which calls. there is reporting that donald trump sometimes used staffers' phones. you know, other peoples' phones to make phone calls. he might have had one or more other personal cell phones. i think they can reverse engineer that, to the extent it's possible. by figuring out, you know, who the person was that was called. being sure that call was made and then seeing the numbers from which those calls happened.

and my guess is that they are, you know, taking a go at that and they will get more information in the future. but i think they need to figure out every single device used by donald trump on that day and the days lae ladying up to it so they can get a full picture. >> preet, before we go. the mishandling of documents is just beyond rich coming from the man who hounded hillary clinton for her private server in the 2016 campaign. clinton responding today in a tweet where she is wearing a hat with the words but her e-mails on it. republicans would have lost their minds, if reports came out that clinton flushed documents down the toilet. >> yeah. >> that's -- that's the question. >> there -- there is a lot of -- there is a lot of inconsistency. there is a lot of hypocrisy. it's been going on for a number of years now. it extends to things far beyond a comparison between what donald trump did, and what hillary clinton did with respect to documents over the respect of handling of classified information, otherwise.

it is a sad feature of our democracy at the moment. um, and, you know, you are right to raise it. it doesn't have legal consequence but it does, i think, have some political consequence. >> yeah. preet, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don, good to be here. mississippi, the latest state trying to ban critical-race theory from schools even though it's taught in one class in one university in the entire state. and something pretty crazy happened there, when one conservative student enrolled in the class. she learned from it. stay with us. that's next. about going back to school to get my masters. i just saw something that said you could do it in a year for, like, $11k. hmm. barista: order eleven! yeah, see you at 11. 1111 masters boulevard, please. gonna be eleven even, buddy. really? the clues are all around us! some things are too obvious

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theory taking place in mississippi. the state senate passing a law banning its teaching in public schools, including universities. but a republican law student at the university of mississippi is pushing back. saying the crt class she's currently taking is the most impactful and enlightening class she's ever had. and that gop lawmakers behind the ban are misinformed. more tonight from cnn's nick valencia. >> reporter: this is mississippi state senator chris mcdaniel. and if he gets his way, critical-race theory will be banned from being taught in the state, which rarely happens, anyway, but we'll get to that in a second. critical-race theory is the concept of seeking to understand and address inequality and racism in the united states. >> the framework of crt -- >> reporter: mcdaniel recently co-authored senate bill 2113, which says no school shall direct or compel students to affirm that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is inherently superior or

that individuals should be adversely treated based on such characteristics. mcdaniel says critical-race theory is the belief that american society is inherently racist, and it has no place in mississippi's public schools, including universities and community colleges. >> systematic racism should not be taught to our children. >> reporter: last month on the senate floor, mcdaniel and his co-author argued for the legislation. and watched as black lawmakers walked out in protest before the vote. it passed 32-2 and now goes to the house chamber. >> if you will look at the plain language, and again i have to go back to that, it clearly states that we won't allow people to be taught they're inferior. we won't allow our classrooms to teach the superiority of a race or whatever the case may be. >> i thought the whole class would be like criticizing white people but we didn't really even mention white people. >> reporter: republican law student brittany murphy believes senator mcdaniel and his colleagues may not understand what they're talking about. admittedly, she says she didn't either, until this semester when the second-year law student at

the university of mississippi enrolled in law 743. it is actually the only class in the state that teaches critical-race theory, according to the university. murphy says her own conservative friends and family discouraged her from taking the elective, worried that as one of only a handful of white students enrolled, she would be made to feel guilty about being white. >> has this made you feel white guilt. >> not at all. >> what has it made you feel. >> empowered to change the republican party. >> it's the reason why the 27-year-old wrote this letter to the mississippi house education committee. asking republicans to reconsider their legislation. the class she says takes a critical view of decisions of civil rights advocates who are mostly black, not white people. to date this has been the most impactful course i've taken throughout my undergraduate and graduate education she writes. not only has the course furthered my understand of race and the law but the prohibition of courses in teaching such as

these takes away the opportunity from people every background and race to come together and discuss important topics which would otherwise go undiscussed. >> it's like any other theory based class taking in law school. i don't want people to think it's completely different class than all the classes we're taking. it's a normal class. academic freedom and people are taking it away from plea. >> incriminate race theory has been around since the 1980s saying it's been auto here over ten years. assistant professor who teaches the class now says the focus on crt is a backlash to the perceived racial reckoning in the u.s. after the summer of 2020. >> we are not focused on things like guilt and shame. my focus as a legal educate are is to get them to think like lawyers. in order to be an effective lawyer you have to be able to think critically. you have to consider multiple sides of an issue. >> senator mcdaniel disagrees. he says crt doesn't make better lawyers but rather teaches them

victimhood and blame. while the title of his bill is critical race theory, the main text does not define what it is. >> and when you hear students say that this limits the academic freedom. >> it doesn't. there are only so many hours in the day. we're not talking about censoring books or censoring thoughts or ideas. she is perfectly able to continue her course of study the same way many of us do outside of the presence of a professor. or better said outside of taxpayers having to subsidize the message. >> the bill is in the hands of the mississippi house and they have until march to vote on it. senator mcdaniel says he expects the bill to pass with minimal changes. though educators we spoke to in the state say that crt is currently not being taught in any k through 12 classes in the state. it is, however, an elective taut in law schools across the country why professor butts letter says if crt is banned her students would be at a disadvantage. don. thank you, nick.

maybe someone should teach and the legislature the class before they are making the decisions. they should have a class first before they make the decision about it being good or booed. -- bad. i was i want to turn to confusion and frustration for patients. -- parents. the fda announcing children under 5 will now have to wait even longer to become eligible for the covid vaccine. they are postponing the next meeting to authorize pfizer's vaccine for the age group because of new data showing that disappointing effectiveness of the two-dose regimen. that's according to the “washington post”. pfizer expects to have data on the three-dose regimen by early april. cnn's medical analyst dr. lena nguyen is a mom of two children under 5 her is her response. >> as a mom, i feel like i got gut punched. this is difficult because our children kids under 5 are the only group still not eligible to be vaccinated and protected at this point.

and so it's extremely frustrating especially as we look at the time line if now the data are not going to be available until april. that means that our kids may not be able to be fully vaccinated until june. that's a long time to wait. that said, i still think the fda came to the right decision because their job is to make sure make absolutely sure that the vaccines they authorize are safe and effective. >> now, in setback raising new questions about all of the states rolling back indoor maverick mandates now that so many young children won't have a chance to be fully vaccinated until summer. and urgent warning from the white house. russia could invade ukraine at any moment. they are urging americans to get out. fareed zakaria is here after this. ♪ (jazz music) ♪ (thank you, have a nice day.) ♪ (trumpet solo) ♪ (bell dings) (pages slipping) ♪ ♪ ♪ (trumpet solo) ♪

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the world is watching. president biden set to speak to vladimir putin tomorrow as the administration warns a russian attack on ukraine could be imminent. >> we're in a window when an invasion could begin at any time. breaking news ahead, a canadian judge issues an order tonight allowing police to begin removing protesters mo are blocking the busiest border crossing between the u.s. and canada. and you may have seen this. comedian dave chapel telling his town counsel he will pull millions of investments dollars out of his community if an affordable housing plan he believes is poorly vetted is greenlighted. >> we look like clowns. i'm not bluffing. i will take it all off the table. >> ahead this hour we explain what happened there. there is so much to discuss tonight. i want to begin with fareed zakaria. the host of fareed zakaria gps thank you so much for joining us

this evening. we have a lot to discuss. the white house is warning the russia ukraine situation is urgent. they're telling americans to leave within 24 to 48 hours. 3,000 more u.s. troops are heading to eastern europe to bolster nato allies. has diplomacy failed and it's just a matter of time of when russia invades ukraine? >> i think none of us know because it's all up to one person. the russian political system is really extraordinary, almost unlike any other system in the world. it all depends on one person, and that person is playing his cards close to the chest. here is what he has done. he has surrounded ukraine on three sides. there are long-planned military exercises taking place. o with belarus. he has in place about 75 to 80% of the forces he needs were he to decide to invade ukraine.