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name? i can't think of the other one. thank you. blair. blair. all right. have a great weekend. see ya later. this is "don lemon tonight." the president of the united states, for the very first time, bluntly saying that he is convinced that vladimir putin has now made the decision to invade ukraine. >> as of this moment, i am convinced he's made the decision. we have reason to believe that. >> to be clear, you are convinced that -- you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? >> yes, i did. yes. >> so, is diplomacy off the table, then? >> no. there is all -- until he does, diplomacy is always a possibility. >> a u.s.' defense official telling cnn nearly half of russian forces surrounding ukraine are in attack position. all the signs are there. all the danger of a russian invasion, very real. that, as here, at home, more bad legal news today for the former president. federal judge ruling civil lawsuits to hold him responsible

for what happened at the capitol on january 6th can go forward. and saying -- and i quote here -- the president's january-6th rally speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action. the judge going on to say, we used repeatedly in this context implies that the president and the rallygoers would be acting together towards a common goal. that, as the essence -- that is the essence of a civil conspiracy. i was thinking there was a sound byte there, pardon me. so the essence of a civil conspiracy. that is what the judge is saying. this is a big deal and it comes as there is news from the national archives acknowledging that there were classified documents in the boxes the former-president took to mar-a-lago when he left washington in disgrace. the archives are talking to the doj about this now. about all of it. and there are still records missing, including deleted tweets from his personal-twitter account. but there is outrage over what happened in a minnesota

courtroom today to tell you about. kim potter, the ex-police officer who mistakenly drew a gun instead of a taser and shot and killed daunte wright during a traffic stop, sentenced to two years in prison. two years. prosecutors wanted seven years and two months and that has got a lot of people demanding to know why justice doesn't seem to count as much as tears. the tears of kim potter. sobbing in court, as she apologized to the family of the young man who died at her hands, and especially to his grieving mother. >> to the family of daunte wright, i am so sorry. that i brought the death of your son, father, brother, uncle, grandson, nephew, and the rest of your family. i understand a mother's love, and i am sorry i broke your heart. >> the tears of the judge who

sentenced her, even referencing former-president obama. r. >> and to those who disagree and feel a longer prison sentence is appropriate, as difficult as it may be, please, try to empathize with miss potter's situation. as president barack obama once said, learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes -- that he is h that's how peace begins. officer potter made a mistake that ended tragically. she never intended to hurt anyone.

her conduct cries out for a sentence significantly below the guidelines. >> seems the judge was swayed by the white woman's tears. her tears over a mistake that she says regrets but daunte wright's mother -- she is a white woman, too -- and she says it seems like her tears didn't count for as much. >> this is the problem with our justice system today. white woman' tears trumps -- trumps justice. and i thought my white-woman tears would be good enough, because they are true and genuine. but when they're coerced, coached, and taught by the defense attorney, i guess we didn't have a win in this at all. >> meanwhile, the courtroom in georgia, the defense rests in

the federal hate crimes trial of three men convicted of murdering ahmaud arbery, chasing him down squhooting him to death in broad daylight while he was out jogging. more witnesses testifying to the defendant's years' worth of disgusting casual racism. a new york woman testifying about a conversation she had with gregory mcmichael in 2015 saying when she was mentioned tissue when she mentioned civil rights leader julian bond had died, mcmichaels replied and this i quote, i wish that guy had been in the ground years ago and went on a racist rant, including this. quote, all these blacks are nothing but trouble. i wish they'd all die. so, he felt entirely comfortable saying that to, really, a near stranger. a woman he had been assigned to drive to the airport. that's how deep the racism runs. and then, there is the testimony of a coast-guard colleague of travis mcmichael -- a white woman -- who says that he called a racist slur in 2011 for dating

a black man. the witness saying, quote, he called me an n-word lover. the prosecutor asking, can you tell us what n-word you're referring to? the witness replies, quoting the actual slur. we have got a hlot more to come on all this tonight. yes, it is tough to go through that and read that. it's disgusting. exhausting. so i am going to get right to the sentencing now, though, of ex-officer kim potter who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of daunte wright during a traffic stop. antonio is here, an attorney for daunte wright's family, joins me now. antonio, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you, don. >> although daunte's family is thankful for this guilty verdict, this sentence is nowhere near what they were hoping for. how are they doing tonight?

>> well, the question is -- i mean, i don't know how they recover from this. i mean, they are deeply disappointed. they're exasperated by this, don. you know, they were looking for justice. yes, they got the conviction. the conviction was there. but there were two ends to this and -- and the fact that there was only two years, when the maximum could have been 15. the guidelines were 86 months -- a little bit over seven years -- and to see a downward deviation, an extreme deviation by 3-400%, they heft that courtroom just devastated and disappointed. >> keith ellison, the attorney general of minnesota, initially, had asked the judge for a stiffer sentence. but here is what he just told laura coates. >> it is poimportant to remembe that we did earn a conviction. years ago, officers weren't even held accountable for these kind of things. nobody would have been charged at all. now, these kind of things -- and these cases that, you know, there is equal justice for everyone who does this conduct.

uh, and, you know, two years is a substantial sentence -- it's not what we asked for but it's not a slap on the wrist. it is a substantial amount of time, and she will never be a police officer. she will never be able to own a firearm. she will always carry the stigma of being a convicted -- um -- felon. >> response to that, antonio? >> well, first of all, keith ellison is a hero to the state of minnesota because he really has brought the state to a new level in terms of prosecuting police officers for ones that commit needless crimes, such as the one that -- that happened here. the fact that there was a conviction is some solace. but you have got to shift the focus here from kim potter onto the daunte wright' family. and you see judge chu kept the focus on kimberly potter today, how it was tragic, how it wasn't intentional. about her background, about her future, about the fact that jail

won't deter. but what about the wright family? what about daunte who was a young man who had a promising future? what about him? and that's where i think we get lost here because the focus gets put on potter. now, of course, it's her being sentenced. but she is the one who pulled the trigger on the gun, who ended a young, valuable life. >> speaking of the judge, and the judge was very emotional. she appeared to get choked up while delivering kim potter's sentence. she even urged people to empathize with the ex-cop. daunte's mom talked about that. listen. >> today, the justice system murdered him all over, again. to sit there and watch -- took so long to write, to not get a response out of the judge. but then, when it came down to

sentencing kim potter, she broke out in tears. >> i am not sure you were able -- um -- to hear. were you able to hear what she was saying? >> i was able to hear enough. and -- and i certainly have a response to that. if -- if that's what you are looking for because i would really like to respond to that. >> yeah. >> you know, i think what happened was that judge chu was in tears over putting -- at putting kim potter in jail because i don't think -- i don't think that judge chu wanted to put -- want -- wanted to put kim potter in jail at all. i was -- i was nearly falling out of my chair, listening to judge chu and what she was saying about kim potter. i really thought she was going to sentence her to probation. that's what i thought. that's where i thought this was going. and then, it was like, well, let -- let's give her two years because she needs some time. i don't think she wanted to sentence her to any time at all. let alone, two years. >> is -- is there some sort of reform that is needed for

judges? or for the court system? because a lot of people are outraged by this and have been by what happens with -- with these cases. but also, with judges and the power that they have, the discretion that they have. >> look, don, i am an attorney. i have been a lawyer for many, many years. i have so much respect for the judiciary. i have respect for judicial discretion. i know what a difficult job judges have to do. but when you look at a sort of deviation that is away 3, 400%, right? i mean, all we are asking for is consistency. minnesota had another conviction of another officer, just last year, of second-degree manslaughter for -- for, what, almost three times the sentence that -- that -- that potter got? of course, we know what chauvin got but that was a murder. but there -- there seems to be no consistency and we accept --

we accept the sentence, yes. we have to take keith ellison's words. we accept the sentence. we do not have to agree with it. but certainly, i think there needs to be a lot more consistency with the way people are sentenced. >> uh-huh. you mentioned -- um -- derek chauvin. the judge said this case was different, far more different from manslaughter cases as well as other high-profile police killings. she referenced the killing of george floyd saying it was nothing like that. but for the wright' family, for the wright family, they have lo lost a son, still lost a son. >> there is no difference to the wright family, um, at all. they -- they -- they love their son. they miss their son. and he was a -- he -- he was cherished. i mean, i don't know how else to say it. he was -- he was their boy. he was their buddy. he was their son. he was their friend. and it really makes no difference. he's gone. and that's because kimberly

potter -- you know, we have to -- people say, well, she was on the force for 26 years. that is a mitigating circumstance. well, i look at it as she's on the force for 26 years. why didn't she know better? it's not that she wasn't trained. oh, she was trained all right. it's how was she trained? what was the manner of her training that continued throughout her 26 years? why didn't she know that that was a gun, versus a taser? why didn't she know that her index finger was on the trigger of a gun that was pointed at someone, as opotioned to a -- a yellow taser? and to the wright family, none of that makes a difference because daunte is gone. he's dead. >> anthony, thank you. our regards to the family. we appreciate you joining. >> thank you, to be. >> thank you. >> good night. nearly 3 million people in a capital city could be in vladimir putin's sights. new evidence tonight of russia building up its military equipment close to ukraine's

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want to bring in now retired major general james spider marks. he is a cnn military analyst and head of geopolitical strategy at academy securities. we are so happy to have you on major general. appreciate it. so -- >> thank you. >> president biden says he is convinced putin has decided to attack, and will target kyiv. we are talking about a free capital of -- of a sovereign nation with about 3 million people and potentially massive casualties. how do you see all of this playing out? >> i don't see that playing out, frankly. um, certainly, the capability exists. but there are more downsides and, certainly, increase risks for putin, were he to try to go across the belarusian border into ukraine and try to ice hate kyiv and then take kyiv. that is an extreme hi large task. he does not have sufficient forces deployed to take kyiv, hold onto kyiv, and then if he

intends to occupy and control all of ukraine, he has got 190,000 troops there. it would take close to 800,000 to occupy and control ukraine. and the other thing to keep in mind -- he would cause an incredible amount of rubble if he were to go into kyiv and that is something he can afford. he can't afford to fix it and he can't afford to start instigating that inurgency which will inevitably occur. >> i want to put up satellite images that show russia building up equipment within miles of ukraine's border and u.s. officials tell cnn about 50% of russian forces are are now in attack positions. what does this tell you about how soon they could invade? >> well, don, they could invade anytime now. i mean, look at your watch. they could invade in five minutes. the forces are there. the capabilities are there. the long-range strike capabilities, were this to be a full-fledged invasion, are in

positions to start an operation right now. um, those forces in the donbas region, which i think is the imagery we showed -- you know, bear in mind, russians have been in the donbas for over eight years now. and so, those -- those alllines communication, the railhead that is necessary to move tanks in. they have just now -- the russians have just now bolstered their presence in the bodonbas, which means they can execute operations from within ukrainian soil without firing a shot and actually invading. they have already invaded. i mean, they have done this in rather an administrative movement way, which is quite elegant. it's quite amazing to me that they have been able do that. but we saw something like that in crimea. but there are different circumstances but putin has been laying this down and preparing for this inevitability and

that's why i think it is inevitable that there will be some form of invasion. >> well, russia, general marks, has more than ten times the military budget of ukraine. they also completely dominate the ukrainians in active troops, tanks, how is ukraine going to fight back? >> certainly, there is a lot of pride and a lot of capability in ukraine. let's be frank. it is not gonna be a fair fight. russia will dominate in a close-combat environment. they have combined arms. they have excessive amounts of artillery and rockets. they have tanks. they have been training. they know how to dho so the ukrainians are going to be outmatched. what putin i think -- putin's not concerned about that. he will win that fight. the problem is once you break it, you got to own it. so you might -- you might win the fight but you are not going to win the peace. that -- he will unleash an insurgency that he does not want to have to deal with. the cost will exceed his ability

to try to achieve his desired instate. he is looking for influence. incident want to crush ukraine. he doesn't want to just completely rubble the place. he is looking for ukraine to be in his pocket. he wants a vassal state, not unlike belarus. and so, he is looking to establish a greater presence. and over the course of time, atrophy the legitimacy of that government in kyiv, and then he starts working the -- the political side. gets folks in that he knows will side with him. it's a longer-term view but i think it's one he is the path that he wants to take. >> i want you to listen to a bit more of what the president had to say about the situation in ukraine. >> united states and our allies are prepared to defend every inch of nato territory from any threat to our collective security, as well. we also will not send troops in to fight in ukraine, but we will continue to support the ukrainian people. >> no one knows better than you, war is unpredictable. things can go south, very

quickly. can go wrong very quickly. what happens for, for instance, if ukrainians flee overt border into a nato country, and are pursued by russian forces? do you worry the u.s. could get drawn into this conflict? >> that -- that's a great question. look. there will be -- there will be a humanitarian disaster if russia chooses -- putin chooses to make a large invasion into ukraine, and goes directly in the -- in the -- in the direction of kyiv. there will be a humanitarian disaster or there will be displaced persons. and of course, russian forces may pursue those. the last thing america wants, and i would argue the last thing russia wants, is for american soldiers and russian soldiers to get into a gun fight. we have never had one of those. never. never done it against the soviets. have not done it against the russians and is this the time and place we are going to do that? i don't know.

i would hope it's not. i would hope it would happen -- in fact, it might even be logical to think that if there are displaced persons and they are moving in the direction of western europe to get out of ukraine, i am not sure russians would try to stop them. and if there was a requirement for a noncombatant evacuation operation even though we emptied out our embassy, we still have tons of american citizens in ukraine and if they became identified and we could locate 'em and the united states has the obligation to go get those folks, i bet you even putin would get out of the way and possibly even facilitate that, so that he would move that problem out of the way. his fight is not with america. his fight is with trying to -- trying to frack ture nato and h is trying to re-create a buffer zone that he lost when the soviet union collapsed and that's very, very troubling for him. that is the strategic motivation that brought him to this point, brought all of us to this point. >> just quickly, before you go. so, do you think that it is

imminent? i know you answered in the beginning you think it's imminently as the president said, an invasion? >> yes, i do. a couple things in place. look what's happened in the donbas. look what happened in crimea, in terms of force buildup. the objective would be increase his presence there, have some slam elections and all the sudden everybody is happy, right? because the russians are are in charge and putin is also going to be with lukashenko from belarus, up in belarus over the weekend observing training so the whole world's going to be watching him up there. it's hey, look it, every media platform is going to be focused in on putin. what happens, at the same time, all these folks in the donbas, all these russian troops start rising up and start establishing their presence where they aren't currently but they will now expand their presence. that's what i see happening. short answer, imminent, yes. >> thank you, general marks. i appreciate it. >> thank you, don. the former president can be sued. a judge ruling he doesn't have immunity for what went down on

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prosecutor, elie honig. gentlemen, good evening. good to see both of you. elie, i am going to start with you. this federal judge ruling trump can be sued in court for his statements to supporters at the rally before the insurrection. um, calling those statements the essence of civil conspiracy. that could reasonably be viewed as a call to action they said. this is a big deal for trump. what are the implications here? >> it is, don. so in the narrow sense, it keeps donald trump in this lawsuit. it means donald trump is in position where he is going to be subject to discovery, and possibly to deposition under oath. and interestingly, this judge actually did though out the charges or the -- the suit that's been filed against rudy giuliani, against donald trump jr. so the judge seemed to draw a distinction, and said what the former president did was different and worse than what even some other wrongdoers did. bigger picture, don, the message that the judge is sending here is what the president -- former president -- it was as you said a call to action, and he is not

immune from civil lawsuit for anything that he did as the former president. that's a big legal principle. >> we now know, elie, that trump was keeping classified documents at his resort and the national archives says they are consulting the doj. does this open up a new avenue of legal issues for the former president? this -- can this go beyond just this? >> it really should if doj is doing its job. i mean, at an absolute minimum, this requires the justice department to do an investigation. it's a federal crime to destroy or remove classified documents if it is done knowingly and intentionally. if these documents are marked as classified according to the reporting, according to the archives, then anyone who saw them would know they were classified. and hence, you have a potential crime. so the justice department needs to take a serious look here and i need to make this point. this isn't just some sort of arcane record-keeping procedure. this is meant to guard documents that, according to the federal law, if they were disclosed,

could pose a grave threat to our national security. so, this is not just some sort of recordkeeping matter, this is serious business. >> rooyan, i got to ask you. you have this remarkable new interview with judge j. michael luttig. played a key role in persuading then-president mike pence that he could not overturn the election. he described pence's outside counsel asking to help the vice president. i want you to listen to this. >> he is talking with mark short and the vice president. and he says so, you know, we -- we need to do something publicly. get your voice out to the country. >> you were in the position here where the vice president is being pressured by the president of the united states to overturn the results of the election, and you are the sort of go-to legal mind, who's respected among

republicans that the vice president is looking to, to essentially stop a coup. i mean, do i have that right? >> i understood the gravity of the moment and the momentous task that -- that i was being asked to help the vice president with. i had been following all of this, you know, just very closely in the days leading up to it. it was then, and may forever be, one of the most significant moments in american history. >> the vice president cited your legal am nalysis on january 6thn his famous letter explaining what his responsibilities and authorities were that day. >> yes. that -- that might be the -- the greatest honor of my life. >> you know, it is remarkable. what more did you learn about the impact luttig had on -- on

pence? >> well, it was really a remarkable interview, don. and just capturing this former-federal judge who i interviewed him for three hours and at the inside of it, he said, you know, he claimed this is the only interview he has ever done like that and he is never doing another one. so, it was just a moment where this insider -- um -- who had access to a lot of the key legal figures in the trump administration for all four years, including his very good friend bill barr. um, was ready to talk. and was ready to explain his criticisms of trump and his very, very, um, unusual role on january 6th that had never been explained before. um, there's some comity in what happens. you know, pence world was desperately trying to have luttig or a conservative -- um -- god. on the right, luttig is -- is

conservative royalty. right? he is the person -- he was the runner up to the john robert's seat. he is the guy the right-wingers in 2005 wanted instead of john roberts. cheney wanted him and -- and bush picked roberts so he is beloved in the conservative movement. so -- and -- and pence and his advisers, who knew luttig very well, they understood the credibility he would bring if he went out there and said donald trump and john eastman who, by the way, is luttig's former law clerk. john eastman is the person who came up with this idea of overturning the election through the electoral count act so pence world knew if they could get luttig to go public saying eastman's idea is nuts, the only thing pence can do on january 6th is playing this ministerial role of counting votes, they knew that that would give pence, uh, the credibility to buck what trump wanted him to do. the only problem is they were

scrambling, at the last minute, to get luttig's voice out there and didn't know how to do it and luttig basically said you know what? i just signed up for twitter. what if i tweet it? luttig had a tweet so he called his son who works in silicon valley and had to literally ask how to use twitter so he could make this argument that pence could then use in his letter. his son, like a lot of kids said, um, dad, i'm very busy. i will do this another time. and luttig told me that he told his son if you don't tell me how to use twitter right now, i am cutting you out of the will. so, this is sort of owen brothers like quality to this very, very serious moment in american history. um,. >> and now, luttig is olympic tweeter of all time. ryan, i have got to run. i am running out of runway here but thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. >> thanks, guys.

she won gold and she is the first black woman to do it in her sport. olympic speed skater erin jackson is here. there she is! and she is next. >> whoa. hey. >> hey.

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erin jackson -- the first black woman to win olympic gold in speed skating and as if that is in the nouf, she is also the first american to win a speed skating gold at the olympics since 1994 and here she is with me now. erin jackson, olympic-gold medalist. how are you? >> yeah, i'm great. hap dwri to be here. >> it is good to see you. congratulations. this is a huge, huge deal. what does this win mean for you? just in general but also as a black woman? >> yeah. i mean, it means a lot.

it just shows, like, i don't know, a lot of hard work and time and -- uh, it's like it's so hard to put into words and then, yeah, as far as like being a black woman in the sport, it is just -- um -- i hope to be a good example, and yeah, hopefully see some more people following along. >> we were joking. i saw her earlier and i said how did you feel? this is amazing. you were like not a big deal. but you were joking. what did you say? >> yeah, something like that. joking, of course. >> so -- so listen. um, take -- take me through the race. uh, what was going through your head when you were competing? what was it like to compete at the olympic level here? >> yeah. i mean, i feel like a couple days before the race, i was getting really excited. i was, like, really pumped. like, couldn't really sleep that well. but then as it got close tore the race, like, i don't know, i just got really calm. really -- i felt really ready. so, yeah, when i go the line, i this was hike i think i can do this and then yeah, during the race, just automatic.

>> you were -- you were like on auto pilot. >> right. pretty much. >> do you remember? does it seem like it is taking forever? or is it like a flash? >> just a blur, basically. >> a blur? and you are just home. >> yep. >> so i want everybody to check out this clip. this is a clip that -- um -- that you posted hitting the ice for the first time, ever, right? this was in 2016. it only took you six years, from then, to win an olympic gold. i mean, what did it take to get you here? >> um, a lot of really great coaching. um, yeah, really awesome teammates. it's -- yeah -- just a lot of time. like, putting in a lot of time. >> so, there is a chance for me because i -- the first time on ice skates i think was two winters ago for me. i haven't really fallen. so is there a chance? do i have a chance? >> of course. yeah. i mean, i felt like i got kind of a late start so i was like i have to make up for lost time, right? so i just went to a whole bunch of ice sessions, just spent a lot of time on the ice. >> you said in interviews

before, it just shows you it is never too late. you truly believe that, right? >> i believe that, yeah. >> you are the shining example of that. 2016, and then you are winning olympic gold. can i ask about your teammate brittany bowe? your spot in the olympics was in jeopardy after you finished third in trials and bowe won those trials but she gave up her spot, to make sure you were able to skate in beijing. what does ma mean to you? what do you dhi of that? >> it means so much. i looked up to brittany since i was a little kid. everyone knows she is an amazing athlete and now they can see she is an amazing person, too. just really selfless and it is hard to imagine someone making that sort of sacrifice for you. >> teammate, right? >> for sure. >> that is amazing. bowe still got to compete, by the way. we she won bronze in the thousand meter. what is it like to be in the olympics with her? i am sure you were cheering her on. >> oh, yeah, really loud. it's cool to have like another layer of like family. because i consider the whole

team my family, of course. but then, you know, having someone from the same hometown. growing up at the same time, yeah, it is really cool. >> you know, there has ban lot of heaviness around the olympics, the geopolitical tensions that are going on. um, the pandemic, right, happening. and then, you have the -- the controversy the figure skater and what have you. did you get a chance, even with all of that, do you think it was a full-olympic experience for you and othering athletes? >> yeah, for sure. i still had a great time. i wouldn't say it was like none of that was going on but i was just focus on my racing and, you know, having a good time like enjoying the experience with my teammates and, yeah, it was great. >> so it was a blur. the race was a blur. you were focused. but then afterwards, did you ever have a chance to, like, go outside and enjoy the venue? and beyond that? >> yeah. um -- yeah, let's see. i actually got to see a couple hockey games while there i was, so that was pretty cool. yeah, it was nice. >> what is next for olympic-gold medalist erin jackson?

>> um, yeah, my season is not quite over yet. i head to europe in about a week to rejoin the team and we have two more races in the season, and then a little relaxation until the next-olympic cycle. >> can you hold that medal up? look at that. earlier, that is amazing. congratulations to you. thank you for appearing. so proud of you. how's your family? >> yeah, my dad is super quiet. they had him on the screen after my race. it's like they were waiting for him to get excited. this is his excitement. >> that's my dad. yeah, he's a quiet guy. >> we'll be right back, everyone. [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪

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