brianna. >> mr. all right.bara starr live for us at the pentagon with certainly more to come throughout the day. thanks very much. >> given the apparent size of that operation, we have a lot more to learn. i expect we will be getting major new details in the next several hours. >>> president biden has ordered 3,000 u.s. troops to eastern europe as russia's military buildup continues. the kremlin tells cnn exclusively, quote, they have reason to be worried. the white house says it will no longer describe a russian invasion as imminent. the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and vice president of strategic stability at the u.s. institute of peace, william teller. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. i noted a statement by you yesterday where you say what the united states is doing is working and it does appear to you that putin now is perhaps pausing, if not backing down. why? >> john, i think putin is pausing at least for now is significant. in response to the strong measures that the ukrainians have

brianna. >>> all right.to say, chad myers. >> it sure does. >> love it. thank you so much. >>> a very close call for two police officers in spring township, pennsylvania. this is dashcam video as the officers monitor traffic from a median on monday. suddenly, oh, my god, wow. that runaway tire i guess from a pickup truck comes barreling down the street and smashes right into their windshield. luckily, the officers are okay. wow. but the cruiser not so much. it had extensive damage. just like out of nowhere. the tire comes flying at the windshield. . >> that he wants my nightmare. probably once a week i say that is my nightmare. i have never been in an accident where something huge hit the windshield. i don't know if you have been. >> i have had stuff fall off trucks in front of us. >> really? >> yeah. it's terrifying. try to keep a safe distance. >> my dad hit a cow once. more on that later. i'll tell you about it later. it's funny but it was also very alarming too. >>> so brain surgery to treat substance ab

brianna? >> thank you so much.kind of information from dr. leana wen. she had some really interesting points, though. i think if you take a step back, the bigger issue here isn't, oh, are they going to lift the restrictions next week, six weeks, whatever. it's that basically the country now we're talking the whole country, red states, blue states wants to find a way to move on. wants to get past this. and is willing to take risks they weren't willing to take before because there are vaccines, because there are better masks, because there's a natural immunity with omicron, which doesn't appear perhaps as dangerous. and it's going to happen. it's just got to happen. and what dr. wen is saying that the white house might want to be part of the reality that is going to present itself in the next month or two. >> but there's also this other side when they interject themselves into it they become a lightning rod. >> yes. >> a feeling of you can't win either way, which i think is something that we've been seeing. >> again,

i want to show you some of the scenes here, brianna.t atms across mariupol. there are two banks that appear to be closed. their atms are open and people lining up in an orderly calm fashion. clearly worried. there's another bank down the street that has been closed. we've spoke to one woman who's been trying banks all across town. her kids are waiting in the car. she wants to leave with her family. amid this confusion and this fear, rumors are springing up. two people have told us they're concerned about not being able to get out of the city through checkpoints and roads that are closed off. when we came in we saw cars and trucks streaming out. at all the gas stations we did see long lines of cars trying to get gas. so, brianna, there is clearly a concern for what happens next. this city is in the donbas which president putin named specifically as the reason for carrying out what he called a special operation. so this town could be in for a very difficult time in the days to come, brianna. >> is that any sort of founded concern that the

it definitely does feel that way, brianna. yet there is this temporary delay. but what happened, it's important to note, that this postponest of the review of this vaccine was not due to safety concerns. what happened, when pfizer submitted a request for the vaccine to be authorized for kids younger than 5, it was for a two-dose series to be administered. on the, you know, side, pfizer has also been studying a three-dose vaccine series. well, data on the three dose has been coming in pretty quickly. and the fda decided, you know what, let's postpone a meeting of our vaccine advisers, let's postpone our consideration of this vaccine authorization until the three-dose data come in. that way the agency has a full, complete dataset on what this vaccine looks like when it comes to efficacy when you look at three doses compared to two doses. so that's what happened, brianna. that's what we're seeing. pfizer expects to have its data on three doses in early april. so possibly around then is when we can see this consideration of author

>> reporter: hi there, brianna.e are close to the border area between russia and ukraine, especially the area around the donbas region. vladimir putin recognized late last night and caused a big stir. john said the next couple hours are probably certainly going to be key. what i can tell you from on the ground here is we have seen a lot of russian military activity in this area. we saw several columns with russian military vehicles, people transporters but also self propelled artillery. the big question is how much of the gear the russians have had here has already moved into the donbas area or has any moved into that area yet? the russians, of course, for their part were saying that is what they were going to do. they were going to recognize these two break away areas. that they were going to move their own military as peace keepers into those places. right now very difficult to see how much of that russian hardware would have moved in there, but there is certainly a big military presence in the part of southwester

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.the munich security conference. she will meet with the leaders of nato and 13 heads of state while russian forces stand poised to invade ukraine. president biden saying -- let me make it clear. saying russian could invade ukraine within the next several

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i'm john berman with brianna keilar. we do have breaking news. what could possibly be an important development in the crisis engulfing europe and the world. the russians have announced that at least some of their forces surrounding ukraine are returning to their bases, which is leading to questions in the diplomatic community about whether russia is trying to deescalate the situation. so what does this mean? what message are the russians sending? how real is this? we have reporters on the ground and some of the best minds studying the region here to decipher it because it happens at the same time major military exercises continue and there is new evidence of equipment buildup. right now, vladimir putin is meeting with the german chancellor olaf scholz in moscow. a kremlin spokesman tells cnn the russian president is willing to negotiate with the west. >> this all comes as new satellite images show at least 60 helicopters have landed in the past few days at a previously unused air base in russian occupied crimea. said to be a mixture of transport

>> well, brianna, it is an extremely dangerous situation. we now see the provocations being instituted by russia, we know the troop levels that are on the border that could easily incur into ukraine at any time, we know mr. putin's desires, we have u.s. intelligence and global intelligence to show he is determined to do something in regards to the independence of ukraine. it is an extremely dangerous situation. we have seen this play out before in georgia, where russia's provocation was used as justification for taking over territory in georgia. this playbook we have seen before is an extremely dangerous situation. >> do you think we could see an invasion this weekend? >> i think you could see an invasion at any time. the -- everything is in place for that to happen. the decision is one person, mr. putin, he may have already made a decision, we just don't know that. but clearly at any moment there could be an invasion into ukraine. >> the question will be how far does he go, right? if he does go in. does he stay in the russian-speaking area

>> reporter: it's extremely significant, brianna.n leaders were shocked both by the extent of the russian invasion of ukrainians, including volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president. against that backdrop, when zelenskyy began saying, i don't need a ride, i need ammo, i need you to take stronger economic action, at that point leaders discarded their concerns about blow back on domestic constituents. he they tried to construct the sanctions package so it doesn't blow back on people in the united states and in europe. but they set aside that risk and went forward. and it's a dramatic step. you mentioned that the stock market is going to be closed. the ruble is down 30%. the sanction on the bank are designed to prevent russia from protecting the ruble. we're in a situation where we're going to have to watch this unfold over the next several days. but we're seeing the russian economy potentially being brought to its knees. now, what is the effect of that on vladimir putin's calculations? we don't know the answer, as katy bow was just

>> reporter: yeah, brianna.s you just said, the white house has so far has had a pretty measured response to what we have seen from russia thus far. yesterday we saw president biden signing an executive order, issuing these limited sanctions prohibiting new investment trade and financing by americans into those two regions in eastern ukraine, which president putin has now recognized as independent states. but, we are expecting additional sanctions today. the big question is, how far will those sanctions go? and all indications thus far in speaking with senior administration officials here and hearing from the deputy national security adviser john finer on cnn last night is that those additional sanctions, at least for now, do not appear to be those far-reaching, sweeping sanctions that president biden and secretary blinken and other top officials have been previewing for months, saying that those would come in response to a full-scale invasion of ukraine. instead, you know, what we're hearing here is jen psaki t

good morning, brianna.police department that we called across the country is having an issue. they have help wanted signs out, but not a lot of people are answering that call. >> i have never seen the morale so low. i have never seen the rank so low. i have never seen the level of violence we are seeing now. >> basically, we are one bullet away from death and one bullet away from indictment. >> reporter: unless people want to become cops and more cops wanting to leave earlier. >> reporter: patrice andrews trolls her cities and knows firsthand the shortages. >> the 911 calls don't stop. people are still having emergencies. so the emergencies don't stop. certainly the emergencies don't care if you are 60% staffed or below. and the expectation is that we continue the level of service that we have always done. >> reporter: maintaining that level of service is difficult when you're down 90 officers and constantly battling against covid and negative perceptions of law enforcement, along with low wages. >> they've

what it could be, brianna, it could be anybody's guess. it would be post-its, notes he wrote to himself. we don't know. it does add another dimension to what we know about how he handled material in the white house. we have known for several years since my colleague andy carney broke the story that trump ripped up pieces of paper and they had to tape it up for archival. this is what he has done all his life in terms of ripping them up. this was something different. it was not, as i'm told, an isolated incident. . >> several times? several times, maggie? >> this is something -- they would periodically find this to be the case. you know, the exact number, john, i'm not certain of. but it was not just once. >> and his toilet? no mistaking whose toilet it was. >> it was in the pipes. it was in the pipes. and this was his bathroom. so, yes. >> and i'm asking about the specifics, again, because we have heard from'd carney's reporting for years now, he would tear things up. you tear things up, you throw them on the floor. that's one thing. you wa

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.en agreed to meet with russian leader vladimir putin. this is in response to the french president, emmanuel macron. unclear how real of a possibility this is. the white house says in theory the president would do it, but only if putin holds off on invading ukraine. new satellite images show activity intensifying among russian units close to ukraine's northeastern border. the u.s. says it has intelligence indicating orders have already been sent to russian commanders to proceed with an attack. >> a white house official says secretary of state tony blinken and his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov will discuss a bossable biden-put tin summit on thursday. there are concerns an invasion can occur before that. russia has 75% of its conventional forces positioned there ready to attack ukraine. >> sam collie joins us near kharkiv in ukraine near the front lines. give us a sense of what's going on there this morning? >> reporter: john and brianna, yesterday we were down on the front line in a

it is monday, february 28th 679 i'm john berman with brianna keilar. we do begin with breaking news. moments ago, an incredible moment on cnn, matthew chance on the front lines of russia's attempts to take the ukraine capital of kyiv. it was a failed attempt in this case. matthew saw blown-out russian tanks, unexploded ordnance, dead russians. we'll show you what he found in just a moment. first, new reporting overnight that overall, not just where matthew is, russian forces are encountering fierce resistance from not only the ukrainian military but ordinary civilians as well. the russians even being turned back in some places. talks are under way between russian and ukrainian delegations close to the border in belarus. ukraine is calling for an immediate cease-fire and russian troop withdrawal. president volodymyr zelenskyy says he doesn't expect any breakthroughs. there are growing fears that belarus is prepared to send its own soldiers into ukraine in support of the russian invasion. that's according to ukrainian intelligence. the united states just

brianna. >> paula, we'll be watching how this develops. paula newton live for us from ottawa. >>> the white house tells cnn federal health officials are thinking about life after the pandemic, but there is no clear plan yet. a group of governors is pushing biden for guidelines. jacqueline howard joins us now. you have new reporting on this. >> reporter: that's right, john. really the latest development here, the white house says it is thinking about this. but it hasn't released any clear guidance quite yet. we are seeing this divide. on the one hand, the white house says, yes, it's thinking about this. but it's keeping its focus on the emergency at home, on the omicron wave, getting cases down even more, hospitalizations down even more. the united states is averaging 2,000 deaths each day. so that is where we have room for improvements. state governor and public health experts are arguing cases are trending downward. hospitalizations are trending dow downward. we see recent drops here in the data. they aren't where we want them to be. they

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.it encapsulates almost all the global challenges facing the united states in one place. so this is just prior to the olympic opening ceremonies. and russian leader vladimir putin and chinese leader xi jinping, side by side, policywise, figuratively, right next to each other. with 100,000 troops on the ukrainian border, putin wants support for what actions might follow. and he sure seemed to get it. >> so a joint statement just released by russia and china says this. the chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the russian federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in europe. right now russian forces are poised at the ukraine border for a possible invasion. u.s. officials are alleging that the kremlin is preparing to fabricate a pretext for an invasion by staging a fake attack by ukraine against russia. >> all right. more on that in just a moment. i want to bring in cnn senior

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very talented. >> and brianna? >> brianna was into dinosaurs and cats.d with computers. >> by all appearances, diane seemed to love her children. >> outside looking in, you'd think it was a picture-perfect family. >> i mean, it looks like a very settled, happy family. >> those were the good-old days. >> you're smiling and the kids look pretty happy. mark looks content. when you say the good-old days, how good were they? >> really good. >> then on easter sunday 2012, tragedy strikes when diane's husband, mark, dies. diane then posts this on her facebook page. for all my friends on facebook, this past sunday evening, mark, my husband of 27 years, reached his eternal home. >> i was absolutely shocked. >> he's older than i was and this guy was on the front stage performing like he was 21. >> but is there more to mark's death than meets the eye? you're a nurse. why wouldn't you call 911? >> i was told no hospitals, no doctors, no nothing or, quote, i will kill you. myself against some cancers like certain cancers caused by hpv. for most people, hpv clears on

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it doesn't matter, brianna. there's no place in this party for them.-election. he knows that. liz cheney is a dead woman walking in montana. she knows that. it's just so sad. . >> wyoming, i think you mean, joe. >> both beautiful states. >> wyoming. thank you, john. >> i'm a huge fan of yellowstone. joe, though, i don't think we should totally dismiss the idea that they had to water this down. they had to water down their condemnation of cheney and kinzinger. i'm not suggesting there is a place for them in the republican party at large right now. but the fact that these people felt they couldn't get it through as harsh as they initially wanted, does that show perhaps some of their powers waning? >> no. because i don't think, john, this committee of these party bosses had the authority to expel adam kinzinger or liz cheney from the republican party. i don't think they have that authority. again -- i'm sorry. the bigger picture is this. adam kinzinger and liz cheney know, they won't say it, but they know there's no place in this party for them right now.

a trial is underway for one of the police officers involved in the death of brianna taylor, the young black woman who was at home in bed when she was shot dead by police during a bosh raid nearly 2 years ago. but as gabriel alexander reports now from taylor's home city of louisville, trial is not directly related to her death. she became a tragic symbol of police killings of innocent people in america. brianna taylor's death at the hands of police in louisville, sparked wide spread protests. taylor and aspiring nurse was asleep in her apartment in the middle of the night. on march 13th, 2020. when several plain clothes police officers used a battering ram to knock down her front door as they attempted to execute a search warrant for drugs. officers fired 32 rounds. taylor was struck 6 times and died. no drugs were found. bred higginson is the only police officer charged with a crime in the case, but he is not standing trial for anything directly related to the killing of taylor . instead, he's charged with recklessly firing his weapon into an adjacent apartment during the raid. puttin

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. no sign of de-escalation. that is the latest from the biden administration on the crisis in ukraine. in fact, the u.s. officials say russia has added 7,000 troops along its border with ukraine despite claims of a pullback. the number of forces north of 150,000. a senior administration official directly accused russia of lying, claiming there is fresh evidence the kremlin is mobilizing for war and planting false stories as a pretext for invasion. >>> new satellite imagery shows heightened military artillery in several regions near ukraine. russian sources consolidations. self-propelled artillery units seeing conducting military drills 150 miles from ukraine. u.s. officials are also watching the construction of a new bridge, what appears to be a pontoon bridge in a key area of belarus less than four miles from the ukrainian border. overnight, russia's ministry of defense released new video insisting units from their southern and western military districts have completed combat training exercises and are returnin

>> i don't know how much more clear i can be, brianna. this is the beginning of an invasion -- >> okay. you could just call it an invasion. i only ask this because let us play what the administration has talked about before, they didn't talk about the beginning -- this is how they described an invasion. i want to listen. >> if any assembled russian units move across ukrainian border, that is an invasion. but it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response that i discussed in detail with our allies as well as laid out very clearly for president putin. >> if any russian military forces move across ukraine's border, that's a renewed invasion, and it will be met with swift, severe and united response from the united states and our partners and allies. >> what is the definition of invasion there, though? >> well, president biden -- president biden has spoken to the fact that if a russian tank or a russian troop moves across the border, that's an invasion. that is an invasion and the result of that from our p perspective would be t

brianna? >> too many.ood morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, february 8th, i'm brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. frantic diplomacy under way on two continents this morning as the world tries to avert a russian invasion of ukraine. just a short time ago, french president emmanuel macron arrived in kyiv. macron is meeting with ukraine's president zelensky, a day after his face to face with vladimir putin in moscow. this morning the kremlin says russian troops will meet with braun. there is no specific timeline for the withdraw. all of this as president biden is presented -- trying to present a united front with a key ally in europe and after issuing a big threat vowing to shut down a crucial gas pipeline if russia invades. biden hosted german chancellor olaf scholz at the white house and despite the pledges of unity, the nord stream 2 natural g gas pipeline appears to be a sticking point. they don't seem to be on the same page publicly here. the

i'm john berman with brianna keilar

. >> right, brianna.hing to deserve this kind of onslaught from the russians. i think what we have seen overnight is a lot of reportings, it's good to have your people in the field. but clearly the russians started with a cyber attack. that's been going on for over a week. they are interested in frankly i think they have taken a play from our playbook. i was involved in the libby operations. cyber, followed by strikes on airfields. cyber, followed by strikes on military facilities to try to decapitate the leadership or separate the orders that are coming from kyiv out into the field. what we have seen so far is it looks like the ukrainian military is fighting back. general hertling talked earlier about counterbattery fire. it's unfortunate, they will want superiority before troops go in. some have entered donbas. they have to have close airport support. to do that, they have to have total superiority of the air, no-fly zone. there was russian aircraft overhead. so they are moving in that direction. they w

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. the breaking news, russian forces pushing closer to the ukrainian capital, entering the obolon district, which is in the northern part of kyiv just a few miles from the city center. we have new reporting in moments ago that u.s. intelligence fears the capital could fall within days. ukrainian citizens are being asked to make molotov cocktails to take down the occupier. the former president of ukraine was on the streets talking to us just minutes ago. he was holding a qaa hrerb cough to fight for himself. overnight, kyiv was hit by missile fire. eye crepe's foreign minister calls it the worst attack his country has been inflicted with since the nazis invaded in 1941. the current president volodymyr zelenskyy is the number one target. number two, he says, is his family. >> a fighter jet was shot down over kyiv. fragments believed to hit and set fire to a home. cnn cannot independently confirm that. the ukrainian defense ministry says it blew up a bridge north of the capital city trying

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i'm john berman with brianna keilar. and we do begin with breaking news on the russian invasion of ukraine. new reports that the russian forces are encountering stiff resistance, not only from the ukrainian military but ordinary civilians as well. even being turned back in some places. at this moment, there are talks under way between russian and ukrainian delegations close to the border. ukraine is calling for an immediate cease-fire. president zelenskyy making it clear he expects little out of these discussions. we are expecting new reporting about them very shortly. there are growing fears this morning that belarus is prepared to send soldiers into ukraine in support of the russian invasion. that is according to ukrainian intelligence. president putin has placed nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. the white house calls it another manufactured threat. >> now, there are visible signs of russian setbacks in kharkiv, which is where russian military vehicles have been going in reverse, retreating from ukrainian forces

brianna. >> we'll be watching.hank you. >> the different international groups, they want to see her suspended. the world anti-doping agency wants the suspension back in place. so you have to clear conflict here between the organizations that oversee doping in the world that at this point don't seem to think she should be able to compete. and obviously the russian government. >> and i think it's also obvious what other national organizations, anti-doping organizations, would have done if this were an athlete from their country. certainly they may have behaved differently. and this is an athlete who might never have even made it to the games. either way it's a total tragedy and also perhaps steals from her this ability to have this historic accomplishment. >> yeah. again, no indication she knew any of this. it may have been done to her, which only adds to the tragedy of it all. >>> this just in. new cnn polls show trouble ahead for democrats ahead of the midterms as president biden's approval numbers are plunging. 41

>> hi, brianna, first of all, it is amazing to watch the ukrainian people withstand this state of siege for the past eight year, unflinching in the face of constant belligerence, constant hostility. they should be applauded. that explains why they have been so stoic in the face of this massive buildup on their border. i think we're still in a very, very acute phase where the russians can respond with a major military offensive at any moment. right now it seems that they're just probing for weaknesses, probing for ways to -- they don't really need to kind of create a pretext, fabricate something, but they're look for where the weaknesses are, where the weaknesses are with regard to ukraine and resolve. and right now there is a concerted coherent response from ukrainian international community, not blinking at all with regards to russia's demands for reshaping the international system, the demands for ukraine outside of nato, frankly smoke and mirrors, has nothing to do with ukraine and nato. ukraine is -- nato is probably quite some time off, even under optimal circumstances. it is all a

. >> well, john, brianna, i'm in novoluhanske which is near the front line. two days ago, three or four shells have hit this building. they are used to the threat of battle but very few people could be used to that kind of impact. let's take a closer look at the home. remains of a piano. devastating attack on a civilian home that has been blamed on the russians. this is in a sense the exit wound. this is where the blast went through the building and exited through that window. you can see how the infrastructure has been bent out. let me take you inside. then you'll get an idea just how terrifying this was. now, the good news is that the family who live in this home were not in the rooms when it struck. they were in their outside kitchen next door. the shell came in through that window, exploded in her. there's shrapnel on the floor. a lot of the clutter has been removed. you can see the devastating effect on the ceiling. that is high explosive rounds that have caused shrapnel damage. it is designed to tear into flesh, to rip people apart. this is a family of

he wants more influence of blac brianna. >> all right.e will be hearing more from him ahead. >>> joining us is carrie champion, host of the podcast "naked with carrie champion" and super bowl champ george martin, former defensive end of the giants and former president of the nfl players association. carrie, i will start with you because you are here with me. one thing you were saying is brian flores is laying it out on the line here. >> by filing this lawsuit, by being the face of it, as we said, showing all these receipts, being honest about everything he knows, he's saying i could care less if i coach again. what's going on in a system that has been in place for years since its inception needs to be broken down, torn apart. remove the veil and talk about it in a way we don't talk about it. bill belichick, his former boss, to send him that text was so disheartening, yet he still had to push through a dinner as if he didn't know he wasn't getting the job. it happens to so many of these coaches. and i really, especially as a black person,

brianna?oments ago, brand-new numbers on inflation. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with that. >> yeah, inflation running hot. these are factory level numbers, john. wholesale price inflation, 9.7%, the inflation rate, the 12-month inflation rate. that is a really hot number. it matches the record high, they have only been taking these numbers since 2010, but it shows you that factories are passing on some big costs to businesses who are passing them on to you. month over month, 1% increase. i've been covering the numbers a long time, john, it is so rare to see a one-month move of 1%. these are numbers measured in tiny little increments, you look at the chart, you can see exactly what we're talking about here. this is why you are feeling price pressures in just about every place you're looking. supply chain, huge demand after the covid reopening, all of this is just really messed up the way we produce and deliver goods and that's costing everybody more money. you

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brianna? >> thank you so much for that tour.mbshell lawsuit with the potential to up end the nfl. the former head coach of the nfl's miami dolphins brian flores is accusing the league and multiple teams of discrimination. in this lawsuit, he calls the league racially segregated and like a plantation, citing multiple interviews they say were a sham, held just to meet the league's diversity rules and say this is why so few nfl coaches are black. the nfl denies these allegations. so joining us now is brian flores, former head coach of the miami dolphins who is suing the nfl and his attorneys douglas wigder and john alectorokas. you know what a huge risk you're taking. there was a lawyer quoted in "the new york times" is who says i'm extremely surprised he would put his career in jeopardy. does it feel like that to you? >> i understand the risks. i love coaching football. i'm called to coach football. i'm gifted to coach football. and i still want to coach. let's be clear about that. but this is bigger than coaching. this is bigger

he's being held for bullet that didn't kill somebody if brianna taylor hadn't been shot and killed on that night. nearly 2 years ago, she would have celebrated her 28th birthday next month. nobody has ever been charged with their death. kentucky, grand jury brought no charges against any of the officers who shot taylor during the raid. prosecutors saying they were justified in using force to protect themselves. many in louisville are skeptical taylor will ever get justice out. you can do with hope you can do it. hope it just hope that you know, whatever they decide to do to these offices that, you know, not saying that, you know, you don't have to contain them or anything like that, but just hold them accountable for what they want to have justice because law force me you know, harm people form citizens kill services a lot more frequently in this country they may do in other countries. there's also skepticism that this trial will hold police truly accountable. this is not justice . rhianna taylor is still there and no one is being held accountable for her murder and most people here s

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.reaking overnight, a major development from inside china as that nation tries to portray a clean image to the world during the olympic games. chinese tennis star, peng shuai, who disappeared finally emerged for a french newspaper. it was a controlled chaperoned exchange with reporters with the goal of sending the message, nothing to see here. she called the all the allegations a huge misunderstanding and she said she she deleted a post because she wanted to. >> both seemingly in effort to defuse global concerns about peng's safety that seemed to have threatened olympics. this is something she seems to have full agency over. >> reporter: this meeting with thomas bach, they do not lessen t the. she basically denied ever making srault allegations calling the whole situation a, quote, huge misunderstanding. now, this is the second time she's walked back her original claims but first time she has spoken to a media outlet. she posted a long emotional story about how she had coerced into sex

brianna, you saw one of the scenes. up by one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation in terms of taking over people's civil liberties. it basically says if you are even standing in a public area in that so-called secured zone just outside the nation's parliament, you can be arrested. for those who resisted, police say there were nearly 200 arrests. as you say, they are continuing to do other things that they hope will put pressure on protesters to leave the city. what does that include? freezing bank accounts. that is something in this sweeping emergencies act. we have heard from protesters themselves. police say more than 200 personal and commercial bank accounts have been frozen. we have heard from protesters themselves say, look, i went to the atm. they froze my bank accounts. i tried to get cash. at issue here is trying to get to crowd funding sources or cryptocurrency funding they have gotten. and i know prime minister trudeau has complained directly at president biden saying some of those sources are coming fr

brianna, let's go to you. >> all right. i want to talk with julia loffe and cnn and political national analyst "new york times" david sanger. let's start with what we saw in the live shot from fred pleitgen. how flagrant is russia being? >> yeah. that's been their m.o. all along. they said russia never in its history invaded anyone. a week before that, putin announcing a drawdown of troops while adding troops. you have them staging these false flag attacks that they are not even bothering to make look professional or good. everybody who has ever tried to take a picture in russia, even if it's a grocery store, they're like no photos, no photos. they don't care. they are they are rolling in brazenly. >> western cameras. and they know this, david. >>> they do. it has been russia's version of the big lie. and it's gone beyond even when julia laid through. we have heard putin in the last three days say ukraine needed to be denazified. it gave up the old soviet weapons and no evidence of ever trying to build its own. and saying i

brianna. >> barely, chad. barely. all right.wers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, february 9th. and the most powerful republican in the senate is telling the truth. calling it like it is. saying that january 6th was a violent insurrection. and in doing so, he is very publicly rebuking many inside his own party. mitch mcconnell blasting the republican party for its

and i'm brianna keilar along with john berman. this morning, a trucker-inspired protest is intensifying, bringing pain to workers and economies on both sides of the u.s./canadian border. now the u.s. is on high alert for protests to begin here at home. demonstrators have been occupying critical roadways between the two countries for several days. this morning crossings in michigan, north dakota and montana are now choked off. and today marks the fifth day that protesters have halted traffic on the ambassador bridge, which connection detroit to windsor, ontario. that bridge is the busiest international crossing in north america. nearly 30% of all trade between the u.s. and canada crosses the ambassador bridge with 10,000 commercial vehicles carrying $325 million worth of goods every day. 50 million of that in auto parts alone. the blockade is hurting major car companies in particular. ford, general motors, toyota,ings as the protests disrupt supply chains. in the michigan auto industry, workers could lose $51 million in wages this

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.do begin with a cnn exclusive, advisers to donald trump drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines during the former president's final weeks in office. there was one order for the pentagon, we knew about that. and another for homeland security. we are just learning about the homeland security request for the first time. in addition to that, this eye-opening reporting from "the new york times" breaking overnight that trump himself was directly involved, quote, president donald j. trump directed his lawyer to make a remarkable call, mr. trump wanted him to ask the department of homeland security if it could legally take control of voting machines in key swing states? >> some of the white house records that were turned over to the january 6th committee arrived torn up. reports indicating that it was trump who personally ripped them to pieces. they had to be taped back together by national archive staffers. sources tell cnn that mark short, the former chief of staff to

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. the kremlin's claims about a pullback of forces from the border of ukraine. >> the russians say they are withdrawing some of the forces now that exercises are complete. but we don't see that. quite the contrary, we see them add to the more than 150,000 troops that they already have already on the border, even in the last couple of days. we see some of those troops inch closer to that border, we see them fly in more combat and support aircraft, and we see them sharpen their radius in the black sea, even see them stocking up their blood supplies. >> so, yes, russia is gearing up and just moments ago, cnn learned ukrainian armed forces and separatists in the disputed donbas region are reporting shell fire there. russia calls the schelling a matter of deep concern, but has no plans to talk to ukrainian officials about it. in the meantime, new satellite imagery shows russian forces consolidating, adding to their positions. russian and belarusian military units including self-propelled arti

brianna?eal and to talk about that aspect of it, abby phillip is joining us now. assuming she is confirmed, she'll be the first african american female justice on the supreme court, which maybe not officially, but in practice, has disqualifying when it comes to nominees up until now, abby. >> yeah. i mean, this has been a long time in the making. it already has been the source of some political back and forth, but i think that what you're going to see realistically, brianna, is i think you're going to see mainstream republicans not picking a fight over that issue. knowing that it is a political loser. the white house is preparing to activate a host of outside groups, to back her up, black women's organizations, that have been critical to the democratic party's success are ready and waiting to back -- they were ready and waiting to back any of the nominees, but ready and waiting to back judge brown jackson. this is going to be, i think, they are prepared for the attacks, but i also think that y

brianna? >> yeah, thank you for that report. kara scannell. >> want to bring in the author of "the big cheat:how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family." thank you for being with us. mazars dumped the trump organization. what's the significance of that? >> well, it's very important in donald's case because he's facing questions about running a racketeering enterprise and running a fraudulent company is at the very center of that. so that his accounts have turned against him and disavowed these compilations they put together where they said, well, here is what our client donald said these things are worth. here is how much money he said he had in the bank without checking it, which is what we expect accountants to do, indicates donald is more and more being separated from people who can do him great harm by simply telling the truth. >> what happens if mazars cooperates with investigators, which by all accounts it does seem that they are? >> well, donald bender, the mazars accountant who prepares trump's