>> capehart: oh, no.t that there are still arguments within the party over whether -- over what to call the january sixth insurrection. just goes to show just in high relief, what this identity crisis is. you have the kinsingers and the cheneys in particular who are making it clear that what happened on january 6th was an affront to the constitution and an affront to american democracy and that a functioning national party should have no -- shsht give it any -- shouldn't give it any quarter, you anyone who subscribes to that any comfort. and the fact that we are evening having this conversation just goes to show how far gone the republican party is. >> woodruff: gary abernathy, there is so much attention to who president biden may appoint to succeed stephen bryer.they have said it would be a black woman, he did appoint three economists, sarah bloom raskin, philip jefferson, lisa cook, republicans in the senate gary have gone after all three of them, questioned their qualifications and especially gone afte

david brooks and jonathan capehart consider the week's political news.more. >> woodruff: at the three-day security conference that began in munich today, u.s. and nato leaders aimed to further unify western nations, in their efforts to combat russian aggression against ukraine. nick schifrin has more now on the european response, with a key european diplomat. >> schifrin: joining us to discuss the crisis in ukraine is emily haber, the german ambassador to the united states. ambassador haber, welcome to the "newshour". earlier we heard president biden said he believes putin decided to invade. n.a.t.o. officials tell me they fear invasion could come tomorrow. do you agree? >> we have been briefed and informed and been sharing information along allies with the n.a.t.o., with the united states throughout these past weeks. there's no day when we don't exchange information about the latest knowledge and the latest assessments. so, given the monumental military buildup around ukraine, which is the biggest concentration of military forces since the end of the co

supreme court, we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart.ist david brooks, and jonathan capehart, columnist for the "washington post." >> it is good to see both of you, thank you for being here on this friday night. we are going to talk about ukraine in just a minute, but david, i want to start with president biden's choice of judge ketanji brown jackson for court. what did you make of his choice of her? >> she seems great. you know, what you want on the court is someone with a lot of intellectual firepower but without intellectual arrogance and she seems to have that, as marcia and others mentioned before she has the defender, she was a regular old judge on -- with real trials, not just a fancy appellate judge so she has been in the trenches and she seems like just a wonderful person, i wrote, read a good story on the 19th about four friends, three friends she had starting in freshman year in harvard, four black women who entered harvard together, and roomed together, four cities of them and went to harvard law together and since then they

supreme court, we turn to the analysis of brooks and capehart.mnist david brooks and jonathan capehart colonist dust cumnist from the washington post. think you for being here right and i. we will talk about ukraine but i want to start with president biden's choice of judge ketanji brown-jackson for the court. what did you make of his choice of her? david: she seems great. what you want in the court is someone with a lot of intellectual fire part without intellectual arrogance and she seems to have that as others mentioned before, she has the defender, she was a regular judge with real trials come ou not just a fancy appellate judge. she has been in the trenches. she seems like a wonderful person. i read a good story today about four friends, three friends she had starting freshman year at harvard, four black women that entered harvard together, they roomed together, they all went to harvard law together, they have been at each other's weddings and childbirths and what they describe, her friends describe about her, as someone who is a social orga

david brooks and don -- jonathan capehart way the response to russian aggression toward ukraine, and the ongoing politics of gun violence in the united states. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. ♪ >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ♪ >> moving our economy for 160 years, bnsf, the engine that connects us. ♪ ♪ >> consumer cellular. ♪ >> the john s and james l knight foundation, fostering an and engaged communities. more at k's.org -- kf.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions. ♪ and friends of the newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: president biden said today he believes russia's president vladimir putin has made the decision to further invade ukraine and it will likely happen in coming days. his remarks in a news conference, u.s. officials said even more russian troops have arrived at the russian -- russia-ukraine border in recent days, joining 150,000 already on station. who the u.s. says are a -- poised to

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thank you. >> woodruff: and now to the analysis of brooks and capehart.ork times" columnist david brooks, and jonathan capehart, columnist for the "washington post." very good to see both of you on this friday evening, although some of the news today is do you recall grim. david, i'm going to start with you, our colleague nick schifrin reporting tonight that u.s. officials are saying a russian invasion of ukraine could come at anytime, and you were telling us that you have been talking to administration officials today yourself. >> i don't know if i'm talking to the same people nick is but i'm taking to people and in the course of my career i have been in the hundreds of thousands of briefings of this sort, i'm not sure i've ever been in one as sobering as the one i was in today. over the last couple of weeks, there's been an accumulation of concern in the u.s. over the lst several days, the last couple of days, that has accelerated and they can't tell us exactly what they've learned in the last several days, but it'seen something that has caused them ala

i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." ce >> i'm jonathan capehart this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday, the bad news engulfing donald trump just got a little worse. according to "the new york times", the former guy's lead henchman rudy giuliani is in talks with the january 6th committee about possibly responding to their questions. it would be quite the change considering most trump allies have stone walled by pleading the fifth. their noncompliance hasn't stemmed the flow of information, but that doesn't rule out clogged pipes. axios is reporting that "new york times" reporter maggie haberman writes in a forth coming book that the white house staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet. and believed trump was to blame. while nbc news hasn't independently verified this, it sure seems to shed some light on moments like these. >> i won't use the example of toilets because it is sort of gross, right? but let's use it anyway. so no water comes out. so people are flush

brooks and capehart was ukraine, the whiting divide in the republican party -- a widening divide in theepublican party, and mask mandates. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪ judy: -- announcer: major funding has been provided by. ♪ being our economy for 160 years, bnsf, the engine that connects us. ♪ ♪ consumer cellular. ♪ >> the john s and james all night foundation, fostering informed and engaged communities. more online. ♪ announcer: and with the ongoing support of these institutions. and, friends of the newshour. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ judy: the day, the biden administration issued its most urgent warning yet that russia could launch a war in ukraine at any time. more than 100,000 russian troops surround ukraine on three sides, and the president's national security advisor jake sullivan urged americans to leave by the end of the weekend. u.s. officials tell us they fear the war could start next week. he joins me now. what is it that has led

"the sunday show" with jonathan capehart begins right now.ts that rudy giuliani is in talks with the january 6th select committee as it tries to follow a paper trail that trump may have literally tried to flush away. i'll discuss it all with john 6th select committee member congresswoman elaine luria, and former house impeachment manager congressman joe naguse. president biden issues a dire warning to vladimir putin as russia appears closer to invading ukraine. pentagon press secretary john kirby joins me with the latest. breaking news on the u.s./canadian border as police begin to

i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday, the crisis between ukraine and russia is more precarious than ever. president biden will huddle with his national security council as will vice president harris, who is on her way back from meeting with the ukrainian president and other world leaders in munich. she had this to say this morning. >> is it about deterring russia from invading a sovereign nation and we all understand, including every country in europe what war in europe looks like, and what it can mean for the citizens of each of those countries. >> overnight, eastern ukraine saw increased artillery fire as thousands of civilians continue to flee the region and the west warns that russia is looking to create a pretext for invasion. with up to 190,000 troops pretty much encircling ukraine, the white house now says russia may attack at any time. as british prime minister boris johnson warned today, russia's plans are for what would be, quote, the biggest war in europe since 1945.

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i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday ukrainian officials say they have taken back control of the secretary largest city of kharkiv from the russians. now the fourth day of russia's invasion. u.n. security council set to meet this afternoon, and according to russian state-run media, russian president vladimir putin ordered nuclear deterrent forces to be on high alert in response to the latest round of nato sanctions. meanwhile, ukrainian defense troops kept up severe resistance to maintain control of the capital preparing molotov cocktails while residents huddled in parking garages and subway stations. on the outskirts of the city, explosions and fire after a fuel depot was bombed. according to the telegram account, president zelenskyy and lou schenk oh met they will meet for talks at the belarusian border, lukashenko guaranteed safety of the meeting. earlier today, zelenskyy called russia's invasion "a sign of genocide" saying, "russia is on the path to evil." more than 368,000

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. >>> i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday we remember the advice of the great maya angelou, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. so, if it acts like the mob, according to new reporting from "the new york times ," the house select committee investigating january 6th is borrowing techniques from federal prosecutions, employing aggressive tactics. this panel has testimonies from 475 witnesses and has received 60,000 pages of documents including records that prove congressman jim jordan did speak with donald trump the morning of january 6th. as we learn more about these private interactions, pressure is mounting to hear from those who were close to the seat of power, like former attorney general bill barr, who "the new york times" reports was in the white house in december 2020 as trump considered using the justice department to seize voting machines, a suggestion barr immediately shot down. and the line of the week, the rnc declared the january 6th investiga

white house press secretary jen psaki talked to my colleague jonathan capehart about the defining moments morning. >> what presidents do is lead during crises. they lead the world during crises. and that's exactly what president biden is doing, so you can expect the american people can expect to hear him talk about that as well. standing up against president putin, standing up against autocracies, that will also be a part of his speech. >> joining us now is nbc news president his torial, michael beschloss, david ignatius, and once again, michael mcfaul. michael beschloss, according to the latest poll, not good news for joe biden, more than half the country says the president's first year in office was a failure. what is he up against in this speech? how does one speech, especially one now dominated by a foreign crisis, when most americans are really more worried about inflation, you know, how does that help him get the political lift that presidents want to get from this annual speech? >> doesn't help as much as it did during the time of let's say john kennedy. kennedy oddly enough in th

afternoon and jonathan capehart pakes up coverage now. >>> ukraine pubs back, reclaims second largestnuclear deterrent forces on high alert. reactions from senators amy klobuchar and chris coons. >> then the new supreme court nominee and gives a preview of president biden's first state of the union address. >>> and donald trump can quit putin. >> the problem is not that putin is smart. which, of course, he's smart, but the -- real problem is that our leaders are dumb. >> i remember when republicans stood up to russia. i'm jonathan

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. >> pentagon spokesman, john kirby, spoke with my colleague, jonathan capehart earlier today. here's what he said about sending american troops to ukraine. take a listen. >> the president's made it very clear, jonathan, that u.s. troops will not be fighting in ukraine. if there's another invasion, if there's a major military action and incursion by russian forces in the ukraine and you put american forces in there, under the mission of helping evacuate americans, you are absolutely raising the stakes of miscalculation and certainly increasing the possibilities that american troops and russian troops would come into contact and in combat with one another. and then this thing takes off to a whole new level. >> congressman, talk us through calculus here. is there any circumstance under which it would change that calculation? >> none that i could imagine right now, alicia. i have to tell you, i completely concur with the president and with the state department spokesman kirby, that we -- there is no appetite to send u.s. troops in and it also would escalate the situation, almost b

jen psaki reacted with msnbc's jonathan capehart. >> this is exactly the kind of manufactured threats that president putin has been using since the beginning of this crisis to justify further aggressive action. what is fact here is that russia is under no threat from nato, has never been, is under no threat from ukraine, has never been. it is russia and president putin who are taking the aggressive action. >> and joining us now is former cia director john brennan. director brennan, what is your reaction to vladimir putin's announcement about the nuclear deterrent? and also the way he's been behaving, the way he's been prosecuting this war so far? >> well, i think he's trying to intimidate the west by saber rattling, his nuclear capability. i think that's what he's big been doing, trying to intimidate the west into not responding the way it has to the situation in ukraine. which is why so many people, myself included, didn't think he was going to go forward with this full-scale invasion, because of the tremendous consequences on the battlefield as well as financially, economically, and

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