i'm jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. >> the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. >> now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn's m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. >> this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. >> reporter: a momentous day for the joe biden presidency. >> i'm here today to express the nation's gratitude to justice stephen

jake? >> the former republican speaker of the house, newt gingrich, made some rather shocking comments about the house she can committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, saying they will potentially face jail time if republicans take the house this fall. how are members of the committee responding? >> well, liz cheney, the vice chair of the committee, and is a republican, someone who the cheney family at one time was close with newt gingrich. especially when he was speaker of the house. she is the person that has responded from the committee and she tweeted a response to gingrich and said, in rt that a, quote, this is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels. and a suggestion that basically, gingrich is throwing out claims that aren't based in any kind of fact. that somehow a duly impaneled congressional investigation does not have the ability to conduct oversight, which is exactly what this committee is doing. and we should point out, jake, that there has been a lot of l

>> that is his view, jake. but we also have all lived through, you've done extensive reporting on, the attempts to change the outcome in 2020. we know voters need to be clear eyed and need to be aware and educated about what is facing them. the president believes they're going to rise to the moment. but we have more work to do. that is also what he was trying to convey in educating voters and making sure voter protections are up with the department of justice doubled their voter protection funding. there is more we need to do and we'll work with states to do exactly that. that is what he was trying to convey last night. >> i get there are efforts on the state level because this is also what the president was trying to tie it to. efforts on the state level to make it more difficult to vote. some of that is no doubt born from the big lie. some is nefarious. some is election officials saying we're not in the middle of the pandemic as we were in november 2020. we don't need to do everything like we did. my bigger q

i'm jake tapper. we start in the health lead. major new announcements from the food and drug administration today about pfizer's covid vaccine. the fda today recommending the pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15. shortening, for everyone, the recommended time between your second pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third dose for some immunocompromised children between 5 and 11. more than 115 million americans have been fully vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine and now the cdc is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the fda recommendations as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in pediatric hospitalizations due to covid. though we should note almost all of the serious covid cases among children right now are among the unvaccinated. cnn's alexandra field starts us off this hour. >> if you look at the uptick, it is actually almost a vertical increase. >> reporter: amid a tsunami of new covid cases the daily average topping 400,000 for the first time. the fda

it's very busy, jake. the busiest sort of number of covid patients in terms of covid patients last year were at the peak of the beginning of this year, 162 patients. we're a 600-bed hospital roughly. about 258 now patients with covid in the hospital. so about 40%, roughly, of all the patients in the hospital have been diagnosed with covid. there's 1 hundred patients in the e.r. maybe waiting for beds at any given time so it's really busy and on top of that, there's a lot of health care workers who are out. they get a positive test, and they're out. so at any given time, 20% to 25% of health care workers are out. so busy in terms of overall patient influx, but fewer staff at the same time. so it's a tough situation. i'll tell you as well, jake, i perform neurosurgical operations. they have to have a meeting basically every day before the operating room to determine what it considered urgent or emergent because we're cutting down on the number of elective cases we can do in the midst of this. >> the overwhel

i'm jake tapper. the u.s. capitol the scene of a dark day in american history, the deadly insurrection exactly one year ago today. five people lost their lives on january 6, 2021 during or immediately after the riot and the very democracy of the united states was attacked and shaken. today president joe biden addressed the nation from statuary hall inside the u.s. capitol and blaisd the blame for the horrible attack squarely on the shoulders of former president trump. >> for the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he has done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interests as more important than his country's interests and america's interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. >> on that dark da

jake? >> adrienne, thank you. >>> let's talk about this with a mom, natasha dunn is the mother of a seventh grader in chicago public schools. as a working mother who only found out late last night that schools are going to be closed, how are you managing this? >> well, i mean, i'm bag to square one. it's really difficult for me to really be able to pay attention to my daughter's learning needs and work full time. i feel like this was a catastrophic failure. i do think that the ctu was completely reckless and forcing an entire district to go on remote learning when the -- when cps has mitigations in progress now. our school district is not the most perfect school district at all. but what i will say is that they do have a transparent process for us as parents and community to see what are the needs of our schools in terms of safety. and so far, the data have shown that our kids are safe in the building. now some schools might have problems, so i'm not saying all schools are perfect, but it d

jake? >> thanks so much. joining us now live to discuss, cnn's senior international commentator live in kiev, ukraine. matthew, you have brand new reporting that the ukrainian officials appear to be growing frustrated with the biden administration and they want more from president biden than they're getting. >> reporter: that's right. there have always been simmering tensions and frustrations behind the scenes in that relationship. but i think over the course of the past 48 hours or so, those frustrations have really started to boil over. i had a briefing with the senior ukrainian official this evening and he called for the united states to really ramp up its efforts now to deter a russian invasion. he was speaking to me by telephone of course but basically expressing frustration that these u.s. threats to impose crushing sanctions on russia if it invades are not having the deterrent effect the united states and ukrainians want them to have. he wants immediate sanctions, reflected across the ukrainian governm

jake? >> paula, when you read the criminal complaint, it makes clear, prosecutors say they plan to continue -- they planned to continue violence well after january 6th. >> absolutely. the indictment alleges rhodes referred to january 6 as nothing compared to what is coming and in the weeks following the insurrection he allegedly spent $17,000 on weapons, equipment, and ammunition. around inauguration day he allegedly told his associates to organize local militias to oppose the biden administration and another member allegedly said after this if nothing happens, it's war, civil war 2.0. jake? >> paula reid, thank you so much. let's talk about this with our legal experts. let me start with you. your take on this rarely used seditious conspiracy charge against 11 people all affiliated with the oathkeepers. >> well, jake, now we're starting to get somewhere in terms of this conspiracy investigation by the justice department. in my view seditious conspiracy is exactly the right charge for the gr

jake? >> nick watt, thanks. appreciate it. >>> let's talk about this with baltimore police commissioner michael harrison. we should note you tested positive a couple of weeks ago. how are you feeling? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. i'm feeling great. my family travelled to our home city of new orleans over the christmas holidays and on the day we were supposed to return on the 28th, i believe, 27th, i began to feel symptoms and got tested the next day and tested positive. my symptoms, my wife tested positive also but our symptoms were very mild. only for about three or four days and then we began to recover really quickly and then i, of course, worked remotely the next week and stayed home as a precaution. and then went back to work this past monday. feeling great now. so residue, no lasting side effects, but thank you. >> last week your department spokeswoman said more than 300 baltimore police officers and other employees were quarantined because of covid. that's roughly 12% of your force. how

. >> jake, it's just really fascinating science. i've got to tell you quickly that particular antibody, dh-1047, they found it was protective against sars, also sars-cov-2, but even other bat coronaviruses, so it could be a really wide-ranging vaccine. we don't know how long it will last, but the duke researchers say they think it could last years as well. so you could have a long-standing vaccine that is widely, widely protective, jake. >> amazing. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you so much. >>> joining us to discuss, dr. vo vo vivek murthy, surgeon general. how much do you think this could become a reality? >> there's certainly a greater chance of it happening in this day and age than there was five or ten years ago and that's because of the extraordinary advances in science that we've had. the fact that we have, for example, mrna vaccines and vaccinated millions and millions of people in a short period of time, that's a triumph of science. but one thing to keep in mind, jake, as exciting as the science is, not just for a pan coronavirus

jake? >> nick watt, thanks so much. >>> joining us live to discuss, chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. both dr. fauci and the acting fda commissioner this week have said that nearly everyone is going to be exposed to the omicron variant. again, that's not necessarily infected with it or sick, just exposed. are you discouraged by that rather remarkable change in tone? >> i think we have been hearing this for some time. if you listen to the w.h.o. european chief some time ago, they estimated that 50% of people living in that part of the world would be infected within six to eight weeks. that just speaks to the real contagiousness of this virus. going back to last year, jake, when people say this is going to become endemic, that it's just going to be here, part of that conversation is also that at some point people will likely be exposed to the virus. it's always been about how fast do we allow that to happen? if you get to a point where people are -- a lot of people are getting inf

>> jake, that's the million-dollar question here. and publicly, the u.s. and nato allies are saying, no. this is russia's problem. they are the one who have escalated things along the border with ukraine. they are the ones who need to pull back. they can't be awarded for the actions that they have taken. but privately, when you talk to u.s. officials and european officials, they acknowledge that this is a tricky situation. russia is going to need to be given something so that it can domestically say, hey, here's what we got. if they do decide to pull back those troops that are now located along the border with ukraine. but the problem is that the united states is trying to act in lockstep with its nato allies. and they are doing that today. secretary of state tony blinken spoke with nato foreign ministers discussing that they all agree that russia needs to de-escalate things. but the administration is in a position today where they are pushing back very forcefully on a news report that said that they are preparing plans to potentially draw down some of the

i'm jake tapper. a bruising week for president biden. nearly a year into his presidency, he's surrounded by dead ends and crises, the fate of his economic agenda uncertain, his push for election reform appears to be withering on the vine. the u.s. supreme court swatted down his vaccine mandate for big businesses. the pandemic is continuing to rage. inflation is soaring. north korea is firing missiles eastward. russian troops are poised to move westward as talks to de-escalate around ukraine went nowhere fast. as kaitlan collins reports, president biden who in one poll this week stood at only 33% approval. desperately needs a reset as he embarks on his second year in office. >> reporter: president biden's week going from bad to worse. >> there's a lot of talk about disappointments and things we haven't gotten done. we're going to get a lot of them done, i might add. but this is something we did get done. >> reporter: biden highlighting his infrastructure bill after being forced to confront one setback after another, putting his presidency

jake? >> paula reid, thanks so much. >>> let's discuss with former fbi senior intelligence adviser phil mudd and terrence gainer, former chief of the u.s. capitol police chief. let me start with you. the current capitol police chief says the force is tronger and better prepared today than it was before the attack a year ago. do you agree? >> absolutely, i agree. i know tom very well. i know the work he's been doing. jake, i've been talking to officers at all levels and they agree things are a lot better in equipment, training, information and intelligence and radio communications. >> phil mudd, after the attack, the capitol police inspector general issued more than 100 security upgrade recommendations. they say the police -- capitol police say they've only oned one-third of those. chief manger says today that about 60 others are under way. one such as stronger windows which can't be installed during winter. we don't know what's remaining on the list. some house republicans are out there say

did you say i'm jake, jake tapper, like you were james bond or something? >> it's a little hollywoodized. but it's vaguely accurate. >> jimmy: was it a mexican restaurant? >> yeah, we did have tex-mex. it wasn't that same night. for god's sake, that's desperate. >>jimmy: were you wearing a cable knit sweater on this? >> it's so funny you say that. i'm still friends with monica. and when i watch the scene, i texted her the next day and i said like i don't know where they got that. i did actually own like a white greek fisherman's sweater. did i wear that on the date? and then i kind of was worried that a, i did, and b, that she remembered it. but she said i have no idea what you wore. okay, good. >> jimmy: is your life boring now that donald trump is no longer president? >> no, the current president just called someone a dumb son of a bitch today. >> jimmy: that reporter, peter doocy, is he a dumb son of a bitch? >> i don't think any president should be calling any journalist a dumb son of a bitch. to be fair to peter doocy, the question was fairly ly anno d

>> i do, jake. i really think that there's been this underestimation every step of the way and it continues with omicron. and again, the data tells the story. but i think tom frieden is making two points. one is that we still -- there's a lot about this virus we don't know and i know this is scarey to talk about, but the idea of long covid symptoms. this -- people are saying, look, this is more of a vascular disease even than a respiratory disease. we're still learning a lot about this. you don't want to go out and get this. the second point tom makes is, okay, you've had it. so, a, i don't need to get a vaccine because i've had it. not every infection is the same. someone who had mild symptoms may not have generated as many antibodies as someone with more severe symptoms. that's why the vaccine is important. it provides a constant, consistent benchmark to know how much immunity you have. >> dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. >>> the russians insist they're not planning to invade ukraine. but what's happe

i'm jake tapper. on tuesday, senate democrats plan to take up the election reform bills they say are needed to protect american democracy but they will fail, those bills, because the legislation is opposed by every republican senator and two democrats join them in not wanting to change the filibuster rules. joining us to talk about why is republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana. senator, thanks for joining us. so president biden held a rally in georgia this week, urging senators to pass democrats election reform legislation and change the filibuster rules to allow them to do so. take a listen. >> i asked every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? do you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor? do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis? >> you just heard congressman clyburn say those remarks in his view do not go too far, the real focus are the discriminatory election laws b

thank you, jake. i want to ask you about what believe is eating up a lot of your time and this is this active threat from russia. microsoft said they discovered all sorts of destructive malware in russia. is russia using this to prepare the battlefield, and will a cyber-strike draw u.s. sanctions? >> we've been warning for weeks and months, both publicly and privately, that cyber-attacks could be part of a broad-based russian effort to escalate in ukraine. we have been working closely with ukrainians to harden their defenses, and we will continue to do so in the days head. and we're coordinating with private companies, like microsoft, in case there are potential cyber-attacks that unfold in the coming months here. of course it is possible that russia could conduct a series of cyber-attacks. that is part of their play bplaybook. we have not specifically attributed this attack yet. neitherwe, nor some of the private sector firms, have attributed it to that. but we will do everything we can to defend and

i'm jake tapper. we start with the health lead. a powerful message this afternoon from president joe biden, an ally of teachers unions, nonetheless saying that they need to keep schools open amid the push by some teachers unions to return to remote learning. take a listen. >> we have no reason to think at this point that omicron is worse for children than previous variants. we know that our kids can be safe when in school, by the way. that's why i believe schools should remain open. >> those remarks come as pediatric hospitalizations are the highest they've ever been during the pandemic, especially almost entirely among unvaccinated kids. children, according to the cdc, are the least vaccinated age group in the united states. those younger than 5, of course, still not eligible for a vaccine. let's get right to cnn's jeff zeleny live at the white house. biden's message today was, be concerned about omicron, but do not be alarmed. >> jake, it was. this was -- he was attending his first formal covid briefing of this new year. he blunt

jake? >> plth cohen, thanks so much. let's bring in a pediatrician and the director for child health behavior and development at seattle children's hospital. doctor a kid in seventh grade has not had a steady predictable education since fourth grade. those are such incredibly formative years. how concerned are you that thousands of schools have decided to delay or go remote for the first part of this year. >> i'm very concerned. it's really good to be back, but i wish i were back here to talk about something else. you know, we keep facing this same dilemma about whether or not children should go to school. and we know enough now to know that they can go to school safely. the schools are not a primary source of contagion, particularly when mitigation strategies are followed. and we also know that keeping them out of school has been immensely damaging to their mental health, cognitive development and these years are lost. not easily recoverable. and to me, to see that we have sports arenas going on when they can field team

we'll see more of this, jake. i am pretty sure of it. >> does this signal the justice department is going to be pursuing more extremist groups in relation to the insurrection? >> i think so for sure. the oath keepers was only one of the groups involved. we know the three percenters, the proud boys, all sorts of other groups. i think they are looking at all of them. i think they are looking at their links together. i think they are looking at what they did with people in the white house, in congress, and others who were involved potentially in this broader plot to stop the transfer of power. i think they are looking at all of it now. we'll have to see where it goes. >> thanks to all of you. a really rough 24-hour period for president joe biden, including not getting what he wanted after a trip down pennsylvania avenue thanks to democratic senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin and the supreme court delivering a big loss to the biden administration blocking the vaccine mandate. the secretary of labor will join us t

>> i think it's a start, jake. the idea that just having a solo briefing, as you mentioned, hasn't happened in a long time, half a year. it's important if you go back to h1n1 and ebola days. tom frieden and richard besser. you got regular briefings from the cdc. you got there on thinging process. you didn't just hear from them when there was a huge change. i talk to dr. walensky offline, off tv quite a bit. it's a sudden change that we're not clued into so we're not getting a process of what's happening or the thinking behind what's happening here. listen to how she framed some of the criticism today and responded to it. >> we're in an unprecedented time with the speed of omicron cases rising and we're working really hard to get information to the american public and balancing that with the reality that we're all living with. this is hard and i am committed to continue to improve as we learn more about the science and to communicate that with all of you. >> as things stand now, jake, there was a poll that was done

jake? >> alexandra field, thank you. joining us now to discuss, dr. chris parnell and dr. paul offit. what are you seeing at your hospital right now? how sick are the kids? >> we're seeing in some ways a different kind of illness with omicron. typically you'd see more pneumonias. now more upper respiratory tract infections like croup. as was said earlier, they're unvaccinated generally. not only are they unvaccinated, the parents unvaccinated, siblings. often that's where they get it from. if you look at the largest group in this country unvaccinated it's people less than 30. and if we're going to get on top of this pandemic, we have to vaccine the young. >> today dr. walensky said this. >> hospital zagd rates for people infected with omicron are lower compared with prior variants. despite decrease in severity, the substantial number of absolute cases is resulting in hospitalization increases across all age groups. including children ages 0 to 4. >> even icu admissions are nearing the highe

i'm jake tapper. the u.s. capitol the scene of a dark day in american history, the deadly insurrection exactly one year ago today. five people lost their lives on january 6, 2021 during or immediately after the riot and the very democracy of the united states was attacked and shaken. today president joe biden addressed the nation from statuary hall inside the u.s. capitol and blaisd the blame for the horrible attack squarely on the shoulders of former president trump.

jake, who is threatening whom? it's not that ukraine is poised on the border with russia, about to invade them. it's the other way around. russia has 100,000 troops looking like they're about to invade ukraine. so the head of the u.s. delegation, deputy secretary of state wendy sherman told me there is no sign that after these talks russia looks like it's going to de-escalate. take a listen. >> there was no commitment to de-escalate, nor was there a statement that there would not be. what i think is very important and which i think russia heard loudly and clearly from all allies today is, it's very hard to have dialogue, to have diplomacy that is conducive to success when, in fact, you have 100,000 troops, live-fire exercises, propaganda, disinformation, other efforts to subvert that environment. >> remember, russia came into these talks this week with two major demands that had already been rejected out of hand by the u.s. and nato. and that is that ukraine never be allowed to join nato and nato withdraw troops fr

jake? >> nick watt, thanks. >>> let's bring in medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. the white house rolled out its free at-home testing site today. a limit of four per household and it will take a couple of weeks before the tests get to people's doorsteps. will this effort ultimately make any sort of dent in the pandemic? >> well, maybe not for this big omicron surge, but going forward, yes. i think tests are critical -- a critical tool to help us get back to normal. it's how we are going to be able to understand whether that tickle in your throat is just a tickle in your throat or whether it's covid. and whether you need to stay home. it's a tool to allow you to go visit your friends on saturday night which is what we and our friends did before we met this past weekend. so it's going to be critical to have tests in every home. it would have been wonderful for us to have had this months ago, but here we are and i'm glad the administration is doing this. but for most people they won't be abl

i'm jake tapper. as the omicron variant pushes cases to record highs across the country parents and students are facing what we put behind us, virtual learning as thousands of students and teachers call out which can with covid. in new york city the mayor is resisting pressure to pause in-person learning. how is he making that work? mr. mayor, congratulations on taking the oath of office. it's good to see you. you've seen the images the last few weeks, lines of new yorkers wrapped around the block trying to get covid tests. the biden administration tried to improve access to testing supplies. are you getting from you need from the biden administration and are you satisfied where test something in new york city right now? >> we are getting what we need and i cannot tell you how much i thank the president getting the resources here on the ground and the governor of the amazing communication and coordination is allowing us not to live within the walls of this crisis, and we are moving things forward and

i'm jake tapper. as the omicron variant pushes cases to record highs across the country, parents and students are facing what we put behind us, virtual learning as thousands of students and teachers call out which can with covid. in new york city the mayor is resisting pressure to pause in-person learning. how is he making that work? joining us to discuss, new york city's new mayor, eric adams. mr. mayor, congratulations on taking the oath of office. it's good to see you. you've seen the images the last few weeks, lines of new yorkers wrapped around the block trying to get covid tests. biden administration pledged to improve access to testing supplies across the nation. are you getting from you need from the biden administration and are you satisfied where test something in new york city right now? >> we are getting what we need and i cannot tell you how much i thank the president getting the resources here on the ground and the governor, of the amazing communication and coordination is allowing us no

the problem, and jake knows better than i do, time is running short. we're into an election year and the further you get into an election year the harder it gets to legislate big, big items. if they go to a plan "b," it will have to be in a relatively short amount of time to get some wins on the board. >> president biden is a creature of the senate, known as the senate whisperer. his powers of persuasion don't seem to be working, at least when it comes to those two key senators. how much is biden's problem structural versus self-inflicted wounds over the last year? >> look, president biden came to office promising that he understood how to make the system work, because he had been part of it for so long, that he could work across aisle, that he could make some breakthroughs with republicans. he did on infrastructure, as jake rightly pointed out, but he hasn't been able to on anything else. that shows the limitations on his ability to work with the system and the system itself. it's not the same system joe biden was first elected to almost 50 years ago.

i'm going to tell you something, jake. i was on the phone today with one of the ceos in the auto industry. and we are behind as a country keeping up with europe. and asia in terms of advanced technology. we can't afford not to get this done because -- he told me that even our neighbor canada is beating us and -- these companies are building battery plants there. i don't want those companies going to canada or europe or to china or korea. we've got to get this bill done and keep the jobs here. >> today the senate majority leader chuck schumer, democrat of new york, put election reform on the priority list. he wants to debate senate rules in the next two weeks. theoretically getting rid of the filibuster for this vote. it's an issue democrats campaigned on, election reform, voting rights, promised action. is that going to happen? are manchin and sinema going to be on board that change? >> i don't know what's going to happen. i'm a traditionalist. i think that our constitution has held up for a couple of centuries, but i also

jake? >> all right. thank you. appreciate it. >>> coming up next, the extreme covid protection measures which could cost some athletes who have been training for their life times chance at realizing their olympic dreams. stay with us. -legitimate and ge- can be transformational. daddy! for the best audio entertainment and storytelling. audible. we're getting destroyed out there. we need a plan! i have a plan... right now at t-mobile customers on magenta max can get the new iphone 13 and t-mobile will pay for it! upgrade to the iphone 13 on us. >>> in our national lead, police in miami beach, florida, are investigating after anti-semitic flyers were found. the city's mayor saying they cannot just sit by and assume it is an act of harmless stupidity. as the reporter tells us, the mayor is taking new steps to try to protect all faith communities while the investigation heats up. >> reporter: this is what hate looks like. a flyer delivered in the middle of the night to more than 200 miami beach homes, according to city

an hour or so later he met up with jake. they played video games and then went to walmart where this camera captured them at about 2:00 am. there was no sign of halee. >> so were you thinking, "they think i might be involved in halee's murder. " >> yeah. >> jake told police he hadn't seen halee that night, but isaiah had told him where he'd taken her. to a local park, a few miles from the soccer field. >> he told me he dropped her off and he went on a separate way because she wanted to go there to meet somebody. >> that didn't sound right to jake. >> i feel like he wasn't that type of person to let her be there alone at that time of night. he was way too overprotective. >> something wasn't adding up for you. >> not at all. >> and there was something else that bothered him. jake told police that the isaiah he knew had always been a standup guy. but recently he'd heard stories about isaiah stealing from people. >> his roommate was telling me, he owes us rent, he stole my tv. and i said, "he did what? " >> oh my gosh. so he was

jake? >> thank you so much. joining us live to discuss, senior correspondent matthew chance in kiev. and nic robertson who is in moscow. matthew, let me start with you. the white house press secretary said that a russian invasion of ukraine remains imminent. ukraine disputes that. they say that's not the case. what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah. that's right. that pushing back, ukrainian officials that i've spoken to on that characterization that the threat is imminent, saying that look. we've got defense officials here. intelligence assessors looking at satellite photographs from the u.s. and other western intelligence agency on an hourly basis. and they say they're not seeing russia forces getting into combat mode or positioning themselves for an attack. so they are pushing back saying it is danger, rather than imminent. the krunian official i spoke with, according to the intelligence assessment here, no order appears to have been given to the russian forces. and remember, there are tens of thousands of t

lieutenant jake trickette with the sheriff's department showed us around. his department had been tracking a group of people renting this pace. when deputies opened it up, he says it looked like any retailer's warehouse. floor-to-ceiling racks of what looked like inventory. everything was itemized, it was all organized by product type. 270,000 items in all, according to charging documents, worth almost $8 million. the group had even set up its own store called d-luxe otc to sell what it had to the highest bidder. authorities say these fencers even use major ecommerce sites to move what they've stolen. >> some of these other retailers, they may not know that they are supporting, you know, illicit product to be redistributed. they may not know that. the fences in this case were caught and prosecuted, but california's attorney general says fighting organized thefts will require other options. >> if we can create some restrictions, some verifications on those secondary marketplaces, some brick and mortar, some online, then we can freeze out the demand, freeze t

you can do that by reading the book "the loop" by jake ward. i want to thank you for joining us and congratulations, again, on the book. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you having me. >>> so that was just a small piece of that conversation with jake. you can actually watch our full interview on nbc bay area streaming app. just download it. it's free. and you can watch the information on apple tv, roku or amazon fire. and look for our talk under the must-see playlist. >>> cracking down on parties at airbnb rentals, still ahead on "today in the bay," we sit down with company leaders about new guidelines and how effective they are so far. >>> right now at 5:00, a heads-up for transit riders. muni warning of delays during the commute. we're live in san francisco with what you need to know before you head out the door and the wait until muni gets back on track. >> we are investing in tooling to get smarter. >> cracking down on unwanted parties. airbnb now has tools to stop guests from taking things too far, but are those tools working? one

a lot of people ordering, jake. this is half of the -- this is half of the internet traffic for the government in total right now is the ordering of these tests. a lot of people in on it. 500 million of these are expected to go out over the next 60 days. so we'll see how that goes. but this is obviously a big endeavor. >> do you recommend that everyone order the test now just to have them on hand even if they're not feeling any symptoms right now? do these tests expire? >> some of them do expire. they have a shelf life and it's different for different tests. certainly look at he box. but it's usually months to a year in terms of shelf life. yes is the answer to the question. i think people should order them now. you can get a sense of how hard they may be when you need them. hopefully, you know, the numbers continue to go down as we're talking about and the demand eases up a bit. but having them on hand, even if there's another surge or something, would certainly be helpful. and if you've had an exposure to somebody

and you can, of course, catch jake at 4:00 p.m. eastern time today. >>> breaking overnight, the supreme court rejected a request by president trump to seal hundreds of white house records related to january 6 under claims of executive privilege. some of that material has already been handed over to the january 6 committee, of which our next guest is a member. joining me now is congressman pete aguilar of california. congressman, what do you have now in terms of those records? >> well, the committee will start to go through those records promptly. we've received some already, and we will continue to receive some in the days ahead. but it's important to just note how important this is for us in our seek, in our desire to get to the ruth and to seek justice. this is important. this is an important step. the former president did not want these records out there, and we're going to find out exactly why. >> let me ask you about some of the specifics in the records that were requested there. the videos, the outtakes of some of the message

thanks so much, jake. see you in a few. >> thank you, erin. >>> next, it's tennis champs rafael nadal versus novak djokovic. this is not a story actually about tennis, this is a story about vaccines. >>> plus the stand-off over returning to school. chicago making a decision about tomorrow. hundreds of thousands of kids, are they going to be able to go back to school? (man 1 vo) i'm living with cll and thanks to imbruvica (man 2 vo) i'm living longer. (vo) imbruvica is a prescription medicine for adults with cll or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. imbruvica is not chemotherapy- it's the #1 prescribed oral therapy for cll, proven to help people live longer. imbruvica can cause serious side effects, which may lead to death. bleeding problems are common and may increase with blood thinners. serious infections with symptoms like fevers, chills, weakness or confusion and severe decrease in blood counts can happen. heart rhythm problems and heart failure may occur especially in people with increased risk of heart di

>> imagine that. >> well, jake, i know, look, this isn't a day about giving credit to jake, right? but i do want to say there was a moment where it looked like there were republicans who might say, yeah, this was bad, and we heard them say that, we heard lindsey graham say that, mitch mcconnell say that, we even heard for a moment kevin mccarthy say that for a moment, but you knew it from the moment there. >> he doesn't want to -- >> he doesn't want to, but you saw it. and it unfortunately was so true. and that is sort of the defining thing about what happened a year ago that we still see today. >> it was very sad. i thought you were going to runt clip from that day where i said that the murdoch family needed to stop pushing the lies because it was a threat to american democracy. and they did not rein in all the lies. now fox is being sued by some of the election software companies, and we see what that has done to democracy as well. >> run that every day. >> that would have been a good one too. jake, listen, thank you very much for joining us this morning. and everyone should join

it's going to take some time. >> and jake, time is the key word there. the biden administration is working on overhauling the a asylum system at the border flirting with new technology, but all of that will take time. >> priscilla alvarez, thank you. >>> months after the variant was first detected, the covid wards are almost empty in south africa. is the u.s. looking at a similar path for omicron here? stick around. we'll look at what you've saved, what you'll need, and help you build a flexible plan for cash flow designed to last. so you can go from saving... to living. step up. prep up. to help keep you free from the risk of hiv. descovy for prep. a once-daily prescription medicine... ...that helps lower the chances of getting hiv through sex. it's not for everyone. descovy for prep has not been studied in people assigned female at birth. talk to your doctor to find out if it's right for you. descovy is another way to prep. descovy does not prevent other sexually transmitted infections, so it's important to use safer sex practices and get tested regula

tell us about the tone in court today. >> yeah, jake. for starters, the tone took everyone right back to may 2020, the day derek chauvin murdered george floyd. we heard from the prosecution and the defense, the main arguments in this case. the prosecution largely stuck to the charges that the officers are facing. that they were deliberately indifferent to floyd's medical needs when he was under the knee of derek chauvin. and at least king and tau failed to intervene and stop derek chauvin. the prosecutors say that each one of these defendants had an opportunity to take their -- had a choice over and over again. they chose not to intervene and stop chauvin as he killed a man. they chose not to protect george floyd, the man they hand cuffed, and then went on to tell the jury what to expect. it was the paramedics and that the defendants who told chauvin to get off. all these officers have pleaded not guilty to these charges, and critically, we learned one. officers, thomas larynx does plan to testify as part of the trial. >> all right. omar

>> first of all, i think jake is right. i think we have underestimated and underrate kwhad the committee has done. i think they've done extraordinary work so far. as well, if you want to be illogically consistent, then wouldn't kamala harris have the lawful right to decide the outcome of the next presidential election? mr. trump really does not think about what he says, and what he says is logically inconsistent and consistently wrong. the law should be revisited to make it clear that a vice president doesn't have the authority that trump ascribes to the vice president. but pence did the right thing. i'm sure harris will do the right thing. it makes sense to me, stephanie, to make the law more clear. logically inconsistent and consistently wrong would make for an amazing t-shirt. the january 6th investigation is the largest criminal probe in u.s. history. trump now saying he might pardon 700-plus of those rioters, those people who were charged, if he wins again. could he even do that? >> well, if he wins again, yes, he coul

i'm jake tapper. moments ago president biden wrapped up a speech in pittsburgh promoting what he sees a it's major accomplishments, such as the nation's economic growth, his bipartisan infrastructure deal. but a crisis overseas is consuming a great deal of the president's attention. insisting that an attack by russia into ukraine will be horrific. john sullivan today calling moscow's troop build-up along ukraine's border extraordinary, adding that this gives vladimir putin the ability to invade with no notice. democratic congressman gregory meeks is leading a congressional delegation the house foreign affairs committee that he chairs, and he will join me in a moment in his first tv interview cynic his meeting today with the ukrainian president, zelinsky. >> president biden driving home his infrastructure message in pittsburgh with an extraordinary back drop. >> it's incredible. >> reporter: hours before biden arrived, at least ten people were injured when a 52-year-old bridge suddenly collapsed, sendi

i'm jake tapper. we start with the health lead. a powerful message this afternoon from president joe biden, an ally of teachers

tell us about that. >> it did, jake. that's because the initial telemetry readings, the data and information on where this thing was going, suggested it may have been briefly an icbm that could have threatened the aleutian islands off alaska or perhaps the west coast. that was quickly revised with more information either from something like infrared satellites or radar and the u.s. realized this was not a threat to the u.s. or its territory. the faa issued a ground stop for just about 15 minutes for some airports on the west coast. that was quickly removed and the faa hasn't issued a statement other than this is a precautionary measure which we take somewhat often. but this is really not something you see very often, ground stops, even if only regional, are pretty serious steps. the faa is reviewing the decision-making process that went into that. >> north korea claims tuesday's launch was a hypersonic missile. what are u.s. officials saying about that? >> the only official u.s. statement about it so far has been that th

avert open conflict in a moment, some of my interview with the white house national security adviser, jake sullivan but first to the front lines where we start with richard engel. >> reporter: you can see how confident ukrainians are in diplomacy with russia, with every scrape and swing of their shovel. today troops are digging new defensive trenches in the frozen ground close to russian forces ukrainian troops are preparing for the worst because they worry that russia is not negotiating in good faith and is just going through the motions of diplomacy so it can say it gave peace a chance and then invade anyway senior american and russian diplomats met for nearly eight hours. no breakthroughs though russia's lead diplomat today insisted it has no plans to invade, he added a warning. >> after every mistake, every miscalculation with respect to what should be done in your atlantics, security of countries, to the west of russia suffers. >> reporter: russia has more than 100,000 troops positioned near ukraine's borders. it is demanding ukraine never be allowed to join nato and that nato shrink

let me give you a bottom line, jake. when we did threats 20 years ago for the fbi director we had maybe a handful on the table every day of serious players and maybe 5,000 investigations of al qaeda nationwide. that is violent extremism of a foreign nature. that's not a revolution. today you had 700 people charged in one day. there are members of congress who believed this extremism is not only acceptable but that violence may be the only solution and polling data says there are tens of millions of people who sympathize with them. let me be clear. law enforcement can't handle this. that's not extremism. that's a revolution. and the leaders have a responsibility to cut it out. >> yeah. revolution is a nice term for it. treason might be another one. militia groups have long organized under ground in this country. how dangerous are they to local law enforcement officials need to do more to stop those groups? >> they're dangerous. what we saw a year after the insurrection was essentially for a while they went quiet because t