jill biden. [applause] please have a seat. first lady dr. jill biden, president joe biden. thank you both for your incredible and long-standing leadership on an issue of national importance, yes, and of personal significance to so many of us. including me. as dr. biden said, my whole life i stood witness as my mother, a scientist, worked to and brent -- breast cancer. she taught at a public university, she worked at a national laboratory, she published groundbreaking research she was a peer reviewer at the national institute of health, nih, and collaborated with scientists around the world including france, italy, canada. my mom's discoveries help saved women's lives. i am so proud she brought our nation and our world closer to the goal of ending rest cancer as we know it. -- breast cancer as we know it. today we are closer than we have ever been, since the turn of the century we have made significant breakthroughs. we have learned so much about therapeutics, diagnostics, public health, patient care. more people are surviving cancer. more people are enduring cancer after be

so jill, thank you very much for joining us this evening. a lot has happened since we spoke to you at the beginning of the hour. what do you make of these explosions that we're hearing and the interior minister saying -- or ministry saying the invasion has begun? >> well, it obviously has. and i think the most interesting and the important part right now is to look exactly at what president putin is saying. so what he is saying is he has launched this special operation, this special military operation, to protect the people he says in donbas who have been subject ed to genocide as he puts it and all sorts of attacks for eight years. and what he's talking about, and this is kind of a disturbing thing, he wants to demilitarize and denaziify ukraine. now, that could mean further afield than simply donbas. he also says they are going to bring to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians including civilians of the russian federation. and then at the same time he says we don't plan to include the occupation of ukrainian

i will now turn it over to jill to conclude today's message. jill? jill: thank you congressmen. thanks to everybody for joining us for today's briefing. i am programming vice chair. i want to thank you all for joining this discussion today on the conference of ukraine. we hope you found today's program meaningful and thought-provoking. we encourage you to visit our website to learn more about all of the ways that you can support programs like these, by becoming a member in 2022, the most important moment right now that you can take action and get involved in these upcoming elections. and joining one of our local chapters. with the mid turn -- midterm elections are just a bit away. we need you to ensure the jewish voters helped to elect members of congress who will reflect our values. take action with us now and be sure to sign up and enjoying our next event for members on march 1 at 7:30 p.m. with formal michelle obama speech water -- speech writer and author. with that, we think the congressman and all of you for joining us today. i want to thank you for being with us today and

jill, appreciate that. jill dougherty there in moscow. atika schubert here in lviv with me in the west of the country. what sense are you getting from ukrainians here, how they're preparing for this? >> reporter: well, we do know that in the days leading up to this, the government had put out public brochures telling people what to do in the event of an emergency, asking them to make sure they had enough food, gas, an alternate source of heat and energy if those supplies should be cut off. make sure they have emergency bags and to know where their nearest shelters were if they needed to leave their home. a lot of churches, for example, have been designated as shelters. but the question is how seriously did many ukrainians take this? you know, so many people here have been living with the specter of war for the last eight years that they've kind of grown used to it. i think for many they didn't believe this day would actually happen. and to actually hear sirens here in lviv, in the western part of ukraine, which is just an hour from the po

so this is the gel. >> jill? >> i think, in terms of the ethics, they should disclose this immediately. but there are so many people who are withholding information. and some of this is very important information. we have gotten through the gap in documents. but again, this goes back to watergate. one of the big turning points in the public reaction to the crimes, was when we discovered an 18 minute gap in one of the tapes. where the recording in the white house had a big gap in it. >> yes. >> and these are the things like the telephone logs that are now missing. or have been prevented from ever being created by his using cell phones that belong to himself, personally, or to other people. like a mob boss. so you would not get caught. on your own phone that can be traced you. that is really criminal. and it's important, not just to the history of the country, but to the future of historians who can review the records. but of course, it's important right now as we look to find out what the president knew. and when

i will now turn it over to jill to conclude today's message. jill? jill: thank you congressmen. thanks to everybody for joining us for today's briefing. i am programming vice chair. i want to thank you all for joining this discussion today on the conference of ukraine. we hope you found today's program meaningful and thought-provoking. we encourage you to visit our website to learn more about all of the ways that you can support programs like these, by becoming a member in 2022, the most important moment right now that you can take action and get involved in these upcoming elections. and joining one of our local chapters. with the mid turn -- midterm elections are just a bit away. we need you to ensure the jewish voters helped to elect members of congress who will reflect our values. take action with us now and be sure to sign up and enjoying our next event for members on march 1 at 7:30 p.m. with formal michelle obama speech water -- speech writer and author. with that, we think the congressman and all of you for joining us today. i want to thank you for being with us today >>

why, jill? >> we just haven't been able to. i don't know. >> after he died you found a journal in his room? >> yes. he actually had a few journals and he had one with like all the clothes line stuff and he had his designs. he had what logo went where, the colors, the price points. i mean, everything. and another journal he had people he wanted to meet, books he wanted to read. he had songs he wanted to hear, movies he wanted to watch. and he had favorite quotes from people. >> who did he want to meet? i'm curious. >> elon musk. >> yeah. >> he wanted to meet elon musk? >> elon musk. he had robert smith on there. he'd actually tried to reach him in austin to intern. he wanted to intern for him because he was -- >> i think that's a treasure to have. >> it is. >> you've also continued his work. he was in greece because he was shooting a photo shoot for his fashion line. >> correct. so that's what i spend all my time doing. >> what do you think he'd say about you doing this? >> well, he always told me i was going to be working for h

cbs business analyst jill schlesinger joins us. jill, we just laid out a lot. but in terms of the threat to american corporations and the uncertainty that we now have confronting the u.s. economy, how do you think this plays out? >> well, i think this has a far-reaching economic consequence potentially. and it really starts with the flow of everything from petroleum products to maybe agricultural products, like wheat, or maybe iron or aluminum. these products, these commodcommodities, have been soaring in price. now, when we talk about the businesses, businesses truly have a real issue here because they may pull back on their spending. they may be worried about the supply chain. we just heard chris krebs talk about these cyber security threats. all of this put together weighs on so much of the economy. and i think what is clear is that investors have really started to pay attention to this over the last week or so. markets have been selling off earlier in january. but we have seen a real escalation of fear creep into the marketplace. right now the s&p 500 throu

jill, i want to go to you first. what is your reaction to these sanctions that biden is reportedly going to put in place? we want to know, these are more limited sanctions. these are not the sanctions that we've been hearing that they were threatening to put in place. this is more limited. is this really going to deter putin in any way? >> reporter: well, obviously not, but i guess there must be some reason. how many american business people are doing business in luhansk people's republic. but there are more sanctions to come. and i can tell you, pam, that this is really a dramatic moment. we all knew by the afternoon that president putin would be signing this, you know, recognition of those two breakaway regions, but we didn't expect that there would be basically an hour-long recitation of history of ukraine, the way vladimir putin sees it, which is essentially, boils down to look, ukraine isn't even a country. it was created by ripping away pieces of russia to create ukraine, and then he broadened it out. he talked

jill biden: hi, well, hello. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. please be seated. gosh, so many friends here. it's so nice to see all of you. and you're getting me so emotional before i have to speak about cancer. so, anyway, welcome to the white house. and, you know, certain words have the power to make time stop. malignant. aggressive. terminal. cancer. like a spell, they still the air around us.

and, you know, jill, i had to quote jill stein do often. but when she said, what are you going to believe? these are the same people that told us that 2020 election was perfect. and you know, and there hasn't been any evidence they say presented that there was a problem. that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of dishonesty from the major sources, intelligence community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in the shower, grapes and all, that's not what we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe. 2 what i mean, and these are the same people in charge, it's amazing to watch on that time scratch. i have because they're allowed to be able to kept in power. and they're actually given more powerful positions on this. but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one

and, you know, jill, i had to quote jill stein do often, but when she said, what are you going to believe? these are the same people that told us the 2020 election was perfect. and you know, and there hasn't been any evidence they say presented that there was a problem. that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of a dishonest. the from the major sources, intelligence community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in sour, grapes and all, that's not what we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe, what i mean, and these are the same people in charge. it's amazing to watch on that time. scratch my head because they're allowed to be able to kept in power. and they're actually given more powerful positions on this, but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one. how far up did it go? did the hillary clinton did

i want to go to jill dougherty in moscow. i've been really anxious to talk with you, jill. russia's disinformation campaign continues. they won't report casualties that they sustained in this fight. they don't want to acknowledge that the ukrainians are putting up more of a resistance than previously anticipated. we shouldn't even say we now know, but we've known for a long time not to trust anything they say, but they've been proven liars in recent days, say there's no invasion, no plan for an invasion, and so on. how much of the russian people, i guess, inside russia, obviously. how much do they know about what's going on? what is the messaging going on the ground there? are you getting a sense that people are starting to come to the reality that things aren't going well? unlike what their government is saying right now. >> reporter: well, you know, i think in the west we've had this image that writings propaganda, russian use of information war is very powerful, they can influence a whole lot of things around the world, but actually from the perspective of moscow, and wa

and, you know, jill, i had to quote jill stein do often, but when she said, what are you going to believe? these are the same people that told us that 2020 election was perfect. and you know, and there hasn't been any evidence they say presented that there was a problem. that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of dishonesty from the major sources, intelligence, community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in sour, grapes and all, that's not where we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe, what i mean, and these are the same people in charge, it's amazing to watch on that time scratch. i have because they're allowed to be able to kept in power, and they're actually given more powerful positions on this. but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one. how far up did it go? did the hillary clinton did the

and, you know, jill, i hate to quote jill stein do often, but when she said, what are you going to believe? these are the same people that told us that 2020 election was perfect. and you know, and there hasn't been any evidence they say presented that there was a problem. that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of dishonesty from the major sources, intelligence, community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in sour, grapes and all, that's not what we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe. what i mean, and these are the same people in charge, it's amazing to watch on that time. scratch my head because they're allowed to be able to kept and power. and they're actually getting more powerful positions on this. but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one. how far up did it go? did the hillary clinton did

and, you know, jill, i hate to quote jill stein do often. but when she said, what are you going to believe? these are the same people that told us that 2020 election was perfect. and you know, and there hasn't been any evidence they say presented that there was a problem. that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of dishonesty from the major sources, intelligence community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in sour, grapes and all, that's not what we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe. what i mean, and these are the same people in charge, it's amazing to watch on that time scratch. i have because they're allowed to be able to kept in power. and they're actually given more powerful positions on this. but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one. how fa

let me start with you, jill, and what you're seeing. the sanctions that came out are robust, serious. the president calls them profound. we don't know all the individuals on them and they can go further. they didn't completely isolate russia from the s.w.i.f.t. banking system. we know they're tougher. the question for you, jill, is president putin prepared for this? is this exactly what he expected or is he at all caught off guard? >> reporter: i don't think he's caught off guard. maybe he doesn't know every single part of this but he knew some draconian steps would be taken. you could say he was preparing for this for a long time. he has the massive fund of about $620 billion, $630 billion. he's wibeen, in terms of previo sanctions, protecting the people close to him, the elites, with money that has flowed, this kind of slush fund for big businesses here in russia that are close to the president. and right now he actually had a meeting with russian business people and made that argument this goes way beyond ukraine and that it was an e

and she did interrupt again when talking to her next interviewee, jill rutter. reminiscent of what we're told was heard in the prime - minister's flat. maybe it's still the same cd. but no, i don't think- it was a party culture, then... mr rees—mogg, will you come and talk to us here on bbc news? please — come on, today, you know you want to. ok, i'm so sorry, jill rutter. that's the last time i'm going to interrupt anybody. despite the apologies, several newswatch viewers were angry about what they saw. here's paul williams. that evening, the location changed from downing street to kyiv — where borisjohnson had been holding talks with the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, about the threat posed by the build—up of russian troops on its border. but had the subject matter changed too? well, let's see what was said after the two leaders had spoken at a press conference following their meeting. translation: thank you to colleagues, journalists. - the prime minister and the president are prepared to answer a couple of questions. bbc, please. just wait

and she did interrupt again, when talking to her next interviewee, jill rutter. reminiscent of what we're told i was heard in the prime minister's flat, maybe it's still the same cd. but no, i don't think- it was a party culture, then... mr rees—mogg, will you come and talk to us here on bbc news? please — come on, today, you know you want to. ok, i'm so sorry, jill rutter, that's the last time i'm going to interrupt anybody. despite the apologies, several newswatch viewers were angry about what they saw. here's paul williams... that evening, the location changed from downing street to kyiv — where borisjohnson had been holding talks with the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, about the threat posed by the build—up of russian troops on its border. but, had the subject matter changed, too? well, let's see what was said after the two leaders had spoken at a press conference following their meeting. translation: thank you to colleagues, journalists. - the prime minister and the president are prepared to answer a couple of questions. bbc, please. just w

do we have our jill dougherty in moscow? i want you to respond please, jill, if you will, to what the white house is saying. the president saying that russia alone is responsible for this bloodshed. you heard kaitlan saying they were hoping these sanctions would be a deterrent. obviously, they are not. at this point we are beyond sanctions being a deterrent. can you hear me, jill? >> yes, i am. yeah. hey, don. >> go on, please. >> obviously, the president, the russian president is not talking about sanctions. this is -- as we get more and more of the translation, this is a very angry speech and it's directed not only at ukraine, it's also directed at nato. he says that nato supports those neo-nazis. and he goes back into history about crimea, et cetera. but i think what -- two really important things. he is actually directly tacking to the ukrainian army and saying that you should -- don't follow the criminal orders coming from the ukrainian government. i urge you to lay down your weapons immediately and go home. and he says

lee, at the white house, oren liebermann at the pentagon, jill dougherty in moscow, and cnn remilitary analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton joins us. hello, one and all. m.j., president biden is making it clear that russia is the aggressor. are sanctions just the first step in punishing moscow? . that is at least what the white house is saying right i know, that this is just the beginning. when president biden announced the the sanctions today, he called them really the first tranche of sanctions. they included sanctioning and targeting the two russian financial institutions. they also target u.s. investment and russian foreign debt. they also take aim at russians elite and families. also as we know and we have talked about so much, the u.s. is consistently opposed to the nord stream 2 pipeline, this gas line that runs between germany and russia. so the line from the white house now is that these sanctions will continue to work on sort of a rolling basis. as russia invades more, if they invade more, more sanctions are going to be headed their way. but a question that the

jill, i'm going to start with you. there have been these protests in russia, thousands taking to the streets, many facing arrests. how are most russians reacting to this aggression in ukraine? >> you know, i think if you look at the polling you'd have to say that probably the majority, somewhere around half of the public does support this operation. now, why they support it is because they feel that russians are under attack. and they're getting that picture from, you know, the russian state media. but there are these people who are showing up protesting on the streets of moskow, st. petersburg and many other cities. it varies every day. it's been 50 cities then 25, 26. but they're out there. and they are usually very quickly detained, arrested and shutdown. and we've even had some people who went over to the ukrainian embassy here in moskow and laid flowers, but these are very small numbers. and yet if you go to social media, and maybe we can talk about that later. you go to social media and there is a lot more critic

jill joining us from moscow, right? so, jill, is this a signal that the russian government is feeling increased pressure at home by at least acknowledging that there are some casualties? >> i think it is. up until now, you figure the operation has been going on, you know, what, for four days, and they haven't talked about anybody being killed or wounded. granted they didn't give any numbers, but i think this is an indication of what we have been seeing on the screen. the fact of the matter. and then the other thing here in moscow, which i think is really important is that announcement by the president, president putin that he is putting the nuclear forces on this special -- he calls it special combat regime. and the reason he gave for that is that nato is making threatening statements and the sanctions. it feels more, of course, than necessary to answer those. but this is, i think, almost reminiscent of the old soviet days when soviet leaders did much the same thing, which would be a very over the top threatening statem

kaitlan collins at the white house, clarissa ward in kyiv, and jill in moscow, first i want to show you this from clarissa back from what could be a flashpoint from a wider conflict. >> reporter: the ukrainian military brought us nearly 400 miles toward the front lines in the east of the country. it's already dark by the time we land, and will only have a short time on the ground, but they are determined to show us the aftermath of heavy shelling earlier in the day. >> this kindergarten is less than three miles from the so-called line of contact, the front line, and witnesses in this area said that around 8 or 9:00 this morning started to hear shelling, loud enough that they could hear the whistle of the shells going by and two of them landed here at this kindergarten. let's take a look. >> at the end of the hallway, this is what remains of the playroom, the military says the first shell hit at 8:45 a.m., the children were eating breakfast in another part of the building. teacher tells me she immediately rushed them into the hallway, away from the windows. so she's saying in that moment

jill, what do you think? we just heard from the white house warning of the extensive sanctions they're considering. they're saying these would be the most powerful sanctions to date. why have those warnings not been a deterrent so far for putin? there has not been a full invasion. we've seen more troops amassing. we've seen the false flag operations. the u.s. now blames russia for the cyberattacks on ukraine this week. >> reporter: you know, pamela, sanctions have been imposed for a very long time. when you look at ukraine, it's been happening since crimea which would be 2014. and there is a debate, you know. do they actually work? now, concretely, they have damaged the russian economy. there is no question. but putin decided early on that what he was going to have is counter sanctions. so what he did was he deliberately said, no european products, no european cheese, et cetera. but he also began building up domestically some of the industries that really weren't very well developed. so he's been able to, i w

but i want to go back to one of the other things about that text message you read to jill. you know, one of the things it shows in addition to the fact that there was planning is it suggests indirectly what donald trump's state of mind is. so even if you don't have donald trump's testimony, what you do have is the inference that all these people were screaming stop, get out there, stop it, tell him no. as we heard from the committee already and powerfully, donald trump sat there enjoying what he was watching on television. as we've just heard from a federal judge, the civil lawsuit that folks like congressman bennie thompson and congressman eric swalwell and capitol police officers have brought for damages against donald trump are going to go forward and he will have to sit for deposition in those cases. >> ladies, you know how to open up the conversation. jill wine-banks, thank you very much. maya, i would like you to stick around a little bit. there's a little bit more i want to grill you on. >>> next, president biden held an emergency meeting with the national security c

jill, i want to start with you. we are getting word on that call, secretary lavrov, secretary of state antony blinken was urging a diplomatic solution based on what we've seen thus far. do you think that's something that can even be embraced by russia? >> you know, at this point, i'm not very hopeful about that. it doesn't seem to really be going anywhere. and one of the crux of the issue, of course, is that issue of the eastern russian speaking part of ukraine, and the conflict that's going on there. essentially, what the russians are saying is the ukrainians aren't engaging. they're not trying to solve this. and even worse that the united states is goading them, you know, provoking them, to take some type of military action. so there's a lot of action there. if you think, lavrov and blinken, putin and biden. and putin is going to be speaking with the french president macron as well. then the highest military officials, general milley and gerasimov. and it's not going anywhere diplomatically. and the most worrying

jill doherty, thank you for that report. joining me now is gary kasparof. gary, we hear the chess analogy a lot in international politics. there doesn't seem to be a lot of logic to the decisions putin is making right know. today he's talking about putting his nuclear forces on high alert. sounds like he's throwing a tantrum and throwing the chess pieces on the floor. >> i don't think we can apply the chess logic to putin's action. it's much more likely popular logic. it's the game putin has been playing for years and years. he always won. not because he had a strong hand. very often he had a weak hand, but it's about bluff. he could bluff and raise the stakes. the opposition always fold ed cards. now putin is facing the reality his military operation in ukraine is failing. they couldn't achieve the objectives they thought they could in two or three days. kyiv is still under ukrainian control. kharkiv is under ukrainian control. there are some original successes, but it's not what putin expected. time is working against him. that's why he needs to demonstra

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joining me now, cnn contributor jill doherty in moscow, before we get to the protesters i want a sense from you about mock you don't about these talks with the ukrainian delegation tomorrow, is putin serious about diplomacy in your view? >> reporter: you know, nobody really knows. they're important because they're happening, but i don't think there's a lot of realistic expectation at this point they will lead to something. the delegations, it's not the presidents, it's not zelenskyy or putin, it's lower level, but they are meeting. however, i say at this point, not a lot of hope this is really going to solve it. you never know, that's about the state of play. >> yeah, you never know and never know exactly what putin is thinking is the bottom line. i want to get to this viewer question. we saw the video there of the police dragging the protesters away. this viewer wants to know, how does an average russian feel about this? do they accept, support their leaders reasons for invading ukraine, how will they react to russian soldiers coming home in body bags? >> yeah, well there are kind of

clarissa ward, jill dougherty, we appreciate all the work you're doing. thank you so much. >>> perspective now from cnn military analyst and retired army lieutenant general mark hertling. thank you for being with us. we heard at the top of the show that the united states is moving u.s. troops and equipment to strengthen the baltic states and poland. this is on nato's eastern flank and also sending in f-35s and apache attack helicopters. what does this tell you? >> the military forces in europe, john, u.s. military forces under the command of u com, do this all the time. when i heard the president say that, that he's moving forces to the baltic countries, i have been there multiple times. the forces train there multiple times. this is not something new and it's relatively easy to go from poland to the baltics, from the baltics to romania and they practice all the time. the last year i was in command in europe, we did 400 different exercises in a year with 28 different countries that were in europe. that's not a big deal. but the interesting piece is it giv

kaitlan, oren, jill, and of course alex marquardt in kyiv where just moments ago he witnessed and we saw and heard at least with him as well those explosions or gunfire that was taking place in and around -- i should say in the area of kyiv. thank you all, i appreciate it. we'll get back to you if need be throughout this broadcast. now i want to bring in cnn's fareed zakaria, the host of "fareed zakaria gps." fareed, good evening, thank you for joining us, i appreciate it. overall, what do you think about what's been happening? you saw what happened with alex there, you heard kaitlan at the white house talking about sanctions against putin and seg guy lavrov. what's your assessment? >> gosh, so many different reaction and emotions. watching these pictures, the first thing is, i keep thinking back to kyiv when i was last there, which was just several months ago. you know, the things that viewers should know is, kyiv is a beautiful european city. it has beautiful central squares. the place that alex is often -- what you can see in the background, that golden expire, is the santa sofia

jill dougherty is live in moscow for us. jill, what's the response from the kremlin? >> reporter: it's essentially negative, jake, as you might expect. essentially it is 11 pages long. essentially it boils down to russia saying, look, we have overall very serious red line security concerns and the united states continues to ignore them. and what they say is the united states is picking and choosing, taking parts out of our ideas and trying to turn them to their advantage. but it's like all the deal or no deal. and that is a problem, that's what we've been hearing for a long time. essentially i think you probably know this by heart by now, but one is stop nato expansion, don't let ukraine and georgia in. remove military infrastructure that would include missiles, et cetera, from the region, from those post-soviet states that have joined nato. and then also return to the boundaries from 1997 when nato and russia had their founding act. so one of the, i think, interesting things about this, notable things, is today yet again russia made it very public. they published it,

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and let's go now to jill dougherty in moscow where many russians are against the war. this has been pretty surprising to see. but i want to ask you about this alarming order by putin for russia's deterrent forces to be on high alert, those forces apparently include nuclear weapons. is this saber rattling, is he sending a message that he will escalate things if he doesn't get what he wants? what are your thoughts? >> reporter: i think that he is definitely sending a message. i think that is he he is seriout this. and it is really a message to the west. if you look being at what he's been saying this entire week, he was kind of heading in this direction. he has been talking about ukraine as a weapon in the hands of nato. the danger of nato. the possibility of nuclear weapons, et cetera. so he has mentioned things like this. but today's decision to order the military to put as he put it special combat regime of the nuclear forces is very significant. now, why did he do it? he justified it by saying that it was sanctions, that it was also aggressive statements by nato. it

and make them very painful because we are dependent on russian energy so it's going to be tough. >> jill, as the general noted, there is a whole lot of talking, right? president biden meeting with german chancellor, french president emmanuel macron with vladimir putin. conducting shuttle diplomacy. going to kyiv, now. what do you think will come of all of this? do you think that putin might want some kind of off ramp here? >> you know, i think right now, if you look at the conversation that took place with president macron, i think it's president putin saying keep 'em guessing. keep him guessing. i mean, i looked really carefully at the comments he made and they were really noncommittal. you know, these proposals could be the basis of foundation for something but, quote, it's too early to begin talking about this or about details. so i think president putin now, as usual, has set up the situation. he has, i think general clark described it quite well. but now, he's watching and he is allowing the europeans to run all over europe, come to moscow, go to kyiv. but really, the real game for

jill, great to talk to you _ prime minister yet. jill, great to talk to you again. _ the government's £9 billion move this week to shore up household finances in the face of a sharp rise in energy bills was a major intervention, adding up to help of £350 a year for the majority of families. but what difference will that sum make to people struggling with the rise in the cost of living — and will it get to those who need help the most? our business editor simonjack reports. george is one of many for whom a 54% rise in the energy cap will force choices they've never had to make before. i'm going to have to start pulling back on certain things, so i might have to shut down my business or, at least, reduce some of the costs that i have on it. i might have to stop using some of the things i used to help myself mentally, like socialising with friends or going to the gym, and also food is going to be difficult to even eat what i want to eat. i'm going to have to randomly select stuff that's cheap. the impact is broad and, for some, it'

. >> this is oldest daughter, jill, learning to play golf. >> that's a nice one, jill. >> and this is her little sister, jaclyn. today, the kids are grown. when we met them, jill has a child of her own. jaclyn is married and jonathan has graduated high school. looking back, the childhood they described was one of stability and routine. >> just a normal, happy family, i'd say it would be. >> mm-hmm. we go to church on sundays, we'd have movie nights or family vacations that we had taken, usually disneyland, which is our favorite. everything was just as a family. everything was perfect. >> they loved each other and they had a great marriage. >> exactly. >> the patriarch of the hoagland family, larry, was a leader in their church and a professional photographer who can be heard off camera gently directing his children through these precious kodak moments. >> dad! >> that was good. keep going. >> i always remember getting sick of it because i just wanted to have fun and we always had to pause and take a picture, which kind of got annoying after a while, but looking back, it's nice to see

jill biden ambassador caroline kennedy, david rubinstein chairman of our board fred ryan and vice chair john rogers and al roker served as the master of ceremonies for the evening. we had performances from the gray coat fife and drug corps metropolitan opera. soprano brandy sutton and the nyu steinhardt school, which we have a new partnership with provided their chamber orchestra for music throughout the evening highlighting american songs and traditions. this special episode will provide an inside behind the scenes. look it's some of the moments from that very special evening. in this first clip, we'll hear a segment from my remarks that describes the white house connection to the temple of dendoor and why we decided to host the gala in that historic space. i wanted to take a moment and set the stage of where we are here in the temple of dandora in the cycler wing of the metropolitan museum of art. this historic structure in front of you is here because of a bit of presidential history. in fact, i would say that almost everything we do believe touch and it happens in our lives has some

jill biden and the second gentleman douglas emhoff. thank you for being here. [applause] announcement, chuck schumer weighed in on the nomination and the russian invasion of ukraine. sen. schumer: good afternoon, everyone. i am excited about the president's pick for the supreme court. with her exceptional qualifications, a record of evenhandedness, judge ketanji brown jackson will be a justice who will uphold the constitution, protect the rights of all americans, including the voiceless and the vulnerable. she is a true public servant and a model jurist. judge jackson has demonstrate a commitment repeatedly to america's foundational principles of freedom, equality, and rule of law. as a clerk for justice stephen breyer and an assistant federal public defender, a federal district court judge, and most recently as a judge on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge, judge jackson has shown brilliance, thoughtfulness, a willingness to collaborate, and a dedication to applying the law impartially. this is sort nomination of judge jackson is an important

jill biden. >> valentine's day is one of my favorite holidays because it's all about love. what is so wonderful about having pets as they bring this unconditional love, joy, and comfort every day. >> thank you, dr. biden for those words. >> you can't make this up. remember last year, they were professing their love for one another on the lawn of the white house? this year, the commander-in-chief has been replaced with commander the canine but still has the ability and phineas to keep him company. >> wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall? she is kind of a morose performer, very emo or very emotional kind of sad singer. an appropriate genre of music, tonality of music perfect for the bite the biden economy, don't you think? >> when you run into trouble, you remember the old truman line if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. it looks like jill biden has taken that advice but the dog distraction i have to say i've had it up to here with dog videos and kitten videos. that is the cheapest stuff imaginable. get some talent and really lead and then we will pay attention

>> well, a e they are basically warning what jill was zwraukting about. saying to expect more false reports in russian state media in the coming days. maybe, a pretext that they have talked about to basically creating a situation where russia could attempt to justify an invasion. and they listed off several false reports. they said all of the ones the rumors that they have heard are false. they are not true. and that they do expect russia to maybe float those or other situations in coming days, that are not, in order to create an -- a pretext to invade. and so, they are very much saying, the threat is just as real today as it was several days ago when they were warning about how imminent it could be. and the fact that you heard secretary blinken say today that the trigger could be pulled today, it could be pulled tomorrow, it could be pulled next week. so, if you look at what officials are saying here at the white house, they are speaking in very bluntly words and they are trying to basic hi offer a heads up of what to expect from russia this the coming d

he is hiding something. >> to be a fly on that wall, jill and david, thank you so much. matthew, you're staying with us. coming up next, breaking news. president biden will meet with the national security council tomorrow, to discuss the escalation in ukraine. and from the party of reagan to supporting the russians, this strange journey of some republicans. have they finally reached a breaking point? first, let's go to richard louis, who is standing by with a look at other big stories that we're watching this hour at msnbc. >> richard? >> katie, good evening. first activity of a helicopter crash in the waters of south beach miami. three people were hurt in this incident, as you see. the helicopter entered into this video when it went down this afternoon. no one on the ground was hurt. the cause is unknown. three injured. dozens of protesters were arrested in canada today, as police seize control of the streets near the country's parliament hill, in ottawa. police action intensify today, they towed away trucks and pushed back protesters in this third week of protests agai

your thoughts, jill? >> well, i think you've laid out a good case for obstruction of a witness and tampering with a witness, which is what that does sound like. all of these conducts fall together and i think it's time for the announcement of a special grand jury. it would assure the american people that the department of justice is actually doing something without violating the grand jury's secrecy. all you have to do is appoint as there was in watergate going back to that era, there was a special grand jury appointed to address only the investigation of the crimes of watergate and taking seriously crimes committed by, at that time, still the sitting president and all of his colleagues and i think people are really fed up getting really worried, the threats issued by donald trump at the last rally and the promise of pardons is terrifying to me. what does it matter even if justice were to go ahead and find crimes and indict people if donald trump wins, he's already said i'll violate the pardons. we have t

clarissa ward, jill dougherty, we appreciate all the work you're doing. thank you so much. >>> perspective now from cnn military analyst and retired army lieutenant general mark hertling. general, thank you so much for being with us. we heard at the top of the show that the united states is moving u.s. troops and equipment to strengthen the baltic states and poland. this is on nato's eastern flank and also sending in f-35s and apache attack helicopters. what does this tell you? >> the military forces in europe, john, u.s. military forces under the command of u com, do this all the time. truthfully, when i heard the president say that and he moving forces to the baltic countries, i have been there multiple times. the forces train there multiple times. this is not something new and it's relatively easy to go from poland to the baltics, from the baltics to romania and they practice all the time. the last year i was in command in europe, we did 400 different exercises in a year with 28 different countries that were in europe. that's not a big deal. but the in