Gracious god, we evoke your name in this place. We thank you for life and for giving it to us more abundantly. We thank you for the power and privilege of prayer, and we humbly approach your throne of grace to thank you and share our petitions. We offer thanks to those who surrender their lives in service to this great nation by willing sing to represent us. We thank you for their families and friends who loan them to us. May there be no lack in their lives because of their service. We pray that at this moment, you would pour out your spirit of wisdom and compassion on these senators as they chart the course of this nation. Embolden them with the burden that they are someones last and the hope that they can make a difference in someones life. Bless this assembly as they wrestle with how to express your nl love for all of us and for this moment. Then, o god, bless all the people of all the states in this land that we love to emulate and require of all our leaders what you require from t
here we go. one house. two of them. yeah, hit two houses. wow. right? good morning, everyone. good monday morning. good weekend? good weekend. monday though. arg. you ll get there. we re glad you re with us. we start with weather. there is a dangerous winter storm dumping quite a bit of snow on southern california. that s right. southern california. and unleashing tornadoes as it heads east. we re tracking the severe weather threat. also this we re confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment. there s growing concern this morning that china may be ready to provide weapons to russia. could it be a game changer on the battlefields in ukraine? what s ahead the cia is saying. house republicans taking aim at the biden administration s handling of a toxic train disaster in ohio. what we re hearing about investigation ands hearings on capitol hill. but we begin with the winter storm tearing across the nation right now.
republicans for their protests over guns. i want to be clear, the protest over asking for legislation to stop the massacre of children. two of them black were expelled yesterday by the republican super majority one lawmaker, gloria johnson, an older white woman, narrowly avoided expulsion. tonight, fears about the precedent this sets and the potential for a kind of revenge politics spreading to other states this is what happens when you lose democracy cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans. expelled for so-called decorum violations it might have to do with the color of our skin. it looked like a jim crow era trial. if could happen in tennessee, it could happen anywhere. the first partisan expulsion in the state s modern history. it s a signal of authoritarianism. we will keep fighting it. it was nice to have somebody to fight with me for the first time i will keep fighting for you all- i won t stop forme
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in ukraine. new worries, one year into the war that russia could soon receive support that could be a game changer. the source of the concern is china and the possibility of beijing providing lethal aid to russia. now, the white house has called this a red line and the cia doesn t believe a final decision has been made by beijing, but it s worrisome, nonetheless. and, you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will come at real cost to china and i think china s leaders are weighing that, as they make their decisions. but first, let s go to cnn s alex marquardt, who is in ukraine with the latest on the fighting there. jim, some of the heaviest fighting, some of the worst casualty rates on both sides is now taking place around the eastern city of bakhmut. russian forces from the gro
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