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Take an oath to look only at the law in deciding your cases, that you set aside your personal views about the circumstances, the defendants or anything else. >> reporter: and california supreme court justice leandra kruger. >> we tend to forget that conversations about these very difficult cases are confined to a small number of people. >> reporter: all through out the day, the white house has been asked repeatedly about this news. everyone from the president on down saying on message, essential...

Classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to "the lead." im 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 h...

Theyll determine whether the experiment still works, and of course, im an optimist and im pretty sure it will. >> reporter: and speaking of optimism and decency, president biden saying that he is wanting to consult with many people as he decides who hes going to replace justice breyer with. you know, washington has been so mired in gridlock recently, he made a point of saying he will want to consult with senators on the other side of the political aisle, so that is sort of an unusual tone of par...

Germany is one of americas closest allies. were working in lock step to further deter russian aggression in europe. its an important meeting at a very important time. french president said he hope to start a process of deescalation with russian president vladmir putin. cnn has correspondents across the world covering rising tensions. mj, what will we see?

2:34, there was an announcement over the intercom telling teachers to evacuate the school and the pool left the building as well. some details coming from print reporters there as we try to figure out what was the cause of the quick evacuation. some of this information is beginning to trickle in. he left the room. was evacuated because of security threat. the police department saying it was a bomb threat. as soon as we have more information, we will bring that to you. >> yeah, its a little nerve...

Brady. >> he can still name every single quarterback. from a locker room perspective, you get the comparisons to the sports worldwide. mj or kobe or lebron. whoever the best is in any league and yet, unlike maybe michael jordan and kobe, who were known to be hard on their teammates to try and drive them to be better, the drive was there with brady, but ive never gotten the sense that he was really, good to be a locker room guy or teammate. what was he like as a teammate? >> listen, he was defini...

Mj, get us up to sfeed on what we know about how this happened. >> reporter: here is what we know now. the second gentleman was intending an event at a local washington, d.c. high school. this was in celebration of black history month. i know we have a picture of him at this event from the reporters that were on the ground and a short while ago he was ushered out of the room by the security that was on the ground because of a security threat. we are still waiting to get clarity and more informat...

To 48 hours. shortly after he spoke we learned that defense secretary lloyd austin has ordered 3,000 more troops from the armys 82nd airborne division through poland. and late today we got a better sense of the tension within ukraine. an official told cnn the situation is, quote, really serious and uncertain which could be significant because you might recall earlier this week ukrainian officers were going out of their way to tamp down fears of a russian attack. well go live momentarily to a str...

Bowl interview with president biden and it focused on his upcoming supreme court nomination. lets get to m.j. lee whos live for us at the white house. so what did president biden have to say? >> reporter: well, jake, we now know that president bidens search for a supreme court nominee is well under way. he just told nbc news that there are a handful of candidates that he has already done a deep dive on and he also had this to say about the prospect of getting republican support for his eventual ...

Sanctions, well bolster ukraines ability to defend itself. we will reinforce our allies on the eastern flank. >> we have cnn correspondents covering this story from across the region. sam kylie is live from ukraine. m.j. lee at the white house. fred pleitgen in bucharest, romania. it was generally thought moskow wouldnt launch an invasion of ukraine until the winter olympics were over. cnns m.j. lee has more from the white house. >> we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time s...