Editor Nic Robertson in moscow. And, nic, what is your assessment of what were seeing. It almost looks like russia is in its final stages of combat readiness. Yeah, of course, for weeks now weve been hearing from u. S. Officials and other officials, british officials saying, look, if russia is really serious about wanting a negotiation, a diplomatic track to open up here, then it should reduce the tension. If it really wants to have a discussion and get its issues addressed, then why the need for troops and russia keeps insisting it has no intention of invading ukraine. But as the British Foreign secretary said today, russia is creating completely the opposite impression because it continues to build up its forces, presenting a very clear image of an ability to invade should it so choose. So i think you have to take it as read that this is clearly what the kremlin intends. This is clearly how they intend to negotiate, not from a position where theyre walking away from a buildup of forc
Democratic efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back republican support in 2022, end quote. At this surreal headline in todays paper, the party of lincoln and reagan now formally and publicly holds the position that the deadly mob of people trying to overthrow the u. S. Government consisted of, quote, ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. In case you missed that. The official position of the rnc now is that legitimate political discourse is what happened on january 6th. A day in which resulted in the deaths of at least five Police Officers and multiple insurrectionists including one who was shot and died while attempting to forcibly breach a barricaded area of the capitol building. According to the rnc, legitimate political discourse now includes publicly chanting a desire to hang the former Vice President mike pence. It also includes bringing a preconstructed gallows along. Ive never seen a gallows in my life, not in america. The rnc
Democratic efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back republican support in 2022, end quote. At this surreal headline in todays paper, the party of lincoln and reagan now formally and publicly holds the position that the deadly mob of people trying to overthrow the u. S. Government consisted of, quote, ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. In case you missed that. The official position of the rnc now is that legitimate political discourse is what happened on january 6th. A day in which resulted in the deaths of at least five Police Officers and multiple insurrectionists including one who was shot and died while attempting to forcibly breach a barricaded area of the capitol building. According to the rnc, legitimate political discourse now includes publicly chanting a desire to hang the former Vice President mike pence. It also includes bringing a preconstructed gallows along. Ive never seen a gallows in my life, not in america. The rnc
Over which she will likely preside. Republican senators with the solemn duty to offer advice and consent are attacking the anonymous knows race and gender before we even know her name. We have a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Standing by to talk about the gops desperate smear campaign. And of course race is on the docket in courts across this land as the National Football league deals with a his tore rec lack of black leadership on the sidelines. Brian flores and his attorney is here to tell why he sacked the league with an historic lawsuit this week. And justice has yet to come for the family of Trayvon Martin nearly a decade after his senseless killing. His parents join us on what would have been his 27th birthday. We have a lot to get to, so joining me now is nor alex padilla of california. Senator, we mentioned you sit on the Senate Judiciary committee, so lets start with the Supreme Court. I would love to talk about the many qualified candidates joe biden has to choose f
President trump is wrong. Under the constitution, i had no right to change the outcome of our election. He needs to talk to the January 6th Committee. Its taken him 13 months to admit the undeniable. And as the Winter Olympics begin in beijing, Human Rights Abuses are in the spotlight. The Chinese Government is Holding People in Concentration Camps and also glorifying the modernday slavery. Plus were following new developments on the future of Queen Elizabeth and the royal family. Im pamela brown in washington. You are in the cnn news room. Great to have you with us on this saturday. We begin this hour with the Republican Party coming out of a buzz saw of dramatic events compressed into 24 hours. Former Vice President mike pence delivering his most forceful rebuke to date of his old boss, calling out donald trump and his lie that pence was in power to overturn the election. And there are new images of the violence energized by the big lie that the election was stolen. The Justice Depar