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Arms. some for the first time ever as they prepare to defend kyiv from a russian attack. more than 18,000 guns with ammunition have been distributed in the kyiv region since yesterday. the ukrainian defense ministry urging citizens to make molotov cocktails to stand up to russian forces. joining me for more on this, democratic congressman eric swalwell who sits on the intelligence committee. cnn reporting u.s. intelligence officials are concerned kyiv could fall within under russian control within days. you've been briefed on the battlefield assessment. what do you make of that? >> we've been ...

Times by the senate on a narrow bipartisan vote, recently as last year. so this is something the white house hopes and believes she will get a fair confirmation and they believe they can attract at least some republicans to support her but kate, that of course is very much an open question. republicans are not necessarily attacking her credentials or experience. that's difficult to do. but just saying she simply is too liberal for the position but we should point out, she was a clerk for justice breyer, she's replacing justice breyer on the court if confirmed. this is not going to change the m...

That he feels alone and he's receiving insufficient support, but neutrality from moscow's control over ukraine. if i could make one more point about supplying arms to ukraine, we confronted the soviet union over cuba in 1962, excuse me, '63, no, '62. we confronted russia over berlin in '48 and '61 and soviet union much more powerful than today and providing arms to ukraine like afghanistan and the soviet union. we are far stronger than russia. we should not be intimidated by putin. that's a formula for putin having his way against our interests. >> ambassador, thank you so much. general clark,...

Listen. >> he's just simply mad. he's just simply crazy. i just want to declare, putin will not stop ukraine in our movement to the european union and that's exactly why we shall seek to support ukraine today and tomorrow. i call on the men in the west to come to ukraine's support today. >> to the other breaking news story we're following. cnn learned president biden plans to nominate ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. if conconfirmed, the first blac woman in u.s. history to sit on the high court. formal announcement expected this afternoon and much more on that in just a moment. le...

Something of a rallying cry for the resistance, the moment when 13 ukrainian guards refuse to surrender to an approaching russian warship. listen to this. >> ukrainian government now reports all defending what's known as snake island. all the guards were killed. he said he's russia's number one target and making a new public appeal for direct talks with vladimir putin. but ukraine's former president is telling cnn today that putin cannot be reasoned with and is calling for more support from allies.