Good Monday morning.
Here’s what is on 46 agenda today:
- 9:30am: The President receives the President’s Daily Brief
- 11am: The President hosts a secure call with President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom to discuss their coordinated responses to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine
- 6pm: The President joins Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting to discuss the United States’ response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war with Ukraine and the President’s plans to lower costs for working families, create good-paying union jobs, and tackle the climate crisis
Russia/Ukraine:
Russian elites planning to overthrow Putin: Ukrainian intelligence
Inside Russia, a campaign gathers steam against fifth columnists and life under the ‘Z’
Ukraine rejects Russian offer of passage out of Mariupol
Reuters staff raise alarms over partnership with Russian-owned wire service
Ambassador says China promotes peace but won’t condemn Russia
Cheney: Use of chemical weapons is ‘red line’ for NATO intervention
Austin: Putin trying to ‘reestablish some momentum’
Russian oligarchs drop suit against investigative firm Fusion GPS
46:
US admiral says China fully militarized isles
Biden will visit Poland following NATO summit on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
McConnell says he hasn’t decided how he’ll vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson
US to declare Rohingya repression in Myanmar a ‘genocide’
Civil unrest:
NCAA swimmer wants rule change after missing out on finals to Lia Thomas
Inside A Cartel Illegal Marijuana Operation Worker Camp
At least 10 people shot outside of spring break party at Dallas venue
Coronavirus news:
Shanghai Disneyland closes as virus rises, Shenzhen reopens
Fauci: Pandemic still has ‘a way to go’, must be ‘prepared’ to return to COVID-19 restrictions if cases surge
US surgeon general worried COVID views being ‘shut out’ after Biden admin sought to ‘flag’ disinformation
Fauci says US unlikely to see surge from new COVID-19 variant
Grim milestone: New York approaches 70,000 COVID deaths
Other morsels:
Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, Supreme Court says
All-Black women’s World War II unit to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal
Iowans respond to delayed project giving Apple $200 million in public subsidies: ‘It’s just welfare’
Kanye West Pulled From Grammy’s Due To ‘Concerning Online Behavior’
85K birds euthanized in South Dakota amid avian flu outbreak
And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!