leadership will get behind this, there s a performance in both the house and senate to keep it trained on the speaker itself, not on the chamber which is usually pretty empty. also on capitol hill, the house of representatives, the republicans in control of it, they ve passed their first piece of legislation under the new republican majority. it s a bill that would roll back billion dollars of dollars meant for the irs. republicans are selling this as stopping joe biden s 87,000 new irs agents from attacking and pestering you and your family. but as cnn s jeremy diamond reports, that is inaccurate and misleading. reporter: on their first full day in power i know the night is late. but when we come back, our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new [ cheers and applause ] reporter: house republicans making good on that promise passing a bill to repeal nearly
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this time putin initiated the call we re told. u.s. intelligence officials say they have yet to see any sign of de-escalation from the russians at the ukrainian border. as cnn s jeremy diamond reports for us now global fears of an invasion remain high. reporter: today a critical phone call between president biden and russian president vladimir putin as the prospect of war hangs over ukraine and the two leaders are speaking for the second time this month. good to see you again. reporter: this time at the russian leader s request. translator: it will depend not on the course of the negotiations but on the unconditional ensuring of russia s security today and in the future. in this regard we have made it clear that nato s further eastward movement is unacceptable. well what s not clear here? reporter: the call coming at what one senior administration official called a moment of crisis with more than 100,000 russian troops massed on the
and as cnn s jeremy diamond reports, it sets the stage for the midterms. reporter: well, there is certainly some soul searching even hand wringing at the white house on wednesday in the wake of democrats big loss in the state of virginia. the democratic gubernatorial candidate terry mcauliffe losing to republican glenn youngkin, and some here at the white house and in democratic circles seeing warning signs for the midterms, which are just a year away. we did not see, though, that kind of soul searching from president biden on wednesday. he did not take responsibility for mcauliffe s loss in the state of virginia, although he did acknowledge that maybe, just maybe passing his agenda in congress before election day could have perhaps helped mcauliffe get over the top. again, this is a state that president biden won by ten points during the 2020 elections. but what the president did focus on is what democrats can do between now and the midterm elections, and that s getting things done
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