the affidavit, which would be unusual, insisting it could compromise its ongoing investigation. now this all comes as cnn has learned some allies of the former president are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago. his son eric trump says that will absolutely happen at the right time. plus, we re learning more about a separate probe of trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. overnight, the new york times reporting that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed white house documents from the national archives, asking for all materials in whatever form that were handed to the january 6th committee. what is clear is the investigations are ongoing. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz in west palm beach. ruling expected today or just the consideration? reporter: it is possible there could be a consideration. the judge could rule live in court or could decide to do it at a later time. but i j
preparing a false flag operation at the plant. cnn s senior international correspondent david mckenzie joins us from kyiv. as you well know, russia s track record for truth in this war is horrendous. what is actually happening around that nuclear power plant? reporter: jim and bianna, let me try and give you what we know, what we know is that there is a definite situation at that plant, which is very dangerous, as you can hear the church bells behind me. and that plant to the south of where i m standing there have been ongoing shelling and rocket attacks for many days now. ukraine blames russia. russia blames ukraine for this. but the bottom line is that there is a chance, a very real chance, of some kind of accident, of a leak, not necessarily a direct strike on a nuclear reactor, because those are very heavily protected. the big issue right now is the power supply to that plant, that keeps those reactors cool.
not going to be presenting the russian foreign minister with written responses to the proposals russia put on the table last week. the reason that is significant is because russia has been persistently saying they need written responses. blinken has said, look, we re not going to be doing that. we still don t know what russia s central demands are here. he wants to have a conversation to try and see if they can identify what is at the heart of russia s demands and if there is a diplomatic path forward. already a lot of conversations. kylie atwood, thanks very much. joining me republican congressman michael mccaul of texas. congressman, thanks so much for taking the time this morning. thanks, jim. thanks for having me. you hear secretary blinken s warning that russia could double its already significant forces on the border. in your view, has the current mix of threatened sanctions and additional military assistance, has that deterrence failed?
yeah. i don t think we re providing the deterrence necessary to stop putin from invading ukraine, the bread basket of russia. he wants to reclaim the old soviet empire and i don t see a lot of deterrence on the table. in fact, jim, what i m seeing is prelude to war when you re seeing live exercises on the ukrainian border, a false flag operation that they re going to use as a pretense to warfare to invade ukraine. russia is pulling out its embassy members out of kiev. and finally these joint exercises with belarus right on the border of ukraine is disturbing in addition to the russian troops, tanks and the triad operation land and sea. let me ask you this: the current mix of weapons that nato
reporter: dr. william schaffner is part of the cdc s advisory committee on immunization practices. if you ve been exposed and don t have the tests available, you ll have to find testing resources elsewhere. reporter: what s not clear this morning is whether the postal service is adding more mail carriers to actually deliver these tests given some of those staffing issues, although two of the postal unions tells us their understanding is there won t be mail carriers added. that work is going to be put on the staff they already have. we haven t gotten a lot of information from the postal service in terms of the logistics to actually execute this program, although they have said several times that they re confident they can get it done. jim and bianna. gabe cohen, thanks so much. good wednesday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m bianna golodryga.