You were in, the cnn newsroom im paula reid in washington. Any moment now at st. Patricks day, tradition, President Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks from the white house. And well bring that to life. Ive just ahead. But for now, we had to russia, where Election Officials say Vladimir Putin is in the lead in the president ial vote polls close earlier today after a three de, vote with no genuine opponent running against putin he is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Frederik Pleitgen is in berlin. Starting with you, matthew putin just spoke. What did he say . Yeah it was a very short victory speech, even though the final results havent come in, it looks like this has been a Landslide Victory as expected for the russian president to secures a fifth president ial term. And these were shot comments at his campaign headquarters. He walked into the room, he t
will: it s the 7 a.m. hour of fox & friends weekend starting with this. after his disastrous debate performance, president biden s campaign looking ahead. you all did not have any kind of conversations about should joe biden drop out of this race? no. the conversation that we had is, okay, what do we do next? will: while a new report breaks down who d be responsible to tell joe it s time to go. pete: plus, do not disturb. a pennsylvania state senator joins us as his state becomes the first to test locking students phones away during class. if. rachel: oh, like that i like that idea. and different political views? that could be a dating deal-breaker. how politics is impacting relationships nationwide. the second hour of fox & friends if weekend starts right now. you had a suntan line and red lipstick. i worked so hard for that first kiss. and if a heart don t forget pete: seriously, white bear lake, minnesota that s white bear lake, minnesota. can you
into safe assets, gold top being up to $940 an ounce so far in the last couple of hours you also see investors piling into fixed income, into bonds. you see yields coming off bond prices as well. everything you re seeing this morning, in terms of activity in the markets, has been to be expected but it s been extreme some, of these movements. we re gonna continue monitoring them throughout the morning, especially as we head to the wall street open. i do hope you keep us updated, one quick question about swift. i know sanctions have been threatened for sometime now, what would it mean to pull russia s ability to access swift? it would be absolutely enormous, katie. a means that russian payments inside and outside the country couldn t be made in out border transactions. so far as you said it s never
nobel prize winner dimitri muratov saying he cannot publish an interview. and you get a sense of how quickly russia has closed what remained of freedom of speech. immediately, interestingly you have president zelenskyy taking advantage of that and then giving an interview to other journalists and pointing out that russia is so afraid of him they re censoring interviews. zelenskyy has been a sort of one-man weapon of soft power in this war. he has been probably ukraine s most effective international weapon. he has spoken obviously to parliaments around the world, including the u.s. congress. now speaking directly to russian journalists and to the russian people in any way that he can. it s really quite remarkable how successfully they have deployed president zelenskyy. it really is. and susan, it was interesting that the journalists inside the country couldn t publish it given the threat of jail time,
presighted over the chief justice of the united states. if two-thirds or more of the senate votes to convict, then the president would be removed from office. since the republicans control the senate, that is considered unlikely in this case. to join us with more we have david cats with us. thank you for being here. great to be here. the impeachment process has come quite quickly. what do you think about how quickly things are moving right now? i think speaker pelosi wants it to move along and i think during the reset, how intelligence committee chairman ad adam schiff is going to continue with the investigation calling witnesses and i think the country couldn t have a better attorney, a better congress person in charge of the investigation. i had the privilege to work with adam sheriff when he was in the u.s. attorney s office here in los angeles. it was under the reagan