reporting from new york. yasmin vossoughian picks up the coverage right now. it is 11:00 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. pacific. this morning, major political fallout on capitol hill as republicans formally launch their impeachment inquiry into president biden, hours after his son defied a subpoena to speak with lawmakers behind closed doors. meanwhile, new developments in the federal criminal case surrounding former president donald trump. why a new court ruling threatens to push back the trial s start date, even further, into the presidential election year. this morning in an unexpected twist, former trump lawyer rudy giuliani will not take the stand in his multimillion dollar civil defamation trial. we ll take you live to the courthouse and breakdown what is next for this case. as democrats are considering major concessions on the border, we re going to take you live to one port of entry officials had to close after being overwhelmed with new arrivals. we re also goin
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the message. this is all in their minds, what they re telling the russian public. this is all western provocation. everything going on now is all part of a grand u.s. conspiracy against russia. probably finland and sweden, if they joined nato, it would be explained to the russian people in the same way. russia has a bias as it approaches the situation. it simply assumes that everyone west of russia is somehow completely under u.s. control. that s just how they see it. so that s why they want to talk directly to the u.s. they don t really want to talk to anyone else. it s very much a bilateral game in their minds. i m sure the u.s. is trying to figure out how they control as much of europe as russia thinks we do. anyway, matt bodner on the ground in what is always a snowy moscow. what does the u.s. government need to know next to keep the russians at bay? is there something they should
the west is sending troops to the echelon alliance and ukraine is getting more weapons and russia is defensive. putin is playing a game. war is not possible. we re seeing a lot of that right now. a snowy moscow. matt, thank you. meanwhile, back here today is the deadline in texas to get in applications to vote by mail ahead of the upcoming primary elections. because of the state s new requirements, many applications are apparently be rejected and that includes a 92-year-old world war ii veteran who said his application was denied twice. here s more on his story from houston s affiliate filed tuesday. reporter: he hopes his mail-in ballot is among the pile. he s been voting since he was 21 years old and even recalls paying a poll tax.
russia, maybe it was compromising activities when he was here. here is what peskov said about that. did any russian official, any intelligence agent, gather any information on donald trump when he was in russia, at any time? no. no. definitely not. donald trump wasn t bugged. no. wasn t followed. no. wasn t watched. no. reporter: i asked peskov, have your intelligence agencies got anything on donald trump? he said, i have never seen a file. i said, look, that s not a denial. he said, i don t work for the intelligence services, i work for the kremlin. make of that as you wish. he was also very hard on president obama, criticized him for, in the last week, damaging relations. and as for talks between donald trump and vladimir putin, he said, the sooner, the better. steve. all right. bill neely over there in a snowy moscow. bill, thank you. a very busy afternoon.