>> this war has cost more than 13,000 lives since it began in 2014 after protests toppled a government that was friendly tomas tom tom to moscow. usa is a very long way from here. why should ordinary americans care what is happening here in ukraine? >> it can be tomorrow the day it happens. >> reporter: you are saying if russia does it here they might do it tomorrow. >> why not? why not? i don't know why, why not? >> reporter: it may sound farfetched but experts say russian hackers are using ukraine as a testing ground, including attacking the power grid before using similar tactics in the u.s. this year tens of thousands russian troops

at ukraine's border in a goal to scare american allies and send a threat to the west. away from the front line the president invited us for breakfast with his parents. he grew up in the soviet style apartment when ukraine was part of the ussr and claims that president vladimir putin has imperial ambitions for russia to controls it neighbors once again. >> they don't want to make us free. yes to be the independent country. >> reporter: the u.s. is supporting ukraine with money, weapons and training. but what he really wants is america's backing to join nato, giving his country more protection from russia. >> speak about nato with us. propose us. >> reporter: in the u.s. there are fears nato membership for i relations but froms it friends.

many ukrainians have little hope the summit between presidents biden and putin will change anything here on the bloody battlefield that has divided their nation. president biden's meeting with russian president putin marks a new chapter in the complicated history between ukraine and russia. >> reporter: even at the peak of the cold war u.s. and russian leaders met often for frank discussions. long time observers agree the relationship is at a low point, but at least the leaders are still talking. >> the conference is to seal hitler's fate. >> reporter: leaders from the globe's major allied powers met to negotiate peace. >> this meeting crystallizes th. >> reporter: it set up a decades long cold war. still, diplomacy5 minutes the t

hurled charges and counter charges at each other. >> reporter: vice president richard nixon travelled to russia. >> there must be a free exchange of ideas. >> u.s. quarantines cuba. >> reporter: that did not head off the hottest confrontation between nuclear powers. >> this government, as promised, as maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military build-up on the island of cuba. >> we came within seconds of nuclear war. >> staring down intot s, it w the kennedy administrations really did value arms krecontrol. >> reporter: against all odds president ronald regan and --

continued engagement helped to bring down the berlin wall, ultimately leading to the chance of the soviet union. president clinton tried to cozy up to boris yeltsen. >> reporter: the russian's message to the u.s. has been blunt. the aging yeltsen was replaced by a young soviet intelligence agent named vladimir putin. george w. bush believed they could find common ground. >> we had a very good dialogue. i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> reporter: but gained little traction. president barak obama attempted a russian reset but his diplomatic wish list went unfulfilled. >> putin says trump is

brilliant. >> reporter: president trump openly -- despite reports russia tried to influence the presidential election on his behalf, trump met with putin and appeared accept his denial. >> i have president putin. he just said it is not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it woulded be. >> president biden met with putin before and called russia a threat to democracy and even a killer. putin's response, it takes one to know one. >> it is not the early cold war. we are not going to war with each other tomorrow, but there is this element to the tension today where putin thinks we are coming after him, and quite frankly our democracy has been threatened by putin's behavior. >> reporter: this week's meeting follows an election where russia tried to interfere and that the russian government is tasidly permitting cyberattacks on businesses carried out by russian hackers.

white house officials say among many topics of discussion for wednesday's meeting is to sort out rules of the road for future cyberattacks. closer to home now, newly released e-mails detail former president trump's efforts to have the justice department investigate his false allegations of election fraud. the house judiciary committee launched an investigation into the trump administration's secret court orders, the digital records of journalists and democratic lawmakers. p >> reporter: according to the "new york times," they also targeted the electronic devices of former white house council and lawmakers in washington are now demanding answers. >> the notion that any president or political appointees could

manipulate our democratic system to tap in to personal data has the fingerprints of a dictatorship all over it. >> reporter: lawmakers clashed over investigations of the trump administrations secret subpoenas. >> no need for a partisan circus. >> reporter: in a statement monday the chairman alleged that the department of justice used criminal investigations as a pretext to spy on president trump's perceived political enemies, secretly subpoenaing phone information dating back to 2017 and 2018 from apple for staffers, family members, including a minor. reporters records were conion leak investigations. >> this is about the flow of information to the public.

>> reporter: media executives metney neral merrick garland to address the growing controversy that started under his predecessor. jeff sessions and william barr denied knowing about the subpoenas. the former d.o.j., acting assistant attorney general says that would be unusual. >> i would say this is something that would have had to go all the way up to the highest levels of the department for approval. >> reporter: meanwhile the trump appointee who led the national security division through the end of the last administration has decided to leave the department of justice. this decision we are told was made before the secret subpoenas were made public.

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people called 9-1-1 to report strange-sounding alarms. they are swarming over more than a dozen eastern states. in parts of northern virginia some say it looks like a northern invasion, but they are basically harmless. they are not going to bite or sting or carry away small children and dogs. >> this is an amazingly beautiful creature. >> reporter: her three young children were creeped out by cicadas, so the professional photographer staged them in playful scenes. her blog went viral. your kids are no longer afraid of cicadas. >> they love them and love playing with them. i feel like people should embrace nature, and just see the beauty side of things a little more. >> reporter: a good frame of mind for getting through the rest of the cicada apocalypse.

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good morning, and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's wednesday, june 16th, 2021. i'm anthony mason with tony dokoupil. gayle king is off, so adriana diaz is with us. president biden meets face to face with russia's vladimir putin in an historic summit in switzerland. norah o'donnell leads our coverage from geneva where both sides are expected to talk tough. russia's military build-up is just one of many topics the presidents will likely address. how president biden could confront putin over ukraine, cyberattacks, and the imprisonment of americans in russia. the u.s. surpasses 600,000 deaths in the covid pandemic, but the latest numbers suggest we are beating back the virus. dr. anthony