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>> john: good evening. i'm john dickerson. >> maurice: i'm maurice dubois. nearly three years into the war in ukraine, another one has broken out between ukraine's president and president trump. >> john: it began when mr. trump accused president zelenskyy yesterday of starting the war with russia, which is not true and would surprise even vladimir putin, who ordered his army to invade ukraine. >> maurice: president zelenskyy responded by accusing mr. trump of echoing russian propaganda. >> [speaking in a global language] >> interpreter: unfortunately, president trump, who we respect a lot as a leader, of the nation that we really respect, the american nation, who supported us all the time, unfortunately, he lives in this disinformation space. >> john: that comment sent president trump off again. he called zelenskyy a dictator and, adding insult to injury, a modestly successful comedian. >> maurice: with this rhetoric, it is easy to forget that the united states has been

ukraine's chief ally in the war, which has left three quarters of a million ukrainians and russians, civilians and military, dead or wounded. >> john: and that the u.s. has spent more than $100 billion on the war. that too rankled president trump, who accused zelenskyy of talking the u.s. into funding a war that could not be won. margaret brennan is in washington. margaret, what are your sources telling you about this exchange? >> reporter: well, john, one senior diplomat told me this amounts to a public decapitation of zelenskyy by his single most important military and financial backer. it also means the u.s. is helping to end the isolation of vladimir putin. as one former trump official told me, president trump has long despised ukraine and zelenskyy, so now that the ukrainian president has criticized mr. trump, he is using the opportunity to remove him from power.

he just doesn't care about the global implications of this conflict, according to a former advisor. >> maurice: trump's words sound very similar to what putin would say, margaret, so what exactly is going on here? >> reporter: very similar. in fact, president trump is echoing vladimir putin's rationale for the war, saying ukraine started it. today, vladimir putin took the unusual opportunity, as you see there, to actually speak to reporters, and he said trump is simply now receiving objective information. now, vladimir putin is a dictator, but he called zelenskyy one, which is what putin says, and argued that because there weren't elections held, that is why he is a dictator. now, zelenskyy would say he suspended elections because 20% of the territory of his country is under russian military occupation. >> john: margaret, so this is what president trump is saying. he's also got diplomats in the field trying to work out these various deals. are they saying the same kind of stuff? >> reporter: no.

and john, it's got to be a pretty awkward day for keith kellogg, the envoy president trump sent to kyiv today. he arrived there to try to broker some kind of diplomatic agreement, and one that he says would end the russian invasion. but we've heard a lot of conflicting things in recent days from trump officials that they have walked back, and just a few days ago, you saw president trump sent top national security advisors to saudi arabia to meet with russian officials. the one thing that does seem to be progressing at this point is reopening u.s.-russian relations. >> maurice: okay, margaret brennan in washington, thank you. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. cbs news has learned that more than 3500 irs workers are expected to be let go by the end of the week. the layoffs at the height of the tax season are part of the president's plan to reduce the size of government. >> maurice: new mexico is investigating how eight people became infected with measles.

so far there is no direct link to dozens of cases across the border in gaines county, texas. statewide, texas has confirmed 58 measles cases, the most there in more than 30 years. >> john: in the ongoing shortage of eggs, the u.s. is getting some relief from turkey. the country, that is. reuters reports turkish farmers have begun shipping about 15,000 tons of eggs to the u.s. to ease the shortage caused by the avian flu. >> maurice: and the trump administration is ending new york's congestion pricing program, weeks after the city put it into affect. most cars entering the central business district of manhattan are charged an extra $9 toll. the money is to go toward upgrading the subways and buses. transportation secretary sean duffy says the toll is unfair, and he pulled the federal government's approval. >> john: our senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave talked to duffy today about congestion pricing and the string of air accidents over the past three weeks.

>> reporter: is it safe to fly? >> so the simple answer is yes, it is safe to fly, of course. actually, i'm going to fly later today. i've been flying for the last week. >> reporter: on his first full day as transportation secretary, sean duffy faced the deadliest u.s. aviation accident in more than 20 years. the midair collision over washington that killed 67 people. it was the first of several high-profile crashes that have stunned americans. including this delta flight that crash landed in toronto monday. all 80 on board survived. >> if you get on a plane, if you look at how many people fly, how may flights we have, of course it is a safe space. >> reporter: and yet we have had these five real high-profile incidents in the last three weeks. it leaves people wondering, what is going on? >> each one is very unique. and i do think, as we look at the incidents with the crashes, it gives us an opportunity to say, what went wrong? what can we improve upon in the system off these crashes? >> reporter: improving the nation's air traffic control system is now a priority for duffy.

>> the systems that we use are so old! we used to be the envy of the world, but that we have systems across our network that are run on floppy disks. >> reporter: so how do you get that package of upgrades actually done and implement it? >> if we are going to do this, i need the congress to move fast with us. we can't wait four years, six years, ten years. we have to do it right now. >> reporter: he's enlisted the help of elon musk, owner of rocket and spacecraft builder spacex. >> spacex has some of the brightest minds working for them. so i've asked some of his bright minds at spacex to come in and say, listen, what you see some are some simple, easy steps top radar system? >> reporter: how do you avoid the potential conflict of interest with elon musk? >> i don't want to see conflict of interest. so he was talking to air-traffic controllers, did not plug into the system, but looked at the technology they used, asked them, had a back-and-forth about

what works well for you? what doesn't work well? >> reporter: democratic lawmakers are demanding answers for duffy's decision to lay off hundreds of faa employees in the midst of the recent accidents. >> all of the critical safety positions like air traffic controllers and inspectors, all of those positions have been protected. no one has been fired, actually we are hiring into those spaces. so 352 cuts is .8% of the workforce. incredibly small. >> reporter: will there be future rounds of cuts? >> there could be. i'm not sure at the faa, but i think across government. >> maurice: and kris van cleave joins us now from reagan national in washington. as we mentioned, kris, secretary also talked about congestion pricing. what did he have to say about that? >> reporter: well, he felt it was unfair to working-class commuters, in part because new york didn't offer them a way to get through the congestion zone that didn't have a toll attached to it. he also took issue with the toll associated, the price, the $9. he said new york's governor didn't do adequate research to

justify the price of the toll. he said it seemed like they picked a number to pay for the projects they wanted, not necessarily something that would cut congestion. >> john: kris, this matters for other areas, too, right? i mean, new york was kind of a first-of-its-kind. how does this decision affect other places that might have been considering congestion pricing? >> reporter: you know, there is the adage of "you can make it in new york, you can make it anywhere," so congestion pricing was being watched closely by big cities with congestion issues to see what worked and what didn't. you know, the department of transportation has approval rights because it involved tolling on federal roadways. so if this was going to be and plummeted elsewhere, that involved a similar roadway, the d.o.t. would have to approve. the secretary did say he was open to the concept of it, but just not the way new york executed it. >> john: kris van cleave at reagan national airport in washington. thank you, kris. >> maurice: still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," rob marciano with some frigid temperatures.

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reason why you thought maybe -- >> may be -- >> reporter: i won't -- >> exactly. that was the thought, that was the hope. >> reporter: inside this unmarked building in a boston suburb, doyle would've heard cases for asylum, permanent residents, and removal, up to 700 a year >> so you just see people every day, all day, with these life-and-death decisions over whether they can remain in the united states or not, and then neutrally applying the law. >> reporter: in boston and other cities, those cases stacked up. as southern border crossings surged. and while crossings have come down, the case numbers, doyle said, will keep adding up. there are about 4 million outstanding cases right now. >> don't forget that cases come into the system, not just from the border, but from the existing people that are in the united states. so as you ramp up removal, they are getting put in front of the immigration judge, so that caseload will balloon. >> reporter: we asked the department of justice why doyle and other judges were

terminated. a spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters. and yet, you expected this? in some sense? >> i did, just because, you know, we were sort of the last group coming in under the biden administration. >> reporter: doyle had been an outspoken critic of the immigration system when she was an immigration attorney. it landed her on a conservative-backed group's watch list of political appointees. >> i took an oath to uphold the constitution and to do my job. i'm not there to be an advocate. that's what i used to do. when i, you know, was with the client in the courtroom. now i am the decision-maker, and you need to listen to both sides, and you need to weigh the case under the law, and then act fairly to make decisions. >> john: and jason allen joins us now. jason, there's this backlog, so what is this going to do to the existing backlog of cases? >> reporter: well, it would take a lot to remove those, right? it takes a lot to become one of these judges. you have to have a law degree, seven years of experience, right, to do this, the application process is long, it takes more than a year to get

some of these judges into place. and there are some studies showing that we need as many as 300 new judges, just to begin cutting into the backlog. that's a lot. >> maurice: quite a backlog. so how does this influence the judges who are already on the job case? >> reporter: that's interesting. i talked to the president of the union that represents these judges, and he has talked to some of them that are still in their seats right now, and he described it as some of them on pins and needles, wondering if they could be next. he also talked about a potential chilling effect because it opens the door to judges questioning their own decision-making, wondering if their job could be at stake, and also a chilling effect on any others who might want to join the profession. >> john: and quickly, jason, are any of these cases going to go away because trump wants to deport? >> reporter: no, he has expanded the criteria for expedited removal. it makes it easier to move some people out who have been here less than two years, but anybody who has been here more than two years still has constitutional protections can. there are international obligations, as well. they have to have a hearing so

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crawl to at least seasonable levels by the end of next week but for tonight we are dealing with this in the south. >> john: hey, rob, can we go back to, speaking of the south, virginia beach? do they usually get that kind of snow? or is that overwhelming them? >> it's pretty big. i was down there last week for the storm and spoke to a state police officer who said, virginia's big, they get a lot of snow, but not this much snow in virginia beach. it looks like this is going to be the biggest snowfall they have seen since 2010, the day after christmas. >> maurice: okay, rob marciano, thanks so much. >> john: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," a ship built to transport u.s. troops has one final mission. >> maurice: but up next, "eye on america." how artificial intelligence is remaking a whole community. ♪ ♪ nity t of the picture. ♪ ♪ and i'm feeling free. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me.♪ and now i'm back in the picture.

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