so we have to see what the u.s. and its european allies come up with that would really make a difference to russia. >> bret: guy? >> yeah, i agree with mara, this is a moment of testing not just for president biden but for the rest broadly. bill variety that american weakness is provocative and what we are hearing from the white house and from some of our allies is that this time will be different. and mara was noting 2014. the annexation of crimea. don't forget 2008 and the incursion into georgia. putin has attempted very provocative things and, in fact, pulled them off multiple times in recent memory and there was an explosion in each case of sound and fury and finger wagging and a few things happened and putin seems to have absorbed them. would this time be different? would it be painful enough? are those threats credible and painful enough to actually deter putin from doing something that he appears to be preparing to do? we will see. >> bret: all right, let's turn domestically now to crime. and it is on the ris

u.s. marshals. and they withdrew $4,000. >> these two were pound in a room locked hiding, these are not people we can be assured will return to court on their own. the two parents face four charges each of involuntary manslaughter. the judge had to read out the charges for each of the four high school students here that have been murdered and the mother sobbed audibly each time she had to say i understand, or not guilty. they pled not guilty to all four counts. the prosecutor laid out the role that she said that the parents played in this deadly rampage that the parents, the father initially bought the handgun for the 15-year-old boy and the mother trained on the gun with him. and when he was caught looking for amunition, the mother texted don't get caught next time. lol. there was a meeting with the son and administrators, and the teacher had found a drawing the student made in his desk, showing someone getting shot with a handgun at express the thoughts won't stop, help me written on tha

the u.s. is prepared to provide ukraine further assistance to defend its territory. the specifics on that are unclear. the white house is also threatening unprecedented sanctions. this is all ahead about the next week and a half or so top american and russian officials will be meeting in geneva to discuss these issues. presidents biden and putin according to white house officials will not be directly involved in those conversations. rich, i'm just seeing some of these highlights from the senior administration official saying that the tone of that conversation substantive but again not being clear why russian president vladimir putin requested that call. it does not seem like anything definitive was reached. but the president said there were a couple of paths that russia could go. >> exactly. what the president is saying according to senior administration officials, there is two paths here, there is the diplomatic path where they figure it out and russia stays out of urk this time or the second

but we do know that a lot of u.s. partners, a lot of afghan partners of the u.s. who have made it here, we relied upon them for our security and our accomplishments from the first day to the last day and really we're focused on helping them get on their feet here and be successful contributing members of american society. carley: you know, i was just reading that nearly half of media organizations in afghanistan have shut down since the taliban takeover, which does not bode well for freedom in that country. do you have any sense of what it's like to be living in afghanistan right now? >> i imagine that there is a lot of hardship being faced right now by afghan people, especially for the families of those afghan allies of the u.s. government that unfortunately were left behind. i know that there are groups working hard to both get aid to afghans out there and to try to come to some kind of agreement with the taliban to do more on the ground to help people there. carley: i want to ask you a national security question. nobody knows more about al-qaida than you. the t

julie: the u.s. is taking part in directly which aim to revive the 2015 nuclear deal president trump as you may remember withdrew the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal in 2018 and reimpose sanctions, iran me time has ramped up the enrichment ever since. president biden has signaled he will rejoin if iran agrees to abide by the guidelines. >> the u.s. and russia reportedly moving closer to scheduling talks next month over the tension surrounding ukraine, the meetings will be held in geneva, this amid reports of vladimir putin had withdrawn some of his troops from the ukraine border. alexandria hoff has more on this from washington. >> a new report claims more than 10000 russian troops have withdrawn from the ukrainian border that is according to reuters shared by the interfax news agency, tens of thousands of additional troops remain in the region near ukraine. here's what the vice president had to say. >> will direct conversations with russia we are very clear that russia should not invade the sovereig

u.s. marshals. if the attorney says they simply feared for their own safety and left but the attorney said they will be coming back. the sheriff blame the failure to keep tabs on the parents on poor communications with the prosecutor's office. >> we didn't learn of the charges until we were called by the news media this morning. we would have liked to maybe have done some other things last night. >> some disturbing details learned about the 15-year-old suspected shooter, the first alarm came one day before the shooting that's when the teacher noticed him searching for ammunition online during class. the second alarm much bigger, the day of the shooting when the teacher found a drawing the 15-year-old had made a drawing that showed someone being shot with a semiautomatic handgun and the troubling caption read "the thoughts won't stop. help me." the meeting was called to come of the parent of the suspected shooter and school administration officials, the decision was made at the meetinw the

. >> the u.s. has no scruples about smearing china by every means. >> the pentagon says beijing already uses these technologies, including biometric surveillance tools and facial recognition to track dissidence and journalists and to suppress the uyghurs. >> broadly speaking, we see that china and their military continues to develop advanced technologies and capabilities which are clearly designed to reinforce their very coercive very aggressive behavior. >> republican lawmakers are called on commerce secretary gina romando whose department levy idea the latest sanctions against dozens of chinese biotech company does more. senator marco rubio has proposed a bill to restrict u.s. investment in more chinese military companies that may one day produce mind control weapons. bret? >> bret: hard to believe. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. up next, the u.s. and russia prepare for new talks security. will anything be accomplished? ♪ (vo) subaru and our retailers believe in giving b

but private u.s. officials admit flattery only go so far and president biden will tell putin to back off and recognize ukrainian sovereignty. >> the president will reportedly speak to his ukrainian counterpart. another way to lower the temperature and avoid a superpower confrontation. chris: david spunt reported from the white house. thank you. earlier at the reagan defense forum i sent them with republican senator joni ernst. the first female combat veteran elected to the senate who is now a member of the armed services committee. also michelle, former secretary of defense under president obama. we began with a growing crisis on ukraine's border. senator, michelle, walk in the "fox news sunday". senator, what do you think vladimir putin is up to here. do you think he intends to invade ukraine and what should president biden tell him on tuesday. were not going to go to war with russia over ukraine. >> it's hard to know what vladimir putin is thinking and what his true intentions are. we do see a very

u.s. medical officials say it's too early to tell whether the u.s. will need that fourth shot. finally, colleges extending winter break. princeton university going a step further not only extending the break but saying once they return, undergraduates will not be allowed far from the campus except in extraordinary circumstances. jackie, back to you. >> thanks, steve. meantime, economists are warning that the economy could take a hit early next year as covid shuts down businesses and travelers cancel their plans. "wall street journal"'s john bussey with me now on how big of a hit. good to see you, john. your colleagues talked about this in the journal today. mark zandy taking his first quarter gdp estimate to 2.2% saying the economic damage is mounting here. >> so harriet torre has a good story on this. zandy took it down. he's in good company. a number of other forecasts are saying the robust expansion that they expected in the first quarter is going to be more moderate. still a growing economy, an economy our size growing at 2.2% plus is still a pretty good show. we're going t

biden is expected to announce thursday u.s. officials would require everyone entering the country to test before boarding flights regardless of vaccination status or country of departure. administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival. in addition, they are debating a controversial proposal to require all travelers including u.s. citizens to self-quarantine for seven days even if their test results are negative. that's pretty restrictive. >> this would have been unthinkable that anybody would assert they have this type of power to restrict americans' freedom of movement, particularly when, as you noted, it would apply even to people who have tested negative for covid and even people who are vaccinated that makes no sense at all. we are constantly told that politicians are making decisions based on the science and, yet, it really seems they are making really gross political decisions that restrict civil liberties that have no relationship to the sc

according to an industry group u.s. dairy has lost over a billion dollars because of the recent shipping slowdowns. so shipping will slow down but your cows can't slow down their milk production? >> these cows don't stop. during the entire pandemic that has been the problem we can't just turn off the valve. reporter: so you saw end to end transit times go from 43 days in 2019 to 78 days last month? >> that is right, douglas. the whole system is not coping with the current volumes. reporter: lee is from the fredos group, a online cargo booking platform which also tracks shipping trends. he says delays have been caused by a shortage in truck chassis, a lock of truck drivers and limited space at storage facilities, a perfect storm of problems clogging west coast ports. and you're also seeing prices soar 10 times what they were two years ago? >> that's right. according to our fbbx endecks price was 3013 to ship from china to the u.s. that reached as high as $20,000 this year. reporter: last month president biden mandated po

fell tell us they feel like the u.s. welcome border patrol rather than the u.s. border patrol. they shake our hands and thank you for being out and there covering what's going on. one of the biggest frustrations they have is what happened in del rio over the summer with 15,000 people showing up under that bridge more than 10,000 ended up getting released into the country. we will send it back to you. >> bret: we looking forward to more of your excellent reporting along the border in 2022, bill, thank you. >> thanks. ♪ ♪ >> bret: all right, the bottom of the hour, back to our top story, ghislaine maxwell guilty of five of six charges according to the jury of helping jeffrey epstein procure young women and girls for sexual abuse. let's bring in george washington university law school professor jonathan turley. jonathan, good evening. >> good evening. >> bret: you have followed this case five of six counts. we don't know what the sentence is going to look like but your thoughts on how it transpired? >> well, we know it's going to be a long one. people talk about the maximum se

the u.s. supreme court is refusing to block a covid-19 vaccine requirement for healthcare workers in morning. that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons. the court acted on emergency appeals filed by doctors, nurses and other medical workers who say they are being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs. new york is one of just three states along with maine and rhode island that do not accommodate healthcare workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds. >> bret: this is a fox news alert. california just this shower reinstating a statewide mask mandate as omicron variant cases lead to a surge in coronavirus infections there. correspondent matt finn is in los angeles with the latest. good evening, matt. >> good evening, bret. late this afternoon the state of california reimplemented a new month-long statewide indoor mask mandate it begins this wednesday the state says the mandate 47% increase in the covid case rate since thanksgiving primarily in counties

if that is not enough, u.s. defense officials tell fox news that russia is planning a multi-front invasion of ukraine as early as next year that could come perhaps next month. 100,000 russian troops right now already massed along the ukrainian border. and as tensions rise, the kremlin reportedly says president biden and russian prime minister putin will have a video call i on all of this on use night as russia is reportedly sending 75,000 more troops. who better to discuss this all than retired four-star general jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst, joining us now. general, we've seen this before. they took a chunk of cry -- crimea. how real is this threat and what does the president say to putin thursday night? >> they had something like 90,000 there back in the spring, and there was no military incursion. given the types of forces that he has there this time, it looks, certainly, likely that he may indeed use those forces many some whats dehere. many some capacity the here. i don't think he's made a d

the u.s. supreme court with the biden administration is giving public benefits, we seen a record number of people coming into our country more than 2 million people and as a result decriminalizing and we are seeing a dramatic impact that is going to affect not only arizona and texas but the entire country. griff: last week and i was on the texas border were texas is building its own wall, the governor in the dps agents trying to prosecute, what you doing in arizona. >> you know that it is the federal government's job, the president with the apex of power with national security and border security and statue authority and he is failing been doing his job, as a result the field by them policy i record amount of people crossing, record diploma, rising gas prices and the biden administration was to collect unvaccinated to the press conferences. they have a totally misplaced and it's not fair that governor abbott should have to build a wall on his own in arizona and texas taxpayers have to pay for

carley: u.s. officials are concerned the russia military buildup along the ukraine border could lead to an invasion of the country. moscow denied any plans for an invasion. smash and grab robberies are on the rise and president biden's approval rating on his handling of crime is plummeting. marianne rafferty is live in los angeles with the details. marianne, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. crime is surging across the u.s. and americans are losing confidence in the president's ability to stop the violence. a new abc poll found 36% of americans approve of biden's handling of crime. that's down 7% from october. smash and grab mobs are becoming commonplace in democrat-run cities like here in los angeles and chicago. businesses are pouring millions into private security to protect their stores. critics say the white house isn't doing enough to help businesses in cities suffering from the defund the police movement. retail leaders are asking lawmakers to clamp down on marketplaces like amazon a

the u.s. senate. there is a 50-50 split. the deciding vote these days is joe manchin. if manchin sides with the rest of the democratic party, then these religious liberty protections will be stripped away. a lot ever people have their kids in faith based preschool will lose it. if he won't vote for it, he would save the day. a lot of it comes down to what is manchin going to do? i think there are a lot of religious institutions provided child care in west virginia and hopefully that weighs on his mind as he makes a decision. >> mike: thomas carol, from boston, thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> sandra: really interesting perspective. very passionate about what he is trying to do. meeting with tim scott. we will invite him on too. >> mike: fascinating that senator manchin is in the middle of this one as well. >> sandra: a scary situation for tourists on a cancun beach. mexican police were there after gunmen on jet skis opened fired. phil keating joins us. that is affecting tourism. >> it is

u.s. must provide a negative covid test taken within one day of boarding flights regardless of vaccine status. up until now, p only unvaccinated pliers were required to show tests within three days of flying. the shortened window aims to provide less opportunity to develop infection with the omicron variant, prior to arrival in the united states. >>> and this, the biden administration reportedly set to announce a diplomateic boycott of the 2022 beijing olympics. cnn reporting the announcement could come as soon as this week. a di blow mattic -- diplomatic boycott still allows american athletes to compete in the game. the white house not expected to fully boycott the beijing olympics, as tensions grow between the u.s. and china over a number of issues including china's human rights abuses and aggression towards taiwan. >>> christmas shoppers and retailers are bracing as a surge of brazen smash and grab robberies take hold in major cities. carley: brooke sigman is here as officials blame sof

after listening to u.s. lawyers saying that he would be treated humanely, the judges said there's no reason why this court should not accept the assurances as meaning what they say. there is no basis for assuming that the usa has not given the assurances in good faith. but listen to the fiance of julian assange. >> every generation has an epic fight to fight on this is ours. julian represents fundamentals. >> the lawyers say they will appeal. he is in jail now. he was on the land for seven years, at the ecuadorian embassy. at that time he was trying to dodge sex assault charges. some think he's a hero. others of villain. >> gillian: he is certainly complicated. that was a very diplomatic way to put it. thank you. mike, what i do know is that the assange team and the folks at wikileaks are working overtime to try and rework the media narrative about him. i know that they message me constantly to try to give me updates on the latest sort of injustices perpetrated against him. i know they reach out to a lot of

this tells the u.s. government, both the national director of intelligence and the secretary of defense, you will report to congress both in the classified and unclassified versions. by the way, you are going to create a field team, capability to go out not just sit back and relax and wait for information to come to you, but you now have to be proactive. you have to go out and that should collect the information as it's happening and you have to report it to us and last but not least, if there is information you cannot report because it's too classified, you have to report that back to congress too. this is a fantastic -- it's very comprehensive. really proud of congress for it. >> tucker: let me ask you a bottom-line conversation, who believes that these objects from russia and china, believes they are foreign terrestrial aircraft? >> a couple of individuals, i will not call them out, for whatever reason still remain extremely apprehensive about this topic. but at the end of the day, i say, find him let

at this basically tells the u.s. government, both the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, you will report to congress both at the classified and unclassified versions. and by the way, you are going to create a field team, create a capability to go out and not just sit back and relax and wait for information to come to you. you know have to be proactive. and you have to report it to us, and last but not least if there is information that you can't report because it is too classified, you have to report that fact to congress else also. so this is really a fantastic -- it's huge. it's very comprehensive. i'm really, really proud of congress. >> i just want to ask you a bottom line question. do you know anybody who is deeply knowledgeable on the subject who believes that these objects are from russia and china? who believe they are foreign military aircraft? >> there's a couple individuals, i'm not going to call them out, that still remain extremely apprehensive about this topic. but at the en

he wants the u.s. to promise no nato membership for ukraine, that we are not going to sell any weapons to ukraine or any of its neighbors. it sounds like he probably wouldn't be sitting down to talk to the president and the first place if the white house had already taken those off the table and shut it down. >> exactly, that shouldn't be up for discussion. if you have these forces, there are no concessions being made. we won't negotiate at the point of a gun and we certainly won't push the ukrainians to make concessions at the point of a gun. withdraw your forces and we can have a diplomatic solution. as long as he has 100,000 -- he reduced his forces by 10,000? oh, my gosh, he's got more than 100,000 troops on the border ready to invade. by the way, if he invades, it would be a done move because ukrainians won't take this lightly. there will be an uprising which biden should say we will support, and russia will look at ukraine and regret ukraine the way they regretted their invasion of afghanistan in

xi is looking at the u.s. response and saying it will affect how he views his timetable for recovering taiwan for integrating taiwan into mainland china if need be by force and affect the relations of the u.s. in southeast asia, the balance of power to countries like vietnam and indonesia and the philippines saying we better cut a deal and be cozy with china because the u.s. doesn't have our back and also the actions in the south china sea that is an important navigation for international trade. will they try to exert greater control over that? finally mr. kim jong-un. the result of this will he say this is a hope i might be able to recover the south by armed force? lots of people will be watching how this drama plays out and the question is going to be does the president's description of sanctions and the american response to any effort to take ukraine by force going to be sufficient to discourage putin. >> dana: there is plenty to watch. the other thing everybody watched was afghanistan and our disastrous pu

on wednesday, the u.s. senate confirmed suffolk county district attorney rachel rollins will be the new asked u.s. attorney for massachusetts with the tie-breaking vote cast by vice president kamala harris. speak of the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the nomination is confirmed. >> she will be the first black woman to hold the post in the state nominated by president joe biden in july. republicans emphatically fought her confirmation. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell criticized her "soft on crime advocacy" and senator ted cruz of texas called her a wallace so-called prosecutor. >> then i looked at her record. and it takes your breath away. we are dealing with an individual nominated to be a u.s. attorney in massachusetts who has been vocal and aggressive against prosecuting crime. >> during her run for p.a., they announced the not to prosecute with 15 lower-level decimeters including shoplifting and certain drug charges. after taking office, she followed

on the u.s. troops we have thousands of u.s. personnel on the ground. we need to know what the plan is for protecting our troops and our personnel that are there. we don't want to find ourselves in another afghanistan situation. the fiasco and embarrassing surrender in afghanistan contributed to this sense of mush on the world stage to use that saying. if you confront the united states you will confront mush. we need to put steel in the spine of american foreign policy. otherwise we won't just be talking about afghanistan or ukraine. we will be talking about the loss of taiwan and the loss of u.s. global leadership. >> john: and mush in crimea as well. the threat of being kicked out of the swift system might makeim thank twice. appreciate it. >> sandra: the final days of the year the question remains: how many americans are still left in afghanistan at this moment? rich hudson live on that in washington. hi, rich. >> that's still unclear. officials said the number of americans trying to leave afghanistan changes daily. in october a senator accused the a

the u.s. and u.k. and others are doing a diplomatic boycott. >> mike: bring us home. >> i think it's obvious bob dole is the big winner, his legacy, president biden praising him as a great patriot. this is a fun friday, she's no loser but i think taylor swift suffered a loss of this week. she's going to have to go to court and testify in a copyright infringement case for her famous song "shake it off." >> mike: my winter, rutgers scarlet knights beating number . when we come back, notable quotables. so they only pay for what they need. (gasps) ♪ did it work? only pay for what you need ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ spider-man no way home in theaters december 17th your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire (vo) with verizon business unlimited plans, you can get 5g, truly unlimited data, and more hotspot da

again, making it clear there would be no military response from the u.s. >> the idea that the u.s. is und states use force to confront russia invading ukraine is not in the cards right now. >> the administration is also warning china, after secretary austin acknowledged to you, bret, that incursions around taiwan were rehearsal for inner investigation. secretary blinken warned there would be terrible consequence gs they tried anything. jake sullivan added this. >> the united states is going to take every action that we can take from the point of view of both deterrence and diplomacy to make sure that the taiwan scenario never happens. >> china and russia though continue to strengthen their political economic and military relations holding a series of military exercises and high level diplomatic meetings leading many corporation from two former adversaries. russia and china issuing own advisories today. there would be dangerous consequences for u.s. behavior in the region and last month president xi told president biden directly that any push for taiwanese independence would be, quo

the u.s. senate? >> of course we do. that is a problem that we have today. goes back to world war i and a lot of ideology we represent the organization that we have of the country. remember the clip that he made very typical of bob sieber. he had a quick wit. i remember he did a lot of bios on people and they said bob who had an acerbic sense of humor. i had the first district, roberts must be underwater, the worst thing that you can do on the allegation where everybody was there to be right after dole or right before him. if you are before him and try to be a little bit funny, all my goodness. if you were after him you didn't know what to do. he could really break the balloon where we just can't get anything done and his wit and humor. i tried to animate that. i got a lot more done in the house when people thought that bob dole was everything that i was for and i sure as heck did not tell him that. i got a lot more done because i knew bob because of his leadership. a lot of stories about that

. >> u.s. intelligence has russia is preparing to invade ukraine with nearly 175,000 troops. >> tens of thousands of russian troops have deployed on its border with ukraine, revealed in the satellite images. >> laura: the sad fact is biden is so weak that putin feels perfectly competent to start issuing demands even before the talks begin. president vladimir putin is expected to issue president biden an ultimatum during their video meeting tuesday. guarantee that nato will never expand into ukraine, or russia might soon launch an offensive against its neighbor. the ukrainian defense in a stir on cnn giving biden advice. >> i would like to ask him to very understandable articulate to mr. putin that no redlines from kremlin side could be here. redline is here in ukraine. it needs organizational weaponry. we need electronic warfare. et cetera. >> laura: the et cetera is what costs a lot of money. he claimed ukraine won't need u.s. or nato boots on the ground, we know how risky this situation is. e

senior white house officials says the u.s. is prepared to provide more defensive weapons or more further assistance to defend its territory. but the specifics on that are unclear. the white house is also threatening unprecedented sanctions. >> we are having direct conversations with russia. we're very clear that russia should not invade the sovereignty of ukraine, that we must stand up and we are standing up for its territorial integrity. >> this is also ahead of reason and american officials meeting january 10th to discuss these issues. officials say that presidents biden and putin are not expected to be directly involved in the talks. jackie? >> jackie: thanks, rich. big question right now, can this standoff with russia be resolved diplomatically? part of with me now, christian whiten. christian, great to see you to get insight on this topic. as rich reported there, the call is underway as we speak. putin did request the call. we don't know what he wants to talk about. what do you think that message is that he wants to send

meanwhile, the majority of americans are concerned about crime in their own communities.76% say the u.s. government is not doing enough about the problem, this is according to a recent cnn survey. we have "fox and friends" brian kilmeade on tap to join us in just a moment. first we go to mark meredith where a father and his baby came under an attack. >> traditionally capitol hill is one of the more safer neighborhoods in the city. two attacks that have been getting lawmaker's attention because they're happening less than a mile from the u.s. capitol. sunday morning a 44-year-old man attacked a dad and his kids with a brick. a day later, not far away, another man not related to the

u.s. officials sayussia might be planning to invade ukraine early next year. the assessment comes days before president biden is scheduled to meet virtually with russian president vladimir putin. we have fox team coverage tonight on all of these stories, beginning with steve harrigan with the latest on charges against those michigan parents, he's live outside oxford, high school where tuesday's mass shooting took place. steve. >> jon, all three members of the crumbly family are together again. they're inside this same jail, they're untiebl interact, though, that's because men, women and juveniles are separate from each other. two parents face charges of involuntary manslaughter, 15-year-old son face charges of first-degree murder. the bond was set at $a 500,000 for each of the parents that's exactly what the prosecutor asked for as they are proven flight risk. the prosecutor also made the point that there's not a single person in this community who would vouch for either of the parents. he

more hoops for u.s. travelers to hop through as the biden administration continues a shifting approach to attacking the covid-19 crisis. this time, new flight rules regardless of vaccine status. and you probably heard this too. an emphasis on pretesting. speak out the actions i am announcing that all americans can rally behind. and it should unite us in the fight against covid-19. >> it was a familiar refrain from the bite in white house. if i covid-19, we all need to stick together. by which they mean take the shot or you are simply not doing your part to keep the country safe. two parts persuasion, one part aspirational pitch by the president just ahead of what could be a long covid winter. >> i know covid-19 is very pervasive to become a political issue which is a sad, sad commentary. it shouldn't be. but it has been. now through the winter and facing the challenges of this new variance, this is a moment where we can put the divisiveness behind is. >> the updated plan to tackle covid-19 including the

fox news confirmed two rockets were fired toward the u.s. embassy in baghdad yesterday. the u.s. military shut down one of the rockets while the second miss the embassy compound. no group has claimed responsibility. eric: tensions a change of crane and russia been growing for months as moscow builds up its military forces on their shared border. now the kremlin is handing the eunice and made a list of demands and once met in exchange for pulling his troops back. among them, rushes calling on the u.s. to deny nato membership to ukraine and other former soviet eastern bloc countries. rollback troop deployments across much of europe. start stop military drills no russian band u.s. warships or mayors where they could strike russia. so what is a vladimir putin's ultimate goal? want to bring in florida congressman member of the house armed services committee and former green beret commander who recently visited ukraine with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. congressman, welcome. before we get to your visit when you make of putin's demands on nato and on us? >> well, they are nothing new

after listening to u.s. lawyers the judges found there is no reason why this court should not accept the assurances meaning what they say. no bases assuming the usa has not given the assurances in good faith. here is what assange's fiance had to say today. >> every generation has an epic fight to fight and this is ours. julian represents the fundamentals of what it means to live in a free society. >> his lawyers say they will appeal. he is in jail here now pending a final decision. he was on the lamb for seven years holding up in an embassy here and at the time trying to dodge sex abuse charges in sweden. i have met him, i have interviewed assange. he is a smart guy, a complicated guy to some as you heard a hero, to others he is a demon. we'll see how it plays out. >> dana: thanks for covering it for us. >> bill: your hard earned money is getting less and less. new data proves that. inflation numbers out. consumers prices up 6.8% last month. the biggest spike since 1982. 6.8 over the past year we should say.

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they include ukraine not joining nato and the u.s. and nato pulling back troops, offensive weaponry and military gear from ukraine and other eastern europey an countries. they've been massing 100,000 troops near ukraine prompting fears a full scale invasion by the russian military of ukraine could be in the offing. now president biden for his part said that would trigger severe consequences short of a military response. he also said he is willing to sit down and talk with russia except for some of those red line items like the ban on ukraine nato membership. dana, putin has been pressing his demands on fresh president macron and the new german chancellor. some officials are saying we have about a month to get this thing resolved. that's a very short timetable. back to you. >> dana: all right. thank you, greg palkot. i'm sure we have the president meeting supply chain task force. he will give a few remarks. >> president biden: three years ahead of the protected time it would take to get to that number. applicants for new small business

great to be on. >> bret: u.s. border agents have apprehended a terrorism suspect who entered the country illegally last week. the migrant was apparently disguised as a volunteer e.m.s. worker. also tonight we have new exclusive video as we watched dozens of illegal immigrants cross the border despite heavy rain, cold temperatures there. correspondent bill melugin is in la joya, texas again tonight. >> border patrol in yuma, arizona report they have caught a potential terrorists after he crossed into the u.s. illegally from mexico. the 21-year-old man from saudi arabia has ties to several yemeni subjects of interest according to border patrol. he was wearing a jacket from the central aneed da volunteer ambulance corps in upstate new york. in a phone call their chief tells us they have no idea who this man is. they have no affiliation with him. and they don't know how he got one of their outdated jackets. here in the rio grande valley bad weather and chill temperatures didn't stop migrants from crossing illegally. l

and the u.s. has accused huawei of working with the chinese state. this "the washington post" investigation appears to confirm that according to internal huawei documents the chinese company has been working directly with them actively pitching technologies to help them manage ideological reeducation, labor schedule prisoners, track their political opponents and harness facial recognition. president trump in 2020 effectively banned huawei and operating with u.s. companies this would put a nail in the coffin for them hoping to reemerge as a western company. >> a lot of officials saying that back then. benjamin hall live at the state department. thank you. ♪ breaking tonight, hope is fading to try to find more people alive among the dozens still missing as mentioned at the top of the show, the official death toll stands at 88 from those devastating tornadoes. 74 of them in kentucky. dead. tonight the search continues through the devastation on the ground. senior correspondent mike tobin joins us live with the latest. good evening, mike. >> good eveni

u.s. intelligence reports russia is planning for an invasion of ukraine, perhaps early next year. invasion plan calls for 200 thousand russian troops to amass near the ukrainian border. and this is in addition to the provocative actions that russia has taken already. u.s. officials were quick to note that vladimir putin's intentions are unclear, perhaps putin will not carry out the war plan, nevertheless, a meeting is schedule between putin and president biden tuesday, a russian invasion of ukraine would ignite a major security crisis for europe and create more instability in what is already an increasingly unstable world. president biden said that u.s. has a quote iron clad commitment to ukraine sovereignty. what does that mean? president biden to to issue more sanctions against russia to deter putin but if russia goes ahead. the u.s. will have to do a lot more. john ratcliffe is joining us now, director, if we have an iron clad commitment to sovereignty of ukraine, why would putin be tes

. >> u.s. officials are reportedly zeroing in on sanctions against vladimir putin's inner circle and on russian energy producers and banks to deter russian troops invading ukraine. considered back in 2014 but didn't ultimately make. cutting off russia from international payment. >> i'm sure they are looking at sanctioning the banking system. sanctioning the energy sector. possibly cutting off russia from the swift system which enables them to financial transactions. >> at the time prime minister dmitry medvedev said cutting off would be tantamount to declaration of war. passed a nonbinding if russia invaded ukraine. the white house so far has not taken a position on it but issued stern warnings. >> we consulted with our allies and have a path forward impose significant and severe harm on the russian authority. you can call that a threat, you can call that a fact. you can call it preparation. whatever you want to call it. >> ahead of the biden putin call the white house is signaling to return th

supreme court to ask the u.s. supreme court to reinstate this day suc that companies will not be required to force a vax or attest mandate where they have 100 or more employees brickey get the ministration told them get back at that. you have to get ready because where things currently stand i know justice cavanaugh has aske all the parties to get their filing by december 30th. to get a little break for an actual christmas, but that new your push is going to be probably decision-making time o this. we will watch for that. in the meantime, several people flagged this tonight, this report from which our jennifer griffin who covers the pentagon says that u.s. army has created a single vaccine is effective against all covid and sars variants variance it says withi weeks they expect scientist to announce they've developed the vaccine to protect people from all of its variants. do you know anything about this or can you shed any light on it? >> this is something we have been hoping for for a long time. it scientifically

a dozen major u.s. cities that has broken the homicide record this year, the previous homicide record was back in 1948, 59 homicides and so far, 88 this year. and they are still, what three three weeks left in the year. that's just crazy. what else going on in austin, texas? >> well, first of all, austin, texas, was once a wonderful place to visit and live and it has deteriorated. the homeless camps across the city have increased crime. the outpouring of anti-police rhetoric from their head of government, the mayor there, who, remember, he was the gentleman that was vacationing in cabo while he was telling everyone in austin to stay home and hunker down during the covid crisis there's a total lack of leadership. and austin has really become the hot spot for not only crime but for the anti-place movement in texas. thankfully, it's not that great of a population center compared to the rest of the state. it's certainly the liberal hot spot of texas. the rest of the state, i don't believe, is on board with

thank you. >> benjamin: the u.s. coast guard issues an urgent warning as more migrants take to the high seas. >> benjamin: do not take to the sea, that's the bottom line message from us. while we support legal and safe migration, these illegal and unsafe operations on the sea absolutely are dangerous, they are not worth the risk. >> benjamin: how florida is copying with the surge of migrants reaching its shores. new york citizens leaving new york. what is fueling the latest census data ahead. as a dj, i know all about customization. that's why i love liberty mutual. they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? it's true jen. this prebiotic oat formula moisturizes to help prevent dry skin. impressive. aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ new daily moi

u.s. officials with a russian invasion of ukraine could be months away. ahead of discussion tomorrow between president biden and russian plaque president vladimir putin. watching all of it, hello sandra smith in new york, john, hi. >> john: very busy news wise, john roberts from washington fox news has obtain satellite image of russian combat troops and equipment staging near the ukraine border. u.s. officials estimating russia is preparing to deploy 175,000 troops for a potential ground invasion. >> sandra: president biden is watching you and the u.s. has a plan in place to prevent the worst-case scenario and we will speak with them tomorrow. critics are warning they are concerned ukraine could become another foreign policy disaster like afghanistan. >> john: . >> john: indiana congressman jim banks a member of house armed service committee and will join us in a moment but first to the white house, peter doocy with the latest on this. what a way to start the week. >> told me about it, joh

the u.s. for nearly two years. i'm julie banderas. great to be with you again. >> benjamin: i'm benjamin hall. two days in a row, julie. a great day for me. dana and bill can take as much vacation as they like when we can anchor together. i'm looking forward to it today. this is "america's newsroom." the president is on vacation at his delaware beach house today. the virus is taking no time off. the u.s. had a new single day record for infections, 440,000 not including at-home tests. >> julie: all this is prompting the white house to consider a new vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. south dakota gov government >> he continues to impose mandates on the country. this president has taken unprecedented action to impose on the liberties and freedoms of the american people. >> benjamin: david spunt is traveling with the president in delaware. good morning, david. >> good morning to you. a difficult morning when you look at those covid numbers specifically yesterday we reached the highest amoun

to threaten u.s. supreme court, you boys and girls on the court, you either do what we want you to do or we'll ramp up that commission or pack the court or do things to court to destroy independence of the court. we have not seen an attack on the supreme court like this since roosevelt, even back then, speaker of house stood up and opposed him, today democrat party is all in, trash independence of the supreme court, they don't believe in following the law, look right now, our traditions and customs, we're a representative republic, they are in secret discussions. talking to staff about how to fundamentally change the economic second, about to massively expand the welfare state and change education of you're children, and change health care system forever, to impose enormous taxes on you. on small businesses, redistribute wealth, alter thes so and governing system, we're not able to participate. all we hear two moderates are negotiating there -- this is a game, what about substance, don't we get to par

the case is seen as major odessa for the u.s. effort to prevent china from stealing american technology. here is senior national correspondent rich edson. >> chair of harvard university's chemistry department and an expert in cutting edge science. his research group received millions in grants from the pentagon, doctor charles lieber, also worked for a chinese university for $50,000 a month. and more than $150,000 in living expenses. federal prosecutors say he hid key details of this arrangement from harvard. the department of defense, and the irs. >> failure to disclose foreign affiliations and foreign funding can pose serious threats to national security. >> lieber's ongoing trial is a major test for a justice department initiative to thwart the chinese government's efforts to steal american technology and sensitive research. prosecutors say the national institutes of health and the pentagon gave lieber's research group at harvard $15 million in grants, which required him to disclose money from foreign governments. the "boston

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