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>> bret: good evening, welcome to washington im bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during...

u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former nato supreme allied commander, james to read us, and cia analyst from congresswoman, elissa slotkin. later, my sunday exclusive with house speaker nancy pelosi. get her reflections on the one year anniversary of roe v. wade being overturned in the future of abortion rights in america. >> over just the last 48 hours, the yevgeny prigozhin a brutal shadow commander of mercenary forces staged a short-lived attempt to seize more power in ru...

Are a lot of conversations happening in the situation room, and the pentagon among your former colleagues. whats happening right now? what are they watching, what are you watching over the next couple of days here in russia and the ground there? >> and in ukraine to, i should say. >> yeah. i would say first and foremost, the preeminent concern has to be that this country that has nuclear weapons is still stable. you, know if youve worked on the u.s. russia relations, there are basically three re...

The new republican house is seated. so, im not sure that the -- i dont think this is a now or never proposition on the measures that they are concerned about. obviously, theres been a depletion of our weapons stocks in our efforts to help ukraine. i think that there would be widespread bipartisan support for replenishing those stocks and that would carry over into the new congress. i cite that as one example of the kinds of things in that bill. >> bret: leslie, if that cant get through, the defe...

Let that sing it this morning. this monday morning. >> we are hearing that chinas foreign ministry has commented on a u.s. official saying that russia has asked china for a military equipment after its invasion in ukraine. they say that is disinformation from the u.s.. so china is saying that they have not been asked for military equipment by russia. to help with the invasion. the incursion of ukraine. and they are describing that as disinformation as far as the u.s.s concert. so the come on the...

There. eyebrows go up. who is he trying to help when he lied to congress? who was he trying to help when he violated the campaign finance rules? its fairly standard defense stuff. i look for a harsh rebuke from the southern district. >> let me get you in on this. talking about campaign finance violations. president trump, his defense i guess we can say in the reuters interview when it comes to campaign finance violations, it wasnt a campaign contribution f. it were it is only civil. if it is onl...

Guard troops on the border to support, advice. assist the border patrol and some of their activities. the other would be trying to use military funding that was put through in this latest omnibus spending to actually build the wall. either way, actually, youre taking money thats earmarked for the military and spending it on the border. i understand the line that border security is national security but this comes at a time when weve had four, count them four major military aviation accidents in ...

Matter. >> melissa: so what would the facts have to be in your mind in order for it to be a very serious matter? >> sure. >> melissa: in other words, what would have to be in that memo to amount to obstruction? >> president trump would have to say end the investigation or im going to fire you. i want you to end the investigation. i want a pledge that youll end the investigation regardless of what you find. that would be objestruction of justice. he said i hope you can find a way to clear my nati...

Plichloride and china are the ones that mine them and produce them and in many cases they then sell them to us. when we talk about talking to china if they cut off the supply were done and at the base level and not just a tanker and airplane but stuff used in the tanks and airplanes to maintain our technological advantage. thats what were trying to do. we need to create the market and reopen the mines to have americans producing hes rare metals used in all of our defense stuff. >> bill: duncan h...

Order. hes watching everything, man. hes tweeting about it. >> hes well read. wow. >> or well watched. >> whats the deal. a $4 billion plane. they came out and said its a $700 million plane. what is it? >> hes closer to being right than boeing is. first of all, the plane is seven years out. wont be ready until 2024. by then the cost will be $4 billion. what they do is they buy an existing plane thats being built here in the united states. theyre not going to build it in france. and then you have...