number for those who have been caught trying to get in. how many gotaway is a good question. big show today. dana: it is. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. border agents have arrested 78 suspected terrorists this year alone. that is three times as many as the past five years combined. bill: the surge of illegals putting a strain on border towns. texas continues to bus migrants to sanctuary city. democrat henry cuellar in a tough reelection fight at the border admits the tactic has been effective. nobody was listening to the border communities for years. now that it is happening in their own backyard they re talking about it. once we finish the fiscal year we have to talk about somewhere between 4.5 to 4.9 million individuals that have come across the border. if you call that a secure border, i don t know what it is. dana: team fox coverage with reaction from senator marco rubio. let s begin with alexis mcadams live from eagle pass, texas. good morning.
successful ukrainian counter offensive gained steam last week. those who like to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know the winds can blow in their direction. it is the first time since world war ii russia called up reservists, 300,000 troops one way flights. putin accused the west of nuclear blackmail. follows russia s efforts to formally annex a fifth of ukraine. putin a more expansive definition of territory he could claim to be protecting and seen as an answer to president biden s warning over the weekend not to use chemical or nuclear weapons. president biden: i m not going to tell you. it will be depending on the extent what we do depends on
there are fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. it is a totally different circumstance. what s on my watch now is venezuela, cuba, and nicaragua. and the ability to send them back to those states is not rational. dana: could you speak to that, sir? there is no doubt those are communist countries. i m glad he finally recognizes that and people in his administration and the president he served under tried the argue they weren t that bad anymore and tried to get closer to them. venezuela see the one sending people to meet with maduro and try to buy oil from the guy. it s from all over the world. there are literally people from over 100 different countries crossing the border. it is an industry. there are flights from turkey bringing people from turkey and the middle east into mexico and
night is consistent with this from him. it is irresponsible for a nuclear power to speak that way about the possible use of any weapons of mass destruction. bill: last question. seven months into the war you just mentioned. what is the goal of the united states? is it our goal to defeat russia? hour goal has been clear and sis tent from the beginning. we want to see ukraine succeed on the battlefield so they can succeed at the negotiating table. as the president said we ll be at that for as long as it takes. bill: they can t do this. they can t be where they are without us. they have gotten a lot of support not just from the united states but 40 some odd other countries. they have gotten a lot of support. those same countries, including president biden and the united states have committed to continue to help them for as long as it takes and very appreciative for the support they re getting from outside ukraine. they know how critical it has been. we can t forget the skill,
we take very seriously our commitment under the taiwan relations act to make sure taiwan can defend itself. bill: i looked at the transcript. it didn t look like a hypothetical. he said what should chinese president xi know about your commitment to taiwan. i think the reason why the question keeps coming up president biden referred to it how many times, four times now, right? four times total and the white house has had to clean this up. could there be a strategic ambiguity to his answer to keep president xi off balance? would you accept that argument? i would just tell you nothing has changed about our approach to taiwan. nothing has changed about our desire to make sure taiwan can defend itself and nothing has changed. this is something that jake said the other day, nothing has changed about the fact we don t want to see the status quo change certainly not by use of