alarms about what his return to the white house could look like. you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. plus, abortion fwiet. the texas supreme court temporarily blocks a pregnant woman from an emergency abortion. there s no outcome here that i take home a healthy baby girl, you know. so it s hard. will the state force her to continue her pregnancy? and new charges. president biden s son hunter is indicted for the second time this year. nine new criminal counts including tax evasion and filing false returns. what would be the political impact. plus, under fire. the president s three elite universities facing backlash after their testimony at a congressional hearing on anti-semitism, and now the president of the university of pennsylvania has resigned. does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn s rules or code of conduct yes or no. if the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment, yes. conduct committing t
will not be the final witness in the civil fraud trial against his business organization. we ll go through the last-minute reversal from the former president. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israel continues to strike what it calls hamas strongholds in southern gaza. it comes as we are learning more about some of the hostages still held by the terrorist group. plus, a controversial ruling in the state of texas. that state supreme court is blocking an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, december 11th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin here. former president trump will not, after all, testify in his own defense at his$250 million fraud trial. he was scheduled to take the stand today, but in a last-minute reversal, it was announced late yesterday he would not testify i his defense at all. he was previously called to t
information for their advantage. sometimes misinformation, to literally put out there to try and throw up the other side. that said, the head of ukraine s armed forces had, to the economist, that he believes that russia is preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. he said he had no doubt that they were trying to make a move on kyiv at some point. another reason why lots of training and loss of preparation is needed by the ukrainians. they continue at this moment to fight on the front lines, hold the lines, prepare for whatever may be coming down the road. will ripley, appreciate it. thank you. lieutenant general hertling. he heard the report from. well why do you think russians are issuing threats over the pages when they re intended to use for defense purposes? well, they don t want the patriots inside ukraine anytime soon, anderson. they knew that the capability that would counter any long range strike capability that the russians have. what i m talking about there is they have been
to make a move on kyiv. ultimately based on the strategy we are seeing, the potter efforts are supporting efforts to this what we are getting to to attempt to tie down the remaining parts of the ukrainian military. i think vladimir putin is look to for one or two angles if he wanted to encircle kyiv he could. but he hasn t made much progress yet. we ll show you how much growrntd russians actually ground the russians actually hold. they don t hold a single city center. it s the airports. they captured an airfield that s like a local military installation. like a peterboro for those folks
strategy that he s got is to take over as much of this territory as he possibly can. so what you see here, this is the eastern part. this is what we thought he would go after, and most people said this is where he ll stay. but he had a better idea from his point of view, and that was to take things in this area around kharkiv and also to make a move on kyiv. that is coupled with the move that we just heard nick paton walsh talk about in this area in the south. so what you re seeing now is putin going for every single part of ukraine that he can get easily and then if he is successful in this area, he could then move westward to lviv or he could do it from belarus and move down this way. so that is basically what putin is doing. in essence he is trying to take over the whole country as quickly and as economically as he possibly can. and where do you expect russia where do you expect putin to focus on next? so what i would say he would