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>> julie: thank you very much. >> rich: lets bring in the former chief of staff for the national security council and vice chair of the america first policy institute center for american security. fred, thank you for joining us this morning. this phase of war has really taken targeting on civilians, a war of attrition that russian could not complete its initial goals of taking over the country and kiev. how long can this continue and how long can ukraines population endure this? >> rich, it is g...

Tillis. it would tighten or change asylum laws and as part give 2 million dreamers a pathway to citizenship. is that a compromise? >> i dont think so and i tell you why. everytime we talk about amnesty all of a sudden you have an even bigger influx of people coming in. hard to imagine right now but especially when you have 7,000 encounters this week -- in this quarter. it would be a problem because amnesty is an incentive. thats what the cartels pitch and market around the world is if you come i...

Week. who will be speaker? >> well, well have to have that vote on january 3rd. right now nobody has 218 votes, the magic number. im not -- i dont believe well see that until january 3rd and it will take maybe a few ballots to shake it out. >> rich: is there a candidate you would support or that you want or think should be speaker of the house? >> of course im running, rich. but there are some good people in our conference. i dont want to put a name. i dont want to put a target on their back. th...

Has new requirements from travelers coming from china. weve got the details coming up next. >> rich: fentanyl crisis. one woman dave her friend fentanyl pills, one died. >> they found erin dead, so it just kind of went really bad. not kind of, it went really bad. . supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health. ensure with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of protein.

China after beijing rolled back its strict 0 covid measures. this is just happening all over again, isnt it? its crazy how it is spreading. >> rich: china went to 0 covid lockdown, complete disaster and back to testing to come into the u.s. from china. >> julie: everybody is getting covid now. a one-day cold. my daughter had it so week. she was sick one day and next day fine. thank god its not what i used to be. the silver lining. >> rich: as the fentanyl epidemic rages across the united states ...

It has changed at all in the last ten months. is something going to change? do you think that ukraine can continue to hold out long enough and enough attrition on russian forces to change the calculation and give a little bit more favorable negotiating terms to the ukrainians? >> i think both sides are prepared to fight for quite a long time. it worries me that by the time russia is willing to negotiate, ukraine will be leveled. i think the priorities should be to get an organic cease-fire now a...

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>> there is no plan b here. the plan is to get mccarthy elected as speaker. we could be there all night or 2 or 3 days it doesnt matter. the reality is mccarthy worked harder than anybody else. without him we wouldnt be having this debate. >> rich: the argument goes without backing leader mccarthy for speaker and you are delaying the business of house republicans and delaying oversight and delaying legislation. what about that? >> well, i think thats not true and not accurate. right now we have ...

I get it he has nix the district over from mccarthy. he will support him all the way. other people should be there. when people start talking about those things, they forget the body of work of mr. mccarthy. >> rich: would you ever vote for mccarthy? >> i dont think so. i do not think so. here is why. he has a body of work. you go back to 17 and 18, look at why we had democrats voting for the republican budgets, because the republicans didnt want those budgets but the floor leader, mr. mccarthy,...