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>> bret: good evening, welcome to washington i'm 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 former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. j...

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 russia. briefly taking control over rostov-on-don a key military logistics have on his way to march to...

Are a lot of conversations happening in the situation room, and the pentagon among your former colleagues. what's 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 you've worked on the u.s. russia relations, there are basically three really important people in that architecture. there's putin, there's a minister of defense, and the ...

The new republican house is seated. so, i'm not sure that the -- i don't think this is a now or never proposition on the measures that they are concerned about. obviously, there's 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 can't get through, the defense stuff, the funding of the government. the efforts by senators thom tillis and kyrsten sinema...

Let that sing it this morning. this monday morning. >> we are hearing that china's 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 program free, as russia's war moves ever closer to nato territory, we'll be joined by the former ...