35, i've been an adult for five years, i guess. having a kid and changing diapers really makes you feel like an adult, i will say. >> i'm more than half a century old and still not an adult, you have to adopt adult behaviors and accepted in society, and hold a job. my father told me i was not allowed to move back home when i was 15. kicked me out. >> you don't have the interest rates, the bills. >> you don't know how good you have it. >> i'll tell my -- >> so go backwards what we are saying. >> we cannot let today go by without wishing our incredible associate producer evan a very happy birthday. thank you for all you do, evan. happy, happy birthday and thank you all for watching us today and every day. here is "america reports". >> sandra: a live look on capitol hill, expected to hear

on top republicans at the deteriorating situation at the southern border. lindsey graham is speaking, dip in and listen what was a record number of migrant crossings in a single day this week. >> the director of the fbi said when asked about blinking lights threats, i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. since october 7th, people need to understand what happened to israel affects you too. we have chosen to support israel because we should, we need to. hamas would kill us if they could, we need to be behind our friends in israel. what does that mean for us? the threat level has gone to a whole other level since october 7th. post october 7th, a rose gallery of terrorist organizations are calling for attacks against us. what does that mean? the people who want to destroy israel are trying to pay us back for helping israel.

president biden, you don't need to negotiate with any of us. you have the ability as president to stop this problem now and you choose to use the law that is available to you. why is the border so broken? because the policy choices of president biden are not working. next. i've never seen a time when all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated at exactly the same time. next. this is december 6th. fighting age males lined up as far as you can see. bottom line is we are urging the president to get involved and fix this problem. senator murphy is a fine fella, but it's never gonna happen as long as senator schumer is in charge of these negotiations. we are going to have to get the president of the united states involved. he owes it to the american people to fix a broken border.

and when i say broken, what do i mean? i mean really broken. in the last four days we have had 40,000 illegal crossings. two days ago was the highest on record. we are averaging for the last seven days 9400 people. we are on track to 3.6 million this year alone, 6 million to date since he's been president. larger than 21 states, the threat level's all-time high, illegal crossings into our country all-time high, and my democratic colleagues are saying what do we get to secure the border. you get a safer country. you are not gonna get legalization of illegal immigrants in this deal. this is about securing our border so we can then help our allies. i'm going to turn it over to my colleagues. i will not do. i will not go back to south carolina and explain why i

helped ukraine, taiwan and israel and did nothing to secure our own border. i will help all of our allies but we have to help ourselves first. you don't need to change the law for this to stop, you need the president to use the tools available and change his policies. president biden had a goal to prove to the american people he was not donald trump when it came to immigration and border policy. you have exceeded beyond your wildest imagination. how many americans would love to have the border secured like president trump was able to do it. you can do it, you have to want to do it, you have to choose to do it. so these negotiations need to change. the president of the united states should be involved. he is responsible for this situation more than any member of the house and the senate. he is the commander in chief and when it comes to securing our border, our commander in chief, joe biden, is awol. senator grassley.

>> like senator graham, my constituents asked when are you going to do something about the border. as senator graham said, it's already against the law to enter our country without our permission. we pass those laws and they have been on the books for a long period of time. in turn, the president is the enforcer of the laws, and he has decided not to enforce these laws because he believes in an open border. and this is secure -- has brought about a national security problem when you read regularly about 169 -- 169 people on the terrorist watch list that have entered the country and those are the ones we know about, because we -- they are on record. and what i don't get about this whole thing is if you are on the terrorist watch list you never

get on an airplane to come into the united states. so how can you fly to mexico or however you want to get to mexico, be on the terrorist watch list and get into this country without being denied the same way you would be if you wanted to get on an airplane. so we have to do something about this and it's up to the president to do it. but we need some policy changes if that's what this debate is all about. i'm really glad that all the people up here with me and people that aren't up here with me one week after october 7th, we sent a letter to the president of the united states warning him about the fact that there could be, because of what happened in israel, terrorist attacks was in the united states. i don't know whether he took that very seriously or not, but we know that we expected this to happen from the people that are

on the terrorist watch list. we must secure the border. it's one of the top three things the voters of this country are interested in. it's common sense. it's the law. the president of the united states just like we have have taken an oath to uphold the constitution and the president isn't doing that. >> thanks, lindsey and for your leadership. what yesterday's vote should have made clear is that republicans are dead serious about solving biden's border crisis as part of the national security, part and parcel national security debate on the floor of the senate right now. as lindsey pointed out, this was a policy choice. this administration made a clear choice when they took office to completely abandon and do away with the policies of the

previous administration that were working at our southern border. so much so now that you have even, you know, people like jay johnson who was the homeland security department secretary under president obama said at the time that 1,000 people a day would overwhelm the system and he could not even imagine what 4,000 a day would look like. well, now we are triple that. 10 to 12,000 people a day these last few days are just absolutely overwhelming our system and this is a huge national security crisis for our country, which republicans are, as i said, dead set on solving. and we have put forward proposals that are meaningful and real and serious, and at getting at our border crisis. so far democrats have resisted. this president and democrats here in the senate have to get serious about fixing this or not only are we going to continue to

face a major crisis, a national security crisis at our southern border but not deal with the other national security threats we face around the world. the lights are blinking red. that's what chris wray said. the lights of blinking everywhere i turn. if that isn't a warning i don't know what is. you have people pouring across the border every day, some of whom are on the terrorist watch list. this problem has to be solved, got to be solved now and the democrats need to get serious about working with us to make that happen. >> it looks like we finally have gotten president biden's attention. 7 million migrants across our borders since he became president. 1.7 million got-aways, people evading law enforcement, up to who knows what. we know how many people were stopped on the terrorist watch list, the border patrol intercepted. but we have no idea of the

number of people who are on the watch list who are among those 1.7 million got-aways. and there's another number. >> sandra: we will continue to monitor the senators there on capitol hill speaking up and out, john, this week after we saw just on tuesday alone the southern border hit the highest, encounters at the southern border hit the highest total for a single day ever recorded in our country's history. this is a situation that is spiralling out of control, it's a major concern for voters as we head towards election day, john, and the senators are calling on the biden administration and the president himself to act. >> john: really is quite extraordinary numbers for just a tuesday in december when typically the number would be down. chris oliveras joins us from the border, in mission, texas. first of all, react to the latest number, 12,000 people in

a single day crossing the border illegally. an all time record at a point in time when migration is typically beginning to drop off. what do you say to that? >> well, good afternoon, john and sandra. thanks for having me on. as you mention, john, of course, we have not experienced numbers or the influx we are seeing right now since the week of title 42. and we were expecting to see numbers upwards, 13,000 plus, but now we are seeing that now across the border. as you mentioned, historic high one single day, over 12,000, just in del rio, texas, one of the sectors across the southwest border. border patrol recorded over 17,000 encounters over the last five days, not including got-aways or apprehension at the ports of entry, we have a dire situation at the southwest border and we have been doing this for the last three years, talking about it for the last three years, a lot of conversations, a lot of planning, but there has not been any action from anyone as far as

trying to do something about the situation at our border, especially with our own federal government and texas, we have to take on that responsibility. we have been doing it the last three years with state funding, troopers we have, with the national guard soldiers, making our own barriers, everything that governor abbott has implemented since march of 2021, now we need action across the southwest border to stem the flow and prevent illegal boarding crossings. >> john: john thune, the senator, mentioned this a moment ago, and something jay johnson, obama's secretary of homeland security said back in 2019, regarding the numbers of people coming across the border and the chaos that it creates. listen to what he said back then. >> it was under 1,000 apprehensions a day before, that was a relatively good number. and if it was above 1,000, it was a relatively bad number and i was going to be in a bad mood the whole day. i know 1,000 overwhelms the system. i cannot begin to imagine what

4,000 looks like. we are truly in a crisis. >> john: he said when he was the dhs secretary, over 1,000 a day would be a bad day. can't imagine what 4,000 looks like. we are triple that. and 22000 people are currently in custody and since we turned over the new fiscal year in october 1st, more than 535,000 people have crossed the southern border. by jay johnson's measure we are way beyond a crisis. >> absolutely, john. we are way past that. this is way past any type of crisis. this is catastrophic. what we are seeing now, in terms of numbers. and of course, all those numbers we are talking about, those are apprehensions. we are not talking about the threats we see along the border to public safety and national security, the got-aways, that's at the ports of entry, criminal gang members coming across the borders, and fentanyl. a record level of the amount of

fentanyl across the borders because the mexican drug cartels are mass producing the drugs coming across. numbers increase, no action, nothing done at the federal level to stem the flow or prevent illegal border crossings and it does overwhelm the system. over 22000 currently in custody and these processing centers do not have the capacity to house the illegal immigrants. it trains resources on the border patrol agents. some ports of entry have to be closed to legitimate trade and travel because they divert federal resources to help process. it's not what we should be doing. we need to focus on trying to put something in place, a policy in place to prevent anyone to make the journey to the border to focus on the criminal activity that is taking place. the threats have been here the last three years. we need to focus on that before the situation is worse than it is already. >> john: on the screen, pictures out of lukeville, and eagle

pass, lukeville, bill melugin has been covering the border now at least three years and we see a lot of single males coming in from africa who are simply looking for a better life. i assume they are probably going to file an asylum claim but told melugin that hey, america is the land of opportunity, we want to be a part of the american dream, and then san diego sector, migrants from china with suitcases. not the normal like the northern triangle countries, el salvador, guatemala, it's like the door is open and the world is pouring in. >> absolutely. first, bill melugin is doing great reporting in arizona, talking to the migrants, firsthand knowledge of why they are coming across, and the majority here are for economic reasons, not a legitimate asylum claim. that's not a credible asylum claim. there is an abuse on the asylum

process and the fact you see so many single men from africa, middle east, china, making their way to the border, tells you one thing. it's very evident the federal government does not have consequences in place to prevent what's taking place. if there was consequences, if there was mass deportations, you would not see the influx of single men making their way to the border. and of course, what's taking place in arizona, john, see the influx and in texas, i can tell you if we did not have all the efforts now in texas as far as the man power, the barriers, all the infrastructure that we have put in place from the very beginning, we would be in a similar situation that we are seeing now in arizona. so, we have great leadership in texas. our troopers, national guard are doing a tremendous job, despite challenges but we need federal help, we need the federal government to step in to stop this crisis we are seeing at the border right now, and to prevent illegal border crossings from taking place. you can stop human smuggling as well. >> john: so many aspects to this, lieutenant, and the fact, too, we are not seeing the

people come in sporadically, they come in the group, and you don't just send them back to honduras, you have to send them back to africa or china, and it's going to cost millions of dollars. chris, good to talk to you. thanks for help kicking us off today. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> sandra: let's head to bill melugin, speaking of which, lukeville, arizona. what kind of crowds are you seeing there right now? >> several behind us, several hundred behind us again, sandra. we have talked to the people out here the last few days, one thing is very clear, very few, if any of them, are asylum seekers. everybody we have talked to says they have come here to the united states for opportunity to work or to link up with friends and family already living in american cities and you can see the crowd out here. again, they are coming in from all over the world. you can see on the other side of the wall, capitalism will always find its way, some women have come down to give and sell water and food to the migrants through

the border wall as they are waiting to be processed here by border patrol. but we have talked to people from all over the world showing up here, african countries, middle east, guys from syria out here the other day, morocco, 251 people from guinea, according to a cbp source and before the sun comes up, we were out here before sunrise, it's cold out here in the remote arizona desert and they grab trash and shrubs from out in the desert and start campfires to stay warm in lukeville, find anything they can to burn. sometimes it's trash and plastic and the fumes are bad out here. but a nonstop flow of people. take a look at the video we shot yesterday afternoon. again another breach in the border wall and masses of hundreds of people began pouring through the wall and crossing illegally, and border agents are

frustrated. trying to process the people here, the ones you saw on the live shot and they have hundreds more pouring through the wall. we talked to a lot of the folks out here. they are all expecting to be released into the united states, they are not seeking asylum for the most part, and we had a chance to ask them, where do they want to go in the u.s. . >> where in the united states do you want to go? >> detroit. >> california. >> new york city. >> new york city. i have family members there. >> miami. >> omaha, nebraska. oklahoma? >> south carolina. >> and guys, we hear a lot of new york city out here, a lot of the migrants are planning to go there. a short time ago, new york city mayor eric adams tweeted he's on an airplane to washington, d.c., to talk about the migrant

situation in new york city. may want to fly to tucson, arizona, two and a half hour drive down here to lukeville to ask them why they are coming here, and why so many of them are flocking to new york city. because for the last three days, a large majority of the people down here say that is where they are heading to, the big apple. back to you. >> john: bill, it's john here. i have a question for you, because i remember the border crisis in 2014 where we would see small groups of migrants come across sporadically, and hondurans, guatemala, nicaragua, el salvador. but now large groups of, first it was venezuelans, then large groups from africa, we have large groups coming in of chinese people. i mean, this is not sporadic migration, this appears to be organized. what's going on? how do these groups get together en mass from the various countries, continents even and

come across the border? >> everything is online these days. smuggling organizations and cartels advertise their services on tiktok, on instagram, snapchat, other social media and they say pay us, we'll get you across the border and they have different smuggling routes. talking to guys from africa saying how the heck did you get here to the southern border. some told us they flew into brazil, then flew into colombia, then nicaragua, honduras, guatemala, and then mexico. it's not like they fly into mexico, it's a months' long effort. they are directed, they pay multiple people along the way, and different cartels control different parts of the border. the chinese are all in the san diego sector. here we see a bunch of africans, and eagle pass, everybody from venezuela and honduras.

so, different demographics along the southern border. one thing common across the southern border, cartels control the mexican side everywhere. they decide who crosses, when, where, and how. and how much they have to pay and you'll notice through all of our coverage the last couple years, the mexican government has done literally nothing to stop any of this. there are people cutting through the border wall in lukeville every day on the mexican side of the border. mexican police have done nothing to stop it. mexican military is not up here. they issue humanitarian visas for the people, it's a fast pass to move freely through the country and come through the northern border in mexico knowing they are going to cross into the united states. mexico could do more to help the united states or slow it down and they have not been doing it the last couple of years. >> sandra: bill melugin live in lukeville, arizona, the crowd seems to build behind you. now this.

[gunshots] >> hanukkah is the miracle we are jews and did not get killed, and this year a lot of antisemitism and people want to kill us. so we need to fight. >> sandra: a live look now at the white house where any moment now we will hear from the press secretary, john kirby will be joining karine jean-pierre a few moments from now as the world marks two months since hamas' brutal attack on israel and the war it sparked. idf forces are closing in on all of the gaza territory to try to eliminate hamas leaders and fighters who are still there. troops breaching hamas defense lines in gaza's second largest

city where they are hunting for a senior leader of the terror group. they say they have killed half of the hamas mid level batallion commanders but also taking a toll on palestinians seeking refuge from the offensive. trey yingst, what is the latest in gaza right now? >> sandra, good afternoon. it's been two months since the october 7th massacre in southern israel and the war that followed rages on. israeli forces operating in the northern and southern parts of the gaza strip. much of the fighting around the jabalia neighborhood. also in gaza's secretary largest city of khan younis. israeli media reporting the former chief of staff in israel and a man that currently sits on the war cabinet for this country

lost his son in the battles. these are intense battles taking place as israeli forces go after hamas leadership and many leaders are hiding underground. israelis say they are using the air force to support the infantry troops as they do push forward. they also say they killed two top hamas officials in the past two days. one of them, the head of the observation unit, partially responsible for planning the october 7th massacre that took place exactly two months ago. it comes as we are learning more about the 138 hostages still inside gaza and the group that was released as part of that broader ceasefire deal last month. one of those hostages that was released speaking out at a government meeting. i do want you to pull up her words here on the screen, she says my daughters are asking where is daddy, and i have to tell them that the bad people don't want to release him yet. you are placing politics over the return of the abductees. currently a lot of tension inside israel and frustration

with decisions made by the government and how many hostages they have been able to bring home. we spoke with that woman's brother yesterday and had this to say about the situation. >> there are people that are dying piece by piece there as we speak. and we know that both of my sister told us when they were there they said we were sure that israel gave up on us. >> two months into this conflict we often talk about the airstrikes and the bullets inside gaza, but this is a story about the people, so many families across israel still waiting for answers about their loved ones. sandra. >> sandra: trey yingst reporting from southern israel at this hour.

thank you. >> i am asking specifically calling for the genocide of jews. does that constitute bullying harassment. >> if it is directed and severe pervasive, it is harassment. >> so the answer is yes. >> it is a context dependent decision, congresswoman. >> so the answer is yes that calling for the genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct. >> it depends on the context. >> it does not depend on the context. >> sandra: still hard to believe that actually happened the other day. the presidents of the top three universities struggling to answer what some say is a simple question, does calling for the genocide of jews go against their conduct. some say it's too late. a junior at harvard university, first off, welcome to you, and what did you think when you saw those university leaders struggle to outright condemn

what is happening and calls for genocide. >> well, thank you, sandra, for having me. i would say that i was extremely shocked and disappointed. i mean, the committee asked her a very easy softball question and she could not come up with the one correct answer, yes, calling for the genocide of jews is harassment, it's a call for violence against me, a call for violence against my friends and she could not say that. it was the easiest possible question to answer. >> sandra: the woman you saw on the screen taking that softball question that you just called it from elise stefanik, liz magill, attempting to clean up that testimony, she said this, listen. >> i was not focused on but i should have been the irrefuteable fact a call for genocide of jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. it's evil. plain and simple. in my view, it would be

harassment or intimidation. >> sandra: if it's so simple, many are asking why wasn't it simple to say it in the hearing room just the other day? >> yeah, i mean, i think that's the million dollar question and not like these presidents of the universities didn't have ample time to prepare, they did, they had more than a week, and you know, at least in my case, president gay hired one of the best p.r. firms in boston to help prep her in addition to the in-house public affairs service. those are my tuition dollars, which were going to used to help prep her for this hearing and yielded this result. i'm kind of baffled. i agree with everything president magill said, but why didn't she say that live during the hearing when she was asked that question numerous times. >> sandra: must be hard for you, a student at harvard, to see what is happening, the mocking of some of these universities involved. i believe we have some video or pictures here of some mock-up

shirts, harvard university shirts, hamas university. how do you feel about what is happening on your campus? you must be so proud, obviously, to have gotten in, to go there and attend this great university, historic university, what is it like to go to school on campus right now and how are you feeling about your school? >> well, i don't think we are quite at hamas university yet. but i do think that the antisemitism here is real. it's very disturbing. and you know, we have peers who are chanting intifada, peers chanting "from the river to the sea" and the university president is not taking a strong stance against that. violating university guidelines to protest and seems selective enforcement of the free speech and isis guidelines and the university has not, in all cases, responded to the violations of school policy, begs the question why are they

not in this case disciplining the students involved, who just last week disrupted classes with megaphones to, you know, and walked out of classes. prior to the walk-out, a major disruption, which prevented professors from teaching, jewish professors, i might add. so, you know, the university needs to be much stronger in their response to this and you know, i don't think we are hamas university and i'm very proud to be a harvard student but i demand more from our university. >> sandra: we hear you and by the way, your president of harvard has tried to clean up her remarks since then, president gay, saying in a statement via twitter, some have confused the right to free expression with -- and calls for violence or genocide against the jewish community or ethnic group are vile, no place at harvard and those who threaten the jewish students will be held to

account. but many asking why was it so difficult to make those statements in that hearing room. appreciate you joining us and best to you as you continue on your university journey. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: all right. john. >> john: sandra, the white house briefs moments from now as the world marks two months of war between israel and hamas. john kirby will likely face plenty of questions where the u.s. response goes from here. keep our eyes on it and bring you the news just as soon as it happens. >> sandra: and john, the american dream, is it becoming a dream deferred? brand-new numbers suggest the key milestones are getting too expensive and that bidenomics is making it worse. money man charles payne is revved up about this. he'll be joining us next. ovide , balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪)

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>> sandra: inflation under president biden could be killing the american dream. buying a car, owning a home, getting married, raising

children. a new study estimates milestones cost more than $3.4 million, over a million dollars more than the average american will make in a lifetime. bring in charles payne, host of "making money" on fox business. charles, you and i have had this conversation a lot over the years, changing psychology, you know, the change in what the american dream is and can be. we are seeing that dramatically shift in this environment of sky high interest rates, sky high prices, affordability going way down. what do you see happening, is the american dream fading? >> it's not fading but you can't just stumble into it. you have to have a concrete plan to achieve it. breaking down the number, hospital birth, $5,700, raising two kids to 18 years old, 576,000, and cars, college, 42000, wedding, home, almost

$800,000, pet, 67,000 and health insurance, almost a million dollars, retirement, 715,000, and funeral cost is on there, 7800 bucks. so, listen, aggregate number over a period of time. while your kids are raised, you should be investing, after their born, invest, before they are born you should be investing. i don't know you need ten cars, there's some areas in here we can be frugal, so this does not have to be your fate but does show there are serious hurdles that we have to deal with and we have to be smart about all of this because unfortunately it's getting worse, sandra, a whole lot worse, and i think, you know, go from the extreme inflation, 40-year high inflation to maybe a recession at the very least close to recession next year. >> sandra: next year, before election day you are predicting. >> absolutely. >> sandra: i ask if it's fading, this is the polling, the "wall street journal," the number has

dropped to 36% who say yes, go back 11 years to 2012 when more than half, 53% said yes to that question. so, that's a huge drop. but the disconnect from what people are feeling and see happening in day-to-day life and the administration says t happening, that is -- that is an incredibly real thing. this is the biden administration touting the strength of the american economy today. >> we have a plan turning things around incredibly quickly. >> idea that bidenomics is not working is belied by statistics where we are now and headed in the future. >> we do have good solid growth. shows an economy that's doing very well. >> look at where we are economically and we are in a strong, we are stronger economically than we have been in history. >> sandra: july 7th, 2022, prices were sky high in that moment, but the one thing i will say, that they are seeing, you

know, resilience in the american stock market, resilience from the consumer that continues to spend and putting this question to as many people as i can, where is the american consumer sacrificing? they are still spending. you know, while they don't feel good about the future or their finances, they are still spending. holiday sales, still up. so, where are they cutting back if at all. >> they are not really cutting back but didn't have to pay rent for two years, college loan, people spent the money they would have spent others, they borrowed against them. credit card debt is record high. the big issue, we lump everyone together. if you graduate with a graduate degree you'll earn over 3 million a year. less than a high school diploma, 900,000. so, not every american is the same. the media keeps coming out regurgitating this. i just got this on my desk,

economist magazine, mind boggling stuff. blue collar bonanza, why conventional wisdom on inequality is wrong. are you kidding me? are you nuts? so the bottom line here, sandra, is that most americans are hurting. they are hurting. if you took ten people, ten households and nine of those households had an income of 50,000 a year and lumped another one with 5 million and did the average, i could tell you, the average household right now is doing this, and the average household is that, it's not true. break it apart. peel it back. we live our lives individually. you can't lump someone in with a millionaire and say look at you two. you are doing pretty good. it's not the truth and the fact is as far as other things are concerned, stock market has -- listen, seven stocks are doing almost all the moving of the market, a little bit different. it's not the best proxy for the economy right now. >> sandra: you always keep it real for us. thanks a lot. >> thanks a lot.

>> sandra: live to the white house, john kirby is briefing on overseas. >> while they are launched by the houthis, we certainly have every reason to believe they are enabled by iran. as national security adviser said the houthis are pulling the trigger, iran is provided the guns. now, jake also talked about our efforts to explore the value of maritime task forces to help deal with this threat. and so today i can tell you that the departments of state and defense are leading a coordinated effort to strengthen and expand the 39-member combined maritime forces, a multi-national maritime partnership which exists to counter illicit nonstate actors in international waters. everything from basic maritime security to anti-piracy, and trafficking. our focus at this time is ensuring that there are sufficient military assets in place to deter these houthis

threats to maritime trade in the red sea and in the surrounding waters to the global economy at large. we are also encouraging other like-minded nations to join this coalition and we have actually heard some interest from several key partners that are interested in coming aboard. additionally, the treasury department announced sanctions on 13 individuals and entities responsible for providing funds to the houthis in yemen. these sanctions will further cut off those who facilitate houthi attacks and follow a number of sanctions on the houthis and the irgc, revolutionary guard corps in iran, rolled out since the 7th of october. and including what you i think saw in the g7 leaders statement we talked about yesterday and through targeted efforts through the u.n. security council. this is an international problem and demands an international solution and that is exactly the

approach the united states is going to take to it. now, lastly, i want to make one thing clear, the commanding officers of our ships, our navy ships at sea have and will execute their inherent right of self-defense. we don't have any inclusive information to suggest the navy ships are targeted by the houthis but as we have in the past so will we in the future take these missiles and drones down if we perceive a threat to our ships, our sailor, ships and sailors of our partners and merchant traffic in and around the region. with that, take some questions. >> john, you talk about military assets in the region. is the united states going to send more there, or what all is needed there? >> well, we have already bolstered the presence in the region, particularly on the maritime side. you have two aircraft carrier strike groups operating, one in the eastern med and one in the arabian gulf.

but as you probably know, a carrier strike group does not sail like in world war ii. air wing stays with the carrier but other escort ships, some of the destroyers, they split off and so for instance the ships responding to the distress calls in the red sea, they belong to the eisenhower strike group even though the group is in the arabian gulf. important to point back to what the president has already done. not just at sea. added additional fixed wing aircraft to the region. we are going to keep options open, not take anything off the table in terms of additional posture changes if required. >> p utin was in saudi arabia, the president of iran is in moscow for talks. help us interpret this. what -- what do you see going on here? >> huge caveat that i can't get

between the ears of leaders in iran and russia, nor would i try. what we have seen, steve, in recent months, many months, is this growing defense partnership between iran and russia. now, the obvious proof of that are the drones that iran provides russia and heck, they have helped russia now create a manufacturing facility on russian soil so they can build their own iran-model drones, which are continuing to attack the people of ukraine and ukrainian infrastructure. that said, and we have talked about this many times before, iran probably wants something out of this, too. and we have reason to believe that they want their hands on some sophisticated russian military capabilities, attack helicopters, maybe fixed wing aircraft, missiles, cruise and/or ballistic. i can't tell you that we have seen actual evidence of the movement of those kinds of defense articles, but there is

clearly a growing relationship in the defense realm between these two countries. and as i have also said, it's not only not good for the people of ukraine, it's really not good for the people of the middle east, and iran, can get hands on additional military capability, some sophisticated capability, only makes their destabilizing activity all the more worrisome. >> thank you, admiral. it's been about a week since the pause in fighting ended. where are talks with the regional partners to get another temporary pause and what are the conditions that we know of right now of hostages that are remaining at that other -- >> talks are still ongoing, discussions are happening every day. our team is in touch with our partners on this. i wish i had specific progress to speak to, i don't. we are not close to inking another deal on humanitarian pause nor do i have any news to break here today about the return of hostages, either ours or those of other countries

being held hostage. we are still trying to get as much information as we can about the hostages being held. we have some information as i said before on some of the hostages, because their families are talking to us and that's a terrific sort of information and context. we have less information on others. but not for lack of trying. >> after the failed vote in the senate yesterday, to advance the supplemental funding, what are the plans from the president to get this back on track, any calls made to the hill, any -- >> i don't have any calls to read out, i don't know if karine -- yeah, yeah, go ahead. >> i mean, we have been very, very clear about the supplemental and how important it is as you've seen, omb director has been out there on the different networks making the case, and one of the things that she has said is that it's stunning, stunning that we have gotten to this point, right. it's stunning this we have gotten to this point. and that republicans in congress

willing to give putin a gift, the greatest gift putin could hope for. that's what we are seeing. and so they are playing chicken with our national security, that's what we are seeing here and history will remember them harshly. and so as it relates to outreach, we have been very clear that we have had those discussions with them on a regular basis and that -- but the path forward is very clear. the path forward is they need to get this done and you know, this is -- this is something that the president was very loud about, very clear about yesterday when he spoke to the american people in front of all, many of you, many of your colleagues, he made his message really clear that we need to get this done, congress needs to get moving forward very quickly because we are running out of time. our office of leg affairs in close with lawmakers as they have been for some time with both parties and about the need of this critical national security, let's not forget, when we talk about a supplemental, we

are talking about the urgency, right. it is an emergency. that's why we ask for it. that's why we ask for the extra funding for national security. and so it's time for congress to get this done. we have to continue, continue to make sure that the brave people of ukraine have what they need as they are fighting for their democracy. and so i know the admiral could speak a lot more about that as he has in the past two years, but that is -- that is our focus here and we are going to continue to be very, very clear, talking to certainly both sides about the importance of national security request. i thought you were going to add to it. >> no, no, i could not possibly add to it. comprehensive answer, it was good. >> quick housekeeping matter, do you have the readouts ready of the president's calls with king abdallah and --

>> you'll see them soon. >> any significance of the calls happening today? >> part of the regular outreach by the president to regional leaders as events continue to unfold between israel and hamas as we said yesterday, you can expect them to talk to prime minister benjamin netanyahu soon and he did. >> has the u.s. independently confirmed claims from the israeli military today that hamas rockets have been fired at israel from humanitarian zones? >> i have not been able to confirm that. >> john, when the administration relieved sanctions on venezuela's oil sector in october, it was on the condition that maduro would begin releasing americans being held hostage there by november 30th, which has obviously past. no americans were released, it's december 7th. >> political prisoners -- >> wrongfully detained americans in venezuela. what's the status of the sanctions relief and the consequences for him missing

that deadline. >> we don't get ahead of sanctions decisions, i'm not going to do that today. obviously we always have that option available to us but not in position to rule anything in or out. deeply, deeply concern that those commitments weren't followed through by the evening of the 30th. >> and staying on venezuela, obviously since the invasion of ukraine the administration has said that it's committed to protecting territorial integrity around the world for nation states and here you have maduro threatening to annex 75% of its neighbor. l what is your public message to maduro and is there any private message being sent to maduro about the consequences of this. >> sandra: john, a couple updates out of the white house and john kirby there, karine jean-pierre speaking briefly as well, on the hostage talks and negotiations, discussions are happening literally every day,

but he also said they have no breaking news for us on that front right now. so we still await any more news on the hostages. >> john: mollie hemingway, you want to begin with some observations what we just listened to? >> pretty gentle round of questionings from various white house reporters and one of the things they asked about was an official in iran meeting with an official in russia and what that meant. they should be asking about putin's visit to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. we had last year, a couple years ago, the biden administration come in and say they were going to restore american credibility, they were going to renounce what had happened with foreign policy of the previous administration and they did. they said they were going to get the whole of the world to unite against vladimir putin, and russia, and it's pretty clear that's not happening when he's meeting with saudi arabia, when he's meeting with united arab emirates, and reporters should be a little more concerned about that. you had this dramatic shift in our foreign policy.

so under the trump administration, a strong support of israel, you said palestinians would not get a veto over peace in the middle east and support for saudi arabia without support for iran. the biden administration did turn everything around and i think we are seeing what some of the consequences are of that. nice to have some questioning from the press corps how that's working out. >> john: we'll keep watching and hoping i guess. another story, and the one we brought you on with. this happened in june, a couple have a daughter in the jefferson county school board in denver. she was on a school trip to philadelphia and washington, d.c. bedding down for the night in the hotel, she was told she was bunking in with, in the same bed, a classmate who happened to be a transgender biological male. the parents, joe and serina wales are saying this never should have happened, they were

not told about the transgender policy, this was done in secret and should never have happened. what do you say? >> the only reason this little girl or young lady knew she was about to bunk with a male was because the child told her that he was biologically male and that is stunning to realize that this school board would be, or school district would be putting people in this situation and also shows why accommodation on a radical trans agenda does not work very well. it affects everybody and women are, and young ladies are more vulnerable in many ways than their opposite sex counterpart, and they do need private spaces, intimacy of bathrooms or beds. >> john: it was the same bed. >> interesting about the details, her mother was on the trip, too, so she was able to -- >> john: i don't think she was a chaperone. >> advocate in the mother but

the school showed no concern for her, her safety, mental health, only seemed concerned about the young boy they were putting in the bed with her and this is just stunning, but also a reminder why people have to speak out. and i understand people want to be accommodating, but this type of accommodation ends up harming a lot of people, including vulnerable women. >> john: fox news digital reached out to the school board, here was the answer, it appears the student's transgender status was not known when room assignments were made and our understanding as soon as the identity was known, room assignments were adjusted. we are working with the private travel organization to learn more. out of the school year, but when the young girl approached chaperones to say i don't want to sleep in the same bed as a biological boy, how about a different bed in the same room, but don't say it was because he was transgender but because you wanted to sleep closer to the air-conditioner. >> did not work out, there was

like four different students so the idea to put the boy in the same bed closer to the air-conditioner. that's what happens when you are only concerned about the feelings and emotions of one individual and not thinking about the reality of what it means, what -- there are biological realities, men and women are different, schools need to protect that. >> john: mollie, thanks for hanging through the briefing. appreciate it. >> sandra: awaiting the first comments from the pentagon after a drone was shot down yesterday over the red sea. and dan hoffman has the u.s. military response and what they have said so far about the strikes and have they been enough. we'll ask him. 2 system know your glucose level and where it's headed without fingersticks. manage your diabetes with more confidence and lower your a1c. it's covered by medicare for those who qualify. ask your doctor about the freestyle libre 2 system. my mental health was much better. but i struggled with uncontrollable movements

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