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11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m., pacific. we will talk to congresswoman, chair of the congressional hispanic congress, and why she says striking a deal on immigration with republicans could set a dangerous press department. the supreme court blocked a texas woman from getting an abortion. jack smith asking the supreme court to make a critical condition. overseas, humanitarian groups are saying the war is sending gaza into a apocalyptic free fall. and then making a plea to

lawmakers to approve more aid to the fighting against russia. the meetings come after he spoke to all 100 senators this morning, urging them to reach a deal on more military aid. senate majority leader, chuck schumer, called it a very powerful meeting. >> president zelenskyy made it so clear how he needs help, and if he gets the help he can win the war, and he outlined, a, the kind of help he needs, and how it will help him win. even many of our republican colleagues talked about we are winning this war. >> president biden's request for more than $60 billion in security assistance for ukraine has been caught up in a fight over border policy, republicans demanding tougher border

security measures before they agree to funding ukraine. with us more to talk about it, monica alba, and jake sherman, founder of punchbowl news. monica, what does the president hope the visit will accomplish? >> he's hoping there's a message that can be delivered by president zelenskyy that president biden, so far, has not been able to convince lawmakers of himself, and that is if ukraine does not get this kinds of funding and military support in the coming weeks, it's likely and possible ukraine could lose the war against russia after russia invaded as we head into the almost two-year mark of the conflict. this is something president biden has been stressing at every opportunity in the last few months, every since there was a question mark of when the aid could come next. he gave an oval office address at one point trying to convince americans of why this should be

just as much of a national security priority for the u.s. as other major items that republicans have been talking about more in recent days, like when it comes to the u.s./mexico border and making changes to the border policies as it relates to asylum law and other things related to immigration, and an issue, of course, that the both sides that we have seen on capitol hill that have been so far apart on and further apart on right now because the talks are directly connected to approving the additional aid for ukraine and for israel as well. the president invited president zelenskyy to come to washington. it's not the first time he has been here, but it's under the different circumstances where they are talking about this in a more urgent push and manner, but the president has not been the messenger that has been able to convince lawmakers, so they are hoping president zelenskyy will have an appeal that can move the

needle. so far republicans are saying if they don't get what they are looking for when it comes to the compromise on border policies, that the other piece of it will not be feasible. the white house and the budget director said very plainly it's a matter of days before ukraine runs out of critical support and puts them at a huge disadvantage to russia in the war, josé. >> we are seeing the live pictures from capitol hill on the house side. we saw president zelenskyy quickly pass by our camera. jake, you described zelenskyy's visit a futile. is there anything the ukrainian president or leader can say or do to change minds on this, and there's the domestic policy being put in the middle of anything going towards ukraine or israel? >> yeah, it's tough, josé. republicans, for better or worse

are dug in now, and they have linked it for months. on top of that, it's not only border policy republicans are asking for, it's stricter border and immigration policy, and it's hr-2 that got zero democratic votes in the house, and would get zero democratic votes in the senate, and it's something republicans even understand. listen, these negotiations are being captained by the senate republican from oklahoma. to me at this point, this is a big enough issue that this really needs to be the speaker of the house and the president of the united states if this negotiation is going to come to fruition. but i will say this, the house is intent on leaving this week, intent on leaving this week, and it's not going to come together in the next three days, and the best that we can hope for for

those connected to the support for ukraine should come back next year. for this month, the record has played out on aid for ukraine. >> monica, here's what senator langford had to say about the state of the border talks. listen to this. >> there's no way to be able to get it done this week. the question is are we staying into next week or does this move into early january to resolve, and that's a big unknown and it depends how it goes and how we are getting something that works. >> it's unclear if they will get it done this week or done at all. >> this is something that president biden has stressed he would like to see lawmakers stay closer towards christmas to try and work this out, but we know, and of course, as you heard from senator langford, there's not

much of an appetite to do that, and president biden had the urgent remarks, and the president himself said, look, i am open to compromise. he said in his words, he believes the border system is broken and there are changes that need to be made, and he signaled much to the chagrin to some of his loyal supporters, that he would make changes, and some hispanic caucus, they said it could lead to cruelty to some of the families seeking asylum after the treacherous journey, and this is something the president knows, people he needs onboard for his re-election in 2024 won't be pleased with him if he makes some of the concessions, and they are not at that part where they are having debate on any framework that

what is on the table, and they are still so far apart that they are not talking about specific changes. that part needs to come during the negotiations, and then i am told the white house will be more engaged, and time is running out. this could get punted to january, which is the bigger issue for ukraine, which means that president zelenskyy could leave washington today pretty empty-handed, josé. >> as a matter of fact, in seconds we will speak with the chair of the congressional hispanic caucus about that specific issuer bringing up. jake, it was a year ago at this time that president zelenskyy was making his first visit to washington, and he was treated like a celebrity. how have changes changed today? >> republicans control the house, and republicans said they wanted more explanation from the biden administration, the white house, the national security apparatus on how they intend to

win the war in ukraine, and according to republicans, they don't belief they have gotten that, and if that's a real excuse or a phoney fallback is something that we don't really know, because there has been many briefings with top military and diplomatic officials over the last couple of months. >> thank you both so much. with us to continue the conversation is california congresswoman, the chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. thank you for joining us. you said caving to demands for changes of border policy is a price for a one-time spending package would set a precedent, a very dangerous one. what did you mean by that? >> thank you for having me, josé. what we meant by that, here we have a foreign aid package, and that should remain just that. the white house should not be

lumping aid on the border, and certainly not having conversations about changes to immigration as part of a foreign aid package. i think it sets a dangerous precedent, because every time we are going to have foreign aid, republicans are going to come right back and demand something else on immigration changes, policy changes. that's a dangerous precedent that we should not be allowing republicans to make. let's be clear, republicans are holding hostage money, critical money that our allies need. allies around this country, around the world, rather, that are democratic allies, so it's remarkable to see republicans say no to our allies, and they are doing it because of a political stunt. what they are proposing, the extreme immigration changes they are proposing are not going to help solve the issues at the border. >> so the white house believes, at the time, at least, that including discussions on the

border or certainly security around it would, in some way, make it easier to deal with the assistance to israel and the assistance to ukraine as well as assistance to taiwan. what is your understanding on where things stand with these talks right now? >> my understanding is that the talks are at a standstill, because republicans continue to ask for more and more extreme changes to our immigration system. therefore, they are not going anywhere. again, i will stress, i disagree, and i don't think we should be having a conversation on immigration changes in the same conversation of foreign aid. if they want to talk about actually doing something to solve issues at the southern border, there has to be a larger conversation on comprehensive immigration reform, and looking at different angles, and throwing more money at the southern border is one thing, but we are not even talking about -- we're not even talking

about that right now. one of the things republicans are not supporting, they are not supporting making sure there are more agents at the southern border, more processing and more capacity to handle people. that's what needs to happen. they are saying no to all of that. they are saying no even to more i.c.e. detention beds. it's a political stunt and i don't think they have any interest to fix what is happening at the border because they are using it as a political football to campaign on. >> the political football that has been used over and over again, congresswoman, as you so eloquently remind us, the lasts time there was comprehensive immigration reform in the united states was 1986, president reagan was in the white house. it's just since then there has been no movement, positive -- there have been attempts, on anything comprehensive. i know your caucus has been trying to get a meeting to discuss this.

you have been able to talk to anybody at the white house on this? >> we have had conversations with somebody at the white house on this, not the president, to convey the messages we have, and, look, we don't even have our senators at the table in the room negotiating or having conversation, and that's unacceptable. the lack of communication and the lack of making sure we are at the table and having this conversations. >> there is nobody on the hispanic caucus involved in the conversations at the house, for example, congressman padilla is not included in the conversations -- >> it's calls we are making and asking to be included, and nobody is coming and saying, hey, would you be at the table

and in the room, and you are talking about a senator on the issue, and he's not making sure he's at the table. i made various calls including to senator schumer and the white house to make sure we have representation in the room and make sure we are engaged, and right now that's not happening. >> congresswoman, it's always a pleasure, and thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, josé. up next, a pregnant texas woman takes matters into her own hands to get what her doctor says is a necessary abortion. plus, we are awaiting a decision from the supreme court could have major implications in former president's election interference case. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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woman seeking approval for an abortion, and last night the decision came hours after cox's lawyers announced she would leave the state to get the procedure elsewhere. laura jarrett joins us. you have been covering this step by step. what was the court's reasoning behind their decision? >> the texas supreme court saying last night that because of the way that kate cox's doctor attested to her medical situation, described her medical situation, it fell short of the legal standard required for a woman to be able to qualify for a medical exception in the state of texas. you have to have a life threatening physical condition. because the doctor did not describe it that way, the court

acknowledges she had plenty of complications and because the doctor did not use that language, she does not qualify for this. her lawyers have pushed back on that, and they said her condition as deteriorated so badly that she had to flee the state to get the procedure elsewhere, josé. >> this morning a kentucky woman is leading a class action suit challenging the state's abortion ban there. >> yeah, and that woman in a statement from her lawyers saying that fetus no longer has cardiac activity, saying there's likely no heartbeat. these individual cases are shining a light on the various circumstances, the way in which women are now trying to get the procedures which is the natural

result of the procedures, and all of these individual decisions coming out from state courts with clearly a patchwork of different policies, josé. >> we know that cox could be out of the state. >> we don't know where she went, and we are trying hard to follow-up and document what happened so that people -- not to invade her privacy, so that people have a sense of the stakes here. we will follow-up and let you know as soon as we find out more details. >> thank you so much. >> the nation's highest court will consider whether or not to weigh in in the election case against former president trump. they will rule quickly on trump's claim that presidential immunity protects him in this case. president trump said presidents

are immune from criminal prosecution unless they have first been impeached and convicted by the senate. joining us now, vaughn hilliard, and a former assistant attorney in broward county, florida. what are the steps we are going to be seeing next? >> this is notable here, josé. around the fact that march 4th is when the trial is supposed to take place, and we are talking about the appeal process. it was the ruling from judge chutkan, who is the judge overseeing this case, and she denied the trump team's request to have the case thrown out on the grounds of presidential immunity, and then the trump team followed suit by appealing that decision, and instead of this going to the d.c. circuit court of appeals, what jack smith's filing yesterday seeks to do is bypass the d.c. circuit court of appeals and take it straight to the u.s. supreme

court to hear donald trump's appeal. in that filing jack smith wrote this case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy, whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office. this is notable because donald trump's team want to delay this to the extent they can, and what jack smith's concern is, if this were to go to the d.c. circuit court of appeals, it would then be appealed and make its way to the u.s. supreme court putting the march 4th start date very much up in the air, and in the case that this is a delayed trial here, you are then messing with the reality of next july, the republican national convention, when donald trump could be named the gop nominee, as well as the november 2024 general election, and if donald trump were to get into office, josé, there's the potential, if the trial was delayed long enough and he wins the white

house, he could seek to have the trial against him thrown out altogether. >> how unusual is it that jack smith went straight to the supreme court. it's unusual, but it has happened previously. it's inevitable the supreme court will end up having to weigh in on this, because whatever decision a lower court makes is going to be appealed by one side or the other, and mr. smith is trying to expedite the process. the appellant process is taking place at the same time. >> if the court rejects trump's appeal, where does that leave him? >> it leaves him facing a trial where a jury of his peers, and

that's an unusual thing to say because few people are peers of mr. trump, but it leaves, basically, it in the hands of a jury and judge. it's what he would like to avoid. i think he would like to avoid having all of the evidence that is going to be presented, presented for the public. there's no defendant that ever wished willingly or have gone willingly into that particular process. >> could any of this impact the march 2024 trial date? >> it could. it could. we also have to focus on the fact that the supreme court has agreed to consider whether they are going to actually consider the -- they are considering whether or not to consider the issue. they have not decided to do that. they could potentially, after they hear from the trump lawyers, decide, you know, we are not going to hear this now. that presents a big problem, because the supreme court's term is basically from october to june or july, so the longer the

supreme court waits to actually consider the issue, the issue of whether trump has immunity or not, the less likely it will happen before the election. >> thank you both so very much. appreciate it. right now rudy giuliani is back in court for the second day of a defamation damages trial. eight jurors are determining how much he will have to pay to former georgia election workers that he falsely accused of committing fraud in the 2020 election. the judge already ruled giuliani defamed the workers and intentionally inflicted emotional stress on them. in the last hour, one of the election workers took the stand as the fourth witness. she and her mother are suing giuliani. his lawyers said up to $43 million in damages they are

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29 past the hour right now. on capitol hill the house rules committee is meeting to take up a resolution that would authorize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. ali vitali joins us from capitol hill. what is the latest on this effort? >> you see it going through the rules committee now, and it long has been talked about on capitol hill. republicans are pushing towards officializing the impeachment inquiry phase, that the past speaker, specifically kevin mccarthy, started but did not put on the house floor. it's what they need to do before the vote we expect tomorrow, and this is something speaker johnson said they need to do to continue to battle it out for currently existing subpoenas to be later enforced in court. once congressional subpoenas get

tied up in the court system, things move much more slowly, and this one is on a timeline as well. this is an attempt by republicans to ratchet up the vests investigations that have been going on the entirety of congress but not to this point yielded any substantive proof of an impeachable offense by president biden. >> the big news on capitol hill today, ukraine's president making the rounds pushing lawmakers to approve a new security package as soon as possible. is he making any head way? >> i posed that question to senators on both sides that met with president zelenskyy for over an hour, and he was flanked walking in and walking out by mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer. schumer called it a good and productive meeting, but now the

meeting zelenskyy is having with speaker mike johnson, that's going to be a tougher sell. johnson will underscore the realities of the house republican caucus, which has not changed since the last time zelenskyy was here, this is packaged up right now in a larger supplemental package that republicans and democrats oe senate side have been negotiating for the last several weeks, and those top negotiators, especially on the republican side, say they have not been able to come to a consensus, and they are not able to make progress specifically on sticking points around immigration and the border which now have all been lumped into the end of the year supplemental aid package, and now johnson said the house will not come back in session this time next week, which makes it impossible

to get aid packages out by the end of the year. >> thank you so much. joining us now, the executive director of the mccain institute and former supreme adviser to general barry mccavalry. you met with zelenskyy last night, and what was that like? >> it was interesting. he was upbeat. i was not expecting him to be as upbeat as he was, and he said the u.s. is the number one ally for ukraine, and he highlighted the fact that the europeans are strongly behind ukraine, and the ukrainians are looking at a package coming from the europeans of 50 billion euros -- or dollars, i believe, but anyway, it's close. he talked about how the french and germans and the uk and listed all the countries that

are firmly behind him, and he said the nordics never said no to us, and he doesn't believe there's a stalemate on the war, and the black sea is open and that's a big deal that our media, frankly, has not paid much attention to. >> let's talk about that. general zelenskyy just flew to d.c. from argentina where on sunday he took part in the swearing in of the president in argentina. zelenskyy and his close aides said any delay in additional aid could lead ukraine to lose the war. how perilous is this moment? >> it's at a critical turning point. it's at a stalemate, and it's the defense industrial base of western europe and the united

states having not been adequately immobilized, and the russians on the other hand have the support of iran, china and north korea, they have done far better in reconstituting their fighting forces. where all this is going is not clear to me. it would be a disaster for u.s. national security and western europe if putin achieved his war aims, which are not just grabbing the two breakaway providences in crimea, but it's re-establishing the soviet empire. here stuck right now with a $106 billion supplemental aid package going nowhere in congress. >> and there's the political

aspect of the military side of this war, which we have to remember was an invasion. evelyn, i think poland yesterday said they would oppose any movement of ukraine to become part of the eu, and also i think today austria also said they would oppose any movement of ukraine becoming part of the eu. are there political repercussions to what has been a very difficult military situation for coming up on two years now? >> yeah, i mean, josé, these things are interconnected and certainly our european allies are watching us. i would not want to be a member of congress who votes against assistance or does nothing to help ukraine right now and then have blood on my hands, frankly, and have potential loss that i would be held accountable for, and having said that i think ukraine will push ahead, and they already won strategically,

so militarily at some point they will win, and the question is at what cost and how much they will win. the political part is, you know, frankly it has to do with economic concerns that those countries that are used to getting eu funds for their agriculture sectors, ukraine would be a competitor for poland, and that will have to be managed by the europeans, and the poles are taking advantage of the moment where ukraine doesn't look as weak internationally. >> there could be a stalemate in the war in ukraine, and how does that reality change for ukraine going forward? >> well, it's a real sticking point. a brilliant u.s. army four star

who is in europe, and they are having trouble agreeing on a strategy. the u.s. pushed for cutting off crimea, and the ukrainians saw their best options as fighting in the east. so there's a disagreement in the particular aiming of the war. and then the russians finally sorted out with chinese and iranian help using thousands of drones, so the element of surprise, the ability to conduct combined arm operations without an air force is really neutralized a lot of the nine brigades at the united states and nato trained for the ukrainians. they have to sort out what are we supposed to do as well as how do we get both resources and industrial capacity to come

online and support ukraine? >> the inner connectivity. up next, a freed israeli hostage that spent two weeks in captivity speaks with our very own richard engel. we will play for you her prediction of the fate of the hostages still in custody. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. d.

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we have an nbc news exclusive. president biden has invited family members of american hostages being held by hamas to a meeting at the white house tomorrow. it will be their first in-person meeting with the president since the october 7th massacre. meanwhile this afternoon the united nations general assembly is expected to vote on a nonbinding resolution, demanding a cease-fire in the israel-hamas war. a similar measure failed in the security council last week. joining us now is richard engel in jerusalem. you recently spoke with one of the freed hostages. what did you learn? >> i know you have done interviews with the hostage families and we have done interviews with the families as

well, and the hostages themselves who were freed by hamas have been reluctant to sleep, because they are exhausted and emotionally traumatized, and the israeli government is concerned about what they might say, and they have information about the conditions and they don't want them to say anything that would reveal anything where hamas could put the hostages at risk, and there's a hostage that is 85 years old, and she wants to come out and speak because she's concerned the timing is running out. as the conditions deteriorate in gaza, and we have seen how the humanitarian crisis is appalling for the people of gaza, and they don't have food or clean water and are under constant attack, what about the people being held by hamas? some of them are injured and

have been there for over two months. she was fortunate enough to get out early, one of the first people released, and she's concerned about other hostages, including her own husband. this is what she had to say. how concerned are you about the ones that didn't get out? >> translator: the lack of air in the tunnels as well as the shortage of food and medicine could bring people to complete exhaustion and they just won't make it. they need to get out today, otherwise they won't live. >> reporter: there was a sense of urgency that we could -- we could sense, we could feel from her. she was there with her daughter as well, stressing that we could -- we, the outsiders, can choose to ignore this subject and look away and focus on other things, and the holiday season is coming up and the hostage

families are worried that unless something is done now, they don't have time to look away, the hostages themselves don't have time to be ignored because every minute is important for them, and particularly those that are underground and may have other ailments and untreated injuries, and that's why she was coming out of her recovery phase to do this interview. >> thank you so much, richard. always appreciate it. thanks. here in the u.s., the fallout from the war felt on college campuses. this morning the harvard corporation announced gay will remain in her position as president, and this after she was criticized for her testimony on a congressional hearing on anti-semitism last week. harvard corporation said gay has committed to doubling on the fight for anti-semitism, and is,

quote, the right leader to help our community heal. she had apologized for her remarks saying, quote, i fail to convey what is my truth. liz magill stepped down following the scrutiny at the same hearing. what the latest inflation numbers mean for the economy, next. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports." (carolers) ♪ iphone 15 pro, your husband deserves it! ♪ (mom) carolers? to tell me you want a new iphone?

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administration. we had 12,000 illegal crossings on one day last week alone, on wednesday. we have almost now 280 known terrorists apprehended at the terror. if you add the numbers up, it's almost 7 million people who have been encountered at the border since president biden took office and 2 million got-aways. fentanyl is the leading cause of death and fentanyl poisoning because it's allowed over the border. we have human trafficking and other terrible things. october and november and december alone, we have had more illegal crossings at the border than obama administration. the american people see what comes from this. it must be addressed. i made this very clear from the very beginning when i was handed the gavel, we need clarity on what we're doing in ukraine and

how we will have proper oversight of taxpayer dollars, and we need a transformative change at the border. thus far, we have got neither. the senate has been mia on this. the house passed hr-2 six months ago. it has been sitting and collecting dust on chuck schumer's desk. i told him personally and the national security advisor, the second of defense, that these are our conditions because these are the conditions of the american people. we are resolute on that. it's not the house's issue right now. the issue is with the white house and the senate. i implore them to do their job. we want to do the right thing. >> did president zelenskyy -- >> that was very brief from the speaker. i want to bring back nbc's ali vitali. it seems as though even after that meeting with zelenskyy, at least as far as the speaker is concerned, there is no clear

path forward for ukraine to be getting any aid unless the domestic issues are included in there. >> reporter: that's exactly right. it's such a big unless that you point out there. immigration has been a crisis, you know, because you have covered it for so long, that has vexed lawmakers in this building for years now. the idea that over the course of the next few days they're going to be able to come to some consensus and pass a supplemental funding package that would include not just border-related provisions but also ukraine aid, israel aid and taiwan aid, this is what the administration itself initially cobbled together. this was the approach that they seemed to have preferred. this is back now a month and a half ago when schumer said over thanksgiving that they were going to come back and try to push forward on this supplemental aid package. you have president zelenskyy asking them to do more on the aid front. because of all the entanglements on the domestic front, it's a

thornier issue than it would have been. make no mistake, it was already a tense issue, especially on the house side of the building. the fact that speaker johnson is echoing that in comments with reporters is notable. it's what we expected from him. he only just said in the last few hours that he did not anticipate that the house would be called back next week. right now, they're not supposed to be in session. it looks like that's going to stick. as far as the senate goes, their negotiations have reached a stalemate. you watch johnson cast blame on the senate and the white house. the hard line he is pushing, especially on immigration, is for the senate to have to take up hr-2, this is a non-starter for many democrats. it's why we see ire directed at white house at the idea they could entsntertain some of this >> ali vitali, appreciate it. in the last hour, george santos appeared in front of a judge for a pre-trial hearing. it comes after new court filings

reveal santos is in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors over criminal charges filed against him earlier this year. joining us now, nbc news con -- correspondent rehema ellis. >> reporter: it took 15 minutes. they went through a lot of procedural aspects of what happens before a trial. in fact, it's called a status hearing. the prosecution made it known to the court they are in discussions about plea negotiations. he is asking for more time that they could continue that. in the interim, he said they thought this trial could go up into may. the defense is saying they want to keep it in september, because they have been presented with over 1.3 million pages of documents that have to be reviewed. some of them are sensitive. have to be reviewed with the client.

the court has asked that some of those materials be desensitized so that review can go on more ex expeditiously. santos has more time now that he is not a member of congress going to washington. these are serious allegations. 23 counts. santos has entered a not guilt plea to all of them. jose? >> rehema ellis in the santos case for us. thank you very much. really appreciate that. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. reach me on social media at dj balart. using our technologyt dj balart t ways of learning. ♪ harnessing ai to plant new beginnings. ♪ so when minds grow, opportunities follow.

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