the brand i trust is qunol. >> fox news alert a high-stakes showdown in the making is president biden is set to speak with russian president a putin just hours. you are watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning. todd: president biden facing a critical test as russian troops mass along the ukraine border, sean hannity warning vladimir putin could >> one thing the white house won't do, they won't put out a

transcript of what president biden has to say because if they did we could see how weak he really is. is there any doubt vladimir putin is laughing behind-the-scenes at president biden? >> jenkins joins us live from washington with more. good morning. >> we start tuesday with tensions running high ahead of today's call as the white house makes clear to president putin that severe economic sanctions will be imposed if he invades. >> this is the moment for russia to pull back there military buildup at the border. we are going to continue to coordinate closely with our partners on a range of economic sanctions and steps that could be taken should president putin decide to move forward. >> the common sense wants a legally binding guarantee that ukraine will not be allowed to join nato, this as the satellite images show a massive buildup of tens of thousands of russian troops along the ukraine border

raising concerns at the cia. >> we don't believe vladimir putin has made up his mind to use force bus was we do know is he put the russian military, security services and the place where they could act in a sweeping way. >> of the white house and pentagon, dodging questions on the potential for deploying us troops. >> is president biden prepared to warn the possibility of us military involvement if russia invades ukraine? >> i won't get ahead of the president's conversation. >> any question about increasing military aid? >> i'm not going to get ahead of decisions one way or another that the administration may or may not make. >> reporter: republican senator marco rubio calling on the president to send a firm message. >> with you hope they say in the meeting? >> not to invade ukraine.

there is potentially a number of sanctions that could be put in place prospect of lee. >> reporter: had a high-stakes call later this morning reuters is reporting ukraine's defense ministry says russia has deployed additional tanks and labor teams to the front line of the conflict to provoke a reaction. we will see where that goes. meanwhile to sean hannity's point this is close to the press. carley: additional tanks and snipers as griff mentioned 70,000 troops in ukraine border, american intelligence says the number could reach 175,000 by the beginning of the year and the goal of the between president biden and russian president vladimir putin is for

president biden to de-escalate the situation, way foreign policy expert say he would do that is by showing strength telling vladimir putin if you invaded ukraine you are going to because off financially and he has to show strength not only to stand up to our adversaries around the world but to show our allies we are still one with him because after the afghanistan pulled out and leaving our allies behind that was called into question. todd: you heard about the reuters report about tanks meeting moved in, 100%, testing president biden and in light of what we have seen the first 11 months of this administration on the foreign-policy stage you understand why vladimir putin is doing this, he sees an ability to get his way, to make america look weak because president biden has looked weak the far so he's putting president biden to task, what president biden does, will president biden come to the table with strength or will he

appear weak like he has for the first 11 months? it will be crucial this reaction as americans we hope the president of the united states goes out and defend our interests and appears strong in front of not just vladimir putin but xi and the entire world, don't know if that -- carley: not just sanctions. he's going to tell vladimir putin the us will send troops to nato allies, the most critical thing, ukraine is not a nato ally but they are close to our nato allies, mission creep and what weapons to ukraine as well. we will see how that goes. if they do find out. todd: reports of bullying and dysfunction in vice president harris's office, a staff tweet, staffers saying i worked for vice president harris on behalf of the american people, and absolutely love my job.

jen psaki pushing back on this. >> i'm not aware of any positive tweet or specific tweet i would point you to the vice president's office was i point to a number of people, to continuing their job. carley: has several high-level staff are exiting, they don't want to be known as harris people. 6 minutes after the hour. chris cuomo losing another gig, his radio show, a minute organizations of sexual misconduct. carley: jackie ibanez has details of legal action against cnn. >> reporter: chris cuomo has lost his radio show get after it on sirius xm days after he was fired from an investigation that he defended his disgraced brother against accusations of sexual misconduct. the former anchor saying in part, quote, the way my time

internet cnn was hard. i have thick-skinned and also a family for which the past week has been extraordinarily difficult. we need to focus on what comes next. i will no longer be doing my sirius xm radio show. cuomo defending his actions on the radio show saying his brother was abandoned by his democratic colleagues. >> you can fight against the other party but only if you have your party. he has the republicans hating him. the media never liked him. his party was against him and republicans can help him. carley: jeff zucker knew the extent he was helping his brother, no secrets between the two of them. the networks is cuomo's claims are false, this is cuomo is

planning to sue the embattled network for the remaining money in his contract which is up to $18 million. a man accusing thanh lemmon of sexual assault says he's glad to see someone held to account, predator protecting machine. just a nice telling fox news, and lemon will have to testify under oath. there is accountability happening. lemon's attorney calling the accusations against him stemming from a 2000 and count on long island baseless. todd: thanks. carley: los angeles taking action against soft on crime district attorney george gascon. a smash and grab robberies defend the la retailers in an organized attack, earlier, we spoke to tonya oh ones who lost her husband in a shooting and

joined other crime victims in leading the recall push. >> with people being more aware and seeing the crime wave that has taken place in los angeles county, we all want something done. we are tired of this and truthfully in the last 30 years i have been in law enforcement we've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: the fate of crimes in california resulted in a handful of arrests with many being released to 20 bail policies. todd: dan bondgino ripping democrats. >> either really dumb are liars. most are generally liars. when it comes to aoc and president biden i'm not sure, she may actually believe that if this is happening. i will give her -- i'm not sure. like most politicians really good liars, i'm not sure she's bright enough to figure out if what is happening is happening. todd: california's crime crisis getting so bad, gavin newsom

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click, call, or visit a store to learn more. todd: texas deploying a boat blockade to stop migrants crossing the river illegally. the area is heavily used by smugglers to bring families and unaccompanied minors into south texas as the cvp reveals 2200 migrants were detained in the rio grande valley sector in 24 hours. that region has seen 100,000 illegal encounters since october first, 163% increase compared to the same period last year. a new wave of migrants rushing the border at the biden administration relaunches the trump era remain in mexico policy. people planning to come here.

carley: a new op-ed argued the court system is the only way to keep the white house in line. national border patrol council president brandon judd rights president biden's border crisis gets worse by the minute. easy-going to be created a disaster of monumental proportions and brandon joins us now. you say when it comes to the border the court system is the solution. elaborate on that. >> the only reason the protocols are going back in place is because a federal judge ruled the biden administration illegally got rid of the program. this is a coequal branch of government equal to the executive branch and they are able to go in and look at and review the actions the executive branch took and because the biden administration did it illegally the judge overturned it and thank goodness the supreme court upheld it.

they are forced to re-opponent the biden detention protocols what are they going to do it correctly? that is the question. todd: you are in it, you know what is going on, you lived this day in and day out. can you wrap your head around how much worse the border crisis would be if we didn't have these courts calling out the biden administration for their illegal actions? >> if there wasn't something to keep this administration in check we would be completely overwhelmed and we are already at the breaking point. already apprehending more people, the first two months of this fiscal year ending september, this fiscal year we are on tape to break every single record we broke last fiscal year including got aways which we have 100,000 in two months, 100,000 people have been able to enter our country illegally and avoid apprehension and now there is someone in our

country. carley: we should video the migrant who said there are a lot of people coming to the southern border because they know the remain in mexico policy is being re-implemented. how is border patrol going to deal with that surge? >> that is something i actually welcome. if migrant protection protocols are implemented properly the work load will go up initially but it is like a light switch. when you look at how donald trump implement the remain in mexico program the moment we started sitting people back to mexico people stopped coming because they are not going to give criminal smugglers thousands of dollars to be sent back to new mexico, they give these cartels their money because these cartels were promising them if they are going to get relief they will be rewarded once they cross the border illegally. ones that stopped, once we get rid of the catch and release magnet and key people in custody, they will stop coming.

todd: you mentioned that gotaways and the large number of gotaways, how worried are you some of those individuals just here for a better life, but sadly to actually do harm to the us? >> we have to look at the countries we have to apprehend people from, lebanon, syria, is pakistan, we are apprehending people from around the globe, not just dealing with people from mexico, guatemala, el salvador and honduras but everywhere and there's a lot of countries that want to do the united states harm and they are coming through the southwest border and a lot of these people have to be getting away of the numbers are as high as what they are it is very serious what is taking place on the border. if we go back and implement the policies that are necessary like the trump administration did we can control the border and we can go after the cartels. we can go after criminality and

stop the chaos on the border. carley: the remain in mexico policy will only be implemented at 7 check points and there are people that will be exempt including unaccompanied children, pregnant women, physically or mentally of people, older people and indigenous people and members of the lgbt q community so there are a lot of cards out here. you think the way the biden administration is implemented in this will decrease the number of illegal immigrants trying to get into the country? >> i don't. when you look at title 42, the health code allows us to expel people because of the pandemic, if you look at the carveouts the biden administration gave we saw floods of people claiming to be under those protections so we can exit the same thing other migrant protection protocol. everything it does is set up for

failure because it is pandering to its far left base trying to energize its voters. that's the problem. i don't believe they will implement. carley: thank you for joining us. >> 19 after the hour, the laundry list of allegations of hunter biden making its way to the white house briefing room. carley: cheryl casone is here. ♪♪

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>> white house press secretary jen psaki dodging questions about hunter biden's for business dealings. todd: cheryl casone here with more. >> reporter: jen psaki was asked about hunter biden's sale of chinese assets and this was her response.

>> the president's son is not an employee of the federal government. i would point you to his representatives. as to the book, i've had neither the time nor interest in exploring or reading the book. >> reporter: the book is entitled the laptop from hell detailing the first son's business dealings in china and ukraine. carley: republicans ripping the salt reveal of build back better because it helps rich people. >> reporter: several want to repeal a trump era tax law that limits inductions for state and local taxes on federal returns known as the salt. chuck grassley ripping the plan thank democrats always want you to believe they are worried about the middle class. in this particular time build back better stands for blue state billionaire bailout. bernie sanders wants to the tax break by income in phases for those making 400,$000 and above. the think tank finding the tax cut would be $20 for income households. todd: we have a front runner for this year.

>> reporter: better for former employees a better.com after the ceo laid out 900 workers before the holidays. >> if you are on this call, you are part of the unlucky group being laid off. >> reporter: 50% of the company's workforce was let's go. one of those unlucky employees last hour. >> it is really emotional and devastating. i am sitting in the exact spot where i got laid off. a wave of emotions come over me. >> reporter: best of luck to her. tonight on american dream home we are heading to new smyrna beach, florida, breckenridge, colorado, they lost to one of those big fires janice always talks about so this is their second dream home. carley: we will tune in and

watch it. todd: why don't you do that. janice dean with the fox weather forecast. everybody looking across the country but we are talking about some white stuff. >> we can see the first measurable snow around new york city the i-95 corridor or, not as good if you like the snow today. the various upstate will get snow. let's look at it. colorado is going to get their big snowfall the next couple days. cold air in the midwest down towards the tennessee and mississippi river valley, snow moving into the central us and that energy will combine with an area of low pressure over the southeast and give us a coastal low over the next 12 to 24 hours. here is one of the forecast models looking like upstate new york, certainly getting quite a

bit of snow and parts of new england but along the i-95 corridor door. it will be too warm it. that we look at one of the other computer models which was giving us a blockbuster storm yesterday, most of it towards upstate new york, the great lakes and new england. let's look at the northwest, this other area of low pressure, stockton with storm after storm and this one will bring significant snow across the rockies and the northwest, california over the next 7 days. we will get that snowpack in our several systems move into the west. there is your forecast, low-pressure across the southeast of the gulf coast will combine with the low-pressure coming out of the rockies and give us our coastal low but it won't be the blockbuster we thought it would be yesterday. some snow across areas north and west of new york city.

there is your forecast, cold air across the upper midwest and great lakes. it will be in the form of snow but the rest of the country relatively warm. carley: long-range forecast like this was? >> janice: much of the country above average. carley: amazing can forecast that far out. >> janice: go to foxweather.com and get their apps. they will give your forecast beyond we 7 days. todd: the forecast - >> janice: i told him i am available. carley: you said okay. a new york accent by the way. todd: 29 after the hour. jussie smollett is going to take the stand to testify under oath that there was no hope. carley: defense attorney bob beyond the breaks down the latest twists in the trial coming up next.

>> the second accuser revealing onto the allegations in the ghislaine maxwell trial, testifying under the pseudonym kate explaining how she was groomed by maxwell when she was 17 years old. kate alleged maxwell made her give jeffrey epstein massages in the mid-1990s and went on to describe several all expense paid for trips with a financier. kate says she originally met

epstein because maxwell told her he could help her with her music career, trial is set to resume in a few hours. the meantime jussie smollett is back on the stand today after 5 hours of testimony yesterday. todd: more on what the actor revealed. >> the former empire start taking the stand in his defense reiterating he's a victim of the hate crime. khorasan 9 claims the attack was a hoax. he admitted he paid the brothers for nutrition and training advice but not to stage any kind of attack. jussie smollett admitted he had a relationship with one of the brothers who previously testified jussie smollett paid them $3,500 to stage the attack and another $100 for supplies, he says the court was upset was police were called because he never would have done so. the greater director called police that night. the actor saying i am a black

man in america. i do not trust the police. he says he was a well-known figure at the time and is an openly gay man. police arrived an hour after the alleged attack to find jussie smollett wearing a ropelike news around his neck. he informed the courts initially took off the rope but they instructed him to put it back on so as not to temper with any evidence. prosecutor say jussie smollett dated the attack because he was unhappy with empire studios response to hate mail he receives. the studio offered him extra security but he turned it down because it was intruding on his personal life. the act revealing cnn's donovan tested him relaying information police do not believe jussie smollett's account of what happened, telling viewers after the 2019 incident that he was in close contact with the actor. he cover the case on his show last night but made no mention of the fact that the alleged contacting had with jussie

smollett. jussie smollett will take the stand when court resumes and will be cross-examined by the special prosecutor, the trial is expected to wrap up this week. todd: thank you very much. the criminal defense attorney, does any of jussie smollett's testimony make any sense to you? >> it all comes down to credibility. jussie smollett is the name of the game and it doesn't make common sense by my estimation. a number of things contradict the story these brothers didn't like him. text messages produced by the prosecution indicated jussie smollett said the text saying let's do something, the brothers were indicating when they met afterwords about staging this attack, the fact they were out to get him belies the at the he gave them a $3,500 check and $100 which sounds like a business transaction. is the money for the deal and

here are your expenses so also became the ideas that he is saying on one hand he's upset the studio wouldn't provide him with proper security or measures after he got the hate mail letter but ironic that when he's most vulnerable, when he actually leaves the studio he refuses security, i've been on the other end of death threats, not having ordinary person doesn't not only does he refuse security on a cold polar for text fight decides to take a walk by himself to get a sandwich and just so happens the two people he said can we do something down on the low are the people that are attacking him. when you look at the case is an independent witness that indicated when the two gentlemen which turned out to be the brothers were leaving after this incident for which jussie smollett received no injuries for the course of the attack

they were laughing and kidding around, all these things are good prosecutors going to say, use your common sense, doesn't make sense. he's paying expenses, doesn't want security, says he wents a meeting with them to do something on the go which doesn't sound like anything good and they wind up out of place where this thing happened and doesn't want to report to police and when the police asked for his phone, wouldn't any victim of a crime want to assist the police? he refuses to give them the phone. carley: he's facing more than the finance public shame but facing jail time. if found guilty does he go to jail? >> i have been so that is based on the way kim fox is handled it

but have to separate that from the fact that the law. he's a first offender. this is a low-level offense that could carry three years in prison. in my experience it is very likely he would receive a probationary sentence if convicted. todd: will the defense regret putting smollett on the stand? >> hard things to say but sometimes you are driven by the actor with the defendant but especially if they feel they need to tell their story. that's not going to do him any favors because the jury will look at fine detail about everything he says. i love that lien in the cage and their scoring points. >> i wouldn't want to be on the other side of your cross-examination. hopefully never i will get there. todd: it is not like lying about lying. thank you. one of bill deblasio's final acts in office, vaccine mandate

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>> inside information that we are gearing up for a big tuesday show. and just hours this will start in 70 minutes president biden will face a critical test, i think call with vladimir putin, 175,000 troops around the country. what will the us do, can president biden hold his ground? they expect hard-core proposals. will he bring one to the table. we will ask someone who has been in rooms like that. morgan ortagus will break down what president biden must confront with vladimir putin. kayleigh mcenany will be here live, she knows about crisis management. leo to roll carley: up against everything. ari fleischer, hope he is still in a good mood. 10 years ago he camped outside in the freezing chicago winter, now a decade later that chicago pastor bracing the cold again but instead of tearing something down his goal is to bring something, build something up. he will join us live from the roof.

we are on the second floor and we will get ready to go with two other anchors who seem really nice to have great head shots. back to carly and todd. thank you for getting dressed. carley: a big problem if we didn't. we will see you in 15 minutes. >> bill deblasio putting parent a major pickle with a new vaccine requirement for kids as young as 5. you to react, mother of four and a parents right advocate. father two contributing editor of the american conservative and mother and editor-in-chief at the post millennial. thanks to all of you for being here. first question to you. how furious were you when bill deblasio made this announcement? >> this announcement makes no sense especially for parents like me. i have vaccinated children. i have teenage children who

received the vaccine and nothing about their life is changed. they are still masked when they go to school, parents still not allowed in the classroom so fool me once but this is ridiculous. my 5-year-old kindergartner never spent a day in school without a mask on his face and now he can't go to a restaurant to eat chicken fingers. it makes no sense. todd: losing cops and firefighters and all types of city workers to these mandates. our families next? will we lose families out of new york city? >> not just about the vaccination mandate. it is also the masking of children has become intolerable to me because we've known since last year since the early days of the pandemic the kids are at minuscule if any risk from the survivors they transmit it at much lower rates than adults and then the riots that we lived through, the breakdown in law

and order, the neutering of the nypd and this is becoming an anti-family place. todd: why are we doing this to our kids? i ask that question twice a week in different contextss. the vaccine mandate ability why are we doing this to our kids? >> we are forcing our children to pay the price for our own fears. the fears to the grandkids are unfounded, they lived with this virus, they have been fine, and the mask mandate won't change either. this won't offer anything new or anything better for these kids lives, deblasio is on his way out. we should hear from the new mayor elect about this and should not be allowing this guide to continue to run roughshod over our lives with no reasons to back it up. ruling against biden on that too.

todd: this is weeks before he's done in office and deblasio doing this via executive order, how annoying is that? >> we new yorkers have seen this before when bill deblasio decided to run for mayor, for president, he had a lot of plans to change our schools all of which were disastrous and parents 5 back about them now he has in his head he wants to run for governor so he's coming out with a big poorly thought out plan that will hurt tourism in the city, lots of people pointed out europeans can't even get this vaccine for children as young as 5, 5 to 11 years old so tourists who new york city desperately needs had plans to come to new york city they now can't come and eat in a restaurant with their children. this is very poorly thought out. >> are you confident in coming mayor eric adams will do this next year?

>> unfortunately not. i have been in manhattan for a decade, looking at the exits because i think he could be speaking out right now but every indication including reporting i have seen is he is a mask and a fax guy. i don't see the environment changing for kids. i think for people would be. todd: thanks for getting up with us. we appreciate it. carley: a high-stakes showdown in the making as president biden speaks with russian president vladimir putin this morning. todd: congressman carlos jimenez tells us what he has to say to vladimir putin as a mass troops outside ukraine. we've been waiting all year to come together. it worked! happy holidays from lexus. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2022 es 350.

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friends first" i'm alex hogan. the u.s. announcing it will boycott the winter olympics at least diplomatically. athletes can still take part. no officials will attend. cite ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity. china says it will react with counter measures. all previous compromises putting more weighted on russia and china. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken commenting both of those countries are frustrated with iran. today high stakes diplomatic talk also take place between president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin over international concern at the ukraine border where new satellite images show a growing russian presence. u.s. forces believe about 157,000 russian troops could invade as early as next year. russia denies any wrongdoing. the two leaders will meet

virtually today for those conversations, the last time that they talked with a about six months ago, in geneva, switzerland. carley, todd, back to you. carley: all right, alex, thank you so much. let's bring in former congressman gimenez. let's start with that phone call that president biden is having with russian president vladimir putin today. near is state department spokesman ned price. >> we have responded we will respond resolutely including with a range of what we have called high impact economic measures that we have refrained from using in the past. carley: okay, so we are talking about high impact economic measures ie sanctions, what should the president say and will he deliver? >> he should be strong in his delivery and his message to putin about our, you know, our resolve in this issue. i mean, if russia doesn't go

ahead and invade ukraine and gobble them up, it's the second largest country by land size in europe. and it's only harbin jeopardy of things to come. this is very important that we don't allow this. i believe the president needs to use every tool at his disposal, including economic sanctions. but one other tool that he has that he probably won't use is energy. energy is key to russia's economy. we're destroying our us energy producing sector here in the united states. we ought to start ramping that up and pose a serious threat to russia and its ability to generated cash. todd: congressman, you talked about what you want joe biden to do. what you hope joe biden does. what he should do. at the end of the day, will vladimir putin be more or less emboldened following today's conversation? >> will look, vladimir putin and the rest of the world saw what we did in afghanistan. hopefully the president learned his lesson from that.

but, 40 years of history tells us that this president is very weak. and when you show weakness on the world stage, bad actors will take advantage of it. so while i hope that the president does the right thing, i, you know, history tells me otherwise. carley: he says is he a foreign policy expert. let's hope is he right on that front. yesterday the biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott no u.s. officials will go but athletes will still be allowed to attend china released this statement in response. they say if the u.s. insists in willfully clinging to its course, china will take resolute counter measures. will taking counter measures. what do you make of that situation? >> well, i don't know what the counter measures means. but if i were president biden i would say bring it on. but, also president biden has gone far enough. we should just boycott the olympics. the things that the chinese are

doing to their own people, uyghur minorities is, you know, barbaric. what they're doing to hong kong, again, you know, really clamping down on freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of speech those are not american values and we should not reward the chinese by having our athletes go there this whole thing of a diplomat being boycott is nonsense. they are still going to have the olympics and meet and generate money. that's not what we should be doing. we should be boycotting the entire thing. our athletes should not go. >> but now, congressman, the biden administration may need rely on russia and china as the iran nuclear talks are really on the verge of collapsing right now. how aemasculating is it that we may need to crawl with our tail between our legs to russia and china after biden purposefully destroyed any leverage we had with iran by saying we are going to get out of this nuclear deal. it seems like it is a sad

circular situation. >> again, shows you the weakness of the biden administration and so-called expert is getting us into more and more trouble every single day and putting the united states in a very dangerous situation. look, the only way to deal with thugs is-to-through strength. the only way to peace is through strength. the more you appease the more they will take and the more it puts new danger. all you need to do is ask neville chamberlain how appeasement helped him back in the 1930s with germany. it's amazing to me we don't leisure the lessons of history. it's right there in front of you. the only way to peace is through strength not through appeasement. carley: yeah, you know, congressman, we are seeing increase amount of maligned activity. russia may invade ukraine. china may invade taiwan and you said it. you have got to be strong. these things don't happen.

congressman carlos guilliams thank you for sharing your perspective on all these three fronts russia, china it will. we will have to see house the phone call goes today between president biden and putin. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> it's my pleasure. todd: 80 anniversary of pearl harbor. unbelievable. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. >> growing concern that a russian invasion of ukraine could be imminent. >> president biden is scheduled to speak with vladimir putin just hours from now. >> putin is looking at biden. is he looking at afghanistan. he is looking at his ratings and saying there is an opportunity here. >> developing story out of chicago. >> in court jussie smollett testified that there was no hoax. >> you have to be an absolute fool to believe anything else of what is plainly in front of us. jussie smollett light. >> dodged any questions related to hunter biden. >> i was hoping that you can confirm that the laptop is indeed authentic. >>