assistance from the united states. >> john: and texas governor greg abbott says look, we are giving all this money to ukraine and giving it readily, and willingly, and yet in this new omnibus spending bill, massive 1.7 trillion bill, not a dime for border security. so abbott was suggesting every dollar we give ukraine we should give a dime to border states to defend their border. it's ironic in abbott and other people's ice, to beef up border security in jordan, egypt, oman, but nothing in terms of the southern border. we have had 2-2 minute warnings and both have been rescinded.

i've been to enough of these to know they don't go off typically on time, but the leader of the country will hold along the driveway on the south lawn, which is just past the south lawn of the white house toward he street until the president is ready to come out. zelenskyy may be there and the president is not ready or maybe the president is there and zelenskyy is not there. i would say the former rather than the latter. >> sandra: peter doocy, as we await the president of ukraine and the united states. peter. >> we think it will be shortly, the last 30 seconds or so, a big delegation, the whole zelenskyy crew was walking through the gate and to the west wing of the white house to get out to the south lawn from there. and you guys were just talking about how this next batch of ukraine aid, taxpayer funded ukraine aid is about $45 billion. some discussion today, is zelenskyy here to lobby for that, is he here to explain why

they need that. it sounds like based on what we are hearing today, whether he came to speak or not, there is support for that $45 billion from top democrats and top republicans. >> rather than slowing assistance we should be speeding up international deliveries to ukraine. >> ukraine's flag is now flying above the blare house where visiting heads of state stay when they are in town. zelenskyy said ahead of this, on my way to u.s. to strengthen resilience and defense capabilities of ukraine, in particular, president biden and i will discuss cooperation between ukraine and u.s., and bilateral meetings. his movements are shrouded in secrecy for security reasons as earlier this year zelenskyy was very publicly talking about being a top assassination target for russia. now that he's here to talk to the president and the congress, at least one leader is teasing

this address as one of historical proportions. >> where winston churchill stood generations ago, so too president zelenskyy stands not just as a president, but as also an ambassador of freedom itself. >> schumer is talking about this speech tonight as something that will be celebrated in the present and studied for generations to come in the future, which is quite a plot twist because nobody even knew this was happening this time yesterday. we have even heard from some members of the congressional ukraine caucus who said they were kept in the dark about this until last night, citing security concerns. back to you. >> sandra: peter, we are seeing more activity. that looks like the president. >> john: another two-minute warning, the fact that the

president and first lady are there would mean zelenskyy is about to roll up here in the south portico of the white house for the big meeting with president biden. i was surprised, sandra, frankly, you see the suv pulling up, that zelenskyy left ukraine. he has not done that since russia invaded. >> sandra: in 300 days. so, quite a moment. and this is the arrival just before they will have their sit-down. let's listen for a bit.

>> sandra: all right, john, he has arrived, and now they will go in for the sit-down. we do expect we will get a pool spray from that. we will either have it live or turn it around for the audience and then the address tonight. >> john: i've been to a lot of the entrants and arrivals, every time the leader of the particular country would be wearing a suit or maybe from saudi arabia, wearing traditional robes. i've never seen somebody show up in the same sort of clothing that they were wearing when they were in ukraine yesterday on the front lines. zelenskyy has been moving around an awful lot in the last 24 to 48 hours and really has become

the face of resistance against the russian army there in ukraine, and around the world as well, and continuing today with the same look, if you will, that he's had -- we have seen him in for the last 300 plus days. >> sandra: indeed. quite a moment there. we await the sit-down there in the oval office and we hope we hear from the two leaders a short from now, john. >> john: kurt volker, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, and the fact that zelenskyy felt confident to leave ukraine and to the united states says a lot about his commitment to try to get the u.s. buy-in on what the next phase of this may be. >> right, it's many things all at the same time. it is first a recognition that ukraine is standing thanks to the american taxpayer, american congress providing the military support the ukrainians have then

used to fight back against the russians. he recognizes that and appreciates that. and it's a bigger fight. not just about ukraine defending itself, although it is that, it's defending freedom, democracy, human rights, all the things, the values that we hold. ukraine is on the front line defending them against an ideology of fascism and imperialism and genocide and war crimes by russia. he wants to make that clear. and he hopes the u.s. support will continue and this $45 billion piece of the omnibus spending bill for ukraine is very, very important to him. that's going to give him the tools to keep pushing back against russia. >> sandra: why do you believe, ambassador, he chose this moment, and i said the congressional address is 7:30 tonight, 4:30 the bilat news conference with the two world leaders. why this moment, 300 days in do you believe he decided to make

this trip? >> well, i think it was an invitation from president biden who said why don't you come over and do this, so i think he felt that it was important to accept that invitation. as i said, he recognizes that the support of the united states is critical for ukraine's ability to continue to get its territory back. >> john: mr. ambassador, i've been going over the list in this 1.85 billion in additional security assistance for ukraine, and what we are prepared to give them. we are going to give them howitzers, m rap vehicles, more javelins, more stingers, but nowhere are the sophisticated weapons that zelenskyy says he needs to actually win the war against russia, and that's the attack 'ems long range artillery missiles, reaper drones, he's going to get scan drones, why

aren't we giving him what he says he needs to win? >> well, john, you are absolutely right to highlight that, and i think that will be the principle topic of discussions behind closed doors. i cannot understand why we are not providing the best equipment to ukraine so they can win. the longer we drag this out, the more ukrainians suffer, the more russia bombs ukrainian cities, turns off the heat and the power and so forth, and ukraine is willing to do the fighting. it's not like we are putting the u.s. troops on the ground here. the drones, some we could be giving them, armor tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, things the ukrainians will need to retake the territory and i hope that this meeting today proves decisive in turning around the reluctance we see from the administration on some of the systems. >> sandra: and timing is

everything as zelenskyy visits the united states, and wall street journal has been polling on this issue, republican voters are holding a skeptical view furthering the aid to ukraine. can you weigh in on that and that changing sentiment we are seeing in this country at this moment? >> well, you know, i think it's important that the people understand that the aid that we are giving is being used to good effect, and that's why i think some of the things that congressional leaders have talked about with transparency, accountability, no blank check, i think those are all appropriate. but they also need to see that ukraine is defending not only itself, but defending everything that we stand for as a country. we don't want to live in a world where a country can just go moot and pillage another country because they have nuclear weapons and get away with it, don't want to call into effect our article 5 guarantee of our nato allies because ukraine fell

and vladimir putin goes after other countries. its very important ukraine actually win this war for all of our benefit and i think zelenskyy will be here to make that case and hopefully the american people hear that. >> john: all right, we have an afternoon of activity and evening as well to watch. thank you, appreciate it. >> sandra: thank you, ambassador. we will continue to watch the activity at the white house, waiting for the sit down at 2:30 p.m. eastern time between the two world leaders at the white house. texas national guardsmen are scrambling to block the southern border, ahead of the lifting of title 42. >> john: will the white house listen to the pleading to restore order at the border. lindsey graham will weigh in on that and zelenskyy's visit just ahead. >> the administration has no plan for how to handle the en and of title 42.

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>> sandra: ukrainian president zelenskyy arriving at the white house, meeting with the president right now. we will turn that sound when we get it. plus, republican senator lindsey graham is moments away on the message he wants to hear from zelenskyy during his pivotal trip to capitol hill, but breaking news on the southern border. title 42, is up in the air, massive groups of migrants are camping out, frigid temperatures waiting for the green light to cross into this country when

title 42 is lifted. >> john: in response, texas national guardsmen have surrounded the camp with razor wire and humvees to keep the migrant flow in check for now. in eagle pass, texas, bill has been for so long it seems now. what are you seeing on the ground now, bill? >> john, good afternoon to you. we are seeing what we always see, mass illegal crossings in eagle pass. new video we got from our team in yuma, arizona. we just got this in, a group of what's left of several hundred migrants who have crossed illegally, waiting by the border wall, could be transported by border patrol. the yuma sector starting to heat up. they are getting upwards of 1,000 illegal crossings a day. the mayor of yuma, arizona telling fox news he was recently informed they may have to start mass street releases into the city. and back here in eagle pass and

show you what we have been witsing. the thermal drone video the team shout in the predawn hours this morning, a group of more than 370 that crossed illegally this morning, once again, on to private property here. it is getting incredibly cold out here. temperatures expected to drop in the 20s and teens, and it's dangerous for the migrants. they often have to stand and wait for processing. we will another group before that, take a look at this piece of video. earlier in the night, a group of about 200 that crossed illegally. they needed to be escorted by law enforcement down a local highway so they could find border patrol in order to be processed. here in eagle pass, we often see the migrants walking down the local highways after they have crossed. and then west texas in el paso, it's even colder out there. this is video we shot last night, hundreds of migrants camped out after they crossed the river, they are already on the u.s. side of the border, you

can see several of them starting campfires, out there with soldiers, humvees, concertina wire, taking a posture they are going to be denied entry into the u.s., and a long line of migrants out there waiting, they believe they will be let into the country and hopefully released. but that's the scene in el paso as of last night and again, the temperatures out there, incredibly cold. and lastly, back out to arizona once again, another significant fentanyl bust. cbp port of entry in nogales, seizing more than 10,000 fentanyl pills and six pounds of meth hidden inside tubes of construction adhesive mixed in with work tools. another way those smugglers are trying to hide those deadly drugs. back out here live, what's going on along the southern border is a holding pattern. everyone thought title 42 would drop last night, it didn't, but it's essentially business as usual. mass crossings all over the border, back to you.

>> john: you have to wonder what's ever going to stop it. bill, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: a live look at the white house where president biden and president zelenskyy are meeting right now behind closed doors as lawmakers debate sending additional 45 billion in aid to ukraine which zelenskyy is here to make the case they need right now. joining us now is lindsey graham. senator, great to have you on this holiday week. we'll be watching the white house and the capitol later today. to what extent do you believe this country should continue to aid ukraine in this fight? >> completely, all in, if putin dismembers ukraine he will not stop, china is more likely to go into taiwan, the world will unravel and no domestic problem gets better here at home allowing putin to destroy ukraine, quite the opposite. if you can stop putin and

ukraine, china will rethink invading taiwan and the world will be a better place. no nobody is dying over here, no american soldiers, we are spending money but a good cause, the cause of freedom. i'm all in. whatever they need as long as they need it. >> john: you say all in, senator, would you agree to give zelenskyy what he says he wants, the long range missiles, gray eagle drones, reaper drones, all that? >> i would give him the ability to dislodge russians from his country. right now the biden administration has done more, i appreciate doing more, but not the offensive capability to dislodge the russians from the east, particularly crimea. so the longer range weapons would hurt the russian military more effectively. the drones would be the biggest game changer. if you had the large reaper gray drones you would kill tons of russians without losing any ukrainians in the endeavor and change the tide of battle.

the biden administration cannot embrace victory for ukraine, i can. >> sandra: we are just starting to get some word from the white house on the discussion that the two world leaders are having, senator. i can bring you a couple things that we have heard from zelenskyy, a great honor to be here, and he's only here, a quick stop, a few hours in the united states what he has suggested, and he is saying in the white house right now that he appreciates president biden for all his help. we'll shortly see what more comes from this meeting. what do you want to see come from this meeting today, senator? >> i want the administration to up their game and give the ukrainians the capability to go on the offense more effectively to end the war on terms favorable to ukraine and us. here is the problem. there's no off ramp for this war. somebody is going to win and somebody is going to lose. how does this war end, when russia breaks and they take putin out, anything short of that the war will continue. to ask the ukrainians to give

them part of the country after all this death and destruction is not going to happen. to signal a ceasefire, russia will take the opportunity to rearm and come at them again. so, we are in it to win it and the only way you are going to win it is break the russian military and have somebody in russia take putin out to give the russian people a new lease on life. >> john: in terms of this issue of how anything will end, how will the border crisis end, that's a big question. title 42 at some point will come to an end. there's an omnibus spending bill that may go to a vote in the senate tonight, $1.7 trillion, of which 410 million will provide enhanced border security in jordan, lebanon, tunesia, oman, but not a dime for the u.s. border. >> in that very bill, they are giving money to tunesia but not to texas to deal with our border security problem. the priorities established in this bill are reprehensible when

it comes to addressing the real needs that we have here in the united states of america and the open border policies that congress has responsibility to step up and solve. >> john: you support this omnibus spending bill. >> we do need border security. with but they are not trying to evade capture, they are abusing the asylum system. you can build a wall across the border. people are coming here and saying here i am, i'm claiming asylum and under the biden policy they never leave. until you change the asylum laws you are not going to stop this. when title 42 goes away and it will, the courts will not save biden here. he could change policy with a stroke of pen. but when they hear title 42 deportation authority no longer exists, you are going to double the number of illegal immigrants. they are not avoiding capture. that guy deserves some kind of award for being down there. is anybody trying to run away?

some are, but most people are going to the first american they can turn themselves in, so it's not a border security alone, it's an asylum abuse problem and they are going to keep coming. the day you do away with title 42, you'll have a tsunami of illegal immigrants, 100,000 a week. >> sandra: quick final thought here as we are getting more from the white house, a readout from the pool. their notes revealing that president biden referencing the 300 days it has been since this war began, hard to believe, talking about the assaults on the civilians there, schools, orphanages, saying putin is trying to use winter as a weapon but the ukrainian people are inspiring the world. some of the exchange we are seeing here. the president said to zelenskyy you are the man of the year in the united states of america. zelenskyy is speaking in english saying this is a great moment for him. he would have come sooner but the situation was so difficult, he then said we control the

situation because of your support. i want to get a quick final thought from you on what we are hearing from the white house. >> number one, i'm glad we are all behind ukraine and providing them weapons. they need offensive capability. but what i would say to president biden. you have the president of ukraine in front of you. his number one request to me when i went over earlier this year was to make russia a state sponsor of terrorism. i had a resolution that passed the senate 100-nothing, urging the biden administration to call russia a state sponsor of terrorism under the law. biden administration has fought us the an every turn. you really want to help the ukrainians, designate russia as a state sponsor of terrorism under u.s. law, that will taint the regime all over the world bigger than we have done before and it would matter. >> john: seems to be reluctance on the part of this president to push putin harder than he is already, which is why you are not going to get the attack 'ems and the drones as well. senator, good to spend time with

you. hope you have a merry christmas. >> sandra: a little more what is happening inside the white house, zelenskyy said he wanted to bring a ukrainian soldier award, the soldier wanted potus, the president, to have it. then i believe staple in the way -- president biden asked for his name and if there was any way to contact him. so, this is happening at the white house right now. we will likely see some of this a short time from now. we will turn that for the audience, john. >> john: we'll get the play back very soon, it takes a little while for the pool to get out of the oval office and get the tape reracked or whatever it is these days. a live look at minnesota, looks like winter wonderland. it's spelling trouble for millions of americans this christmas week and bringing dangerously cold temperatures. that forecast is coming up next. >> sandra: minus two, oh, cold looking at the temperature. plus, the white house responding

to critics as the border crisis spirals out of control. ari fleischer joins us on the messaging coming from the white house on that. two world leaders.

let's listen. >> everyone is in. >> well, mr. president, good to have you back. i'm delighted you are able to make the trip to be here and you know, it's an honor to be by your side in united defense against what is a brutal, brutal war waged by putin. 300 days, hard to believe, 300 days. putin's ways to brutal assault

on the ukraine's right to exist as a nation and the attack on innocent ukrainian people for no reason other than to intimidate, and he's escalated his assault on civilians after schools, orphanages, hospitals, landmarks, it's just -- it's -- he's trying to use winter as a weapon, and -- but the ukraine people continue to inspire the world. i mean that sincerely. not just inspire us, but inspire the world with their courage and how they have chose the resilience and resolve for their future. and the american people have stood proudly with them. democrats and republicans together with our allies in europe and japan and other places to make sure you have the financial, humanitarian and security assistance that is needed, we are going to talk about that today, and we are going to continue to strengthen

ukraine's ability to defend itself, particularly air defense and providing ukraine with a patriot missile battery and training your forces to accurately use it. and together with the partners, impose costs on the kremlin and pursuing a just peace. president zelenskyy, we stand with the brave people of ukraine and you a greater leader and we have a famous thing that occurs once a year, we pick the man of the year in "time" magazine, you are the man of the year in the united states of america. and so welcome, we have a lot to talk about, the floor is yours. >> thank you so much. mr. president, great honor for me to be here, your journalist, i thank you so much for invitation. i really wanted to come sooner, mr. president knows i could not

do it because the situation was so difficult and i came, we control the situation and because of support and because of your support and i really -- i understand that we have very important topics and we will discuss them, everything there are so many challenges in ukraine and europe in the world, and from energy to the situation on the battlefield, but first of all, i really -- all my appreciations from my heart, from the heart of ukrainians, all ukrainians, from our nation, strong nations, all the appreciation to you, mr. president, for your big support, and leadership because many countries helped us and are helping now because the war is not over. but that is your leadership,

thank you first of all. >> thank you. >> thank you so much, mr. president. of course thanks to the partisan support, thanks congress and thanks from our just ordinary people to your ordinary people, americans. i really appreciate -- i think it's very difficult to understand what we mean when we say appreciate, but you have to feel it and thank you so much. great honor here. and yesterday i was on the bus in the place on the east of our country, you know, all the details, we have so many phone calls, and detailing about it, and i want to give you something. one guy, real hero, a real

captain, and he asked me to pass his award, and he asked me to pass his award to president biden. he will understand the captain of himers battery, yes, and he said give it to a very brave president. and i want to give you that cross from military merit. that is one. >> oh, god loves you. >> that is from him, and i have the list, he wrote the list, i did not read, it's not mine, it's in ukrainian language, but here is the translation. >> and his name is -- i have his name, i can contact him? >> yes, yes, yes. >> pavlo. >> pavlo. >> undeserved but much appreciated.

>> thank you, thank you, thank you, pavlo. >> he said many his brothers, this system saved. so, thank you very much. >> we have a tradition here and i will give it to him of my son, who fought in iraq, they have what they call a command coin, you have seen those coins in the battlefield. i will make sure that he gets one of those. >> i will give. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. what a great honor. great honor. >> thank you, press. [journalists asking questions]

>> sandra: now the press will be ushered out of that room as they try to fire off as many questions as we can, doesn't look like the president or the ukrainian leader will be answering any of those. they will have their meeting now, john, but what we just saw there at the tail end of that was zelenskyy giving president biden an award that was passed along by a ukrainian officer, captaining a missile battery and the president receiving it there, president biden receiving it there, but a lot of show of support from the u.s. president for ukraine and president zelenskyy and a very grateful president zelenskyy saying his thank yous to the president of the united states for its continued support. >> john: deja vu, everybody was yelling questions. some things just don't change administration to administration, the words thank you, press, we are leaving now, they seem to be pretty consistent. let's get back to kurt volker,

the former u.s. ambassador, th captain of a himars missile battery, it will not fire a longer range. we had you on, you said we should be giving ukraine everything it needs, including longer range weapons to win this battle. lindsey graham, just on, believes the same thing. so, why isn't the biden administration doing this? are they afraid that putin will pull the nuclear trigger if we do that? >> i think that they have in their own minds some kind of line beyond which to say ok, this would be seen by putin as provocation and escalation and could cause putin to react directly against nato or the united states in some other way. it could be nuclear, could be the baltic states, cyber attacks, something else. so they are just trying to show ok, we are exercising some

restraint to make sure ukraine does not actually launch attacks on russia itself. i think the time for that kind of logic, if there ever was one, is long past. if you look at what russia is doing to ukrainian cities, they are hitting the power grids, they are knocking out heat, knocking out light, knocking out water, they are doing it from russian territory, there is no reason not to give the ukrainians what they need to fight back. >> sandra: ambassador, what was your reaction to the exchange that you just saw and heard there at the white house with the two leaders? >> well, i was very pleased to see it, actually. i spent a lot of time talking with ukrainians almost every day and there is this mixture of great appreciation and warmth to the united states. they know the u.s. has stood by them, provided the weapons and given them the chance to fight back. so they really appreciate that. and also this bittersweet sense that but we know we can do more,

we know you can do more, please help us, so you get both of those at the same time and that comes out in the way that zelenskyy carried himself. >> john: the weapons to fight back, do they have the munitions they need to beat back russia and then what happens if belarus were to invade from the north. all questions, ambassador, we'll have plenty of time to ask you going forward. we wish you a merry christmas and thank you for joining us. >> you too, john, take care. >> john: dangerous arctic blast, nearly 150 million americans are freezing. people in parts of the gulf coast will feel the coldest weather in years. ian oliver has got the story for us. how cold is it going to get, ian? >> too cold, john. good afternoon. this is a brutal forecast and the timing is especially problematic in the days leading up to christmas. it's a blizzard that we are tracking, but even more

impactful than the snow is the wind and the arctic air that follows the storm. because of that, look at this. from the canadian border down to the northern gulf coast as you mentioned, these are wind chill alerts in effect through saturday morning for more than 80 million americans. very impactful. these are actual air temperatures, not even wind chills, or feels like temps. by thursday evening, you can see the arctic air just taking over the middle of the country. okc, down to just 7°, two below in st. louis and the arctic air continues to progress farther off to the east, omaha, eight below. two below in st. louis, atlanta, you are in the teens. dallas, freezing temperatures make it all the way to the northern gulf coast. so, very impactful for a huge portion of the country. here is the actual blizzard. thursday into friday, this is a heavy rain maker for the i-95

corridor and also damaging wind gusts that perhaps exceed 60 miles per hour, lead to some coastal flooding concerns particularly with the high tide cycle friday morning and of course with the blizzard, snow is a story, 3 to 6 inches, chicago area, some lake enhancement off the great lakes, we could see some areas well in excess of a foot. john. >> john: sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. ian oliver for us, thank you. download the fox weather app or stream on your favorite connected television device. sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching that, the freezing weather also expected to hit your wallet hard. madison, how much more are people having to pay this year to heat their homes? >> sandra, we are seeing double digit increases. these low temperatures could not be coming at a worst time when we are seeing across the country these high prices. so, offer average, if you use

natural gas to heat your home, increase of 18% in costs compared to last year. home heating oil, that's up 27% on average. certain states, though, they have it worse than others. i'm in new hampshire. here, heating oil is up 48% since last year, and electricity, you are seeing that right, 86% increase in costs. the governor told us that's why new hampshire is providing a stipend to individuals struggling to cover increased fuel costs through a new state emergency fuel assistance program. he said people shouldn't have to worry about staying warm. >> when your energy prices are not going up 20, 30%, they are literally doubling for a lot of families and if you are on a fixed income and paycheck to paycheck, it can be absolutely devastating. we have surpluses, we have the opportunity to reinvest our funds to make sure those that need it the most are getting it. >> you know, we have also seen some incredible community action to help as well. local wood banks help when

federal and state assistance run dry. volunteers chop, stack and deliver the wood, and this year it is all hands on deck. because they are worried about what this winter will bring. right now, they are able to keep up with demand but once winter sets in and the cold sets in, they are concerned. there is some good news, there was a natural gas shipment that should be reaching new england soon. bad news, gas trading 5% higher today. >> sandra: thank you, john, we have been hearing about it for months and a lot of people are having a hard time, prices are high. you go to the u.k., the story we heard there with the bakery owner, the chef saying that it's costing them twice as much to heat their ovens this year than last year. that's huge. >> john: even more than twice. he's paying 2200 pounds, in u.s. dollars, $2,500 a month for

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>> sandra: fox news alert now. we're getting the first response from the fbi to the twitter file dumps. the state reads there's nothing more than examples of our traditional longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. as evidenced in the correspondence, the fbi provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. the men and women of the fbi work every day to protect the american public. it's unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the american public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency. that just in. john? >> john: all right. noted. the white house struggling to find a coherent message on its border policies in the end of

title 42 with a myriad of other issues. joining us now, ari fleischer, a fox news contributor. the white house supported the end of title 42 and then it said well, now, it's the courts that are making it do this and now they split the baby in their response to john roberts at the supreme court saying, well, we need it to stay on for a while but it can't stay on forever. more from brit hume. seems to be a certain zigzag quality going on here in their messaging process. >> a zigzag would be an improvement. they've been in denial since day one. this administration has treated the border crisis like ostriches with their heads in the sands saying we don't see anybody controlling. there's nothing illegal going on. that's been the flaw that president biden said come. that's why people are coming. they don't fear joe biden. they think they can get in. they watch the same videos that we say and relatives say look,

it's easy to cross. let's do it. this is an administration that is in denial and it's -- what is happening now is the fruits of their own labor. they're getting what they created. >> john: my current colleague and your former colleague, dana perino, that knows a thing about white house communications says the messaging is a absolute disaster. they've had similar problems with the origin of covid and the rail strike as well. what's going on at that shop? >> well, frankly, i think the only reason they do this is because they can get away with it. when the white house press secretary says president biden has been on this since day one and she doesn't get challenged by the press corps. remember in the trump administration when sean spicer on day one overestimated the crowd at the inaugural and made a big to-do of it. the press went nuts. how can you overestimate the cried? why did you call us in here to tell us that? here we have something more

serious? who cares about a crowd size. this is underestimating a crowd size coming in against our laws. the white house press corps quietly goes along taking notes. it doesn't offend the press corps. that's why the biden administration can get away with it. they get away with it because they don't have to deal with cbs or "the new york times" or the places that they care about rising up and saying how can you say that? what you're saying is wrong and abandoning the rule of law. so long as the mainstream media lets them get away with it they will. >> john: i was there for that first press briefing. spicer, sarah sanders, kayleigh mcenany , they took a lot of incoming, this white house is under siege. i want to ask you about karine jean-pierre's big binder of answers that she brings in to the briefing room with her every day. who puts that together? is it her, the policy shop? i don't know how much of a chance she gets to look at it.

when she goes to it, it's not very convincing what comes out of her mouth. >> i had a big binder and i used it the first month in office. you don't really need it. it's awkward to flip the pages. if you're in the meetings, you don't need the big book. if you're in the meetings, you heard it yourself and you have the discretion to know what to say and when not to say. i don't know where she gets her information from. if she has to still rely on a book like that, something tells me she's not in the meetings so she doesn't know so she has to rely on what other people write for her to say. that is an impossible job to fulfill if that's how the job is set up. you have to be in the room and fast on your feet and deal with the white house press corps. easier in a democratic administration than a republican. but still, that's the job. >> john: i spent a lot of time with you in the briefing room. you were good at your job. ari, hope you have a great

holiday. >> great to be with you. happiest to you, ari. the hottest gift fors can is not something that they can open. and hold. it's robox. a form of currency. some parents and advocacy groups are raising the alarm on this. lauren simonetti with us right now. why are parents alarmed? aren't virtual gifts getting easier and easier for people? >> it's simple but there's safety concerns ant a site that boast 30 minute users under the age of 12. what could go wrong? it could be addictive. it's also teaching kids to become metaverse mavens. who can traffic in the virtual world with ease? for a lot of these younger players when they're in these spaces, that's an extension of who they are and it's very real to them. that's why these kids are asking

for their allowance to be in robox or whatever game they're playing. they want to be able to show who they are in these platforms. >> so they see themselves the avatars as extensions of themselves. i find being an avatar weird. not the younger generation. big brands are taking note of that from walmart to nike, vance, even gucci. robox is spending big on hiring and investing in the cloud like new features. so the kid crowd thinks this is very cool. we'll see if robox and other companies like meta, facebook, can convince adults this is cool and this is how we'll live. they're getting the young people adopted really early. they don't know the value of a dollar because it's virtual. >> sandra: not my kids. i make them work for the dollars. thanks very much. >> but john's know what i'm

talking about. >> john: i know. my kids love robox. they're always asking for robux as well. i was at the store with my daughter the other day. i saw a robux gift card that was worth $200. i mean, we're not talking $5 or $10 here. we're talking serious cash if your kids are in to this. >> sandra: okay. what would you say the age range is? >> john: our kids are 11. a lot of their school classmates are on it. i'd think probably 10 to 13. >> sandra: that's cool. >> john: they grow up quickly. they want that cash money. cash money. >> sandra: they want the power of the money. john, what a jam packed two hours. it's hard to believe christmas is just days away. and i'm going to say good-bye at this point for a few days. i wish you and your family the happiest holidays and thanks to

our team and everybody that works on the show. it's amazing year. >> john: we'll miss you the next couple days. we'll have to drink the eggnog by ourselves here. a happy holiday, happy new year. i'll see you january 3. >> sandra: yeah, in the new year. thanks for joining us. thanks to all of you. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. i'll see you again tomorrow. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, guys. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. extraordinary images that we're seeing here today in february of this year. zelensky was the man with a target on his back by russian forces. he was sneaking above ground to show his presence as he led his country's improbable and forceful battle against vladimir putin's army. he was in bunkers in kyiv for the most part. but today having led an effort that no one thought at the beginning could succeed ultimately, he's at the white house with the president