all the same thing. >> i get on word with what she said, personal time and more productive. i wake up before all the babies wake up, i get on the treadmill and dive into work at 7:00 a.m., wake up earlier. >> she does what everyone does but she does personal time while getting paid for it. does not make sense unless you are biden. here is "america reports." >> start off with two words, made in america. >> thank you all, god bless you all, let's go, let's go lick the world. >> being the good, you know, the guy is pushing them out. >> -- yeah, cliptocracy, yeah, the guys. >> white house and president biden have repeatedly said it was his intention to run for re-election, now that appears to

be coming true. as the 80-year-old biden is expected to launch his candidacy with a video announcement and that is expected to happen tomorrow. >> john: a new poll from nbc news shows 70% of americans, including a majority of democrats, do not want biden to run for a second term, saying the president's age is a major reason why. so, can he do anything to calm those fears? our political panel, juan williams and david avello, and ronna mcdaniel are here to discuss the race for the white house, coming up. >> sandra: a fox news alert, we are waiting national security adviser jake sullivan to take the podium at the white house after the biden administration was forced to evacuate another u.s. embassy in a war torn country. hello and welcome, everyone, as we begin a brand-new week,

sandra smith in new york. >> john: that weekend went quickly, didn't it, sandra? john roberts in washington, this is it "america reports." also a pentagon briefing at the top of next hour, diplomats tried for days to get the two factions of sudan's military for a ceasefire. airlift of u.s. embassy staff and their families from the sudan capital. >> hundreds of success are still there waiting to be evacuated. >> john: echos of afghanistan. speak with retired general keith kellogg whether the biden administration is handling the international crisis correctly. >> sandra: first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon to kick things off. is the u.s. military still on-site in sudan? >> they are certainly over sudan. right now the u.s. military is flying unmanned surveillance

drones over the route from khartoum to port sudan to protect convoys. dozens of u.s. citizens have joined the convoy, and setting up an international naval task force off the port sudan to help assist foreigners and americans trying to leave. also been helping with the international flights, the other nations that are flying in and collecting their embassy personnel. the planning for saturday's rescue took place here at the pentagon in the chairman of the joint chief's office in conjunction with joint special operations command at fort bragg. seal team 6 was asked to take the lead. >> this morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern, contingent of u.s. forces lifted off from djibouti and landed in ethiopia. chinooks refueled in ethiopia before flying three hours to khartoum. evacuation was conducted in one

movement, via rotary wing. fast and clean, service members spending less than an hour on the ground in khartoum. >> hundreds of u.s. citizens, aid workers and teachers are still stuck in khartoum. the estimated 16,000 americans who live in sudan, most are dual nationals, many have never lived in the u.s. and when reached by the state department about leaving, u.s. officials said they told them they wanted to stay. >> we do know, of course, the number of americans who have registered with us and with whom we are in very active touch, communication. of and of those i would say some dozens have expressed an interest in leaving. >> the three chinook helicopters flew in low over 800 miles in, 800 miles out, reporters were briefed just before midnight on saturday night the mission was complete.

>> we ought to commend the military and intelligence community for getting our diplomatic personnel out, that was a dangerous mission to take them out by helicopter. >> as the u.s. flag lowered over the embassy, foreign governments are seeking still to move into sudan, russia's wagner group has a history of smuggling gold out of the country and russia has long been seeking to build a naval base on sudan's red sea coastline and of course also the chinese. sandra. >> sandra: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon, thank you. >> john: fox news has confirmed that hunter biden's lawyers are set to meet with a lead doj official this week, as the republican-led investigation into the biden family foreign business dealings moves along. house oversight committee chairman james comer will join us, but david spunt is live at

the justice department with the latest and what else is going on, david. >> becoming more clear by the day hunter biden's attorneys are ramping up the offensive, sending out some new letters today ahead of that doj meeting which is supposed to be some time later this week, although the actual time still unknown. abbey lowell, hunter biden's well-known attorney here in washington, d.c., sent two letters, number one, requesting the treasury department inspector general should probe why a former trump official had access to what are called suspicious activity reports. lowell is also requesting an ethics investigation into gop congresswoman marjorie taylor greene and her verbal attacks on the younger biden. the meeting between david weiss and hunter biden's legal team, this week but unknown where it will happen. weiss is a trump-appointed u.s. attorney, will he charge the

biden or let him walk. all are possible. but a big decision, no doubt. congressman comer has talked at length about the whistleblower last week, irs agent came to congressional republicans via his lawyer, arguing the probe into hunter biden not being handled properly. this according to a source confirming this to fox news. we have reported that authorities have probed hunter's overseas business dealings, taxes and lying on a federal form related to a gun purchase. the whistleblower attorney told fox news the mystery is by design because that's why there are whistleblower protections ins place. when the time is right, the irs agent will come forward. fox has complained it is related to the younger biden. democrats claim they have not received significant information from the whistleblower's attorneys. and as for this meeting this week, john, multiple sources confirm it's just a meeting that has been planned for several weeks, has nothing to do with this latest irs revelation, but it's clear hunter biden's attorneys want some sort of

update. believe it or not, the u.s. department of justice has been investigating hunter biden for about half a decade now, john. >> john: and more to come on this irs angle in the near future, i'm sure. david spunt live at the justice department. thank you. >> sandra: house oversight committee chairman james comer. thank you for joining us, mr. chairman. appreciate your time. the wall street journal writes over the weekend on the lack of government credibility, and if anything has this nation's attention right now, it is this. these intelligence officials, former as well as current have a particular duty not to spread disinformation because they have access to classified information the public cannot check. these 51 officials have done more to damage the credibility of the cia and fbi than anything donald trump has said. ditto for the complicit media. what do you plan to do and what is congress going to do to investigate these incredibly serious claims that could potentially be damaging this

country at this hour? >> yeah, well, we take it very seriously in the house republican conference. jim jordan is leading that part of that investigation. we are very concerned 51 former intelligence officials would interfere in the election the way they did and spread disinformation and you are exactly right, what the wall street journal said is correct, they have done more to discredit our intelligence community than anything that i can remember. this is something that we need answers to. i think that mr. jordan's already invited them to come before the select committee on the weaponization of the federal government because this is another example of the federal government getting it wrong, another example of the federal government and the bureaucracy and the deep states stepping in and interfering with elections. we want to know what they base their disinformation on and whether or not they should be held accountable. an impact on a lot of people in the election and the polls have

shown that. >> sandra: what do you say to the american people say ok, all right, another investigation, we'll see another hearing, we'll watch another grilling, but you know, the anticipation that there will be any real accountability if these claims are indeed true. what do you tell the american who is concerned the person accountable will not be held responsible? >> well, i share their frustration. i talked to conservative voters every day on the streets in kentucky and they have had their heart broken many times on congressional investigations in the past. >> sandra: is this time different? >> i think this time will be different. you look at what jordan is doing with the weaponization of the federal government, what i'm doing with the oversight committee investigation of the biden family influence peddling. very seldom does a day go by more information or another whistleblower doesn't come forward to echo the fact that this administration has been

involved in a cover-up. administration involved in spreading disinformation, election interference, the biden family more and more bank records come forward to prove the fact that they were taking money from our adversaries around the world for reasons that we have not yet determined. so, this is something that's very concerning. the american people should care about public corruption, that's what i'm investigating and they should care about a weaponized department of justice and that's what jordan cares about. >> sandra: the family members that are -- that the potential family members involved in the foreign business deals. hunter, frank, james, hayley biden. do you believe the whistleblower will reveal the identity of another biden family member involved or plural, more family members involved? where is this going? >> well, g we'll soon find out where it's going, i will tell you this from what i've seen. with the massive number of llcs that were created and it appears

to me that the sole purpose of these llcs was to hide the source of the revenue coming to the biden family, and then to distract the irs from the fact that they should be paying taxes on this. i think that what the whistleblower might have to say is the fact that not only was the president's son involved in some tax schemes, but it appears that many other members of the family were involved as well. they were creating llcs to disguise the source or launder the source and get out of paying federal taxes. i think the irs whistleblower has a lot to say and i think what this whistleblower says and how they are treated will probably lead to more whistleblowers coming forward on other items. >> sandra: out of time, rapid fire two questions. potential charges against hunter, two misdemeanor counts, felony count for tax evasion,

and lying on a federal form to purchase a firearm. circle back quickly on a question on the program, you were going through all the wire transfers and one went to a biden. without a first name on the document. i asked you then can't you subpoena the bank to find out, was this edited? i mean, you and i can't make a wire transfer with one name on it. when did you find out about it? >> we are still digging into that. it's still unclear what bank it was. this was the most -- this is most shady of any transfer i've seen, and we are still looking into that. >> sandra: i thought you subpoenaed the bank now you don't know which bank. >> we subpoenaed the bank that sent the wire, i believe that was a foreign bank, so we are trying to determine exactly which biden that was. we'll get to the bottom of this. you are going to see very soon more information, we are going

to release a memo, a very substantive detailed memo what we found thus far. >> sandra: a public hearing soon? >> i hope so. you know, the more information comes in, i was want to think have a press conference this week but more and more information is coming in and i feel like we need to be current with what we present to the american people and it's unbelievable what's coming in. there are more llcs, more bank accounts and more bidens than we would have dreamed were involved in the influence peddling scheme. >> that is quite something. we will certainly stay with you and bring us the new information you get when you get it, and appreciate your time this afternoon. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: john, that's something we did not know before, the bank transfer to an unknown biden, the other transfers we had names to them, but not a first name to the unknown biden. our obvious question, how do you do that? how do you make a wire transfer without two names on it? he subpoenaed the bank from which that transfer came, he

said, but they don't know the inbound bank. so this i guess is part of the puzzle pieces they are trying to put together. >> john: yeah, it is a little strange, the tortureous road the money took. we are just moments away from briefings from the white house and the pentagon after u.s. special forces airlifted about 100 diplomats and personnel from the embassy in sudan over the weekend. hundreds of americans remain in the country. what will happen to them. we'll talk to retired general keith kellogg. >> sandra: florida governor ron desantis travelling overseas what he says is a winning blueprint for the sunshine state. but is he about to announce he's entering the 2024 presidential race? a rnc chair, ronna mcdaniel, maybi she has answers coming up. i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say,

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>> i'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes. >> john: florida governor ron desantis taking his florida blueprint tour overseas. kicked off a four country trade tour in japan ahead of a possible 2024 presidential announcements. as he waits to toss his hat, more are saying they will. and president biden expected to announce his re-election campaign tomorrow. rnc chair woman ronna mcdaniel, lay of the land and where we are headed from here. good to be with you, a new a.p. poll out on president biden, a couple new ones, do democrats want biden to run again. yes, now, 47%. up from 37%, so still the majority of democrats don't want him to run but take a look at

this interesting finding from the same poll. do you approve of biden, yes, 78%, so it's not that they don't like him, or they don't like his policies, so what is it? apparently ronna, it's his age people are concerned about. >> well, i think it's his policies, too. most people right now, right track, wrong track, over 70 to 80% of americans feel like the economy is not doing well, that this country is on the wrong track, and now we are three years into biden. remember, we had biden in the basement who didn't talk to the american people as he was running for president, but now we have his record and though he hides from the press, the results speak for themselves. we have a broken border, we have fentanyl on the rise, crime on the rise, inflation on the rise, he's abandoned our energy independence and i think americans can give an accurate report card on president biden and it's a failing grade. >> john: listen to what jennifer said about biden and age. my problem with him running in 2024 is he's just so old.

i would love to see somebody younger, like transportation secretary pete buttigieg or gavin newsom handle things a little differently just because they are a younger person. biden, though, has effectively frozen the field here, you've got marianne williamson wells robert kennedy, jr., but neither one is a legitimate threat and he's expected to announce tomorrow, preclude all the younger people from getting in. so, has he got a lock on the nomination before he even announce, do you think? >> i think he has. i mean, he's got so much power of the presidency, he's also changed the primary calendar, right, moved south carolina to the first state, abandoned iowa and new hampshire, i hope new hampshire voters are paying attention and iowa voters that the democratic party walked away from you, but made the calendar that benefits him, and he's frozen out the field. i don't find him having a little competition from his own party. i'm not as worried about his age as i am about his policies and

his policies have been catastrophic for the american people and everybody is looking at the country saying we should be doing better. we have a president not uniting us, not bringing people together, and it's been crisis after crisis under his administration. and especially with what you just talked about with his family being compromised. look at the china connection, too. china is bringing the fentanyl into the country, china is stealing our kids' data from tiktok, sold strategic petroleum reserves to china and now a president and his family look like they have been taking lots of payments from china. very concerning b. >> john: and more to come on that front as well. talk about ron desantis, looks at the moment as though president trump, former president trump has a lock on the nomination. a new nbc news poll, still has him out in the lead substantially by 15 points, 46%, desantis 31, and pence is at 6%. desantis has yet to announce his candidacy, call for number four,

but never backed down, a pack supporting him certainly wants him to run. listen to the bio graphical ad. >> grandson of a steel worker, desantis worked through college, joined the navy as a jag officer, bronze star serving in iraq. governor desantis never backs down. >> john: so getting the word out there about a guy who could run up against president trump but when you look at the base, when you look at what's going on with him in terms of the charges against him and the sentiment in his direction, could desantis possibly beat trump? >> you guys are asking me questions i can't answer as rnc chair. we have to stay neutral. what i will say is it's a long way to the first debate. >> john: a personal question. >> john, putting me in a tough spot. we have the first debate in august in milwaukee with fox news, so excited about and rumble and young america's foundation. what i will say is whatever we know now is going to be different six months from now

and different next january in 2024. so, we have a long runway, we don't have a set field, what i do know is on that debate stage in milwaukee the next president of the united states, so that i'm very excited about. >> john: see if you can't answer this question, ron desantis is in japan, meeting with the prime minister there. here is what he said earlier today. listen here. >> great regard for the japanese people, japanese culture, and really appreciate what a great ally japan has been to the united states over many, many decades and so we are excited to be here to be able to explore more relations with florida and japan. >> john: deep resume with domestic issues, a little thin on the foreign policy front. will this help to burnish the reputation? >> i think it's always good for our leaders to go overseas. i was just in israel and saudi arabia, i learned so much, i think it's always important to get the world perspective and certainly with what he's done as governor. listen, our governors, republican governors across the country are leading the nation

in economic recovery and jobs coming back post-pandemic. republican policies work, we saw it under president trump with the abraham accord, i'm for every republican across the board over joe biden and that's my message always is no matter how rough and tumble this primary gets, as divisive as a primary towards people are trying to secure the nomination, we have to remember what we are against in november and that's what joe biden is doing to every family across this country with his terrible policies. we can duke it out for the primary nomination but remember we are against the democrats when it comes to november. >> john: exciting election and look forward to having you on more and asking you questions you can't or don't want to answer. >> i'll always try, always try. >> john: appreciate that. thank you. >> sandra: a search underway for one or more suspects who threw rocks at car windshields killing someone in the process. do police have any leads? >> john: wow. plus, a deadly car crash in

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>> there are young people all over the city of chicago that have experienced a great deal of trauma and many instances the trauma manifests in behavior that is either delinquent and in some cases violent. it's one thing to critique young people. it's another thing when you demonize them. >> sandra: chicago mayor-elect brandon johnson making excuses defending two teenagers accused of stealing a car, slamming it into a truck with a 6-month-old baby inside. the baby was killed in the

crash. the suspects facing only misdemeanor charges. it's difficult to talk about, difficult that is the reality on the ground in chicago and a mayor who continues, mayor-elect who continues to defend these teenagers out of control in that city. >> one of the things that seems to escape his grasp is the reality that somehow 99.999% of teenagers manage not to commit these kinds of crimes, right. so the idea this is some evidence of some broader systemic, you know, issues facing teenagers in chicago i think is undermined by the reality the vast majority of them behave themselves. >> violent crime spiking, we shared our chicago backgrounds together. we fled, you fled, this is the violent crime statistics year to date. 2023 over 20,000 of them, up 45% since last year, that year is up

96% from the year before. worth reading this out, up 75% year over year, what -- where does this end? is this not rock bottom? >> i don't think it's rock bottom yet but certainly on the way there. i mean, in 2020 chicago saw more homicides than it had seen since the mid 1990s, so we are getting to a point of historical highs or lows, depending on how you -- what your perspective is. in terms of how this ends, the same way the cycle usually ends, with a backlash and that's unfortunate, there are better ways to go about making criminal justice policy if we had the political will to take into account the unintended consequences of the reforms causing this. >> sandra: i'm going to go through sound that's really important as we cover the story here on "america reports," chicago business owner who joined us who said he can no longer do business, no longer have staff show up to work in the unsafe city. >> today we choose not to work

there. it's a terrible place to be and we have a governor and a mayor and a future mayor of the city who are promoting this anarchy. i have great employees across my companies that would rather be in any state in the country than illinois. this was not the case five years ago and back. >> sandra: so you have that. business owners are making it clear, we cannot have our staff here, their wives walking down the street to go grocery shopping and worrying about their lives and now bill mar, he decides to tackle the thing nobody is talking about and the solution for this. listen. >> chicago, like most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men. why doesn't anybody talk about that? why aren't there -- 100 giant black celebrities who would have the respect of those people saying what are you doing to yourselves? why are you killing each other? >> sandra: when do we start having a really honest conversation about what is

happening there. >> i think when we get past the idea having the conversation is going to invite overly punitive response. the criminal justice reform movement is very weary of having that conversation because in their minds that's the conversation that created the history that they don't like, the increase incarceration that has racially disparity impacts. but when the criminal justice works, benefits everyone. benefits low income minority communities the most. >> sandra: raphael, talking about a moment of honesty, here is lori lightfoot on her way out with finally a moment about crime in her city. >> as democrats, if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our city we will be the worst for it. >> sandra: wait wait wait, why was she last month, six months ago, a year ago on that.

>> a little too little, too late. where was she when the foot pursuit policy was up for debate in the city of chicago. there are so many things that she could have done better and i think the city really deserved. >> sandra: and you and i just shared our family experiences, you shared a personal moment with me, it's terrifying on the ground there and you can glorify it, you can, you know, have your moment there, it's not a safe city right now. it is not, more and more people continue to leave, more businesses are fleeing. thank you, rafael. >> john: intense investigation underway in colorado to find whoever has been throwing rocks at moving cars. one of those rocks killed a 20-year-old driver on her way home near denver. william is on top of this story. william, what do police know so far? >> unfortunately, very little, john. i just spoke to the lead agency there in colorado, a few pieces to a puzzle, see if any of the tips, the victim accounts, the surveillance images link up to some kind of a pattern.

they are trying to identify a or the individuals responsible for the string of rock throwing incidents last week, one that killed 20-year-old alexa martell. someone threw a rock through her window, instantly killing her. >> it's awful. we have a family this morning devastated by the loss of their child. we have a 20-year-old girl who was just driving home, minding her own business, and she became the victim of a crime. >> take a look at this map. it shows five incidents, all happening on the same day within 45 minutes all within a few miles of each other. police are not sure if the suspect was stationary or in a moving vehicle when the rocks were thrown. here is one of the victims, however, that survived. >> what the [bleep] -- what just happened, bro, oh, my god!

>> police believe the incidents are random and are asking for the public's help. if anyone saw anything unusual, and now because of the publicity, people are speaking up and turns out, john, there were a number of rock attacks actually over the past two months in the denver area. $17,000 reward out there for any information leading to arrest. back to you. >> john: good to have you on "the story," thank you. sandra. >> sandra: a new study shows the most pricey areas to live in america share one thing in common besides the cost. is this spurring the big blue state exodus? we'll ask the money team, they are here. >> john: new fallout from the chinese police station operating in new york's chinatown. do some of the top democratic leaders have closer ties than previously known. >> do your due diligence, about he aware you might be used for

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drone 150 yards behind me, a steady flow of migrants. as i look behind me, another looks like gentleman joining a group of well over 100 migrants right now who will be loaded on to that bus and brought to a processing facility. what you see right now is indicative of what has been happening all morning and every day for the past two weeks. take a look at this drone video we also shot this morning, with similar images, we spoke to some venezuelans who crossed the border illegally this weekend, we asked them why they didn't wait for the end of title 42, they said it's too dangerous in mexico right now, no work there, and constant issues with the biden administration cbp1 app. the next video, you see more migrants crossing illegally. when title 42 ends, border officials are expecting about 10,000 migrants to cross illegally every single day across the entire border. in advance of that, sandra, right now, with two and a half weeks to go, we are seeing 1,000

every single day here in brownsville, just 25 miles stretch of the rio grande valley sector. also look at this video from brownsville. migrant after migrant getting off busses and going to a local ngo, when title 42 ends, ngos and shelters are expected to be overrun. >> we are basically expecting unprecedented numbers and really there's no plan. everybody is bracing for it because we know it's going to get worse than it's been yet so far and every year during the biden presidency it has gotten worse. >> it's been a busy three days for border patrol. just in the past 72 hours, agents have encountered 19,000 illegal migrants. sandra. >> sandra: nate foy, thank you. >> john: the battle for parents' rights heating up in the pacific northwest. could two liberal states be trying to allow children to undergo a sex change operation without their parents being

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>> sandra: a royal snub could be in the works for prince harry at the official coronation of his father, king charles and his wife camilla. british tabloids reporting harry will be sitting ten rows back from the rest of the royals. and it is expected that he will head quickly for the exits with no time for talk with his father or his brother, the prince of wales, during his visit. well, i see some people see it as drama and i see it kind of sad. i wish the family would get back together and live happily ever after. it does not look like that's

happening anytime soon. >> john: i said it before and bears repeating, it's tough being a prince. we are expecting an update soon from the pentagon on the crisis in sudan as well as growing concerns some of america's top adversaries may be trying to take advantage of the situation. bring in retired lieutenant general keith kellogg, former national security adviser to vice president mike pence and fox news contributor. embassy staff out over the weekend but still apparently some 16,000 americans in the country who now with the embassy closed have little way to get out. >> first of all, john, thanks for having me. look, this is the fourth embassy that the biden administration has evacuated from. when i go back to when we were in the administration, our job was not to retreat from the embassy but reinforce the embassy, you want to make sure the americans left behind know

somewhere to go to. it may not be truly sovereign u.s. territory we will protect it. when we nearly lost the embassy in baghdad, president trump was pretty emphatic when he made, and really emphatic, he said we are going to hold that embassy and you should do that. you shouldn't retreat from embassies. it sets a clear example to the rest of the world america is willing to retreat, a little pressure you pull back. and is it a civil war in sudan, sure it is. two warring factions there, rsf is supported by the russians and the wagner group is working there, and then the army, supported by egypt, and the trouble -- >> john: and we worked with the rsf to get the embassy. >> amazing to me when you think about it. i say this and criticized for it, africa is like a strategic dagger pointed at the heart of antarctica, and 54 countries, only 11 or few more than that democratically aligned and it's just a country, unfortunately, that is a really -- it's a

magnet for terrorism also. >> john: blinken was talking about this this morning, what is the state department doing to facilitate the evacuation of people who might be left in the country if they wanted to move, and get out of there. here is what he said, listen here. >> even as we have temporarily suspended operations on the ground in khartoum, our diplomatic and consular work in sudan continues. we have continued to be in close communication with citizens and officials affiliated with the u.s. government to provide assistance and departure routes for those seeking to move to safety via land, air and sea. >> john: that sounded awfully familiar to me, so i went back to august 25th and 2021, what i said about afghanistan. we are developing detailed plans how we can continue to provide consular support for those who wish to leave after august 31st. expectation of the international community, people who want to leave afghanistan after the u.s. military departs should be able to do so. together we will do everything we can to see that expectation

is met. how many did we leave behind in afghanistan and how many are we going to leave behind in sudan? >> like 16,000. when president biden came in, he said we'll bring adults in the room. but they are like kids in the sand box, they do not plan well instead of thinking far ahead in advance. declarative statement with the embassies, we are not going to withdraw, but reinforce it. and robert o'brien with the nsa said it more than one time and we did not move back. >> john: one more issue i want to go over with you, we talked about it over the weekend. expected ukrainian counter offense in the days and weeks ahead. what's it going to look like and ride on it? >> everything is riding on this, john. i think they are going to kherson. picking a place they would counter attack, they have a bridge across the dnipro river and if they do that, they are

going to isolate crimea and defeat the russian army in detail. force the russian army in a form of maneuver they are not used to. nine new brigades, 39,000 troops, ukrainian, and if they get into the fight, a chance to win the fight and if they do, i think putin falls, russian army is defeated in the field and sets a different tone for europe for the next decade. >> john: if those are the potential consequences, sounds to me like putin is going to throw everything he possibly can at this. >> yeah, that's what's kind of frightening. that means everything he's got and you always have to in the back of your mind, hate to say it, but potential use of tactical nuclear weapon, you hate to. the problem if putin goes, the people that would follow him, security adviser, they are worse. >> john: and sometimes the better the devil you know than the one you don't. general, great to catch up with you. and good to talk with you over the weekend, too. >> sandra: the pentagon is set to hold a briefing moments from now.

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>> we have been able to facilitate americans folded into some of the convoys, we will continue to do that and provide the best possible advice to anyone asking for our assistance about conditions about safety. >> john: americans stranded in sudan and hoping for a rescue, instead getting little from the biden administration except the best possible advice. antony blinken explaining it's too dangerous to