blems or changes. taking ozempic® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may increase low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. living with type 2 diabetes? ask about the power of 3 with ozempic®. >> well the trump hating is in full effect. outside of the vice presidential residence right now kamala harris, outside the naval observatory, is reacting to former chief of staff john kelly's remarks claiming former president donald trump complemented hitler. and she is saying that trump is part of the problem. listen for yourself. it's live. >> vice president harris: and in a second term, people like john kelly will not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there.

and no longer be there to rein him in. so the bottom line is this. we know what donald trump wants. he wants unchecked power. the question in 13 days will be what do the american people want? thank you. >> reporter: [indistinct] >> john: all right from the naval observatory there you saw it live the vice president kamala harris reflecting on this article in the atlantic that was published yesterday that suggests a couple of things, first of all that donald trump was praising the generals -- they were loyal to him. second he said something disparaging about vanessa guillen, a 20-year-old soldier from texas murdered april 2020. we've got a lot of reaction to all of this just a head. we start off on a wednesday. >> sandra: we will indeed.

sam smith in new york, good to be with you, harris saying it is troubling and dangerous that trump would invoke hitler. this is a window into who trump is, talking about trump's former chief of staff kelly's comments, showing the former president wants a military that is loyal to him. you are correct, john, we will have plenty to dig into as the hours go on. >> john: all of this happening with just 13 days until election day. no surprise there. let's bring in kash patel, senior national security advisor to former president trump and served in trump's first administration at the pentagon. so kash, first of all, let's address what the vice president said a moment ago, that trump is praising hitler, according to john kelly, his former chief of staff, who was also the secretary of homeland security, he doesn't want a military that is loyal to the constitution, he wants a military that is loyal to him. you worked in the pentagon. what do you say? >> it's great to be with you, thank you for having me.

department of defense. what i saw was a man that grew out of multiple theaters of conflict, a commander in chief who brought home 50 hostages and detainees from around the world, more than any president before him combined. almost every single dignified transfer of the fallen and spent countless hours with the families of the fallen, giving them the love in the care they need and must appoint delay securing financial assistance that they need. i saw this man host these individuals and their families in the oval office. i saw him prioritize our veterans and uniform military members to make sure they have the weapons that they needed and the munitions that they need especially if sending them overseas to fight another man's war. is almost importantly more than anything both the constitution when it came to -- the no failed mission of the united states of america. they can print whatever they want. we can talk about the vanessa guillen story, i was

there, but i saw a man is a commander in chief, president donald trump, who fought -- and if they want to call him hitler and try to bring more disinformation i guess that's all they've got because kamala harris could have brought home the hostages right now in israel, the war she started with $7 million she gave to iran and she hasn't brought home any of them, she started wars. >> john: you mentioned vanessa guillen, that young soldier at foothold texas who was murdered and her body was de wetlands. this article talks about trump praising hitler's generals and talks about the idea in december of 2020 after meeting the families in the oval office and i attended that meeting, pool reporter that day, he had offered to pay a proportion of her funeral costs. there was a meeting. you were there, chris miller was there, the acting secretary of defense mark meadows was there, then williams was there, i believe mark milley was there, as well, the subject of the

funeral came up, trump was upset with the cost of the funeral, that he had agreed to pay for, said something disparaging about her and refused to pay. was any of that true? >> absolutely not. we brought to the attention the tragic murder of guillen who was serving in our armed forces. the president unilaterally stated we are going to give her the honor and dignity she needs and her family the assistance she needs. the president ensured the department of defense full military honors and paid for the entire financial package what was needed to secure and honor her memory and if you don't want to believe me, a person who was there in the oval office along with chris miller, then believe the family. vanessa guillen's own sister and mother came out yesterday and specifically said that donald trump could not have been more gracious, caring, and loving as a commander in chief, whom they said that what "the story" printed were

outright lies in their desecrating the memory of the fallen, it is absolutely disgusting for me who ran the department of defense see the politicization of our members of our men and women who defend us and our freedoms and then to come out at the 11th hour to try to make up more stories. it is better to question the folks and sources like mark milleys of the world who took it upon himself to call our enemies in china and discuss operations and politicize the affirmative defense rather than execute national command authority. we are so sorry to vanessa guillen's family is going through this. donald trump ensured the deity would pay for it and what he said afterwards was may be even more convincing of his commander in chief's command. he said if the military didn't pick up the tab, he would in its entirety. that's the commander in chief i want. >> john: i want to come back to what the vice president said in just a moment but again it was july the 20th, july 30th, 2020, i was in the oval office, i was the pool reporter when vanessa guillen's family including her sister were there. here's what her sister said to

the president about him meeting with the family, and he did it privately and then opened up the oval office meeting to cameras because he wanted to get more attention played on this. >> i want to thank you for taking the time, taking us in, it's an honor to be able to meet you. i know you are going to help us. you know, honoring our sister, passing the bill, and of course, i want to point out how is it. >> john: that was quite a moment. respectful, family very much appreciated it. let's come back to what the vice president said a minute to go. this was at the top of her remarks. listen. >> so yesterday we learned that donald trump's former chief of staff john kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while donald trump was president, he said he wanted

generals like adolf hitler had. donald trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the united states constitution. he wants a military that is loyal to him. he wants a military who will be loyal to him personally. one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the constitution of the united states. in just the past week, donald trump has repeatedly called his fellow americans the enemy from within. and even said that he would use the united states military to go after american citizens. and let's be clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within. anyone who refuses to bend and knee or dares to criticize him would qualify, in his mind as the enemy within.

like judges. like journalists. like nonpartisan election officials. it is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that donald trump would invoke it off hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million jews and hundreds of thousands of americans. all of this is further evidence for the american people of who donald trump really is. this is a window into who donald trump really is. from the people who know him best. from the people who worked with him side-by-side in the oval office and in the situation room. and it is clear from john kelly's words that donald trump is someone who, i quote, certainly falls into the general definition of fascists. who, in fact, vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal

militia, to carry out his personal and political vend vendettas. donald trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. and in a second term, people like john kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there. and no longer be there to rein him in. so the bottom line is this. we know what donald trump wants. he wants unchecked power. the question, in 13 days, will be what do the american people want? thank you. >> john: so kash, i'm not quite sure why a presidential candidate comes out to react to a story the way she did, particularly a story, even if it were true, is at least four

years old and not older than that because john kelly was gono far into the administration, and why would it come out now just 13 days until election day? >> because they want to put president trump and his powerful national security policy and defense. we are not going on defense. president trump was on, he ended child sex trafficking, and he was brave enough to use military assets in an expansive order to keep not only american safe but the global world order safe. he made sure the dod was no longer politicized and weaponized. everyone of the names she mentioned come all of those individuals egged and additions to be in the position they got and when president trump told them the department of defense is a civilian chain of command just like the washington and constitution decimated it to be, they did not like that. they were fighting off 60 years of the defense industrial complex, owning the department of defense, and donald trump

restored civilian authority to the chain of command and executed that when he asked for investigation into vanessa guillen's death, tragic death, so we know what actually happened and so the military could provide her the full honors and designation she deserved. that is the commander in chief they want. what they want now is for us to react to headlines and i want to remind the world what donald trump did as our commander in chief, and i'm going to remind the world that he was the one that did not politicize it and did not bend the knee to washington, d.c., and the generals that are going in and out of the defense industrial complex, raking in tens of millions of dollars off another man's war and sending them to die for matters that aren't our own, that is what they are afraid of, that president trump will restore the dod civilian chain of command, constitution demands, and safeguard this world and our nation. >> john: kash patel, former chief of staff at the dod, thank you so much, appreciate you joining us on short notice. sandra, it is kind of unusual, again, this comes out 13 days left of the election, looks like everyone is pulling out all the stops that they can to try to

stop the trump train, which seems to be gaining a lot of momentum. wonder why of john kelly is making these allegations now he didn't make them when he published books about his time in the presidency. a lot of people are saying with the timing of all of this is very curious. >> sandra: no doubt, you get the sense the countdown is on, 13 days to go. meanwhile another live event, j.d. vance is speaking in clark county las vegas -- sorry, nevada. he is on the ground in las vegas, talking to voters. let's dip in and take in a bit of this. >> in issue important to nevadans, an issue i hear about, you know, the first millennial on a major party presidential, vice presidential ticket. i'm 40 years old. [applause] know i used to go around and complain because i turned 40 a couple months ago and i used to complain about turning 40 but then somebody would come up to me and said i just turned 70 so shut the hell up about how you are mad about your age. i stopped talking about that.

but here is the crazy thing. my generation, speaking particularly to folks in my generation it a little bit younger, donald trump and i, if you work hard and play by the rules, we are going to fight for your ability to afford the american dream of homeownership. you ought to be able to own a home if you work hard and play by the rules in this country, you ought to be able to afford a decent place to live. [applause] now we talk a lot about illegal immigration on this campaign and rightfully so, i think it is maybe the biggest crisis confronting the united states of america, and we will talk about the effect it has on public safety and the effect it has on our social services but let's start with talking about the fact that when you open the border and let 25 million people into your country, you drive up the cost of housing for american citizens. this is simple supply and demand my friends. we've got to do two things to lower the price of housing, two things to lower the price of

housing for nevadans, is we've got to build more houses and we've got to deport the illegal aliens so that american homes go to american citizens. [applause] now our friends in the media don't like to do this. they like to talk about building more homes and by the way we are going to build millions of new homes when donald trump's president, here's how we're going to do it. first of all we are going to drill, baby, drill. lower energy costs will make it easier to build homes. [applause] we are going to stop the ridiculous regulations that make it harder for our construction companies and our workers to build homes in the first place. and the third thing, the third thing we are going to do, especially in nevada is we have got so many acres of federal land that are being totally unused, but we could build houses on that federal land and make it more affordable for american citizens to afford a good life. that's what we can do.

and by the way, you can open up some of those lands while still protecting and preserving our beautiful natural parks. you know, kamala harris wants to say you can't do both of these things at the same time. you all know there is a lot of federal land out there that isn't being used for anything, but it could be used for american homes for american citizens, so let's change that. [applause] but it doesn't matter how many homes you build, my friends, if you let in millions upon millions of illegal aliens who shouldn't be here, who a we are not going to have enough homes for our people. think about that, 78,000 american families who should be able to get into a nice home but can't because of kamala harris' policies. here's the thing. when you bring it to the five illegal aliens -- i think that is about the number we have in this country -- often times we are putting them up in

first hotels at the expense of e american taxpayer peered. [boos] donald trump and i have a different approach. american home for american citizens and that is how we rebuild the american dream of homeownership in this cou country. [applause] now we talk about illegal immigration and i do think it is the biggest driver of the on affordability of housing, too, but there is something else about illegal immigration we have to talk about and it is the effect on public safety. a story, i was in georgia, this was probably six weeks ago, and valdosta, if you've seen the net pretty hard by hurricane helene, so spare time to say a prayer to folks affected by that storm, still a lot of people who are recovering and rebuilding but i was there before the hurricane and they took me into the room where they have all the marijuana, the fentanyl, everything they have actually gotten from the mexican drug cartels, and they showed me a

box of candy, and i said was that doing there? they said oh, that's actually illegal drugs. i said with a second. that looks like sour patch, nerds candy, what is that doing there? they said that the cartels have figured out that if they disguise drugs as candy, it makes it easier to import into our country, it of course all of us know what's going to happen, an american child is going to find a bag of that candy on an american playground and is going to open a piece of candy and pay for that with their lives and that is disgraceful and it's disgusting and it's happening because kamala harris opens the american southern border. you know what donald trump is going to do? we're going to finish the wall and we are going to deport, we are going to deport the people who shouldn't be in this country to begin with. [applause] right now, thanks to border czar kamala harris is open border, right now there are 425,000

criminal illegal aliens in the united states of america. that is more than marines out there. double the size of the united states marine corps. that's crazy. and that's not happened through some act of god, that is happening because our own government isn't doing the job of protecting american citizens. we've got thousands of pun thousands of kids who are the children of illegal immigrants who are in our public schools in nevada and of courset happens when you've got teachers who got to focus on kids who don't even speak english, that means that nevada and children are getting the short end of the stick and are not getting the education they deserve. and of course we know -- [applause] and of course we know that when you let in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into states all across the country, and certainly in nevada, and we give them access to free health care, emergency room wait times go up, access to hospital services goes down. we are making our own citizens

poorer, less safe, less healthy, and less prosperous because kamala harris cares more about illegal immigrants than she does about the citizens of the state of nevada. my friends, that's going to stop when donald j. trump's president, i promise you that. [applause] and for what it's worth, i don't begrudge people who want to come to the united states of america. they've got to go through the proper channels. i don't blame -- [scattered applause] i don't blame any child whose parent brought them into this country illegally. i blame kamala harris for opening up the american southern border. we've got to kick her out of there and get a president who believes in border security back into the white house. [applause] now let -- [laughs] i agree.

now let's talk about something else, which is the economy. my friends, we, i believe, that when we reelect donald j. trump the next president, we are going to unleash a golden age of prosperity in nevada and all over the united states of america. [applause] and it's worth, in some ways, comparing and contrasting the economic record of kamala harris with the economic record of donald trump, and also comparing the plans they have for how we are going to move forward as a country. kamala harris is saying -- i've never seen this in my life. a politician who is going around the united states of america bragging that she's going to raise taxes. bragging that she wants to let the trump tax cuts expire, saying to all of you, hey, elect me and you are going to pay a lot more in taxes. i don't know who does that. normally -- normally even the politicians who claim to raise

your taxes at least lied to you and tell you they are going to cut them. >> sandra: okay, so we are going to continue monitoring these events out of las vegas. that is j.d. vance talking to voters, rallying a crowd, sounded like somebody shouting something just a minute ago, didn't make out quite what that was, john, but as these events go, it is a breaking news afternoon yet again, john. >> john: well, around here we call that wednesday. [laughter] >> sandra: pretty much. >> john: tomorrow will be thursday and then friday, as well. 13 days to go and it looks like the kamala harris campaign is in some difficulty, so you can expect to see a whirlwind of negative information coming out about both candidates here as we head into the final stretch. >> sandra: full swing. i got gerry baker with us, fox news contributor and "wall street journal" editor at large. gerry, good to have you here. what would you say to what you just heard from j.d. vance there, taking on kamala harris on her economic record?

is this an winning message for the trump-vance campaign in this moment? >> i think it is a powerful message because it manages to bring together the two primary sources of weakness for kamala harris and the biden administration, which is the economy and immigration. and he makes the point, and look, the economy, we keep hearing the u.s. economy is doing well relatively well, it's true by kind of relative standards, but that simply ignores the fact we have seen this enormous increase in prices over the last four years, not matched by a significant increase in wages, very small increase in real incomes for real americans, that is what people are unhappy about, that explains people -- it is not vibes or reading propaganda or anything like that, that explains why people are unhappy with the economy, because we have seen this big increase in prices of wages have hardly kept pace. he is very effective of this, linking the weakness of the u.s. economy and obviously talks

about not just the price issue but things like the fact that communities have been devastated by drugs, communities have been devastated by globalization, by businesses going abroad, he is linking that to the immigration crisis that we have, too, which is that millions of people have come across the border illegally, with all kinds of schemes trumped up by the biden-harris administration who essentially allowed them to do that and he is saying look, the biden-harris administration look cares more about housing and looking after and making sure people who have no right to be in this country, that they have a better standard of living somehow and they have a better life then it native americans, or american citizens, and i think that is a very powerful message, linking concerns about the economy with a very clear evidence of this administration has taken an approach to immigration that frankly seems to be let them all come in and we will support them. >> sandra: yeah, it's interesting how you immediately tied in the immigration crisis to the economic one because you

almost can't separate the two. we have had everyday americans on this program telling us how greatly they are affected in their communities because of the influx of migrants, and we are talking about communities far from the southern border. gerry, just want to put some numbers on the screen as far as the border numbers and those got-aways under the biden-harris administration and this border crisis, just talking about massive numbers of got-aways. that have been happening. these are the numbers people are feeling in their local communities. this is the latest pulling on who is more trusted on this issue. it does go to trump, those who say they trust him a great deal more on this issue, by double digits, they say it is donald trump. those who say some, it's her. dead even on those who say they don't trust them much at all or not at all. those are pretty big numbers, as well. i let people decide what they think of that well i give you this brand-new news from griff jenkins. our own griff jenkins is reporting this right now.

gerry. fox news can right now confirm it was a report from earlier today that dhs has identified more than 600 migrants with possible ties to the violent venezuelan gang tren de aragua and more than 100 of those, gerry, had enough gain confirmation to be deemed "objects of interest" that dhs recommended be placed on the fbi's watch list. for transnational criminal organizations. that is just into us now, griff jenkins confirming that. gerry, that is stunning. >> it is. and it fits the larger pattern we have seen, and that is also very good reporting from fox, but it fits the larger pattern we have seen of tens of thousands of people coming into the country with no criminal backgrounds, with known connections to gangs or

transnational criminal organizations, it fits that larger picture of just a completely reckless approach to the border. just back to those numbers you showed there, sandra, because they are important, too, the biden administration and harris trying to make a big deal about the fact the number of counters at the border, apprehensions ate declined significantly since they brought in these measures back in i think it was june to tighten procedures at the border. that is completely a statistical barrage, sandra, it is a piece of sleight-of-hand. as you saw in that chart you showed, that graphic you showed, the cbp one program, the special app, they can essentially short-circuit or shortcut the whole asylum process, by downloading this app, applying for it and getting almost automatic temporary two-year

approval while the asylum claim is processed. they are never going to face -- so what they have done, it is a little bit complicated, sandra, what the administration has done is basically managed to cut the official numbers of people being apprehended at the border or having to go through the border, j.d. vance talks about this a lot and is absently right, giving them shortcuts that essentially enables them to avoid doing all the things you need to do to become a legal citizen of this country or a legal resident of this country, proclaiming hey, look, we have cut the numbers. they haven't cut the numbers at all. >> sandra: i want to end with this because i think it is important to get this in here, mark cuban is on the trail stumping for harris, firmly in her camp, he says -- he defends the border policies under this administration because it was about compassion. listen to this. >> i thought their hearts were too big when joe came into office, that they didn't know how many people would cross the border, and it got away from them, but they figured it out,

they learned. >> sandra: [laughs] their hearts were too big. vance responded is not compassionate to allow mexican drug cartels to sacks traffic children into the united states, united states of america, it is not compassionate to hundreds of thousands of american citizens who die of fentanyl overdoses. real quick final thought, gerry. >> sandra, there so compassionate, too compassionate, we don't deserve these leaders because they are too good for us, that is ridiculous, they came in intent on overturning all of the trump restrictions because they wanted to send a signal to people come anybody who comes into the united states, they were open, different views about this, because they want to admit large numbers of illegal migrants who then become ultimately become u.s. citizens and vote. they tend to vote more democratic. or you can think they don't believe in borders, i tend to take that view, this administration is full of people with a very progressive view that we shouldn't be imposing a border. it is complete a contrary to the

whole idea of the rule of americans. >> sandra: gerry, appreciate your time, thank you very much. >> thanks, sandra. >> there is an increasing move toward isolationism in the u.s. does this concern you? >> of course it does. we are a global power. we have interests all around the globe, and we are going to need to continue to do what is necessary to protect those interests. >> john: defense secretary lloyd austin voicing his concerns over the war in ukraine in an exclusive interview with fox news as we learn about another nation coming to vladimir putin's aide. >> sandra: plus this breaking news afternoon continues, john, we are now anticipating a white house press briefing as the fbi investigates the intel leak that revealed israel's plan to strike iran. will congress get answers because my florida republican mike waltz away in. with the ch, we got up and running in no time. earn unlimited 1.5% cash back

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>> sandra: austin sat down with jim griffin for an exclusive interview. she is live in rome. she's got the details. high, jennifer. >> hi sandra. we are not far from the vatican right now, where defense secretary austin met with the pope earlier today to discuss the wars in the middle east and in ukraine. the u.s. estimates that russia has suffered 600,000 casualties since their invasion of ukraine and in the month of june alone ukraine had 12,000 civilians killed by russian missiles and drones. the pope describe the situation in ukraine as terrible and told austin the palestinians are suffering "inhumane attacks." today secretary austin confirmed for the first time that north korea is sending troops to help russia and ukraine. u.s. intelligence we have learned will release satellite images soon as evidence.

ukraine's military intelligence chief says nearly 11,000 north korean troops are in russia now and will be ready to fight in ukraine by november 1st. >> putin must be weekend to a greater extent than most people think. we know that putin is losing a lot of people. >> this new axis of china, russia, iran, north korea joining forces and sowing discord around the world, is evidence that world war iii is already underway. has the next global war already started and people just don't realize it? >> i don't think so, jen. again, it is a very complex world but i would not describe it as world war iii. >> austin told me he was worried about increased isolationism spreading in the u.s. i asked him about how aided to ukraine actually benefits u.s. states like pennsylvania, where much of the artillery shells are made.

>> texas, alabama, you name it, there are a number of states that benefit directly. we do not send cash over to ukraine. we draw out equipment, whether vehicles or weapons or munitions, and we replace those weapons or munitions with something that's probably a little more modern and more effective. >> what is at stake if the u.s. stops funding ukraine? >> there's a lot at stake, jen. we do want to live in a world where a tyrant can wake up and decide to erase his sovereign neighboring's border. all of the baltic states are very concerned about that. they rightfully feel they would be next on the menu. >> we will have more from our exclusive interview with secretary austin tonight on special report with bret baier at 6:00 p.m. eastern. center? >> sandra: great stuff. jennifer griffin live from rome, thank you.

john? >> john: sandra, the white house set to brief any minute now is the fbi confirms it is investigating whether a leak of top-secret u.s. intelligence was intentional. the documents reveal satellite images of israeli warplanes preparing for a strike on iran. florida congressman michael waltz is a former commander of the green berets and joins me now. this is looking like a leak more than a hack. a hack would be troubling, a leak even worse, though. >> yeah, it is even more damaging, john, because of the breach of trust with the relationship between israel and the united states. israel -- i want everybody to understand this -- on a regular basis years intelligence with us and has stopped attacks on the u.s. homeland, particularly right now with our wide-open border and isis and al qaeda roaring back in afghanistan, and after that debacle, we share the base technology for the iron dome, we shared with israel, and then they built out, if we preach that trust, it is in normal mostly damaging. we already have bibi netanyahu

not informing us when they conduct major operations and now if they are afraid they cannot share information because we have iran apologist and sympathizers like biden's lame negotiator rob malley who had his security clearance pulled and we can't get any answers, that's a huge, huge problem with our greatest ally in the middle east. >> john: what's really troubling about this is apparently biden and netanyahu have been talking about the scope and framing of a potential israeli attack on iran. and then the information that we related through the geospatial intelligence agency gets out there. here's a pat ryder said about it yesterday. >> the fbi is investigating the alleged leak of classified documents and working closely with the department of defense and the intelligence community on this and i would say anytime there is an allegation of potential unauthorized disclosures we are going to take it seriously. that is exactly what we are doing. >> john: so if this is designed to undermine israel's pending strike on iran, meaning

this would violate a number of laws beyond the official -- >> it's a violation of the espionage act. it's treason. and right now i think israel has a golden moment, and we should support them. president trump has said he would support them to go after their nuclear program. john, when can we imagine if one of those missiles coming from iran was even suspected of having a nuclear warhead, you can't wait until the mushroom cloud goes off before you respond. this relationship should be airtight. it was under president trump, and the most frustrating thing at all, of all of it, is there is a sanctions and an economic solution much more than there is a military solution. dry up the cash and tell china stop buying iranian oil or you can't buy ours, and this would also that self. >> john: that would require getting tough on iran and there is no sign that is about to happen. want to ask you, speaking of getting tough, something biden let slip yesterday in concord, new hampshire, for a campaign

event. listen to what he said about locking trump up. listen here. >> i mean, so i know this sounds bizarre, it sounds like, i said this 5 minutes ago, he'd lock me up. we've got to lock him up. [applause] political. lock him out. that's what we have to do. >> john: we have to lock him up, politically lock him up. a lot of people say the first words that come out of your mouth. >> john, he said the plight part out loud. i remind everyone, his number 3 politically appointed official from the permit of justice stepped down from the doj and was sitting in a new york courtroom trying to lock biden's political candidate up. if that's not, i don't know what is. they accuse you of that which they are actually doing. they have weaponized the justice department to go after political opponents and all of this talk

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dramatic move, and on how we might respond. i expect to have more to share on all of that in the coming

days. for the time being, we will continue to monitor the situation closely. but let's be clear. if north korean soldiers do enter into combat, this development would demonstrate russia's growing desperation in its war against ukraine. russia is suffering extraordinary casualties on the battlefield every single day but president putin appears intent on continuing this war. of russia is indeed forced to turn to north korea for manpower it would be a sign of weakness, not strength on the part of the frommer. an unprecedented level of direct military up was -- security in the indo-pacific. russia's cooperation. multiple security council resolutions, which prohibit the procurement of arms of north korean military arms training. this move is like wise a

violation. the president of the nine states continues to surge security assistance to ukraine. in past week, united states has announced more than $800 million in security assistance to meet ukraine's urgent battlefield needs. now looking ahead, the united states is on track to provide ukraine with hundreds of additional air defense interceptors, dozens of tactical air defense systems, additional artillery, significant quantities of ammunition, hundreds of armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles and thousands of additional armored vehicles, all of which will help keep ukraine effective on the battlefield. and in the coming days, the united states will announce the significant sanctions targeting the enablers of russia's you war in ukraine located outside of russia. the ukrainian military continue to fight bravely and effectively and president biden is determined to provide ukraine with the supporting needs to prevail. to that end, the president announced today that of the $50 billion that the g7 committed to loan ukraine back in june, the united states will provide a loan of $20 billion.

the other $30 billion in loan will come from a combination of our g7 partners including the year p in union. united kingdom, canada, and japan. this is unique. never before has a multilateral coalition frozen the assets of an aggressor country and then harness the value of those assets to fund the defense of the aggrieved party. all while respecting the rule of law and maintaining solidarity. these loans will support the people of ukraine as they defend and rebuild their country, and it's another example of how mr. putin's war of aggression is only unified and strengthened the resolve of g7 countries and our partners to defend shared values. and, yep, that's it, thank you. sorry, i had an extra page in there and i wasn't sure where it was going. >> reporter: does the -- the presence of north korean troops can have a meaningful trajectory on the war?

and then secondly you said earlier even that shows a sign of desperation on the russians, but does it also demonstrate north korea's commitment to this burgeoning alliance with russia and is that in and of itself a broadening and discouraging concern for america? >> your first question, too soon to tell. what kind of impact these troops can have on the battlefield because we just don't know enough about what the intention is in terms of using them. so i think that's why i said we are going to monitor and watch it closely. to your second question, yeah, absolutely. yes, i have called this a sign of desperation and a sign of weakness. it is not like mr. putin is being honest with the russian people about what he is doing here. his spokesman just the other day denied knowing anything about it.

but we have also talked to many many times about the burgeoning and growing defense relationship between north korea and russia and how reckless and dangerous we think that is not only for the people of ukraine, and clearly we will watch to see what this development means for them but also the indo-pacific region. >> reporter: with the u.s. diplomat in the region, in lebanon and the secretary of state in saudi arabia before israel. do you believe there is a chance now for the cease-fire to be back on the table? and do you believe that with the demise of mr. sinwar you have greater chances are worse chances? >> the cease-fire i am assuming you're talking about is with gaza. >> you have lebanon and gaza. >> the short answer to your question is yes and we wouldn't be engaged in these diplomatic efforts if we didn't think there was still an opportunity here.

to get a cease-fire. a cease-fire for gaza that brings the hostages home, increases demand terry, and certainly a cease-fire between israel and hezbollah. and as for the implication that the deaths of the two leaders, nasrallah and sinwar, as president biden said, we believes that should open up an opportunity to try to get there. i don't want to sound too too sanguine here. i will let secretary blinken speak for his travels, he talked a little about it today, they had good, constructive conversations, specifically with respect to gaza, while he was in israel, but there is still a lot of work before us. >> reporter: one more quickly. the number of civilians killed and gaza was 779 in the last 20 days, and the total number is 100,000 between the dead and the wounded, 90% of gaza destroyed. does the u.s. think israel

strategy in gaza is working and do you still support it? >> we still support israel's right and responsibility to defend itself against these threats, including the continued threat of hamas, and we still urge israel to be mindful, ever mindful, of civilian casualties and the damage to civilian in infrastructure and will continue to work with them to that end. >> reporter: has the u.s. made an assessment about the type of weapons trading with north korean soldiers under going in russia that could potentially be used in ukraine and does this represent a new type of agreement in terms of an information sharing agreement between north korea and russians? >> i don't believe we have a very specific assessment at this time of the exact nature of all the training. there is three sites that we assess right now that this first tranche of about 3,000 are being

trained. i think i could go so far as to say, at least in general terms, its basic kind of combat training. and familiarization. i think i could go as far as that and no further. as i also said, going to watch this closely and if we have something we can share with you we certainly will. to your second question about information sharing, as i said before, we have been watching this relationship grow and deepen for many, many months. and the question that we're asking ourselves, and we don't have an answer for right now, is what does kim jong un think he is getting out of this? so you talked about information sharing, maybe that is part of this, maybe it is technology, capabilities. don't have a good sense of that but that is what is so

concerning to us, not only the concern, the impact on the war in ukraine but the impact this could have in the indo-pacific with kim jong un benefiting to some degree. >> reporter: how significant is this for u.s. allies in the region in the u.s. as a whole? >> it could be significant. again, we don't know enough right now. when you say region i think you mean indo-pacific. until we have a better sense of what the north koreans at least believe they are getting out of this as opposed to what they actually get, it is hard to know and to put a metric on exactly what the impact is in the indo-pacific but it is concerning. it has been concerning. certainly this development, this willingness of kim to literally put skin in the game here, soldiers in russia, for the potential deployment -- we haven't seen them deployed, but for the potential deployment, certainly would connote an expectation that he is getting something out of this. >> reporter: you mentioned the u.s. is discussing how we would possibly respond. what are the possibilities for

having the u.s. respond to this? >> for one thing we're going to getting to surge security assistance. as i just mentioned in my topper. you are going to continue to see, the president has made it clear, we're going to continue to provide security assistance all the way up to the end of his administration, for sure, so you will see that continue to flow and we are talking out to allies and partners about what the right next steps. i am not today prepared to talk about specific options but we are going to have those conversations, and we have been. >> reporter: china is a critical trading partner to north korea. what is the assessment for how china is working all of this? >> we don't know how president xi and the chinese are looking at this. one would think if you take their comments at face value, about desiring stability and security in the region, particularly on the korean peninsula, one would think that they are also deeply concerned by this development. but you can expect that we will

be communicating with the chinese about this and certainly sharing our perspectives to the degree we can and gleaning layers. >> reporter: south korean press reporting according to intelligence, these north korean troops lack understanding of modern warfare, drone attacks, and anticipated a high number of casualties when deployed to the front lines. >> too soon to know. we don't really know what they are going to be used for, where they are going, if they are going to deploy, where they are going to deploy, and to what purpose. i can tell you one thing, though. if they do deployed to fight against ukraine, they are fair game. they are fair targets, and the ukrainian military will defend themselves against north korean soldiers the same way they are defending themselves against russian soldiers. and so the possibility that there could be dead and wounded north korean soldiers fighting against ukraine is absolutely real if they get deployed.

>> reporter: just to clarify something you said earlier about what kim jong un possibly gets out of this, as far as you know, has he gotten anything in return? >> from this particular move, i can't speak to that, mj. i don't think we have seen any specific, you know, quid pro quo with respect to this provision of troops, but we know that he and mr. putin have again been growing in their defense relationship, and we know mr. putin has been able to purchase north korean artillery, he has been able to get north korean ballistic missiles which he has used against ukraine, and in return we have seen, at the very least, some technology sharing with north korea. but what this particular development means going forward, we just don't know. we are going to have to watch that. >> reporter: do you know this came about because putin specifically first ask for help, or whether it's gotten

kim jong un offered the help first? >> don't know. don't know what precipitated it. but i think it's important to remember that in the three plus years that he's been fighting in and around ukraine, mr. putin and his military has suffered 530,000 casualties, and as we are speaking today, he's losing casualties alone, that's killed and wounded, 1200, 1000-1200 per day. now 530,000 is a lot. in the american civil war, there were 620,000 killed. just to put this into some perspective. this is three years fighting in ukraine. 530,000 casualties is a lot, and he has been fully transparent with the russian people about this. and he hasn't been transparent at all with the russian people about this particular move about bringing in north korean soldiers so that he has to farm out the fighting to a foreign

country i think speaks volumes. about how much his military is suffering and how uncertain he believes, how untenable he believes his situation is. >> reporter: and i guess just, if you have to guess, how would the training, what with the training even look like, given the language barrier, and once these north korean soldiers are deployed, what would the command structure -- >> that's a great question. i wish we had an answer to it. you are not wrong to highlight the language barrier. i mean, these aren't even similar languages. they are going to have to overcome that. it's not like they have a long, productive history of working together as to militaries, even, at all. so that's going to be a challenge. command and control is going to be a challenge. this is not a challenge the russians have even solved amongst themselves. they are still having command and control challenges, logistics and sustainment, getting things to the battlefield and keeping the troops in the field. they haven't solved that for their own soldiers, so they are going to have to figure that out

here, too, if, in fact, they deploy -- we haven't seen that. there are some pretty big challenges they are going to have to overcome. >> reporter: to you think donald trump meets the definition of a fascist? >> i'm going to -- i'm not going to talk about that stuff. >> reporter: there is concern among democrats on the hill that donald trump's team has not entered into these critical transition agreements with the white house that could potentially come in their words, endanger national security. is that a concern of yours? >> with the caveat that i'm going to differ to karine and anything to do with the election and the transition, that is really for her, all i will say is no matter how things play out in the election, the national security council under mr. sullivan's leadership is and will make sure we are ready for proper transition handover. >> reporter: and there are intelligence officials who have warned that foreign adversaries mi