or blind spots, the head of the presidential administration emphasized at a meeting of the republican council on historical policy. at the meeting , the results of the year were summed up in the main areas, from the creation of scientific publications to the recognition of unreliable ones as extremist. last year. we've probably moved the topic teaching history in higher educational institutions, introduced a course on the history of belarusian statehood, this year what was new was the holding of a number of historical scientific conferences at a higher level of interaction with our partners, primarily, of course, the russian federation. together with russian colleagues , a roadmap for the production of popular science magazines has been developed. improve. in the lives of older people , to involve them in the active life of society is the main goal of the volunteer movement in belarus. international day of those who are ready always come to the rescue, give the warmth of your soul to those who need it. mogilev hosts the second republican trail of silver volunteers, almost 200 people from all

or blind spots, the head of the presidential administration emphasized at a meeting of the republican councilrical policy. at the meeting , the results of the year were summed up in the main areas, from the creation of scientific publications to the recognition of unreliable ones as extremist. last year, we shifted the topic. probably in the teaching of history in higher educational institutions, they introduced a course on the history of belarusian statehood; this year, a new thing was the holding of a number of scientific conferences historical at a higher level , interaction with our partners, first of all, of course, the russian federation; together with russian colleagues, a roadmap for the production of popular science magazines has been developed. exchange of experience and presentation of best practices in working with youth of work collectives. a two-day republican educational seminar of the belarusian republican youth union is taking place in bresse. the intensive program includes work in four sections for participants, and there are more than 200 of them, both theory and practice,

is initiated annually by our public association belaya rus, subsequently, indeed, on at the republican councilmber 21, we adopted the plan and approved the headquarters of our republican association, which will oversee the election campaign. what is important is that our public receptions become a place of attraction for citizens, these are not only our like-minded people, not only members of the ro belaya rus. in fact, they say that we will begin to enter through the region, they say in minsk everything is too tight, everything is close and so on, we will enter through the region, so i think that in fact this election campaign will take place quite calmly, for some reason it seems to me that, despite the fact that there will be about two, three or four ballots, we still have some rather interesting history of the creation of a new body of the all-belarusian people's assembly, we have one day . voting plus everything, we are actually in the first such stage of the work of the four-party system, how is the situation in the regions now, but this is how people feel about it, and most importantly,

forces , initiated annually by our public association belaya rus, and subsequently, at the republican counciladopted a plan and approved the headquarters of our republican association, which will oversee the election campaign, which is important, our public reception rooms are becoming a place of attraction for ... citizens, these are not only our like-minded people, not only members of the belaya rus society, this is any interested person who wants to receive information of different, completely different levels, from what his constituency is, where he should go, how he can vote, what kind of help, what innovations of information centers, if you don’t know something, you can apply and there is complete information, plus the fact that our public reception centers are gaining their strength , they are four. the creation of a new body of the all -belarus people's assembly, we have a single voting day, plus to everything, we are actually in the first such stage of the work of the four-party system, what is the situation in the regions now, and this is how people feel about it, and the most the m

these textbooks, the head of the presidential administration emphasized at a meeting of the republican councilg, the results of the year were summed up in the main areas from the creation of scientific publications to the recognition of unreliable ones as extremist. last year we, this year it was new to hold a number of historical scientific conferences at a higher level of interaction with our partners , first of all, of course, the russian federation, together with russian colleagues , has developed a roadmap for the production of popular science magazines. exchange of experience and presentation. a two-day republican educational seminar of the belarusian republican youth union is taking place in brest. it gathered more than 200 participants. work in four sections also takes place on the basis of the best primary organizations in the region. among the topics of the meeting were improving the quality of work, implementing various initiatives and programs. compliance with labor laws, security of personal boundaries in the virtual space. particular attention was paid to the civil-patriotic dire

or blind spots, the head of the presidential administration emphasized at a meeting of the republican councilics. at the meeting , the results of the year were summed up in the main areas, from the creation of scientific publications to the recognition of unreliable ones as extremist. in last year we probably shifted the topic to teaching history in higher education institutions. introduced a course on the history of belarusian statehood this year, what was new was the holding of a number of historical scientific conferences at a higher level , interaction with our partners , primarily, of course, the russian federation. together with russian colleagues , a roadmap for the production of popular science magazines has been developed. the exchange of experience and presentation of best practices in working with youth of work collectives in brest takes place for two days republican educational. brsm seminar. it gathered more than 200 participants. work in four sections also takes place on the basis of the best primary organizations in the region. among the topics of the meeting, improving the qua

vice chair, but the republican council was also there. i was there, but when the door closed for the meeting, i was on the outside. in the anti-room. okay, what happened as a result, in short, was that within about three weeks, we got a note saying, okay, there will be five boxes of documents that we will let you look at, they will be in the situation room at the white house in the west wing, subterranean, windowless, famous space, and somebody can come over and see if there are a few things you might need. because in general, the attitude was you don't have to worry, you just tell us what you want to know and we will tell you the answers the way we would like to print so, fritz schwartz asked me at a very tender age to go over to the white house situation room to look at the five boxes. there was a large marine guard there standing over me the entire time. this was the situation room where nuclear -- the cuban missile crisis would have been discussed. but i was alone in the room with the guards standing over me, and the i

republicans disrupted the council on allocating money to ukraine. what does he hope for now? anti-russian sentiments come at a cost; eu countries have already overpaid for them. with more than 180 billion euros, what other consequences? it is important that children in russia from a very early age feel part of a big country with rich history and great culture. vladimir putin made this statement at a meeting of the supervisory board of the all-russian organization first movement in pyatigorsk, they talked about key projects, opportunities for implementation, everything to find yourself is perhaps the most important choice that every person makes, in which it is important to help him, which is what the movement does first. the meeting of the supervisory board was chaired by the president, as the head of state recalled, the initiative to create an all-russian organization of children and youth came from the young citizens themselves, was expressed for the first time in april 2022, and today more than 4 million people are already uniting, and this, of course, is just the beginnin

well known republican mans of san francisco and the last 10, 20 years old and the famous republican city council it's such a joke. there's no one toles blame except the democrats and they've been in charge of their city, the county, the state, for decades and it's just preposterous and, yes, you're right. going to the point of this and that whole interview. i watch it had last time i was in san diego and got back late last night. watched the whole interview. it was laughable. they talk about fox news being state tv. that interview reminded me of some journalists in putin's russia sitting there and talking to putin terrified if he doesn't ask soft enough questions he'll be town off the top of an apartment building in moscow. it's just ridiculous. they're not challengessed it a total failure and san francisco and california, with the bottom of every list to be on top of. we have the highest taxes and worst poverty and most spending on students in schools but the lowest literacy and highest housing coast and lowest home ownership and we have the worst business climate of all 50 states and worse tha

republican view. richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations — this is his view also.this also was henry kissinger�*s view. he said this a few months ago. the dynamics of the war in ukraine are changing, and most republicans want to find a way to help ukraine win the peace, end the war, get a ceasefire, start a peace process, arm ukraine to the teeth so russia does not invade again. but biden�*s strategy of sending weapons endlessly without a strategy, that is a loser and that may mean ukraine will get no more military aid. fred, two things on that — what about an alternative in which more weapons are sent in a timely manner to ukraine, so that it can kind of turn the tide on the battlefield and actually win? and secondly, how do we even know that president putin may be willing to agree to come to the table for negotiations on a ceasefire? nothing that he's done so far seems to indicate that. the trajectory for ukraine doesn't look good. it's running out of troops. eussia has deeply dug in. it is preparing more troops, repairing the war operations. i think there is an

today , the council of the republic approved the republican budget for 2024.icular, the expenses include funds for paying family capital - 383 million rubles. financing of housing construction with state support - 1.7 billion rubles. the tax bill was also approved by senators today. opinions will affect individual entrepreneurs, income tax will be set at 30% on annual income over 500,000 belarusian rubles. we are talking about activities such as wholesale, retail trade and cargo transportation. a tax is also being introduced on luxury cars less than 3 years old and valued at more than $100,000. if previously vehicle owners paid 200 rubles per year, then now the tax amount will be 2.0. other types of taxes will also change for some categories. this will be an opportunity to get about 100 thousand. this task was set by the head of state in the year the introduction of additional land turnover, this is additional feed. no later than january 10 , voting stations will be formed, and precinct election commissions will be formed by january 25. and continuing the them

republican view. richard haas, president council forforeign relations, this is his view also.o in the kissinger�*s you. he said a few months ago the dynamics of the war in ukraine is changing and most republicans want to find a way to help ukraine win the peace, and the war, get a ceasefire, start a peace process, i'm ukraine to the teeth so russia does not invade again. but biden�*s strategy of sending weapons endlessly without a strategy, that is a loser and ukraine will get no more military aid.— loser and ukraine will get no more military aid. whether an alternative _ more military aid. whether an alternative in _ more military aid. whether an alternative in which _ more military aid. whether an alternative in which more - alternative in which more weapons are sent in a timely manner to ukraine seeking kind of turn the tide on the battlefield and actually when? and how do we even know president putin may be willing to agree to come to the table for negotiations on a ceasefire? nothing he has done so far seems to indicate that. the trajectory for ukraine does not look good.

there were 42 republican congressmen at this forum, plus the whole world of conservative parties, including our party, as members of it. and i was elected as a member of the iduu council were planned with congressmen, republicans, they do not need to be convinced. that ukraine should be helped, ukraine has, and i continue to emphasize this, by partizan support, bipartisan support, we had to persuade not to involve ukraine in internal political discussions, because when they say, and this is very important, that we need to simultaneously solve the issue of the southern border with ukraine, not that she told president zelensky that it is not related to you, yes. then we had to convey that the southern border for deputies, congressmen, republicans and democrats is located and passes along the line of contact in ukraine, this is the southern border, and the second position is that there is no need to have illusions, because the war of russia against ukraine is already there world war, the third world war. so far without the use of nuclear weapons, i very much hope that it will not be used either, but if you take the factor of the hot phase of the war, it is the most since

the government of the republic received an official response from the union council of ministers, the construction of a republicancientific and practical center for onology and medicine. at the end there was a note, in case additional funds were found, what this meant, there was no need to explain anything to anyone, there were no prospects. belarusian partisans were looking for special paths, special paths, in order to solve some important tasks, in particular regarding the oncology center, which moscow did not give consent to, and such a cunning step was invented, a speech at the un general assembly, as a fait accompli that a large oncology center was being built in belarus. this is precisely the statement made by the minister of foreign affairs of the bssr kuzma venediktovich kiselyov at the un rostrum. i can imagine how shocked moscow was. because nothing like this even happened, but since it had already sounded to the whole world, in fact, there was nowhere to go, it was necessary urgently in order to build it all, then the secretary general, he came, which means he observed it, well, so to speak, he was sho

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we heard just during the round table in the atlantic council, in the atlantic council, from a rather influential republicanhe chairman of the special committee on intelligence of the house of representatives, that there is an internal discussion, that certain conditions are being put forward, and the main one of them is just in order to bring this issue to a vote in the lower palace...' the biden administration provided the congressmen with a complete plan, a complete vision, and how they see the further development of events on the ukrainian front, how they see the further course of the war and what their vision is. let us listen to the congressman and then everything will become clear. the problem with ukraine's financing has several components. one of them is the unwillingness of the administration to formulate a successful action plan for ukraine. the congress is debating what to do, what goals should we achieve, and what exactly are these goals? by and large they say something else too, they say that if the package comes common to all partners, so the package that the senate will vote on, they may not

republicans blocked. admitted the representative of the national security council of the states, johnthis, we have a few weeks left after which means the funds allocated by congress earlier will run out. now, given the situation in congress, we cannot make any specific promises to ukraine in terms of providing military assistance that we could previously provide. russia consistently advocates increasing the efforts of countries in the fight against international criminal groups, acting permanent representative of russia dmitry polyansky stated this at the un security council, noting that the west does not respond to the supply of weapons to bandits organized by the kiev regime. threat it also represents the uncontrolled spread of weapons supplied by the west to ukraine. it's no secret that it's significant. goes to the black market, ending up with terrorist and criminal groups. it is popping up not only in europe, but in the middle east, africa and even latin america. in beijing. the first full-fledged eu china summit in the last 4 years took place. boris ivanin found out whether it w

today the council of the republic approved the republican budget 2024. include funds for... payment of family capital - 383 million rubles. financing of housing construction with state support - 1.7 billion. republican budget revenues next year are planned in the amount of almost 40 billion, the consolidated budget - 67.5 billion rubles. expenses in the amount of 44.6 billion consolidated budget - 72.6 billion rubles. we are talking about activities such as wholesale, retail trade and cargo transportation. a tax is also being introduced on luxury cars less than 3 years old and costing more than 100 thousand. dollars. if previously vehicle owners paid 200 rubles a year, now the tax amount will be 2,000. other types of taxes will also change for some categories. there is an indexation of land and environmental taxes on average. by 107.5%, the income tax rate changes from 13% to 25%, for excess income, so to speak, if the income of citizens per year is more than 200,000 rubles. then on amounts exceeding 200,000 an income tax of 25% will be paid. in the same

well, in fact, i was nominated from the republican party of labor of justice in the minsk city councile most low-skilled: a shovel, which means carrying heavy objects, auxiliary work , well, then after gaining a little experience, somewhere i had to be a slinger, a carpenter, a concrete worker, but i started with hard physical labor, i ca n’t do a lot of things with my hands of course , there is enough time for everything, but i want to say that... well, that time taught me a lot, and something that i probably never talked about, for some reason i wanted to learn, and i will explain, this, i can explain this to you too, but it was a certain incentive , including in order to engage in self-improvement, well, not only in terms of the physical, but look, when you are building now. cities, do you have projects that you are proud of, of course, of course , these are what, you know, these projects are widely heard, these are certainly satellite cities, this is certainly the chinese-belarusian industrial park great stone - this is really such a project, which did not exist in belarus before,

this memorial ; half of the funds earned from the republican cleanup were allocated for the reconstruction of the complex. a meeting of the advisory council belarusians abroad was held at the foreign ministry. what did the meeting participants discuss? as foreign minister sergei noted. according to the un , almost one and a half million belarusians live outside our country. compatriots abroad are united in 207 organizations, they carry out activities to preserve the popularization of our culture, history, language, and participate in the implementation of business projects. well, representatives of different nationalities. the start of the brightest and kindest event was in belovezhskaya pushcha, where children from different parts of the country came, but the whole country became connected with the estate of father frost; during the opening of the charity marathon, a teleconference was organized, this was the first time such a scale was organized. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! this is a truly magical place with its ancient forest and especially before the new year the atmosphere of some kind of fairy tale. i came from the city of magelyovo for the firs

republican from south carolina. kirby, the strategic communications coordinator for the white house national security council, is hopingor the best, but he's also going on christmas break. admiral kirby, is it possible that there will still be some money to help ukraine at the beginning of the year? that is, if congress comes back and approves help, say, in the first, second, maybe third week of january. there will be no gap, there will still be a gap, we have funds left to provide additional security assistance to ukraine before the end of the year, it will take some time, days, maybe even weeks for all this to reach the front, so if we could funding in january, we could continue to provide assistance relatively uninterrupted, until now we have allocated new security packages approximately every 2 weeks, to european countries... at the same time, britain is not ready to help even with old cars that are subject to disposal; according to the mayor of london, khan, it will not be possible to legally send cars to kiev; the bank is desperately waiting for news from capital hill. time is running out , we have no other suppo

republican election commission. unlike the events of the beginning of the week, when demonstrators stormed the city council, this timelashes with the police or riots. within a couple of hours , the protesters began to disperse. the opposition, which lost the parliamentary elections, demands, let me remind you, to cancel their results. the serbian authorities attribute what is happening to incitement from abroad. the west is trying to dictate its terms to belgrade using methods tested on... other popular programs, such as meetings near moscow, and may there always be sunshine. galina zemenkova taught a lot, taught japanese students the russian language, and in moscow passed on speaking techniques and camera skills to aspiring journalists. galina mikhailovna was 82 years old, her voice will forever remain one of the symbols of the era. good evening. hello comrades. by this morning, farmers of the novosibirsk region had fallen asleep in the state's bins. million tons of grain in moscow cloudy weather with clearing, light rain in places, wind western gusty, temperatures 6-8°c. an inappropriate driver who caused a massive

states, without which the republicans. refuse to consider the request for additional funding for ukraine and israel. john kirby, a representative of the us national security council, said that the white house is also participating in the negotiations, which lasted all weekend, but could not comment on their progress. meanwhile, sen. republican lynzi graham said in an interview sunday that lawmakers are not even close to an agreement, and it will not be resolved until the end of next year. the state department also appealed to the congress to approve additional funding for ukraine. us secretary anthony blinken during the signing ceremony of the defense cooperation agreement between the united states and finland. this agreement should strengthen bilateral relations and enable the presence and training of american troops on the territory of finland. us secretary of state anthony blinkin emphasized: finland's story serves as a reminder of why it is so important that we everyone continued to support ukraine. at the same time , finland's minister of foreign affairs elina valtenen assured ukraine's support. is a key priority for her country. we now have a network of def

is she doing alexandria ocasio-cortez district we just flipped a city council seat totally contained with aoc's districts republicanink there's opportunity for sure to get people in new york city to vote republican we are seeing a trend in southern brooklyn we flipped for assembly seats between southern brooklyn and staten island last cycle alone and i think we could do more it's about getting the message out there they see the destruction of democrats under one-party rule and everything cost more crime is out of control, the migrant crisis is bankrupting our city and the mayor will do across-the-board freeze for cops and they keep passing legislation that makes it less safe in new york and they did it yesterday they passed another build the city council that further ties the hands of our police that early understaffed and that will lead to more crime increasing. there's opportunity because people new york city want to see a ballot. >> congresswoman with the flips that you just mentioned with the 2022 election results were lee zeldin barely lost to kathy hochul and the light of the fact that joe biden's migrant cri

republicans want? the committee house oversight written the white house council saying they're expanding theiring into into the president and leading to the impeachment inquiry and writing the council saying "in light of an official statement from the white house that president biden was aware in advance that his son hunter biden would knowingly defy two congressional subpoenas". here's just a minute comer last night on hannity explaining more. >> they can't answer a simple question, what did you do to receive the money? they also know that joe biden stating during the campaign he never met with the people that sent his family money and he had a wall between the government and his family ischia i did business schemes. reporter: our own peter doocy earlier this month in the white house press secretary room pressing karine jean-pierre if he knew about the son's subpoena and just the president's reaction to this overall. >> the president was familiar with what hunter was going to say social normed and, you know -- say today and, you know, he's proud of his son. he and the first lady is proud of his son a

republican mayor rudy giuliani won in the reelection and in the first and followed by a businessman. new yorkers have gone for non-democrats in the recent past. >> yeah and also there is a city councilbronx that nipped for the first time to republican in over 50 years. there could be considerable movement but whether the whole state changes i don't know. david: the question is how much i think, how much this migrant crisis costs new york and how much that'll weigh on voters going into the 2024 elections because it could be that services like garbage pickup, police, firearm, et cetera are cut back to -- firemen are cut back because we don't have the money and the city would like like it's falling apart and some say it's already looking that way. >> yeah, and add on the concerns with crime and can't walk into cvs without having your tooth past in jail. feels like a dystopian world we're living in new york and i wouldn't be surprised if trump could get votes here. david: that leads me to this question and more people moved out of new york and people voting with their feet than any other state last year the census bureau says 102,000 people left. i'm just wondering what you think is the

republicans who want it. according to the official representative american security council kirba the white house is no longer of assistance to kiev, the remaining money will be enough for exactly 2 weeks, that is, ukraine will last until catholic christmas, then the unknown. the cessation of funding will be the best gift for... a joke about a failed offensive the west has overestimated the armed forces of ukraine, reports the washington post. western strategists and officials. those supporting ukraine had some hypotheses about how the situation would develop, which ultimately did not come true. they may have misjudged the ability of the ukrainian military to conduct a completely new type of warfare after a short period of training, and it also showed that commanders on the battlefield were using their experience to try to conserve what they considered the most valuable resources, namely very limited forces and equipment. which they received from western countries. in the end, they abandoned the plan, which... was carefully developed over the winter, the us secretary of state considers military assistance to

republicans are also in the running. former menlo park mayor peter ohtaki and carl ryan, berkeley city council member, is introducing a resolution calling for a cease fire in gaza. >> after weeks of public comment and pressure, rigel robinson said that berkeley residents are hurting and they're counting on the council to be their voice. the council will consider the resolution on tuesday unless a special meeting is called, robinson added in a statement, saying the scale of the humanitarian crisis is unthinkable and the rising tide of hate is making our friends and neighbors feel less safe every day. we must treat each other with kindness and reject anti-semitism, islamophobia and racism at every opportunity. >> a new data shows a rise in anti-muslim and anti-palestinian hate. the council on american-islamic relations says it has received more than 2100 requests for help and reports of bias in the past eight weeks from october 7th to december 2nd. the council says that's a 172% increase over a similar two month period from the previous year. and the complaints range from free speech violations to hate speech and bullying. >> ther

in the senate, that is, the debate between republicans and democrats, which reached, so to speak, a certain dna , we saw something similar in our supreme council once, yes, well, but still, we did not expect this from the states, i will try to answer your question gradually, if i forget something, you will ask me again, the general situation, in in principle, what you called a barduk, in principle, is not an exception, it is... typical for all parliaments, including the congress of the united states, if we take this situation, it should be noted that the ukrainian issue, that is, the issue of continuation, provision of aid to ukraine, one of many, important, but not the key issue in the acute political struggle that. in fact, it never stopped, now it has acquired a high degree of acuteness between the republican tamocratic party, respectively, the republican and by the democratic factions in the house of representatives and the united states senate. the republicans decided that now , during the discussion of this package of strategic assistance proposed by biden, they can, and have a chance to implement some of their political priorities, in t

joining me is republican political analyst and campaign strategist ford co-connell and chief councilan epstein. thank you for being here. i want to get your reaction to the polls. ford, let's start with you. your reaction. >> the polls just keep getting worse for joe biden. 37% approval rating is the lowest of any president m the modern era and then for good reason, 53% of registered voters say his policies hurt them and when it comes to donald trump he's in the best polling position he's of ever been, not inot 2024 but ever including 2016. maria: a majority of americans disapprove of president biden's handling of the economy and the israel hamas war. 61% of americans disapprove of his response to the conflict in the middle east, 39% say that they approve. julian, how are you going to get your guy in the white house again if americans are pretty much against joe biden's policy and the democrat party has a huge anti-semitism problem obviously, this what is the polls show us that could cost them in 2024. >> well, i think the democratic party does have a huge anti-semitism problem. i do

republicans are getting ahead of this. so the zaleski is obviously facing some opposition and the national security council spokesperson, john kirby also said that the us plans to allocate now only to military assistance packages to crane by the end of the year after which these funds will then be exhausted. do you think that the lensky expected this amount of help or do you think he was planning on a larger song? and what do you think will actually happen? and i honestly think zalinski wont live best uh, january. i think they will replace him uh with uh, uh, uh, probably a female parliamentary not a, not a general because they're all comfortable. they're all guilty of war crimes and they all need to be prosecuted in a uh tribunal, which i am confident rusher will conduct. i think the american politicians are trying to back out in trying to tie this off with a miniscule expenditure to at least say, well, we did our best and we'd given them, you know, a final closing dollar here and there. but the military potentiality of ukraine is gone. they have no hope and is present pollutant said when you have no military base when you

palo alto council member julie lythcott-haims and tech entrepreneur peter dickson. two republicans are also vying for the seat. they are former menlo park mayor peter ohtaki and carl ryan. >> this has been a great week for proponents of california's high speed rail. the federal government has put 3 billion more dollars into the long delayed project, as well as another 3 billion into a los angeles to las vegas project. ktvu tom vacar takes a look at where the mega project stands right now. the california legislature passed high speed rail initial funding of $9 billion back in 2001, but it was conceived much earlier by then, first time governor jerry brown in the 1980s. >> the big deal here is we all know that we've got to get off fossil fuels, reduce them dramatically. i think it's highly possible that america can get its mojo back to build big stuff. the highly criticized projects, first trains on 171 miles, connecting merced to fresno and bakersfield will be in operation before 2032, though the total price for the san francisco to la route is now estimated at $128 billion, with al

republican lynsey graham. kirby, the strategic communications coordinator at the white house national security council, is hopingk. we have funds remaining to provide additional security assistance to ukraine through the end of the year. it will take some time, days , maybe even weeks for all this to get to the front, so if we could get funding in january, we could continue to provide assistance relatively continuously, until now we have allocated new security packages approximately every 2 weeks, european countries will have to compensate for the weapons that will stop flowing to ukraine from washington , german defense minister pistorius warned in an interview with the welt newspaper, according to him, to quickly increase. nobody wants to talk about ukraine anymore, with this headline an article is published in the spectator magazine, the support of kiev in the fight to the last ukrainian is called a reporter immoral, so far almost throughout the world. are waiting for the new year to arrive, kiev has every reason to look at it with apprehension, newsweek writes. russian troops are developing an offensive, and

up there, up to 7 7,500, militarye single men and we had the city council from new york come out and say we can't have this. republicanske. this is the kind of pain unfortunately, people have to suffer before we start seeing the changes made across our country to stop this invasion and the absolute destruction of our country. maria: we'll be watching it. we have a spotlight on it and we want to know what you learned when we go back to the border again. thanks very much for being here this morning. >> thank you, maria. merry christmas to you. maria: merry christmas to you. thank you, sir. quick break and then the war in the middle east is far from over, hamas is rejecting israel's bid to release hostages and revive hostage counts. national security advisor to mike pence general keith kellogg is here with more on that. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us. ♪ and i still haven't found what i'm looking for. ♪ (sfx: stone wheel crafting) ♪ the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can yo

republican congresswoman lauren boebert is switching congressional districts and likely avoid a rematch against a democrat who has far outraised her. boebert narrowly won re-election in 2022 by just 546 votes. former as spin city councilh was expected to face boebert once again in the 2024 general election. instead boebert announced on facebook she would enter the crowded republican primary in retiring republican congressman ken buck's district. a federal judge in georgia is upholding a republican drawn congressional map. the judge rejecting arguments from democrats and voting rights groups that the latest district lines hurt voting power for minority residents near atlanta. the decision likely ensures republican also maintain their 9-5 advantage over democrats among the state's 14 seats in the house of representatives. well, up next, a christmas gift exchange turns into an exchange of gunfire. plus, as california's population declines for a third straight year, tax documents reveal who is leaving the state. first, beyond our borders tonight, as taiwan prepares to hold elections for its president and legislature, china is renewing its threat to use military force to annex the self-governing direct casey, bay jinping's

republicanism and islamism of the system rely on. the parliament then entered the order and amended the bagging bill in order to meet the opinion of the guardian council order to boost the economy of the border areas, the creation of this bill in the two departments of backpackers and sailors has paid attention to the import of goods through the land and water border crossings. the representatives also approved the amendments to the law on the establishment of non-governmental schools. the founders of non-government schools are fined if they receive extra tuition . this fine is in cost-deprived areas it will be shown that the teaching hours of teachers and staff of non-government schools were determined and approved . the full -time teaching hours of primary school teachers are 25 hours per week. the working hours of managers , assistants, administrative, clerical and service staff of schools and centers were reduced to 36 hours per week. in this meeting, a bill to amend the anti-narcotics law was also approved . the representatives of the commission said the answer the specialty of the parliament is to work hard to present its supplementary and amend

republican rivals are standing with him. president biden is grappling with a critical decision on israel. the security council is set to vote on a resolution to stop the fighting in gaza. the big question will the u.s. block it. >>> is and congress is paralyzed. lawmakers heading home for the holidays after one of the moegs unpreductive years in history in 2024 might be even worse. acosta. let's go behind the headlines and "inside politics." >>> we want to start with jack smith responding to trump's legal team trying to delay the january 6th case. the special counsel is stress ing the gravity and urging the supreme court to immediately hear the dispute over presidential immunity. senior correspondent katelyn polantz is following all the developments for us. what are we hearing about the special counsel's request? >> the special counsel is back before the supreme court saying i they want the supreme court to be looking at this question of presidential immunity now. whether he can be tried, whether he can be a criminal defendant. a legal the issue that has to be determined before donald trump goes to trial. the

we'll hear from national security council official john kirby about that visit and much more. >>> plus, later today, the republicanvote to formalize the impeachment inquiry into president biden. democratic congressman joe neguse, dan goldman will join us live from capitol hill to tell us what to expect. "morning joe" is just a few minutes away. away si mi papá estuviera vivo, sé que él tuviera orgulloso también de vivir de esta viviendo una vida como la que estamos viviendo ahora. es electricidad aquí es salud. >>> welcome back. newly declassified intelligence shared with congress suggests that the total ground forces russia had prior to its invasion of ukraine have suffered an absolutely devastating number of casualties in the war, according to a person famil with the intel who spoke to nbc ws prior to russia's invasf february 2022, the nation had roughly 360,000 ground force troops. nearly 22 months later, 315,000 of those troops have either been killed or woded. 315 out of360 that's extraordinary. russia has lost 2,200 tanks, one-third of its armored vehicles have been knocked out of service. the intelligence p

council with the same duty entrusted to it. if he acts with these 12 people, he can easily and well take care of both the republicanism of the system and the republicanism of the system and the islamism of the system . it has acted especially in the matter of the parliamentary approvals, but in the matter of monitoring the elections, which includes two sections, one is the qualifications of the volunteers and the other is the correctness of the elections . well, a series of criticisms have been made to the guardian council. public now and in any case, it seems that mr. bahadri's presence in this is the first time that the guardian council is supposed to respond to some issues through a lawyer and a jurisprudence consultant or advisor to the guardian council to create more transparency about the guardian's performance, and i am happy to be able to respond to these criticisms. there is a serious issue among the intellectuals and the people, so i will raise it and answer it here, and both of us will create a serious transparency in the functioning of the main pillars of the islamic republic system and make the people satisfied . god w

house republicans called the language, and you just heard william say it, unconscionable. border patrol if councils us this morning. art, great to see you. do you expect anything tangible to have come out of this meeting with the mexican president? is it just more talk, do you think? >> it's just more talk. it's just, hey, let's check the box and and say we had a meeting. and i can tell you when you start hearing what came out of that a meeting or what they spoke about, that type of rhetoric of regularizing some of the individuals that are here illegally, all that is going to cause is more of a wave because the word will get down there quick. hey, they're talking about it. it might happen. so that's just going to encourage and more lawlessness, more and more individuals to come across. that is just is insane, to even have that conversation right now. ashley: you know, the department of justice, art, is threatening to sue texas if they enforce a new law that basically allows law enforcement to prosecute and and deport if migrants that illegally cross the border, you know? in other words, do their j

we had somebody come a republican who won a race in the bronx in new york which is heavily democratic. >> we won a city councileat in the bronx for the first time in decades in large part because the policies that have been enacted in democratic states. there's a reason new york leads the nation in migration at it has nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the disastrous economic policies, issues of public safety, migrant crisis. voters are voting with their feet in new york and leaving. we want to reverse, we made some progress last year by electing 11 republicans in 26 congressional seats and we will keep fighting for new york. i'm not going anywhere, fighting to fix this. david: you've got to fix what is going on now. have a wonderful holiday. appreciate you coming in. now this. a teachers union is suing new york city mayor eric adams after he cut $550 million in education funding to pay for migrants. the story coming up. a prominent professor calling on harvard to fire the university's president, claudine gave -- claudine gay. school choice advocate erica donald's taking that on next. ♪ a

republican congressman discusses supporting presidential trumps 2024 campaign despite the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. he touches on his removal from congress and his decision to retire. this is at the council summit. >> just over two months ago you were speaker of the house of representatives. second in succession to the presidency. two heartbeats away from the oval office. two weeks time you're stepping down from congress. how do you feel -- is this a liberation for you or are you grieving a sense of loss? he stuck it out. rep. mccarthy: i won the good fight. >> in the course of the next nine months you did get important things done and i'm sure you want to talk about that. and >> you the first speaker to be ousted, than the house republicans went through another 3, 4 potential successors before they finally landed on mike johnson. the question i have for you, given all of what we've seen and given the divisions in the republican party, given the fact that a relatively -- party hostage, is the republican party ungovernable? rep. mccarthy: we have a small majority, you have these crazy eight and probably a few more you could add to it, but lemme give you my perspective, it's going to be a

republicans law support of the jewish american community. thank you for your statement. your bomb administration took the unusual step up with holding a veto with you and security council of to benjamin netanyahu again, ignored a direct us request. a cub settlement expansion across the resolution. calling for a whole to settlement activity was passed. the question of us a to israel was not brought up, but either the camp david's summits, nor was it raised by president george w bush or donald trump, to support for israel when so far as to recognize jerusalem as well as capital. but now some members of the current congress are suggesting that the mounting economic and military aid to israel be made conditional. i think that so, oh course, well thought, but i don't think if i started off with that we ever got the more we already know, james baker policy here. no intent to use the millions of dollars of 8 as liberal age because israel is military and political excess. the hug rather than the rod, is this president's choice? mike kinda, i'll just say era washington, these really air force has dropped thousands of pounds on gaza, killing, moving 17000 palestinians, and largely

negotiations with republicans in the senate has taken place and that a package of additional funding for ukraine is possible. will be approved after the new year holidays, the coordinator of the councilured at the briefing us national security, john kirby, and secretary of state anthony blinkin reminded that the united states government has funds for only one package of military aid until the end of the year, but it is ukraine in the conditions of war that helps the american economy to develop. putin is betting that our differences will prevent us from helping ukraine, and we proved him wrong, and we'll prove him wrong again if congress does pass an extension. in the country, then our fellow citizens, our enterprises, our employees, our allies and partners will benefit from it, and also people around the world who hope that the united states will lead the way, and that if the bailout vote fails, then moscow, tehran and beijing will win. the congressmen will return from vacation to washington on january 8, but they will not deal with the ukrainian issue before the middle of the month. legislators have important internal issues, such as budget resolutions, to prevent... another shutdow

republican. he actually used to be the state gop chairman here. just for a bit of context. he was the chairman when tim scott was running for county councile in the low country. henry is very influential. he's not a lot of people through the years. it came as no surprise that he appeared alongside the former president at the game on saturday. within hours to -- after trump making his bid official, mcmaster was giving him his endorsement. if we go back to 2015 and 2016 when governor mcmaster was lieutenant governor mcmaster, he was actually one of the first statewide elected officials in the country to endorse donald trump and had the pleasure of introducing him at the rnc later that year. so henry and donald's relationship goes way back. in many ways, that appearance together on the home field was a punctuation point in their relationship. >> how is it that they were on the field? they literally got on the field. mcmaster was a key player. >> according to reporting done by my excellent colleague, we found out that it was governor mcmaster who had requested this special moment at the 50 yard line for the former president and himself to sta

supervisor joe simitian, former saratoga city council member rishi kumar and former san jose mayor sam liccardo have all filed candidacy paperwork. now two republicanslso running a former menlo park mayor, peter ohtaki and carl ryan. our time is now. 434. a troubling scene at a school in sonoma county where three students were taken into custody. the police say 213 year old boys attacked another student at herbert slater middle school in santa rosa yesterday morning. the student who was attacked brought them, brought out a knife and tried to stab one of the attackers. no one was hurt. police say the teenager who pulled out the knife ran into the surrounding neighborhood. the school was then put on lockdown. all three of the students were eventually taken into custody. our time now, 434. we're now hearing from a nice bay store owner who says he's struggling to stay in business after several break ins. kyle goudie runs the soul scrubs sneaker and sportswear shop on smith street in union city. now, surveillance video shows thieves wearing masks and hoodies just cleaning out his store this week after two previous attempts. they got away with thousands o

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