with ukraine's president right here in washington. ♪ the tough sell as time runs out. president biden says not give a ukraine aid is the best christmas gift vladimir putin could get. >> putin is banking on the united states failing to deliver. >> norah: the bombshell new court filing. how special counsel jack smith could use donald trump's cell phone records against the former president. our series about the pandemic's lingering effects on america's children. tonight, lessons on how to battle learning loss. >> we will show you how high dosage tutoring is helping students get ahead. ♪ ♪ >> i've got to find a way that will give kids who were me that same experience and exposure. >> norah: and we will introduce you to the air force reservist showing kids the sky is the limit. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for being with us on this busy night here in washington, especially busy for president biden and his national security team, who is handling the number of foreign policy crises. one of those critical global security issues: the israel-hamas war. today, the president's harshest words yet, saying privately what many of his own party have been urging him to say publicly: israel needs to change how it is fighting this war because the country is losing international support. but israel shows no sign of slowing down today, reportedly beginning and effort to start flooding tunnels. more on that in a moment. first, the big news here in washington, ukraine's president zelenskyy in town making the case that ukraine needs billions more in military funding or russia will win the you grow up. republicans say there focus is the border. out policy changes there, more money for ukraine will not happen. lawmakers leave washington friday for the holidays, so time is running out. there is certainly a lot to get to tonight so let's start with cbs's ed o'keefe. he is at the white house. good evening, ed. >> reporter: norah, good evening. president biden personally invited president took washington and urge congress to act quickly on the war funding. tonight, looks like the face-to-face sales pitch didn't work. tonight, a plea from ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy to the united states. >> we are working to turn our battlefield success into this, and we are heading there, together with you. >> reporter: the ukrainian leader praised his country's battlefield success, noting it is taking back 50% of lands seized by russia and in a bid to win over republican skeptics, 90% of american security aid is being spent by the defense industry in the u.s. bureau standing by zelenskyy, president biden blessed republicans for slowing the aide. >> if you are being celebrated by russian propagandists, and might be time to rethink what you are doing. >> reporter: but the ukrainian leader's visit did little to win over republicans, who say the aide likely won't be approved by the end of the year. despite the pentagon warning it is running low on funds for ukraine. >> there won't be a deal until joe biden and republicans reach an agreement. and that hasn't happened yet. >> reporter: the g.o.p. has said it will only support ukraine aid in exchange for the biden administration agreeing to change some southern border security amid a record number of illegal crossings in recent weeks. >> our first condition on any national security supplemental spending package is about our own national security first. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the white house is telling lawmakers and might be willing to support new policy to expel migrants without asylum screenings. >> i am ready and offered compromise already. >> reporter: what to do about the borders part of a bigger negotiation to provide another $61 billion to ukraine through next fall, plus more aid for israel and taiwan. in russia coming from one spokesman said it would be watching the biden-zelenskyy meetings very closely, and mr. biden said it could lead to russian success later. >> ukraine will emerge from this war i'm a proud, free, and firmly rooted in the west, unless we walk away. >> reporter: presents lenski said while his country has made gains on the ground, it now wants to beef up the air war, something -- whoever controls the skies it controls the war's duration. norah? >> norah: really interesting pure and i want to ask you about the news about israel. is there a growing rift now between president biden and israeli prime minister netanyahu? >> reporter: well, norah, earlier today in a private fundraiser for his reelection campaign, the president criticized the israeli leader saying "he has to change" and netanyahu's government is making it difficult to accept an eventual palestinian state. this is the first time mr. speight and has openly questioned netanyahu. israel's ongoing offensive that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. norah? >> norah: yeah, talking about losing support internationally. harsh words from the president. ed o'keefe, thank you. adding to the pressure of the u.n. general assembly today overwhelmingly voted to demand a humanitarian cease-fire in gaza. as the intensive fighting continues, israel said it recovered the bodies of two hostages who were kidnapped by hamas during the october 7th terrorist attack. cbs's ramy inocencio reports tonight from tel aviv. >> reporter: tonight, and israeli air strike killed nearly ten people and wounded dozens more, rushed in the darkness to a hospital. the bombs hit a few hundred yards from cbs news producer marwan al-ghoul, who was sheltering in one of the so-called "safe zones" of the southern gaza strip. >> netanyahu, what do you say? you must -- know where it safe. >> reporter: in rafah, different generations are morning the loss of their family futures after an intense israeli strike killed people, according to the hamas-run health ministr. the israeli military is consolidating control in the north, demolishing a u.n. school allegedly used by hamas in beit hanoun, israeli soldiers cheering. israel's defense minister says fighting may still last four months. but u.s. pressure is rising for israel to end its offensive s soon. new pressure is also rising against israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, with anger growing over an alleged decade-long agreement in which qatar sent up to $30 million in cash to hamas every month. a strategy known as buying quiet. >> they knew that the money was going directly into purchasing of rockets and building of tunnels. >> reporter: why didn't they stop the money? >> obviously, this concept blew up in everybody's face october 7th. >> reporter: and tonight in jerusalem, protesters braved the rain to march on the knesset, demanding netanyahu bring all hostages still in gaza home and calling for his resignation. >> he knew what hamas was doing with this money, so he created some monster. someday, the monster came out. >> reporter: and israel's military has reportedly to pump seawater into hamas' tunnel complexes and in order to destroy them. one concern, though, there may be hostages and some of them but present bite intimates as "there are assertions being made. there are no hostages insight. norah? >> norah: ramy inocencio, thank you. we are getting the first look at how special counsel jack smith will try his january 6th case against donald trump. a new filing revealed three witnesses, all experts in cell phone or location data, who are likely to be called in the trial. one of those experts plans to show how people moved from the ellipse to the capitol during and after trump's speech. cbs's robert costa tells us now about expert number three, who will focus on the former president cell phone data. >> reporter: in a filing late monday, special counsel jack smith said he plans to call an expert witness to testify about data extracted from cell phones used in the white house by the former president and another unnamed individual. how big of a deal is this? >> it could be monstrous. >> reporter: former january 6th committee is senior technical advisory denver riggleman pit >> basic and see texts, files, emails, they can see all of the date onc device that can really open up other individuals downstream that they can investigate. >> reporter: according to sources close to trump come he often used a personal phone while in the white house, and at times used phones belonging to his close aides. the phone data would likely not contain a record of what was said and possible phone calls, but would show who trump called and when, and also who he didn't call at key moments on january 6th. former joint chiefs chair mark milley said this to the house select committee. >> you are the commander in chief. you've got an assault going on on the capital of the united states of america. and nothing? no call? nothing, zero? >> reporter: all of this comes as the special counsel pushes for the supreme court to weigh in on whether trump is immune to prosecution and readies for next year's trial. >> increasingly, we see jack smith cutting out every available defense to the president. >> reporter: this new phone data could help fill in the more than seven hour gap in the official records of trump's phone calls on january 6th. trump maintains he is innocent. norah? >> norah: very, very interesting, robert costa, thank you. four women offered it deeply disturbing testimony today at a senate hearing into harassment at the u.s. coast guard academy. in the words of one former lieutenant, faith in the coast guard within its own members is destroyed. cbs's scott macfarlane reports current and former officers and cadets say a culture of abuse at the academy has been covered up. >> reporter: the u.s. coast guard charged with protecting america's waterways has failed to protect its own women, according to caitlin maro, who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted repeatedly, including by a classmate at the coast guard academy in new london, connecticut, in 2004. >> he would assault me during class. he would swim up underwater, grabbing a part of my body that he pleased. >> reporter: a series of former coast guard servicewomen... >> the abuse become so unrelenting, so omnipresent, and so insufferable, we seek relief in suicide. i survived my attempt. >> reporter: and a current cadet... >> we are always told that you just have to say no. but no to him was an invitation to try again. >> reporter: told a senate committee this afternoon it happened to them, too. >> we were paralyzed with fear. >> reporter: in an internal coast guard survey last year, more than half of women reported suffering sexual harassment and nearly one in seven reported unwanted conduct. >> it is a culture of cover-up that the coast guard has spawned and sustained for decades. >> reporter: coast guard admiral linda fagan, who took over last year, recently told congress progress is being made, but in a new report on ex misconduct, the coast guard lacks transparency, broken trust, and retaliation against victims. >> need to let the academy after just half a year, saying she was ostracized. >> the bullying and the retaliation is... it's crushing. my main perpetrator is currently a lieutenant commander in the coast guard. he is thriving. in a career that i had hoped for. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news tonight, the coast guard says it is urging members past and present to report any sexual misconduct, but the scrutiny is going to grow. the senate talked about possible subpoenas for records and emails as it investigates the size of any alleged cover up. norah? >> norah: this is infuriating. it has to end. scott macfarlane, thank you. harvard university announced today that president claudine gay will keep her job, despite calls for her to resign. ms. gay and two other university presidents drew criticism at a congressional hearing last week when they refused to answer yes or no when asked if calling for the genocide of jews would violate their schools codes of conduct. more than 700 of harvard's 2400 faculty members signed a petition in defense of president gay, and the university's governing body says she is the right leader to help the community heal. we turned out to part 2 in our new series, the covid generation. math scores of u.s. students hit a historic low on international% exam. the first measure of how the u.s. compares to other countries since the pandemic. well, cbs's meg oliver reports tonight on how one state right here at home is fighting back against academic decline. >> reporter: it's 7:00 a.m. an hour before school officially starts at cane ridge elementary in nashville. >> good morning... >> reporter: and hundreds of students are ready to crank up the learning. small groups meet three days a week, before, during, and after school, for what's called a high dosage tutoring, to combat pandemic learning loss. >> crocodile pits below crocodile. >> well, in my view, the kids are at stake. >> reporter: tennessee republican governor bill lee called the historic legislative session back in january 2021 to address his states failing test scores. country were still attending school virtually. >> it's kind of one of the redemptive stories of the pandemic for me, is we implemented things that we weren't doing before that will produce better outcomes than we had before the pandemic. >> reporter: combining federal pandemic relief funds with a grant matching program allowed the state to pay for three years of tutoring, four years of summer camps, and an enhanced literacy program. where would your students be without this high dosage tutoring? >> [cys] low. they would be very low academically. >> reporter: do you know what a myth is? >> they probably would not be ready for middle school. >> we are quiet. can you start reading this for us? >> reporter: english teacher at kelly koishor has been tutoring three programs a week since 2021. >> [indistinct] >> that's it. >> reporter: helping 10-year-old req require wood. >> i fixed those scores and i got bees or a's.% >> reporter: is that because of the tutoring? >> yeah. >> reporter: before the pandemic, about a third relieved to know mike reading at grade level. after two years of intensive tutoring began, state wide test schools among third-eighth graders have increased by eight points in english and i must ten points in math. >> it's working, and the evidence is showing it. we will likely continue it, and we hope it is a model for others. >> if we are talking what equal rights... >> reporter: a lesson worth repeating. meg oliver, cbs news, nashville. >> norah: teachers are so important. now to this story, a suspected stowaway arrives at a major u.s. airport, claiming he has no idea how he got there. who is he? 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