zelenskyy s mission, impossible. ukraine s president visiting the capital to make a last-ditch effort to win military aid for his war against russia. but republican lawmakers appear to be willing to say no deal and leave for the holidays without passing a significant aide package. this as we are learning startling new details about russia s losses in ukraine. plus, strong words from president biden and an ally. biden says that israel is losing support in that it s offensive in gaza, and the prime minister netanyahu has no choice but to change his government. and exclusive cnn reporting. former president trump made to a former mar-a-lago employee. that employees know eyewitness amenities trials. those calls were apparently made for charges before the case was filed. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming up right here to cnn new central. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon, i m boris sánchez alongside rahel solo
moving in and out of the strip since the war began. you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. 400 americans are in gaza. jonathan hunt has the latest with all of it. jonathan. jonathan: todd piro and carley, good morning to you. this is an agreement broken by the qataris along with egypt, israel, u.s. and hamas. it will allow, we are told, all foreign nationals, passport holders, to leave gaza via southern border crossing with rafah. you look at live picture of that border crossing. we understand that some of the foreign nationals have already gone through the crossing and have been processed. we do not know at this point whether that includes americans, but we are told that americans are obviously among those who will be allowed to leave gaza today, after three weeks stuck there in the most terrifying of circumstances. meantime, u.s. officials are doing nothing to hide their concern over the potential for a re
regional partners might want to impose sanctions to force the military to step down, there is going to be an impact on people in the country. so we ve seen also european countries cutting back aid. the world bank is cutting back financial support for the government. all of this is eventually going to impact services and that will affect a lot of people on the ground in niger, which is already one of the world s poorest countries. 0ur correspondent reporting. back to the uk. now football fans of birmingham city here in the uk got a bit of a shock when they woke up this morning. the club shared this video from an american football legend. have a look. so here s the deal. i m officially coming on board at birmingham city football club. and maybe you re asking, what do you know about english football, tom? well, let s just say,
nuclear country descending into eternal strife? ding int you put your finger right on it. this is the country s largest nuclear arsenal in the world. at most of their nukes actually work. and so, every western capital, everyone around the world is gonna have to be concerned about what s happening here because this has been the discussion we ve had for sometime. what would come after putin? it s not necessarily true that it would be somebody better. as your previous guest said, it could be somebody who s even more and ultranationalist, or someone even worse. and so, the nuclear command and control i m sure is exactly what the white house and the situation room and at camp david, what they re talking about this weekend over the last few days. let me ask you about what happens on capitol hill. there have been members of the republican party who want to cut back aid to ukraine. you know, including speaker mccarthy, who said no more blame checks. that s what happened over the
arabia acting on that now. ly say this is a moment in the world s history where are you going to fall? are you going to support the aggressors of russia who have invade add sovereign nation or those fighting for democracy in their homeland. imagine texas, if someone invaded parts of texas. we re not going to say okay, you can have west texas. we re going to make sure that every part of texas came back. so i think it s important that more countries like saudi arabia continue to support ukraine in their effort to defend themselves and their sovereignty. neil: congressman ro khanna on the same issue. in republicans in the house are leading an effort to audit a lot of the monies that we give ukraine. i talked to the ukrainian ambassador who says she s fine with that. no money is being wasted. some fear that scrutiny is a precursor to pulling back aid or not as much aid. how do you feel about this?