here is where we begin with a live look at capitol hill where ukrainian president zelenskyy will arrive any moment. he will be making a last-ditch plea to congress to stop stalling and approve billions in additional aid in their fight against russia. lawmakers are deadlocked and time is running out quickly to reach a deal before they go home for the holidays. in an hour zelenskyy will enter the united states capitol speak to the entire senate. later he has meetings with president biden at the white house, house speaker, republican speaker mike johnson. zelenskyy will be facing a much colder reception from republicans compared to less than one year ago when he received this hero s welcome. thank you. [ applause ] that was december of last year when a joint session of congress gave zelenskyy a standing ovation during his first visit of the war. he received an american flag from then-speaker nancy pelosi. lauren fox is live on capitol hill. lauren, it is such a differe
says iran s bid dictator. what is unbelievable is that trump, who is not exactly known for his restrained or self discipline would actually stop after day one. it s a significant disturbing escalation of rhetoric. just rhetoric, but it is an escalation for him because of how bluntly an openly he s telling the country about autocratic plans for a second term. during last night speech, trump also issued a thinly veiled warning to president biden, saying that the criminal indictments against trump have, quote, opened up a pandora s box that may never let our country be the same, and quote. trump s most subservient allies are also falling into line, picking up on the themes of retribution. at the end of last month, robert kagan, another large for the washington post, published a lengthy piece warning about the increasing inevitability of a trump dictatorship. in response to kagan s piece, the republican senator j.d. vance of ohio sent a letter addressed to attorney general merric
testifying tomorrow in new york. trump, as you know, was expected to take the stand in his own defense as his company s civil tax fraud trial enters the final week. a short timeo, trump announceinhe long and defiant rant online that he would not be doing so. the former president, as usual, attacking the case, as he quote, rich witch hunt. no matter how much donald trump tries to distract from reality, the facts don t lie. trump had been using the courthouse in new york as a sort of campaign stop, and is already planning rallies in nevada and new hampshire this week. this, as trump s vision for his second term only becomes more extreme. at a fund-raiser last night, trump doubled down on his comments, saying he would be a dictator, but just on day one. his words? they speak for themselves. baker today in the new york times, he said that i want to be a dictator. i didn t say that. i said i want to be a dictator for one day. but the new york times said and you know i i wa
,,,,,. ,,,,,,. . ,,,,,,. . ,,. ,,,,. ,. . ,,,,,,. ,,,. ,,. ,,. ,,. ,,? ,,,,,,,,,,. ,,,. ,. ,. ,,. . ,,,,,,. ,. but every day is a good day, tomorrow is officially the last day of this four-day pause. and so, the next question will be, whether the possibility of extending that pause for more hostages to be released, and also more palestinian prisoners to be released. that does in fact happen. kieran, one more question for. you do you, know or have any sense about how long it is expected to take until these hostages are crossing into the border to israel? that s a great question. you know, the difficulty is that, while we are hearing that handover has happened, we are not being told exactly what time it happened. so it is incredibly difficult standing here, or frankly for, any of us honestly to know. but based on the experience of the past few days i would say, anytime now, we would get the news that these hostages have indeed been handed over to israeli authorities. and