to fly out of washington, d.c. until the 6:00 p.m. tonight. instead, they very quietly gathered a press pool and left yesterday about 4:15. the president appeared in kyiv, not on his original itinerary. we were told he was just coming to poland to commemorate the one year anniversary of the russian invasion instead he droons into an active war zone. the new york times is reporting that he took an hour s long train ride from poland into the ukrainian capital that is besieged by the russians right now and while there he announced an extra half a billion dollars in new u.s. security assistance. listen. that announcement includes artillery ammunition for himars and howitzers, nor javelins, raiders, they will protect the people from aerial bombardments. he rattled off a lot of different kinds of assistance. it is all equipment that the u.s. has given ukraine so far. ukrainians van v. been asking for f-16s that s not on the list of things the president gave as half a billion do
neil: democratic congressman henry cuellar in the last hour talking about revelations that were shocking and released late on a friday night. that s what happens with a lot of information that could be very embarrassing to authorities, but in this particular case extremely embarrassing anybody for everyone in this country. 251,000 plus migrant encounters at the border last month. we have never seen that, forget about in any december, in any month in our history like ever, ever, ever. griff jenkins in eagle pass, texas with the ramifications of that. my friend, to you. griff: neil, that s unbelievable. that s the population of scottsdale and the border agents are exhausted. and let me take you to our drone in the sky and lift you up. in this is where they have more than 160,000 crossings here in this fiscal year so far and that s just one sector alone. as you take a look at this crossing here, title 42, people just going across moments ago. and the video that we shot before th
i m across the city at the kayll road, one of sunderland s warm spaces as at survey conducted on the half of the bbc say many people are delaying putting the heating on this winter to try to save cash. the other main headlines this morning: a report on failings in maternity care at the east kent hospitals trust is to be published families have been warned it s likely to be harrowing. good morning. a terrific turnaround from crystal palace they come from behind to beat wolves in the premier league, with wilfried zaha s winner sending them up to tenth in the table. we are in for another unseasonably mild day across much of the uk and we also have some rain pushing up the western side of the country. the sunnier skies will be in the outer hebrides and parts of the southeast. i will have all the details later. good morning. it s wednesday, 19th october. welcome to the national glass centre here in sunderland. we are here to talk about the rising cost of living and how it s af
about gas prices as inflation weighs on the democrats and the battle for control of congress and putin s new martial law order just took effect in parts of ukraine illegally annexed by russia. we ll have live reports from kyiv and moscow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with a major development in the probe of former president trump s claims of election fraud. a federal judge says trump signed legal documents continuing evidence he knew to be false. our justice correspondent is working the story for us. jessica, walk us through what happened. well significantly, wolf, this is the second time that a federal judge out of california, david carter, has said that the former president likely committed a crime. now this is all related to e-mails from johnny spoon, an attorney who was the architect pushing these baseless claims of election fraud. what the judge has done here is he has sa