thousands of illegal immigrants thanks to president biden s open border policies. if the mayor wants a solution, she should call on president biden to take immediate action to secure the border, something he has failed to do. certainly a challenge here in washington, and mayor bowser taking that concern directly to the d.c. national guard. whitney, we know you will continue to follow this. whitney wild in d.c., thank you. and new day continues right now. i m john berman with breanna keeler. the justice prepares a case to force trump advisers to testified in the january 6th investigation. biden administration officials fr frustrated at moscow s lack of a response to the proposed prisoner swap. and members of the controversial saudi-backed golf league are teeing off at trump s new jersey golf course. september 11th families are also going to be there and they are not happy. and conservative supreme court justice samuel alito
we understand that technically weaponwise, russia is still prevailing. they outnumber us, they outgun us. and what we need is weapons, of course. and we need to be much more powerful. we should have much greater firepower than the russians, not by several units, but by time. our huge benefit and our huge advantage over russia would be when we are truly united, when every country is dead sure what side it is on. next on gps, i ll talk to the president of poland, ukraine s neighbor to the northwest, even as warsaw offers great assistance to kyiv, it looks wearily at moscow.
we understand that technically weaponwise, russia is still prevailing. they outnumber us, they outgun us. and what we need is weapons, of course. and we need to be much more powerful. we should have much greater firepower than the russians, not by several units, but by time. our huge benefit and our huge advantage over russia would be when we are truly united, when every country is dead sure what side it is on. next on gps, i ll talk to the president of poland, ukraine s neighbor to the northwest, even as warsaw offers great assistance to kyiv, it looks wearily at moscow. we believe there s an innovator in all of us.
to three weeks of food and water but the war started two months ago. to be honest, i m surprised they still have food and water in the shelters and we couldn t get any help into mariupol because the rugs did not allow us to do this humanitarian convoys into the city. reporter: the prospects of holding the plant and mariupol look grim. controlling it means putin would control land stretching from crimea to western russia, a long-held goal. even if mariupol falls and these poor people are killed and transported away, it doesn t mean russia will hold it. the ukrainians are getting better and better organized, better and better equipped and going to continue fighting. reporter: out today, mariupol s mayor called the situationality that plant a humanitarian catastrophe, accused the russian military of again continuing to shell the factory, also praised it, erin, as a fortress for those soldier and see civilians inside. over at moscow, the united nations secretary-general visited wit
mary bruce at the white house. reporter: tonight, the white house says it is deeply concerned about russian plans block facebook as the kremlin is cracking down on the press. vladimir putin signing a law tonight, making it a crime to spread what the russian government considers fake news about the conflict in ukraine. the maximum penalty, 15 years in jail. independent russian news outlets have always found it difficult to operate. now it s impossible. the staff at moscow s last independent tv station walking off set as their final symbolic broadcast played out, swan lake, the ballet that played on state tv at the fall of the soviet union. some networks, including abc news, are not broadcasting from the country. we don t want to find that out the hard way, by finding that someone has said something which we believe to be true or used words which are now