new year the new record at our southern border bridge sources tell fox news there have been at 286,000 migrant encounters in december. about is the highest monthly total ever. meanwhile president biden is spending the week vacationing in the u.s. virgin islands. critics say should be here handling the border crisis with more urgency. hello welcome to fox news live i am rich edson eric shawn and arthel that will have the week off. molly: i am molly line by the president for us to usher in 2024 to the caribbean sun his poll numbers are underwater. a new fox news poll finds more than half of voters surveyed, 53% said 2023 was a bad year for them personally. two thirds said it was a bad year for the country. lucas and thomas what is traveling with president biden he is in sync st. croix with mon all of this, lucas also under the caribbean sun, to you for quickset is right. president biden bringing in the new year despite a record number of migrants on the southern border. molly
and you know, saying they re illegal et cetera. what i see, is that this means that russians, russian citizens in those cities, are seeing they are being attacked and they are not defended by the russian government and that is going to, i believe, over time, generate more questions about why are they fighting this war. you re already seeing that kind of sentiment grow in russia since the mobilization back in september. we have credible public opinion polls that are showing that. i think this will fuel even further doubts about why are they fighting this war. what about putin? i think zelenskyy, you know, it s been very difficult for the government of zelenskyy and his officials to fight this war with one hand tied behind their back. they have to wait and be attacked by putin and then they can t counterattack. i think this does signal a new level that they re willing and going to try to do so.
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showed a large fire with smoke trailing for miles. similar explosions rocked two other bases on monday killing three military personnel and injurying four others. ukraine has not taken responsibility for the attacks. joining me now from kyiv is nbc s ellison barber. what is the latest? reporter: these strikes are really interesting because they appear to be very significant. ukraine, they re not explicitly claiming responsibility for the attacks, but in terms of the first two you mentioned yesterday morning, very far deep into russian territory, russia says those were carried by ukrainian forces and that they used soviet drones to carry out these attacks. those are particularly significant. the one that happened this morning inside russian territory is as well, but you see the one that happened this morning is closer to the ukrainian border.
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