0 vladimir putin and the russians while the ukrainians are being killed before our eyes right now today, here and now. trace: here and now. yeah. congresswoman tenney, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. continuing coverage of the breaking news you see life pictures right there, kyiv, ukraine. the war is on. now to a fox news alert. air raid sirens heard across ukraine from the capital of kyiv. ukraine is under martial law. explosions rocking ukraine as russia on launches an attack. it s only the beginning. a full-scale invasion. a defiant ukrainian president says he s not going anywhere. he vows his people will stand and they will fight. hello, everyone. i am trace gallagher with continuing live team coverage of the crisis in eastern europe. it s 11:00 p.m. here in los angeles, 9:00 in the morning now and kyiv, a dark morning for the people there. and around the world. for months we ve been watching the buildup of russian forces along ukraine s sovereign border. just a few hour
this as the white house and pentagon dodging questions on the potential for deploying us troops. is president biden prepared for the possibility of us military involvement in ukraine? i m not going to get ahead of the president s conversation. any discussion about increasing military aid? i m not going to get ahead of decisions the administration may or may not make. several republicans are waiting in calling on the president to send letter of the firm message on today s call. reporter: what will president biden say in the meeting? not to invade ukraine. there are a number of sanctions that could be put in place. reporter: among sanctions under consideration can rush off from the international swift banking system would go farther
surrender in afghanistan contributed to this sense of mush on the world stage to use that saying. if you confront the united states you will confront mush. we need to put steel in the spine of american foreign policy. otherwise we won t just be talking about afghanistan or ukraine. we will be talking about the loss of taiwan and the loss of u.s. global leadership. john: and mush in crimea as well. the threat of being kicked out of the swift system might makeim thank twice. appreciate it. sandra: the final days of the year the question remains: how many americans are still left in afghanistan at this moment? rich hudson live on that in washington. hi, rich. that s still unclear. officials said the number of americans trying to leave
giant and a terrible resolve will result. that s where we are today. we will have festivities today. all those vets are 96 years old or older and only a handful remain. john: we are losing them. it was 80 years ago today that happened. william good to have you covering it. thank you very much. have you ever been there to the arizona memorial? sandra: i have not. president biden marked the occasion by thanking the greatest generation who guided our nation through some of the darkest moments and laid the foundation for a system that transformed adversaries into allies. we remember them today. john: stunning. 80 years has gone by. sandra: fox news alert on new testimony from actor jussie smollett who just finished his
removing russia and blocking them from the system they rely on for international financial trance actions. trance actions. transactions. president biden voiced the deep concerns about russia escalation of forces around the ukraine. president supported ukraine sovereignty. it goes on to say: the first conversation will happen today right after the putin and biden call. the white house said that biden will speak to the leaders of france, germany and the u.k. bloomberg is reporting that the u.s. will pressure germany to stop the pipeline in russia