russia is trying to capture the small yet somewhat strategic town, and thought is if russia could capture this small town it will help them launch toward some of the biggest cities just to the north. however, u.s. intelligence agencies, as well as nato now saying they believe we could see a slowdown in the fighting, especially as the winter gets worse and worse as we get deeper into that season. thinking that both sides are going to resupply and get ready for a major counter offensive in the spring. john. john: jeff, thank you. sandra: team coverage continues with chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon for us. how concerned is the pentagon the new republican-led house will try to curtail support for ukraine? pretty concerned, sandra. that classified briefing just began moments ago on capitol hill. defense secretary austin and general mark milley are joined
hacked material given that there was so much concern, especially after the 2018 foreign interference situation that that could be something that we would see in that election, so i m wondering if there was that communication surrounding the hunter biden laptop story. i can t speak to decisions made by the campaign from here, that is not it is a political campaign so i can t speak to that from here. i m covered by the hatch act and i m not going to comment on the question that you are asking me, but what i can say more broadly is of course it s up to these companies to make their own decision about the content on their platforms and to ensure content follows their own standards and policies, but i m just not going to comment on a decision that was made during the campaign. i have two questions for you. following the explosion near the border with ukraine sandra: jacqui heinrich getting in a couple questions live at the white house press
john: we have your attention yet? welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. good to be with you this wednesday. sandra: and the store in new york opened and we grabbed one, john. that story coming up. we have a copy of that controversial book to see what is inside of it. let s say if you are one of the millions of girls who grew up with one of those dolls of your own, this is not, or probably not the american girl you remember. we are going to give you all of that new four this hour. but we begin new at 2:00, with a fox news alert. fox news alert on capitol hill, the senate getting a closed door briefing on vladimir putin s war on ukraine as he warns the threat of nuclear war is rising. sandra: congress has spent billions of dollars helping to defend ukraine and there are warnings the u.s. stockpile of weapons is running low, that we
with russia, and we cannot submit to nuclear blackmail. let russia or china or iran when they get nuclear weapons, will happen soon if we don t take action, can t let them dictate what our foreign policy will be because they have nukes. that s the reason we have a nuclear arsenal. we need to modernize the nuclear forces and will keep us safe. i would not read too much into what putin is saying, i think he s rattling the sabers to get advantage against ukraine. not too much to worry about at this time. john: and xi jinping is strengthening his ties with saudi arabia, touched down in riyadh to great fanfare. china counts as saudi arabia s biggest trading partner. what s the risk to the united states of xi jinping cozying up to the saudi leadership? opportunistic. the summit was scheduled some time ago, so it s not a recent
increasingly grateful today to find out that their power is slowly coming back on and that has a big part to do with the crews working around the clock to restore basic utilities after this latest massive strike by russian forces. what we have not seen yet is how russia is going to respond after they claimed ukraine attacked them again within their own border. it was just yesterday that russia reported yet another drone attack, this time at an air field. it happened in the russia southern region. and when asked about the strikes in russia, secretary of state anthony blinken had this to say. we have neither encouraged nor enabled the ukrainians to strike inside of russia, but the important thing is to understand what ukrainians are living through every day with the ongoing russia aggression against their country. fighting is still continuing in the east.