clinton severe economic sanctions will be imposed if he invades. >> this is the moment for russia to pull back there military buildup at the border. we are going to continue to coordinate closely with our partners on a range of economic sanctions and steps to be taken should president clinton decide to move forward. >> but the kremlin says putin intends to focus the call on a push for a legally binding guarantee that ukraine will not be allowed to join nato is that when imagery shows the massive buildup along ukraine's quarter raising serious concerns among our intelligence agencies. >> we don't believe, we don't know that putin has made up his mind to use force but what we do know is that he's putting the russian military security services in a place where they could act in a sweeping way. >> 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 than anything that has been done before. today's college later this morning it is close to the press. >> griff jenkins putting things kicked off on tuesday. >> former right white house chief of staff rights presents says president biden is more assertive this domestic we and on the world stage. >> the famous phrase of ronald reagan, we maintain peace through strength about the other part of that quote is that weakness only invites aggression and when you are weak at home it invites aggression overseas. >> critics say the president has no room for error after badly botching the us withdrawal from afghanistan. president biden needs to nail this phone call with russian president leonard by saying if you step one towing ukraine you are going to pay for it financially on the world stage and he has to do that, he has to really be strong on this front, not just to stand up to our adversaries but also to make sure our allies know we can still be trusted because that was very much called into question after the afghanistan withdrawal when we left our allies behind. >> will he? does he have a resolve to do so? focusing on the military perspective. from an economic sentence perspective that is quite easy to do but to put american troops, brave men and women in harm's way is a different action entirely and if we saw anything, you need to have that threat so the vladimir putin understands that you mean business and i think a lot of us have many questions as to whether or not president biden is willing to do that, if even can do that. afghanistan was such a debacle on the world stage and it called into question our resolve on so many fronts so much so that you have china and russia sitting back thinking america is weak. carley: you have to wonder why russia is considering invading ukraine, massing 70,000 troops at or near the ukraine border but american intelligence suggests the figure could easily reach 175,000 early next year and the word is if president putin decides to invade that will take place in january. china, there is a big question, will they were won't they invade taiwan and why is it "happening now"? these two things didn't happen under the trump administration, say what you want about the president's style but he made it clear to our enemies they are still our enemies and our adversaries and we will be with them every step of the way. todd: this is the big leagues, republicans blasting biden's diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics urging the president to take action. tennessee senator bill haggerty cited recent experience of chinese tennis star seething in a statement writing, quote, the united states should lead the world in protecting not only our athletes but all athletes from the behavior of the chinese communist party. carley: jen psaki completely dodging any questions related to hunter biden. >> from the chinese investment fund controlled by state owned entities, hoping you could commit to transparency, hoping you could confirm the laptop is authentic. >> the president's son is not an employee of the federal government. no time or interest in exploring or reading the book. >> psaki has alluded to the laptop as being an arm of russian disinformation, the white house has yet to comment on miranda divine's reporting on the laptop. >> dysfunction within vice president harris's office has some questioning the honesty of his staff. the staff are saying in part i work for a vice president harris on behalf of the american people as deputy director for operations and love my job. some of you should know. and psaki pushing back on any reports of bullying saying she did not know if a positive tweet was requested by someone in the vp's office. >> i'm not aware of any asks for a positive tweet or specific tweet was i point you to the vice president's office i work with a number of people in the vice president's office who certainly are looking forward to continuing their jobs. >> this as several high-level staffers exit the office amid reports they do not want to be known as harris people. we will focus on a serious part. >> i want to focus on the tweet. >> look at some of that weeks in response to that, replacing the picture of harris and her husband with a sign of help me. that is the white house we're looking at right now. you saw the full screen of individuals reportedly leaving vice president harris's office and many of those people are going to be going to -- she's almost georgia governor, stacy abrams's office, a picture on the screen again and we will see how this shapes out in the coming days and months. i take harris, you can take the other part, the fact that you have the washington post, no friend of republican policies if you will coming out so adamantly against her, reporting what is happening in her office, called into question her ability to lead, calls into question whether she's right for this job or qualified for this job, if she cannot motivate her staff to stay even when year. >> the washington post we talked about yesterday they spoke to 18 staffers and some of them say it is not just that she was a bully but wasn't willing to put in the work so they would say things like we are propping up a bully for no reason because we are giving her things to read and she is not prepared and yells at us for being unprepared. one of the biggest defenses of the vice president was attacks against her are racist and sexist and you see people criticizing her are in her own house. don't know how you can stand by that line of defense. todd: this is to prop up pete buttigieg. carley: this boils down to the fact the president biden should have picked somebody else. she has very little political experience, 3 years in the senate under her belt, she was a junior senator and she's not a natural politician. she was at a democratic primary, marianne williamson and julian castro. she became vice president because president biden decided to go with the identity politics route and he is suffering the consequences because she is just an unlikable person. todd: embattled x cnn anchor cuomo amid scandal and accusations of sexual misconduct. >> jackie ibanez has details as cuomo is planning legal action against cnn. >> reporter: that is right. chris cuomo has lost his radio show get after it on sirius xm days after he was fired from cnn for investigation revealed he used his position to defend his disgraced brother against accusations of sexual misconduct, the 4 anchor saying the way my time in that cnn was hard. i have a thick skin but i also have a family for whom the past week has been extraordinarily difficult. i have to step back and focus on what comes next. that means i will no longer be doing my sirius xm radio show. cuomo defending his actions last week on the radio show saying his brother has been abandoned by his democratic colleagues. >> you can fight against the other party, you can fight against the media but only if you have your party. he had the republicans hating him. his party was against him and the republicans weren't helping him. >> cuomo saying cnn knew the extent for which he was helping his brother, no secrets between the two, the networks as cuomo's claims are patently false. this as cuomo was reportedly planning to sue the embattled network for the remaining money in his contract, $18 million was a man accusing cnn anchor don lemon of sexual assault says he's glad to see finally held to account of the network which is called predator protecting machine. dustin ice telling fox news they are a network rife with predators and perverts, testify under oath in the near future but good to see there is finally some accountability. they are scheduled to appear in court early next year, his attorney calling accusation against him stemming from a 2018 encounter on long island baseless. a lot going on. jussie smollett will be back on the stand after 5 hours of testimony monday. >> reporter: law former empire start taking the stand in his defense, revealing his victim of a hate crime, khorasan 9 claims that it was a hoax. nutrition and training advice but not to stage any kind of attack. jussie smollett admitting he has a relationship with former brothers known as bola testifying smollett paid in $3,500 to stage the attack. smollett telling the court he was upset the police were called because he never would have done so. his creative director was the one who called police that they. the actor saying he's a black man in america. he does not trust the police. he was also a well-known figure at the time and said he's an openly gay man. police arrived an hour after the alleged attack to find him wearing a ropelike noose around his neck. jussie smollett informed the court he initially took off the road but he instructed them to put it back on so as not to table with any of its. prosecutors say jussie smollett staged the attack because he was unhappy with the empire studios response to hate mail he received. the actresses the studio offered him extra security but he turned it down because it was intruding on his personal life. he also revealed cnn's don lemon tested him, allegedly relating information police did not believe jussie smollett's account of what happened. leventhal. shortly after the 2019 incident that he was in close contact with the actor. don lemon covered the case on his show last night but made no mention of the alleged contact he had with jussie smollett which is you mentioned, he will take the stand today when court resumes, he will be cross-examined by the special prosecutor and trial is expected to wrap up this week. >> thank you. >> candace owens blasting media coverage of the jussie smollett case. >> just imagine if it was reversed. imaginatively to white men pretended two black men had attacked them, what would the media be saying? would be the charges, what would be the demand, this is incredibly racist, meant to cause racial division in this country was at the end of the day he will get a light tap on the wrist if he even gets that. >> new york city mayor bill deblasio bringing a vaccine mandate on private employers across the 5 boroughs, the new policy does not include a testing option. >> this is how we put health and safety first, by ensuring there is a vaccine mandate that reaches everyone. vaccination works and vaccine mandates work. >> the mayor promising more specifics to be released next wednesday but the mandate will take effect on monday december 20 seventh. deblasio's term ends four days later at midnight on new year's eve. >> today marks 80 years since the attack on pearl harbor. in 1941 japan lodging a surprise attack on the us naval base in hawaii, more than 2400 servicemembers and civilians were killed. in addition to the lives lost, nearly 20 american naval vessels including battleships were destroyed along with 300 airplanes, the devastating surprise attack leading to the united states entry into world war ii. the more you read about and see about pearl harbor, the bravery of the men and women that day is unbelievable into those who lost their lives in defense of our country, unbelievable horrible experience that galvanized our country to win that war. >> god bless all those world war ii veterans were still around, so special to our country, really the greatest generation, that is what they are called, they are call that for a reason. >> the 70 fifth anniversary, getting on the plane, one of the survivors sitting in a seat, i got on the plane first and i said thank you for your service and the gentleman nodded. my wife got on after me, said thank you for your service, he was all into my wife. i said after what you've been through, flirt away. it was a cute moment and a beautiful moment. >> call memory for you, 75 years ago, 16 after the hour, democrats downplaying the crime wave in california but the people who live there are set up in doing something about it. talking to woman behind the new effort to oust liberal da george gascon. >> we have a ton of news to get to today. brandon judd, aoc's deputy opponent and congressman carlos jimenez live on a busy tuesday, don't go anywhere. that's a nice truck. yeah, it's the chevy silverado. check out this multi-flex tailgate. multi-flex, huh? wow. it becomes a step. mom, dad's flexing again. that's not all. you can extend the bed for longer stuff. is he still... still flexing. that's 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prepared. we have a very robust campaign. we also financially prepared which we were not in the previous campaign. truthfully, now people are more aware of the debacle that is being caused by george gascon and is directed so now with people being more aware and clearly seeing the crime wave that is taking place in los angeles county, we all want something done. we are tired of this and truthfully in the last 30 years that i've been in law enforcement i have never seen anything like this, both the combination of the crime wave that we have as well as lack of support for law enforcement. i've never seen it da not enforce the law but fight for criminals. jewish case:'s agenda is just to empower criminals to do what they want to do by not punishing their crimes, by not charging allegations with guns, by not charging crimes that are provable. in the last several months there have been over 5000 crimes, provable crime submitted by the la county sheriff's department of the district attorney's office that have been rejected by mister gascon because of his directive. carley: what happened to your husband? tell us about that. >> my husband sergeant steve i was brutally murdered or executed by a violent felon who happened to be on parole. he was a third stryker. at the time he murdered my husband it was before george gascon. at the time we were pursuing the death penalty which was a just punishment for the crime but once george gascon was sworn into office all of that want away. the gun enhancement and special circumstances and allegations, third strike, parole, all of that was gone. so this individual would have only been looking at simple murder, he would potentially serve 12 years or been sentenced to 12 years but because he are ready serve 5 years he served 7 years in prison. >> that's absolutely insane. we are so sorry for your loss. let's look at the other numbers. los angeles, 52,021, robberies over 7500 burglaries, 11,000 los angeles specific crime, homicide of 12.one%, shots fired up 18%. do you think with the primary fitting the palisades, that was while video we saw a little but there's going to be more mentioned to kick gascon out? >> 100% absolutely. everybody is tired of what is going on, the crime wave we are experiencing, these robberies, home robberies his people in our community are scared to go out and all we ask for us to feel safe in our community, to have safe schools, a safe environment and ultimately for the law to be enforced and i believe that now that more people are being victimized because of george gascon's policies everyone will want to be involved. >> you have 160 days to collect 580,000 signatures to advance this effort and you say there's a lot of energy behind this movement for obvious reasons. thank you for sharing your story with us this morning, we appreciate it. >> 25 after the hour, even people in deep blue new york city think the laws's latest vaccine mandate goes too far, maybe policies like that are the reason new 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republican senators david perdue launching campaign for governor georgia government to block stacy abrams from getting the job. >> he wants to transform our state into another failed state like california. your that news about san francisco just now. that is what she wants to bring to georgia. i will stand in the breach and make sure she never does that. todd: she says georgia needs a more conservative agenda, brian kemp is not up to the task. >> i want to illuminate the state income tax, give education of our children back to our parents, i want to make our cities and states safe again. i want to fight biden at every turn on these mandates you call out every night. >> republican national committee chair ron mcdaniel says republicans are feeling very confident ahead of the midterms writing the fox news op-ed, quote, president biden's job approval rating is in freefall and it is not just republicans think so. a recent usa today poll found 59% of voters disapproved of biden's job performance well vice president kamala harris's approval rating sits at an embarrassing 28%, 46% of those surveyed believe biden is doing a star as president than expected including 16% who supported in last year. with biden underwater a red wave is coming as we look ahead to the 2022 midterm elections, democrats every reason to worry. carley: private-sector employees must get vaccinated if they want to continue working in new york city. listen to this. >> we need to take bold action to address these threats. we cannot have shutdowns in new york city. we have to keep moving forward. the answer is to use the things that work. vaccination works and vaccine mandates work. >> republican congressional candidate looking to defeat aoc. joins me. you just heard mayor deblasio, private-sector vaccine mandate, kids age 5 to 11 if they want to go to a restaurant or movie they have to get vaccinated too. if you are a parent and you want to make your own decision for your own child's health, new york city is not the place for you. with your reaction? >> i'm not surprised to be honest. if you look at the mandates, last year alone, deblasio did everything he could to destroy the livelihoods of working-class families and parents and now he's using mandates to essentially destroy the joys of childhood. >> i think it will be to an exodus out of new york city. >> i agree. last year we lost 600,000 jobs and they are not learning the lessons. deblasio and the democratic party will learn the hard way next year once you start missing with families and children you are making a sleeping giant. carley: you are talking about businesses, the partnership for new york city which is a group that includes large corporations like pfizer, pepsico, city, american express released a statement on the vaccine mandate, the business community was blindsided by the immediately from city hall that there will be a vaccine mandate on the city's private-sector employers. inconsistent policies at federal, state, and city little are not helpful and it is unclear who will enforce the mayoral mandate and whether it is even legal so there are also legal questions over this and a worker shortage in new york city. at a vaccine mandate and what is going to happen? >> you're going to see everything plummet. new york will wake up and realize that the democratic party doesn't care about you unless you are a criminal. they should take notes, exercise their constitutional right to peaceably protest and not follow the mandates and the democratic party lawmakers will see this is what people actually went and we can't force them to do what we want because we are elected to do what they want us to do. >> one of the problems is once democrats gain power, they gained a lot of power during the pandemic, they never give it back so first it was a vaccine mandate for city workers, now it is the private-sector, kids, what is next and where will it stop? >> i don't think will ever stop. what's next is more businesses closing down, more people losing their jobs, more crime, aoc, so if you close your business down and stay home your business is ready for the picking from criminals, criminals, right, they can go for your business, take everything and if they go to jail if they are even arrested, they want to defend the police, they will be right out. >> is pushing bail reform even further. another topic sure to fire up, the cato institute did a study and found that new york was the least free state of all 50 states. the top 5 least free, new york, hawaii, california, new jersey, oregon, the most free states, you have to, florida, nevada, tennessee and south dakota. red states, some purple mixed in, this is pretty much split down party lines. >> if you really think about it it is not a surprise that new york is ranked dead last in terms of freedoms because we have so many democratic policies and restrictions on us. it is been 20 years in a row dead last, california is crazy because with california the only thing you would think they have enough to worry about the wildfires, on top of that they have to worry about democratic people in office destroying -- >> that's how we are seeing people moving to states like texas and florida because americans want their freedom and that is where you can get it. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. todd: everyone is talking about this next store, a ceo gives 900 employees the pink slip right before the holidays over a zoom call. >> if you are on this call you are part of the unlucky group being laid off. >> wow. hopefully our next guest will be able to share story and give us a little bit of insight as to what went down. you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. our friend sold their policy to help pay their medical bills, and that 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hours. the region has seen worth 100,000 illegal encounters since october first, 163% increase from the same time period last year. iowa senator chuck grassley and many republican slamming potential state and local tax repeal a democrat proposed spending bills many gop lawmakers note repealing the south e help the ultra rich. grassley saying democrats always want you to believe they are always worried about the middle class, in this particular time build back better really stands for blue state billionaire bailout. according to the urban institutions tax policy center, repealing the assault plan would give middle-class families an average tax cut of just $20 while almost all tax benefits would go to the top 20% of us earners. interesting. todd: the ceo digital mortgage company better.com make the shocking announcement in a zoom call as we enter the holiday season. >> i do not want to do this. last time i did i cried. we are laying off 15% of the company. >> you got to be kidding me. >> efficiency. if you are on this call, you are part of the unlucky group being laid off. todd: unlucky? a callous word. melissa, walk us through what is going through your mind when you are on this call. >> hearing it right now again, i tried to refrain from seeing it all over the internet as it is been going viral. it is my life. it is really emotional and devastating and i'm sitting in the exact spot where i got laid off speaking to you now. a wave of emotions come over me. >> all of this happening while you are pregnant in your first trimester. how are you dealing with the stress coming at you at once? >> i'm actually in my second trimester. it is a lot more difficult because at this point i am showing and it is very evident. i'm trying not to stress myself out, trying not to think too much about the future and be in the present moment and stay positive about benefits that i have, family, support because it is difficult as a working woman, thinking about trying to find a job which is why i was so skeptical about coming on today and revealing this as i have been actively applying to remote positions only because it is not something you want to volunteer information. >> the law does protect you regardless of pregnant or not. there is no discrimination allowed but somehow employers often get around that. are you confident you're going to land a job in light of the fact that it's a good time for employees to find work? >> i'm confident that i will find a job the title really fortunate the labor market is really tight right now and there are tons of positions available so i do feel confident about it but of course being that this is the first time i have ever actively started applying for a job while pregnant and now everybody knows, i knew this story was bigger than my personal situation, this story represents millions of women who have been terminated and been pregnant at the same time, my heart goes out to you because it is horrible. >> this is happening amidst a $750 million cash infusion into this company. doesn't that add insult to injury? >> absolutely. there have been so many things that added insult to injury in the coming days. i was actually on linkedin the day after i got laid off. i go to some of the executive pages and they say we are hiring and to see that is so -- wow. we are not even going to pretend we care about the emotional impact or think about empathy so that has been just a reoccurring theme in the way things have transpired. >> i don't understand why any ceo much less any human would operate like this. unbelievable. you -- wish you the best of luck for the job search and the best of luck with the baby and everything going forward, we are praying for you. carley: president biden facing a series of foreign-policy test starting with today's high-stakes call with vladimir putin plus mounting pressure over the beijing olympics and in iran nuclear deal falling apart as we speak. we have a live report from overseas. carley: to you about this? some bagel shops in new york city our days away from running out of cream cheese amid supply-chain shortages. joining me is the owner of bagel smith and the owner of long island bagel café in scarsdale. good morning to you both. odd problem. how big a problem is this for you >> a big problem right now. clean jesus is an essential part of our business. i go 300 pounds of cream cheese a week and last week i was scouring the area trying to find any bit of cream cheese. i had a vendor who got some in at the last minute but i'm concerned, am i going to have enough to get me through this week to next week? >> new yorkers love their bagels and your cafés in brooklyn, new york but what you found out about this cream cheese shortage, what did you do? >> i called all my distributors and a lot of them helped me out. we been doing business a long time but it wasn't enough. i needed more cream cheese. i wouldn't have made it through. i got on the phone. somewhere in north jersey, an hour and a half away, i have it but you have to come out here so i ordered 2000 pounds of cream cheese, drove up personally, three times, an hour and a half each way, my store stocked it up and we will use that, hopefully it lasts and if i got to do it again if i can do it again i will be driving. >> you said you have 2000 pounds of cream cheese, how long will that last and what will you do you run out and can't find anymore? >> it lasts until january 31st. until then. if i run out i am out of it but i'm looking every day. >> hopefully by january this will get clearer. times, the parent, the philadelphia cream cheese say they are seeing a 35% spike in demand free cream cheese, sound like a lot of restaurant owners are panic buying and the truck driver shortage, all these supply-chain issues are making the problem worse. if you run out of cream cheese what happens to your business? >> same thing that happens to frank's is probably the most important part of my business outside bagels is cream cheese. without it we are in trouble. i am hoping obviously this is something that ends pretty quick but from what i have seen the last couple months, it tends to linger a little bit. we have to scour the area and if you have to drive an hour and a half or two hours do it. carley: mayor deblasio announced a vaccine mandate that all private-sector businesses, what is your reaction to that? >> i think it is a bad idea. most of my staff is vaccinated but some people have had covert and have antibodies and don't want to get the vaccine. donating convalescent plasma to fight this disease, they don't want to get it and i feel terrible, you can't force them to get it. that's what they are trying to do. >> a lot of other business owners are being put in the same position, thank you both for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. carley: what is going on? >> take a look at some international news stories hitting you this morning, president biden and russian president vladimir putin will meet today for a videoconference to discuss escalating tensions over the ukrainian border were new satellite images is like this one show a growing russian presence was us forces believe about 175,000 russian troops could invade as early as next year. the meeting agenda will include strategic stability and cybersecurity. as far as other international diplomacy time is running out on iran's nuclear talks. during the seventh round of talks the country walked back from all compromises it previously made to revive the 2015 nuclear deal putting more weight on the position of russia and china. secretary of state anthony blinken commenting both of those countries are frustrated with iran. meanwhile, hosting the winter olympics in two months, the white house is announcing a diplomatic boycott of the beijing games over, quote, ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity. beijing fire back calling the decision a self directed political farce. it is also threatening other 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