second term agenda. >> we have great common sense and a lot of smart people in this room in the lobby of that love our country beyond just about all else. >> john: a big afternoon we are back, hello i am john roberts in washington. this is one of those thursdays, sandra. we have a lot of energy from the news. >> sandra: you have to keep watching you never know. i'm sandra smith in new york this is "america reports" great to be with you, john. president biden back on the world stage with his foreign policy agenda in full focus but also marking the first time he is facing reporters since his son became a convicted felon. >> sandra: mike >> john: fox team coverage starting now martha maccallum with analysis. >> sandra: but starting with peter doocy on the white house north one of the president's remarks, peter. >> white house officials with all this talk about ukraine at g7 they want the world to know they have given ukraine the okay to use u.s. weapons against russian targets inside russia but we have this new map from the study of the institute of war, excuse me which shows 84% of the weapons the u.s. is giving the ukraine can't be used against targets there for example the u.s. weapons cannot hit any russian airbases in russia or the majority of russian air defenses. the biden team is hoping to lock in their support overall for ukraine with the new agreement a few minutes from now. they're hoping to make it harder for future presidents including may be trump to leave ukraine hanging. >> we are committing to support ukraine as it builds up its defenses for the next ten years. this is a demonstration to vladimir putin that he cannot outlast ukraine. he can't outlast us, he can't outlast all of ukraine's partners. >> the russians are also conducting naval exercises in the caribbean but defense official is telling us know that his routine and they did not consider it a threat to the united states right now. sandra? >> sandra: peter, how is the biden administration reacting to formal president trump being there in washington today as we just heard from him? >> if trump is going to be in capitol hill neighborhood they want people focused on the capitol riots from january of 2021 so here is a few seconds worth of their new campaign ad. >> we will give them pardons. >> fighting them to try again. there is nothing more sacred than our democracy. donald trump ready to burn it all down. >> that is something the biden brain trust is putting out there is debate prep begins so that is a theme we would expect to continue throughout the rest of this month. sandra? >> sandra: peter doocy live in the white house for us thank you. john? >> john: all right let's bring in martha maccallum anchor and executive editor of "the story" so let's listen to a little bit about what donald trump said and this cuts against the idea that politics ends of the water's edge, kind of unwritten policy campaigns a go. listen to what he said. >> we are in decline eight declining nation gang laughed out all over the world. we have a leader being left out all over the world. will turn it around fast. >> john: with the other six leaders of the g7 trump is saying he is a leader in decline. >> sandra: it was a forceful statement obviously national security number one on any president's list or in the to washington because he is running again so this is highly unusual. none of us have lived in this experience and a presidential election where the last guy wants to come back and i think it's not lost on any of us when you look at that january 6th theme to biden commercial that just came out, the campaign that just came out that these kinds of moments with the former president returning to washington talking about national security, talking about the very uncomfortable reality of russian ships off the coast of the united states, he is trying to sort of step on some of those images and say look, here i am, we are having good conversations, i am unified with the party and we take all of this very seriously and we want to have a very strong stick as teddy roosevelt would say when it comes to foreign policy, john. >> sandra: martha, great to have you on here as we do await the joint news conference that should be helping a short time from now. we do know the former president has spent a lot of time in the past 44 hours meeting with g.o.p. leaders and lawmakers and trying to unify the party and their message. there was this moment with mitch mcconnell on the trump meeting in washington yesterday and i want to get your reaction to it listen up. >> three years ago after the capital was attacked, i would support our nominee regardless what was. including him. i have said earlier this year i would support him come he hasn't earned the nomination from the voters all across the country. >> sandra: obviously an important moment what you tell us? >> mitch mcconnell has had his problems with donald trump the former president no doubt about that. trump has us at some elite unkind things about mcconnell and mcconnell has done the same about from. but mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader, minority leader of the moment, is if nothing else the ultimate capitol hill pragmatist. he wants to be on the side of what he thinks he can pass legislatively. he sees, clearly, the writing on the wall that the nominee is the former president donald trump and he wants to do what is best for his party and best for the principles and policies he likes to see enacted so i think what you're seeing here is the very practical side of mitch mcconnell today. >> john: donald trump again has her marks with the fact the russian war ships are steaming towards cuba just 30 miles off the coast of florida. he said that never would've happened on his watch. "the washington post" reported the following saying whatever russian warships doing in the caribbean? one russian reporter described the visit as retaliation for biden's decision to allow ukraine to strike inside russia with american weapons. and i'm wondering how trump would have responded if russia had pulled a stunt like that on his administration. and the fact that trump says the war in ukraine never would've happened. that "washington post" story makes a lot of sense, right? it seems logical they would send these ships. their navy has been very badly damaged by the ukraine and so this is a strong show of force by russia. i find it very odd, john and sandra, that the reaction from the white house is this is nothing out of the ordinary. you know, meanwhile the people and give us a we've never seen a nuclear sub before. so this is obviously a provocative show of force. my question is how long are they going to stay? will they become permanent fixtures 100 miles off the coast of key west? so i think it's strange and it's provocative and i don't know if that is the tone we will hear from the president when we hear from him moments from now with volodymyr zelenskyy but clearly this is intentional and it's meant to send a message. >> sandra: as dan hoffman just said it's interesting you see this all happened just months before the election and the president, former president just mentioned this, obviously we will hear with the current president has to say about this but martha, when the former president stepped out to speak a few moments ago, not only did he talk but he also talked order. it seemed right off the top that that was a priority for him. fresh off his multiple meetings with g.o.p. leaders and g.o.p. lawmakers, interesting to see where he will prioritize his messaging when it comes to the border, the economy, war and policy and where that will be. >> i think he is doing what has worked in the past. he knows this is a deep concern for americans because he sees it all over the polling. when he came down that escalator in 2015 he talked about the fact that the border needed to be secured. so i think he sees this as a very winning issue for him and also just as a deeply disturbing issue as an american citizen himself. so i think these things lined up together. i think if you were to win i would imagine you would see border action on day one. >> he will also have the opportunity to say what he did in of action to what biden did in his administration. he actually had an effect would biden has done now has not any effect. we will see you at 3:00 this afternoon. >> sandra: see you at 3:00, thank you. >> john: that will be a major point of contrast to say look, i issued executive orders remain in mexico policy and things like that and actually saw a decline in illegal immigration. biden signs an executive order, nothing on the border changes as we have seen through bill melugin in his reporting. speak to possibly it to get worst after the action taken by this president. john as we alert to pisano italy these life pictures are up right now little more activity on screen as we anticipate president biden and this joint press conference with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy's so we will look for that and take it live. we have mike walz on deck. >> john: yes and all of that. got right here. see ya. 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's view on the president said something about for them to get that close to the united states now they are in cuba conducting war games. you kind of wonder russia seems to be laughing at biden. >> look, no, sorry don i didn't mean to interrupt you i was saying biden is finally giving zelinski permission to actually use the weapons. he trickles them in too little too late and then put handcuffs rather than just giving them what they need to win to drive this to some sort of negotiated solution but in terms of our own hemisphere, president trump was incredibly alarmed by the show of force pollutant is trying to demonstrate here by having warships right off florida's coast armed with hypersonic muscles, nuclear powered submarine, and this is layered on top of what the chinese are doing all over central south america and with spy bases in cuba as well. so look, i mean, our southern border is wide open. terrorism is back, our adversaries are by and large, are allies like israel are being severely, severely threatened. i mean, you are seeing a world where deterrence is public and it's all because of weakness in this white house. you can have the most capable military and the world, john, but if our adversaries don't fear our political will to use it effectively, then that's what we are seeing right now. around the world. >> sandra: congressman i will ask you about these meetings former president donald trump has been having on capitol hill. his first return there since leaving office, the first return since obviously the vote guilty verdict as well. he has been holding these meetings with the goal of unifying the party talking strategy and talking policy, obviously. he said this on unity, i'll get your reaction. >> tremendous unity in the republican party. want to see borders, we want to see strong military, we want to see money not wasted all over the world. we don't want to see russian ships right off the coast of florida, which is what they are at now that is on think will. want to see just success for our country. >> sandra: is there unity in the republican party? >> i thought this morning's meeting went incredibly well. there was optimistic and there was a lot of discussion about policy and hitting the ground running come january of 2025 if we would have both houses and the white house which i fully expect we will, he spent about half the meeting talking about doing tele- town halls, campaigning for house members, helping us drive turnout. i mean, the man is under full assault in the judiciary with a weaponized judiciary, he has his own presidential campaign and yet he spends half the morning talking about how he is going to help us grow our majority in the house and then from a policy standpoint of course it was border, border, border, near and dear to my heart, i cosponsor the authorization of the use of military force on the cartels was to put the cartels on their back foot, secure the border, re-energize our economy, interestingly he was talking about president mckinley, sandra. and his use of tariffs as a national security tool. mean, going back to the tariff act of 1887 he was talking about eisenhower's deportation campaign, so he is really thinking quite a bit about those first 100 days and all the work we have to do together to dig out of this holding by demonstration has put us in. >> john: let me come back to something you said a moment ago and i'm sorry, i didn't realize what you were saying when you jumped in there. you have the full capitol hill reverb behind you, sometimes it's difficult to hear exactly what you're saying in the moment there. but you said finally president biden is cutting his security agreement with ukraine and allowing them to do what it takes to strike russian forces behind the front lines. but there is a good possibility that if president trump gets reelected a lot of that may go away. >> what i was saying, john, president biden keeps giving them weapons about a year or two after they've asked for them. and then he puts handcuffs and restrictions, maybe some long-range missiles but says you cannot use them when the russians are sitting right over the border, i think for president trump's perspective and i've talked to him about this, it's how do we end this? what is the strategy? what's in line with our interests? he is very concerned with obviously with the nuclear saber rattling not just happening with russia but potentially happening with iran, north korea, china, them tripling the nuclear arsenal right now as we speak, but there is a difference in how do we end that war versus the current stalemate we are in with no end in sight, no strategy, and again, let's just go back to energy policy. to dry up two and richard to adversaries in rush's war machine by driving down the price of oil hand by the way helping inflation here at home. were killing three birds with one stone. so i think he is looking at the situation much broader, much more strategically in the next month we have the nato summit right here in washington, d.c., have 11 of 31 nato nations meaning the bare minimum of 2% of their defense. we literally with 35 trillion in debt cannot afford to continue to subsidize european security any longer in the big countries like germany, france, italy i've got to step up for their own defense. we could be allies and have tough conversations like that and i think president trump's rearing to go and do just that. >> sandra: real quick finally one other clip cut from former president donald trump's speaking a few moments ago on making america great. >> one thing in common we want to make america great again and we want to make our country great again, we are a nation into client, we are a declining nation. we are a nation being left out all over the world. we have a leader being laughed at all over the world. and we will turn it around and turn it around fast. >> sandra: and pointing out the timing of it, he delivered those remarks after his meetings on capitol hill just minutes from hearing from the current sitting president, joe biden and fasano italy with ukraine's zelinski. that's happening moments from now. i wanted your reaction to that, congressman. >> look, i think what president trump fundamentally understands is that yes, we have to have the world's greatest most technologically superior best trained military but our true strength is our economy and our eco