we have fox team coverage with matt finn on the ground in mission, texas along our southern border but let s begin with nate foy live in new york with more on the astronomical price tag. it is. according to city memo on taped by the new york post the city spends average r average $364 every single day of each migrant household and right now the city is housing 30,000 migrants. you do the math, works out to just under 13,000 households. many of the migrants live in humanitarian relief centers that the city not only paid for construction of but on the hook for daily care of migrants. according to post with the daily per diem with $364 per household. the city is spending nearly $5 million every single day on migrants and estimated $4.2 billion this fiscal year and next ending june 2024. new york city council republican leader joe borelli tells fox the amount of aid coming from the state and federal governments is laughable. fema provided $8 million in december which is two day
think this is caused a bad situation to get worse. blinken supposedly saying, well, look, we support peace talks or peace agreement under an agreement that zelenskyy put forward. that agreement is not viable. i mean, this administration is not seriously about peace talks, is not serious about end game for the conflict. we know the british, the french, the germans, they are talking about this to zelenskyy, biden has to put forward a solid and realistic peace plan to end the conflict. griff: do you believe that the administration is being tough enough on china with respect specifically in case of taiwan? no, i think the administration has played down origins of covid virus and repeated administrations on biden s weakness on the world stage has emboldened china and other u.s. enemies to try things they would not is tried in other circumstances. we ve had so many missed
after they happen. that did not happen last week when president zelenskyy announced that the secretary of state and secretary of defense were coming before they arrived. clearly they are working out how to have the visits and announcing it later. and nancy pelosi has tweeted a video and also says that they want to continue the visit in poland, obviously talking to that nato ally about what comes next and what more that they can do. and i know you ve been on the ground for some weeks now and following the situation in pec mariupol closely. every day we think there is hope for an evacuation. 20 people when there are thousands in desperate need. are we hearing anything on the ground that that perhaps was some kind of a test run to being have a e evacuate more civilians? reporter: we are certainly seeing it as such. it is difficult to get information out of mariupol
his support for ukraine by even increasing the support by asking congress for additional support. and then now here is nancy pelosi with a senior congressional delegation. the united states is sending a message, clearly that they are in it for the long haul to support ukraine. we saw the video that president zelenskyy put out announcing that the meeting had taken place. in that meeting he strongly thanked the united states saying that the united states is a, quote, leader in supporting ukraine in its fight against russia. clearly very appreciative of the fact that the speaker of the house came here on this unannounced visit. meanwhile we heard from the speaker herself in that meeting. i d like to play you some of what she said. we believe that we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom, and your fight is a fight for everyone. and so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is
a belt around kyiv, without any war, without any resistance, just in engineering terms, you would need probably five months to build it. so it is going to go on for years, if they really want to take kyiv. do you think that russia and vladimir putin underestimated the nature of the zelenskyy government and this sort of citizen hybrid fighting corp? i think he got annoyed. because, you know, for outside observers, zelenskyy is a surprise. and has been a steady pattern of zelenskyy defying putin in over the last couple of years and it started with zelenskyy put under house arrest per russian oligarchs. people who the previous president had dared to touch and then once russia started disrupting energy supplies last year and sort of trying to