come back again soon. i'm elizabeth mcdonald, you have been watching the evening edit on foxbusiness, that does it for us, thank you for watching and we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ ♪♪ kennedy: could be the most important generational speech in the most consequential of president biden's career thus far but with more russia and considerable problems here at home, where the president deliver? here we go, live look at capitol hill right now. in exactly two hours the president will give his very first state of the union address, 5000 miles away in ukraine the situation continues to deteriorate but make no mistake, ukrainians are still fighting back hard but vladimir

putin has begun to turn up the heat even more indiscriminate bombing, civilians slaughtered and reports russians have begun using thermo barrack vacuum bomb. more on that later in the show but ukrainians in the president are still very defiant and begging for more help from the u.s., eu and nato. >> as far as no-fly zone, it's helped a lot. this is not about dragging nato countries into work. everyone has long been dragged into war and not by ukraine but russia. kennedy: yeah because they are a bunch of jerks but no-fly zone, not a great idea. i will august factor into tonight speech? the president obviously is mindful the a macro public doesn't have an appetite to drag into another faraway conflict especially after the humiliating afghanistan exit but the stakes are arguably higher this time.

if the taliban have them putin is essentially starting to get some soap when president biden stepped up to the podium, will he flexed back? is the best idea? chief legal anchor and host special report that concluded on the fox news channel but he's going to helm the entire broadcast for the rest of the night. brett baier is here, welcome back. let's talk about the state of the union. what is the state of the union from your perspective? you interview people but also have inside sources. >> present was being honest, the state of the union of people around the country skeptical, it's agitated, not happy as a look at inflation and gas prices and what they are paying at the grocery store, it will only go up with what's happening in ukraine. i was at the white house today,

they invite anchors who cover the state of the union to meet with president, republicans, democrats, back to when i took over in 2009, every year they do this, talk about off record some of a substance in the speech but also give a sense of what they are thinking. the speech will lead with ukraine promote the world focus. you mentioned the want to keep the u.s. out, that's this president clear want and need to make this clear, it's not something the u.s. will get involved in to avoid world war iii. that said, there's a lot of talk about unity with nato countries and speaking with one voice on sanctions. as you know, the dangers obviously putin and unpredictable he is and what happens if he goes into a nato country or cyber, what we are compelled to do. kennedy: the president and vice president and a lot of people within the administration have

been talking about article five, obviously prematurely because ukraine is not a nato country so that not activated at this time but putin is already talking about nuclear conflict. how does the president count down the rhetoric and what did he say to you and the reporters about the possibility of a nuclear conflict? >> he said publicly the other day americans shouldn't worry and i think there's going to be an element to that in the speech tonight. he believes putin essentially according to his senior officials inside the white house said he is using this to kind of make mistakes clear the u.s. should not be getting an in any way, shape or form so that's why they put the forces on higher alert. i think this speech is really going to say we support ukraine but we are not fighting their

battle and you nato countries together according to speak to sanction putin until he backs down. the problem is, nobody in the intelligence community's believe putin is backing down. kennedy: i didn't think you would and bait, i really didn't and a lot of people say he's not going to do that, he's not going to invade, it's not his best interest but the sanctions gripping the economy, dependent on oil -- we will talk about that later in the show there's so much chaos here and at home, how are people in the administration talking about using this to distract from the other political issues dragging down the president's poll numbers? >> i don't think they are using it to distract. i will say talk about inflation may infuse the ukraine situation. ukraine was high prior to russia going into ukraine so gas prices

going up, they were already high and they are cordial higher reaching a seven year high today, almost $107 a barrel. that will affect people at the pump and make people upset. this president will try to talk about inflation i think tonight in a way you take other things off the balance sheet, i don't know if he has the votes in congress to do some of the things he wants to. usually the state of the union address is are shopping lists but if you have a congress not on your side, that list is pretty short. kennedy: there's a lot of other stuff they have to take off including inflation what you talked about, crime promote the pandemic, weary americans -- immigration, absolutely. many fronts where americans are fighting a domestic war and obviously want answers. in terms of vladimir putin, people often say the president playing checkers and putin explain chest, i think the

president is playing corn hole and putin is playing -- they are not even at the same picnic right now. when the u.s. president ever figure out vladimir putin? >> great question, i don't think they've figured him up until now. there's a lot of unpredictable moves he's made recently and u.s. intelligence officials are say, is he okay? mentally, stability wise. the russian military has underperformed in the ukrainian defense forces over performed and whether that continues or not, ukrainians have enough time to hold off until the squeeze hit putin from home, that's the equation that no one knows. kennedy: no one knows and there are so many variables. thank goodness we have you, we will be watching your coverage tonight. >> see you. kennedy: earlier today on fox, jen psaki confirmed the

situation in ukraine will be a major part of tonight state of the unit address and she says the speech will not only be for americans but also other world leaders. >> he will spend time in the speech talking about the conflict in ukraine. his efforts to rally the world leave the world and respond to and stand up to autocratic leadership and offensive horrific actions of president putin. kennedy: liberal media outlet, the ukraine crisis will be opportunity to reboot biden's presidency, one way to look at it but will be deliver a compelling speech that rallies americans against putin? tonight panel, former trump advisory board member, jason meister. democrat strategist and former biden campaign surrogate, kevin walling is here. his eyes are as blue as moonlight. politics compounder and foundation for economic education party pal hannah cox.

we were in colorado not long ago on a fantastic panel about media hypocrisy, you did a great job and good to have you back tonight. jason, you are worried the president has shown weakness not only in exiting afghanistan but here with ukraine. i don't know if i worry about the president weakness as much as the president trying to flex his strength getting us into a nuclear war, what are your thoughts? >> i agree with you, we do not want this to escalate to world war iii, that's the last thing we need right now but i think it's really joe biden's weakness stunning incompetence and actually his energy policies that helped contribute to the current crisis in ukraine. when you look at the first thing he did as president -- one about that first things he did in january of his presidency, he suspended keystone pipeline and then suspended all leases on

drilling and fracking on federal land and then put in place executive orders that effectively reversed all of terms energy policies and then return us to the climate parent support because he's listening to people like greta blumberg and climate radicals instead of making us regain energy independence which is what we need to do right now because as a result of all that he did, we are importing 75000 barrels of russian oil a day, $10 million of oil from russia, effectively funding putin's war in ukraine. what we need to do is become energy independent, stop depending on farmland and countries for our oil and we need to become independent power on energy. if we do that in putin's oil costarred from we will neutralize.

if oil goes up, he will continue to strike. kennedy: i'm going to talk with jonathan about the economic repercussion and energy, a huge part of that but the problem is, when we placate the climate activists to want to punish americans and really enter into an era where we deprive ourselves of basic liberties instead of energy independence, which we have to supernova in terms of energy and what i mean is pretty soon and near future, our dependence on fossil fuel will die and that will be a good thing for we are not there yet so until we are, we have to gain as much energy as we can from the resources without which are plentiful but cutting them off from ourselves until we've reached energy independence that doesn't rely on fossil fuel which is contrary to logic.

>> total agreement, there has to be a dual track when it comes to energy production in this country. i fully support the aims of combating climate change and we are seeing massive amounts of electric vehicles for example in that whole industry is taking off domestically here in the united states, gm plants, for plans convert to producing electric vehicles, that's celebrate and the future of this country and world but at the same time we have a lot of americans who still drive gas powered cars and we didn't . kennedy: and the electric grid. >> we do so again, it's a dual track where we can't just cut off our nose despite our face, we have to tackle both in terms of energy production, gas, rising costs as well as securing our future when it comes to the environment. kennedy: hannah, i guess i'm sick of wars oil.

we are propping up across the world because of their oil reserves when we've got so much here but we have this imposed cultural -- we are not allowing ourselves to access it because we are letting them shame us into essentially staying dependent on this foreign environment teat. >> i love that you called it that, you're the only horse on tv who what. it's true. a lot of people gunning for war with russia right now, a lot of people are pushing for that but the american people are tired of failed ideas, failed wars and regional conflicts ricoh in and try to fix the world and get we can't get things together at home so many things we need to address and we know polls show over and over what americans care about. things right here like the economy, inflation and crime and

schools not being open. they care about covid policies. these are the things democrats don't have an answer for because the biden administration failed at addressing all of them are not surprised they're trying to use this as a distraction and not surprised industrial complex are running for another war but the american people finally have woken up and don't want to keep doing this spend resources over there always our lives over there and i think they will ultimately win out because we've seen happens when we try to go in and just leave blowback and further conflict which would be the case here if we were to go in. kennedy: but there are seat people who almost delight in this, it's a chance for the president to reset. no, a war is a chance to kill innocent civilians who are what's? what did they get out of it and what do we get out of it? nothing but certain death. libertarians have shown over and over prosperity, innovation, those are the keys to making the

world better. war is not some black the american people are sick of it and pushing up against it and they have to continue to elect people who will stand up to every complex, military industrial, pharmaceutical, energy, whatever it is, we are done being controlled by you. party panel, stick around, look discuss domestic issues the president still has to tackle, we've only scratched the surface plus vladimir putin hired thousands of assassins to kill the president of ukraine but it seems some of them are heading home. >> not but justin timber like crying. kennedy: mike baker joined me next. ♪♪

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i can't say that the work. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy really a sigh of relief, his military announcing killed the assassination sent to kill a day after they were warned after they found they would play soccer with their acts. i love eastern european assault. as a ukraine army ready for the world cup? former cia officer and ceo of portman square group, mike baker. is this true or delicious propaganda who wants to believe no one will actually but? >> it is in the battle now, a nasty piece of work. kennedy: i read you are referred to him as a world-class deuce back. >> when you're talking about

people in putin's orbit, that is saying a lot but as big a stooge for putin as belarus. the kremlin to contribute soldiers to the effort, they come in from belarus, it is no surprise, they show up wherever there tends to be chaos by the kremlin whether you're talking about . kennedy: pica paul brothers of conflict, it will just show up and threaten to buy anybody. >> yes and they carried this reputation as fierce fighters but take it with a grain of

salt, it depends on who were there fighting and i think the ukrainian military proving as we all know, to be tougher than probably either putin estimated product no surprise to see them in the battle space at the kremlin's behalf. kennedy: we are hearing about this africa based mercenary group, elizabeth wegner group? again, for those work cronies, and all of our coupons this group, clearly controls by the kremlin, how long have they been ukraine and how difficult or easy will it be for them to find zelenskyy? >> the wegner group, -- yes, it is pretentious but the wegner

group, they been around for years, they showed up in my mia into thousand 14, they are masquerading as a private security contracting group but find it by the kremlin from their loose backstop cover, they are funded by this oligarchy mentioned but those for the kremlin to do this, all the money sloshing around back and forth and ends up in pocket but the wegner group, much like the chechen fighters, they are useful to the common because it provides plausible deniability and conflict areas and wegner group got up again in crimea, they've been in congress for some time now for years, and syria and venezuela even, there to protect them. they went into ukraine.

imagine this, putin is spending months on the border amassing trips, preparing the ground, one thing he did was put wegner operatives into ukraine into a variety of places in khaki kyiv, to do a variety of things, conduct surveillance, defenses to gather intelligence on government officials and movement, to prep the battle space and provide intelligence and assess how best to support the kremlin so the fact that zelenskyy and others in the ukrainian government are on hit list and the wegner group is responsible for but, as no surprise. kennedy: is like betty health meet killing eve, taking down street sign, trying to confuse

them, they have not found zelenskyy yet, hopefully they won't. there's a hard curfew to combat streets for these operatives. you can't make this up because no one would believe you it's all happening right now and hopefully we don't get pulled into it. thank you so much. >> and i just hope president biden in the speech tonight uses the betty hill killing eve analogy that mashup because that's special, i hadn't heard that before. kennedy: packed why we keep having you back because you inspire wonderful things. well done. [laughter] coming up from russian military bombarding ukraine, accused of using horrific weapons that vaporize humans. on the russians dirty rotten war criminals? that will be in moment. ♪♪

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ukraine accusing russia of war crimes efforts latest barrage of attacks now there's an investigation over this truly horrifying weapon including something called a vacuum bomb, it sucks up all the oxygen to ignite the air causing an explosion back in vaporize someone in seconds. ukrainian officials claim russia used one yesterday and kharkiv. if true, does this bring the war to all new low? retired u.s. marine bomb technician and fox news contributor, johnny joey jones is with me, how are you? >> how's it going? kennedy: i don't know, i'm very curious to get your perspective because i know you are incredibly stressful politicians who sent people to die in conflict for the wrong reasons and what russia is capable of

doing, are they using this awful technology and one of the repercussions? >> the first part of your question, weary of american politicians who take we must report ukraine and sent weapons but then we shouldn't send troops. what you know what they really mean is comfortable sending troops and that is part of the problem, these are weapons that can be used against our guys and gals but these are specifically as most weapons are, reserved for a specific situation where civilians are not around but on the battlefield, bunker buster secondly drop and penetrate the ground and essentially they put fuel into the air that utilizes the oxygen so it turns everything that's air in a bunker or kyiv or building into fire so it will incinerate your body and turn the air in your lungs on fire, gruesome but using strategic war situations,

not civilian settings or cities, not hospitals on one block daycare centers on the other and that is what makes this a war crime. kennedy: do we know -- do they know russia used it? so is this speculation? >> exactly, propaganda on both sides and that is problem, i've had intelligence come to me from civilians on their way over, did they know about pictures of the weapons brought into ukraine? i don't have anything to say about the weapons being used, fair comment. we have a bunch, they can be dropped from planes in a big bomb, and rbg or similar to it -- they are valuable this type of technology, not overly collocated but it's gruesome and effective. the other thing we heard today, a cluster bomb the people understand what that is from a payload, it looks like a big

bomb that comes apart in the air and from it comes dozens or hundreds of little bombs or explosives . kennedy: it's like -- [laughter] >> they are very indiscriminate, these bonds are specifically used to disable vehicles, the anti- mechanism, they can penetrate thick metal and that's simply not what you want to drop. i saw a video that looks like a cluster bomb being used, this can come from artillery or in a bomb, it's malleable and it looked like -- there's a video we have, little explosions my parking lot of an apartment building from about be something that looks like i buster bomb going off and they are indiscriminate and dangerous as well. kennedy: we only have a couple

more seconds and i want to ask you, no fly zone imposed by the u.s., bad idea or really, really bad idea? [laughter] >> if you impose no fly zone, you have to be willing to shoot down anything that violates it and that's war. if you are for work, is a good idea for the rest of us, probably not. kennedy: thank you, joey. >> absolutely. kennedy: making, economic war against russia is growing more interesting by the day. apple stopped the sale of all products in russia. sorry, no more ipods, can't have nice things. they limited the use of apple pay in the country and does habit maps from a broader trend from private companies placing their own sanctions on russia in addition to those imposed by western reverence on western banks. google plummeted nearly think keeping the russian economy afloat is oil exports and that soon come to an end so how long until the russian economy collapsed? hedge fund manager and fox news contributor, jonathan conant,

welcome back to the shop. >> they accuse capitalists upping war mongers putin, authoritarians like we need work and want war and as you pointed out, war is terrible for business, awful for business. russian stock market closed coming on three days, it's down 70% year to date and the currency our training pennies on the dollar. the russian is less than 1 penny, it's worth worth less than a buck, online version of monopoly money for a game kids play so this is terrible impact. people involved, the victims and also russia's economy as well. kennedy: is not going to be effective and is russia's economy worse off than we

thought it was before? >> already a poor country and average income in russia is about 15000 a year end this makes it worse for the russian people. there is already a bank run from hyperinflation, seeing people rushing to buy anything i can from a black market will develop so the potential meltdown not only in the russian economy but the potential for invasion. seeing a lot of banks, european banks and banks here at home take a product in the market the last couple days so my fear while the russian can be hurt because of the oil that putin has the global economy can be hurt as well. kennedy: i had a business professor must maintain it's going to hurt and there will be repercussions but we have to be able to withstand fact for a little while keep the united states military conflict, how will it hurt americans? obviously if we are not buying russian oil and keeping oil off

the market driving the price up, that will make gas more expensive for americans how else will it affect it if banks are affected? is not things like interest rates and the ability to get a loan from your local bank? >> russia has oil but it is about the only thing they have. anyone smart with any sense in the head less russia but they've got to tell it to someone. they won't sell it on the world market as they have in the past but india. they need the cash, they don't have the ability not to sell it said they need the cash. what's so frustrating is united states also has oil. we don't have is the moral conviction to use it if the president perhaps says something about galatian on pumping more oil, a wild card if you will that he has in his hope would not be so effective in terms of the oil pritikin help short-term, i don't think it helps him long-term.

kennedy: could you imagine if the president stands up and says a drill, baby drill? sarah palin would get -- you could happen. probably won't but i'm sure we could come up with a nice thing say including i resign. >> the military, what we don't have is morality. i don't think we will hear that tonight but we will be listening and watching nonetheless. kennedy: thank you. the state of beginning an hour away, president biden deals with russia, what about the issues here at home that have his approval numbers in the basement? the panel will discuss every flavor of biden's greek yogurt next. ♪♪

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president first state of the union address, crisis in ukraine when to be the biggest part of the speech obviously but the president has a growing list of urgent issues at home including but not limited to inflation, aggression, crime and the pandemic. americans are demanding answers, i'm banging on the table, that's how serious it is pretty what topics will biden discussed tonight? perhaps more importantly, what should he try to ignore? party panel is back. jason meister, hannah cox. hannah, the president said he needs to open up supply chains and get products moving back into the united states stop the lockdowns and how does he plan to do that? how will it not work and is that enough? >> it sounds like what he's going to do is basically go on about the economy and inflation and suggest a bunch of things that keep the problem worse. these are things that are already going wrong, he wants to continue unions in the country,

one of the biggest problems with the supply chain and one reason we have ports not operating 24/7 and we've not been able to get the labor ports we need so as a whole, i don't think he has a plan whatsoever. we also seek antitrust which is merely the government picking winners and losers in a won't bring prices down or promote competition, it's just more cronyism from the government i'm tired of these people who continue to perpetrate these things against the american people. as a whole, citizens are wise enough to know biden's agenda has not benefited them as far and all he's going to do continue to entrench himself and dig heels and push for things like build back better and massive spending and protecting special interest as a whole, it will continue to hurt us and i don't have a lot of hope. kennedy: the spending will really hurt us, inflation is not going to go away, inflation is

exacerbating that and i don't think the president is going to use the word build back better, it will be a reminder of the failures in congress and the fact that he's not even trying to work with republicans on legislation. do you think he will say build back better? >> i think he's going to touch on the aspects, he may mention it in his speech but in conversations i've had folks in the previous of the speech i've seen, he will talk about inflation and rising costs americans are facing but also he thinks he can get done with republicans as part of this so-called unity agenda, tackling the opioid crisis. he would like talked about mental health crisis facing our children, providing resources for schools. kennedy: 200 billing dollars in schools, they are not spending it right but screw them. they have the resources. if they are blowing the money, they don't deserve it.

they don't need more money. >> is not just money, we are talking about personnel -- we're talking about health professionals . kennedy: but they are not going to hire people, they will build tennis courts and stupid dog crap, sorry to use that language. >> but also about using the resources already allocated to fund mental health professionals, train and teach them and get them directly involved the health and well-being of our children soleimani is there, we just need to redirect it and refocus school districts on our children that have suffered as you shine the light on the last two years so mightily from napping in the classroom to wearing masks to having critical personal connections in the community. kennedy: i want to bring jason and quickly, we've only got 30 seconds, will he touch on immigration? >> he will touch on immigration.

we had over 2 million illegal unvented immigrant that have crossed the southern border and caused humanitarian crisis of biblical proportions but also inflation at a four-year high from a six-point 4% annual rate climbing from a supply chain disruptions we've never seen before to empty grocery stores across the country that are empty so a lot of issues domestically and abroad. we have in afghanistan leaving 85 billion. kennedy: he is so -- that ukraine wipes afghanistan completely out of the conversation. unfortunately, we are out of time with our conversation but great talking to all of you. have a beautiful night, thank you for being here. topical storm is next. stay with me. ♪♪

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the sharps was pumping. topic number one, due to inflation, thousands of burger king's reducing the number of chicken nuggets and their meals. my gosh, i knew inflation was driving up chicken prices but i had no idea it was affecting the cost of whatever the heck is in those nodes. it's called trick questions, smaller portions of the products sold to maintain low prices, also known as the entire pack food prices. now some will include eight pieces instead of ten which is bad news for people who rely on burger king to poison their families. burger king chain will also cut costs by making it signature rubber sandwich ineligible for discounts which means date night just got a lot more expensive, sorry. she's going to have to have pure fireball. burger king taking money making their paper crowns out of

cheaper material. i suggest nipples, very affordable right now. topic number two. here's a video both for animal lovers and of animal lovers, jacob bowwow, take your pants down. smithsonian national zune, kissing upside down. [laughter] spider-man style and like the new man, they took three hours. they were put together 2019 to mate with each other, no babies yet must loss our slope. in fact, so slope at one time they ordered a ten piece chicken nugget and by the time they got to the counter, it was reduced to eight. of course, they are not always so, a lot of sleep. that's what i call a slow bird. the time i worked at arby's. you can see tina and flat in washington d.c. chuckles and

ottawa next week, the only city where the animals are in houses and people are in cages. some of the people, oh my gosh, people are stealing because they are hungry. topic number three. border agents intercepted $3 million of methamphetamine disguised as onions. you thought big macs were addictive before, packed in teeny tiny white orbs mixed with real onions and they can tell the difference but if you want to see vegetable packed with drugs, tune into the state of the union tonight. discovered by canine units and began barking seriously at the cargo and that's when for ages closer look and discovered there's meth to the madness. another giveaway, the driver and set of real onion tears had a teardrop tattoo. the driver has been arrested, no

word if he was acting alone or if he was part of a larger onion ring. [laughter] j. topic number four. museum of the future opened in dubai showcasing what life will be like in 2071 which is why every exhibit is in chinese. it begins with the space shuttle stimulation you can view earth from outer space, are these glowing that's that's sweet. there's a mock dna library samples from every human on earth according to the museum, they were collected in early 21st century through a process called pcr testing. the museum also home to the heel institute focusing on earth's ecosystem, 68-year-old greta thunberg crying we all didn't drown in 2030. the best part where you can eat like a human. in 2071, he will find the new burger king one and a half piece

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