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with lucas tomlinson in ukraine. >> griff and anita, that call between president biden and his counterpart, vladimir putin. we could read it as a good sign, ap it's going on for an hour. keep checking my e-mail, at this point no readout on the call exactly what's being said and of course, we'll be getting some information, hopefully fingers crossed, from the white house about how that call went, but we're coming up on an hour to that call. meanwhile, as anita said, americans and those diplomates that are americans working in ukraine are being told to leave ukraine as soon as possible. overnight the state department and other diplomatic staff were told to leave the embassy in kiev. this is a significant move, it shows that the united states not only preparing for some sort of conflict, but one that is possibly expecting to make

its way to the capital: i was on a state call with a department official who said it's not time to leave ukraine. it's past time to leave ukraine. >> wh are your plans toward american citizens in ukraine and might be there during an invasion? what scenarios would you put american troops to rescue and get americans out? >> there's not. it's a world war when americans and russian start shooting at each other. we're in a different world. >> not even evacuating americans. >> no, how do you do that? how do you find them? this is not like -- i'm hoping in fact if he's foolish to go in, he's smart enough not to do anything that would negatively impact on american citizens. >> have you told him that? >> yes. >> you've told him to -- that, americans would be a line they

didn't cross. >> i haven't have to tell him that, i have he knows that. >> and they met in switzerland over the summer, and ukraine not the major topic of that and this is in june and how things have changed. russia wanted this call to take place on monday and the white house urged it to happen today to underscore the urgency and this is a chilling sign while russia indicates it hasn't made up its mind about invasion yet. russian state media reported hours ago overnight here in the eastern time zone that russians living in kiev, living alt the russian embassy are told to evacuate. that tells you something. griff: we've check back with you as the news breaks. thank you. >> mounting tensions in ukraine as the country braces for a possible invasion by russia. lucas tomlinson is on the

ground in kiev. what is the mood right now? >> the mood on the ground is one of calm, but as you heard, a far different story at the u.s. and the pentagon. and russian invasion could begin as soon as wednesday some say, and that's why the u.s. embassy in ukraine ordered the staff to leave going down to the bare minimum. ukrainian citizens are training very hard and they need to master guerilla warfare. >> and most of all, i'm worried about my children, yes, i want -- they give in a democratic european country. >> ukrainian citizens and mothers like valentina, if russians forces show up to the capital city of three million. president biden ordered 3,000 additional para troopers based

in 82nd air division to head to poland. and bolstering in n.a.t.o. country bordering ukraine, but it's pulling the small number here. today the pentagon says all 160 members of the florida national guard would be evacuating ukraine immediately. they have been training local forces. some military experts believe the most likely point for russia to invade is from the sea from war ships like this attacking what they call ukraine's vulnerable coastline and the former head of the u.s. army europe says he thinks this is how it starts. >> they will be using cyber, using sabotage, using disinformation to create havoc and confuse us, but i don't think they have the capability to capture kiev. >> now, pentagon officials think russia is launching a full scale invasion, it could come as soon as wednesday. you ask about the mood, the mood here is calm.

i was out for a stroll and ukrainian citizens are living their lives and the restaurants were packed. and i asked a man if he was ready. he says bring it on, i have weapons in a safe and a ukrainian couple getting married. >> a lot of brave people there. and thank you very much for that report. griff: for more on the rapidly developing russia-ukraine crisis, we have retired four-star general of the u.s. air force and supreme allied commander breedlove. thank you for taking the time. i want to get to the call and may have lasted more than an hour between president biden and vladimir putin. where do you think of where things stand? >> first of all, i'm glad they're talking and has taken time. we want to find a way out of this without bloodshed so we need to celebrate that.

there are big concerns. you just had general ben hodges talk to you and i agree with everything he just said. i want to take a little umbrage with words about being full scale invasion. i've said more than once the forces on the border are not enough to do what i would call a full scale invasion, but the forces on the border are more than enough to do several options for mr. putin, one of them including is to put great pressure on kiev. griff: general, what should the president be saying to vladimir putin right now? what is the message that he should be sending that would get us out of being on the brink, as it appears things are now? >> well, for me to advise our president, but if it was me i'd be offering him carrots and sticks. we have some things that we want to talk -- both of us want to talk about for structures,

intermediate range missiles, et cetera, in europe and we should try to move forward on those and make it very clear if he invades ukraine he'll get the things he doesn't want. many ask why are we sending forces into the n.a.t.o. areas and griff, if you remember what they put in the two letters they sent to us recently, what they said was, no more forces in the foreign area and no more capability in the foreign area. so the president needs to point out to mr. putin if the current actions is getting what he doesn't want and we america are sending more forces because of his actions. griff: general, you were recently in ukraine. what was the purpose of your trip and what did you learn? >> i went offer with a group

ben hodges and a group, and we were there to talk to our partners and to assure them and to find out from them what they still needed. and to listen to their senior leadership. we listened to the president all the way down to the leaders of the three main parties about what they saw and how they expected ukraine to act. griff: general, i was a reporter at the white house yesterday and we were taken aback at really the urgency with which national security advisor jake sullivan came into the briefing room and said that americans need to get out within 24 hours. he would not elaborate for obvious reasons on what exactly has transpired in the last 24 hours to change the posture so drastically, but can you give us insight on what that might be? >> well, we've been seeing a lot of intelligence indications that the forces readying itself for action should mr. putin

choose. three or four weeks ago, the russian forces were parked almost in administrative positions almost like they were parked so that the satellite could see them, to sort of stir up the hype. but sadly, what we've seen across the last three or four days and certainly the last week is that those forces have been moving into more tactical formations and tactical locations and we've seen those enabling capabilities coming from the rear areas. the one you hear the most about is the blood, it's just one of them, but logistics, ammunition, et cetera, that the force would need if it actually employed. griff: and general, as a former n.a.t.o. supreme allied commander, what will you anticipate will be n.a.t.o.'s response should this russian aggression continue? >> well, the first and foremost thing, increase solidarity. i think that mr. putin has the

message that his attempts to break up n.a.t.o. and the eu, back fired because n.a.t.o. is pulling closer together in their response to this and in their approach and their method-- or the message back to russia. i think we're going to see more and more readiness. you've seen multiple n.a.t.o. send aircraft to the forward area and we're sending aircraft to the forward area and what he said in the two letters, it's happening and i expect to see more in terms of that. griff: what we see, even a lesser scaled invasion, as you pointed out. are we on the brink to the point where things are unavoidable now at this point? >> i'm not going to speculate. i think that what is very clear is that mr. putin now has all the capabilities that he needs

to execute one of several options, a move into the north to pressure kiev. a move through the center into to put great pressure on n.a.t.o. eu saying we're here we're know charge. are you're hear, here and you're not in charge and a move along the coast that could cause great economic damage if they were to surround the port and move onto the northern edge of crimea. griff: general phillip breedlove, thank you for taking time. >> thank you. griff: anita. >> well, turning now to canada where police are attempting to clear the truckers blockading the ambassador bridge where connects detroit to windsor, ontario. the protesters may face fines or prison final if they are not

clearing the bridge. we have alexis mcadams in ottawa, looking at a convoy over vaccine mandates. do you think those protesters are going to be concerned about jail time? . anita, no, they're not concerned about jail time. they tell they're not going anywhere, no matter what the police tells them. they're here for the long haul and what we've seen in the past few hours and you can tell behind me and what you're hearing all that's happened is the crowds are getting more, they're growing. step out of the way to give you a live look here to see what's going on in ottawa. you can see all of the protesters lining up with their canadian flags and still the mood here is pretty optimistic. they haven't seen too heavy of a police presence. that could change as we see these crowds grow. let's see what's happening in other areas of canada. investigators have moved in to break up a day's long protest

in windsor, ontario where trucks have been blocking crucial borders into the united states there. a judge ordering on friday the ambassador bridge over the u.s.-canadian border to end the blockade that stops the flow of billions of dollars worth of goods. and last night those crowds didn't go anywhere and they've slowly moved out this afternoon and we'll see what plays out there. not too much tension i should say from the police trying to move those protesters. people have been pretty peaceful as they tried to move out. i want a live look at what we're seeing in ottawa. ontario is under a state of emergency right now. and people are blocking the flow of goods and tlepg with hefty fines and even jail time and the city asked ottawa for another injunction on putting a stop to the loud noise, fireworks, illegal use of parks and facilities. listen to the prime minister about all of this infolding in

the city. >> if you joined the protests because you're tired of covid, you now need to understand that you're breaking laws. the consequences are becoming more and more severe. you don't want to end up losing your license, end up with a criminal record. >> yeah, the whole thing about this though when you listen to the prime minister, they do not want to be threatened. they don't want to have to listen anymore to the government. them like the government in canada overstepped its bounds for months and 90% of canadians and the 90% of the trucker's union is vaccinated and they say that they've done their part and they want the government to do theirs. they're threatening with hefty fines and this is what the protesters want. they want to terminate vaccine passports and other mandates altogether and stop divisive

rhetoric. back out here live. the crowds keep growing so we'll send it back to you and keep you posted on everything happening on the ground. >> all right, alexis mcadams live in ottawa and the truckers remain defiant. thank you so much, griff. griff: anita, for more on u.s. businesses hit hard by the slowdown in trade between the two nations, garrett tenney joins us live from detroit. hi, garrett. >> hey, griff. good to be with you. the auto industry has been the hardest hit by this blackcade -- blockade. it's ceptionly crippled the supply chain, more than $300 million of goods crosses this bridge and we're on day six of it being empty. forced ford, gm, honda, stallantis, to shut down, due

to deliveries of parts not coming through on schedule. that means fewer cars off the assembly lines and higher prices for cars dealers have on hand especially how hard the industry has been hit from the other supply chain crisis due to the pandemic. folks are expected the bridge to be back hope to ease some of those things. so far the police have not made arrests on the other side and a lot of the crowd has left on their own, last night, a handful of the protesters said they will not be leaving voluntarily. >> we're here to hold the line. we want this to happen. we want the mandates to end. >> i'm here and i will not leave until we get our freedoms back. this is for our children. this is for my child, his children, all of us. >> it's important to note that if the ambassador bridge does reopen today, that won't fix the problems right away. industry experts say it will

likely take at least several weeks for production to catch back up. griff: several weeks. garrett, we'll talk later in this program to a truck industry person who appears very concerned. is it your sense that the industry folks that you've spoken with are really worried that a prolonged protest on both sides of the border could have a really lasting impact? >> well, and they've been hit a lot over the last couple of years, so there's already plenty of catch up that they have to do. but the concern really is getting these parts across to get these cars really pumped out and back out on dealership lots and they always say on the car industry we don't put extra pieces in cars. if we don't have one part, the car can't be rolled off. it's a rippling, cascading effect where if one thing doesn't make it and then the other thing, it's affecting small businesses that make all of those parts. if they're not able to put those out and get those

delivered. they're not getting paid and it's a chain effect especially felt here in michigan, and right across the border as well. griff: that's a great point, a dynamic situation. garrett tenney live for us in detroit. thank you, anita. >> all right. we want to go back now to our david spunt at the white house, where the phone call between vladimir putin and president biden appears to have wrapped up. david, what can you tell us? >> not many details at this point we're waiting for a readout from the white house. we know that that call wrapped at 12:06 eastern time and began at 11:04 eastern time, an hour for the call and you have to assume translation, twor russian to english and english to russian. and we know that the president is at camp david with his national security team and that some were on the phone call and weep we hope to get a readout

from the white house. there was a readout from the kremlin that president putin spoke with french president macron. in that we know that macron urged president putin to he spoke with his belarusian president, and we don't have a readout. and they include to say that national security advisor, jake sullivan, they want to move on a path of peace as i reported at the beginning of the hour, they're asking all americans who are private citizens in ukraine to get out as soon as possible and stay safe. anita. >> okay, well, david, hopefully all of the talking among the world's leaders means something good. i know the world is waiting, hopefully on a diplomatic solution in the 11th hour here. david spunt at the white house,

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>> welcome back, everyone, we are now awaiting a readout from the very important phone call that president biden just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin where they were talking hopefully about a diplomatic resolution to what's happening in ukraine. we're hoping to get those details in just a little bit. in the meantime, republican congressman from texas and member of the house financial services committee, lance gooden joins us now. congressman, thanks for joining us on this saturday, a lot to talk about. let me ask you first about ukraine. the president just wrapped up an hour long phone call with president putin and we understand that president putin spoke with president macron and the president from belarus. how do you think the phone call with president biden was? >> i wasn't in the room and i hope they made some progress.

i know that president putin has some demands and i don't know if we'll be interested in those. i think that anything that pushes this as far away from the future and prevents an invasion is a positive development. i'm told that we're only a day or two away from an invasion, but i hope that's not accurate. and i also wish we'd have had this same kind of contemplation when we were leaving afghanistan. we would have been a better position there and perhaps putin would take us more seriously today. >> it seems like the white house has gone into overdrive urging everyone to leave. so a little bit of a different situation than afghanistan right there. you know, it's interesting, you mentioned that putin has demand. one of the demands is that ukraine not become a member of n.a.t.o. why do we want ukraine to become a member of n.a.t.o.? or do we? >> well, i think that's up to ukraine. they have that prerogative and i would support that. i think that it's important that n.a.t.o. is strengthened,

but i've heard interesting ideas in the past of asking russia to join n.a.t.o. that kind of contradicts the reason for n.a.t.o. in the first place, they're not in its state anymore and thinking that we can do to help create a more peaceful part of the world is a positive development. europe is concerned with the way things are going now and i think that mr. putin wants to be row inspected and want to be a player on the main stage, on the world stage. there are ways perhaps to give him a piece of what he wants and prevent world war and hopefully we could get there. anita: do you think there's a diplomatic solution available in this 11th hour? >> there's always a solution available. it's whether or not the players want to take solution. i can't imagine a scenario where invading ukraine would be a positive development for russia. putin perhaps has a different

perspective. we'll see how that call develops with the white house. anita: we're waiting for those details. in the meantime, let me move onto another topic. inflation, new numbers came out showing inflation is nearly at a record high now, 7.5%. take a look at that, the highest since the early '80s. so people have less money to spend on higher priced goods and services and show awe list how expensive things are getting now. look at this. we have prices of basic things like cars and meat and you know, all kinds ever other things up a whopping amount. used cars in particular, 40%. so, how long can people expect to have to spend extra money on things? the average household is spending $250 a month? >> yeah, you know, fed chairman powell spoke to the committee

last fall and said it was supposed to be transitory. and he said to go into the summer months and the summer months aren't far away. and used cars are going for more than what they cost new years ago. i don't know what the future holds, but i know the future will be bleak as long as the other solution the democrats have is to continue spending more money and all of these spending packages that we've talked about, build back better, these are things that will increase inflation and further delay our recovery. i would encourage the democratically-led government in washington work with republicans to rein in spending and get the nices down. it's serious for americans, super bowl parties and valentine's day will be expensive this year and throws are luxury perhaps. but day-to-day items are through the roof. seniors on fixed incomes can't afford these prices and families with many children and those who commute to work are paying more than they ever did

under the trump administration and it's a difficult situation and i think this administration realizes that and they're going to pay at the polls in november. anita: a lot of people on fixed incomes are really feeling this. who knew your used car would be so valuable. right. >> right. anita: i want to move to another topic and canada with the freedom convoy. a lot of people certainly appreciate their message, but they're blocking key bridges, only adding now to the supply chain issues which affect inflation we were talking about. i want to ask you, congressman, would you invite that kind of protest by u.s. truckers or any other group to the u.s. capitol considering the ramifications we're seeing in ottawa that are affecting the u.s.? >> i would invite any group for whatever reason to peacefully protest anytime. i don't appreciate or condone violent protests like the black lives matter movement that you saw. you know, this seems to be such a crisis that these peaceful truckers are stalling progress

and protesting, but there was no outrage on the left when black lives matter protests were destroying our streets and our cities across our nation. so, i would absolutely welcome a similar pronouncement of protest in our nation's capitol by truckers and anyone who wants their freedoms. people are fed up with these overbearing, overburdening regulations that are not based in science. science has not changed, but the polling has changed and we're seeing people from all political walks of life sick of what they're dealing with the last two years. anita: representative lance gooden. thanks for your time on this saturday. appreciate it. griff. griff: we'll hear from the other side of the aisle, democratic congressman joins us next. we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast. [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu!

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>> president biden's hour long call with russian president

vladimir putin ending just moments ago as u.s. warns putin could invade ukraine at anytime. biden is urging americans in ukraine to leave the country immediately. u.s. officials are also telling those who stay, there is no prospect of a u.s. military evacuation. we'll bring you more on this story with updates throughout our show. griff. griff: anita, we heard from republican lance gooden before the break and now for reaction on the other side of the oil we're joined from the democratic congressman from connecticut, jim himes on the financial services committee, and thank you for taking time and it's a fast and fluid situation. the president holding an hour and two minute call with vladimir putin. your thoughts on where things stand at this moment. >> thank you, and by the way, this is not a two sides of the aisle, the democrats that if

vladimir putin is invading. war casualties, and lots of weapons have gone into ukraine and training into ukraine, economic sanctions and inability to sell his oil and gas kind of all he's got and he better think twice. this is probably the last day or two we have to make the case for deterrents, i hope is what the president was doing when he was talking to him. griff: congressman, i know you can't share details of the committee on intelligence, but if you've been briefed on where things stand. we've heard a lot about possible sanctions should putin decide to invade. what can you share with us? >> well, two things, griff. there's a difference between invading somebody else's country and defending your own home.

i hope that putin is thinking about that. think about the difference the kid from russia now shooting civilians which could happen in the next 48 hours, and the people who are defending their own home. this could be a lot more militarily expensive for putin that's he's anticipating. and russia can't survive without its oil and gas for long. they've stock piled oil and reserves, but the russians need to understand their standard of living is going to decline dramatically for what so putin can feel like a strongman? and i hope that's the calculus they're looking at. griff: and the readout for putin, but we did get a read out from secretary blinken with his counterpart, secretary lavrov, in which blinken reiterated, if russia would proceed there would be a united and transatlantic response and

that's tough talk and republicans are criticizing, saying what we've seen with the administration's handling of the situation shows weakness on the world stage. your reaction. >> well, i guess representative stefanik needs to tell us what she would have preferred. look, we could have sent the military into the ukraine and enough united states troops on the ground in the ukraine to stop a russian invasion, we would have lost a lot of troops, risked a world war if that's what she thinks, she should say it. that's a decision the president didn't take. sending weapons and trainers and putting together a package of sanctions and of course uniting n.a.t.o. six months ago n.a.t.o. was not particularly united and now they are. so, look, i understand why a member of the republican leadership needs to take a shot at the president, if she has credibility, she should have

said here is what the president should have done and she didn't say that. griff: the other story we're following, the trucker convoy blocking multiple points of entry between the u.s. and canada and even now talk there could be similar trucker poe-- protests in the u.s. would you welcome that? what are your thoughts? >> this isn't a hard one. i agree with mr. gooden that people are entitled to demonstrate and express their opinions and go one step further than mr. gooden who says they should be peaceful. i agree with that. the other thing that needs to happen people need to abide by the law and applies to truckers in canada and the people in the blm that he referenced and those who broke into the capitol january 6th. you don't get to break the law. when you break the law not only are you going to get punished for it, you damage the protest. and i support the protest regardless what it is, what

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>> escalating russian military preparations, including massive drills, are stoking fears that the kremlin could order an invasion of ukraine at any moment. joining you now to discuss it

is reform president and g.o.p. strategist charles blain and fox news contributor richard fowler. richard and charles, thank you for joining us. obviously it's a very fluid situation. charles, let's start with you, the president having an hour and two minute phone call with president putin. >> i hope it went well. so far we've seen the president's relentless strategy of diplomacy, be a failure pretty much. this is why good leadership in america matters. we spent four years with the former president whether or not he had a questionable relationship with russia and turned out to be untrue. what didn't happen during the four years is the type of aggressions that we're seeing today. i think it's a prime example why good leadership in america matters. griff: richard, do you want to respond to that? charles is saying this is a sign of weak. >> that's a simple way to look

at a complex problem. we know this if we weren't using diplomacy here we would be engaging in a war with russia potentially, nobody wants that, nobody in europe wants that. nobody in ukraine wants that and to be frank, most people don't want a land war with russia. what you see the president doing here and you see our european allies doing here is saying to putin, you cannot invade russia, you cannot invade ukraine, rather and you cannot cross these borders, if you do, do understand that the western countries will respond and first respond with sanctions after sanctions if you go further to invade an n.a.t.o. country, whether it be poland or any country close to ukraine, we'll invade militarily. what putin is trying to taye ukraine should never join n.a.t.o. one, if you look at the reporting, it's clear that people in ukraine don't want to join n.a.t.o. and if ukraine joined n.a.t.o., it would like drag n.a.t.o.

into a war with russia. russia is intent on gaining back land or saber rattling in ukraine. griff: we have two tracks today. one is the situation in ukraine and the other is this trucker freedom convoy in canada that has been gaining steam day after day. what, charles, is your sense about the message of the truckers in d.c. coming to the u.s. next week? >> well, i think the truckers sending a message loud and clear they're frustrated and i think in america we see the same thing with average folks, they're frustrated, dissatisfied, divided so i can see something like that happening here and interested to see how our administration and quite frankly, the democrats as a whole here in america handle a situation like that. because we know they've prided themselves on being he the party of unions and on the side of unions. largely from truckers unions,

one of the most active and largest unions they're frustrated with policies in canada and here in the united states i would not be surprised if we see the freedom convoy come here. griff: 30 seconds and you can respond. >> we're pointing out that 80% of canada truckers are vaccinated. it's a small minority of truckers on the policy. do they have the right to protest? absolutely. when it gets into the canada economy and the north american economy then we have a problem on our hands and that's why you see the canadian government and provincial leader of ottawa saying we'll respond swiftly to reopen lanes and allow trade to move freely. griff: we'll see where it goes. richard and charles, thank you very much. have a great saturday. >> thank you. anita: well, mayors going after progressive district attorneys refusing to prosecute a host of crimes, including widespread shoplifting and organized smash

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invasion of ukraine, the united states together with our allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on russia. it goes onto say that further invasion of ukraine would produce suffering and president biden was clear with president putin that while the united states remains prepare tone gauge in diplomacy in full coordination with our allies and partners, we are equally prepared for other scenarios. griff, that's the official read of out, other areas as we are talking about, a potential military scenario. we know that 3,000 troops are on their way to poland to protect nato countries in the area and we have also been reporting that americans are being told to leave ukraine as soon as possible. i was on the phone with a senior state department official

earlier this morning who said it is past time to leave ukraine for those americans that are in ukraine. you are seeing pictures of embassy in kiav right now. a lot of diplomatic staff have left the embassy to move to the western ukrainian city of leviv, does not mean that the embassy is closed or evacuated per the state department official but it does mean they are certainly taking a different posture. griff, right now the white house is holding a background call on the meeting with president putin. i'm going to jump on the call and we will provide any other details that are substantial after that. griff: just a quick follow-up with you, david, because i want to get you on the phone call, but a lot of transpired in the last 24 hours since national security adviser jake sullivan told americans to get out and that an attack could happen at any moment and night has fallen in kiav and maden square, is there a sense that we are going to get more details or is there a sense that this phone call

between the president and vladimir putin is really all we are going to see today? david: well, at this point that's the only communication between the two. of course, something could also happen. they have communications at all points. it's important to point out that we have been told that the russians wanted to hold this call on monday, two days from now but president biden and his team said, no way, that's not going to happen. we need to have this call now. this is urgent. it's also important to note russia continues to kind of tamper down the fact that they may be thinking about invading ukraine but russian state media is reporting that russians are actually being told to leave the russian embassy in kiav, they are getting their people out. griff: david spunt live for us at the white house. we will check with you as news break. anita. anita: ukraine is bracing for potential russian embassy as

u.s. orders almost all staff in kiav to reject the country. good evening, lucas. >> russia could launch invasion of ukraine as soon as wednesday and the last hour nato supreme allied commander says russian forces are now moving into striking position. >> 3 or 4 weeks ago the russian forces were parked in almost administrative positions. it was almost like they were parked so that the satellites could see them to stir up the hype. lucas: general says could be invading any time soon. we saw ukrainian teams learning gorilla warfare, how to make bombs out of household goods. they are willing to do battle to

their deaths if necessary. >> are you prepared to fight the russians if they appear in your city? >> yes, of course, we will stand in the end even if we need to die for it. lucas: condemning russian president vladimir putin for staging the 140th thousand troops in ukraine's border and sea. ukrainians will resist. president biden has ordered 3,000 additional paratroopers from the air bigs based at fort bragg to poland. other troops are heading to romania. today the pentagon said all 160 members to have florida national guard who are training ukrainian troops will be evacuating immediately. u.s. forces going to nato surrounding ukraine, none are coming to ukraine if russia

invades. ukrainian defense minister tweeted, no russians forces will be able to take and conquer any ukrainian cities. anita: lucas tomlinson live on the ground, lucas, thank you. griff. griff: let's go back to the white house to talk with david spunt continuing to get more details coming out of the president's call with vladimir putin. david. david: hi, griff, senior administration official just finished phone call with members of the press. it was embargo to the end of the call and we had to way before we could relay it to the viewers right now. similar to what i said a few minutes ago. we know according to the senior administration official that the call between the two leaders lasted an hour and two minutes. it was, quote, profession ago and substantive. also we are told that there was no fundamental change in the posture of russia at this time. it doesn't seem like there was any major deals cut or any major change on behalf of russian president putin. we are told that president biden

pushed the idea of diplomacy, something that's really been going on for months since we first started seeing russian officials gather at the border of ukraine. also we are told president biden repeatedly discussed the two different paths that russia could take. the path of diplomacy and obviously the path that nobody wants to deal with military action. griff. griff: david, just a quick follow-up on that because we get from the readout, says that the president reiterated his message to president putin that should they continue on this aggressive path, that it would be met decisively with swift and severe costs. is there a sense that the administration is now stepping up that threat or are they essentially just saying the same threat that they've been saying for the last few weeks? david: we really don't know because when we get the readouts from the white house they give a little chunk, a paragraph of an

hour-plus call. this is not the first phone call the president has had with his russian counterpart. they've spoken twice about this issue in the last i'd say six weeks, two months, so at this point, it's not clear if the white house meaning the president of the united states levied these threats against president putin earlier on and they just were not reported to the press. that's obviously possible and something else to watch for, oftentimes griff when we have the calls between the white house and the kremlin, the kremlin will release their own version of the call. it's possible that we may see some video. they have done this before, they released video of president putin sitting in the conference call with president biden in the screen on camp david. we will have to see what russia has to say about this, griff. griff: that would be exciting to see. anita: for more on the story former u.s. ambassador to

ukraine john hurst. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us today. so we just got the readout of this call between president biden and president putin. i think you could probably hear our reporter sort of summarize the call but a couple of points. it lasted an hour and two minutes. it was described as professional. apparently no deals made and no major changes made, but president biden we are told continued to push the idea of diplomacy. what more can you garner from what we have heard so far? >> well, i think you know what happened in the call and that's not a surprise. putin at an absolute minimum is continuing buildup to intimidate, the united states, ukraine and nato to make concessions. likelihood that they will law firm a new invasion. this call would give president biden an opportunity to reiterate the heavy cost of russia and putin will pay

personally if they launch the invasion. putin stand tough and keep us on our toes, yes, he will invade or ultimately will not. anita: one other thing that we heard from the call is that the president supposedly said if vladimir putin were to invade it would diminish russia's standing in the world. he also said that he continued to push for diplomacy but there were other scenarios also on the table. what do you think he meant by that. biden was serving to the fact that boston may invade with the military force and he was underscoring that if putin does that, they'll be strong sanctions, and other steps like strengthening nato forces near russia's border, russia's security will weaken. and of course, biden is right. if putin invades a peaceful country which is doing nothing

illegitimate, nothing provocative he would be imposed emexposed as the aggressor. >> i've heard the timing of the invasion could be close to perfect because vladimir putin could interrupt both olympics and possibly the super bowl knowing the region as well as you do, how much weight do you think the outside events play into the timing of a possible invasion? >> i don't think the super bowl counts here unless he's going in a few hours, but as for the olympics he was meticulous not to do anything while he was in china during the olympics. conceivably he can attack now but he might wait until afterwards. he may died ultimately not to attack because he's concerned about the very swift blow administered by the allies and partners. anita: i'm told that you were there last week. is there any way ukraine to

defend itself from massive amount of troops that putin has in place around the country? >> well, there are two other factors which may stay putin's aggressive hands. ukraines will right, not a match for military, hundred of russian deaths, thousands of russians death and hard for putin to explain to the public and ukrainian people will take up arms against occupying forces which would be bloody for russians. the russian people really don't want to go to war against ukrainians. putin controls the media. he realizes this would not be popular at home. anita: we have seen video of civilians in ukraine preparing to go to war. so i believe you when you say ukrainians take up arms. what happens in the society, people in the country who are prorussia and a lot who are not, what does society look like after an invasion?

>> look, when i served in ukraine 15 years ago, i would say 60 or 70% of the ukrainian people had a friendly view of russia. and even a large number number to putin himself. today 60, 70% of the people consider russia to be adversary. and so putin can take any place in ukraine he wants but occupying it would require russian bayonets and soldiers who could be target for insurgency and would be problem for him. anita: he said over and over again they will not be entering ukraine, so realistically, what are they going to be doing? >> what they do is they tell putin that if he jumps into ukraine with these mass forces the united states and other nato allies will increase nato forces along russia's border. that is a security threat for

the kremlin. they have to worry about that. so he thinks, putin thinks by seizing ukraine he improves russia's security. he would be reducing russia's security. you can be sure that russian generals would not be too happy about that. anita: yeah, i get not. final thoughts, ambassador? >> well, i've heard talk about -- we have seen boris johnson go to kyiv and maybe biden should go to kyiv, we will not second the 82nd airborne but we will do everything else which is unpleasant for mr. putin if he decides to launch a strike. anita: that would be interesting. thank you so much for your time and insight today, we appreciate it. >> thank you, bye, bye. griff: it's fascinating. great interview with ambassador herbst but he was saying what we heard from commander general in the last hour which is that the

action that is putin is taking is getting him exactly the opposite. this crisis has strengthened nato, it has resulted in more nato forces on russia's borders and so we will see where it goes. general love said that he is advice would be to continue to offer putin both carrots and sticks and as we saw from that readout the threat as david spunt was pointed out is clearly there. the president saying that if, indeed, russia does go to war with an invasion that there will be swift and severe costs to russia. we just don't know exactly what that translates to. anita: and you know, one of the things that we heard in the call was that president biden reiterated that an invasion would really diminish russia's standing in the world and the ambassador seem today grew with ambassador seem today agree with that. how is he going to explain to his own people? >> as the tensions continue to rise there, it's interesting to

see when we talk lucas tomlinson that the folks in kyiv and ukraine appear ready but certainly not giving a sense that something is eminent and, of course, the other side of the coin, what the russians are doing and the information they are giving their people. we will continue to follow all of that and we will go live to both sides of the u.s. canadian border where protestors continue to demonstrate against vaccine mandate, that's the other big story. we are following as you're looking live in windsor, canada. we will be right back. no one knows veterans like newdayusa.

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griff: employees are clearing trucker protestors in bridge in canada and reportedly threatening to arrest those who refuse to leave after the court order to demonstrate toaster disperse yesterday. now we have fox team coverage here garrett tenney in detroit but let's begin with alexis mcadams who has done an amazing job covering all week. alexis, where do things stand with the truckers? reporter: take a look behind me. you can tell they are not going anywhere. for the truckers they say this is about canada's freedom. they have abided by all of the restrictions that the government

has put in place for months and months and now they want to go back to their regular life. could reach a point of contention as we have seen thousands of new protestors flood driving in to show support for the freedom convoy and police have said multiple times that they told the protestors to leave and now at some point they are not going to ask anymore, they will have to forcibly move then and that's what we have seen in windsor, canada. take a look at the video. the bridge that we have been talking on, windsor police actually moving in there this morning to break up a day's long protest at the bridge there. crossing from the united states to new york. that ambassador bridge has stopped the flow of millions of dollars worth of goods, 25% of all trade between the united states and canada actually depends on the use of that bridge and protestors had been slowly moving out. no violence but back out here live in ottawa, it's a much

different situation where people are moving out in windsor and more people moving in. officials are protesting with hefty fines and crowds keep on growing. ontario under state of emergency. justin trudeau promising reinforcement. >> i can ensure you rcmt are working with local police departments to enforce the law. everything is on the table because this unlawful activity has to end and it will end. >> now the prime minister has been saying that everything is on the table but the protestors, the whole thing is about freedom and they say are sick of the government and the more he threatens them, the more they dig their heels. the freedom convoy demands, terminate vaccine passports and contact tracing program and terminate vaccine mandates

altogether. back out here live, the truckers tell me that they were treated like heros throughout the pandemic. they kept the supply chain moving and canada loved them then. when are they going to leave, from what i can tell, absolutely not. griff: we continue to hear the horns blow we'll. alexis mcadams, thank you very much, great coverage. anita. anita: garrett tenney in detroit with how the canadian trucker blockade is affecting u.s. businesses on the other side of the bridge, garrett. garrett: canadian officials have been under increasing pressure from leaders here in michigan as well as from the white house to take action and get this crucial corridor which handles around 25% of all trade between u.s. and canada back open. we are now in day six of the ambassador bridge being blocked off meaning for six days roughly

7,000 trucks that typically cross each day have had to drive an hour or more away to try to find another way across creating additional costs, delays and whole new supply chain crisis that's forcing automakers like gm, ford, honda and toyota to cancel shifts or shut down operations at their plants. that ultimately means fewer cars off the assembly line even fewer cars for folks to buy and higher price in those that we are already seeing. while the auto industry has been the hardest hit by these blockades, it is by no means alone food, meat, dairy, medicines and whole host of other goods make their way to and from across this bridge each day and folks, in those industries are worried if this blockade lasts much longer, how -- how much worse will the pinch that they're already feeling start to get, anita. anita: thank you so much. griff: anita, for more on the impact of the canadian trucker

convoy protest we turn to vice president of government affairs for the truckload carriers association david heller. mr. heller, thank you for taking time in weighing in. it appears that in recent weeks canadian truckers had what we would call a howard beal moment, they said we are mad as he is and we are not going to take it any longer and what impact is that having from your perspective? >> i think we have seen it and have seen the reports already. the blocking of the ambassador bridge has been key to economic and the supply chain crisis and getting goods to flow across the bridge particularly for the auto industry to -- to highlight that one to say nothing of the other ones that it doesn't affect. so at the same point we have to lack at it and say, certainly the truckers have a right to be heard but we have to do so in a manner that they are compliant. we can't advocate a situation where they are noncompliant. following rules and regulation would be key in the situation so that the supply chain can be upheld and continue the free

flow of freight across the ambassador bridge. griff: when you talk about that free flow of freight in the ambassador bridge i have read upwards $300 million of goods a day crossing back and forth. what is going to be the impact if this continues financially, economically? >> well, certainly and you have seen some of the auto parts factories have shut down. roughly about 8 to 10,000 trips across the bridge are made every day particularly with auto parts. now if a driver has to go all the way around to find another point of access in either country that adds to delays to the supply chain. that becomes a bigger issue. we've all talked about the delays affecting supply chain and congestion with the professional truck driver. that day gets longer and they are held up even more the whole supply chain gets more fragile. griff: david, i'm going to put you on the spot a bit here, there's talk of protest coming to the u.s., maybe super bowl and here in the nation's capitol

in early march, would your association support something like that? >> well, and, again, as i said, we can't advocate noncompliance and when it comes to issues like public safety we have to support and airing on the side of caution. everybody has a right to be heard but we have to do so lawfully. interrupting the supply chain is just not good for anybody, it's not good for the industry and not good for the general public we serve. has done so in a very solitary isolated job, so in saying that, they've rose to the occasion to supply this nation, they supplied canada, they applied mexico with the goods and services that everybody needs to get through this pandemic and this time is no different. so at the same point we have to do so in a very lawful manner. griff: this has turned into a political fire storm in canada. obviously you have seen justin trudeau really attacking perhaps the character of the truckers which has made them get louder

and louder and we have been covering all week long and we have a soundbite. we have a canadian grandfather, david, passionately talking about message to president trudeau and the impact this is having. take a listen. >> mr. trudeau does not deserve the title of prime minister. he's an insult to canadians. i just want to know how far mr. trudeau would go if somebody took the food off of his table because that's how far i'm going to go, mr. trudeau, mark my words mr. trudeau. griff: david, your thoughts of hearing something like that? >> i don't want to get into the political bells and whistles of the conversation. the thought of the matter is blocking the bridge and impeding the free flow of traffic to get the goods, you're talking food, medicine, to say nothing of the auto parts. going into either country and keeping people working, that's part of surviving the pandemic and i can't say this enough, the

professional truck drivers has certainly risen to the occasion since covid first started and we will continue to do so delivering ppe's and emergency supplies to areas that needed as well as keeping general commodities running through both countries. we as an industry pride ourselves in doing and we will continue to do. griff: we would not have survived the pandemic but for those essential truck driver who is kept our lives in contact. david heller, thank you very much, we will check back with you as the story continues particularly if we get the protests coming to the u.s. >> thanks, griff. appreciate it. griff: new details about the hour-long phone call between president biden and putin, we will bring it to you as we get it. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪

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is at camp david with his national security team. he held the secured phone call with counterpart russian president vladimir putin. let's show the viewers. this is the photo posted on the president's white house twitter. that is the president at camp david just a few hours ago while he was on that secure call with his russian counterpart, a white house official on a press call who briefed the press said that the call was professional and substantive. it lasted an hour and two minutes but there was no fundamental change in the posture of russia. for example, no deals cut, nothing significantly changed though the fact they had an hour and two minute call that's a good sign. i want to put a readout, an official readout from the white house it says president biden was clear that if russia undertakes a further invasion of ukraine the united states together with our allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on russia. president biden reiterated that

a further russia invasion of ukraine would produce widespread human suffering and diminish russia's standing. we also know the white house in coordination with the state department, griff, telling americans to leave ukraine. they are saying it's past time to leave ukraine, whether it's commercial aircraft or private vehicle also and waiting as they are moving people over to the western and the president is at camp david today and continue to monitor this. griff: david, quickly, do we expect more coming out of camp david or the administration today? >> it's possible. we have not heard of anything at this point, however, it's possible that we could hear some more calls from the president and other leaders. we know that president putin spoke with president macron of france. so it's clearly possible we could get some readouts as they

call them here at the white house later between the president and other world leaders. but i suspect, i don't know 100%, i suspect that the call with president putin was the only time they will talk today however they will talk in the future. probably likely they will talk in the future. griff: david spunt live at the white house covering on the developing story. david, thank you very much. anita. anita: a preliminary report from ice showing a sharp drop in deportations, more than 3 times less in fiscal year 2021. this as border patrol arrests more criminals at the border trying to cross into this country. our bill live at the border in la joya. >> they are able to patrol the

front lines and effective at tracking migrant runners. these are the single adult men typically wearing dark clothing or camouflage who speak into the country and are trying to evade away from law enforcement, they want to get further into the country and are not willing to turn themselves in but when border agents are out there on the front lines and able to use manpower and resources, they are typically able to track the guys down and arrest them. as you can see in the video right here, we saw this yesterday as well. if we can pull up the video from yesterday afternoon, same exact location here in rio grande valley, la joya, texas, they were apprehended by border patrol when there aren't huge searches of family units sucking up their resources. there have been a lot of nicaraguans apprehended recently and what we are being told a lot of them are being released because the nicaraguan government isn't taking many citizens back via title 42. meanwhile big human smuggling bust in el paso sector.

take a look at the photos where a human smuggler used a child day care transport van as a human smuggling vehicle. he had 23 guatemalans he was smuggling in las cruces, new mexico, all expelled from the country. the u.s. a driver citizen facing cheryl charges. del rio, the chief posting photos, they encountered the two men and found private ranch wandering around in the brush, well, they ran record checks on them and border patrol found out both of the guys are convicted sex offenders with previous crimes, violent crimes against minors. back here live, very busy for border patrol agents in the rio grande valley, just this week alone they arrested 5 gang members including ms13 gang members and two child sex predators including a salvadorian man who had a

previous conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child out of the state of new jersey. so big week for border patrol out here. always busy down here. send it back to you. anita: really disturbing and no doubt those border patrol agents are working around the clock to stop these criminals from coming into the country. bill live in la joya, texas, thank you so much. griff. griff: anita, for more on the crisis at our southern border joining me now former border patrol chief rodney, distinguished fellow at the texas public policy foundation. chief scott, thank you for taking time, you just heard bill malushan's great report down there in la joya, part of the rgv sector. you are too familiar with that. i actually want to show our viewers just how busy it's been n. the last 24 hours sources with cbp giving me the actual numbers in the rgv1364 encounters up 124%. in del rio, 1225 encounters, in

el paso just over a thousand, up 68%. chief scott, this has been going on every single day for more than a year, your thoughts? >> thank you for having me on, griff. you hit the nail in the head. about march 2021 the secretary went on tv and all the talk show and said they had a plan and acting in the plan and the plan was successful and the border was secured. i've come to the conclusion this is their plan to have the border open, that you couldn't make all of these decisions and have them be by accident. it shows what bill's report was great, it showed when agents are allowed to do their job they are effective and will help get real threats out of the country but unfortunately a loot of them are baby sitting and processing. they are not on the field. miles of border are open and we don't know what they are missing. griff: this could actually be intentional? >> i've avoided over the last year trying to speculate but i cannot look at somebody like the

secretary of dhs and his experience and background and his knowledge and then look at the decisions that he's making to maintain and to really create an open border and come up with any other conclusion that it's intentional. i will let the viewers decides for themselves, just lack at the evidence and the facts and not the words. griff: chief, i want to address this part of the story that's tragic and that's the toll it is taking on the morale. now you have uniformed agents standing up to leadership. yesterday on our air your successor ortiz was asked about the morale. here is what he had to say, take a listen. >> the morale is certainly going to be a challenge for us not just because we are dealing with this humanitarian push that's coming at us from 140 different countries, but also because we are dealing with it in a covid environment. on any given day i may have 4, 500 officers in quarantine status. griff: chief, your thoughts? >> so again i will try to stay out of the politics but it is a

significant threat. morale is tanked out. they hear the secretary stating that he cares and he's going the take the actions but then even when what he states on paper, increasing prosecutions for assaults. he has no control over that. that's a u.s. attorney's office. it's all words. the agents see the actions every single day and the actions are they are being told to process people and release them into the united states faster and they know that all that means is that more will continue to keep coming. this is the first administration most of the agents including myself have ever seen that have no intention of securing the border and takes no actions to try to secure the border. griff: chief i learned from you right after you retired you spoke about this becoming a national security crisis, not just a border crisis and in the months since we have seen individuals being apprehended from syria, from russia, from ukraine, all over the world.

is it your sense that the national security sense is worsening? >> bill showed what agents can do when they are allowed to be on the field. i'm getting reports from agents and leadership in the border patrol because of the focus on processing and the flow that won't stop, hundreds and hundreds of miles of border are left wide open and we simply don't know what's crossing. what we do know the demographics have changed statistically and they are catching more people from other countries, countries not from the northern triangle, not mexico, all the countries you just mentioned increasing over and over and what's in that group? griff: we just don't know and the number of got aways increasing. in fact, in the rgv where bill was they have just over 16,500 known got aways. chief rodney scott, thank you for your insights, so important, thanks for taking time on saturday, sir. >> thank you, griff. have a great day. griff: you too, anita. anita: well, griff, one new york mom is so fed up with masks and

remote learning rules she's decided to run for office. she joins us coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪

anita: controversial mask mandates are enraging american moms, one democrat has had enough. my next guest is run to go replace her fellow democrat carolyn malone. she's a candidate for 12th congressional district which includes the east side of manhattan. thank you for joining us today. running for congress, quite an undertaking, what was the final straw for you? >> i mean, the last two years have been the final straw for a lot of different parents. running for congress was not something that i have ever thought to do. when i ran for our local school board and i saw what was going on in our schools i got

enormously frustrated and tried to make change in our schools and that was pre-covid. once covid hit, we saw new york city kids get locked out of school longer and more ridiculous rules and restrictions than other american students in other states and new york is still holding onto a lot of restriction to our kids that we now know we don't need and we know how bad it is for children in a lot of other ways. anita: yes, it has been a tough time for mom and kids especially. first a poll with how people describe their own feelings on the current state of the covid-19 pandemic. you can see a lot of people, 75% tired, 73% frustrated, 40% optimistic but they are in line with your feelings. now another poll i want to bring up about how new yorkers feel, what are their top issues and you see crime is at the top followed by affordable housing,

homelessness and finally covid and your main issue is mask mandates and we are also not in favor of defunding and i just have to ask that. >> when i talk to moms at school dropoff, at pick-up, when i talk to people on the streets, they are talking about the same thing i'm talking. we have a homelessness that's out of control. by the way that's not for want of spending billions of dollars on homeless shelters and on homeless services in new york city. we spend an extraordinary amount of money over $40,000 per individual in the system and over $70,000 for the families. but we are not helping the people that need help and we are seeing our subways become defacto homeless shelters, they are filthy and they are dangerous. so i know that the things that i'm worried about other new yorkers that i talk to every day

are worried about the exact same thing. anita: all right, maud maron, we thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. anita: all right, and we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪

griff: here we go. the highlightly anticipated

super bowl lvi is almost here. this year the los angeles rams and cincinnati bengals will be duking it out. kick-off time for 6:30 p.m. eastern at la's sofi stadium. anita, i have to tell you, i'm so excited about this super bowl because of joe burough, second year quarterback for the bengals, the bengals won four games last year and now they are in the super bowl. he has a chance to win the triple crown of quarterbacks, heisman trophy, college championship which he did with lsu and now the possibility of a super bowl. they are the underdogs but they might do it. i'm for the bengals, obviously them but i'm guessing since you have been livering in la you go for the rams. anita: i am rooting for the rams and i am from los angeles. highlighting los angeles, it's the first super bowl inside the brand-new sofi stadium. it has beens to be the most

expensive stadium in the country and, of course, the most expensive tickets $7,500 for your average ticket. i think you're better off on your coach. also could be the hottest game on record. high 80's, low 90's in los angeles. so fans should dress appropriately but it is a great opportunity to show case this beautiful new stadium. griff: i wondered too since it's in la how many people are coming because of the half time show with dr. dre, snoop dogg and m&m. a lot of people are tunning for that. anita: yeah. griff: the best games we have had in years. anita: super exciting. all right. griff: that's all for us at this hour, fox news live continues at eric sean and molly line. i'm griff jenkins. anita: anita vogul. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪

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