husband, sean duffy, and jack brewer. will: also 2:30, of course, daytona motor speedway. where you going? [laughter] pete: going in somebody's going to hoist this trophy tomorrow. i'm going to hoist it right now. rachel: don't drop that. there's some nest executives. -- nervous executives. pete: see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> the fire that we have coming in right now is being fired from just a few kilometers away. russian-backed separatists clearly identified there were a lot of people at that position and started to hammer it pretty heavy with around tilley -- artillery. you heard those explosions in the distance, those were incoming rounds. that's what the ukrainian military's been dealing with the past 48 hours. they say they are following protocols and it's the

russian-backed forces you hear in the distance more explosions, that are violating this agreement. >> extraordinary reporting from one of our best, fox's trey yingst. he's in eastern ukraine. it comes just a day after president biden says he's convinced that russian president putin has decided to invade. we are also hearing that civilians are evacuating from eastern ukraine. preparations are being made in parts of kyiv, the capital, for a potential attack. well, all this is the happening queue crane january president zelensky meeting with vice president kamala harris at a security conference in munich, germany. are he and his allies prepared for the hours to come? and are americans prepared for the potential threat to our economy? welcome, everyone, i'm david asman in for neil cavutoed today. you are watching "cavuto live." we are going to be going to trey as soon as his shot comes back up. as you can see, he is literally on the run right now. first to lucas tomlinson, he

joins us from western ukraine or at least a bit west of where trey is right now on what he's seeing and hearing there. good to see you, lucas. what are you seeing? >> reporter: good afternoon, david. it's been over 30 years since the soviet union broke up, and it appears russian president vladimir putin wants to put it back together. that could include launch a full scale invasion. putin considers russia and ukraine to be one people. people we've talked to on the streets are saying that's not the case. about that munich security conference, russia sipped it for the first time -- skipped it for the first time in over 20 years to conduct missile tests. vice president kamala harris spoke earlier. >> we will impose swift and severe economic sanctions. we have been clear about that. we are also clear that we would prefer that a this would be resolved in a diplomatic way. >> reporter: russia does not appear to be deterred.

in a very undiplomatic message back to the west today, russian forces test fired at least three different types of missile, some capable of carrying nuclear warheads. this mobile cruise missile was launched from a field, a ballistic missile launched from a submarine, and a mugs mig 31 fired a hypersonic police ballistic missile, russia's way of saying they could be launching a full scale unvegas soon. russia's felt threatened. in 1999, the alliance spread to hungary, poland and czech republic, three weeks later, russia bombs serbia. he fears tomahawk missiles could be placed in bases in romania and poland. the launches are very similar, david, to u.s. guided destroyer missiles ashore. the belarus president spoke earlier. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: for the first time in decades, we are on the brunck of a conflict that could

suck in, like a vortex, the entire continent. >> reporter: david, this country's about the size of texas where the action where trey took incoming is very far from here. out here in western ukraine, not far from the polish border about 40 miles, all appears calm. we have bumped into some americans who have fellowed ukraine's -- fellowed ukraine's capital. david? david: ukrainian president zelensky, as we've been mentioning, is in germany right now. mark meredith is at the white house with more details about the meeting between zelensky and the vice president, harris, you can see on that -- from that live shot. good to see you, mark. what's the latest? >> reporter: david, good morning. we don't expect to hear from president biden on camera today, but just yesterday afternoon he gave his most bleak assessment yet on where things stand with russia and the possible if not likely invasion into ukraine. the president making it clear he still believes there is a slight chance for a diplomatic push here, but he also believes

russia is ready to move. >> you know, look, we have reason to believe the russian forces are planning to and intend to attack ukraine in the coming week. in the coming days. we believe that they will target ukraine's capital, kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people make no mistake, if russia pursues its plans, it will be responsible for a catastrophic and needless war of choice. >> reporter: the president also once again warning russia, specifically president putin, any military action against ukraine will trigger harsh and widespread economic sanctions. although we expect the sanctions to differ a little bit per country, just yesterday italy's prime minister says he does not believe any sanctions should impact russia's energy market or imports from russia when it comes to energy. cameras capturing vice president kamala harris meeting face to face with ukrainian president zelensky. both leaders are in munich for a security conference. during their nearly

40-minute-long meeting, the vice president once genre affirms america's commitment to ukrainian sovereignty. >> any threats to your country we take seriously, and of were rallied our allies and partners to speak with one voice, and those voices have been frequent throughout the course of these last couple of days and before. >> reporter: so what comes next? there is still a possibility here of diplomatic action being able to cool edgeses in the region. we know that next week the secretary of state will be meeting face to face with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, that meeting set for thursday, but a lot can happen teen now and then. dave:ed mark, thank you very much. let's bring in retired lieutenant general david -- general, good to see you. these extraordinary pictures that we're getting from trey yingst, our correspondent on the eastern side where the action is in ukraine right now, of course, whenever you are in the midst of incoming fire, you think that the whole world is exploding. we have had incidences in the

past couple of days. is this the beginning, though, what we're seeing now in eastern ukraine, of the invasion? >> well, david, excuse me, as trey reports, indicators continue to point toward an invasion and, frankly, these are the early stages. we've got russian-backed troops that are firing at positions of ukrainian soldiers in the donbas region. that's simply to draw fire from the ukrainian forces to act as a pretext for engagement. we see that russia's been stocking up on hard currency in anticipation of the sanctions, they're burning their documents in their kyiv embassy and all the while churning out more disinformation and initiating cyber attacks. so, yeah, i think we're at the very early stages of what is going to be an invasion. david: now, of course, we've been here before. they invaded in 2014 crimea, took it over, annexed it to use

a polite term but essentially just took it over. that's where president putin is right now overseeing this nuclear exercise that they're having in the black sea. i don't think that's by accident. is it just stage craft, or does he want a ringside seat for an invasion? >> i think what putin's specific objectives are and the details of his operational-level execution plans are yet to be known. but, you know, you heard what the president said yesterday, that based on current intelligence putin's made the decision to invade. so, yeah, it's a logical place to oversee the invasion from. david: forgive me for interrupting, but i have to ask about the ukrainians themselves. we have been providing them with a lot of weapons over the past couple of months, but they are behind the 8-ball. with 190,000 russian troops not to mention the artillery and everything they could bring from the air potentially to the

capital in terms of air bombardment, do they have the defense necessary to thwart an invasion? >> we'll see. the short answer is, no. they'll fight, they'll fight hard, they'll fight capably, but they won't be able to overcome the overwhelming force and might of the russian military: so, again, it's going to to be a messy fight. there'll be a lot of people's lives lost. but it may be prolonged, it may bog down. it was -- the thing about warfare is there's nothing that can be anticipated, and what you can count on are unanticipated turns of events. dade david now, stalin back 90 years ago starved the ukrainians into submission. there were about 4 million people killed between 1932-33 by a long period of starvation that was brought on by the dictator, by stalin when it was the soviet

union. is putin, you know, putin is a scholar of soviet history. he was a former kgb agent. might he be planning a long, prolonged effort to strangle the ukrainian people? >> that's certainly an option. but given the array of forces that he has,s i wouldn't anticipate that. i believe that what he'll do is take some sort of action that's quick, decisive, can make his point whether he invades from the north, the east, the south or all three simultaneously. and, again, really the only person who knows what he's got up his sleeve is putin himself. david: and occupation, final question, an occupation force could be there for a long time, and with the ukrainians already armed and storing a lot of these arms in their houses and everything, a door to door rebellion by the ukrainian people against an occupying force could be quite costly for

putin, could it not? >> yes, it could be, and it could bog him down. that's why i say he may not fall into that trap and execute a rapid invasion, accomplish a nominal objective and then rapidly leave. but only time are tell. david: general deptula, pleasure to have you on, sir. thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. meanwhile, the u.s. senate passing a resolution before a weeklong recess supporting ukraine and condemning russia, but some senators still say we need to impose sanctions against russia immediately. is so why not do it now? south dakota republican senator mike braun is a member of the senate foreign -- mike rounds joins me now on the phone. senator, essentially, this is a symbolic vote by the senate. it's not -- historically, it will probably be a footnote in history, if that.

a real sanction that begins immediately before the full-blown invasion begins is what is preferred by you and a lot of senators and a lot of democrats actually voted with you for the resolution that was put forth by, i believe it was by -- yeah. i'm sorry, by -- >> senator risch. david: exactly. why didn't that pass? >> we recognize that it's symbolic. look, we're in the middle right now of the beginning of the invasion by mr. putin. we recognize that as well. the message we're trying to send is, is that we believe sanctions absolutely could have at least made him hi twice, but we're past that point. and now it's a matter of moving to the next step which is to make very clear to mr. putin that his cost long term is going to be damning in terms of his long-term viability.

sanctions coming, it's going to be hard on us, it's going to be hard on our business community, it's going to be hard on our european allies, but it will be devastating to russia and to mr. but there's part of this which is still being left out, and that is for the last year we have done everything in this country to make ourselves more dependent on foreign energy. let's knock that off. if this president really wants to make a change in this european scenario, number one, let the message go out that we're going to start building our pipelines again, number two, open up oil and gas leases on federal lancz, we're going to start is producing crude oil and natural gas again and send a message to mr. putin that the profit he's making right now by the increase in fuel prices across the world, he's not going to benefit from that anymore. he's going to have a real tough time surviving based on energy prices. david: just imagine, just imagine if how different this whole situation would be if

he -- we had energy independence, which we've lost in the past year during the biden administration. senator, i'm so sorry, but we do have a lot of breaking news at the moment. we have to leave it at that. thank you very much for being here. we will continue monitoring the situation over there and what it could mean for gas prices here as senator rounds just said. senator bill cassidy coming up on that. but first, a fired-up dad speaking out saying it is time to reel in more school boards. you'll want to hear him, he's next. >> what the masks showed us is that the parents, the most powerful group of people many our country, that they're taking the wheel. hello cashback! hello, kevin hart! earn big time with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? chase. make more of what's yours. kim is now demonstrating her congestion. save it slimeball. i've upgraded to mucinex. we still have 12 hours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move!

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>> yes. we had to take the wheel back for the masks. we're taking the wheel back from washington, all the way to raleigh. if you believe in crt, you're a liar because that means you look at your black neighbor and say

they're oppressed, and you look at your white neighbor and say they're evil regardless of the experience you've had with them. and we're not going to do that. david: that video shocked the internet. a north carolina dad says parents are taking back the wheel when it comes to making decisions for their kids. they did it with masks, and they're going to do it again with crt. brian, thank you so much for being here. i appreciate it. first of all, a lot of people, a lot of parents around the country are waking up. that's what changed the governorship in virginia, we see it happening in places like san francisco. democrat strongholds. what was the sort of wake-up moment for you that got you on that pedestal? >> i love my children. i mean, that's all that had to happen, is i love my children. the idea that they're less thanker obviously, you know, people love the pecan-colored statement. my we-can colored -- pecan

colored children have every opportunity, and i've had every opportunity, and i expect them to have a greater one. and the parents i speak to, they're on fire. they're literally on fire. this critical race theory, whatever they want to call it because it's like they changed the name to smuggle it in, and we're not having it. we're not having it. david: how did parents lose control of their schools to begin with? was it the unions or what? >> i don't know much about the unions. i think we lost control because of trust, so we trust the people to give great education, and we trust the teachers, and they deserve that trust. but then a few of them violated, and we look up, and next thing you know your kid's an oppress or sor evil based on the corps of -- color of their skin. people can say that's an oversimplificationification, but if there's a little poison in the cake, you have the throw out the cake. david: school boards around the country have, according to a lot of parents, have not been

following what the parents really want. but they're voted in. a lot of people just vote along party lines. they're down ballot, they're not at the so much the ballot. you actually did applaud one thing that the school board did. they approved a resolution to insure nondiscrimination. that's good, but they didn't go far enough, right? >> they didn't go far enough because what happens to the teacher who violates thatsome -- that? if we vote them in, but there's no consequences. so when they go sideways, there's no consequences, and this massive movement has to happen to deal with it. and that's where we're taking back the wheel. they've passed down these policies, and we're not going to let them experiment on our kids. we don't have a second chance at raising our children. we don't have a second chance at having a great future, and parents, when it comes to our children, we don't care about a d or an r, red or blue. you know, we want the opportunities that our children can have, and that's it. david: have you been attacked

for your views? >> of course. [laughter] david: by whom and how? >> i don't even know who these people are. i mean, obviously, i have friends who disagree with me, but people attack on the internet. i've gotten phone call, i've gotten, i've gotten attacks saying i don't understand crt and, apparently, they call me everything except a racist because, you know, i guess you're not allowed to use that against me. i don't know what it is. but the -- yeah. they're absolutely -- david: you know, actually, it's funny you mention that because i had an interview with the lieutenant governor of virginia, winsome if sears, she's a great former marines. she came here from jamaica, she's been attacked as a white supremacist or at least supporting the views, so they actually have done that. people of color have been accused of racism. >> it's ridiculous. and i challenge anybody, you come on the show and you tell people how oppressed and evil the kids are and how bad america is, and i will tell people how

great our children are, their potential and everything they can do in america. let's see who parents really agree with. david: it's hard to imagine anybody being against that, it really is. brian, great to see you. thank you so much for standing up for our kids and for being here today. appreciate it. >> we're taking back the wheel. thanks, david. david: god bless you. well, we are hearing that tear gas was just used in canada's capital city. we've got a live report from canada in just a moment. also, president biden once again saying we need spending, more spending in order to get prices to fall. someone here says we need to cut it all out. that's next. purchase loan, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're still holding rates in the 2s. already own a home and need cash? the newday100 loan can get you up to $60,000 or more and lower your payments by $615 a month. take ten minutes

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[bleep] [background sounds] david: canadian police firing tear gas near protesters in ottawa, this after making a hundred arrests yesterday while cracking down on truckers for defying orders to clear out. matt finn is following it all in ottawa. matt, i saw you in the last hour, and you could hear the sound -- we thought they were flash and bang rounds, but those were actually rounds from tear gas canisters, right? >> reporter: you know, it's not entirely clear. it sounded like a flash bang and maybe the tear gas canisters came afterwards. we can't really confirm that right now. but nonetheless, this is still a really tense moment because police are, you know, kind of systematically squeezing out some of the fine protesters her. our understanding that parliament is in session today, so you have the prime minister in there. these people not happy with the prime minister here. so this is pretty much the

epicenter of the protest. we have counted about 20-25 trucks. we've seen a truck or two choosing to leave in the final moments. that one truck that remains, the police smashed out the windows and entered that truck the, so we imagine if they might be towing that away soon. but the protesters are roadway cysting, they are pushing -- are resisting, they are saying hold the line. and every once in a while police move forward, they move that human barricade line forward, they kind of close in the circumference around this area, arresting anybody that is interfering or anybody who is resisting. and eventually, it seems like maybe by the end of the day -- so here you go. in intera values police will move forward. sometimes it's a small amount, sometimes it's a much larger amount like a city block, and they're just squeezing tighter and tighter. we're obviously trying not to get caught in the mix because they are arresting people. so far not necessarily violent but very turbulent, very tense. and the police here, including the national police, they have

riot gear, riot vehicles, armored vehicles, and they are not messing around anymore. they are getting closer and closer to the heart of this protest which is parliament hill, and the trucks that remain outside of it, i talked to a trucker not long ago, he said he's going to remain here until he can drive away or is arrested. he anticipates the possibility of being arrested. back to you. david: matt, i just want to ask, what are you moving -- what are they moving you towards or? are they moving you towards the point where you can't go any further or what? >> reporter: we, they are moving us basically away from if parliament. there's a lot of trucks remaining here. i think we have someone injured -- david: yeah, i see that. i remember yesterday you were showing scenes of somebody who was trampled by one of the police horses, right? >> reporter: you know, police came out and said no one was injured in that incident. they said the woman might have

just been pushed over. but, obviously, that video went viral. a lot of people believe that woman was trampled, others think she was just push over. they tweeted out that no one was hurt or killed in that incident. but what's happening right now, i'm being told this woman on the ground is a reporter, and she is injured. very unfortunate. david: difficult to do your job and move and be aware of what's happening at the same time, meanwhile trying to -- >> reporter: yes. we're being vigilant, we're being aware, we're keeping a safe and healthy distance from that police line because we don't want to get in the mix. this began yesterday. they started making these mass arrests, started pushing in yesterday, closing the circumference around parliament hill. i think now, if our cameraman can zoom in, you can see some of the police entering some of the trucks. these truckers and protesters have been warned for days and days and days that if you do not leave, you face the possibility of being arrested, you face the

possibility of having your property seized. and that is now what's happening, you know? this is now coming down to this being shut down right in front of parliament hill, david. david: i'm just curious, there was somebody who got out of that red truck who had an automatic weapon. he was in military gear. was that a policeman who got out of the truck? >> i'm not sure. there are plenty of policemen in very armored gear, military gear. i'm not sure exactly who got out, but i can tell you there are dozens if not hundreds of officer as in this area right now -- officers in this area right now in very heavy tactical gear. we saw them smash out one of the windows in one of the remaining trucks in the distance. that is under control -- yes, i see someone who looks like an officer entering that red truck9 and the black truck. and this was, you basically knew this was coming. eventually, this was going to happen because these protesters and truckers were warned that a we are eventually going to arrest you. we're going to use any means and resources necessary to end this

protest. so now you are witnessing, you know, the final holdouts, the people who chose to remain here for days and days and weeks and weeks. because we did see people leave voluntarily yesterday, we just saw a trucker get out of here in the final minutes to avoid this. but now, you know, these truckers, they remained here, they stayed right here from front of parliament, and now they are facing the consequences of police -- david: and these are huge trucks, by way. do they have the equipment to remove them? i mean, they must have very, very big tow trucks to get them out of the way. >> reporter: yes. we've seen -- we saw some of the tow trucks circling yesterday, very large tow trucks. and police and the government have said they will have no problem removing these tow trucks, towing them out of the way. so that is likely what's going to happen to some of these remaining trucks. last count this morning, david, there were about 20-25 trucks in this immediate vicinity and, you know, they are -- we're seeing some tear gas -- david: yeah, i can see it.

>> reporter: yeah. they're all locked in. i talked to a trucker who said i'm kind of blocked in. so going to be interesting to see how they get these trucks out of here. but they said they're having -- yeah, looks like tear gas in the distance. [inaudible conversations] so, i mean, these are live pictures. they speak for themselves. this is what's happening. police are shutting this down. david: matt finn, we're going to be coming back to you as soon as you have a safe place to stand, you and your cameraman need to get out of the way of that tear gas. thank you so much, matt finn. very dramatic footage both from canada and what's happening in ukraine. so as provinces throughout canada have begun phasing out and eliminating vax mandates, u.s. and canadian leaders are urging president biden and canadian prime minister trudeau to reinstate vaccine and quarantine exemptions for cross-border truckers in an effort to ease the mess. nebraska governor pete ricketts is one of those leaders signing the letter.

governor, i don't know if you could see the signs, but they are getting tough in qanta on those trucker protesters. you know, provinces all over can dab not just in the west, but including quebec, are phasing out the vax mandates just as that is happening, trudeau is doubling down on these vax mandates for truckers. why isn't he compromising as the rest of the provinces? why does he choose this heavy-handed approach to deal with situation? >> well, this really seems to be inexplicable, because as we see around our country, the number of cases is plummeting, and we know that inflation is running wild. we've just seen a 40-year high of 7.5%. even president biden is blaming some of this on supply chain issues. so why he would make this problem worse by requiring vaccines, it just doesn't make any sense. you know, what we would like to see here in nebraska is that we open up the supply line. you know, families are being

hurt by inflation. it's very corrosive. and one of the steps the president could take working with the prime minister would be to reinstate the vaccine exemptions, allow those truckers to start moving their goods, and that would help us fill grocery shelves. david: again, i don't want to just focus on just trudeau, this is much bigger than trudeau alone, but not only is he playing hardball with the truckers chen, in fact, other provinces are getting rid of the vaccine, compromising, saying we're going to phase them out for truckers as well, but earlier this week he actually accused a jewish member of parliament of being sympathetic to nazis in her sympathy with the truckers. i mean, the kind of rhetoric he's using matches this kind of hardball behavior on the streets, and it's just very unbecoming of a prime minister. >> yeah. i really don't understand it. and, again, if you just look at what's going on with regard to how we're managing this virus,

it's really unnecessary. i mean, you know, we certainly encourage people to get vaccines here in my state. we publish data about how to help keep you out of the hospital, but i have always a opposed vaccine mandates, and here in nebraska we weathered the pandemic better than just about anybody else. we've done that without vaccine passports, statewide mask mandates or lockdowns. we educated people about how to handle the virus. they did the right thing, and we let people make their own choices, and it's not clear why president biden and president -- or prime minister trudeau couldn't do the same thing with regard to the, you know, areas of responsibility they have because we've been very successful here in nebraska. i bet the same things work for them. david: we should mention, by the way, that are there are still a number of states suing the federal government for vax mandates on federal contractors and, of course, all of the health care workers, etc. by the way, again, we are looking at live pictures while we're talking to you, we have

live pictures up on the right side of the screen where it does seem that a number of truckers have actually left on their own accord or and -- rather than being towed out of that area. you know, we need truckers here, governor, in the united states. we have a labor shortage. i'm just wondering if you've reached out to any canadian truckers saying, look, we've got plenty of room for you in the states. >> well, certainly, we would welcome any canadian who wants to become an american, become a nebraskan. it's why we've had such a great outcome here in our state is because we have valued freedom as well as making, taking steps to slow down the virus and really using common sense which seems to be in short supply both in the biden administration and, obviously, what's going on with regards to the vaccine mandates in canada as well. david: yeah. well, as we've seen in canada, various provinces giving um the -- up the vax mandates despite trudeau's obstinance,

there's no other word for it up in canada, we're seeing the same thing happening here in the united states. we just had boss boston among the latest democrat-run cities to get rid of the vax mandate or announce it's being phased out. is this kind of the last gasp, do you think, of these -- the power push by politicianings to take sol -- politicians to take control? is it difficult for these politicians who have taken so much control during the pandemic to give it up? >> well, again, you wonder why it's taken them so long. you know, we ended our emergency with regards to the pandemic in june of last year here many nebraska. and now we see states like california finally coming around and recognizing this is a virus, it's never going to go away. we have to learn to manage it. and managing it with heavy-handed government tactics like we see in some states here in the united states or what's going on in canada with these truckers, that's not productive. that that doesn't work long term. what we've done here in is focus on educating people, you know,

bringing people -- and that is a long-term strategy, getting people to participate voluntarily. you're going to be able to have a way to manage virus. again, it's nice to see states like california finally recognizing that, you know, this virus is never going to go away. we have to take a different approach, not a heavy-handed government approach, to being able to manage it. david: yeah. governor pete ricketts, thank you very much for being here. best of luck to you. hopefully, we'll be out of it soon. appreciate it. well, back here in the u.s. inflation is getting worse. amazon's prime's price spike is kicking off, capping off a rough week for inflation and your money. this is a new quinnipiac poll that shows inflation is the top concern facing americans today. so should it be democrats' top concern ahead of the midterm elections in november? let's ask asset management cio erin gibbs, democrat strategist chris hahn and economics

professor brian brenberg. good to see you all. thanks for being here. brian, polls make it clear not only is inflation the top concern, but the public, voters think -- i think by a 2-1 margig more to make inflation worse than better. how does, how does that get turned around if it's possible to get turned around before the election? >> well, gee, i wonder why they think he's making it work drs. worse? we've got 7.5% consumer inflation, 9.7% producer inflation, gas is through the roof, and we've got a president who is talking about spending more money. that's why his poll numbers are down, that's why americans are concerned, that's why they don't trust him because it's manifestly obvious to anyone who can think logically that spending is not going to bring down inflation. this president has got to get off of that kick. i cannot believe it's taken him this long and yet he is still on it. until he stops talking about

spending and starts talking about freeing up the economy, freeing up energy, freeing up pipelines, until he gets on that fairtive -- narrative, people are going to continue to question his ability to lead on their number one issue. david: kristin, how do you think the president can turn this around? >> so i think, first of all, he's acknowledging that this is a real issue, and he's talked about -- david: about time for that, right? we've all known that since the first time we went to the grocery -- >> you know, i think the rhetoric on the far left of the democratic party, the answer is not spending trillions of more dollars, you know? take a quote from the west wing, let biden be biden. he's inherently a dealmerrick and, you know, he should -- dealmaker, and he should work with republicans and democrats including senators manchin and sinema to pass some of these smaller measures that can address the supply chain issues.

there's some things that can be done, but they're going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. david: makes sense to me. earp, the bottom line is the -- erin, the bottom line is the federal reserve does play a big role in all of this because with all this deficit spending, what happens is the treasury puts out these bonds because they can't afford, they don't have the money to pay for all the programs they've approved of, and the fed has been the one to print the money and buy up those bonds, and that's what's causing inflation. and they're still doing it. the fed is still monetizing the debt. they say they're going to stop buying the bonds come march, but right now, as we speak, they're still doing it. so i don't see it getting better at least until they stop doing that, right? >> yes. one, we have to stop buying the bonds. that's pretty much -- they've laid out that plan very clearly, so that -- what's really up for debate is whether they want to raise interest rates which makes that debt even more expensive for the u.s. government. and so the government really

should be focused on reducing the deficit in order to help inflation because one of the things with inflation is biden keeps saying it's supply chain, but when you look at where the inflation is coming from, we're also seeing it on the services side when it comes to wage growth, and that's not supply chain, that's american spending in the face of higher wholesale prices. and so biden needs to address all of it and stop just saying it's a supply chain issue. david: brian, we also, of course, have a labor shortage, 10-11 million unfilled jobs in this country. particularly small businesses are crying out for labor that they can afford. how much of that has to do with biden's policies? >> yeah. you've got to drop the vax mandates, you've got to drop the mask mandates, you've got to drop all of these regulations and requirements. people can manage this on their own. governor pete ricketts just talked about it a second ago with nebraska. clear the decks. you've got to make it as easy as

possible for businesses to hire, and you've got to give people every incentive possible to go to work. you're not going to solve this problem, you can try all sorts of things on the margin. until you go right to the heart of it, and the heart of it is getting people on the job and making it as easy as possible for employers to hire, until you go there, nothing changes. that's it. david: gang, we've got to leave it at that. thank you very much. major winter weather pounding the midwest with snow and strong winds. what to expect for the rest of the weekend coming up. and with russia and ukraine tensions escalating over there, pump prices are rising here. why louisiana republican senator bill cassidy says there's a simple fix for this. he'll explain coming up. homeownership more than veterans. at newday, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're holding the line on purchase loans with rates in the twos. already own a home and need cash? with the newday100 loan, you can get up to $60,000 or more

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>> reporter: david, good morning. it has been so active. we'ved had a roller coaster ride in temperatures. take a rook at this arctic front. these four polygon areas are snow squall warnings. national weather service put these into effect a couple years ago, and they're doing their job. it's like a thunderstorm. comes through with a punch, drops a tremendous amount of snow in a short period of time. the visibility gets reduced to below an eighth of a mile, and it could be a whiteout and very treacherous travel. there's a warning in effect for claire county, if you live in this area, it moves through in about 10 minutes. otherwise, behind this arctic front, temperatures are going to fall to the teens and 20s, watertown and once those snow showers move towards the east coast and through i-95, mayor roller coaster ride in

temperatures we've had. huge dip in the jet stream by tuesday. arctic air comes into the rockies. it is going to feel like spring over to the south and the east, and storm number one -- we've got a one-two punch, will be adopting for let's say tuesday. -- developing for, let's say, tuesday. snow and freezing rain. and get this, behind it just like its predecessor, we're going to have another storm developing over the midwest and the central part of the country for thursday into friday with another round of more snow, icing and severe weather. it's like big brother, little sister coming at us towards the east coast by friday. a lot to watch, and you can always get your information on your fox weather app. down rode it now. david: i've got it with me. thank you, john, appreciate that. liberals -- voters in one liberal city ousting three school board members after some argued they were pushing progressive politics. that's happening there. will we see the same sort of move elsewhere?

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david: as san francisco voters ousted three school board member who is some parents accused of outing progressive politics way before the needs of students. more than 70% of voters backedded the recall of each member including the city's democrat mayor. can we expect to see more cases like this and in other cities across the country? >> darla romfo joins me now. were you encouraged, darla? if not only were they recalled, but by over 70%. i mean, that was pretty impressive. >> it was very impressive. and, yes, i think wokeness has met if its match, and the name is parents. i wouldn't automatically assume that what happened in san francisco and earlier this year in electing governor youngkin is

going to roll out across the country. it took a lot of work on behalf of parentings. but the parents of 55 million school children are a pretty powerful bloc, and they voted both with their feet, about a million and a half kids have left government-run schools, and they've also voted at the ballot box, and that is very encouraging. the time has come, and it's been said by many people including politicians and certainly by parents that it's time to fund children and not fund systems. and what that means is that the money that the government spend, that's taxpayer money, and they should be accountable to taxpayers -- that money should be directly funding the children. parents should be able to choose the schooling that's appropriate for their children. you know, ten years ago you probably couldn't have gotten a movement hike this going. they've tried to start or something called parents in charge, and parents weren't ready for it because they thought their schools were okay. but now parents have seen what's happening in their schools, and they are more than ready.

david: well, as you've said in the past, the pandemic, one good thing that it did was pull back the curtain and show parents what was going on in the classroom with all this remote learning. you mentioned the money that's been spent on covid bills, k-12, and it's enormous. close to $200 billion in the three covid bills we've passed so far, and yet, this kills me, we have teacher shortages all over in places like tennessee, new mexico, iowa. they're having severe teacher shortages. where did that money go if not to hire new teachers? >> who knows where the money went. i think some of it hasn't been spent yet. it certainly didn't go -- parents know that it didn't go to open up the classrooms. i mean, how tone deaf is it to not even consider the needs of the children? and in san francisco they were worried about renaming schools, and the schools weren't even open. that's why you have parents up in arms. they're tired of this, and they should be tired of it. david: how did our schools become so taken over by the woke

crowd? >> well, when you don't give parents, the first educators of their children, when you don't give them the right to hold schools accountable, when you don't have school choice, when you have -- the government runs all the schools. we need more schools run by other than the government. and the only way we get there is school choice. and you'll like this, david. you know, g.k. chesterton said it's not that christianty has been found and wanting and never tried. the government spends taxpayer money and could have taken that to a private school. we have more kids that are home schooled now and going to charter schools, but we need more money flowing places other than to government-run school -- david: school choice, a lot of people might not know what it means, very briefly, i think it means you would be able to take the money that you spend now through your taxes on schools and take it to the school that you prefer.

has -- is that, has it worked out before? have we had an experiment of school choice locally? >> oh, we have a great experiment in florida. florida has the most broad school choice program in the country, and it's actually there's enough money following the children, about $7900, i believe, which is still far less than the government spends on education. but that $7900 is enough to attract new suppliers. you get innovation, and now there's something like 49% of children in florida go to schools other than their zoned public school. and that's, that's a result of the grades have gone way up, test scores have gone way up. it's been great. even within the government-run sector you have a lot more competition. so people may choose to still go to a government-run school, but they'll be better for everybody. david: competition works even in schools. >> it does. david: by the way. virginia's playing that out as well. we'll see how that works out. darla romfo, i should mention

children's scholarship fund has put 300,000 needy kids in scholarship programs in schools. congratulations on your work. >> thank you so much, david. david: well, we showed you earlier in the show how fox's trey yingst saw firsthand ukraine's military taking on fire near the eastern border. we're going to go live to ukraine for the very latest coming next. don't miss it. you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're still holding rates in the 2s. already own a home and need cash? the newday100 loan can get you up to $60,000 or more and lower your payments by $615 a month. take ten minutes right now and make the call. because no one knows veterans like newday usa.

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newsrator trey yingst. and he's moving on to a safer location and we'll go to him live when we can get it. first let's go to law cast tomlinson, he's in western ukraine with the latest from there, lucas. >> hey, that's right. that was pretty incredible reporting by our own trey yingst. when president biden talked about the invasion and the ukrainian president says he wants sanctions now and not waiting until the bombs are falling here. >> one thing we want is to bring the peace back to our country and we are greatful to you for your understanding that sanctions may bring about peaceful resolution of this matter. >> for the first time in over

20 years, russia skipped the munich community conference where zelensky was speaking. russia test fired seven missiles including a modern inter-continental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads. and supersonic missile from a warship and from a mig 31 today. the provocative missile tests not so subtle message to those gathered. and belarus and then after that, it's anyone's guess what putin will order. hundreds gathered for the resistance march. this is a town similar to like boston where american and other diplomates fled to after evacuating the u.s. embassy in the capital city and the top official told me that documents had to be shredded at the embassy. and some american citizens fled

here and they're here because they also fear that russian invasion. although while some are tense on the ground, i can look around and i can see some people are in a park playing with their children, carrying on like there is no problems, but clearly others very worried. david: i was talking to you the other day and same thing was happening in the capital. not so now. it doesn't take long for folks to get hunkered down. lucas, please take care of yourself. thank you very much. so as the possibility of war inches closer to becoming reality, the u.s. is ramping up its information warfare campaign to counter moscow's misinformation. my next guest knows firsthand the key role that intelligence plays in this. dan hoffman, a former cia station chief and he was based in russia for quite some time. first of all, i'm wary ever using russian misinformation myself. we just mentioned the ukrainian separatists bombing the ukrainians. is that a fair phrase to use or

is it just easier to say these are russians that are bombing the ukraines at the moment? >> these are russian-backed separatists and they've been at war, ongoing war in eastern ukraine since 2014, and they wouldn't be fighting were it not for the material support and some of the-- and some of the russian troops who have joined in that fight. and there's no question that this is a deliberate provocation on the part of the russian government designed to induce some reaction from the ukrainian side and heighten the tensions as part of vladimir putin's plan, either to go to war or to practice some coercive diplomacy along the like of what we've seen from kim jong-un. putin is an old kgb guy, master at misinformation.

he put forth the misinformation that they were withdrawing troops and we countered almost immediately in countering this. how do you think we did in terms of countering misinformation from vladimir putin. >> i think we're doing good. putin isn't hiding anything, we've got commercial overhead reconnaissance of his troop deployment. he's conducting overt military exercises in belarus, and the belarus president said they can stay as long as they like. it's a deliberate effort by putin to dial up the tension and he knows whatever intelligence, he's fine with that and help him choke off the spots where he's vulnerable, but plays to his narrative and heighten those tensions as much as he can. he's destabilizing ukraine significantly and inducing

significant capital flight from ukraine and injuring their economy. david: he's dialing up the tension by this nuclear exercise, as it's called, in the black sea and that's actually where putin is right now. he's in the crimea, an area that they took over in 2014. why do you think he's there now? is that showcraft as well? or is he there for a reason? maybe timed with an invasion? >> so i think vladimir putin is deliberately sending a lot of mixed messages. he attended the olympics and had some very high profile meetings with xi jinping. he chose not to attend the munich security campus as lucas tomlinson said, first time in 20 years russia hasn't been there and then these nuclear missile tests, russia could have picked any day to do that, but picked today again on purpose. vladimir putin wants his own people to believe that the

n.a.t.o. threat is real and putin i believe is inciting a crisis with n.a.t.o. and he wants n.a.t.o. to respond forcefully because that lends credibility to putin's propaganda, only he, the former kgb opperative can defend russia. david: big question with germany and russia. they have an agreement with the nord stream two pipeline. do you think that putin is trying to pull germany out of n.a.t.o. for an alliance with that country? >> i know he knows that he can't go quite that far, but what he would like to do is drive a wedge between the united states and germany. that's always been a goal of his and his soviet predecessors, but we've seen german chancellor has said that in the event that russia invades ukraine that nord stream two is off and that's part of the biden administration's plan to hold

on on sanctions and hold on on military assistance to ukraine if, until russia invades. the problem with that strategy is, president zelensky emphasized today, russia is the enemy at the gate. 190,000 troops against the u.n. charter. president zelensky would like us to do more to ratchet down the crisis and so far we don't have the leverage to do that. david: dan, do you think it's a mistake for zelensky to leave ukraine at this moment and go to germany? >> i think he saw that he had to do it because he needs more assistance from the west without which his country is at great peril. david: dan hoffman, great to see you, thank you so much for being here. >> thanks, you, too. david: the fear of war has drivers ducking for cover as gas prices have rin for 38 days in a row, the national average

3.54 a gallon and president biden is asking the saudis to pump more oil, and our next guest said let's put the brakes on this and drill more here. thanks for coming in on a saturday. let me read from a wall street journal editorial. how the biden administration is doing. they're trying mightily to defer a russian invasion in ukraine at the same time his regulators are working to give vladimir putin more leverage over global energy supplies. he's talking about more regulations on our own energy industry here, that's really cutting off pipelines and supplies that could make us energy independent again. >> absolutely. it's almost as if vladimir putin is in our-- in the biden administration plotting our energy strategy.

think about that, in less than a year we've gone from being energy independent, where we could not only keep energy, inexpensive for folks here creating lots of jobs, strengthening our economy, to now he's grovelling before the saudis asking that they pump more. now, that's in less than a year. again, i'll say it, it's as if vladimir putin is designing our energy strategy to his advantage not to the advantage of the average american. david: and it's happening just this week on thursday we had the federal regulatory supposed to be bipartisan, but whoever is president gets to be the majority they blocked more natural gas lines, and made it impossible for natural pipelines to pump gas into the ports turn it into lng and ship it out. even this week we're preparing for the russian invasion,

they're doing more to kill domestic energy production. >> domestic energy production to keep up domestic energy prices and to kill american jobs. it's like a war on the united states conducted by its regulatory agencies. why don't we lower our prices? why don't we create american jobs and by the way, help the europeans resist the russians? but that's not the perspective of what this administration is doing. they talk a great game, but when you look at what they're doing, i'll repeat, we've gone from in one year, from being energy independent with low prices creating more american jobs, to having to go to opec, please, pretty please, will you pump more oil. that is a bad strategy. david: and meanwhile, senator, we're having severe tie-ups on our energy grids all over america. what we saw with that horrible winter storm last year in texas is being repeated now in other places around the country, as energy grids become more tied up and less capable of

providing the energy we need. >> and that points out that this regulatory environment doesn't just hurt. people say my gosh, we can live without fossil fuels. it hurts renewables, it's to drive up cost for the average american and kill american jobs. it's not energy produced off the coast of louisiana that keeps natural gas prices low and creating american jobs, it's also the ability to take electrons from a wind farm or solar panel. this administration has declared war on the american people almost as if vladimir putin was designing the regulations to do so, they're keeping the prices high, they're killing american jobs. david: well, we constantly hear the phrase you've got to follow the science, and whether you're talking about the pandemic or global warning or whatever. they're jumping over the science, really, in an attempt to kill fossil fuels because we're not there yet. you know, wind power is great, so is solar energy, but it's not capable yet of replacing

fossil fuels to the extent that we're killing off fossil fuels by these regulations. >> so, it's interesting, if you follow the science, one of the national labs has reported developing oil and gas off the coast of louisiana is the most environmentally sensitive way to produce because with our cleaner, healthier, environmental standards, is the best way to lower carbon intensity for energy consumed here in the united states. instead, they discouraged that production which increases the demand for russian gas and they do not use environmental standards, they spew stuff into the atmosphere, so all the bureaucrats here pat themselves on the back, boy, we're leaving it in the ground. worldwide the environment is worse and we're paying more with fewer jobs, as we strengthen the russian economy, they have declared war on the american people and that's what the bureaucrats have done in this administration. david: senator bill cassidy, thank you, good to see you.

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to update it when their science supports it. >> we'll soon put guidance in place that's relevant and encouraging measures when they're most needed to protect public health and our hospitals. we want to give people breaks from things like mask wearings when the metrics are better. >> it haven't stopped half a dozen blue state governors from denying the c.d.c. and the plan to lift mask policies for the agency's go ahead. including in rhode island, delaware, connecticut and oregon, but virginia governor youngkin says we're seeing a political shift with bipartisan support giving the parents the power to opt out of masks in school. >> it's a bright and sunny day in virginia. we're seeing a big win for parents and students all over the commonwealth and the science from the medical opinion have changed. >> the white house refused to criticize bucking the c.d.c. and that the pandemic has taken

a psychological call and calling the governor's decision probably premature, but some changes won't take effect for weeks and suggesting by then, the data could support it. when asked if the kids should be wearing masks in school. >> the answer is that is yes. and given the current outbreak right now. jacqui: what will the next phase of the pandemic plan look like? they're waiting for the c.d.c. to make the first move on masks. david: thank you very much. as jacque just said, even democrat governors are lifting mask mandates now. so how will this move resonate with voters come the midterm elections? the g.o.p. pollster lee carter has a pretty good idea. i think for what it's worth, lee, i think it's too late. i think they've-- democrats have already been branded as the party who likes the mandates and pushed the mandates and that frankly often don't work and certainly are not liked.

>> yeah, i think you're right. i mean, at this point, i mean, they say, or at least what i see is that nothing kills trust more than a contradiction. what we saw at the super bowl last week, with all of these liberal elites saying, on one hand saying they should wear masks and on the other hand behaving a different way and across the board, people are frustrated. 70% of americans right now are saying it's time to start treating covid like an endemic. support for mask mandates was two-thirds of americans supported it two months ago and now less than half of americans. so we're seeing a huge shift and i think it speaks to something more broadly. more broadly people are saying i am tired of government telling me what's good for me. and i don't want government involved in my life. we see it in education, we see it in regulation, we see it when it comes to the mask mandates, and the biggest thing that i'm seeing is a trend and

this is important to watch right now. it's 18 to 29 year olds for the first time are moving against the democratic party. they only have a 35% approval rating for the biden administration. >> that's very interesting. >> the lowest i've seen with young people. young people are going to say you know what? enough is enough and i want to live my life more freely and i think it's going to play well for republicans. >> and lee, it's independence. the biggest voting block by car are the independents. and there are over 40% of the voters are independents rather than democrats and republicans and they have moved away from the democratic solution to these problems quicker than anybody. >> not only have they moved away from it, they have about a 30% approval rating right now for this administration. and that represents a 30 point drop in just one year. >> wow. >> and i think it's really important to note because a lot of people are saying, look, he's-- the biden administration is more popular perhaps than donald trump was at the same

point. donald trump had a pretty stable relatively support level throughout his administration. joe biden has failed the independents who gave him the benefit of the doubt and said we want something different that he's going to bring unity and sanity back into the white house and respect back into the white house, they're not seeing it, they're feeling worse. when you look at how people are feeling, 85% of people are satisfied with their personal life, but only 17% of americans are satisfied with the direction of this country and they blame the democrats and they're blaming joe biden for that right now. they're not blaming donald trump anymore, so the buck stops there. david: and there's not a lot of time before the midterms. they better change quick. all right, lee carter, thank you very much. appreciate it. well, tear gas fired in ottawa's canadian authorities arresting truckers as we speak. we've got a live report straight ahead. er have to be finished with your finishing touches. with aisles of ways to refresh and restyle. for whatever style you're feeling.

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>> we've been talking a lot about the northern border, we're going to take you there shortly. meanwhile, there are no signs that the surge of migrants at the southern border is slowing at all. in fact, it's surging. customs and border patrol say there were nearly 154,000 migrant encounters last month and that's nearly double from a year before. senior correspondent casey stegal is in la joya, texas. >> good to see you. let's further break down the numbers for you. january's tally more than quadruple the figures from two years ago and in this sector alone, the real grand valley of south texas, the migrant encounters were up some 77%. let's get you now to new video coming from overnight where a fox news camera was accompanying law enforcement once again and captured 11

runners, migrants that are trying to evade agencies and police, after a brief pursuit, this time around, they were all able to be taken into custody. as you look live now at the border here in south texas, courtesy of the fox flight team drone, officials say the longer this crisis goes on, the likelihood of hardened criminals slipping through dramatically increases. a scary thought for this woman whose son was killed by a migrant in the country illegally. >> we thought we were going to be planning his wedding and we ended up planning a funeral. as americans, we should be safe in our own nation. we should be safe in our own cities. >> now, single adults make up more than 432,000 of all the encounters here at the southern border for the fiscal year 2022 thus far. while family units account for some 164,000 and then

unaccompanied minors, children travelling by themselves under the age of 18 make up close to 47,000 just in fiscal year 2022 so far. david. david: casey, thank you very much for that. joining me now with more on the staggering numbers and the strain on the border agents, brandon, thanks for your hard work at the border. we appreciate the work that you and your fellows are doing there. the huge number, doubling of what it was last year for the month of january, quadrupling for two years ago, while that's exploding, the number of ice arrests is actually getting much smaller, half of much as it used to be. does that mean a lot more bad folks are getting in under the radar? >> it does and what's frustrating about that, when you look at the total number of people crossing illegally.

we have to be able to partner with other agencies. and ice does not fall into the purview, ice is their own entity. so if we cannot partner with our sister agencies, we can't do the complete job that the american public expects us to do in order to support the border. if ice is down, that does, as long as you cross our borders illegally, nobody's going after you and you'll stay in the united states. that's the magnet that's drawing so many people to cross our borders right now. it's simply based upon this administration's policies that the border is out of control. david: i've got a summer home in cape cod, i'm very fortunate to have it, but i just got a notice that they are-- their town council is working to separate themselves from ice because of some complaints that they have about ice that they're repeating essentially

what oac and the quad are saying in congress. and people have to wake up in communities and they may think they're far away from the border, but that could affect their own community if ice is not allowed into their own community, right? >> yeah, the saying that every state is a border state is true because what happens is, is that people that cross in arizona or texas, they don't stay in arizona and texas. it distributes throughout the entire united states. we're talking ames, iowa, kansas city, kansas and missouri. and the entire united states it's not just the individuals it's the drugs as well. again, what crosses in new mexico, california, doesn't stay there. it goes throughout the entire united states. david: and by the way, cape cod has a terrible problem with fentanyl and the other narcotics getting in and the same people that are bringing the human smugglers are also

the people bringing the drugs in, right? >> yeah, and it's all in coordination. the criminal element that's just south of our border, they control everything, whether it's drugs, whether it's humans, whether it's counterfeit products. everything they control, and it's a billion dollar business, but it all starts with illegal immigration. if we can control that, we can go after their profits, their higher value profits on such as the fentanyl and the hard drugs coming across. that's what's going to keep the american public safe. that's what's going to keep the overdoses down and what we saw in 2021 is we saw the most overdoses that we've ever seen in any fiscal year and all of those drugs are coming across our southwest border. if we can't control illegal immigration, our resources are going to be tied up and cartels will benefit with dollars off the deaths of our citizens. david: thank you, brandon for the work that you and your

fellow agents do. we appreciate it. meanwhile, the freeman convoy truckers in canada getting their freedom taken away. many have been arrested in ottawa. we'll go there live. worries about a potential war in eastern europe hitting stocks and gas prices in the u.s. how can you protect your assets if it really hits the fan over there? that's next. no one deserves the american dream of homeownership more than veterans. with the newday zero down home purchase loan, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're still holding rates in the 2s. already own a home and need cash? the newday100 loan can get you up to $60,000 or more and lower your payments by $615 a month. take ten minutes right now and make the call. because no one knows veterans like newday usa.

>> well, stocks taking a

beating and energy prices soaring over fears that russia will invade ukraine. so with those real fears already hitting americans here, how do you protect yourself financially speaking during uncertain times like these. joining me now to discuss main street management cio aaron gibbs, and analyst phil flynn and economics professor, good to see you all. phil, first to you. >> there was a little reprieve this week because there was talk about the iranians making some new deal with the biden administration that would free up iranian oil, is that pretty temporary? or are we going to see prices jack up again next week? >> i think it's pretty temporary and we still don't have a deal. you know the biden administration is desperate to make a deal. they're taking the heat for rising energy prices and this is the most anti-fossil fuel administration we've ever had in this country and they're selling out the country because we're paying for their policies with higher energy prices and

one could even argue, dave, the war between russia and the ukraine has an energy element to it because bad energy policy, europe became more dependent on russia and rur russia is using that to its military advantage. david: another advantage we have to talk about, oil companies are making more profits. yes, they're squeezed on profits, but do i want my money in oil companies? >> it looks like this might carry on for another couple weeks, but it's a very short-term movement. and let's not forget that energy companies were getting hit the hardest just two years ago where oil prices were dropping ap they were losing money, a lot of money. so, energy is always very volatile. the companies losing the most or making the most, and so you need to be really on top of

being able to with those companies or ride it out with the market. david: and biden said it when he was running for president he essentially wanted to kill fossil fuels and they're following through on that promise and they don't seem to be deterred. >> he's getting what he wants. if his goal was to get people off fossil fuels drive prices up. and that's where we are. we talked with senator cassidy, he's killing pipelines they're not drilling, if you don't have pipelines, you can't move it. he's driving prices where he said. do you believe the president when he says he feels your pain and you've got energy prices going exactly where he wanted them to. again, i think that's people don't trust him. because this was his plan and he's just executing it right now. david: and meanwhile, phil, he's giving a green light.

he started out his presidency giving a green light to the russians for their pipeline while he's shutting down our domestic pipelines, killing jobs, raising prices for consumers, he's allowing the dirty energy producer, russia, our enemy right now, to make out like bandits. >> yeah, you couldn't write a script to try to destroy the economy and make the country less safe, and this is basically a war of philosophy, not reality, right? this is the selloff to the green energy lobby. we're trying to, you know, predict that green energy is going to rule the world in the future and that may or may not be true, dave. but in the short-term, we're going to need fossil fuels. i think that fossil fuel companies are going to be the place to make a lot of money. because if you've got people around the world trying to make a product that everybody needs, very rare, you're going to make it a lot more expensive and the sad thing about this is that, this is creating a lot of

unrest in the world. i honestly believe that if europe had a better energy policy we wouldn't see russia knocking on the border of ukraine right now. david: erin, at the same time the president says he's helping the situation by releasing some of the oil reserves we use for emergency. i talked to phil in the past, i think we're running out of that oil, what happens when we really face a supply. >> though we did have record reserve of, it's a reserve, it's a short-term measure, it's not going to change the longer term trend of oil prices going higher if we don't have higher production, we still need those refinery plants. but cutting the pipeline really did change the energy independence of america and we really just need oil prices to drop for some of the fracking companies for the smaller

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him, so have you seen the arrests being made at gun point? >> i have not seen any arrests being made by gun point. that doesn't mean they're not happening. we saw plenty of arrests up close and personal yesterday. and this is basically the same scene, so there likely have been arrests signed us. >>, but noteworthy, police have essentially gained control of the encampment outside of parliament and they have gained control of the area where the truckers were protesting and they systematically cleared of it any people, they now have any control of any of the trucks that remained in there. maybe they're about a half dozen left because we saw a lot of truckers who decided to leave finally today. so essentially here in ottawa, you know, the encampment, the trucker protests outside of parliament have now come to a close. now, what you see are some of the remaining protesters, some of the people holding out and they're still holding the line

against police and all of those in s.w.a.t. gear. the past half hour the police have been steady. we're not sure if it's the final outer rim or they'll continue down the side street until the protesters are clear. but at this point, you know, we can report that the trucks are basically now under control of police, any remaining trucks are under control of police and this is now a much more secure space, david. >> what do the protesters tell you they're going to do next? >> you know, it's not clear. you know, we hear all types of different plans and you know, someone told us yesterday that they wanted to reconvene. some of these truckers just pulled out moments ago and they finally decide today leave because they didn't want to be arrested or perhaps have their trucks repossessed and it's not clear. a lot of the protesters are singing the national anthem and they're talking police and they're still pushing back, but

it's not necessarily the violent scuffle yesterday or the day before, david. david: good for them. at least people aren't getting hurt. it's a delicate situation. and no sign of the prime minister? he's in the parliament? >> it's my understanding parliament is in session today and looking at what was invoked. and obviously the people don't like the prime minister here. david: appreciate it. a cyber attack over there in ukraine is leaving businesses over here worried the same could happen to them. so, what should they do now? what should you do now? details coming up. entresto is the number one heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists and has helped over one million people. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren,

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>> we just got some new tape

from our own trey yingst, escaping fire on the border of ukraine and russia. this is the crew, let's listen. >> okay. i just want to mention, this is not trey yingst, i made a mistake, this is from reuters that we're getting, but trey is going through the same circumstance, that's why we were hoping to get a shot from him. we're still going to work on it. and this is trey. >> it's start to go -- it's starting to hit heavily. you can hear that, talk to me. you can hear those artillery rounds coming in, we're moving the ukrainian forces. >> where are you moving to. >> keep going, i'm listening. >> the back to the main line of ukrainian forces.

david: once again, that was trey yingst in the line of fire there and he's had a morning in ukraine and we're going to continue to follow this closely, what's happening, particularly with our correspondent in the eastern side of ukraine right on the russian border. fox news confirming that u.s. officials have talked to major banks about a potential cyber attack coming from russia, especially if russia does inside ukraine, and we hit them with sanctions. other industries, also being told to beef up their cyber defenses, so how can we all protect ourselves? here with tips, cyber security lisa garber. how vulnerable are we to these attacks if they come? >> david, great to see you. >> it's important to mention there haven't been specific threats although tensions are obviously escalating every minute of every day and likely that something will happen, whether it's meant to in the

u.s., directed specifically or if a ripple out effect coming from ukraine and so the u.s. is working very hard day and night to be proactive and prepare. we're war gaming, we're collaborating between the private and public sectors and every relevant three-letter agency in the federal government is teaming up with giants like amazon and google to be proactive and looking at critical infrastructure as well. david: now there were a couple of attacks on ukrainian banks this past week. if we judge from history, what happened a couple of years ago, they had some major attacks on ukraine, the russians did. some that have, even though it was supposed to be confined to the ukrainian banks, it affected our companies, one of whom was fed ex. fed ex saw a disruption in its european services, so, these attacks can spill over, even if they weren't meant for us, right? >> you're exactly right, david. the problem is cyber warfare

knows no jurisdictional found and even in the eu, they can have ripple out effects and it's important to be proactive. the u.s. developed a website, shield up and warns everyone in the private sector and governmental agencies how to be prepared and mentioned the russian cyber threats and they've been bold in the ukraine, they've knocked off power plants. as we know in the u.s. the russians have a history of being successful against ran some wear attacks and various hospitals and the democratic party itself and computer systems. while we're vulnerable, the russians are vulnerable as well. the u.s. is being proactive and they're certainly making preparations to vulnerability tests to patch, as i mentioned to war game, testing for every possible scenario and important to remember as private citizens

we have to be proactive as well for our private businesses and then for everyday activities. david: we've made counterattacks, particularly a couple of years ago, when we were attacked by the russians during the trump administration, we actually counter attacked with our own cyber attacks. did russia, did that affect russia severely? i mean, did they get the message or still likely to try one against us, notwithstanding our own counter attacks? >> well, it's important to understand that this atmosphere is sort of this cold war tension where every party has opportunity to get information from the other by sneaking around in their system. so we're constantly looking at what's going on in russia and they're constantly looking here, there are different malware programs that allow people to garner information, garner intelligence quietly, and that doesn't mean that that's escalating tensions, but it means we might have a better sense of what's going on on either side. so, everything is constantly

building to this rapid pace where we have to be prepared for a worst case scenario. we have the nsa, the fbi working together with major corporations to bolster our defenses and we're strong ang we have great resource snoos quickly, lisa, we've got to run, but the biggest fear we have, we could wake up one morning and look in our 401(k) and the money is not there. is that a possibility? >> everything is a possibility if it's connected to the internet, but i have strong faith and many private security experts do, we are being proactive and we're strong and come together to fight this threat. david: we will, indeed. we will counterattack, and there's no denying that, it's awful to have a cyber cold war is what we're now in the middle of. lisa garber, thank you very much. we appreciate it, great information. that wraps up our show for you today. thank you so much for joining us. a lot of breaking information. i hope we kept you abreast of

everything that's going on from canada to ukraine and of course, most importantly, right here in the united states. keep it right here for the latest news. we'll see you next time.

jacqui: >> it's the strongest warning to date. president biden is saying he's convinced russian leader vladimir putin has made his decision to invade ukraine. this as russia conducts drills of its nuclear forces and some in ukraine brace for a possible war. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. we'll start with mark meredith from the white house for us. what's the latest? >> good afternoon to you. as you know, president biden offered a fairly bleak asseme