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 assessment where things stand

with russia and ukraine and he believes that an invasion is likely a matter of hours if not days away. however, the president left open for diplomatic deescalation. but in the speech it was pretty clear he was trying to set expectations. >> rusia has a choice between suffering for everyone. and make no mistake, if russia purse the plans, it's a catastrophic needless war of choice. and the united states and our allies are prepared to protect n.a.t.o. tear territory. >> it's possible more troops could be going to the region. earlier today, vice-president kamala harris, she met

face-to-face with ukrainian president zelensky in munich, germany. and not long after, president zelensky questioned why the u.s. has not imposed sanctions already, that war is coming. >> we're being told that you have several days and then the war will start and i said, okay, then apply the sanctions today. yes, they say, we apply sanctions when the war will happen. i'm saying fine, but you're telling me that it's 100% that the war will start in a couple of days, then what are you waiting for. >> we're waiting to see if the white house will have fresh reaction to the comments made by president zelensky of ukraine about an hour or so ago. president biden not expecting to give remarks, and possibly things could change depending how the afternoon proceeds. we're expecting secretary of state antony blinken to go to

euronext week for a meeting with sergey lavrov. jacqui: it's unusual that the president spends the weekend in the white house rather than wilmington. any indication that he'll give remarks? >> the schedule from the weekend says we're not expecting anything. but as you well know, things can change on the dime. no comments from the president. it's a beautiful winter afternoon in d.c. you may see him pop out of the white house and make comments to the reporters with him, but we'll let now if that changes. jacqui: the full apparatus to keep tabs on the ukraine. griff. griff: and it's interesting president biden hasn't been seen. vladimir putin has been seen personallying things over and

amy keg lon-- kellogg has the latest. >> all eyes are on moscow. the world is waiting to see what president putin is going to do next. nobody claims to know what i on his mind. and comments that president biden made that he believes that president putin has played up his mind to go to war. russia holding high powered exercises said to have been pre-planned, but only just announced yesterday. they believe ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles in a veritable show of force. putin oversaw this in a situation room with his friend now, the belarus president. and they're doing exercises on

ukraine's borders. i spoke to a former diplomate, someone who closely followed and still follows events here. he was the translator for late president gorbachev, and hopes it can be preserved for all mankind. all of the legacy we had from the period when president reagan ended the cold war, much has eroded, but we still have the experience of two nations that are very widely apart on many issues working together to stabilize the world and working together to perhaps address some of the challenges that the world is facing today. >> chris, we don't know when we can expect to hear from vladimir putin, but what we do

know is the joint military exercises in belarus, those are scheduled to end tomorrow and it will be very interesting to see whether those russian forces head home as planned or not, griff. griff: amy, a quick follow-up. it's interesting it seems the timing that putin decides to test his nuclear military forces. it seems like it's a reminder to n.a.t.o. and u.s. allies that they are indeed a nuclear power should they take over ukraine and realign eastern european security boundaries. >> that's right. and one of the things that putin has said about not wanting ukraine to enter n.a.t.o. is that if ukraine were in n.a.t.o. and tried to claw back crimea, then that could draw n.a.t.o. into a direct confrontation with russia. so basically today was seen as a show of force.

timing very suspicious that these were pre-planned, but certainly they couldn't have been put together alt the very last minute. so, clearly it was saber rattling to the highest degree we've seen yet since all of this tension started percolating a few months back, griff. griff: it is indeed. amy kellogg in moscow. jacqui: and to witness this russian aggression firsthand on the front lines with the ukrainian military. it aired on fox news this morning. here is a replay of part of that report. >> guys, right now artillery rounds, guys right now we're moving back from the front. the ukrainian unit that we were with started it take incoming artillery rounds from russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country. you can see some of the other journalists and soldiers with us on the front lines here and you can hear that explosion there. let's move a little quicker. we're good. we've got to keep moving here,

stay with us. and keep moving. you guys can still hear us, off to the right there there's a lot of incoming artillery. the fire that we have coming in right now is being fired from just a few kilometers away and russian backed opposition, started hammering heavily with artillery. you heard a second ago, the explosions in the difference incoming rounds and that's what the ukrainian military has been dealing with the past 48 hours, and russian separatists identified people, and hit it quite heavily. let's keep moving. jacqui: it shows how quickly things can change on the ground and we know from jennifer griffin, everything the biden administration warned would lead up to full scale invasion has happened. we've seen the pre-text set.

false flag, disinformation campaign and cyber attacks, and a time for putin to change his mind or spark to life. griff: and interesting to what trey was covering is rush r russian-backed separatist conflict going on for several years, but the level to which it's escalated the artillery shelling that we've heard within trey's amazing reporting there, indicates as our own jennifer griffin has certainly mentioned, the provocations are coming much faster, much swifter, and as we're looking at the testing today, i was talking to amy kellogg, saying it's not a coincidence that putin wants to remind the world that he is indeed a nuclear power and that should this provocation to lead to all-out war and he does invade ukraine that it could possibly redraw the eastern european boundaries that could raise the stakes not just for ukraine in eastern

europe, but the u.s. and the world. jacqui: not a subtle message on the test. griff: we'll have more and we'll talk to trey when he's able to get to us. meanwhile, canadian police, continuing to close in on the trucker protesters snarling the streets of canada's capital, just a day after they arrested 100 demonstrators and towed their vehicles for the blockade. and matt finn is live from ottawa. i've been watching your reporting all day. what's the latest now? >> griff and jacqui. they're continuing with the barricade line and squeezing out some of the final remaining protesters here outside of parliament hill. so we can now report that that main encampment, the main trucker protest you might have seen the past couple of weeks, that's now shut down. police have gained control of the tucker protest and there are five or six trucks left in

that area. (inaudible) >> i think we lost matt. and we'll get him back. as you're looking here. you're looking at what matt reported, the remnants of what was a week's long trucker convoy. they were upset about the vaccine requirements and of course, the fact that they wanted to make a stand as they said for freedom while prime minister justin trudeau really went after them, at one point calling the truckers essentially nazis, waving swastikas. >> and we heard capital police just yesterday say that they're tracking a possible demonstration here in d.c., sometime around the state of the union and looking at possibly putting up a partition or a fence to ensure that it doesn't cause some chaos here, but as we watched over the last 20-something days you've got

that many trucks in an urban area and it does cause an impact. >> it does indeed. as you're looking live in ottawa just 24 hours ago, the crackdown had really begun and we saw horse-mounted canadian police going through the crowd and a response that's getting sentiment in america, as americans are so tired of the covid restrictions. we're see, as you point out, what the usa convoy might look like if it does indeed materialize. >> we'll be watching. >> all right, bipartisan reaction to president biden's handling of the ukraine crisis is coming up next. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! (sighs wearily) here i'll take that! (excited yell) woo-hoo! ensure max protein. with thirty grams of protein, one gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health.

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>> let's go back now to ottawa and the trucker protests over mandates in canada. ap matt, we've got you back. >> we're at parliament and you can see the armored car, the vehicle, and basically squeezing out or pushing out the remaining protesters here outside of parliament hill and

police have gained control of the entire area where you may have seen the video of the trucker protests. that's shut down and police systematically squeezed out the protesters and closed in on them and arrested anybody who resisted them and smashed into a truck or two and we did see some of the truckers leave in the final minutes and decided they did not want to be arrested or have their truck taken. and we see a couple dozen protesters and in the faces of officers, and taunting them and doing the national anthem, but in general, it's a delicate situation, but it's under control and we can report basically the rain-- main area outside of parliament hill is no longer an encampment. griff: and tear gas may have been deployed and we've seen the video from yesterday that seemed to be somewhat heavy-handed?

>> yes, it was much more tense earlier as the police were closing in on some of the protesters. there was a flash bang that went off and we kind of smelt and felt some of the tear gas, but i believe i saw a tweet from the ottawa police, saying it was not the police who used the tear gas, maybe implying it was someone in the crowd using the tear gas. back to you. griff: we'll continue to follow it. matt finn in ottawa. back to you. jacqui: president biden saying in a press conference that he's convinced russian president vladimir putin has made his decision to invade ukraine as russia conducts massive drills with forces. a member of tennessee and armed services and committee, marsha blackburn. >> good to be with you. jacqui: senator blackburn, you heard the president of ukraine

say if they're sure, hit them with the sanctions right now and sanctions used to deter. where we get to the point it hasn't worked, what is stopping us? >> i can't imagine why president biden will not step forward and take an action. it appears that he is waiting for things to escalate, for lives to be lost, property to be damaged, but we do know that sanctions work and one of the things he could have done was to move in and remove, have russia removed from the swiss international banking system, hitting those banks, would be the appropriate thing to do, but jacqui, we have to realize that putin's number one request of the u.s. was a five-year extension of the new start treaty. president trump was not willing to do that, he was going to give him a one-year with conditions. biden gave him five years, no

conditions. then he did not want sanctions on nord stream two, that was his number two request. so biden gives him that with no conditions. so now, putin feels emboldened to go in and to take this action. and we know that in 2013, when you had one ukrainian president who would not make a deal with the eu, he leaves, he goes to russia, you get a new president, they make the deal with the eu, and then what does russia do? they invade crimea and take crimea. so, what we are looking at is a putin who is not afraid of biden. he sees him as weak. he sees him as rudderless. he doesn't think he's going to do anything to him so if he wants to take ukraine now is his shot. jacqui: to your point, we learned yesterday that the sanctions package does not remove russia from the swift

international banking system and doesn't target russia's ability to produce or sell gas. without those two things, is it strong enough? >> no, it is not strong enough and this is one of the reasons that senator risch, who is the ranking republican at foreign relations, came up with a net act, which of course would put these sanctions that are needed in place. sanctions work. you have to go after the oligarchs. you have to go after the banks, you have to go after these separate russian entities and put these sanctions in place. jacqui: and clearly there hasn't been enough support among democrats to get those sanctions passed in the senate, but. >> right. jacqui: do you think that-- >> that's right. jacqui: and i know that the white house has-- >> yes, they have, they've lobbied against senator cruz's

nord stream two resolution. they lobbied to keep sanctions from going on nord stream two. now, think about that. and it's one of the things that is hurting us today with our allies and also with u.s. energy prices. jacqui: let me ask you this, senator. do you think it's possible that president biden fears that russia will retaliate against these sanctions with cyber attacks in the u.s.? it's kind of notable that we have a national deputy security for cyber in yesterday's briefing talking about how all of the u.s. critical infrastructure is privately owned and therefore at high risk. what's the other reason they're not doing it now? >> well, and we know that russia has already conducted cyber attacks. this is one of their new forms of aggression, is using cyber and going after pipelines, going after critical infrastructure. but we also have to realize that the u.s. federal

government would like some of those in the biden administration, would like to have more control over our nation's critical infrastructure, what they need to be doing is working with the private sector to make certain that all possible resources are used for this. indeed, senator rosen and i have legislation that would do a civilian cyber strike force that would help us to not only prevent, but rapidly respond to such attacks. jacqui: and they've been warning, the private sector, to build up your defenses and lower your threshold for supporting suspicious activity to the government because we might be seeing this kind of thing pretty soon here. and what happens in your mind if putin is not stopped? does china take taiwan is there any reason for malign actors to fear the u.s. and n.a.t.o.? >> there is no reason. and you have to go back and look at responses going back to

obama-biden in 2014 and then how trump responded to them during his presidency which was to really keep them in check. and now, you see what happened in afghanistan, and how quickly russia, iran and china, went into afghanistan and partnering with the taliban. and you know china is looking at what is happening with taiwan. we know the olympics are wrapping up. we know that china very aggressively wants to show their force, xi jinping wants to say, look, i can go take taiwan, and putin is saying, look, i can go reunite the old soviet union, which has been one of his goals since the end of the cold war. jacqui: right. i want to turn to the trucker convoy, real quick. we're running outs of time. yesterday capital police warned that preparing during the state of the union. what would you make of that?

what would the message be here. given the chaos in canada, would you support that kind of a demonstration here in washington? >> you know, as i'm talking to tennesseans, people are sick of the lockdowns, the mandates and the restrictions and people have the right to peacefully protest, to peacefully assemble and to address their government and all of the protests should be peaceful so that people retain that right to address, to assemble, to protest. jacqui: well, appreciate you coming on today, senator. always enjoy talking to you and hope to see you again soon. >> absolutely, thank you. jacqui: griff. griff: jacqui, for reaction from the other side of the oil we're joined by democratic congressman from pennsylvania, and member of the house appropriations committee, matt cartwright. he's going to joining us in just a moment and we're going to pick up a conversation with him about the trucker convoy as

we just heard in your interview, jacqui, with senator blackburn, she's welcoming this freedom convoy and as we saw from matt finn earlier, the convoy in canada is over. but it's sparked a sentiment heard here in the u.s. and it will be interesting to see what happens if you have republicans encouraging truckers to indeed take what we're seeing here in ottawa, coming to washington d.c., at a critical time, particularly if it's around the state of the union. >> all right. we'll bring you much more and we'll try and reconnect with congressman cartwright right after this on this busy saturday. you're watching fox news live. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist.

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>> mixed reactions from ukrainians as they grapple with president biden's dire warning that vladimir putin decided to invade their country.

and lucas tomlinson has more on what he's hearing from those on the ground there. >> jacqui, this is a crisis over 30 years in the making, when the soviet union broke apart, vladimir putin wanted to put it back together. and there was a 5,000 word essay, and the people here disagree. the german chancellor spoke and warned that war is looming again. >> war is looming again in europe and the risk is anything, but averted. >> for the first time in over 20 years, russia skipped the munich security conference, but by my countess fired seven missiles, including in inter-continental ballistic missile capable of carrying thermal nuclear warheads, and at sea, russia testing this hypersonic missile from a war ship and a similar missile from

a mig 31 today. and these provocative tests not so subtle to the west. large scale in belarus and after that, it's anyone's guess what putin will order. in lviv, with are the americans fled when the embassy was evacuated, i spoke to the march's organizers today. >> are you ready to fight the russians? >> when there will be a need, we will fight with the russians, we'll live in a war state for eight years so this is part of our reality. so we already resist in any possible way. >> saturday night here in lviv, i was on the streets earlier getting a bite to eat. i tell you, everything appears calm and what it happening in ukraine, the country about the size of texas and back home in washington. people here seem relaxed and no strange to boston. and the city is about the size of boston. people are walking the streets

very happy and you would not think that russia is potentially about to launch a large scale attack on this country. jacqui: thank you. griff: for reaction on that story and others, we're joined by the congressman from pennsylvania, matt cartwright. congressman cartwright, thank you for taking time and i want to get to the top story, appears to be an imminent invasion by putin in ukraine. president zelensky from ukraine was talking how he's looking for the west to take actions, where are the sanctions? what is your reaction to what's happening? >> well, one thing i will say how grateful i am to the administration for the transparency that they've shared with the members of the congress in classified security briefings, what's been going on in ukraine and in the n.a.t.o. response to ukraine. it has given us an insight that has been very beneficial.

now, we can all engage in judgment calls about, you know, what should be said now, what shouldn't be said. it's clear that president biden is purposefully vague about the -- what is the exact specifics of the sanctions will be and there's an argument for that. you can see that putin is the kind of person, you know, here is a guy that wants a return to the evil empire, right? and you know, he thinks like many of us had predecessors, like a chess game. and he's going to, you know, you tell him exactly what sanctions you're going to impose, he's going to calculate them and have time to evaluate whether he can sustain that burden, and it may be a better judgment call to say, we're going to be a little vague what we're going to do to you. i can tell you three things that putin probably wasn't banking on when he started this whole endeavor. he wasn't banking on the fortitude of the ukrainian people. these people are ready to fight

and you know as well as i do, when you're fighting to defend your own home turf, that's -- those are people who are motivated and they are fighters and they're going to make russia really hurt if this happens. griff: congressman, let me quickly ask you though, what gives you confidence that these sanctions will indeed work? >> again, the threat of them, think of it. germany, the german chancellor has already said that they're going to stop nord stream two. that's going to hurt. putin is counting on the money for all of this export of petroleum to-- and natural gas to the west, western europe. he's counting on that. that will be cut off. maybe he wasn't thinking about that before. and maybe he was thinking n.a.t.o. was in a bit of disarray, there was dissension in n.a.t.o. over the last couple of years. n.a.t.o. has come together and really knitted. they stand shoulder to shoulder

against this russian aggression and why they're lining up on the borders of yoouk ukraine right now. it may not end with ukraine, and if he is thinking of expanding the former glory of the soviet union and i think he may have bitten off more than he can chew. griff: this has certainly strengthened n.a.t.o. let me turn to another story in ottawa, canada. the viewers are watching the remnants of the freedom convoy now essentially broken up. authorities there, police, have taken total control and it's ending. there is talk now there could be a freedom convoy in the u.s. coming to here in washington around the time of the state of the union, and your colleague on the other side of the aisle, senator marsha blackburn is saying she would welcome such a protest here in washington. what do you say? would you welcome that? >> we have a first amendment in this country.

actually since 1982 canada has had a constitution that enshrines the right of free expression. and we have limits on that. now, it's okay to protest in the united states as long as you don't commitment acts of vandalism, violence, things like that, or threaten those things. you can do those things in the united states. that's part of who we are. here is what i was concerned about when they blocked the ambassador bridge between windsor and detroit, canada is our biggest trading partner accounts for $600 billion in trade every year and you think about all the small american businesses that depend on that trade. i was very happy when they cleared the blockade of that bridge. griff: we need those truckers. in the last 30 seconds or so we've got i want to ask you an about story that happened this week in san francisco, a city where president biden won by

85%. three school board members were thrown out by 75% of those voters. my question as a moderate democrat from pennsylvania do progressive democrats have a problem come november. >> you're talking what gets taught in schools. appropriate for parents to he have a say what kids are taught in school. in pennsylvania we're proud of our school districts, and the parents do get a say. gosh, i'm all in favor of parents having more so. you know as i do, the more involved the parents are involved in education the better kid do. as much as our children will refuse to listen to us, they will never fail to imitate us. and if the parents show that they're interested in education, the kids are going to do better. griff: congressman matt cartwright, you sound a little like the republicans running

for office in virginia that just got elected. thank you, sir, for your time. >> thanks, griff. we'll see you. jacqui: world leaders in munich are addressing the russian-ukraine tensions. 15 years ago, this same conference, vladimir putin slammed and the post cold war security. joining us is daniel fried. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. you coordinated those when had the russians annexed crimea. were they strong enough, the package of sanctions that u.s. and n.a.t.o. are talking about imposing this time? >> the sanctions that we imposed then were not strong enough to get putin to completely reverse his aggression. they were strong enough to stop it for a while. he didn't try to take any more of ukraine.

he backed off a little bit, but he didn't back off all the way. now, what the biden administration is planning are much stronger sanctions. they haven't told me exactly what's in the package, but it's not hard to guess. jacqui: even without swift. >> oh, swift, there's a lot of misunderstanding about swift. it's know the really as powerful a sanction as people say. what's powerful, more powerful than swift, are the kind of sanctions against the russians, these russians banks that are contemplated. that's really going to hurt. stronger than swift and that's on the table. jacqui: is there anything that can be done right now to stop putin? i mean, the president said he's convinced he's going to invade, but he won't pull the trigger on sanctions until it happens. and russia computed a cyber attack with no retribution. why are we waiting around for the russians to just start bombing? >> i think there's a good case to be made for holding your

sanctions, holding that plug so that putin can see it and knows it's real. that may affect his calculations. i don't want to use that plug beforehand, if we do that, if the idea united states acts beforehand we're not acting with the europeans and the impact is not going to be as strong. jacqui: that's a good point. >> but you're asking a fair question what more should we do. and i think that the biden administration has pushed forward, the u.s. troops to the eastern countries like poland and romania, they've accelerated their arms deliveries to ukraine and i think that putin will understand there will be a very tough response from the west as there should be. >> and i know one of your key points is that n.a.t.o. has been strengthened by this, but

doesn't the u.s. have to ensure that the ukraine is not, we brokered the budapest agreement and they gave up the nuclear arsenal. they were at one time third largest nuclear power in the world. and we helped them get rid of them. would russia invade ukraine if they had nukes? do we bear the responsibility to stop this before there's bloodshed? >> right, we do have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with ukraine and i reserve the point. it's not just giving-- or rg given our word to the ukrainians, it's that we don't want to see a europe in which aggressive dictators can start wars and conquer countries. we fought world war ii and the cold war to prevent that kind of thing. it's in our interest to stop that kind of thing. so you're absolutely right. i think that president biden has rallied the west, put

n.a.t.o. on alert that we have -- we have challenges together. he has backed the ukrainians in a strong way and putin thought he could divide the west and hit ukraine won't anybody noticing or caring and that's already off the table. jacqui: all right. >> we'll see what putin decides to do. i hope he backs off a full scale invasion, but they're a lot more ready, the u.s. and the west are a lot more ready than before putin attacked georgia in '08 or ukraine the first time in '14. i wish we were ready as then as we are now. jacqui: thank you for joining us, we've run out of time. we hope to have you back soon. griff. griff: jacqui, start your engines, we're going live to daytona 500 next. dream of american homeownership more than veterans. with the newday zero down home purchase loan, you can buy a home with no down payment.

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around and guys from d.c. having a bachelor party and we had a word with them and they told them the weather alone made it ideal, plus the groom, ryan, says he's always wanted to go to a race and he'll get that opportunity before he goes down the aisle in may. >> i've always wanted to come to a nascar race and it's my first race and we all want today come and get here in the winter months. and they put it together and priced me with it so here we are having a gad time. >> and that's just a taste of what we're seeing here. we've talked to fans who come from as far as new hampshire so it's pretty clear that the daytona 500 will live up to its nickname, the great american race. jacqui: charles, step up your game against claudia there, stay tuned. [laughter] >> i'm trying. jacqui: stay tuned to fox for the race and it will be on fox,

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from the movie "rust", the family named him in a lawsuit and essentially saying safety standards were not observed. and we're returning, andrew, thank you for taking time and what is your reaction to this wrongful death lawsuit? >> oh, alec baldwin faces significant legal peril financially. his 65 million net worth, reported net worth is in peril. when arrogant new york actors come out to an area like santa fe and they don't get treated to well. a 42-year-old mother with a nine-year-old child happily married, and high earner and is killed. and mr. baldwin, a big part of the blame is going to be put on your shoulders. griff: it's interesting, the baldwin attorneys essentially put out a statement saying any

indication that alec baldwin is responsible is entirely false, is their words. they say, rather, that an actor should be able to depend on their prop masters, armorers, that he bears no responsibility. >> yeah, but griff, look at the end of the day the two most basic rules, number one you don't point any gun at somebody and on a movie set, you use a fake gun. alec baldwin can't say i'm a low level actor. he was not just the lead actor, but he was also the producer, so many of the defenses a low level actor could get away with, alec baldwin won't be able to. griff: that makes it more of a liability then in your estimation? >> yeah, absolutely. and remember, these jurors are going to walk in on the civil trial with a preconceived notion of alec baldwin. he's a hothead. remember that audiotape where he called his daughter a fat pig and remember he punched a photographer harassment over a

parking space. a long record of blowing his top and blowing his cool and probably an uphill climb in santa fe. griff: i want to quickly get to a video that halyna hutchins lawyers, animation, trying to recreate the situation to address the fact whether or not baldwin is indeed holding the gun and of course, when it shoots hutchins. do you think this video is going to be a dividing factor? >> the lawyer's number one job paint a picture what's going to happen. ironically on a movie scene, there's no video of it and it's going to do for the jurors. griff: and we've run out of time. we'll be back with the ukraine crisis and much, much more. yoe and take out up to $60,000 or more.

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believes that russian president vladimir putin has made the decision to ultimately invade ukraine likely within a matter of days, we have heard comments similar to that in the last few weeks in the white house as well as u.s. allies but the president last night giving the bleak assessment. the president also said that does not appear likely. >> 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. if russia pursues plans he would be responsible for catastrophic needless war of choice. mark: we heard the same thing from vice president kamala harris when she was meeting face to face with president zelensky in money emand harris reaffirmed commitment to supporting

ukraine's independence, ukrainian president zalensky said why sanctions been applied. >> i'm saying, fine, but you are telling me that it's 100% that the war will start in a couple of days. then what are you waiting for? mark: that's an interesting statement coming from zelensky and listen to this exchange from friday. >> we are waiting for people to die before implementing in that case? >> there's no way statement or accusation if that's what that is. what we have done and what the president has done is unite

hundreds of countries around the world on a strong package that will be crippling to the russian economy. mark: the white house is convinced that sanction package would be crippling to the russian economy there's still negotiation in europe about what sanctions will ultimately include and we heard from the italian prime minister yesterday who said he doesn't believe the energy sector from russia should be targeted because europe gets energy from russia. jacqui, a lot of people curious to see reaction today. jacqui: seems like the same sentiment that jen psaki said was unfair and not true from zelensky carries different weight. mark: they want to see a strong pushback for any invasion and

they believe sanctions will be necessary. we are not saying anybody saying no, don't impose sanctions but what we did not see one unified bill or message coming from sanctions themselves instead what we saw was an agreement, resolution from the senate saying they want to support ukraine and kicking the ball here to the white house when it comes to sanctions, but depending on what happens in the next several days, you can imagine we will hear from a lot more members of congress. griff: russian president vladimir putin is overseeing large-scale drills involving nuclear forces as tensions rise between russia and ukraine. amy kellogg is live from moscow with the latest, hi, amy. >> hi, griff, one of the russian tv channels just ran report on invasion that never happened. mocking the fact that the west has been hyping this invasion that was supposed to have happened this week and may happen next week, basically

trying to destroy the credibility of those who have said they believe that president putin has, in fact, decided to invade ukraine. this as the media really plays up the report, the evacwagses es that are happening. these are russian speakers and moscow's narrative that those people are unsafe, unprotected by kyiv and unprotected by ukrainian forces and russia needs to save them. they are building towards that. the u.s. calls the movement of people, evacuations part of false activity that's is going on. russia conducted nuclear drills on saturday, ballistic and cruise missiles and took place in various locations around the country. president putin sat watching the president with bielorrusia president.

>> actually i -- i have more to say to president biden than i would to president putin. i think they misjudge the man. they don't understand the man's character. resuscitate the soviet union, bring back empire and take back territory is totally, totally off base. amy: that may be but clearly president putin does not want to let ukraine go. and some russian observers have said it's not that he actually wants to invade or take ukraine, he just need to have it as a neutral buffer zone but we heard president zelensky saying that ukraine will be nobody's neutral buffer zone, griff. griff: amy, quick follow-up, you're on the ground in moscow, what's the feeling there amongst peoples out in the street? amy: well, we spoke to

pollsters, in fact, on friday and they said that more people than not are very worried about an invasion. they think it's going to happen, nobody wants a war. but they are scared, one of their biggest fears. analysts here will say no, there's not going to be an invasion that putin is pushing, pushing to get what he wants but the fact is that it's frightening for people here and they are worried about it. i think the narrative that putin need to protect these russian speakers or ethnic russians in ukraine is getting traction and i have spoken to people on the street who have said that it's the u.s. pushing, pushing ukraine in the wrong direction and, yes, putin does have the right to go in and protect these russian speakers. nobody wants a war with ukraine. these are brotherly nations but the political situation now is kind of like a horse out of the gate and it's taken on a life of its own, griff. griff: amy kellogg live for us

in moscow with great insight, amy, thank you. jacqui. jacqui: u.s. officials are watching closely for russian cyber-attacks that could threaten infrastructure in the u.s. alexandria hoff. alex: power plants, banks, water facilities and private companies have been called onto be included in the conversations to make sure they are equipped if a potential attack were to occur. >> we have exercised the maximum government authorities and we neglect that anything should occur we would work with the private sector to rapidly respond and recover. >> officials advise that there's no specific credible threats to u.s. homeland at this time but intelligence agents have identified the russian government as likely behind widespread cyber attacks on ukrainian bank this week. russia has denied involve that the u.s. officials say it's part of destabilization techniques that could proceed an invasion.

for years russia has jammed ukrainian gps receivers. >> the russian has enormous capabilities in satellite weapon rates at a local level it has significant and probably some of the best in the world what's known as electronic warfare or ew capabilities, essentially jamming signals so preventing the ukrainians from talking to satellites, from receiving signals from the satellites. >> is u.s. has not yet issued any warning of cyber threat to american satellites an cyber experts doubt that russia would go so far as to wage war against america in this way but they do have the capability and that could impact not just gp s and communication but also farming even oil exploration, jacqui. jacqui: all right, alexandria hoff on the story, appreciate your report. thank you. you know, griff, it's interesting because we heard in the white house briefing room yesterday the deputy national security adviser for cyber putting out a really strong

warning to the private sector that they've got to sure up their defenses against these attacks and lower their threshold for reporting it to the government because so much of our critical infrastructure is privately owned and as we saw with the colonial pipeline hack, i mean, this could really cause some problems here. griff: no surprise that we should expect to be attacked. i do want to go back. i think your question was so appropriate and pointed with jen psaki and yet now to hear essentially the same thing coming out of the mouth of the president of ukraine is really quite something. do you feel that perhaps the white house fell behind their messaging on that point? jacqui: well, i think what i've been hearing from the white house is not the same as what i've been hearing from ukrainians. i talked to nsc and most of the ukrainian requests are economic in nature. as recently as thursday they were asking for air defense capabilities from the u.s. including missiles because we are warning about the looming

air strike and we need arms and they didn't want to delve into what exactly the requests were from the ukraineance. i think they are doing a dance in terms of revealing, you know, as much as they need to but not too much. griff: you're getting the straight skit from the woman at the white house asking those questions, jacqui heinrich and we are also following the freedom convoy, our political panel will weigh in on the trucker protest and what the school board members of liberal san francisco means for the midterms next. ♪ ♪ ♪

jacqui: all eyes on ukraine and possible russian invasion after president biden said yesterday he's convinced that russian president vladimir putin has decided that he's going to move forward with an invasion and we have seen nuclear drills happening this morning under the guides of exercise, increase shelling and our reporters on the ground there talking about tensions escalating. so for more on this, we are joined by rj harris, top radio show host with mat bennett, former clinton white house

special assistant, thank you both for joining us. >> good to be here. >> good to be here, thank you. jacqui: for president said he's convinced that putin is going to invade. do you think that in any way could back putin into a corner, make him feel like he needs to follow through because he looks weak if he doesn't do it? >> well, based on the report that you had just a few minutes ago, putin is almost playing with president biden it seems in the media mocking the invasion that wasn't or whatever it was termed so i don't know. i'm just confused as anybody as to what's going on here. whether it's a game where putin ultimately wants to make the president look foolish because he doesn't invade or, you know, now it's very difficult for me to believe that they are going to poke fun at this and then invade anyway. but who knows, what a game we're playing here?

jacqui: matt, what do you think? >> i'm less focused on russia propaganda television. look, i think the bottom line here is that the biden administration has done everything that they can and have been very smart to put out the intelligence they have about the false flag operations the russians could be running about the kill lists they've been putting out and they have been doing everything that they can do. we cannot get into a shooting war with the russians, that would be catastrophic and could lead to world war iii. nobody wants that but i think the biden administration has done what they can do to try to stop it. jacqui: you really think they have done all they can do even though they haven't put sanctions on russia even though we have watched them follow through with everything that they warned -- that the biden administration has warned including a cyber-attack, false flag operations, do you think they've done everything that they could do? >> i think they will if the tanks roll across frontier into

ukraine. if they cross it, then the sanctions will come down. it's smart to resist. those sanctions aren't going to be easy for us either. if the russian economy tanks the global economy will feel the hit and we are too and not something to wish for. >> well, i thought the president made an excellent point and he made a point to say, if you're 100% sure that they're going to come in why not now? so he -- i think he does make a point. what's interesting about all of this is your average working american is taking away from this, the gas is going to go over $4 and maybe even $5 a gallon if russia goes into ukraine. so that's really the concern of most americans, believe it or not. >> all right, i'm going to move

onto another story. school board president was stripped off of her position in recall vote claim on social media were ousted her were aligned with white supremacists and what do you make of that and asian americans feel the recall, chinese american voters and volunteers were crucial to this landslide. rj first and then matt, your response. >> i think we are getting to the point with the racist bit where it's like the pandemic, people are about done with it. they see the race card being played at every turn yet we know in our hearts that most americans are not racists. they are racist people all over the world but really, you know, i think that we are getting to the point where we are at the end of this. she was recalled because even the awoke in -- the woke in san francisco are awakening to the

fact that they are trying to indoctrinate our kids in many different ways and they want us to have no input as to what happens with the kids and what they are thought. that's why they are elected to represent us? jacqui: your response to that? >> i think that playing the race card this way is disgusting. there's no evidence that racism had anything to do with the recall. they were recalled because they were terrible at their jobs. they were changing the anymore of abraham lincoln -- name of abraham lincoln during the pandemic. they've had it. these are three big cities with liberal constituents almost entirely democratic where the democrats in the cities said no, we do not like what the far left is peddling here and that's a

trend that you will see nationally. jacqui: matt, you just touched on a couple of reversals about faces that we have been watching on a couple different topics. what is this awe of -- this wave of pushback spell for the democrats? i want to play cartwright. >> the more parents are involved in their children's education the better the kids do. jacqui: so matt to you first, can they pull it off after, you know, messaging on various issues including masks in schools and things like that, broadly speaking from the democratic party had a different tone up until now? >> yeah, they absolutely can pull it off because circumstances change. the pandemic as we have seen has gone through cycles and -- and phases where things were terrible and then better and then pretty bad again and, look, thank goodness we are coming out of this omicron wave and i think

democrats are very smart to follow congressman cartwright's lead and say it's time to go back to normal. you are seeing this with democratic governors across the countries and you will see from the federal government intel. it's time that we give back. >> rj, your two sents on that and then different topic before we reason out of time. >> the fact of the matter is we do have short memories, there's no questions. but what the democrats have put us through during the pandemic, we won't forget that in the midterm elections. and as tradition goes, the other party does well in the midterm elections, this party, the republican party is going to do gang busters this time because all we have been put through. jacqui: all right, turning to the trucker protest, convoy in canada, are we in place in the where it could have big impact, there are warnings there might

be something similar, states are dropping mask mandates. do you expect there to be as strong as a demonstration here in the u.s. if that does come to fruition, matt to you first and then rj? >> i think it might because the right-wing populism is so much more whipped up in the united states than i think it was in canada before the trucker protests and we have seen all kinds of craziness in the u.s. including the violent insurrectionist attack on the capitol, so i think there may be those kinds of protests but i think cities like washington are going to be ready this time and i don't think they are going to be destructive as you have seen them in ottawa. jacqui: rj, your thoughts? >> here is what i saw in your coverage, honest, everyday working canadians with flags hoisted singing the canadian national anthem wanting freedom in a supposed free country. the thing that scares me about this and the united states and the people of the united states

ought to be taking -- paying attention to is they could go so far now as to shut down your bank account in canada if you're involved in this or you're donating money. most people don't even use cash anymore. can you imagine going to the bank and you have nothing. the government can shut you down and your internet under emergency guidelines and i will tell you something. i would be cautious because i could see that coming through the united states of america. joe biden called trudeau to encourage him to crack down on the truckers. jacqui: well, we will certainly be watching for it and hoping that, of course, everything stays peaceful. that's what we want to see. rj, excuse me, rj harris and matt bennett, thank you very much for joining us, hope to have you back soon. griff: turning to french modeling agent and long-time associate of jeffrey epstein has reportedly found hanged in

prison cell similar to how epstein was found in 2018. christina coleman in los angeles with details of this shocking development. hi, christina. christina: reportedly found hanging in prison cell in paris around 1:00 a.m. this morning. the 76-year-old was arrested in december of 2020 just as he was about the board a flight out of the country. french prosecutors allege he was part of the late epstein's global underage sex rink he was being held on preliminary charges as authorities investigated allegations against him. they believe he was involved in providing hundreds of women and girls to epstein through the modeling agencies he's managed over the years. brunnel had been accused of sexual misconduct by his models for years including allegations of drugging drinks, forcible touching and rape. burnel's death after uk's prince andrew reached a tentative

settlement and lawsuit with virginia who accused the prince of sexually abusing her while traveling with epstein when she was 17 year's old. the prince denied her allegations. today commented on brunnel's death. the suicide of john luke who abused me ant countless girls and young women ends another chapter. i'm disappointed i wasn't able to face him in a final trial to held him accountable but gratified that i was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison. attorney edwards also released statement today saying, quote, most people do not realize that virginia roberts testified in france and that her testimony was a significant factor in the french government's decision to hold john luke without bail. andrew's settlement solidify that virginia roberts is a highly credible person like epstein john luke had no realistic way of ever getting out of jail. sudden death is similar of

epstein both brunnel and epstein had not been on any sort of suicide watch when they were found dead in their prison cells. medical examiner ruled epstein's death a suicide and investigations into his alleged criminal acts continued. griff. griff: seems the story is far from over. christina coleman in los angeles, christina, thank you. jacqui. jacqui: new numbers release show the number of migrants released into the u.s. nearly doubled in the past year. no signing of slowing down either. the latest report.

jacqui: fears of russian attack are growing to fever pitch after president biden's stark warning that he believes vladimir putin has decided to invade ukraine but not everyone is preparing for war. lucas tomlinson live on the ground in lviv ukraine with reactions.

lucas: hey, american western diplomats fled to when they evacuated embassies in capital. i spoke to a nun in the ukrainian orthodox church. do you think the russians are going to invade? >> it's possible. we don't know in the head of putin so we have to be ready. lucas: over 150,000 russian soldiers continue to surround this country from the north, east, south and its sea, russia joint exercise belarus tomorrow after that is anyone's guess what comes after that. half of russia's forces at the border are now poised to invade. new satellite images satellite show russia deployed 2,000 more attack ships to belarus to the north and 50 more helicopter gun ships to southeast in crimea, over 60 more helicopters have been deployed with dozens of world leaders in munich russia

skipped the security conference for the first time in 20 years but sent undiplomatic message launching multiple missiles including intercontinental missile. this missile's war head is unarmed. it can carry thermal war heads capable of reaching washington, d.c. vladimir putin oversaw the missile test today. last summer he wrote a 5,000 word essay calling ukrainians and russians wasn't people. >> ukraine has its culture and history. belarus has its own culture and history and russia, we are not russia. ukraine not russia. russia is russia. lucas: over here in the west all this calm tonight, you wouldn't think the russians are invading very soon.

griff. griff: lucas tomlinson live in lviv. we turn to our southern border. you are looking at our flight team in la joya, texas. ground zero for president biden's border crisis. cbp sources telling us in the last 24 hours there have been 1,444 apprehensions the sector up 111% from this time last year. the total number of migrants apprehended in the sector in the first four months of the fiscal year, 191,000. now across the entire south western border the numbers have nearly doubled in january compared to the same time last year and over 62,000 were released in the u.s. casey steigel live for us in la joya, what are you seeing down there? reporter: much of the same stuff that you have been seeing and no

shrines of slowing down and the cbp numbers for the month of january were down slightly from december. 154,000 migrant encounters as opposed to about 179,000 right before christmas, however, when you do compare this january compared to others in the past it is much, much higher as you said and here in south texas overnight look at this video, once again it is not difficult to go out here and see the criminal activity up close and personal. we have one of our photographers shadowing dps troopers as they chase down 11 different runners who took off in the cover of darkness and attempted to hide. everyone was apprehended. officials say the crisis that is ongoing here also impacts every single american. listen. >> they don't stay in arizona and texas. it distributes throughout the entire united states. we are talking about iowa, kansas city, kansas, kansas

city, missouri, we are talking the entire united states that these individuals go to. >> now this past week agents say they arrested at least 4ms13 gang members here in the rio grande valley. a live picture now from the fox news flight team hovering above us gives you great perspective out here on the cloudy day in la ohioa, texas of how vast and rugged the terrain is out there on the international boundary, walls are barriers only cover a fraction of the 2,000-mile-long border we share with mexico. obviously, griff, as you well know and you have seen yourself it's a 24 a 7, 7 day a week operation and we are approaching the one-year anniversary when this crisis really began. back to you. griff: casey steigel, great reporting. for more on this let's turn to tom homan, former acting director of ice, fox news

contributor and heritage foundation visiting fellow. tom, thank you for being here. i want to talk about the numbers. one number that stands out in the report you heard here, 62,000 something were released in january. but if you lack at the total number of migrants that ice deported in the entirety of fiscal year 2021 which by the way has not been put out in a report but we have thanks to you and others it's 55,000. so more migrants were released just in january into the u.s. than ice deported the entirety of last year. what is going on? tom: that's a great point. everybody wants to neglect why the border is out of control. it's because of that very reason. under joe biden they have released nearly 600,000 people into the united states. ice has released 143,000 on top of what border patrol has released. hhs has released 115,000. so that's what's driving the number. the cartels in mexico are

selling the fact you get to the country, enter legally, you will be released and not only that, ice is not going to remove you. ice's numbers showing the lowest number removals in the history of the agency despite historic number of illegal immigration. this is by design and this is open borders and this is why the numbers keep climbing. january numbers, they want to brag numbers went down 17%, january is the lowest month forly eggal immigration for any month in a given year. griff: you mentioned the cartels. it's fascinating. i spent a lot of time in mexico covering cartels. the number of apprehensions went down from december a little bit, however, if you look into the cbp numbers they point out that fentanyl went up 57% from just december so the cartels know what they are doing. they are controlling not just the people moving but also the drugs that are killing

americans. tom: the mexican criminal cartels control our southern border and fentanyl -- they are making billions of dollars on this and the criminal cartels are dictating where people cross and when they cross. and let's not -- this administration wants to celebrate lower number of arrests. lower number of arrests means for got aways. this surge has not slowed down. this means more border patrols are off the line which means there's more got aways. griff: i want to go to a soundbite from secretary alejandro mayorkas and talking with border patrol chief ortiz and talking to prosecute migrants who assault our agents, listen. >> i find it unacceptable that with all of the sacrifice and service that our agents undergo and execute that they have to worry about being assaulted by people already in their custody

and control. we are going to prioritize those cases for prosecution. griff: memo out detailing how he's going to prosecute it but how is that possible? is that going to happen because it seems to me he doesn't have the authority to prosecute? it would be an fbi agent that would have to go down to prosecute a migrant assaulting a bpa? >> if he enforced the law, laws on the books and secured the border the assaults would go down. that's the first thing he needs to do. griff: last thing, 15 seconds, alexandria ocasio-cortez selling online shop abolish ice posters and t-shirts, your reaction. tom: every time he opens her mouth she proves how not smart she is. that means everybody that has been released in the country will never get deported because the agency that does it is no

longer in existence. it's foolish. griff: tom homan, former ice director, thank you for being here. it certainly isn't showing any signs of slowing down. meanwhile truckers in canada protesting vaccine mandates are getting support from everyday people nearby who are helping to feed and keep protestors warm, we will bring you there. ♪ ♪ ♪

griff: can aidian police are cracking down on the last of the trucker convoy demonstrate nester canada's capital to end the week's long protest and our next guest is telling he personally felt the effect it was crack-down. joining from ottawa the founder of adopt a trucker chris guerra, chris, thank you for taking time, very fluid situation with canadian police cracking down on the protestors but you've been

there from day one, what have you been doing? >> well, we landed day one and the idea was to make sure that when the truckers landed their job was done, that we could take care of them and we did that through asking everyone to adopt a trucker and with that looks like is people from ottawa have taken truckers into their homes and allowed them to wash their clothes, shower, shuttle them around and make sure they had everything that they were comfortable and the stay would be fun and rewarding and it's been so peaceful, so amazing people have loved the truckers from day one. griff: chris, are you aware of any of the truckers that you've adopted or people that have been associated arrested as a result of this? >> chris barber has been arrest and put on bail and i guess he has to go home. that's part of the bail agreement but, you know, there's a lot.

still trying to stay strong, their mission was to come here and get rid of the mandates. griff: chris, you have been defeated after having been in this week's long, how has this impacted you specifically? >> well, they froze my accounts. i'm okay with that. i knew this was going to be a long, long road. i have 7 children. they have gotten to my home and fed them and it's been a wonderful ride. it's been so much love, peace and joy that i feel that god is behind us and my heart is doing very well. griff: well, chris, you haven't been getting love from canada's prime minister justin trudeau who compared the trucker protestors so essentially nazis, not once but on multiple occasions. what is your reaction to the way the prime minister has handled

things? >> well, i really feel sorry for him. i'm praying for him and that he will repent of what he's doing to all of the canadians. he's turned into canadian to a criminal that has donate today this peaceful rally and i pray that his heart turns because canadians are so loving and kind. if you could be here to see the love and the joy, it's overwhelming. griff: final question as this whines down, is there a message of what happened there to the rest of the world? >> it's exciting that they do want to do a convoy. we respect the united states, be peaceful, be kind, don't be forceful because that's what they want and -- and be -- i will repeat it again, be peaceful and kind and loving. this is all about freedom of speech, freedom of, you know, actions, so be loving and kind

if you're going to do this. griff: good message, chris guerra in ottawa, canada, chris, thank you for sharing your insights. >> thank you very much. jacqui: as merkel brits black history month we will hear about some great exhibits that you can access online as well coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪

jacqui: black history month and fox news is celebrating all month long. one of washington's newest museums has two new additions to its exhibit and joining me now for now associate director of territorial affairs in the national museum of african history and culture. thank you very much for joining us in the show today. >> thank you for having me. jacqui: tell me how is the museum celebrating black history month including -- i know that there are online exhibits for people who don't live in the washington, d.c. area. >> sure, we have had a lot of programming for people of all ages throughout the month of february. we started with our signature program called the seat at the table where we looked at the extraordinary accomplishments that hbc used and a lot of our program also was operating under

the same living history and black health and wellness. we have had programs for youth looking art and poetry focusing on maya angelou and we had book talks, latest publication, make good the promises, reclaiming destruction and its legacies. this is a companion piece and we started blog series with dulas who practiced the profession. >> i know that there's some exhibits that highlight black contributions to western medicine, spotlighting health disparities facing black communities and also getting into political issues like voter

suppression and racial profile, what can you tell me of those exhibits and are they part of black history month or do they extend beyond the month of february. >> our exhibitions extend the month of february. we have two temporary exhibitions up right now. the first one is a visual arts exhibition, revisioning of our visual arts gallery and the exhibition defiance and resilience and looks at the various ways that visual artists have dealt with issues about and commentary about protests, escape and perspective from an african-american point of view engaging with those topics. the highlight of this particular exhibition is which i think you're showing here is a portrait of breonna taylor in the cover of vanity fair in

2020. this is a gorgeous meditation on the history of breonna taylor's story and put into context with all the other artists through several centuries who have engaged in similar topics. jacqui: so much to see there and i would love for people to be able to go and if you can't get to the museum you can certainly look online. there's a lot to explore and if you're in the dc area it's one of the most popular smithsonians for a reason. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. jacqui: griff. griff: great interview and great spotlight that museum by the monument, if you're in dc come and see it. that's all for us this hours. eric and arthel, i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich thank you very much for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪

eric: divided administration sounding the alarm over what it says is an imminent russian evasion of ukraine as fighting intensifies on the front lines in the eastern part of the country. top ukrainian officials coming under attack themselves earlier today as they toured a part of the region that has become the center of conflict in this a geopolitical standoff that continues at this hour. hello everyone welcome to "fox news live" i am eric shawn. arthel: hello everyone i am trying to abrade the west is