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white house. first turn to steve harrigan, their foreign minister this could be the worst catest catest -- catastrophe since world war ii. >> steve: images show the arrival of new russian troops and a field hospital, all of this is part of a plan for eminent russian invasion of ukraine. >> every indication is that russia continues to plan for full scale attack on ukraine. >> steve: ukraine's government has begun to call up military reserve, they have not yet ordered full-scale mobilization. ukraine officials are asking for more military aid, they do not want u.s. boots on the ground in ukraine. here is ukraine's foreign

minister. >> make it clear, only weapons ukraine is looking for are defensive weapons to defend our country. we never asked united states to send troops, we are not seeking american soldiers. >> steve: there has just been an alert issued by ukraine government advising all ukrainians in russian territory to leave russia immediately. this could possibly affect three million people. todd and carley, back to you. >> todd: thanks. republicans slamming joe biden's response to putin as weak. >> carley: griff jenkins has more on the banksy against russia. griff. >> griff: russian tanks rolling into ukraine, first sanctions targeting russian elite and financial institutions and warning it could impact americans, as well.

>> president biden: this is beginning of the russian invasion of ukraine, i will impose sanctions in response far beyond the steps we and our allies implemented in 2014. if russia goes furgder with the invasion, we plan to go further. >> griff: only time will tell if sanctions will deter putin's full-sail invasion of ukraine. >> why do you think sanctions are going to stop putin if his goal ultimately is to redraw the match so it looks like it did upon 70 or 80 years ago? >> press sect. psaki: sanctions can be a powerful tool, they have been throughout history. what happens to sanctions, they work over time. >> griff: republican criticism has been swift saying the president's response doesn't go far enough. >> we should do more than just freeze bank accounts of russian

oligarchs and accidents. we can make that financially and economically painful for russia and ought to support them in that. >> this senator says it is too late and senator lindsey graham says this is critical moment in history and president biden is not seizing the moment to deter putin's efforts to redraw the map and dismember neighboring democracy. the world waits and watches what putin will do next, mayorkis warns u.s. organizations could face cyber threats from russia, all part of putin's play book as we've seen him in his drive to disablize ukraine. todd and carley. >> carley: major concern and former energy secretary rick perry says less -- is making russia richer, giving putin the advantage. watch this. >> this issue has always been

about energy, who has it, who controls it. that is going to be the story tomorrow. that is the story 10 years from now and the left needs to recognize that. is -- this nervana, it goes back to climate and climate change and quit creating fossil fuels that will live in nervana. they are making it worse with that theory because dirty energy that will be produced in china and russia and coal, that is the real story here and until the american left wakes up and recognizes it for america to be strong energy wise, for us to be able to produce the clean, burning liquefied natural gas we have to distribute all over the world will go further toward making this climate better than

anything that they're talking about today by stopping americans and making russia richer. >> todd: perfect synopsis of the situation by rick perry. bring in a chief who served in moscow. dan, great to have you on a consequential morning. you heard senator ben saace say that sanctionss too little too late. do you agree? >> i do. punitive economic measures have never ever been enough to change putin's calculus. ukraine represents existential threat to russia. ukraine is a country that is building ties with the west, a democracy. and if ukraine is able to do that, that is a clarion call for russia's own population, who putin denies basic civil rights.

we need a comprehensive policy with diplomatic and military measures, as well as sanctions, vladamir putin is dictating pace of crisis and we have no leverage over his next move. >> carley: a lot recently just happened, new troops on the ukraine border, new field hospital was built. president biden pointed out they are moving blood in, which you don't do unless you plan to use it. ukrainian's military partly cloudy ales in comparison to russia. does ukraine have any hope? >> russia is in the donbos and no higher priority than determining whether russian troops plan to stay where they are or whether extending out further from donbos, or go to the river and create a land

bridge to crimea. it is more difficult for us, because we don't have an embassy in ukraine anymore. as far as ground invasion to take kyiv, i am not that san begin that vladamir putin feels he needs to do that to make his objective. he wants destruction of ukraine as a state, if he can use his troops as a fifth column, i'll sure he will seek to do that. >> todd: there is a map on the screen, by no means am i a military expert issue but just by looking at that map, it looks like russia has ukraine surrounded. you hear experts with different takes on putin's strategy, what is the main thing the experts are getting wrong, especially in light of the map you see in front of you. >> ukraine is absolutely

surrounded and russia has the troops at the ready, i think. partly to deter ukraine from launching attacks elsewhere in the event russia expands outside of donbos, even in that continualing region. to get back to the point about leverage over russia. vladamir putin is willing to pay an economic price for this, he will be more supportive on china for hydro-carbon and he knows he's insighted unity from nato. it is counter intuitive, but that is what vladamir putin wants. he knows nato lends credibility to the method, he, the kgb can defend russia, even though russia is ark aggressively menacing ukraine's independence.

>> carley: as to why we should care about this conflict. ukraine prime minister says if putin succeed necessary ukraine it will send a message that the west is incapable of defending what it stands for and other adversaries will challenge the united states based on this. the end of the day, that is really what this is all about, right? >> it is about that, for sure, it is also about russia control of the black sea which impacts turkey's national security. it is about safety and security in europe, which has $15 trillion gdp. we are concerned about that, as well and i agree with the foreign minister, if we don't stand for democracy, bright shining city on the hill, i don't know what we stand for. we don't need to send our troops to ukraine, policy with military

assistance to ukrainian might have given us a better chance, we'll be playing catch up. vladamir putin has all the leverage and we don't. >> carley: all right, dan, thank you for joining us, really important points you made. we appreciate it. >> thanks. >> carley: to a fox news alert. child molester who allegedly shot a florida sheriff deputy multiple times 6789 daily mail reports gregory ryan medima is former u.s. army soldier, florida highway patrol says the deputy was airlifted with life-threatening jurisprudences. medima was last season southeast of tallahase. police have not said what led to the shooting. >> todd: to los angeles, majority of prosecutors want george george gascon recalled. >> carley: he denies knowing about reporting of transgender

child abuser laughing about their sentence. brooke singman joins us. brooke. >> brooke: l.a. prosecutors support the effort to recall george george gascon, nearly 98% or nine out of 10 l.a. prosecutors support the recall as george gascon's policies lead to surge in violent crime throughout l.a. county after george gascon tried a transgender sex abuser as a juvenile for assaulting a 10 year old. fox news receiving a disturbing recording of hannah tubbs laughing about the lenient sentence, listen to this. >> i won't have to register or nothing. >> what will they do to you then? >> nothing. if there is next time i get in the trouble, i'm leaving the state, leaving the country, i ain't staying. >> brooke: according to staffers george gascon knew about the recording weeks before it was released, but george gascon and his advisor deny the claim and

the deputy d.a. says the advisor is lying. listen. >> content of the jail calls, we did not know about, there are exceptions that exist, rare exception. that statement made is untrue and slap in the face to the victim in this case. >> brooke: the vice president of the l.a. association of deputy d.a.s is calling out george gascon, saying, "the d.a.'s office knew about the recordings, they were involved at the same time the calls were discovered, this makes me oned fer they are incompetent or lying.requests " tubbs would have faced a lengthy criminal term, but was sentenced to just two years in juvenile custody at the age of 26. >> todd: unbelievable. county sheriffs want to be notified, at the very least,

they want to be aware of who is being dropped off. they need to notify the sheriff of the county, who is arrive figure they are shipping terri69s into the neighborhood, we have a right to know that. the sheriff is proposing a registry to keep track of the migrants. >> carley: iowa governor kim reynoldss will deliver the rebuttal to president biden's state of the union address on march 1. responses given to up and comers, mitch mcconnell praising reynolds handling. reynolds praised for efforts to keep woke curriculum out of iowa classrooms, the governor said she was honord and grateful, i'm sure she is. kicking off our own state of the union series digging into issues president biden has been ignoring for his entire time in office starting with the border

crisis. i went down and got an exclusive look at something called bail-outs issue adding to chaos and forcing americans to take matters into their own hands. >> having to discuss what to do if they are out and somebody attacks them. what to do if somebody breaks into the house. we deal with it every single day. we can no longer go as a family, somebody has to stay behind. >> todd: the footage carley has will shock you, you don't want to miss it. and a college student, whose professor on the right said she wouldn't call on him because he's a white male. trust me, it gets worse. he is next. ♪

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>> carley: a senate debate in ohio takes tense turn when audience member gets into shouting match with republican candidate josh mandel. watch. >> mr. mandel, you refer to black lives matter as thugs. >> uh-huh. >> uh-huh. >> come --

>> we are not doing that. >> put him out. >> i asked him to leave. >> you know -- >> this is america, we debate freely. >> don't you stand up to him, he's in the black community. >> carley: all right, coming up, josh mandel will join "fox and friends first" to discuss. todd, over to you. >> todd: university in new york state filing complaint over professor's woke syllabus. the professor writing, "if you are white, male or someone privileged by racial and gender structure of societies, we will ask you to hold off on questions or comments to give others priority," and a student joins me now. i thought this was a joke when i heard about it, it is too real and happened to you. describe what class is like or was like under this concept of "progressive stacking" as it is

known. >> it is certainly concerning. i was shocked to see this in the syllabus. at the beginning, as reported by campus reform, binghamton university in sociology class, my professor implemented a progressive stacking policy, with the policy, i as white male are bottom of the hierarchy, progressive stack. when students like to speak are chosen based on race and sex. to give you an example, class that requires participation, 10 students raise their hand and white male raises his hand first, he may not be chosen at all. this goes against what america is supposed to be and we as society are supposed to value as meritocracy and eshg kwality. >> todd: that is insane, everybody should get a fair shake, unbelievable. in upon current campus woke environment, it takes guts to

speak out like this. why did you speak out? >> i felt it was my civic duty to speak out, to be honest. i live by philosophy if you want to fix it, you have to do it yourself. i implore other students to do exactly as i did. if they see something, say something. speak out, if anything like this is going on. if it is happening on your campus or work place, whereever. >> that in mind how have fellow students responded to you? >> majority of students have been on the same side as myself, they believe this policy was odd at the very least. there is a small swath of students who agree with her policy and they -- they wanted to implement the same thing and it is concerning considering

students will be graduating soon and entering the workforce, where they could be bringing this type of policy to a work place or college near you. >> todd: a school made this professor change the sulbus, was that enough? -- syllabus, was that enough? >> i would say yes, when i filed the title ix report, this is what i asked the school to do and they did this. to others, ki see why it may not be enough. i certainly hope to never see anything like this happen in our country, but that is not the case. >> todd: right. >> i nbl this specific case, i'm happy with the outcome. >> todd: sean, are you still in this class? >> sean: i am. >> todd: what is interaction with the professor like now?

>> sean: i don't real estate react to her, we are split into lectures that have over 100 studentss and we go into smaller discussion groups, and only a few students like 8-15 and that is with the ta. >> todd: if you think we make a big stuff about stuff happen nothing schools, it is happening, not just elementary and high school, in college and beyond. thank you for letting us know about this, this is crazy town, i can't believe it, we appreciate your time. carley. >> thankul. >> carley: "wall street journal" editorial says new cold war has arrived and president biden is not meeting the moment, is the white house deterring putin at all? we'll ask dr. rebecca grant next. >> todd: and a congressman says twitter fact checkers need to look at biden's 2020 tweet. she is flagging it as misinformation. details on that next.

>> carley: president biden announcing new sanctionss as putin orders troops to two breakaway regions in ukraine. >> president biden: this is beginning of russian invasion on ukraine. far beyond steps implemented in 2014 and if russia goes forward with this invasion, we stand to go further. >> carley: dr. rebecca grant is joining me now. good morning, dr. grant, great to see you. you just heard president biden say he is rolling out sanctionss incrementally, is this the right strategy? >> no, biden is going way too slow doing these sanctions bit by bit. carley, for once issue the senate is right, senate graham

and -- putin thinks he is ready, has russia's economy bundled and ready for sanctions. biden needs to hit him much harder. >> carley: putin is an ideologue, he cares about bringing russia back to soviet union glory days and what history books say about him years down the road. how do you use sanctions to deter him at this point? >> you are so right. that speech he gave before the invasion was like putin has turned into a nut case on the level of stalin. he hates america and ukraine. he hates the leaders who let the soviet union fall apart. it was incredible ranting and it is clear putin is out to restore russia.

it play list to his domestic audience, you know he believes it in his heart. sanctions have no impact, only thing that will get putin's attention is military deterrence. >> carley: military deterrence, there is question of how far putin is going to go. does he stay in the eastern ukrainian or expand out to lithuania, latvia, poland? they are nato allies, if that is the case, that means war. >> it does. with the forces around ukraine, there is real chance he will think biden is weak, nato is not ready and he will press ahead. we have a chance, response needs to use military force to deter. it is getting to him, in that speech, putin complained about u.s. air power, reconnaissance over ukraine, that is getting

his attention. if this is new cold war, we need to do the number one priority, use military deterrence to guard our friend. >> carley: i'm glad you said that, "wall street journal" editorial board has this op ed out, titled, saying new cold war ii is here with russian invasion of ukraine new cold war has arrived. putin doesn't want to be part of the current international order, he wants to blow it up. it is hard to say, cold war ii is here. what is your reaction to that and the way we can stop this from happen something >> i'm shockd and horrified, like everyone. how did we get here so fast? i think our weak u.s. leadership has to take some blame. it is true. putin really does want a new cold war, he declared new cold war. do three things, cut off his economy, we don't do business

with them in a cold war, guard our friends, keep our friends together and remember the number one priority is how we use military forces, time to deter, support ukraine and get ready, the missing piece here is a possible cyber attack, either in ukraine or more broadly. look to our own security and forces around the world. we got to play, too. >> carley: live picture on the screen of putin in russia, defender of the fatherland. you see military presence there. it feels like war, even in that image we're seeing on screen, with putin in the front and troops marching in the back. you have to wonder what is going through president putin's mind right now as he has surrounded ukraine and these sanctions have come down and also, he's just made a new alliance with china

and will those sanctions really have any impact on putin if he's getting this support from our other adversary out east in chinese president xi. >> china is backing him up with more oil purchases and that will help. remember, putin's family lived through the siege of linengrad, this russia patriotic war makes him feel strong, it plays well home and that is where his mindset is, in the cold war mindset. sanctionss will not get the job done, especially with china. >> carley: there was a united response with the u.s., uk and euand then germany decided to freeze the nord stream 2 pipeline. how much of deterrence would that be for vladamir putin? how much would that hurt his bottom line? >> germany's move was very big,

it shows germany will stick with nato and collective security, even ahead of their economic interest, it was a great move, as was britain's decision to go with poland and form alliance with ukraine. european partners are strong issue but they need u.s. leadership to get stronger against putin. >> carley: thank you for joining us, we appreciate your perspective. >> thank you, carley. >> carley: you bet. >> todd: to tensions on twitter, congresswoman elisa stefanik calling out this tweet from joe biden, getting a lot of attention. i would like to report disinformation, that tweet from then presidential candidate read, putin doesn't want me to be president, i'm the only person in this field who has gone toe to toe with him. calls president biden's handling of the ukraine crisis weak and reprehensible. wild video, two blackhawk

choppers crashing, the scene is shocking. wait until you hear how the story ends. plus -- >> could he be jumping the gun on this? >> it is tone deaf. >> todd: oeshg "the view" being ripped for coverage on queen elizabeth's covid-19 diagnosis. >> carley: dr. janet will join us next. ♪

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>> carley: dc mayor issuing warning about trucker protest, telling residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious activity. request asking for national guard's help with potential protest. a trucker convoy is gearing up to leave california and head across country to the nation's capital. 700 national guardsmen will be on duty beginning saturday. and here is candace owens, watch this. >> it is mind-boggling what is taking place. stay focused and keep talking about what is happening at home. the threat domestically is way more important. people are waking up and thinking about tyranny. we don't have control of the

narrative anymore. they are doing theatrics, naming hitler, making people seem sick of tyranny. >> carley: organizers say the protest is not about politics, it is freedom for future generations. op ed, trudea's liberal tyranny, ottawa is freezing bank accounts as if truckers are terrorists. you have to wonder about the future of canada and trudea after this display of what many say is tyranny. >> todd: in the united states, bouzer saying, report anything suspicious, did he make similar requests in 2020? i think not. owens is calling it out. >> carley: making sure washington, d.c. stays safe, if there is any conflict that arises is a good idea in advance of the trucker protest.

like we saw in canada, the truckers were peaceful and it would only hurt the trucker cause and cause for freedom, if they were to get violent and there is no sign that will happen. hopefully this protest does happen, it remains peaceful, because that would further prove their point. >> todd: impetus for truckervoy was mandates despite allegations they withheld datsa -- data from the public. dr. janette nesheiwat joins us. start with the mandate, cdc is still pushing mandates, why? when every state in the union decided we're done with mandates? >> you are right, todd, i have had one case of covid-19 in the last two weeks, omicron is nearly gone.

we have achieved our goals, flattened the curve to get the numbers so low and make sure we don't overwhelm the hospital. it is time to adjust accordingly, it doesn't make sense to wear a mask if you are fully vaccinated or have natural immunity and omicron has nearly left the city of new york, for example. it is the same in many parts of the country. cdc is lagging in guidance and protocol. hope to see changes coming up once they make an announcement, i believe next week. >> todd: cdc says it is not ready, are you buying that? >> you really dilute the trust, the credibility, when you withhold information. this is important for me as a doctor, i need as much information as possible to take care of my patients. when you say, we don't want this to be misinterpreted or it might

discourage someone from getting a booster, that is inappropriate. you need all this information based on that data. it doesn't make sense, it is important to be open and honest and we need that truth and transparency. >> todd: booster shot data break-through cases in vaccinated americans, data broken down by vaccination status sure seems like they are trying to cover something up or not tell us the full picture. get your thoughts. "the view" ripped as tone deaf for discussing queen elizabeth's covid-19 diagnosis, take a listen. >> the queen cancelled her engagements after she got covid. could boris be jumping the gun or is this part of what we're see something >> did the queen go to his parties? >> it is tone deaf to announce this on the eve of the queen announcing she contracted covid.

they have one job, protect the queen and couldn't do that. >> todd: as a doctor, you want to hear things like that on tv? >> it is ridiculous, really, you know, you have to take into consideration the words that could be causing fear in others. what boris johnson has done, she picked up omicron likely from her son, it is extremely contagious. she did what she had to do, she is triple vaccinated. her case is mild. when cases are low and almost gone, we have to scale back mitigation efforts. we can't live with masks and upon mandates forever. get your vaccine and move on with our lives. >> todd: dr. janette nesheiwat, we appreciate your time. thank you for joining us. carley. >> carley: out of control truck stop and seven illegal immigrants scramble to ark void

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preparing for a wave of refugees as ukrainians brace for a full-scale war with russia. activist on the ground in kyiv fought against russian militants in 2014. he joins me now. good morning to you. how concerned are you about this latest aggression from putin? >> oh, i think that russia wants to destroy us, destroy our country. vladamir putin, ukraine and ukrainian do not exist. i think that russia will try to attack our country again. >> carley: so does that mean that you think full-scale war in ukraine will break out? >> repeat please. >> carley: do you think full-scale war in ukraine will break out? if so, what will you do?

>> i will stay, i am in kyiv, i and my friends are ready to protect, defend our country. we don't leave ukraine, we keep calm now. and let's call a spade a spade, this is not a crisis, this is not just a conflict, this is really big in the heart of europe. serhi sternenko. this is big after world war ii, this is war of hatred and putin wants to destroy our country and ukrainians as nation, so we need more help from eastern countries and from the united states. >> carley: you have -- >> west countries. >> carley: without a doubt. yesterday president biden did

announce sanctions against russian banks and russian oligarchs, do you think that is good enough response from the united states? >> i think that the united states are doing a lot of -- for ukraine and we appreciate that. more needs to be done to stop this dictator of putin. biden said yesterday that he would defend every inch on the nato land. so i think ukraine must be in nato f. putin regime is not stopped now, poland and other countries of nato will be attacked as putin attacked ukraine. if putin doesn't meet major resistance in ukraine, he will see it is nato weakness, also i think it will be a great -- if

the united states imposed sanctions on russian channels and -- force to block them. putin says that russia recognized that -- donetsk and this means that russian occupiers may begin to attack the towns of donetsk and the region. putin got sanctions, but he asks for more. >> carley: yeah, i understand you fought against russian militants in 2014. what was that experience like? >> may 2, 2014, my friends and i defend russian mutants as -- wanted to seize the region, them

and create -- they also killed my friends even though we managed to defend our citizens. we, ukrainians, are able to defend our country now as in 2014. >> carley: we're looking at live images of vladamir putin in russia, celebrating a holiday called defender of the fatherland day, observed in russia, belarus, kazakhstan. i understand in ukraine, they ark bollished this holiday in 1992. this is new to america. how important is this celebration to russia? >> it is very important to russia. no, putin can use this case of celebration to do some bet

against ukraine. saying things more times before. >> carley: absolutely, that is what we're hearing, as well. stay safe, we appreciate your perspective. todd. >> todd: crazy video, two black hawk helicopters crashing into a mount ab an. one pilot losing sight of the ground. three people suffered minor injuries in the crash, but nobody miraculously was seriously hurt. national guard unsure if the helicopters will be available to fly again. an investigation is underway. seven migrants running after vehicle pursuit. the migrants were arrested and more dramatic video showing trucks carrying migrants, ramming fences, letting passengers jump ship to evade

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