12:30 and partly because they all want to speak from the same song sheet and hopefully that will be the case moving forward. lots more coverage. i assume we'll see you throughout the day. >> bill: the geopolitical consequences run the gamut. we talked about pakistan, taiwan, china. we'll watch it throughout the day. >> dana: harris faulkner is next. >> harris: fox news alert. putin's war the take over another european nation is on and it is time for americans to begin paying attention now. i mean, take a look at the world markets. bottom right of your screen. the world financial markets including our very own are taking a beating as a full scale war against ukraine is already shattering peace and stability in america. and -- in europe, excuse me. in america if you think the price of gasoline is high now, brace yourself. we buy more than 500,000

barrels of crude per day from russia. and they just hiked the price on us. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". for months we have witnessed the russian president vladimir putin massing tens of thousands of military forces surrounding ukraine on three sides from the east, north and south. in recent weeks he built up his troop levels for a big move. this morning before the sun came up russia invaded ukraine with 200,000 fighters calling it a special military operation. those troops going to war under the guise of protecting people in two breakaway regions inside ukraine. of course, we know there are a number of russians who have been living in those eastern ukraine regions. but now russia is assaulting the entire country. the ukrainian government

immediately confirming deaths among its own military. president zelensky declaring martial law and calling on his citizens to stand up and fight and severed diplomatic ties with russia and wants allies to do the same. steve harrigan was live on camera in kyiv when this happened. >> whoa. large explosion two miles behind me. black smoke coming up probably a missile. we've heard reports that russia says they're using precision-guided missiles. we've heard a large number of strikes in the pre-dawn hours for the last hour or so. >> harris: pre-guided missiles surrounding the capital city, an urban area where millions live. in "focus" this hour we tired

army general. texas congressman michael mccaul. retired marine bomb technician joey jones and peter doocy live at the white house where president biden is expected to speak soon. first fox news is on the ground in kyiv. trey yengst reporting. >> harris, good morning. at this hour russian forces continue their air and ground campaign against ukraine. the ukrainian interior minister says that russian troops have now crossed the border from belarus into northern ukraine and are currently battling his troops in the chernobyl zone, a key zone. if they're able to move forward from there they can continue marching onto the capital of kyiv. one other area of focus right now that the ukrainian defense forces are looking at has to do with a small airport just outside the capital of kyiv. about 15 miles from here and it was reportedly taken over by

russian forces this afternoon when they used attack helicopters to hit this military facility. there is a concern now that if they retain control of this airport they will be able to fly in more armored vehicles and can continue to try to launch a ground campaign against the capital of kyiv. they would hit it from multiple directions. something that western intelligence analysts warned could happen. trying to choke off the capital and ultimately replace the government here. all of this a major concern to ukrainian president zelensky who is calling on the parliament to implement and immediate mobilization of all troops across the country and encouraging civilians here not only in the capital but across the country to pick up arms and fight. harris. >> harris: thank you very much for setting us up where the news. president biden is getting ready to address the nation from the white house. earlier today he met with the g-7 leaders after calling for a

united response to the russian attack. republicans are fiercely critical of biden's strategy with putin. congressman michael waltz says this could be the moment for president biden to show finally his strength on this. >> this is a historic moment and a dark moment. and the commander-in-chief's success here and his strength is what the world needs to see. his strategy of holding back and hoping that putin behaves properly hasn't worked. it has failed. we need to see, number one, sanctions on putin's inner circle and him personally and number two, a commitment to support a ukrainian resistance to turn this into a quagmire for russia. that's what i hope to see today from president biden. >> harris: peter doocy live at the white house. one of the things that we would want to know is the stakes for american people. we have a heart for the people

of ukraine but americans want to know what is the gasoline price going the look like now? >> i've asked how high they think gasoline prices could go here. they are not putting a precise number on it but warning americans here that the price of defending our values or helping somebody defend their values -- shared values overseas is going to be a financial burden here by way of increased energy prices among other things. now, we do have an update. we just heard from the white house the president is done consulting with the g-7 leaders virtually. they talked for about 90 minutes. we understand late last night the president got a briefing from national security team and ukraine president zelensky. biden said he asked me to call on the leaders of the world to speak out clearly against president putin's flagrant aggression and stand with the people of ukraine. president biden is also promising a new batch of

sanctions on the russians. senior administration official tells me there will be some significant ones in there. we know sanctions against putin directly personally are on the table. those would be designed to isolate him from the outside world financially but it is unclear if officials are going to use that now or if they will wait for putin to do something even more aggressive. it has been two full days since the president's last public comment on camera about russia. so there is a lot of build-up ahead of these 12:30 remarks. >> i hope the president finally recognizes that this is the time for strength. that the moment of diplomacy and we could take half steps and measures has gone out the window just as russian bombers were flying over and devastating areas across ukraine. now that we have dozens if not hundred of folks on the ground who are killed. before that number grows into the thousands and tens of thousands we need to show we mean business. >> there is more activity than

usual here at the white house so far this morning. and i'll note that we've reached out to the vice president's team to see how involved she is with this, who she has been talking to. but we haven't heard back. harris. >> harris: such a valid question to ask. that was the person they sent in place of secretary blinken when he had the scurry to the u.n. when the russian federation president was speaking. he sent kamala harris to munich. what calls can she be making today? peter doocy, thank you. we'll cover it as it happens. here is a retired u.s. general and author of the book hunting the caliphate. america's war on isis and the dawn of the strike cell. general, thank you for being with me. i don't know if you can hear

peter doocy then but there was a line that talked about we're waiting to see what the white house would do if they want to wait out and see if putin will make a bigger move. what's bigger than invading a nation? >> good morning, harris. obviously invading a nation is huge and this is a time we need to get behind our president and we as americans get behind the country on this. what we're seeing is an unprovoked attack by russia, a powerful nation, against a less powerful nation ukraine. and there are a number of things we can be doing. >> harris: like what? what are we not doing general that we should be doing at this point? are sanctions really going to work? i've had other generals tell me they may not be fast enough this time. we need something more expeditious. what is your plan? >> i concur. sanctions were not going to stop president putin. he did a cost/benefit analysis

and continued on -- he wants to take over ukraine. what was said earlier ukraine is an emerging democracy. putin fears that. a democracy that is slow, awkward, imperfect but for 30 years now it has been independent of the soviet union and russia and president putin wants to have ukraine to be either a part of russia or at least change the government so it is favorable. here are some things we can do. one is we can commit to having permanent military bases on nato's eastern flank in central and eastern europe. poland, romania, bulgaria and baltic states. we have not been doing that. what we've been doing is rotating forces in. we can send a firm signal to putin and russia by having permanent bases there. we also need to develop a black sea strategy which may include

closing the straits to russian naval vessels as well as trade. that would be huge working with turkey. but that's a part of a nato strategy. and then being absolutely relentless in our diplomatic and economic sanctions, relentless with that. then i think lastly would be to continue to reinforce -- as far as military aid, weapons, lethalivity and we see the ukraine forces are putting up a resistance. it is not -- they're not falling apart yet. but they need assistance. >> harris: yeah. when you say the word yet that's the problem. because when the leader of ukraine zelensky said to its citizens stand up and fight

we're talking urban warfare. that's a crush of people there. you see them trying to get out. i don't know if we have the video. but they can't get out fast enough, general. it is hundred of thousands of people on the move at the same time. russia knew this. we had to have known this. what you talk about with the black sea and the strategy there, a blocking the commerce by russia is huge. we've got the 3,000 troops in poland. but really permanent military bases in those nato countries, would that have even been part of any scheme if we had handled this differently and put those sanctions on early? i just want to get your take on that. >> well again, sanctions made europe and america feel good. like we're doing something. but in fact as far as russia was concerned, they -- their goal was to take ukraine or change the government. so sanctions weren't going to stop the forces of putin.

however, another thing that putin doesn't want to see is nato unified and nato militarized up to his border. the permanent bases would actually do that. in nato countries, a permanent u.s. and nato bases. >> harris: will they do that with us, though? would that be okay with them? when the president -- look, the "new york post" op-ed argues it this way. biden's presidency has made the u.s. look weaker to putin long before putin invited ukrainian invasion, the president did, rather, by suggesting a minor incursion. so are our relationships strong enough with our nato partners hearing the president back on january 19th when he said that minor incursion line, it would assume that he had some arm twisting to do if they invaded. like maybe we weren't all on the same page. would we be on the same page about military bases in their

nation? >> it takes leader and it will take american leadership to unify nato. it is made up of 26 different countries make up nato. and we can talk about weakness that has been shown by this administration or even the previous administration. but we are where we are right now. so at this point it is time to take some action. take action short of putting american troops in ukraine. we don't want to do that because again it is two nuclear nations, russia and america. we don't want that. short of that we can certainly help ukraine and we can help bolster nato. i think the countries of poland and the baltic states would welcome permanent american bases. >> harris: they wouldn't have to pay for a military. they wouldn't have to pay the cost of that. they get all that help. it is an interesting configuration that relationship we have with members of nato. >> it's shared costs just like

we have in germany. germany foots the majority of the bill in many ways for american troops to be there. it is a shared cost, yes. >> harris: 26% in recent polling of the american people don't want to see our military in the ground in ukraine so you're right. a lot of reasons why we should not do that. major general, thank you very much. having your strategy about those countries, military bases, black sea, rich for the conversation today because that's not the hope that it would appear that has been applied so far for diplomacy and sanctions. hope is not a strategy. you have given us a plan. appreciate your time and expertise. thank you. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: so many questions on exactly how u.s. and its allies respond. russia's vladimir putin unleashed a full scale war on ukraine. we could see him posturing to do that and it threatens us with consequences they have never seen if they retaliate.

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>> i haven't seen a crisis like this very candidly since the cuban missile crisis. i hate to say this and it sounds terrible but it is a lost cause. what i mean by that, the russians have got overwhelming force. they can beat the ukrainians. i with say to the president, i walk into the oval office this morning and say to president biden, mr. president, you are now a wartime president. you need to start acting like a wartime president. this is not ukraine and europe. this is how the whole world is going to look at you.

>> harris: general kellogg on the dire situation in ukraine where russian artillery is targeting ukrainian cities. it started at dawn their time. following a televised message from putin announcing a military operation. he seems to threaten the united states saying countries attempting to interfere with russian actions would face consequences they've never seen. national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. quite a threat. >> it is ballistic missiles russia is targeting ukraine with and more than 100 fired overnight. i came out of a briefing with a senior u.s. defense official in which we got the latest update and i was told we would describe this as the initial phase. expect this to unfold in multiple phases. they are advancing right now, the russians, on three mean

axis of assault from the south from crimea to a town in the center of the country and from the north from belarus on two axis to kyiv, the capital from the northwest and northeast. two lines of attack towards the capital. third line of attack i'm told is toward another city, the second largest city in the east of ukraine. the heaviest fighting is there and air insertion of russian forces there and heavy fighting at the kyiv civilian airport. they have every intention the official says of decapitating, his word, the government and installing their own government. the invasion began at about 9:30 p.m. eastern last night just before dawn local time. more than 100 ballistic missiles were launched by russia into ukraine overnight. included among those ballistic missiles short range ballistic

missiles. the primary missiles used last night that were based up in the belarus area where there were those 30,000 russian troops. medium range ballistic missiles also employed. cruise and surface to air missiles. they haven't yet moved into western ukraine. russian aircraft were involved in the assault last night. targets are air defense systems, barracks, ammo field and air fields. no amphibious assaults so far. no russian troops landing in odessa according to the ukraine defense minister. public means of communication is still active. the senior defense official told us it could change. the full scope of electronic warfare has not been employed by the russian forces. that could change.

u.s. has sent six f-35s to estonia, lithuania and romania. those fighter jets are being moved into those positions to bolster nato's eastern flank. harris. >> harris: you threw a lot of ammo and might, military might at us. were we aware of the components of this not just troops on the ground but how much they were bringing in from russia? >> absolutely, harris. we've been reporting for weeks now laying out the declassified intelligence that has been shared with us in a very unusual way for the u.s. government and western intelligence agencies to share with us. they had a full picture of what russia had planned, what they had positioned. if anything, we asked the senior u.s. defense official moments ago if there is anything surprising about the movements that were seen last night and there is nothing. they were watching. they knew how putin -- how this would unfold. they didn't know the exact

timing or they expected at first there would be a large electronic warfare cyberattack. that hasn't occurred. but it still could occur. so clearly this is the first phase. they had clear intelligence about this. they've known about this plan since really early october. and they've been gathering nato unity. those sanctions have been negotiated for months now and they will start rolling out in a form of shock and awe if you will from the west. they knew they had very limited abilities to prevent this invasion. they tried but now comes the part where they will squeeze russia. you saw the russian stock market fell by half today. >> harris: have you seen ours? all those barrels of oil they hiked the price up. we'll get into it later in the hour. the reason i ask that question since early october we saw this coming. and we've had general after general tell us the sanctions weren't going to work because they were baked into the cake as assets were put into place.

we saw this and they saw this coming and why that was still the only strategy deployed? >> i need to follow up on that because what you are talking about if it's more than sanctions you are talking about sending u.s. troops to ukraine. >> harris: no, you hear general -- we can monday morning quarterback now it's thursday and trying to look forward. he said we can still do the things in terms of military bases permanently. >> that's what we're discussing today at nato headquarters what they heard from the secretary general and the north atlantic council is meeting. expect discussions about the 40,000 nato response force being moved into the eastern flank. this is not -- this is rolling out. if you had put those nato troops into position before putin crossed into ukraine, you would have given him a pretext to go into ukraine.

this has been very calibrated because of the concern that putin was looking for a pretext to go in. now you will start seeing more permanent basing of nato forces but there were very limited options at this late stage in terms of the last six months of preventing putin from this using this massive, massive military force that he arrayed on the borders with ukraine. >> harris: he is a dictator. late stages of dictatorship he will act and do unpredictably. when you've laid out we have to throw every idea at it now. jennifer griffin, thank you very much. excellent reporting. we want to bring you new video into fox news. it shows just how desperate the situation is right now for people in ukraine as they are taking to shelters and subways using them as bomb shelters. jennifer was just told and told us that russia is launching missiles into cities across nearly the entire country now.

did you hear all of what they are using from jennifer griffin just now? the arsenal they have. i want to bring in texas congressman michael mccaul. the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee and also sits on the homeland security committee. so important to have you this hour. thank you for being in "focus." i want to start with the conversation, jennifer and i were just having. i think that there will be a lot of questions about what else could have been done. but we know now going forward what some of the options strategically militarily will be. what about other options? how do we protect our own economy? what do you see coming down the road? >> first i think jennifer is correct. we knew about this plan months ago. as a harsh critic of the administration, not providing enough deterrents before an invasion. they always talk about the invasion. teddy roosevelt said it is time to carry the big stick. it is time for the big stick

now. that's something we'll rally around both republicans and democrats. but it is unfortunate this had to happen. we didn't provide the sanctions that i thought would be helpful prior to the invasion. this is the most massive invasion in europe since world war ii. since hitler invaded poland to put it in perspective. what you'll see now. we would game out these options, right? what's the worst case scenario and what's the left bad scenario? this is the worst case scenario. all three groups being deployed to put the noose around the neck of ukraine. actually maybe even going all the way to odessa and muldova. we have to respond with serious sanctions on putin, he has blood on his hand. we need to do it soon. we have to be unified, the g-7 and nato in doing that.

in congress we're looking at those sanctions as well and lastly, the resistance we'll see in ukraine they are fighting the russians right now. we have provided ammunition and sniper rifles and javelins that i signed off on in my position and probably end up giving them more. >> harris: so, you know, you probably heard general kellogg say moments ago, we played a little of his interview from "fox & friends." basically it's a lost cause in terms of russia taking ukraine. we know that, you know, he wants the yesteryears of the cold war and soviet union. what else could he do at this point? he has crimea, he is taking ukraine. what exactly does he want? >> he wants the old empire back. >> harris: every single country of that. >> as you know ukraine is not nato. article 5 is not triggered. we won't put boots on the

ground in ukraine but if he goes into the baltic states, rumania, hungary or poland that would trigger article 5 and that warning that you mentioned that putin laid out, ballistic missiles but i would worry about nuclear. he is doing these nuclear exercises right now that he bumped up. he usually does them in the fall. he is doing them right now. i think he has lost it so much i wouldn't put that off the table. >> harris: i've been saying for days he is in the throws of later dictatorship. it makes him so unpredictable at this point. not unbreakable. we're a great nation. congressman mccaul. thank you very much for your time. we're awaiting remarks from president biden on ukraine. it is expected to come in about an hour, 12:30 p.m. eastern. we expect him to announce new sanctions against russia and also perhaps he would tell the

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no one knows veterans like newdayusa. >> harris: everything is more expensive in america right now particularly gasoline. stocks tumbling following putin's declaration of war. that affects millions of people's nest eggs, 401ks. the dow is down by as much as 800 points earlier the morning. it will fluctuate. we'll cover it. crude oil surged past $100 per barrel for the first time in nearly eight years. prices at the pump are soaring already. drivers in california paying more than $5 per gallon. the white house says don't expect relief any time soon. >> should people across the country expect to see that kind of a number when they go to gas

up their car 5 or 6 dollars >> standing up for our values is not without cost. we try to minimize the cost. i don't have a prediction right now. we're trying to minimize the impact on the global energy market. >> harris: fox business chief con el mcshane is in focus now. a breakdown of the markets and i want to hit the barrel per day we get, 565,000 barrels of crude from russia that we buy from them. we'll get to that. >> it is interesting. some of the key points coming in. a lot is building for some time. other factors leading to the inflation and to the run-up in oil prices and the sell-off in stocks. even the conflict overseas. we've known something in coming. stocks are down today, oil is up more than it was, but some of it was. and the other thing i would say is this isn't spread out

equally across the world. europe is getting hit a lot harder than the united states in the market today. that makes sense because of all the gas that russia supplies to europe. now that said there is risk here. the dow to your point was down 800 plus and now down a little less than 600. interesting all the tech stocks are getting hammered earlier today. nasdaq is break even now. we thought it might enter a bear market and 20% off the high. it may not happen. that's come back and interesting to note. in addition to oil being up, natural gas is up. metals, grains, higher food and higher prices for a number of commodities effect of this. the travel stocks, airlines, they are getting hit hard. a lot of hotels are down today. higher gas prices have hurt those companies. some of the oil-related stocks are doing okay. that's about it. the next thing is president biden's remarks. we know there are sanctions coming but we really don't know all the specifics yet and from -- we talk to investors about this. they want to know the specifics

and which industry will get hit the hardest. that's the question going into the afternoon. >> harris: and what our next play is. putin has made one or two big moves here. we want to know are we really going to guide those nato nations and have partnerships at least with them in the middle of war against the european nation? no, ukraine is not part of nato but pop this up on the screen. so we did some digging today. u.s. oil suppliers as of late 2021. this is it. we get 4.5 million barrels per day from canada. we get 700,000 barrels per day from mexico. and in third place is russia. 595. that was off by 30,000 a moment ago. and look at the rest of that list. it is interesting. we have heard very little from the saudis, very little from arab nations at all. both israel and turkey have condemned russia's invasion of ukraine.

and iran has blamed nato but calls for an end to hostilities. most arab nations have refrained from taking a position on the matter. oil is at the heart of this. how high could it go? >> well, it depend on you are talking about saudi arabia, for example, pressure on them to pump more into the market. >> harris: we get more oil from russia. >> there is a lot of talk the united states could make up some of the lost russian oil. the problem in the short term and long term answer. the problem in the short term it takes awhile. not like you can turn it on tomorrow and have all the oil or natural gas, which is more important to europe and germany and have all that russian natural gas replaced by liquid natural gas coming from the united states tomorrow. it will take a while. a big question for the president today is how far is he going to go? there is something called the swift backing system. will the president effectively

cut off russia from the global system of finance which what it would be if the west cut russia out of the banking system. wall street would be surprised if that happened. they don't expect it. but if it did it would be huge. what would russia do? it would cut off gas to europe? what would happen? prices would go up more. you could hit russia where it hurts but if you do there is collateral damage to that and one of the big questions as we go into the president's remarks today 57bd in the coming days. we might not get it all today. >> harris: look, those nations that chose to have most of their energy coming from, you know, an enemy of nato, germany getting 60%. the rest of europe getting 40% of its energy from russia. this is beyond a wake-up call. we're getting a big chunk, too. we were energy independent. that has to be everybody's goal at this point with those actors and china and others on the move. connell mccain in "focus" today.

thank you very much. putin unleashing a war in ukraine. the f.b.i. is warning the united states could be facing serious aggression here at home. joey jones and nile gainer next.

>> dana: president biden set to speak at the white house coming up following his meeting with g-7 leaders. we expect to hear his next steps for how to deal with putin now that he has invaded another country. moscow is also working to cripple the country with cyberattacks. and in the united states the f.b.i. is warning the threat of russian cyberattacks on our own grid and banks and saying this is very real for us now. joey jones retired marine bomb tech, fox news contributor and fox nation host. nile gardiner director of the heritage foundation and former foreign policy advisor to margaret thatcher. nile, i will start with you. the threats of consequences we've never seen before from putin and potentially a very real -- [inaudible]. >> thank you very much to have me on the show today.

without a doubt what we're witnessing today in ukraine is an act of barberism and savage. he is a monster and invading sovereign territory. in europe tens of thousands of people may die because of this. we have to be on our guard on every single front. without a doubt, if putin's ambitions rest far beyond the borders of ukraine. he will set his sites next on the baltic states and possibly poland as well. we need to do everything possible and have to take his threats very seriously. he is a tyrant and no regard for human life. he is somebody who is acting completely without regard at all for the views of the other free world here. and so when putin makes these kinds of threats against the united states and allies we

have to take them very seriously and without a doubt yes, i think the russians are planning a cyber onslaught against the united states, great britain and its allies. the russians are threatening also -- all sorts of measures against the west. and there is no room here for complacency. we need to hit them extremely hard not only with tough sanctions but also we need to be prepared to hit the russians hard on multiple other fronts as well and deploy maximum pressure on our european friends actually to stand up to the russians. >> harris: that's where i've been going today. the president back on january 19th when he was spilling the beans about the minor incursion and maybe he couldn't twist nato's arm enough to do anything if it wasn't a full scale invasion that speaks volumes to what our relationships are really like with the nations in nato. i want to come to you, joey. there seems to be a potential

for an urban warfare right now with russia moving into areas and just two miles outside of the capital city where there are millions of people in kyiv and per our own reporting steve harrigan. that type of war is different than sending missiles. from what you know about the ukrainians are they ready for that kind of combat? by the way, you've seen it. >> nobody is ready until it's time. people say to me all the time i don't know how you survived losing your legs and still smile. it hasn't happened to you and you don't know how i did it. if it happened to you you would do the same thing. it comes down to where the ukrainian perspective in. this is completely anecdotal and i don't speak for anybody. i spoke to everyone in this country a ukrainian national and a mixed bag. some would fight to the death and some live under russian

control and sayfullo -- how much they are willing to fight. urban warfare is a great equalizer. he fought people who had none of the resources and won some battles because our resources weren't effective in that scenario. this is more technological advanced than afghanistan. kabul may be comparable. the wars i fought were insurgent. you just saw 20 years of blood and treasure the american said let's back away. that might be the only game that people in ukraine have to play. i think it would end similarly for russia that it did for us. it becomes costly and bloody. i don't want that. i don't know enough about the relations between ukraine and russia to say what should happen. but i don't want war. i don't want children suffering and to look in ukraine children's eyes that i saw in

iraq and afghanistan. i don't want people to die. i don't know what the best thing for the people in ukraine is. i know they'll have to figure it out pretty quick. >> harris: we'll have to figure out some things. it will hurt us. i've been talking about the financial payload on us now. it is like getting hit in the wallet with a weapon. nile, with a couple of seconds left to talk here i'm curious to know we've put 3,000 u.s. troops, biden did in poland. part of that was to accept some of the americans who might be trying to leave ukraine last second as we were left to try to get americans out last second even though according to jennifer griffin we could see it coming in early october. your thoughts on our troops there quickly. >> well my view is that we need more u.s./british and allied forces on the eastern flank on the nato alliance. putin will threaten the baltic states next. if he thinks we'll weak he will

act. we need more forces on the ground actually. >> harris: nile and joey, thank you very much. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus". "outnumbered" is next. (johnny cash) ♪ i've traveled every road in this here land! ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪

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