>> laura: that's it for us. stay with fox news all night long for breaking coverage of the ukraine invasion. shannon bream has an amazing panel to break it down with reporters on the ground. ♪ ♪ >> shannon: hello and welcome to "fox news @ night" extended coverage. i am shannon bream in washington. breaking tonight: minutes before daybreak in kyiv where ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has warned that this is the pivotal moment for the future of this country with russian forces attacking from all directions. we have team coverage tonight. laura ingle is in new york with

the story of the english americans with connections to ukraine are feeling tonight. rich edson from the pentagon taking a close look at the china connection to all of this. bret baier here in studio joining me and help make the sense of the latest developments. peter doocy at the white house checking on the ongoing biden administration response. we begin tonight with lucas tomlinson in lviv in western ukraine. what's the latest? >> ukraine's defense minister is warning the country that russian soldiers could disguise themselves look like ukrainian soldiers, police were civilians. it's one of the reasons the mayor put in a curfew. it lifted 2 minutes ago. ukraine's president spoke earlier. >> tonight the enemy will use all of its strength on all fronts to break our resistance in a mean and brutal way, not in a humane way. this night they are going to storm. >> senior western intelligence officials increasingly think vladimir putin is not well.

they say he is sick. a theory has been swirling around moscow for some time but putin's latest performances have intensified the concern. he's extremely isolated. he has change for the worse over the last two years, officials say. he was already not that easy to deal with. they say that putin speech was sullen, dark, bitter laced with never-ending victimhood and resentment with many unhinged statement. western ukraine, families grabbing belongings, their lives will never be the same. putin's war has changed everything. russian marines have landed in southeastern ukraine assaulting a city near the border. ukrainian forces of claim they shot down a large russian transport plane filled with young russian paratroopers. this woman, a special buyer for vladimir putin. >> what are your immediate plans? >> none. get to the u.s. ask the american government to do what they think is best.

i can't believe someone could be so evil. >> earlier this morning this town should be teeming with people waking up there last night restaurants and bars should have been packed but everyone was at home wondering if the russians were coming to the city and wondering what comes next for their country. shannon. >> shannon: we all are. we'll check back with you, lucas. thank you very much. let's check in with steve harrigan. he has been on the ground around the clock also. daybreak is beginning to dawn. steve, what's the latest from your vantage point? >> shannon, by the recommendation of security here we are down low on this balcony because there are small arms fire in the center of kyiv right now. we are seeing tracer rounds back and forth from within blocks. any question about where russian forces are at this point is over. russian forces are not only on the outskirts of kyiv. they are in the city center as

well. we heard from president zelenskyy earlier today. zelenskyy said that he is willing to negotiate, he is willing to put the issue of ukraine's neutrality of her discussion as well. he also made an appearance as well with his ministers to show people that he is here and he is staying. here's zelenskyy. >> the president is here. we are all here. our soldiers are here. citizens are here and we are here. we defend our independence. that's how it will go. >> that was pretty much rejected by russian president vladimir putin out of hand. he said the leaders here in ukraine are neo-nazis and drug addicts. a real difference in tone between the two leaders. zelenskyy trying to stop people from dying and putin calling the leaders here democratically elected leaders, nazis and drug addicts. day two now going into day three of this russian invasion, still

no major populations under control by the russians. certainly they are in this capital city. whether we see intense house to house fighting or not, still not clear yet but the fighting has come to the center of kyiv. shannon. >> shannon: we are grateful for the work that you're doing around the clock. thank you very much. we'll check back with you. let's begin with "special report" anchor, and executive editor bret baier. good to have you with us. i keep thinking, where do we go from here? you've heard reporting there is concern that putin is not well. a lot of people think he's not well in one way or another but what does the world do with him now if he successfully takes over ukraine? what about the international organizations, the world stage? is he just going to be a pariah? >> looked at all that's happened, all that's been pulled from russia when it comes to the sporting events and entertainment events. airplane contracts all yanked as

a result of this action. senator marco rubio tweeting about, he has more that he knows. he is on the intel committee about putin's current state of mind. that he is not well is basically the message. what does that mean? it means he's making decisions about this war that's ongoing. we don't know what comes next which is why you hear from u.s. intel officials on the pentagon that this is not the same president putin the invaded crimea in 2014 at his actions were a lot more predictable. this is a different, very unpredictable president putin and his actions so far don't seem to be someone who is ready to sit down at the table and negotiate. >> shannon: even though he may hint at it, it's an old game that he plays. interesting that there are people in the streets there in st. petersburg, moscow taking to the street saying we don't want this war. we don't want to be part of it. there's been a lot of

conversation leading up to this about whether the russian people would call it end to putin. they see him in many ways as a champion on their behalf but now there are many within his own country who think he has gone too far. >> the pushback is real and if you have a protest inside moscow, that's a protest. you are taking your own liberty at hand. i want to go back to ukraine. president zelensky. if you think about this moment, think about an actor comedian who runs for office. he gets elected. now he is the head of a country that's facing one of the largest militaries in the world and he is standing up saying ukraine is going to fight and is going to keep this city and this country. he has been offered we are told and there's multiple reporting that washington said we will take you out of ukraine. we will protect you. we will get you to safety where you can operate in absentia. he said no. i am staying in kyiv and i am going to run the defense of this

country. you are seeing the beginning, no matter how this comes out, of a leader who has stepped up who was laughed at at the beginning and who has really had the backbone to unite his country. some of the fighting that we have seen so far has been pretty remarkable when it comes to ukraine. >> shannon: to see over and over again, people were offered the chance to get on the train, say no, i'm going to stay and fight. for him there's a psychological part to it for his countrymen and women to see that he is staying there. he is not often a luxury safe house. he is going to stay there with them and fight. they are taking up guns. they are handing them to civilian sensing we expect you to defend the city and many people gladly saying yes, i'm happy to do it. i wouldn't want to leave. there is definitely that psychological element. >> images on twitter and social media of an 80-year-old

man coming with his luggage saying i want to join the military. for my grandkids. all kinds of people saying that they are going to stay and fight, let alone the weapons passed out, thousands in kyiv. i think we overstate the danger -- we understate the danger steve harrigan is facing and that crew is facing. there in the city. when you say -- when they say there's fighting happening street street, they can hear it right from the balconies. the way they are looking as to the north. they have got an airbase that's filing in russian forces that they took over after heavy battle yesterday. >> shannon: the president said it could be a critical night. there has been a lot made of whether russia is encountering interference beyond what they had expected. the people, their ability to hang on. we have a courageous story of

the young guy who decided to blow up a bridge to try to stop it and gave his own life in the process. the guys on snake island. did russia do we think underestimate the will of these people? >> bret: i think they thought it was an easy role to kyiv and it has not been. the ukrainian defense ministry estimates 2000 to 3,000 russian soldiers have been killed. they have taken down planes and military equipment and tanks. there's been losses on the ukrainian side as well. some horrific images of a tank rolling over a car today. so we are not going to see the end of this i think for a number of days, even weeks if it turns into an insurgency. >> shannon: what do you make of the reporting from "the new york times" there were conversations between top u.s. officials, diplomats, and their chinese counterparts saying here is the intel. we believe he's going to attack and we want you to be with us. not only that china wasn't with

us booked in at least one of those encounters they say we have intelligence that they shared with russia and said we are not going to help them. we are basically on your side. >> bret: i think this is really a telling moment for the world. this unity between russia and china is getting stronger. the fact the biden administration thought they could persuade china to move russia off the front lines turned out to be exactly wrong. not only that but they turned around and show the intelligence to the russians. i think china is watching this very closely and how the u.s. deals with it is going to affect may be how china deals with other things like taiwan. >> shannon: do you think the tone in the new sanctions will make a difference? we have basically decided it wasn't a deterrent. the white house has said mixed messages. we didn't think it was going to be a deterrent. we hope it's a deterrent. getting more laser focused on the sanctions. is it too late?

>> bret: it's not going to move the ball to stop him. it will have bite. it's interesting that we still have not hit energy. that is putin's wallet, selling oil. we buy russian oil. last year 4.7, $4.8 billion worth of russian oil. it's not being affected currently and that's essentially has atm. >> shannon: we are very much looking forward to you taking us to the match and giving us a good visual. we will do that in a minute. amid criticism of the policies against russia, president biden going after his russian counterpart directly. peter doocy has that angle covered. good evening, peter. >> to the point about sanctions, the white house is admitting it's going to take about a month for them to really bite putin. no longer talking about sanctions as a way to deter a russian invasion.

they are talking about sanctions as a punishment for an invasion. so i asked the white house press secretary today, what's up with that? >> saying the sanctions will have an impact on russia. but what good does it do these people in ukraine? the u.s. intel assessment that kyiv is going to fall any day. >> peter, where the largest provider of humanitarians assistance, security assistance in the world. the president is doing nearly everything in his power to lead the world and stand up against the actions of president putin. >> we know president biden started his day with a virtual meeting of nato members. nato leaders. then right afterwards he got on the phone for 40 minutes with the ukrainian president zelenskyy. we don't know what they filled the full 40 minutes with but the

white house said president biden promised economic, humanitarian, security support. the first part of that is coming tonight. the white house is saying they will ask congress for $6.4 billion worth of humanitarian assistance and also some security assistance. cybersecurity help to combat misinformation that's been floating around. congress needs to approve it before the money can start flowing. it's unclear exactly when that can happen but there is broad bipartisan support for that on capitol hill right now. the president, if something does happen tonight or early tomorrow, it's going to take him a while to get back to the white house. because he is home in delaware. but right now the plan is for him and the vice president to get on a secure call at 10:00 a.m. and get briefed like that from their remote locations on the latest, whether kyiv falls or not. >> shannon: peter doocy live at the white house. thank you. let's get some analysis from a

group of experienced professional diplomats and veterans. former official in president obama state department. committee member, former green beret commander, michael waltz. ex-navy seal. great to have you with us tonight, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> shannon: a little bit from a state department spokesperson, ned price. >> we are confident that the russian federation will be and shown to be isolated on the world stage. >> if seen from president putin not only in recent days but in recent years. his desire to go back to an era that has long since passed, an era in which large countries can bully small countries, an era in which it might equals right. >> shannon: congressman, i'll start with you. where does putin, where does russia land on the world stage?

we talked about it. if he is successful in taking over ukraine, what next? >> i think he has been very clear about reconstituting the former soviet union. the key pieces of that, the key nuggets are kazakhstan, belarus, ukraine and the baltics. he has two essentially under his thumb. he is working on ukraine right now as we speak an end then i fear the baltics are next. each of those countries have russian enclaves. if you listen to putin's propaganda it's about uniting ethnic russians, saving them from the atrocities that they are experiencing. so we do have to take a stand. it's enormously frustrating to see the white house or hear the white house talking about sanctions taking effect a month from now when we have been asking for the sanctions, demanding the sanctions go in place months ago. perhaps they would've had more effect. finally, we are talking about

providing lethal aid. that lethal age should have been flowing along time ago, faster, more of it, more sophisticated. will they continue continue to flow it through poland and romania? will those countries serve as a sanctuary? where are the stingers? where are the antiair missiles that would deny russia its air superiority? we have been demanding answers on the hill and can't get any from this administration and why they are not flowing. >> shannon: politico talking about the impact in the biden administration "for biden and in a steam it's a deeply frustrating moment. their strategy has largely failed despite their effort to adjusted to account for putin stubborn moves. ukraine attack and the risk of a larger war in europe also bodes ill for the administration's ability to focus on other priorities going forward, in particular the challenge of a rising china." david. >> i agree, you discussed this

earlier. china and russia have become closer and that's very threatening for democracies like ours. this is a war of autocracy against democracy. the reason putin is doing this is not so much because he wants to restore the soviet union although he do think he does want to restore some of that grandeur and he misses it. but really he's threatened by democracy and that's why he's attacking ukraine. he doesn't want a successful democracy on his border. that's why he had dominated the other countries, as congressman walls vegan, like belarus and kazakhstan. and georgia where he has taken some territory as well. it is early morning and kyiv. people are making out -- waking up. every day they come out of the basement and the bomb shelters and they see that there are not russian troops on the streets, it's a win. you're hoping they're going to make it another day, hoping the military will continue to inflict damage on the russian

military. he will hope, angus congressman cut inspiring stories of couragy ukrainians that will inspire people to help and that's what you're hoping for in this war between dictatorships, autocracies, democracies like ours and what like ukraine wants to be. >> shannon: troubling reports. small arms fire, fighting in the streets, things are progressing in kyiv as people try to hold on. "the wall street journal" editorial board had a piece. "vladimir putin's likely conquest of ukraine raises an uncomfortable question. could russia next attack a member of nato? the alliance had better prepare for the possibility because the russian dictator has all the promised test it." that is a whole nother discussion. should the line be crossed. do you think putin is that

irrational? >> shannon, it's a great question. it depends on the costs imposed on putin on this current endeavor. we have got to make him pay. he's got to pay any number of ways. he's got to pay economically. he's got to pay politically. the difference between this invasion and the 2014 in crimea is the russians were excited. they were happy about that invasion. now there are protests at home for putin. that's what he's got to face. that's my biggest concern as it relates to eastern europe is if we don't shore up the nato alliance and prove that we are serious, he might take back turn to a nato country. like you said, that will trigger article five and that's the best way to stumble into the war. that's the problem altogether with the biden administration. under president trump, we operated under the reagan doctrine of peace through strength. america first. our adversaries understood that

they felt it every single day. that's the biggest threat to our country right now is and to eastern europe right now is that they don't take our white house seriously. if you put yourself in putin's shoes over the past year in our country watching us operate. he has seen a ruling party that supposedly hates america. he saw our u.n. ambassador, united states ambassador at the u.n. talk about how we are a racist country and we have it woven into our fabric. the pentagon leadership focus on crt and climate change. we are kicking our best warriors out of our military over vaccine mandates. we are surprised now that putin invades. let me tell you something. wokeness equals weakness equals water and that's what we have right now. we have to get back to peace through strength. >> shannon: yeah, let's hope that progression does not materialize. gentlemen, thank you very much. more to discuss if you'll stick around.

thank you. new reports of the biden administration tried in vain to appeal to china to help deter russia. the relationship between the two totalitarian regimes raises concerns among u.s. officials. correspoent rich edson is looking into it. he is live at the pentagon. >> good evening. state department officials say they did push countries including china to get russia to not do this or at least try to lobby russia to do so. the state department even used the same language that china uses to tell other countries to stay out of their business. one time saying that china should stand up to preserve ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. it came to a head of the u.n. security council where china had an opportunity to choose between the west and russia. china chose to abstain. on a draft resolution that

would've called on russia to halt its invasion and withdraw from ukraine. china is in a difficult spot. it's a natural reaction to blame the west for all of it. even as russia assaults a sovereign nation. chinese president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin spoke today. the chinese embassy released a call summary say that they talked about the olympics and then blame the west for instability in a region where russia just launched a war. in europe for the first time in the history of nato, the alliance has mobilized its response force. it's a defensive group of up to 40,000 troops from nato countries. the pentagon announced 7,000 u.s. troops are deploying to europe. much of that group is expected to join this nato response force. nato says it has 100 warplanes on high alert including the f-35s the u.s. sent to the baltics and 120 ships deployed to protect europe, including three straight carrier groups.

american apache helicopter gunships are arriving in latvia and poland. >> there must be knows for miscalculation or misunderstanding. we will do what it takes to protect and defend every ally. and every inch of nato territory. >> senior defense officials says russian amphibious assault targeting the areas west of maripol. usa -- no population centers have been taken. russia has yet to achieve air superiority. defenses, capability is working. ukrainian planes are operational here as they face an overwhelming force for russia. >> shannon: rich edson, thank you. special report anchor bret baier.

>> bret: let's take a look at what's happening in ukraine right now. these red dots are air strikes or fires, possibly cruise missiles from the russians or bombs dropped by russian planes as well as on the ground fighting. all of that fighting is centering in on kyiv. we talked about the russian forces on the move on the ground. submarines landing in the port. others coming from crimea, making their way across and then from the donbas, a group coming in here and then another mechanized armored group from belarus where they were training and had a big presence. they took over the chernobyl area, the nuclear plant. we got word that the nuclear levels are still safe so that's a good thing. all of it is circling around kyiv, the capital city. that's the challenge for the

ukrainians to hold kyiv and the government where the president is. you can see the red area, kind of where the government offices are, the government house, presidential palace as well there is reported heavy fighting all around this area. they are encircling kyiv. earlier we saw president zelenskyy on the streets saying that the ukrainians are going to fight and fight hard. >> the president is here. we are all here. our soldiers are here. citizens are here and we are here. we defend our independence, that's how it will go. >> he said to the ukrainians to expect the storm tonight overnight. that is now. this is another look at kyiv and you see the office of the president. the guys, our guys in the hotel, the building, they are looking out this way to the north. seeing fighting in this district. a lot of small arms fire, as you

heard on the ground. this air base, that's what we talked about, the back-and-forth fight between the russians and the ukrainians. as the crow flies, it's about 2. we will see as the russians move in. they had been seeing a lot of ukrainian resistance, significant. u.s. and british intelligence saying they have been surprised, the russians have, and how slow they have been able to go because of the pushback by ukrainian forces. this is the old ussr and you just get a sense of what has happened since the 1990s. estonia, latvia, lithuania declared their independence. in the years that followed, all of these other 12 do the same. this is ukraine. this is where we are now.

the question is if putin does take over ukraine, install some puppet government, how long the insurgency lasts against the russians and does he have thoughts about something beyond that? we are where we are tonight and this is a big night according to the ukrainian authorities. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: thank you. we'll check back with you. let's give an update on the other top stories. ashley strohmier. >> good evening. there could be potential updates for covid policies of the capital. it could impact policies for the state of the union tuesday. it comes as the cdc is no longer recommending wearing a mask indoors. fox news was told that the capital could update its covid policy on monday. requirements on wearing a mask, testing and other particles. a sailor will face a court-martial for starting a fire that destroyed a navy ship.

he will be tried in military court for the july fire that hurt dozens. the decision to go to trial comes despite an officer's recommendation there isn't enough evidence to win a conviction. a57-year-old woman is in critical condition after being beaten in the head with a hammer in a new york subway. police say it happened after 11:20 thursday when she was walking down the stairs into the queens plaza station. the suspect kicked her and hit her in the head at least 13 times with the hammer before taking her purse. she suffered a fractured skull and lacerations to the head. the nypd is asking for the public's help. washington, d.c., is preparing for thousands of truckers to descend on the u.s. capital around the time of the state of the union. state and local law enforcement have called for support from the national guard in anticipation of the convoy. the guard will deploy tuesday and they will stay until the end of march. the caravan comes on the heels of a similar demonstration

involving the freedom convoy. that's where portions of ottawa, canada, were shut down due to protests against covid mandates. president biden picked judge ketanji brown jackson to serve on the supreme court. >> i am pleased to nominate judge jackson who will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect. judge jackson deserves to be confirmed as the next justice of the supreme court. i've met with the chairman and ranking members of the senate judiciary committee. senator dick durbin, senator chuck grassley. my hope is that they will move promptly. >> the president made the pledge to nominate the first black woman to the supreme court two years ago. fox news was told judge jackson will start her visits with senators next week. shannon. >> shannon: we will cover it. thank you. we will circle back with you. we continue covering the battle tonight. russian forces attacking

ukraine's capital from all sides. steve harrigan is back with us. trying to safely get us the news. steve, we have heard that there will be tough fighting through the night. the president said it was a critical night, as morning dawns. what can you see? >> the president of ukraine said it is a night that the country's fate will be decided. he warned his people that there would be no russian -- he said tonight is the night they will try to take the capital. it's clear that russian troops are in the capital and the city center. we have seen rifle fire back-and-forth, tracer rounds flying back and forth. the russians are not in control yet. this is on day three of the invasion. the ukrainian president has offered talks with russia. here's how president putin responded to that request. >> take power into your own

hands. it seems it will be easier for you and me to come to an agreement then when this gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis who have taken the entire ukrainian people hostage. >> he is calling the leadership of ukraine neofascists and drug addicts. not much prospect for talks there. as far as the military situation on the ground, more than 200 missiles fired by russia. some residential areas hit hard also. no control of any major population centers on day three. the longer this goes on certainly the more world pressure grows on russia to pull back. >> shannon: steve, bret baier is here with me. >> bret: great job. >> thank you. >> bret: when you talk to ukrainians, are they surprised the full force of russia is not raining down on them? either the air campaign is not as fierce as they thought it would be or that soldiers are not on the streets of kyiv right

now? >> i think if you're talking to a military analyst they would say absolutely. i think a lot of people who have watch this closely are aware that russia is not throwing its hole might into it. if you talk to ordinary ukrainians, i think they are terrorized. i think they are absolutely out of their minds with fear with what's going on. you saw the scenes of the train station. they are putting together emergency trains to get people out and guards had to fire into the air because people were packing to the trains to get out. so yes russia is holding back some of its main forces, not throwing everything at it. they are rumbling buildings. but 200 missiles is enough to terrorize the population. small arms fire is enough to keep people in their house so yeah, they are scared. >> bret: it's more about you guys, "washington post" reporter says our hotel just ordered us back into the bunker. the kitchen staff whose families are sheltered with us including grandmothers and children served

us spaghetti bolognese and greek salad. it's cliche but everyone is being so kind. how are you getting via? what was your night like overnight? >> i think people are being kind to each other. the team here is experiencing it. it's better to be with people than be alone. one thing that i would say in the supplies to ukrainians all around the world. the fear has a ripple effect. people here are afraid but your relatives who live in other places are terrified just as much as you are. >> bret: yeah. >> shannon: steve, you had a lot of reporting yesterday on civilians being issued guns by the government saying if you're willing and you're able, show up and we are going to arm you. are you seeing any of that on the streets? is it a defensive position for the people sitting and waiting? >> i think for some people it is mainly defense of family. i think there's a lot of patriotism, a lot of civilians are taking up as many as 18,000

rifles were handed out. i don't think you can underestimate the importance of home field, home terrain. in a war like this. even when the odds greatly favor the russians who are away from home, fighting on different territory, and fighting around people's houses. people fight differently when they are fighting for their own house. >> bret: last thing, steve. one russian troops arrived in kyiv, is there a plan? what happens? >> i think we move different stages and i don't think there's any harm in telling you what our thinking is. we stand up here. some people go further. that's fine. this is as far as i'm going right now. we get down low. if it gets worse, we go in the room. then we go in the basement. the basement is our last stand. >> shannon: steve, thank god for you and your crew and our other colleagues who are willing to take on these assignments to

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>> shannon: police in riot gear arresting hundreds of protesters across russia as citizens protest their countries invasion of ukraine. the largest demonstrations breaking out in st. petersburg were several hundred people chanted "no to war" in the streets. with more and other news of the day we turn to senate judiciary committee member. good to have you back. >> thank you. >> shannon: what do you make of where we are tonight? president zelenskyy says he's not going to leave. there is talk of trying to get more supplies, legal aid potentially in the country. russia has a very strong

presence in parts of the country. where do we go from here? >> it's absolutely tragic, heartbreaking. thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in ukraine who is affected. this monster, vladimir putin, engaging in all kinds of horrible atrocities against these people. i don't know what combination, what spell we can put on them. one way or another, we are going to make sure that the world understands that this is unacceptable. we also think it's important that we recognize the extent to which energy policy, failed energy policy by the biden administration has contributed to this, has set in motion the sequence of events making this possible. >> shannon: here's what hillary clinton said about how we got here and how president biden is doing. >> i think that it has been well executed. there is no doubt that we were not in a position just a few

years ago to rally anybody. now with president biden rallying nato, rallying not only western europe and eastern europe but far beyond those borders, to understand the very real threat but vladimir putin poses and then to begin imposing sections that will ratchet up. >> shannon: she said we weren't in a position to rally the international community until now. we are under president biden. is it working? >> i don't see that working. i think her statement assumes fact not in evidence, contrary to evidence. this didn't happen a couple years ago and it couldn't have happened a couple of years ago. remember when he did this to crimea, it could never have happened had the russians not had such a solid position economically with oil and natural gas throughout europe. the same is true today. if we were producing more oil and gas and exporting it to

europe, vladimir putin wouldn't be in a position to do this. so no, this is not something that we should be thanking joe biden for. this is something that i think we could have and should have avoided had we had better energy policy. >> shannon: we keep going back to the oil and gas issue and why russia isn't being hit with more sanctions on that issue. we have allies and people in the region to think about. how do we better manage it to make it hurt where it would actually hurt for putin. >> think you're absolutely right. any steps that we take. congress needs to be involved in those steps. we also need to take into account what europe is going to do at the same time thus russia be able to do an end run around any sanctions imposed. but it still doesn't do anything to us. it doesn't do anything for us if we step into this quagmire and we do nothing about our energy

policy which is seriously enabling a monster. >> shannon: i want to ask about the supreme court. the president has presented his nominee, judge jackson. she will soon begin the process of meeting with senators on the hill and eventually through the confirmation process, vetting by the committee. naacp celebrating her nomination but say we note certain members of the senate have showed significant hostility towards president biden's woman nominees of color both to executive and judicial positions. we caution though senators the eyes of the nation are watching, reviewing a supreme court nomination is one of the sentence was august responsibility senate must do so fairly and respectfully especially given the historic nature of this appointment. how do you see this confirmation going? >> i want to congratulate the judge. a high honor being nominated to the highest court in the land and i congratulate her on that nomination. i want to make very clear we are

going to undertake this responsibility with the solemnity and seriousness that it deserves we're going going to be thoroughly reviewing her prior decisions, her writings, just as we have done with every other supreme court nomination. shannon, it's very important to make clear that the politics of personal destruction are not something that we engage in as republicans in the united states senate. when responding to a supreme court nomination. you can go back 100 years. you will not find an instance where that has happened. i wish i could say the same for the democrats in the senate but i can't because in instance after instance, the instances, more than we can count on one hand that we can point when the last few decades in which they have resorted to the politics of personal destruction. >> shannon: do you think the president did her any disservice by announcing the external qualifications or characteristics that he was

going to look for in a nominee before getting to say her sterling resume, her experience on the bench. she clearly has all the qualifications for somebody to be considered for this position. do you worry that it was unfair to her to set her up on the basis of other characteristics? >> yeah, i have set all along i don't pick it scared her to do this. i don't think it was fair beforehand and i don't think it was fair when he made a call to her. one of the very first things he did was make a reference albeit slightly indirect to her race and her gender. i don't think that's fair and i don't think that's right. we don't make decisions in this country on the basis of someone's race. i think it was inappropriate for the president to make that both before and immediately after making the nomination. >> shannon: we know you have your private conversations with the nominees come to visit you on the hill. any hints about the most important questions you plan to ask or areas that you want to

probe in her background or record or disposition? >> as i asked most of our nominees who come through for any article three judge position, i want to find out about her judicial philosophy. i want to find out who her judicial role models are. i want to know exactly how she would approach the task of construing a federal statute and resolving ambiguities. these are all important questions, questions that some biden nominees have refused to answer but that she needs to answer for us in these proceedings. >> shannon: senator leahy, we will keep track of that as it plays out in the coming weeks. thank you for stopping in tonight. lucas tomlinson in the ground. daylight is daunting. a night that people were very on edge across the country. how are they this morning? >> we are about 30 minutes to

sunrise here in western ukraine. the mayor instituted a curfew for the first time since the invasion began. a city that is normally teeming with students, shops and restaurants packed, it was a ghost town last night. the mayor says the reason he issued the curfew, they were worried about potential russian saboteurs coming into the city and blowing things up. here's what happened at the united nations last night. president biden's ambassador to the u.n., linda greenfield said "the russian veto this bill. russia vetoed a u.n. security resolution condemning the invasion of ukraine." abstentions china, india, the uae. russia killed the measure. moscow is the rotating president of the u.n. security council believe it or not. no sign they will be kicked off.

those three abstentions, shades of 2014 when russia annexed crimea. 58 nations abstained then. people say they are not afraid of russia. some people think we are seeing the same thing again. that's just over a quarter of the world. western intelligence officials say vladimir putin is increasingly showing signs that he is ill. putin is not well, this theory has been swirling around moscow for some time but putin's latest performances have intensified the concern. he is isolated, he's change for the worst over the last two years and though say that putin's speech was a sullen, dark, extremely bitter grant. many people in the white house think it was a twisted thing of history. here in western ukraine, people are waking up today, fleeing. i saw family in four with their bags packed, little kids with airbags heading to presumably

the train station or a car could try to get out of here. about 40 miles from the polish border. >> shannon: it if you could hear me, we've had some technical issues, you're halfway around the world and we are grateful for that. people fled to lviv trying to get away from more eastern part of the country, moving your way. i was going to ask me much of the family this morning. is that the plan for people, are they growing in urgency to say even this may not be a safe place and we might need to go? >> the mayor said he would be willing to send students home so he could free up dorm space and apartments and flats here. we are right, there's people that have coming from different parts of the country. many people don't feel safe. the violence here is nothing like what steve harrigan and trey yingst are experiencing that there's been russian strikes about 12 miles from where i am. the russians fired over 200 ballistic missiles and cruise missiles hitting largely military targets.

there are airfields. there is a factory a few miles from where i'm talking to you. there still is concerned with people. they are not comfortable staying here. they want to go to the polish border, a neato -- a nato nation. >> bret: getting word that two u.s. officials are saying with direct knowledge, that two russian isle 76 transport planes have been shot down by the ukrainians. there's other reporting from the ukrainians about that. there is this urban legend on social media about the ghost of kyiv, this fighter pilot flying the mig 29 taken out according to these guys in ukraine. six, seven, eight planes. have you heard that? is it possible? what's the deal?

>> you're right, the ukrainians do fly the mig 29. the i owe 76 is about the size of a galaxy. there giant cargo planes. they carry over 100 paratroopers. shooting down to russian transport planes loaded with paratroopers, many are young conscripts, 18, 19 years old, it sends a heck of a message back to moscow. and when those bodies return, you saw this in afghanistan in the '80s with the russians when young soldiers died in afghanistan. the russian, the soviet government didn't tell the family what happened. they said diet doing their international duty. the russians have not admitted to having one casualty get officials on the ground say over 450 russian troops have been killed in fighting. just about 24 hours. keep in mind when the russians went into syria they lost about 100 troops during that time in the past seven years. it's extremely violent. ukrainians are putting up a hell

of a fight. resistance, british and american intelligence have been saying that the russians were not expecting this much resistance. the russians put over 30,000 troops in belarus, a two hour drive to the capital, i was in chernobyl a few weeks ago when i was on that same highway. it was very obvious even back then how short the distances. we saw the russian forces outside kharkiv. and then you mentioned the move up north from crimea. also facing heavy resistance. the ukrainian air defense systems that the russians were boasting about a few days ago that they are taken out, those ukrainian systems, third-generation systems, they've been shooting down russian planes. think about that air assault at the airfield just outside of kyiv. 67 russian helicopters -- six to seven helicopter shot down.

people detained. speaking of urban myths, that ukrainian intelligence are trying to communicate with russian soldiers trying to fighd out their positions. it's a different kind of war. a bloody one. you're talking about shooting down transport planes. >> bret: if that's true. that would be the largest loss for russian troops since the second chechen war. that would be huge. >> that was very bloody for the russians, huge loss. we are talking about huge numbers. talking about potentially over 500 russian soldiers have been killed in just two days of fighting. how long can they keep that up? this is a country the size of texas with a population larger than california.

can 150,000 troops, forget occupying the country. they are having trouble invading it. ukrainians putting up a fierce fight. we heard trey yingst interview with a member of parliament. he worked for us for a long time at fox and is our fixer on the ground. he is toting a rifle. it's pretty remarkable. >> bret: street to street fighting in kyiv. stay safe. thank you very much. great reporting. >> shannon: jennifer griffin may have said as lucas mentioned these russian soldiers have no choice. you are drafted. it's not something that you sign up that it's a noble cause and i want to be part of it. you're fighting ukrainians and for them it is a very noble cause. they are willing to give everything they have including their lives. >> bret: you are fighting people who speak russian. there are family ties especially on the east. you wonder how much the russian forces are into putin's plan.

we are going to see over the coming days. >> shannon: and we are just getting it from the associated press, kyiv officials say street fighting is underway against russian invaders and urging residents to seek shelter. you've got people who were civilians three days ago who are armed waiting for russian soldiers to show up. very difficult. thank you for the extra time with us. for giving us the maps, the details that we need. we are going to continue on with coverage and we will have special coverage through the weekend. thank you very much. extended coverage of russia's continued attacks on ukraine continues. our guys are on the ground keeping us up-to-date around the clock. prayers for them tonight. another hour of "fox news @ night" coming up next after the break. if you have type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure you're a target for chronic kidney disease. you can already have it and not know it.

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