we will have to wait and see how this unfolds in the future. joining us here at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for breaking news coverage. fox & friends weekend starts very soon. >> they are going have a very split edition. pete hegseth is live, other folks on the couch. it'll be a great four hours. don't go anywhere, it begins now.

why have fox team coverage. pete hegseth is anchoring our coverage from cpac down in orlando and mike tobin is in lviv. >> but we start in the war zone with steve harrigan. steve? good morning. >> good morning. there have been several street values in the early morning hours especially in the red dawn. yellow tracer fire going back and forth 3 or 400 yards from where i'm standing. reports are that there were small pocket of russian special forces moving through the center of the city. so it's clear at some level the russian forces are inside the capital of kyiv. since then it's been on and off. we have heard some artillery in the distance. no more of those small arm battles in the city center.

as far as the president goes, ukraine zelenskyy he has shown himself and posted videos of himself multiple times showing the world and showing his people that he is here to stay that he is not leaving. he says russia intends to try to destroy him and destroy ukraine. he says it's not going to happen. as far as putin goes. putin has called the leadership of ukraine neo-fascist, neo nazis and drug addicts doesn't look like any successful negotiations. overnight one more apartment building a civilian building hit by a missile. no word on the number of casualties there. a lot of people still trying to leave. 50,000 people out in the past 24 hours and the train station is very chaotic they had to fire shots up in the air so many people scrambling trying to get on the trains heading out to the west. guys? will: steve, we have been sort of on pins and needles, ominous anticipation what could be street battle in kyiv. you have told us about the small

arms being handed out to ukrainian kyiv civilians that i'm taking from you has not yet begun. we are hearing russian troops have entered the city in certain points. have you seen the small arms fire fights that we have been concerned about? >> there have been small and brief, a few minutes fire fight. that's all we have seen so far. and you are right. there is 20,000 people, civilians walking around with brand new rifles and ammunition. but the president here warned last night was going to be the big push from russia, he said this is the fate of our country. it all hangs tonight. well that big push has not come yet. >> yeah, that's interesting, steve. because when i went to bed last night the last thing i heard was that maybe the russians would have taken over kyiv by in the evening and by this morning and that hasn't happened do you think that was over ambitious in terms of the timing or do you think that it's that the ukrainians are stronger and maybe the russians are weaker than we thought?

>> i don't know the answer to that but it's clear ukrainians are putting up more resistance than the russians expected. but the russians are also holding back a certain level of their force. i think there has been some degree of hesitancy to trouble city. that could play badly for the political future. it's hard to say why the russians haven't moved faster. you think speed would be on their side. they haven't been able to move quickly. the u.s. said it would take two days to take kyiv. well, it's day three now ukrainians still control their capital. will: looks like pete hegseth in the streets. your audio just came in. pete: there we go. steve, do we have evidence of ukrainian columns in the street? do we see formations of ukrainian troops prepared to stop them. as far as the civilians are they organized or is it take the

weapon and go to your home and defend your home. throw the kitchen sing. javelin and stipulationer missiles. a lot of aircraft have been going down for russians is that part of what is holding this off, too? reports of transport plane going down probably be a stinger. as far as those javelins go. it's a game changer, pit one individual, one soldier against a tank. and because the ukrainians are asking for more of those. they seem to be very happy with those $170,000 missiles that have been coming in here by the plane load in recent weeks. they are asking for more ammunition and more sanctions and zelenskyy, the president says he doesn't want to ride out of town he wants more ammunition. >> you said those splices or munitions coming in by plane. a big part of the conversation is how do we give -- if we give support out of ukraine how do we get it into ukraine. i believe the gostomel air base

in control of ukrainians. are you seeing a lot of air activity? are you seeing ukrainian fighter jets and planes in the sky above kyiv? we have seen a few jess this morning. we don't know what side it is. the more area russia controls the harder to get weapons. in they do not control a single major population center. will: one last question, steve, you mentioned 50,000 residents of kyiv have left the city. what's the feeling in the city right now? i take it it's not a ghost town but good percentage of those residents must have left the city at this point? >> you know, and they are expecting even more. poland is getting ready for a million refugees, that number could go up to 5 million in a worst case scenario. but it does feel like a ghost town. either you hear gunshots and shelling or hear absolutely nothing at all. will: steve harrigan on the ground in kyiv. thank you so much for that update this morning, steve.

>> thank you. will: that's the latest. you are right, rachel. it was anticipated overnight that the russians would make a major incursion into kyiv. they seem to not done that yet overnight for whatever reason. today the capital still remains in the ukrainians hands. peter doocy asked jen psaki what's going on? what is holding the russians back. better yet, what has america done to deter the ambitions of vladimir putin? here's how that exchange went down. >> that have you guys done throughout this russia crisis that has worked? >> in what scas city? >> the president talked to putin. he talked to the g 7. he threatened sanctions he put sanctions in place. now he says those sanctions are going to take 30 days or about a month. do you guys think the people in ukraine have about a month? >> well, peter, let me just take a step back and explain to everyone how diplomacy works and how our approach from the united states has worked. what the president has done is

he has built a global coalition to stand up in the face of president putin and president putin's aggression and invasion of ukraine. what he has done is he has rallied the world. joey: did that seem like an answer that would suffice peter's question? i mean, if your own response is to tell peter let me tell you how diplomacy works while we are watching this happen. i feel like she didn't answer the question at all. rachel: you know, i'm a little confused there is two schools of thought on the sanctions so some people say it didn't happen soon enough. and the sanctions weren't strong enough but is it possible, i don't know, if any of you guys could answer this. is it possible that they were never going to work that for russia. joey: according to joe biden they were never intended to work. rachel: let me explain it from this point of view. you have economic concerns and security concerns as a country. and if you think that ukraine, if you are russia, you think that ukraine is a security concern for you you are willing

to fake a lot of economic hurt in order to, you know, deal with that security concern. i just think if there were bases and i'm not defending putin in any way so i'm not a russian, you know, puppet here. but i'm just saying if the chinese put a base in mexico or canada, what would we be willing to do to make sure that that didn't happen? is that how putin sees this and are sanctions -- were they never going to work because of that? pete? pete: rachel, that is how putin sees it, rachel. the encroachment of nato has been his rationalization or justification. he wraps it in ridiculous rhetoric at this point. but, of course, he is saying that at this point, all -- if we have made that decision to allow them to apply to nato. if we have amid a that decision to supply them somewhat was blankets under obama but other weapons under other administrations then you either support ukraine or you don't. in this case what i'm really interested in here and i know will and joey you guys are going to break it down on the map.

what is happening on the ground is a product of russia attempting to thinking it was going to be easier than it really is and as a result not putting enough forces on the field to defeat ukrainians, will many which are civilians armed? is that the reality sore it that the ukrainians are better equipped, thankfully the javelins and the stingers have been effective in blocking the russian advance. but what russia -- what ukraine is so frustrated about right now. okay. you want us to defend ourselves and for years and years you did nothing to help us or very little to help us. and now you are leaving us to hang out to dry. rachel: that's a little too late. will: other factor we would have to introduce, pete, and i defer so humbly to you and joey on this. but, what clearly resonates to me is the side that is most invested emotionally, the side that is most invested existentially in the war will surprise you with their fighting ability. and what we're seeing out of ukraine from the ukrainian

civilians and not just the civilians from their leaders in the acts of what was once a reality television star in zelenskyy shows a level of resolve that perhaps even vladimir putin was not prepared to engage. and back to your question, rachel, that in the end, i think, is what this is entirely about. vladimir putin's putin individual calculation. i think you are right by the way. i don't think he cares about's is as. i don't think he cares about economic pain. i don't think sanction perhaps would have ever worked because he sees this as well from an ideological or emotional angle of either i can't have nato on my doorstep or i want to reestablish the soviet union. either way, economic pain doesn't factor in. until, here's the big caveat, until there are overwhelming protests on the streets of moscow and st. petersburg and we have seen some of that but we probably haven't seen enough yet to bend the will of vladimir putin. that's where i think we stand this morning.

rachel: i really agree with you on that, will. i really do. will: let's take a peek inside urk. a number of citizens are still scrambling to find safe passage out of ukraine including athletes who went there to pursue, careers. now trying to make his way to a safe border crossing. and maurice joins us now from ukraine. good morning, maurice. thank you for being on "fox & friends." >> good morning. will: let's just ask you this, maurice. tell us what you are seeing, what you are feeling, the experience of being in ukraine at this moment. >> i haven't really seen anything but, you know, just to be here in ukraine and hear everything and it is just bad, you know, you hear the shellings, you hear the bombings, you just hear a lot of stuff. i was in [inaudible] one of the

most terrifying things i have ever experienced in my life. rachel: yeah. i can't imagine. you say that you are trapped. we are hearing that some people are able to escape. what is it -- where do you want to go? where are you hoping can happen for you to get out of there. >> honestly, i'm just hoping that i get to any one of the borders. you know, just to be out of ukraine right now is just making me so happy. being in this type of situation, you know, you hear about war and talk about it but to be actually in it terrifies me every day, you know, me and my family really haven't slept very well they are worried sick. i'm worried sick. i have a daughter at home. it's just, you know, as a father, just trying to get back to the united states as quickly as possible. just actually out of ukraine, honestly. pete: for sure.

maurice, we have seen reports of high level government ukrainian officials, you know, dropping their office job and picking up a rifle or wealthy ukrainians saying, entertainers in ukraine saying i'm done. have you seen ukrainian basketball players, other people that you know are they saying hey, it's time to fight for my country in the ukrainians that you know are they the men that you know, are they taking up arms? >> honestly, all the people that i know are -- have evacuated. i think i'm the only-right now i believe i'm the only american left that's here. basketball federation. so i'm happy for them. i'm happy that they got out. but i kind of do see like everybody else taking forces like the ukrainians that i know, they are like, you know, it's time to fight. and i think they are going to fight for their country. joey: maurice, project domino here in the united states trying

to get americans out. have you had a chance to make contact with an organization like that? do you have a plan? do you have people in your community helping you? where are you with that? >> i know there is a lot of people trying to help me out right now. that's one of the organizations that a lot of people have been targeting for me to help me get out. me and my agent has been talking back and forth. he has tried to contact people who try to contact the president of -- trying to driver. unfortunately, that hasn't worked. but, you know, we just trying to do anything and everything trying to find at least somebody that's wig to take me across the border. rachel: before we go you are a great basketball player. you are also a son. how are your parents doing? how frightened are are your parents right now? >> they are terrified. i have never seen my parents as terrified in my life. you know, they are doing things i have never seen before. they call nonstop.

taking shifts sleeping. you know, just in case i need them for anything. you know, it's bad. do you know what i mean? i have been through some things in my life, but this definitely is the most terrifying of them all. will: maurice, our thoughts, our prayers are with you. we wish you the best of luck for your safety and for your family. hopefully either through project domino or other organizations we can help find some way to get you out of ukraine safely. thanks telling us about this situation this morning maurice. rachel: thank you, maurice, we are praying for you. joey: stay in touch and let us know you are safe. >> thanks. rachel: carley shimkus. carley: other news we want to tell you about including this cdc is easing mask guidelines for more than 70% of the u.s. population just days ahead of president biden's planned state of the union address. fox news learning the capital could revive masking and testing

protocols ahead the address. people can now ditch their mask indoors including in classrooms if they are in low or medium risk counties. president biden nominating kentanji brown jackson in place of justice stephen breyer. in confirmed she will be the first black woman to serve on the nation's highest court. her nomination could face pushback from critics over some of her past decision as a judge which legal expert jonathan turley called judicial overreach. we're going to have much more on that later this hour. and did you see this? a russian tennis star sharing a message of peace after winning a match in dubai. you can see him using a marker to write his message on the camera lens, another camera revealing it says "no more, please." his message met with cheers from the audience. at a press conference later he said having peace in the world is more important than his tennis match. that's exactly what you guys were just talking about.

russians protesting their authoritarian dictator. amazing to see. will: that is not without potential cost. that is not without risk. carley: absolutely right. will: stay with us. we bring you breaking coverage of the war in ukraine all morning long. up next, we track russia's latest move as troops aggressively move in on the capital of kyiv. ♪ ♪ this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. promises of all shapes and sizes. each, with a time and a place they've been promised to be. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. real cowboys get customized car insurance with liberty mutual, so we only pay for what we need. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ i'm mark only paand i live inu need. vero beach, florida.

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will: as russian forces cross in on the capital city of kyiv what does it mean for the rest of ukraine. joey and i will take you through the status on the ground right now in ukraine. what you see now is the airstrikes and ground incursions, ground fighting right now in kyiv. joey, one thing we have talked about throughout the last couple of days is much of the action has taken place in the east and the south and in the north that has been to occupy the bulk ever the ukrainian army while the russians focus on decapitating. >> russian friendly areas both the areas we have mapped out but several friends either from or have family odesa and essentially this region here is

russian-speaking. so there is a little bit more dynamic to this map. people understand it's not just these two places over here that are russian friendly. so they are being choked. they are being constricted like a boa constrictor. that's the plan of the russians but everything to the west is still an opportunity, i guess. we have lviv over here and we also have kyiv, which is weighing up this morning it's not been taken we are still fighting for it. todd: not just perhaps the association the cull turelg similarities with the russian nation but they took crimea in 2014, giving them a place to operate from. there is reports of amphibious attacks over here in mariupol and odesa as well. in kyiv russian portions not taken overnight like we anticipated. let's move in on kyiv here and see a little more in-depth of what is happening in that city. i want to focus in, joey, on the

airport. gostomel here. hand traded numerous times over the last couple of days. >> most important thing in warfare take the high ground. certain tenets that make sense. take the high ground most visibility in modern warfare that's the sky, that's the air. if you can own the air and night you can own the battle. from what i understand which this is changing every minute, the ukrainians still control this air base which is while why they were able to propel air assaults from the russians and we hear reports we don't know. steve harrigan not reporting the numbers we are not sure. hear reports that 60 russians were repelled out of lviv that came in on helicopter. potential of two russian troop carriers shot down. some is ground to air. some might be air-to-air which is so important to have an air base right outside of the capital city. todd: paratrooper. and equipment. >> medicinal support bund air assault. easier to sabotage a plane on

the ground than out of the air. russians are flying out of russia. if they can have air-to-air combat a lot better opportunity. will: this area here this obolon district under an order for ukrainian government for residents in that city to stay indoors. why? reports that there has already been russian incursions into that area of the city. now, if we move forward, you can see this is just a little bit zoomed out here on that particular area of ukraine. here's the capital city of kyiv. you can see the infamous chernobyl reactor here. and as pete has pointed out over the last couple of days, russian incursions coming in on both sides of the river towards kyiv. this city is where reports are of a bridge that's been taken out by ukrainian fighters that might have sacrificed his life to stop the russian advance. joey, one thing i'm fascinated by chernobyl. radiation has spiked as the russians took chernobyl. no one knows for sure what's

that attributable. to say this gives you a bigger picture of where the russian advance is coming from. joey: first thing people heard why would you go through then noble radioactive site. the road from belarus into kyiv is through chernobyl. that's why that was an outpost. if you can keep the assault at bay further away from the capital city, obviously that's what you want to do. this shows you just how close this air base is to the capital and look at the attacks or combat happening around the capital city. that is a fight to the lifeblood of ukraine. will: take one last look here zoomed all the way out at the european map. >> these are the politics. will: what engages the united states of america? what engages nato with its article five commitment essentially now face to face in a war with a nuclear power with snrawsh it is the countries you see in blue here. this is essentially your line. if there is any russian incursion along this line this

becomes a much bigger and more dangerous story. joey: absolutely. will: poland the baltic countries and romania. joey: one why this is so important to russia and two where support for ukraine may come from. obviously you have bulgaria and romania down here but also poland is probably the largest neighbor obviously connected to germany. if we are going to bring in supplies and support like all these world leaders are announcing, the ukraine announced today they would help the logistics to get in. this is probably going to come from the western side. not showing on happen now lviv the cultural center cheated towards the west. that would be a city if russia wants to cut off supplies come in. there may be stronger fighting there. will: nato has started to beef up both air support and troop levels in the baltics while at the same time there are reports of russia building up some troop presences here on the eastern border of poland. all very concerning. awesome job, joey, thank you so much for that. joey: thank you.

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"fox & friends." is this a formidable threat to putin? should he be very worried about this particular group getting involved? >> anonymous has been around for several years. they have had some success here and there. more of a nuisance right now. the major threats are going to be on the cyber warfare plane when the mates starts attacking russia or vice versa. whole cyber warfare field from a nation state perspective is the most. a lot of fringe groups might cause interruptions or damages. usually nothing pretty catastrophic for russia in any sense. definitely a nuisance for the government at the moment. rachel: actually the dhs is warning of russian cyber threats here in the u.s. what do that mean for us? who are they threatening? are they going after corporations? government entitiys. hospitals? what can they do? >> yeah. russia has always been a loose cannon, especially when it comes to the united states. you know, just last year we saw a massive data breach against solar winds which targeted a number of our technological

microsoft, cisco, intel. the concern right now is the elevation the continued elevation of sanctions going on in russia discussions obviously of potentially booting them out of the swift network. massive fear from retaliation standpoint from russia coming into the financial sector and critical infrastructure being our energy, water treatment facilities, things of that effect. and russia has been continuously trying to infiltrate our critical infrastructure for several years. a number of fbi advisories warnings out there. so right now, you know, oranges are really trying to bat tan down the hatches and trying to protect themselves as much as possible. i have been on calls since this all started. the pressing concern for all of the major corporations right now, they are expecting a retaliation from russia. >> and so right now everybody is trying to protect themselves as much as possible. rach what could russia do that would actually escalate this situation? this is really the danger, right? >> yeah. it is. and cyber warfare is such an

undefined, you know, type of reena where there is no definition of what constitutes crossing the line, so i think, you know, when you look at their capabilities russia is on a pure competitive damage when it comes it the united states. which means we're on the same level playing field. capabilities very advanced going after water treatment facilities shutting down water, shutting down our energy sector in many cases. going after our financial infrastructure and financial backings of not being able to make transfers or taking down banks. those are all possibilities that are real with cyber capabilities that, you know, we really haven't seen because we haven't really gone toe to toe in a cyber war type of situation before. something that's very possible right now. rachel: yeah. and would require us to take retaliatory action, too. >> 100 percent. rachel: that's scary stuff. thank you, david, for informing us about this and it's very useful information. we hope that none of this actually happens. thank you, david. >> thanks, rachel, appreciate it. rachel: all right. well, putin warns the west to

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♪ pete: we're back with a fox news alert. the strength of ukraine's army giving russia a stiffer than

expected fight this morning. mike tobin is live on the ground in lviv as resistance is making some mighty victories. mike? >> and, pete, what we are seeing here is a tremendous spirit on the part of the ukrainian people. that is manifesting itself among the civilian population with a rush to enlist. one of the first people i interviewed out here was a retired ukrainian soldier. he was on his way down to the office to volunteer himself. the national police has been handing out weapons and we have been to those locations where they're handing out the weapons there are big lines. and one location the army had to show up their there just to manage the people who were showing up to get the weapons and other location today, a municipal building the line is running wrapping around the building there as people try to get their weapon. the advancement of the russian military has been much slower than anticipated because the resistance has been greater than anticipated. thus far the russians don't control any population centers. they don't control the skies. the ukrainian air defenses are

still effective and the ukrainian command and control is still intact there was really a remarkable story coming out of the south of the country. as you know, since crimea peninsula was taken over it, became a base for russian military. the ukrainian forces knew that they had to stop that russian army from coming north into the country at least slow it and bridge that connected the crimean peninsula to the mainland. the russian forces blew that up. but short of time. one of the ukrainian soldiers, whose name is vitaly morovich knew there wasn't enough time to. he sacrificed his own life. really for the purpose of just slowing the russian advancement. he is being hailed as a hero today. back here in lviv, there is evidence that the mayor of lviv here suspects infiltrators and that is evidence with a couple

of things. now established checkpoints around the city in which i.d. has to be shown and people will be questioned. also, in a message to the population here, as he was establishing martial law, he sent out a warning that people need to be on the lookout for suspicious or unusual markings that show up on buildings. if they see them, they are to paint them over or destroy them. a clear indication that he thinks people may be painting targets or using these markings to communicate. pete? pete: mike tobin, thank you so much for the update. appreciate it we know russia is ramping up its assault on ukraine in an attempt -- apparent attempt to recreate, this is what vladimir putin wants recreate the ussr. my next guest visited the soviet union back in 1991. shortly before the iron curtain fell. he saw the effects of communism firsthand in moscow and in kyiv. congressman ted budd joins me now here at cpac. congressman, thanks for being here. appreciate.

>> it thanks for having me. pete: break it down you there were on immigration trip. >> i was a freshman in college at appalachian state. interestingly, they had brought victims of chernobyl that were two years in suffering from the radiation effects. they had brought them over to the u.s. for treatment. we took the planes back and there for 10 days. molecules cow, kyiv and back to lennon grad which was changing its anytime st. petersburg. pete: interesting. you said the reaction when you were in ukraine which was still then part of the soviet union. >> it was the ussr. pete: wearing a name tag that had russian. >> my full name theodore translated into russian with a script and they were offended in ukraine that it would actually have it on there and it was russian. so they wanted to be ukraine. pete: interesting. does it surprise you the level of investment then ukrainians have in your country or should we have seen that coming? >> this is the book end.

what we are seeing right now trump -- excuse me, putin is trying to reverse history and undo what happened in 1991. we should have known this all along. and his state of the union in 2005, he essentially said that it was he considered it to be part of larger russia. is he trying to build larger russia. strategic region why he would want to protect flat lands of russia we understand that. this is evil. this is a sovereign nation in the ukraine. and we stand with the ukraine people. pete: clearly sanctions haven't worked. they are admitting it from the white house podium that sanctions were never going to work. but slow and coming better later than never, congress appears poised to approve billions of dollars in additional assistance to ukraine including i believe 350 million for military aid, too little too late. >> it is. we should have never been in position. putin was watching closely when we had the botched withdrawal from afghanistan. it put america in a position of weakness. it's not just ukraine that's an

issue. we are seeing an aggressive china. we are seeing an aggressive north korea. we are seeing it in iran as well. so there is larger global issues other than just ukraine that really affect the u.s. it started with a weak president rather than the strength we had before with president trump. pete: ironic part of this moment right now is that the javelin and stingers being -- potential. this is speculation, but if you look at the information, obama -- the obama administration refused to give lethal aid effectively. donald trump and his administration did. so it could be the weapons that were approved a couple of years ago that are actually being used to fight russians right now. >> when you saw russian aggression in crimea which was ukraine territory, then obama sent blankets and mres, but now we are seeing lethal aid from president trump which allows them to defend their sovereignty. pete: based on your experience to congress, if this gets approved can we get it to ukrainians should this be drawn out even further? >> we could. i need to look. i haven't seen the text yet.

we are hearing anywhere 350 up to $6.4 billioned that the biden administration has requested. we want to give them their support. we want to make sure we know what's in that support we are offering is it more blankets and mres that's a lot of money for that or more lethal aid. pete: which is exactly what they're call for right now. congressman ted budd appreciate your time. he was on panel here cpac with candace owens yesterday. we will have more coverage of what's going on here at cpac. all right. we are going to toss it out to carley shimkus for more headlines. carley: thank you take it from here. russia bans state media facebook. posts from russian state media outlets also be flagged by facebook. many speaking out against russian invasion of ukraine on the website so russia will reportedly limit access across the country. an investigation from cnn shows the ousted executive allison gollust assisted chris cuomo in helping his embattled governor

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will: president biden nominating

kentanji brown jackson to the supreme court. rachel: some believe her past rulings could spell trouble on the nation's highest court. joey: todd piro is here now with a push back that the nomination could face. todd: joey, will and rachel good morning all three of you as the russian invasion of ukraine rage on president biden newest pick more the supreme court justice her name kentanji brown jackson nominee nominated to replace justice stephen breyer. she would become the first black to serve on the nation's highest court. biden calling her with the offer. take a listen. >> hello. >> judge jackson? >> yes. >> this is joe biden. how are you? >> [gasp] i am wonderful. how are you, mr. president. >> well, you are going to be more wonderful. i would like you to go to the supreme court. how about that? >> sir, i would be so honored. >> oh, i'm honored to nominate you. >> i am just so, so overwhelmed. >> well, you deserve it you

deserve it. >> we are so, so grateful. thank you, mr. president. todd: jackson serving on the d.c. court of appeals less than a year before her nomination. could face jute execute any for overturning several rulings in the past carrie severino telling fox news digital quote judge jackson's record reversal by the left leaning d.c. circuit is trouble are for anyone concerned about the rule of law. jackson might be willing in politically charged cases to ignore the law to deliver a particular outcome. severino says the case of make the road new york vs. wolf is a case where jackson set aside a trump era immigration policy but was later reversed because she had no legal basis to do. so that case involved the expedited removal of reillegals from areas throughout our country not just within 100 miles of our border. some believe jackson would keep ignoring laws she doesn't like if she ends up on the nation's highest court. back to you. will: thank you, todd.

rachel: can we ask a question. todd: we can wrap everybody in. rachel: what do you make that this was done during this period of time this really crucial time where, you know, there is this invasion and ukraine and the whole news cycle is all crazy and now throws this in here? todd: i think the impetus nor is tuesday more than anything else. he wants to get this out there before his state of the union. because while you and i and a lot of the people in our business and quite frankly a lot of the people that have an interest on world matters are paying attention to ukraine, to the rank and file individual out in the middle of the country who is not necessarily too focused on ukraine, they are more focused on domestic policy issues. joe biden has not had a great record thus far in the first year on domestic policy issues. this is something that he promised is he delivering on to his base and so when he makes this speech to his base, on tuesday, he is going to want to tout this as one of his levels of achievement because, quite frankly in the response, kim reynolds out of iowa is going to be pointing out a lot of

negativity from inflation to everything else. he is going to want some positives to say but did this and that's why it's happening now. rachel: good point, todd. will: i have a couple takeaways on this biden jackson a he would nominate a woman of color. he put that qualification out front, thus that becomes her primary qualification. that's not to take away from her. that's to say joe biden set her up for failure by saying that's her major qualification. ains. rachel: you are affirmative action candidate. will: which is a disservice to her and her qualifications which i haven't dove into yet. i will say this she is replacing stephen breyer a reliably left leaning justice. there will be be less of a fight over her judicial ideology because of that but i am concerned he will nominate people who see the constitution as simply a vehicle to import their ideas. not the original meaning of the constitution. joey: conservative idealogues probably will fight this that this vote pretty easy it's

important to get into the details of it and see what her ideology and what is she bringing to our high court? rachel: we will have time to do it. back to our top story. ukrainians bracing for impact as russian troops close in on ukraine's capital. we talk to two men in ukraine taking up arms to defend their country. ♪ ♪ we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast. [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪

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will: fox news alert. ukraine's capital city taking a direct hit over night. an apartment blown up, innocent people falling victim to war, as many take up arms to defend their country. joey: and this morning world leaders are leveling new sanctions against russian president vladimir putin as curfew gets stricter. rachel: rich edson has been reporting from the pentagon. but we begin with steve harrigan live in kyiv. steve, good morning, what do you have? >> good morning. ukraine's health minister now says 198 civilians have been killed so far up to this day three of the russian invasion the subway system here in kyiv has been shut down through the street fighting in the capital city. now it's pretty much a bomb shelter full time around the clock. as far as the curfew goes, that's been set now to 5:00 p.m. it goes through 8:00 a.m. in the morning. as far as the president goes here, the ukraine zelenskyy he

has made multiple appearances posting videos of himself really to show his people that he is not leaving. here is what zelenskyy had to say. >> do not believe in second formation. i am here. we are defending our country because our strength is in our truth. we will be defending our country, glory to ukraine. >> there has been talk about possible negotiations between the two sides but recently president putin referred to the leadership here as neo nazis and drug addicts. one apartment building hit here in the capital overnight by a missile at least six people wounded in that attack. guys, back to you. will: steve, you mentioned street fighting has now commenced. have you noticed, as you are there in kyiv, have you you noticed a difference in the last several hours? has that intensity picked up to your experience? to your eyes? >> the most intense moments were around dawn, that's when you could see tracer fire here in

the center. gun battle, probably about 400 yards away from where i'm standing. it was likely russian special forces, probably probing defenses here. we have seen two or three since then but brief, just minutes at a time. the big push from russia has not yet come. rachel: why is that? >> i don't know the answer to that i don't know whether they are having problems. whether ukraine is putting up strong enough resistance. you know, we have heard reports about some russian vehicles actually running out of gas. people not getting supplied with food as well. or whether they are waiting. whether they are holding back, perhaps to negotiate. but they are holding back some of their forces. they are not hitting this city with everything they have by a long shot. joey: we talk about squirm issus in the street do you have enough eyes on to know civilians are in

the fight and taking up posts sometimes looking fairly rag tag with their new weapons. taking up positions around bridges and other key installations. intense battles around the capital of airports and also at a power station. i have got to tell you, the lights are still on. the internet is still on. electricity still on here in the capital. rachel: pete? pete: steve, thank you very much. >> thank you. pete: i can't help but won determine, as we think about this, is it the will of the ukrainian people, which is possible, is it also the fact that, you know, vladimir putin would prefer to fight a war of annihilation. a war where he is able to destroy everything in his path. but right now with the eyes of the world watching, the reality is he can't conduct an indisvictim that the war. he accident believe that's something he can do. so the surgial approach takes more time. with more time you have more vulnerability. maybe he has bitten off a little bit, at least initially more

than he can chew surgically. going door to door takes a lot of training and manpower. you put your troops in a lot of risk. especially if you can't land you guys broke down on the map. no plan, joey, survives first contact with the enemy. if he thought he was going to waltz in there. maybe is he facing a little bit more resistance than he thought and can't wage the kind of -- like they did in afghanistan where you are killing anything that moves and destroying anything that's standing. you know, more surgical doesn't fit the approach for vlad. rachel: is it possible he doesn't want to do that all he wants to do is cause enough trouble in ukraine spooks everybody from entering nato? like a stalemate if you will. pete: quite possible. quite possible. maybe he didn't count on zelenskyy being as fortified and showing as much fortitude as he has. he thought more quickly they would capitulate. surrounded on all sides by the russian army and give up.

he has said i'm going to fight. is this the kind of fight i want to throughout the streets of kyiv. he also as you guys pointed out so correctly has domestic considerations. small protests initial live could grow into something bigger. there isn't a version inside russia there is a history there of spending troops, you know, like cannon fodder as if that doesn't matter. you know, mothers and fathers in russia don't want their boys dying in ukraine either. so there is an extent to which you can't just do that and take those kind of casualties. joey: this is a little bit of antidote but true every russian soldier that i dos is a reason to believe for the russian people to question this operation. but every ukrainian soldier that dies strengthens their resolve. so it's not exactly a one for one here when you talk about casualties of war. when you talk about what happened on snake island. pete, you know, that's something that will be of war forever. 13 guardsmen and from my understanding they are like our

coast guard. 13 guardsmen told a warship to go on somewhere knowing imminent death was there i can guarantee you people fighting in the street know that story. will: can i ask both pete and joey this? pete: for sure. will: no war expert just read enough to be dangerous and now defer to the two fighting men on this set so i will ask you this what surprises me and, pete, you talk about the nature of this war and war changes over time. the mistake we always make is think would he go are fighting the last war. and even the last war being russia's not just foibles in afghanistan. they have attempted to take over georgia. they had their adventures in crimea. so, russia is attempting to adapt to modern warfare as well. modern warfare to which you two participated. what i'm most surprised about is we can't think about this in terms of, you know, will the conventional army sweep through kyiv. rather more a met trick more surprising warfare. what i'm getting at is, when you think about the way that wars

are conducted today, i'm surprised he has been unable to take over the electrical grid, that it's still working, that the water is still running in kyiv. that the internet is still up. i'm surprised, pete, that there haven't been russians successes in these less conventional more a met trick more divisive type of actions that the russians you would think could pull off. set aside how long it takes to take kyiv. what about disrupting every day ukrainian lives which you would think would be one of the first orders of measure. pete: you would think unless the approach is to leave most of it intact because you don't actually want to occupy the country. rachel: that's my point. pete: learned the lessons of afghanistan having been there. you don't want to occupy it you want to take down and topple the government so you put k. put in a new government. you don't want to destroy level every building and take out all the infrastructure because you want that there for your next puppet. and, will, i will say this. you made the point the last half hour when you talked about the will and morale of fighting

forces it does make a difference. if the russian army divided to wring in the tanks and level the streets. kyiv, put all their manual power on it we know they will. if they're taking different approach. the reality ukrainians are fighting for homeland really does mart. the russian troops will say do i want to risk my life to cap turf this bridge or am i going to wait for the air maury to do it. it turns out they wanted universal control of the sky, their jess as reports are saying and helicopters are being shot down by anti-aircraft missiles. many of which we probably supplied to them. thank you, president trump. is he taking a different approach that is not likely and, joey, you can speak to this, too not the way the russian army usually fights which is total destruction. joey: in afghanistan biggest mistake stayed inside their planes and tanks. they didn't have any diplomacy with the people on the ground. because they didn't have any intelligence. we have battle plans that show that we fought the exact same battle on the same spot that the russians did and tried to learn from that obviously it didn't

work out for us in afghanistan as we all saw because of bad politics. but if that's the way the russians fight this war, i don't think it turns outs good for them either. because the people in ukraine have resolve and we are seeing that. rachel: i was going to say that's the other difference in afghanistan you saw people that we thought we trained and invested all this money in just drop their guns and run off. they didn't really want -- turned out they didn't really want or have the resolve to defend their country. this is a different situation. you have the former ukraine president saying we in ukraine are not standing in line for bread, for cash, for bank machines. we're standing in line for weapons to give blood -- and to give blood to our soldiers. this very different than what we had in afghanistan. everyday ukrainians are taking to the streets to fight for their homeland. but they are not empty-handed. as i mentioned before, thinner government is distributing thousands of automatic rifles to civilians and urging citizens to make their own molotov cocktails

this as all men aged 18 to 60 are actually banned from leaving the country so that they can fight. joining us now are two ukrainian civilians going to fight. luke long and urysolodobnk. welcome to both of you. your country says you can't leave ukraine. it sounds like you two want to stay and fight. >> no, that's not right. it's our choice. i mean, it's not because of the [inaudible] our families, our kids knob a safe place and that's why we go into the ukraine. all demands even a lot of women they just want to stay and protect the country, protect the lands, our freedom. and yeah, you are right. you said it, we are not military. we just, you know people that

have a different profession. but now we just only one occupation, protect our land. protect our freedom. and some of got rifles. some of us prepared [inaudible] and we will stop them. he any way we will -- i don't have words to say. i mean, it's still you can't believe. the problem it's like 20th century and this happens, it's like unbelievable but it's true. three days. and you have that fear for all around you. but anyway, i mean, we will protect ourself and i want just to say we ukrainians will never give up. we will fight in the last ukraine to the victory. joey: obviously you have been armed we can see that is the shot right now. are you coordinating with the government and military? are you coordinating amongst yourselves or are you armed and

prepared to defend what's in front of you? >> we just, -- it's not the government local districts where and you just sign that and [inaudible] territory to protect the territory. and military they protect, i would say maybe more important stuff like, i don't know, the border. and we help them to protect in case it's needed. pete: so interesting. i'm kind of going to ask the same question if i will. so if russian troops are coming down your neighborhood or your block or your street, will you be with others trying to make maneuvers or will it be i'm defending my home or my block along with whoever else shows up? again, how much within the group of civilians that you are with, how much coordination and planning is going into what you

are doing. >> yeah, i mean, it's like unfortunately coordinated the neighborhoods. it here is near the land, near our houses. different types. a lot of volunteers, because of that territory defense in case though they say oh, we have enough. in this case we just have the group ourselves to protect and prepare and i mean, even prepare [inaudible] and stop them of course they have some communication between different regions just to know where that russian troops and i will say belrusian troops as well unfortunately but it's true. we tried to stop it. we tried to provide information to our military if we can.

we are not military as i said. we are civilians with the rifles only. and sometimes it's not possible to stop them. then they just communicate to the military that direction they have to help and protect. they know some information point of view that they can't stop. but i mean i would say ukrainians support all ukrainians and try to help as much as we can they fight, they do everything with the help. pete: how much if i can quick follow-up. how much ammunition have they given you? >> i mean it's ammunition. it's information. pete: how many bullets have they given you for your rifle? >> we don't have any ammunition.

it depends. sometimes we do have in beginnings we had but it's not a lot. i would say months. even sometimes we don't have a rifle. sometimes we have just -- if you do have your own rifle, then it's fine. if you don't, then you just preen and just bottles collect it for use and prepare and support. but, no. i mean it depends. so much volunteers. so much people and i think nobody was expected so much involvement in that. that's why not all of us have the rifles, ammunition. i think it's quite minimum. will ruslan, we should point out to the audit yents. he doesn't speak english. you are handling most of the questions. if he will forgive me for noticing there is also an age difference between the two of you. i would love if you could bring uri into this answer as well

ruslan i'm curious as to why. why you sore passionate why your fellow ukrainians have so passionate. i'm going to ask that uri might be able to provide perspective on this. what have you lived through? did he see the soviet years? you saw the years before the color revolution. what is it about today that that you so passionately want to defend versus what you have experienced in the past? >> yes, you are right. not so well. and i'm not sure that he has understood the question. can i answer to that? i mean, it's not because of my faith. i'm more than 40. i'm 42. rachel: he looks so young. >> i lived ussr. i just a few words about that. ukrainians, we are a free

nation. once we breathe and feel the freedom the freedom, we never ever looked back to the ussr. never back to the russian empire whatever they are called. it's not like the war tv. it's the deal. thought young people, young ukrainians, 18, 19 years old they protect ukraine. they decide. nobody say you have to. and they have to. we decided and they died because of ukraine. i mean they have to live but they die. [inaudible] rachel: wow, uri, rumplet slan, thank you so much. so informative. will: wish you the best of luck for your fight. >> thank you for your support. support ukraine. thanks a lot. rachel: we are praying for you.

rachel: thank you. can i mention two things that struck me in this conversation i think it's so fascinating. i wish you would have spoken -- gotten uri's opinion as well. i thought they were great. two things struck me one is here are these guys struggling for bullets like your question was so great, pete, like what are you doing we don't have bullets and molotov cocktails we make homemade. think about all the weapons we left in afghanistan. i mean, it just makes me so mad to think you know, these people aren't asking our boys to fight. they're saying look, give us some weapons and we will fight ourself. that is one thing. the second thing i wanted to bring up that struck me had to do with what you had to say, will, you mentioned earlier that you were surprised that i mean here we are doing an sweater conversation with them. right? that they haven't taken down this infrastructure. i mean, thinking about last summer when the cuban people were protesting and rising up against the cuban government the first thing the communists did

was shut down the internet. they were begging us to put it back and biden was so evil he didn't. they didn't do that. will: to that point rachel, pete, i totally understand your point of wanting to preserve infrastructure for the puppet government put in place. i don't think all of it has to be destroyed permanently. in other words, video thought the russian capabilities would be to take out the internet. so i think they are taking some losses, we may not have all expected. joey: one of the points here it seems to be, we are all just guessing here for the most part. seems to be putin was relying somewhat in the people in ukraine perhaps to turn on their own government and warm up to russia. and maybe that was a part of that strategic plan of if we don't disrupt their lives and we just go after their government, they will decide no being under russian role rule. that interview we just did essentially his answer to pete is essentially there are way more people that want to fight than there are guns and bullets to supply them. that's why he was saying which really says a lot about where

the people in ukraine are. will: we are up against a tight, pete. we want to get your perspective throughout the morning. you know that we'll as well. tragedy and destruction engulf ukraine as russia wages a devastating war. as the world cold blooded attacks guess what? communist china stays silent. ♪

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and for the first time in history, nato is mobilizing its response force, rich edson joins us live at the pentagon with more. rich? >> good morning, rachel. ukrainian government officials are pressing the west for more weapons, more sanctions on russia and for admission into international and western institutions and alliances. this is from president volod zelenskyy tweet add short while ago quote it is a crucial moment to close the long standing discussion once and for all and decide on ukraine's membership in the european union discuss with the european council president further effective assistance and heroic struggle of ukrainians for their free future. ukraine moved to further embrace the west in 2019 when it

approved a constitutional amendment committing to join the european union and nato. three years later, it is a member of neither. nato is bolstering its forces in eastern europe in nato countries not ukraine for the first time in its history nato mobilized its response force. it's a defensive group of up to 40,000 troops. nato says it has 100 warplanes on high alert and 120 ships at sea mr. there must knob space for misunderstanding. we will do what it takes to defend every ally. and every inch of nato territory. >> while russia continues assault on ukraine. russia's foreign ministry threatened, quote: military and political consequences against finland and sweden if they attempted to join nato. there are 30 nato countries, ukraine isn't one of them nor is georgia which russia invaded in

2008. now russia has faced international condemnation for all of this. china is an interesting case here. it's largely blamed the united states and the west for what it says is creating the conditions for this invasion. and war in europe for what they say. but china has not explicitly either endorsed or criticized this as it tries to walk a very fine line when it comes to its ally in russia. back to you, rachel. rachel: thank you, great report. all right. all this comes after president biden refused to discuss whether he will put pressure on china to help condemn russia. >> follow up, sir, are you urging china to help isolate russia? are you urging china to help isolate russia? >> i'm not prepared to comment on that at the moment. rachel: here to react is the federalist senior contributor helen relevanty. welcome. what do you attribute this silence on the part of the biden administration with china do you

think they still think they can get china's help to tampen down what russia is doing in ukraine or somehow getting them to pull back? >> hell lone? she is frozen. all right. we will come back to helen when we get her back. thank you so much. world leaders now slapping sanctions on vladimir putin as punishment for killing innocent ukrainians. charles payne and jackie d'angelo join us next. ♪

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wilt will this is a fox news alert. slang sanctions on vladimir putin. this as sources tell fox the president and his administration are now seriously considering banning russia from the swift banking system as european allies warm to the idea. our fox business experts are here to break down the developments. making money host charles payne

and correspondent jackie lee an his. thank you for being with us early this morning explain it to me like i'm a 5-year-old. why is it important? what is swift and how does it impact russia in an important way? >> yeah. well, first and foremost it impacts everybody. so let's get that out of the way. that's another reason why they are dragging their feet on it swift is really a communication system set up headquartered out in belgium. 11,000 financial institutions around the world, 200 countries do about 42 million message communication through the system every single day. and that's exactly why a lot of folks want to go after it you know, in war, they say the best way to win a war is you cut off the line of communication and the line of supply. the supply chain. this is an economic supply chain. by cutting this off you cut off

both of those things. economically russia would not be able to communicate with the rest of the world. of course the reason we would be dragging our feet on it the rest of the world wants to communicate with them two. days ago the united states, u.k. and european union bought $700 million worth of stuff from russia in one day, $350 million worth of oil. $250 million worth of mineral and materials. obviously there is a market for that the people on the other side of the swift transaction, particularly the europeans, i'm pretty were sure they are asking biden not to pull this. what some are calling the nuclear option. will: if i understand you correctly charles, i will pivot over to you, jacqui, if swift is the communication system and that cuts russia off from the rest of the world charles says it impacts everybody. we buy oil, we, the united states of america, buys oil from russia. would that impact our ability whether we should or should not be buying that oil, dolls that impact the europeans ability to buy that oil from russia? >> 100 percent.

that's why this administration has been very hesitant to do that. i mean, all the sanctions we have seen so far, william, are a day late and a dollar short. they should have been doing this before the russians started invading ukraine to really send a very strong message. but they are not taking what, you know, they consider this nuclear option regarding swift and really hitting russia where it hurts with respect to its oil supply and say look, you can put your oil out there on the market but nobody is going to buy it from you. the reason they can't do that is because we can't make up for the short fall because this administration reversed all the policies that put us in our number one energy producing position and it knows that when you do that supply will come down, price also skyrocket up, way past where they are already. and the biggest misnomer here is why don't we at that point the spr. jen psaki left the door open. that isn't going to help. we consume 18 million barrels of oil per day if we use the entire spr it would only essentially

feed us enough oil for about a month. you saw what the 50 million barrels that he reiss released last time. it didn't do much. the 10 cents drop we saw in gas prices was really because of omicron nothing to do do with the spr. will: you said this impacts everybody not russia. we cut swift. no more russian oil then can hit the market. our price, what we pay for oil and gas immediately, i assume then, goes up. the biden administration says will do things. we will do things. jacqui says you don't have the lever to pull. you don't have big enough lever to pull to do things to bring those prices back down. is there anything the biden administration can do to offset the cost. >> first off cut off russia from swift it affects russia as well. i don't want to get that misinterpreted it effects everybody. obviously, jacqui points it out. reverse these policies. the war on fossil fuels. i mean, imagine this, the president gets up to the podium yesterday or thursday and starts wagging its finger at american

oil producers. it is mind boggling. it is maddening, you know, that this sort of i call it, you know, appeasing the volcano gods of climate change. what they're willing to do it to their citizens i implore all americans today study germany. they are the centerpiece of all of this. study what they have done and its insane, insane plan to appease climate change. we cannot address it over night and it is crazy. you know, thursday when all of this stuff started to hit the fan thursday morning up 60% it's up 430% in the last year. in the last year. 430%. this is mind boggling. they are destroying their citizens. electricity prices have gone up 800 percent. do we want that in america? do we want to kill, destroy our middle class all in the name of fighting climate change? will: right there. is nothing like war in reality and a strong man like vladimir

putin, a strong man like vladimir putin to all of a sudden make these climate change policies seem so frivolous in the moment of real life. lastly, john mark karr question, let's take a look what could have been if the keystone xl pipeline were operational today. 595,000 barrels are coming from russia. that's what you both are talking about would be cut off with us imposing swift sanctions. we would have been bringing in 830,000 barrels a day from the keystone xl pipeline. now, that's a cardinal sin, jacqui, that we should impose a political cost on our leaders for going forward. what, if anything, can we could now? tell oil producers hey turn on the pump? what can we do right now? >> it's really difficult to reverse essentially what's happened here by flicking a light zip switch. right? this administration came on board. they said we are going to shut down the keystone pipeline but green light the nord stream 2. now you have got those barrels from canada not come in. left of center said oil producers you can't drill on

federal lands and put those bans back in place it also said we are going to very aggressively go after climate change and green energy and alternatives as charles points out way before we are ready so these companies have not been investing in exploration operations because they see the handwriting on the wall. so playbook here would be to reverse everything this administration has done on energy and unfortunately, i just don't see them realistically doing that the bell has been running here in a way and even if they did do it wouldn't happen overnight. will: right. and i think we will end with, this charles makes an important point. these sanctions are intended to hurt russia and that makes them important because of the leverage we have traded away the policies that we have employed in the past. they are going to hurt us as well. >> yeah. will: that goes back to what we always say energy independence is national security. charles payne and jackie dean columbus thank you both. you explained it to me like a

5-year-old i truly feel like i understand so much more after this egg isment. thank you. all right, the world is watching the strength of the ukrainian people as young men fight back to protect their homeland. how they have been able to stolen russian advances with only a fraction of the military might. ♪ as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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ukraine this morning but the ukrainian president says his army is still standing strong, successfully depending off russian attacks on the capital. the announcement coming as the city's mayor enacts a curfew on all of its citizens from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. local time for, quote: more effective defense of the capital. urk's health minister reporting that at least 198 people have been killed and more than 1,000 hurt sad update, rachel. as the fighting begins in kyiv set the scene. this a map of ukraine as we have spoken about the last couple of days. much of the fighting would center on the northern, eastern, and southern areas of ukraine to occupy most of ukraine's forces while the russian advanced a tempt to decapitate the ukrainian government in kyiv, joey? joey: absolutely. this is all strategic. where are we going to come in,

where it's easier for us and cause the most damage. the news of the day this morning is that kyiv is still standing we heard that includes civilian fighters. it feels like russia's goal would be in their words to decapitate the government but leave the people alone so they could warm the people up to russian rule. i don't think that's happening. i think now the most important talk about the race is kind of on. can europe bring in supplies and munitions to ukraine before russia takes kyiv and takes lviv? will: interestingly, those supplies coming in largely through poland, the same place that according to steve harrigan 50,000 residents of kyiv upwards of potential a million refugees headed in the other direction toward poland closer look battle going on. quickly see this is where most of the refugees heading west, they say this is the airport

where there are massive battles taking place trading back and forth between ukrainian and russian forces. here you can see exactly how far, joey, it is from kyiv. >> absolutely. that last map you don't really have perspective. these are probably dozens of miles. not 50 or 100 miles. this is right next door, i guess this air base seems to be strategically very important advantage and the fact that russians weren't either to bomb it out of existence or take it over which is probably what they wanted to do says a lot for how much ukrainians are fighting back and how much maybe they anticipated the plan that russia has put into place. will: one thing i continue to find fascinating is the internet remains in kyiv. the water there are reports of russians attempting to take over a water plant. airport is still a battle. major infrastructure still in ukrainians hands here as we wake up this morning. this is where the fight honestly involves nato. involves america potentially. can you see these are nato article five protected countries

poland the baltic states. lithuania, latvia, estonia. if the fight bleeds no nato now we are talking about a different story. joey: keep talking about article 5 commitment. announcement on this news channel yesterday what that means. right now it's a piece of paper, a promise. what would it mean when it documents blood and treasure. that's the test that we all are waiting to see what that means. and hope that we don't have to find out. the idea that russians putting all kinds of troops here next to poland, the fact that poland becomes central in getting supplies into ukraine we have seen how russia can take the truth and distort it russia stage proxy attacks to justify their actions. if they do anything in this area here from belarus or moscow, that's trouble for all of us. that's when it becomes a global war. will: here is what is fascinating to me.

whatever vladimir putin's may be to keep nato off of his doorstep or reestablish the boundaries of the former soviet union. those boundaries looked like this. this is what the ussr looked like before the early 1990s. now, all of these states, poland, the baltics, romania, moldova, all of that now independent countries and many of them independent countries seeking freedom. great job, joey, thank you for that perspective. more "fox & friends" coming up next. ♪

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pete: welcome back to "fox & friends." the massive russia offensive is beginning to face unexpected strength of the ukrainian army with u.s. officials confirming ukraine shot down russian transport planes. meanwhile, thousands more ukrainians rush to enlist to fight for their homeland. cory mills san army combat veteran and former dod adviser under president trump who rescued americans and sib holders and cash former national security adviser and they both join me now. thanks for being here, gentlemen. both here at cpac. you have spoken or will speak. but the big talk, you know, as we are talking about the program

is ukraine cory, have you experience across the glob but also in afghanistan. when you look at the situation there. is it that vladimir putin miscalculated? is it the that ukrainian response has been more robust? what do you make of the situation right now. >> i will tell you i think it's very interesting that he went ahead and pushed forward than he already did in 2014. he met strong resistance with the all volunteers. i understand that he sees weakness in biden administration he saw the botched withdrawal in afghanistan and certainly saw this is an opportunity opening stand out. this is the great super power resurgence this is where russia and china are expanding asian border. that's what china has been needing for one belt one road initiative. this is a bigger strategy than taking land grab or trying get back to the previous soviet union. this is economic resource warfare for the great super power resurgence. pete: real quick before i go to kach the javelins and stingers those were not given under the obama administration or biden administration. effectively the munitions of

this resistance are from the trump administration. >> the trump resistance. think about it the reason that they came across in 2014 and annexed crimea and took over donettes because the obama-biden administration said we would provide humanitarian aid only it wasn't until president trump came in. set his foot down, held his adversaries accountability and put the necessarily that aid that stopped them. went a step forward by removing us from the inf treated ympleghts we were talking off camera you thought like many vladimir putin wouldn't make this kind of move. now that he has what should the u.s. response be so far it's been sanctions, throwing sanctions at them. which has been utterly insufficient what should the response be. >> you know as you have went to war. the cost of war is tragic. not something cool to talk about. it's not something that's neat. our brothers and sisters that haven't been on the frontline don't realize that president biden we will lift the sanctions that worked under president trump chief of staff at dod and

let them build their pipeline for basically free energy to germany and nord stream 2 last week he comes in and says oh, i'm canceling my reversal of the trump sanctions. sanctions don't win wars. sanctions don't win battles, it's a tool for diplomacy but you need to create space with kinetic energy to allow that diplomatic earth to succeed. and the most shocking statement i heard all week was secretary blinken literally on tv last week say we have been watching the russians for months can who do you mean you have been watching the russians for months what have you been doing? pete: great question. what does the re saidial view of factor in this into putin's calculation? >> i think when they see us being weaker than we have ever been on the national security stage. far weaker that be we would have ever seen under president trump. you have got north korea testing hypersonic missiles. china who has a navy now surpassed america. taiwan building up in the south china see. the yemeni houthis attacking

uae. original accord original signatories. botched failed withdrawal where we hand it over to the taliban and haqqani and isis-k $86 billion in goods. remember what president trump said. he said who actually thought that it was smart tore leave our goods there than to either blow them up in place or drive them is hundred miles with a full tank of gallons. the bottom line is that russia sees this is an opportunity expansion. they know our elections. they know that president biden will not get elected the next election, this is their moment to capitalize on it. and that's what china and russia is doing. pete: kach, we heard for the entire four years and before and still now that it was donald trump who was going to be soft on russia compromised by return yet, here we are. >> i just remind our audience, pete, crimea was invaded under the obama administration. the ukraine was invaded under the biden administration. during the trump administration there were no invasions. looking at russia and china as major complication and international players. due to the fact most people are not talking about.

kim jong un has launched more missiles in the last year since joe biden has been president then all of trump's four years combined over japan. while we had dprk as a threat on the international scene and china and russia and nothing to combat it except loose talk on the political landscape and weak sanctions to say joe biden comes to the stage and say we will revisit in a month. well, mr. president, 200 plus ukrainian civilians are dead. are you going to wait another month for another thousand to die and then what are we going to do. pete: still talking about climate change biggest threat. gets people killed to your point. cory mills and kach patel thank you for being here. appreciate it. joey, over to you. joey: killed in the midst of russia's invasion of ukraine. including one marine battalion engineer named a hero for blowing himself up on a bridge to prevent russia's advance. here with why ukrainians are prepared to fight and die for their country is vladimir whose grandfather is refusing to leave ukraine.

vladimir welcome to the show. thanks for joining us this morning. i think you have other family members that are in ukraine and potentially fighting. can you give us update on where they are and what they are seeing? >> yeah, the best majority of my extended family happens to live in ukraine as it is. and almost all of them seem to be staying in place. with the ukrainian government instituting a draft, several of my cousins may end up fighting. if they don't volunteer first. so i haven't heard as much about their plans on that front. news is sporadic at best under the circumstances and we're mostly focused on my younger brother who we are trying to bring home. joey: absolutely. just to note you are a university of florida law student. you are here in the state. as someone who has so much of your family in ukraine, do you feel like that the united states is responding correctly? is there something more you would like to see or do you feel like we should have seen this coming for a longer period of

time than we have talked about it? >> in an ideal world, if i could have whatever i want, then sure i would certainly like a much bigger response but, unfortunately, a war between the united states and russia is something of a nonstarter. because of nuclear weapons. any conventional fighting between the u.s. and russia it's too risky. there is too great a risk that it will result in a nuclear exchange and kill everyone. and that -- nothing is really worth that risk. look, beyond conventional warfare between the u.s. and russia, there are certain things that could still be done certainly more aid could be sent already being sent. there could -- i know they will lead up to world war. >> like in the spanish civil war.

there were a lot of volunteer divisions that were sent by various countries just-to-support different sides of a conflict. so that would be a theoretical way to send actual material without declaring war just because you call them volunteers doesn't mean putin won't decide it's an actual war. joey: we talk about country in europe for you it's a family. our thoughts and prayers are with your family and we hope this comes to a quick resolution. and thank you for joining us. >> thank you. joey: thank you for joining us. the third hour of "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ is

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ '. will: fox news alert. kyiv still standing this morning despite the belief that russia would carry out a full blown assault overnight. joey: an apartment in kyiv ukraine capital city falling victim to war. rachel: pete hegseth joining us from orlando. with cpac. mike tobin on the ground in lviv. but we begin with steve harrigan live in kyiv. steve, good morning. >> good morning. off to my right to the west i can hear small arms fire as well as some artillery so explosions still happening around the city

of kyiv. russian forces entered the city overnight. there were small arms battles between ukrainian forces as well as those russians. they seem to be small groups of advance russian soldiers coming in to probe advances the health minister of ukraine say 198 civilians have been called since the start of the invasion now three days old. the subway here in this city has been closed due to street fighting. it's now pretty much a permanent bomb shelter. curfews put into effect from 5:00 p.m. on. the president of ukraine zelenskyy has made it public and clear that he is staying put in this city. here's zelenskyy. >> do not believe in second formation. i sam here. we will be defending our country because our strength is in our truth. we will be defending our country, glory to ukraine. >> on or about three days russia has fired more than 200 missiles in different cities in ukraine.

one of them hitting here in the city of kyiv, six people injured in that civilian building hit by russian missile. as far as vladimir putin goes, there has been ukraine or russia, here is how putin described his ukrainian counterparts. >> take power into your own hands. agreement with this gang of drug addicts and neo nazis who have settled in kyiv and taken the entire ukrainian people hostage. >> drug addicts and neo nazis described the ukrainian leadership here on this day three of the russian invasion, russia still controls no major urban centers. and also there is still electricity, internet and power here in the capital. guys, back to you. will: steve, thank you for that follow-up quickly on that infrastructure. on that information we heard the president of ukraine zelenskyy say don't believe the

information you are hearing about me. i'm curious about the internet. i'm curious about information. who controls it. is it free? is it the wild, wild west? can anybody get any information? what's the nature of the propaganda war? >> >> i think it really depends on where you are. for example in russia if you are watching state television you don't even hear the word war. you see normal programming, movies, children shows on television. and if you do see ukrainians, they are being helped by russians put on the clean buses and sent back. it's not a war at all if you are in russia. it really depends on where you are that really determines what you see. and the russians are not seeing a war. will: to be clear in kyiv you have full communications, the citizens there can access the internet and have free access to information? >> at this point we really thought we would have no electricity, no internet, no phones, the exact opposite is the case at this point. you do have that movement is

pretty difficult because it is martial law. you are north supposed to be moving around. a lot of civilians now have rifles, it's icy out on the streets. rachel: steve, we bent to bed last night we all thought kyiv would fall by the morning at least that's what the reports are but hasn't. what does that tell you about the russians and also what does it tell you about the strength of the ukrainians? >> certainly ukraine has been putting up resistance, especially here in their own capital. perhaps more than the russians expected. but keep in mind russia still has fireplace in reserve, heavier weapons. they haven't ruffled the city. they haven't launched indisvictim that the missile fire across building after building after building like they did in chechnya, for example. they haven't hit as hard as they could yet and let's hope they don't. >> steve, urban warfare as ugly as it gets. you have seen fire fights and you believe you have seen civilians pick up arms and fight the russians. do you anticipate that the next

step the russian also take actually could be to bring that heavy hand or, you know, what's the feeling there? are you in contact with any military leaders to know what really ukraine is planning for? >> >> i think this sense by the scope of the russian invasion is that they want regime change. i don't know whether they will be able to get it without coming here into the city in a much more heavy handed way. so we could see some weeks of fighting ahead. pete: steve, will mentioned talked about communications networks. and you talked about what is being talked about in russia. is it really, you know, selfie, internet postings from the president that is the communication to the people right now? are there formal instructions as far as where the russians are and what you do if you are a citizen? i mean, what about news networks in ukraine? what is being told -- what are the citizens being told right now? >> a lot of it is coming on the internet they are asking for

help for everybody. asking, for example, for civilians to let people know where the russian forces are and alert them. so it's a lot of what's app. telegram and by phone. that's the way information really is traveling. will: fascinating. steve, thawnch so much for the updates on the ground in kyiv. we will be talking to you throughout the morning. so ukrainians from all walks of life taking up arms to defend their homeland from a massive russian offensive. last hour we spoke with two of those men. >> older men and a lot of women they want to stay and protect the country, protect the land. all of freedom. some of us got the rifles. some of us prepare rocket propels. we will stop them. we ukrainians we will never give up. we will fight with the last ukraine. rachel: our next guest is a ukrainian parliament member says she is armed and ready to fight. joey: let's bring in karen rudik

live from kyiv. welcome to the show. thanks for joining us this morning. >> hello. joey: tell us what you are experiencing right now. >> as of the last three to four hours there has been no sirens and no going to bomb shelters, which is a rare case here in kyiv these days. all in all, since we in the parliament now under martial law, all in all there has been more like 13 air missile attacks on kyiv. where the sirens were on and people had to go to the bomb shelter. and tonight nobody in the world anticipated that we will survive the night. i received messages from all the political leaders throughout the world saying yea, it will watch us, we did not. so we everybody and we have more surprises coming in for putin's army and for the whole world

showing how ukrainians can stand for their country. there were a couple of attempts during the night to break the defense of the city. but these attempts were carefully and accurately by the reservist and resistance troops. which i am a member of one right now for the last three days. rachel: kira, we are coming to you or you are coming to us via the internet. obviously that infrastructure is still up and going. are you surprised that you still have electricity and internet going at this hour and in kyiv? >> so half of our infrastructure, especially on the internet and it belongs to russian companies. i'm not surprised turned off

just yet and has not been bombed or attacked because it's russia. this is one of the problems that even they want to destroy us they still want to make their money on us. so i think we will have their connection and connection pretty much until the time when there will be like nothing here if there will be nothing here. but, all in all, i can tell you that right now is the first day of like real spring in kyiv. the sun is shining very brightly. and all the things that we are talking about sound so surreal you cannot even imagine. will: kira, we should point out we talked a lot about the president zelenskyy and his inspiration to the people. he is not alone. you are there. he posted pictures and videos in kyiv. how is the government functioning at this moment? is the government you are a member of parliament. are this their still

governmental meetings? is it done over zoom? how is the government functioning at this moment? >> so, some of the members of the parliament remain in the city. the others went to like a two-hour drive distance. all in all right now, after we martial law in the country, we basically gave all the will wheels to the president and to our military. so they are functioning right now as the government and the parliament is only working further legislation pieces. because i'm an optimist, i'm working right now on the. south related to rebuilding the roads and buildings, et cetera. and different programs that will help ukraine to get back to the peaceful time; however, there are zoom meetings, what you have to sign, we are signing it

online through the system that we have in place. covid helped us change the system so we could be working remotely. pete: kira under estimated the response believing with his own propaganda that a lot of ukrainians wanted to be russians. didn't anticipate parliament members is he in over his head or is he just a vicious strong man who said okay, we hit some bumps? we are going to keep going? how do you think he reads the situation? nobody can read his mind. from where you sit you know better than we do can i have the world. what we see right now. we call it in ukrainian naked

king lo turned out to be like really naked but he was telling everybody that he has clothes because they attacked were not properly planned and they were actually -- they had no why would anybody. give up. but like right now it's playing in our favor and at every step of the way we see we need just to win more and more obviously the troops that right now they were not ready to do anything about victory. and secondly we are hoping that by this step putin finally opened up for all the international partners. we investigating russia. we are watching russia. what are you watching there? there is nothing to watch.

is he crazy and focus on ukraine right now. we hope we will be able to get more and more support. especially what we need right now badly iron dome in ukraine. this is probably the most important thing that needs to happen and ease up things on us and on the whole country. so, the people in ukraine and citizens wouldn't have to be victims of airstrikes. secondly is we hope that finally that west realizes that there could not be any negotiation with putin, there could not be any attempts to, you know, hush, hush the tyrants. playing the role of adolf hitler before the second world war and that if he is not stalled by being fed more and more it will just likened up in a big, big,

big international war. will: right. >> ukrainians right now, we are fighting not only for ourselves, for ourselves definitely we do but for the whole europe. we are acting as a shield for europe. if we fail, you know what's next? i can tell you right away it's poland and baltic countries. putin already said we have some idea what is we can do in country as well. if this is what the world wants, it's probably not the thing that ukrainians want. that's why we are calling for actions for all our nato partners, united states, united kingdom to act right now. we see that sanctions are good. they make putin's eyes painful. we all feel very good about him being punished but sanctions they actually do not stop him. we see and honestly the

sanctions were announced very, very, very late. because he was -- it's not that he attacks unexpectedly. let's be clear. he was saying for six months i will aall the intelligence were saying he will attack and the whole world was -- watching this and saying maybe he will not attack. well, a lesson that should learn and now we should be acting really fast and i can tell you like the small story last weekend i was at munich security conference where ukraine was the main theme and there were like members of all the parliament and government over the western country. and there was still a doubt that putin attempts. will: we see it play out, kira, obviously on our television screens the last several days. we wish you the best of luck. the ukrainian government, you as a person, your family as well.

over the coming days and what may take place. thank you for telling us about the situation this morning on fox. pete: absolutely. rachel: thank you, kira. will: fascinating situation there we get straight to a fox news alert. the battle of kyiv rages on. president biden leaves the white house. will: phone call with national security team later today but from delaware. alexandria hoff is live in wilmington with more. >> alexandra? >> good morning. president biden is here in wilmington. is he planning to attend family members memorial service and he will take part in that national security team call that will take place around 10:00 a.m. the vice president will be involved in that as well. as we know, ukrainian's president while he is in kyiv, he has not left his capital city right now turning down an offer from the united states that would evacuate him from the country saying he needs ammunition not a ride. we know that the president has been in contact with him.

he was in contact with him yesterday. he has approved $350 million in additional aid for ukraine. he is sending an additional 7,000 troops to europe. is it enough and is it fast enough? here is republican senator tom cotton. >> be joe biden and nato leaders need to quit pussy footing around. and joe biden and nato leaders are patting themselves on the back for how many zoom calls they are having. >> cotton believes on top of sweeping sanctions this week energy exports must be blocked as well. democratic senator dick durbin says escalation is a real risk. >> if we made any other commitment beyond our nato allies in article 5, it runs the risk escalating conflict which could even reach a nuclear level. so, i think biden is taking careful steps. >> now biden has joined the u.k., the eu in imposing sanctions on putin himself. but removing russia from the

swift financial system, well, that is still on the table. guys, back to you. will: thank you so much, alexandra. so, still ahead, we are going to be getting to this. congressman jim jordan is going to join us live. rachel: first ukraineens are fighting back against russian aggression. our military panel of generals weighs in on how they are holding their ground. ♪ ♪

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♪ joey: russian forces close in on the capital city of kyiv. what does this mean for the rest of ukraine. >> let's map it out. all right. we have a map here this shows the fighting that's happened so far. what we see here is that most of the fighting is in the east in places where we knew russia would be. the main thing nowlg city of kyiv still belongs to ukrainian. we are going to bring in expert panel of military generals david perkins doctrine demand keith kellogg fox news contributor and former national security adviser to vice president pence and retired brigadier general don bull dick, u.s. senate candidate 10 tours in afghanistan. thank you so much for joining this morning. let's talk about what are the

challenges in front of the ukrainian army and entire country of ukraine civilian warfare and civilians picking up arms. first challenge is logistics, general kellogg go to you first on this. do you see a way for us to actually send weapons, ammunitions and just logistics in general into the country to support this? >> >> yeah, i do. thanks for having knee joey, i think president putin has tremendously under estimated zelenskyy and the ukrainian forces that are now fighting. cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war. forgot to fight. should have came at them a massive way he didn't. great for the ukrainians. incredibly great leadership by zelenskyy. great comment i don't need a ride i need ammunition. it's great and shows history leadership and inspiring ukrainian nation. here is now the united states can help out. this is where you, you know,

president calls in director of the cia and issues a presidential finding and says, look, you need to help out with paramilitary in the ukraine and help with ammunition and can you do it. it will be covert and clandestined and a way to help them out. they are showing that they deserve our support and our help. it's throwing putin off balance. the longer this goes it's the worst for putin if he cannot pull this off i think he better increase his body guards. they will realize that pariah as a leader and pariah as a nation. he can't stand that. that's the reason why we are hearing this morning btgs 800 people coming out of belarus. he intended to use later in the fight and he has to use it to subdue kyiv i don't think can he do it. reaching a point where you look at those people fighting on the streets and david will tell you, this too. from being when he was in baghdad. i'm telling you, armies don't like street fighting in cities.

it absorbs units and it's hard to do. joey: general perkins, i will go to you on this. we have shown graphics here on fox that show a list of the amount of soldiers from one country and the other the amount of tanks and war and expertise, it's not really a one for one when we are talking about ukrainians having a home field advantage and urban warfare. i guess we consider waking up this morning and seeing a win as far as ukraine holding on to its capital city. is that one for one win or more dependent on how russia is currently fighting and what they could eventually do? >> well, you know, that's a great point. and build upon what keith said, having had the honor of commanding a large armored force, like the russians have going into a capital to affect regime change, two most important things are you are asking for logistics and timing. you have to do it quickly because historically the advantage always accrues to the

defender. historically we say a defender has a 3 to 1, maybe a 6 to 1 advantage just by being the defender over the attacker. second thing is we talk about logistics not just supplying the ukrainians with logistics but cutting off the russian logistics. this is a very large armored force. >> we have dependent upon fuel and ammunition and if the russians don't make their timeline, that means they can't establish what we call the lines of communication, which means they can't establish their logistical capability which then starts to compound itself and you start to grind to a halt. so, what i'm looking at what's been reported with regards to casualties, the russians have lost both in personnel and in armored vehicles, it does not look good for them. they are -- this is not occurring as quickly as they planned. and every hour it slows down the advantage accrues to the ukrainians. ask. joey: general, you are running

for senate here in the united states. you have seen how our government has responded, what could you do differently or what would be your advice to someone who has commanded troops 10 times in afghanistan as far as what we should be doing and handling this today. not what we should change but how we should be handling it today? >> well, thank you very much. i appreciate it and i think both generals set the table really well on what the russians are doing in the ukrainians but my biggest concern right now is the resistance. and resistance phase that we are going to have to go into. ukrainian people will resist the russian occupation. they will not allow russian rule or civil order. >> they will bring nato this will bring nato into the conflict because we are going to need to support it. we need to be aware logistics, lethal aid and potentially sanctuary support in nato countries is going to be something that is going to bring us into the conflict. and it may give putin a

justification to attack nato countries because he feels that this is supporting the ukrainians in a way that direct threat to him. so, i believe this is inevitable and i don't know what we're doing. i think general kellogg said yes, presidential finding cia. we also have our special operation force forces and this is the advice that i would be giving the president right now, we see what putin is doing. we see that the ukrainians have the resolve, we need to invest in that. but, when we do, we have to have the resolve in the will to follow through with it. because putin will react. >> gentlemen, as general officers in the military service. thank you so much for joining us and thank you for your analysis and let's hope this resolves quickly. >> god bless you and thank you. >> thank you. joey: the left praising the president for rallying the world despite sanctions coming after

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♪ >> so, what have you guys done throughout this slow moving russia crisis that has worked? >> what the president has done is he has built a global coalition to stand up in the face of president putin and president putin's aggression and invasion of ukraine. what he has done is he has rallied the world. >> white house press secretary jen psaki somehow claiming that joe biden has rallied the world in the wake of russia's violent incursion into ukraine. this as russian soldiers continue to lay siege on the capital city of kyiv. here now to react live and in person congressman jim jordan, ranking member of the house judiciary and oversight government reform committee. congressman, thanks for being

here. >> good to be with you, pete. pete: you will be speaking from the main stage later today which by the way folks can watch on fox nation as well. when you look at the situation. you hear how the white house is characterize it. nancy pelosi also took to the podium yesterday and said it's the brilliance of joe biden's presidency right now. what do you make? >> well, i don't know if he has rallied or the brilliance. you can reach whatever conclusion you want. what i do know president zelenskyy has rallied his people and ukrainian people are showing tremendous courage. and i think they see that from their leader. i said this last night. i have never met president zelenskyy but i felt like i got to know him a little bit during the impeachment a few years ago over the phone call he had with president trump. and you just studying that looking at what he said and looking at how he handled things. you got to appreciate that this guy felt was genuine. that he really cared about making a difference for the people. the ukrainian people and for his country. i think we are seeing that courage and leadership and as you know, the guy with your

service, courage is contagious. i think his leadership, his character is contagious and the whole country is feeling it. what they're doing to stand up to the russian army is truly amazing. pete: it is, you are right. just one leader can galvanize people who otherwise if they had seen him fled might say all is lost. is it also unfair to characterize this resistance, whether it's javelins or stingers, i mean russian hortons and planes are coming out of the sky. tanks are being left in wreckage on the road. they don't have those weapons unless president trump provides them to ukraine. >> no. exactly right. again, back during impeachment i remember we talked about in the obama administration they gave them mres and blankets and president trump gave them javelin missiles it would have been nice too frankly if had it 85 billion equipment and weapons left behind in afghanistan if some of that were in ukraine right now to help these freedom fighters and help president zelenskyy and ukrainian people. what they are doing is truly amazing. and i think it just points to

the energy situation. when you make poor decisions last year over the past year, the biden administration and frankly europe, when it comes to energy, you get put in this bad situation. and that is to me the key. the poor decisions made on energy policy. we went from energy independent country to where we are now. and it's also playing out in ukraine as we talk about a lot. pete: you mentioned european response. president trump ruffled their feathers quite a bit by trying to tell them step up to their obligation. should putin decide to go further, and that's a next step thing. is he still dealing with kyiv. is europe prepared to respond? >> i don't know but i do think president trump was right on target when he was over his presidency. particularly pointing to, you know, then chance color america. you have got too more. nate toy country needs to do more. always the u.s. putting up the mope and troops and everything else. they need to do more. frankly if they would do more i think we would be in a better position today. i think president trump was right on target. we will just have to see how it

all shakes out. pete: speaking of seeing how it all shakes out. joe biden nominated judge kentanji brown jackson to the supreme court. your reaction. >> i think it's another left wing pick. it's interesting that arabella advisory group left wing group is the one behind pushing her, it's also interesting that group their key lawyer who they pay all kinds of money to marc elias. the same marc elias in the durham filing helping this whole process of framing president trump. pete: pops up a lot. >> she is pretty radical. i do think the fundamental issue is where you are on parental rights. if you are right on school choice, if you are right on moms and dads should have the say so and not government when it comes to the well-being of their children, if you are right on issue that, i you this you are right on other things. wrong on parental rights which she is wrong on first amendment, second amendment. radical choice let's see what happens in the senate. pete: are there votes in the senate to stop it. >> i hope. so i really do. >> you don't want someone that radical. particularly with what we have seen happen to our first

amendment liberties over the last year. you really want someone who has full respect for the constitution and bill of rights. pete: possibly all eyes on joe manchin again. >> we will see. pete: up next, the war in ukraine sends gas prices in america soaring even further. of it self-inflicted already drawing more attention to joe biden's failures on energy here at home. a keystone xl pipeline worker who lost his job joins us next. ♪ ♪ we hit the bike trails every weekend shinges doesn't care. i grow all my own vegetables shingles doesn't care. we've still got the best moves you've ever seen good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but, no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age

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he urged the ukrainian citizens to stop and destroy the invaders when they can and defiantly he spoke directly to russian citizens. telling them to tell their leaders to stop -- the sooner they stop this war the more of them will stay alive. part of the damage includes a high rise apartment building in kyiv that took a direct hit from a missile or rocket. we still don't have the details on the number of casualties but the ukrainian health ministry says so far 198 people have been killed. more than 1,000 have been injured. as far as how this is being received in russia, we know that the war has sparked protests, protests which were put down. but possibly one very visible act of defiance came from a russian tennis star andre who after winning a semi-final match dubai championships went to a television camera and wrote in english no war, please. his message easy to interpret there. as far as the scene here in lviv, it is afternoon as is the case in the afternoon but for a

few air raid sirens. things are relatively calm. rachel, back to you. rachel: well, as russia invades ukraine americans are embracing for an energy crisis with the white house sanctioning the kremlin and germany scrambling to cut off nord stream 2. but with the u.s. importing two to 300 barrels of oil from russia per day, are biden's actions too little, too late. well neil crabtree is a former keystone xl pipeline worker and he joins us now to react. so welcome, neecialtion let's get right to it how do oil workers like yourself view this crisis, especially in light of the fact that this administration has been waging war on american energy? >> well, right now we feel the biggest sanctions that are being imposed are the sanctions that biden is putting on the american public with the entire -- like i said before it's a

self-inflicted wound. it's not something that is just happening because demand is going up. they are cutting supply of because of their war on oil and gas. >> there is no doubt about it xl workers are suffering because they lost our job. all of us suffering because of energy costs and et cetera. have enemy of the workers that u know found other employment? >> no. we are trying to upgrade existing facilities because we still depend on oil and gas in this country the keystone what it's come to cymballize it was just one pipeline when it has come to symbolize is biden's attack on oil and gas suffering the same fate either getting

canceled or cut off. i will give news to the american public it will get worse not even in the summer driving season and already approaching record fuel prices it's definitely going to get worse before we have a chance to fix this in november. rachel: i think you are right. now, joe biden had a deadline for reporting how many jobs were lost due to the canceled keystone pipeline. he missed that deadline. why do you think? he didn't report it. >> well, there is probably two reasons. one is he probably forgot about it like he forgets about a lot of other things. the other reason is you know, they know the amount of jobs lost. they see the prices rising every day. they just -- they are doubling down on this policy they have and like i said it's up to the american public to decide do you want to keep paying these unnecessary prices? if not, we have got to get out and vote november and support your energy candidates. rachel: yeah. i think you are right. i think they will continue to

feed the climate gods and caring about american people and american energy as we can see it's a national security concern it's not just about prices here at home. it's problems abroad. neal, thank you so much for joining us. praying for all those workers ladies off. we hope they get their jobs back soon. >> let's pray for ukraine first. rachel: absolutely. thank you,ally. >> thank you. rachel: up next, going into the mind of a mad man, putin. just this whole time a russian born former u.s. intelligence officer is going to help us understand his motives. coming up next. ♪ ♪

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>> we're back with a fox news alert. as russian forces surround kyiv it's becoming clear president biden's year long attempt to reason with vladimir putin has failed. so, was putin playing biden the whole time? and will his invasion really stop at ukraine? our next guest says biden fell right into his trap. here with a look inside the mind of a mad man is russian born former u.s. intelligence officer and author of putin's playbook rebekah koffler did vladimir

putin did vladimir putin play joe biden. absolutely did.unfortunately bid to understand his opponent. he had a national security team they would have known that russia practices something called strategic deception as a form of which means that every action that the russians take accompanied by disinformation program that is intended to confuse the adversary. will: so let's try to, you know, peer through the confusion at this moment. what are vladimir putin's ambitions? >> >> his strategic ambitions have always been to reconstitute a super national alliance. similar to the former soviet union. ukraine would be an integral part of that alliance just like any post soviet state such as georgia, belarus, mull dove.

at the tactical level putin would like to remove nato impediment of execution of strategic ambitions which means he does not want ukraine to become part of it. and this is what the whole war is about. putin has never made it secret out of his intentions. will: so either that it means replacing the government but clearly that's been through the mechanism of military conflict. do you think military conflict will stop in ukraine or bleed into the baltic states or into poland or into romania? >> still at this stage, i believe once president putin executes what is called deat that point station strategy and removes zelenskyy from power, which is his intention. in this stage he will likely stop but, as a long term test, he wants to repeat the playbook

all over again. with regard to the baltics it's very important to understand that putin does not want to have a war with nato. he fears it. will: okay. >> he is watching our reaction right now. baltics are not at least at this stage on the hit list. but it depends on how we react to the whole thing. will: so last question. i don't have a ton of time, rebecca, i'm curious as somebody who understands, this understands the motives of someone like vladimir putin. how do you think he responds to pressure? there have been people talking about the change, seeing change in his behavior. is he saying things a little more out there calling nazis order electricity or drug addicts. how does he respond to economic pressure, to military pressure. get more aggressive or does he recoil? >> it depends how he assesses his opponent as a judo practitioner. is he constantly on the lookout weak and strong points. he knows he has a plan 20 years.

that is very confident and congressy. he knows also that we do not have a plan. so he will likely likely not recoil. he will likely even become more aggressive. will: rebekah thank you for that insight. something we will be on the look out for. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, will. will: more "fox & friends" coming upst in just moments. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. we're a different kind of dentistry. one who believes in doing anything it takes to make dentistry work for your life. so we offer a complete exam and x-rays free to new patients without insurance - everyday. plus, patients get 20% off their treatment plan. we're on your corner and in your corner every step of the way. because your anything is our everything. aspen dental. anything to make you smile.

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kyiv, being met with fierce pushback though. rachel: that's right. ukrainians are turning to places like bowling alleys, they're turning them into bomb shelters. just moments ago turkey closing the black sea to russian warships. joe: one hour from are now, president biden will discuss the situation with his security team. trey yingst is live in kyiv. >> reporter: a violent night here in the ukrainian capital of kyiv, we were in the streets of this city looking at some of the destruction and speaking with the civilians here who survived the night if as russian forces attempted to enter this city. this was an apartment building early this morning that was hit with a russian missile, and you can see the level of destruction here, quite significant. we were at that place talking to people who watched this as it happened and they heard it, and it was really a miracle that no

one was killed. the family who lives in one of those apartments inside this building was actually in a bomb shelter at the time. now, the rest of the city also looks like a war zone because that is what is happening here. war erupting between the two sides inside the city limits. we saw a ukrainian truck that was riddled with bullet holes and blood on the ground. there were definitely a number of casualties that took place in the city last night as the ukrainians attempted to protect this capital. it's additionally important to talk about the fact that the ukrainian president zelenskyy is really pleading with the international community for help right now. we know he just tweeted out, i thank my friend, mr. president erdogan of turkey, and the people of turkey for their strong support. the ban on the passage of russian warships in the black sea are extremely important today. the people of ukraine will never forget9 that. we have not heard from the if turks about this, but again, zelenskyy is claiming some

significant developments in this conflict and some restrictions for the russians. back to you. will: trey, thank you for that update. that is interesting and potentially very significant, the turkish government banning russia from a type of marine or amphibious entrance into ukraine. so pete, who's also with us live from cpac in orlando, florida, joey, rachel, i remain mystified by this one, by this one aspect, and that is of course for four years we've heard about the dark arts of russia's ability to meddle in other people's elections. set aside the truth of that here in the united states, but there is no do you want that russia's practicing the dark arts -- no doubt. asymmetric warfare, propaganda warfare and meddling with a country's ability to communicate internally. there's no doubt russia's placed emphasis on that. i am surprised as we sit here this morning that ukraine and kyiv specifically is up and running. not just water and electricity,

pete, but the internet, communications. it seems -- look, we're talking to people all morning long over skype on "fox & friends." they're clearly communicating through social media, and i'm just a little surprised whatever happens on the battlefield, and we've talked this morning about9 the fighting spirit of the ukrainian. >> i'm surprised to wake up and the lights and internet are on in kyiv. pete: yeah, you're right, will. it makes you feel like it might be by design, likely is, that vladimir putin thought this was going to be swift, fast, surgical, that the will of the ukrainian people would break quickly. i think when we had jim jordan on earlier and he talked about zelenskyy, the motivating factor of your president standing and fighting instead of fleeing and setting up a government in exile, that matters. it was reported at the beginning there were text messages sent out from the kremlin at the beginning saying to the military, don't even try, lay

down your weapons, don't fight. and i think maybe vladimir putin is a bit of a victim of believing husband own propagandn propaganda. now their being -- they're being met with a stiff battle, and the question is not whether or not vladimir putin can take kyiv. he can. if he wants to go full blitzkrieg and level the place, they've got the assets and the ability to do that from the if air and from the ground. the tanks could roll in. but that would require a shift in strategy that's going to lead to a lot more destruction. he was hoping to cut the head off the snake if, put in his own stooge like he has in belarus which has worked out quite well. that hasn't happened yet. i also think it's important to note that the weapons that have been affected so far, the javelins and the stinger missiles, were given to zelenskyy under the trump administration. this is effectively the trump resistance. if you're taking out aircraft and tanks, you're not doing it with ak-47s, you're doing it with advanced weaponry which gives the little guy -- think

the mujahideen in afghanistan -- an advantage they wouldn't otherwise against the russian army. the next move is putin's to make. so far he hasn't attempted to indiscriminately level the city. he would need to take kyiv, and that would be a scary development, but we're not there yet. rachel: they're also not defending themselves with the blankets that obama gave them as well. pete: yeah. rachel: we've been talking all morning on camera, off camera -- sometimes our off-camera conversations are even more interesting, but i think maybe it could be, and i've posed this question to all of you, that maybe the reason why the internet is still working, why the electricity is still on is that ultimately maybe putin doesn't want to occupy, maybe he just wants to cause enough mischief for the west to say, okay, listen, we're not going to let ukraine into nato. and if he got that concession, maybe this would be all over. that's my question.

joey: yeah, but i don't think he's going to get that concession. i don't think that's what's going to happen. one thing to point out, at the height of the cold war there were top officials in the u.s. and russian governments that were spies. and i say top officials, there were things happening, our own embassy was bugged to the hilt and so was theirs. we had information. spy craft was at its height. ukraine is next door to russia, what information are the ukrainians getting from the kremlin? are there sympathizers that are helping field the ukrainians information, is there more to how this is unfolding than simply putin isn't willing to carpet bomb kyiv? the fact that we'll learn how this went down for years to come, but we have to sit here and ask questions because we don't have answers. we don't have ready -- rachel: it may not be spice, it just may be what we were talking about earlier which is his own population may be -- >> and that's really what i mean. rachel: yeah. his own population doesn't like

this, and he has to walk cautiously. what do you think, will? will: i think that is his achilles heel. i think the streets of moscow and st. petersburg are putin's achilles heels. where are the russian spies in kyiv? we had a conversation with a member of the ukrainian parliament, and she said they are conducting parliamentary meetings, someover their governmental meetings over zoom. this is russia we're talking about here. [inaudible conversations] joey: she's a politician, it's her job to spin, but she did not seem like a government defeated. will: no, not at all. rachel: having zelenskyy on camera talking to the people is absolutely emboldening them. go ahead, pete. pete: yes. but it is also very far from over. joey: absolutely. pete: these are good early signs, but the ball is still in putin's court. and if does he care about domestic, you know, a few

protests? he'll lock up political prisoners. he's done that before. he doesn't want to lose face. he's not going to flirt into ukraine and then shrink back out without ultimately getting the objective he set out for which is a new government. so how far -- i just think we're, it didn't happen overnight because we thought it was going to, we're breathing a bit of a sigh of relief, but that doesn't mean hay won't make another push. hay did take that one airfield back from the ukrainians. they're looking for a bigger international airport, remains to be seen. will: you're absolutely right, pete. this is a play-by-play moment. we can't be calling it in the second quarter of this game. there's much more to come here, and vladimir putin, obviously, will have a lot to say about the outcome in this night. let's bring in dan bongino, host of "unfiltered" here on the fox news channel who will be live tonight broadcasting his show. you're seeing the news this morning, some of it surprising, at times it also feels inevitable, to pete's point.

what do you make sense of all of this right now? >> listen, i have to be candid with you, i was surprised by putin's adventurism into kyiv and outside of eastern ukraine which i think a lot of commentators and even military strategists just expected him to take that sliver of eastern ukraine which he wanted to make western russia, right? if a lot of -- i don't think a lot of us expected him to try to waltz into kyiv. i mean, that's not a reasonable, rational decision. you know, he may be a sociopath and an international terrorist, putin, but he's not dumb. and it makes me wonder, is this guy okay? you're seeing at lot of speculation out there there about a his health. i mean, i think that's valid speculation. did something happen to this guy? i mean, this was a totally irrational, imby sellic, moronic strategic decision. on the results of what happened and him trying to take kyiv, guys, i'm not surprised at all. i mean, listen, in my prior line of work, you know, i was in the

transportation section of the secret service's presidential protective acquisition, right? i mean, to -- division, to secure a 5-mile motorcade route, do you have any idea the assets we would have to do that to make sure we didn't get sniped at or an rpg didn't hit us from the high ground? kyiv's a city of 3 million people. the whole city's high ground. just to be clear, you're going to stick 10, 20, 30,000 russian soldiers in a city of 3 million surrounded by high ground and a bunch of pissed off, angry ukrainians who you just bombed their apartment buildings and you thought you were going to take it in a day or two? i've got to tell you, man, their going to -- they're going to start picking off these russian soldiers one by one, and you're going to see all of a sudden putin's polls back home where he's expecting a crimea boost like he got after his an annexation of crimea, he's not going to get that, putin. he's only at about 50% right now

in the polls for the decision to do this, and here's the problem: outside of the obvious moral and ethical issues we have with war and this moron in russia doing this, this guy's a strongman. now, i'm going to mention this again tonight. he's not a man that's strong. there's a big difference. will: right. >> he's a strongman. he needs this map, this patina of strength to maintain that power and fear over his people. i think this guy may have walked himself into with guerrilla war in the middle of kyiv he didn't expect. wait until those body bags start piling up. you're going to see a whole different war here. joey: dan, you're hitting on something that kind of surprises me or at least takes me, makes me think for a minute which is we talked earlier about what if we just said, hey, ukraine's not going to join nato, ask we can give that assurance. that means this entire conflict and all surrounding it was for naught. we could have done that beforehand. same thing with russia. now they've invailedded the

whole un-- invaded the whole country. putin can't really live with the shame of doing this and completely failing, so that's my fear, that this only escalates because the opportunity to jump off the highway here doesn't formally exist on either side. as you're pointing out, position or posture of strength is a strategy in war, and that's where we've been for a while. mow it's actually happening. >> joey, he needed -- you're right. he needed some kind of a propaganda victory to walk back to his dying country. russia is a demographic time bomb, guys. it's got an economy smaller than texas, smaller than south texas. i mean, you've got to understand his country's dying. he needed some propaganda victory to bring back the glory of what he considers the old soviet empire to be the glory days of the region, right? he wasn't going to get that. i believe also that the nato thing was a pretext. i really do.

that's why i don't think he's sane anymore or acting rationally. he was never going to get nato, whether you agree with his decision or not, to forfeit who their members are over to the emperor of the russian government, vladimir putin. joey, he's not dumb. he he had to know that was never going to happen. i believe it was a pretext. in his insane mind he thought, okay, they'll say no. they're not going to let me pick who goes or doesn't go into nato, so then i'll have an excuse to hit eastern ukraine, and then in his bizarre mind he says, you know what? i might as well take the whole thing which is strategically insane. i spent some time in both moscow and afghanistan, right? i know, pete, you were in afghanistan as well. you know, in afghanistan where empires go to die, empires went to die, and you had a country -- i've spent a good amount of time there -- where there was not even a sense of what the nation was. the allegiances were tribal. that, guys, and they couldn't

even win there as we learned the hard way too. you got a country of ukraine where there's no question about what the nation-state is. there's no question. there's very few outside of the eastern regions and maybe in the south and central ukraine questions about what ukraine or where your allegiances lie. and then they are -- this is an educated, tough population. people who once their kids and their apartment buildings and schools and hospitals start getting destroyeded, you think you're going to just waltz in there and put a russian zenly on every corner and say i hereby declare my right like it's braveheart or something? is this guy insane? guys, think about the supply line. like i said, the largers motorcade route i ever secured, i think it was 22 miles, that probably took 6-700 cops in the united states surrounded by friendlies. you think you're going to secure a population of 3 million people with 100,000 troops and even

less in kyiv? i mean, i'm serious, this guy just walked himself into a bloodbath. there's no way. and i've got to tell you, the ukrainians -- once putin wakes up and realizes he's got a guerrilla war, he better be careful if the ukrainians even let him out. you've got to remember, this isn't the tooth fairy who's going to drop those troops in there. they've got to find a way out of there if this doesn't work out the way they planned. good luck. they've got to get out of those tanks sometime. what are you going to do, sit in there for six months? how many mres do you have? [laughter] pete: you make me think of mogadishu and the rangers there. you go into a hornets' nest. but, dan, to your point though, i mean, vladimir putin, i think, made a false assumption based probably on believing his own propaganda that the enemy, that the ukrainians would dissolve away, that zelenskyy would flee. they probably did learn from afghanistan. he had no intention of occupying the entire country and tying the

russian military down for years and years in a protracted fight. he thought he could do do it quickly. he may not be fully rational, but he does have a lot of pride, as you pointed out. does he switch the gears and say we're going to start leveling the place? i mean, that's -- there is a next gear to what the russian military's capable of when you consider their ballistic missile arsenal and the rest of their conventional army. right now he appears to kind of attempting to be slightly surgical. missiles are hitting mostly military targets. that could change. >> no, no, well said. that's my concern, is again, are we dealing with a rational actor. notice i didn't say are we dealing with a sociopath or not a sociopath. that's not the same thing. even sociopaths can act in a rational manner. they can. they can act rationally. and the question you asked me there, he obviously has a nuclear arsenal. some people say, oh, he wouldn't to that.

well, most of us thought he wouldn't invade kyiv either, and if he's not thinking about the use of potential nuclear weapons then, guys, why did he say it two days ago when he clearly stated you will experience consequences you've never experienced before if you interfere. and, by the way, we're still a great nuclear power. you think he was kidding like it was a throwaway laugh line in second, pete, it's not just nuclear. he has thermal bombs, these atmospheric pressure bombs. these are, short of nuclear, i mean, you're talking about -- they don't even call it the if moab, they call it the father of all bombs. these are the kind of bombs in a city area like this you're looking at 5-600,000 casualties if they just drop one. so there's no question he has other tools, and that's what concerns me right now is, you know, listen, 100-200,000 ukrainians with sniper rifles, that's going to cause them a

hard guerrilla are war, but we have to start to consider the fact that he's not a rational actor and mays calculate. he certainly has the ability to do it. will: and you combine that fear, which i share with you, with a united states general saying our involvement is inevitable. there will be a supply line or weapons shipment that gets hit, there will be a cyber attack, whatever it may be. his estimation was we will be inevitably involved. add that to what this analysis dan is providing us with. "unfiltered" tonight, live, responding to the events of the day. we'll be looking forward to it, dan. >> thanks, guys. i really appreciate it. rachel: still ahead, brian kilmeade is here to break down history, putting it into perspective, next. stay with us. ♪ ♪

will: our panel -- >> -- attack nato countries because he feels this is supporting ukrainians in a way that is a direct threat to him. so i believe this is inevitable. will: that was our panel of

military leaders earlier in the show calling european involvement in putin's war in ukraine inevitable. so what does that mean for nato countries? what does that mean for the united states of america? let's map it out with "fox & friends" cohost and host of "one nation" live tonight, brian kilmeade. good morning, brian. >> good morning. doing an incredible job, live at 8 and 11 because we think that's when it heats up. i think we go through four different maps to maybe understand from a different perspective what's going on maybe in vladimir putin's mind. the biggest story here that makes this different is that this is a popularly-elected government. the people want this government to stay. the government wants to stay, doesn't want to be bothered. in belarus the leader was a brutal dictator who only was in power because the russians came in. kazahkstan, a brutal dictator only stayed in power because the russians came in. here the russians are not

invited by the people or the government so, therefore, they're not going to fall. you cannot keep a thumb on millions of people, especially in kyiv. i just want to see, if we take a look at the first map. this is how we started. russia just decided back in 2008, i think we're going to be in the olympics over in beijing, i think i'm going to take two provinces of georgia, what's the big deal, right? he was provocative, it's not going to happen elsewhere. later we find out there's two russian-speaking areas in this donbas region, i think the russians are going to take that. how dare they. crimea, what's the big deal, the rest of the world thought. now, if you look at this map, this is a bigger setup to take the bigger country, ukraine. think about as we move ahead to the next battle and the next full screen. you can attack from crimea, that is a battle point. then you go get the donbas renal. that's where i can attack from. i creep up, i get closer to the capital. and as the war begins to

accelerate, we start getting the outer regions which brings us to kyiv which we understand according to the u.k. reports they're 31 miles from. -- 21 miles. but they're outrunning hair supply lines. they're not getting food. these people are landing, last night there was a story that you had russian troops landing outside kyiv asking for directions -- [laughter] to the capital. they were quickly arrested, and they're now prisoners of war. there's a disorganization to this. i don't believe there's a grand strategy. but in the big picture their hope was to move up close enough to quick quickly take this country down which they don't fully understand the country doesn't want to be taken down from the government on through. will: brian, i hear you on the disorganization of this. do you find any validly -- pete brought this up a little bit earlier -- what putin seems to be doing right now is actually showing some restraint. it's somewhat surgical.

the casualties that we know of, and that's fair, the casualties that we're aware of, are lower than we expected. this hasn't been the blunt instrument of rolling tanks through kyiv just yet. so what do you think explains -- i hear you on disorganization, but what do you think explains the surgical or maybe even somewhat restrained approach from putin? >> i think it's disorganization. and number one, general keane just backed me up, i texted him and said what about this 2800 number that they have 2800 russian casualties, back off that. they are getting a lot. how about last night, the mayor, cliff coe, came out and said 137 people are wounded including 2 children. i'm going to go with that. that's what he's basically witnessed. i think that's closer to the truth. bottom line is i think they're trying to take over a country that doesn't want to be taken over, who does not have any cooperation from the government, who actually had a poppely-elected -- popularly-elected country. you have a pitched battle, and i

would say this, we are continuing to supply the forces through multiple areas. so we just green lighted, we're asking congress for $6 billion more. i think they're getting another $300 million of arms being flooded in, so they're being replenished to a degree, and they've had since 2014 to get ready for this. so as we look at the final map, i think it's the most important map because this is what's next. when i told you in 2008 and what you guys already realized is georgia, there was a mission. it was thought out. in the donbas region there was a mission, it was thought out. to go ahead and take crimea, it was thought out, it was to take this country. they want ukraine, they already have belarus even though the people don't want 'em there, and then latvia, estonia is going to be susceptible. but the bigger story was their choice yesterday diplomatically to call out sweden and finland, you better not join. will: join nato. >> i think we should sign them

up today. they hit all the criteria. the ukraine grabs weren't with corruption and some of the things they just weren't there yet, but i think we should consider their membership immediately. rachel: really? >> absolutely. will: he said to sweden and finland, basically he said expect military conflict. >> absolutely. joey: so are you saying in your mind it's a call bluff situation right now? entertaining or making it the headline, not only are we not going promise not to expand nato, but we're going to do it now, what does that say for what's happening in ukraine, what does that say for putin to go them to his oligarchs and say not only did i not get what i'm looking for out of ukraine, but i made it worse for us? i don't think putin -- the pride of a russian leader can't stomach that. does that that mean he doubles down on ukraine and makes life that much harder for the people of ukraine trying to take it? >> they didn't really stand up to the, they didn't stand up. their government did not stand

up in the 1990s. they preferred to keep the soviet union together, at least the government did. the people stood up and said we want a change, you had gorbachev, then you got vladimir putin who said we should have killed everybody. that's the guy in power right now. he is acting like a third world nation. he does not understand fully, despite all his knowledge, he has so many yemen -- yes men around him, he doesn't understand what he's gotten into. his goal is to dominate that region if not until -- physically with leaders, i hate to say it, but if we don't stop him now, we are going to have to apologize to another generation because we got them into another global war. rachel: but can't we stop this now by just saying ukraine will not be part of nato? >> why? why would we do that? rachel: why would we need them? don't the russians care more about ukraine being part of nato

than actually we do? i don't -- [inaudible conversations] joey: how you think it fits into our national security -- rachel: i'm not saying i don't care about them, i'm just saying our national interest isn't at stake with finland and -- >> not yet. but it wasn't at stake when germany took czechoslovakia or poland. when it was at stake was -- rachel: i want peace. >> well, the problem is we don't have control of the person perpetweight war. joey: i can imagine you're going to go all of this tonight and maybe not have someone as fiery as rachel -- >> make the -- she'd make the show better. i'm not saying that you you don't have a great point or most people watching don't agree with you. but my vision is what's next. what i was hoping to do is we didn't care in 2008, we didn't care in 2014, man, do we care now. how many hours are we going to be on the couch --

rachel: -- bringing them into nato, we could just help the ukrainians have a stronger economy which would be a bit of a buffer for them as well with russia on the border there. i just, i personally want peace, and what i do hope comes out of this, brian, is i really hope we change our energy policy which has been feeding -- >> we agree on that. rachel: this is the green new deal war. charlie hurt said that last night, i couldn't agree more. our energy is national security -- >> but i'm going to factor this in, we don't make decisions for germany, france and the rest of europe. they decided to get on the crack pipe of -- rachel: then let's stop helping them. let them take responsibility -- >> trump was ahead of his time, a look at vladimir putin, it's going to be fox nation, we're doing it today, it's going to drop on monday, and i think we'll get more perspective on we're not dealing with people like us. we're dealing with somebody who's a megalomania -- megalo maniac so if we don't stop them

earlier, they're much worse late. will: check that out and watching you tonight as well. thanks for being here this morning. appreciate it. all right, pete, over to you. pete: very interesting discussion, guys. you're right, both sides not without merit. well done. ukrainian soldiers making the ultimate sacrifice in the fight against putin's invasion including one marine, a battalion engineer, deemed a hero for blow blowing himself up on a bridge to prevent russia's rapid advance. meanwhile, ukrainian border guards who were killed defying a russian warship on the strategic snake island will receive heroism awards posthumously. here to react is dakota meyer and rob o'neill, they also have a book out which we are going to get to, for sure. rob, let me start with you. these are -- you're two guys who have seen war, the worst of it and also the best side of human nature when people muster the courage to do what they must in the moment.

rob, what are people -- as we look at all of this, what are we missing? what aspects should we be talking about today? >> well, thanks for having me this morning, pete, i appreciate it. this is a war we haven't seen, basically, since the late 1930s, and we're getting an up-close view of it just because of social media. you've got to figure this guy gave up his life to defend his country, blowing up a bridge by himself. he could have easily run away, you've got these coast guardsmen, people guarding the border, where they basically told them to stick it knowing they were going to get bombarded. i have to admit i'm that awe of them, my prayers go out to the ukrainians, i want them to win this. pete: absolutely. dakota, one variable we don't often account for is will or belief in your cause. and in this case, you know, we don't know necessarily what's in the minds of those russians attempting to take a foreign country under the leadership of putin. we do know from what we have

seen so far, you know, ukrainians seem to be in it to defend their country. how much does that matter? >> oh, i mean, it matters so much. i think all of us, i'll speak for myself if, i think that we underestimated ukraine. i thought that russia would have already taken them over, but i think this just shows how powerful the sheer will of the people who are willing to defend and fight for what they love. but i want to point out this, don't underestimate -- understand these people are fighting because their leaders are fighting. their leader's showing them he's going to stick there there and fight for this country, and he's not going to turn around and leave either, right? so this country, you know, whatever you want to say about it, i've had my opinions on how corrupt it is in its leadership, but just the sheer will of that leader with --ing with to stay there -- willing to stay there and empowering his people, it's inspiring to all of us to see, you know, this country do this.

pete: yeah. rob, what comes next based on all you've seen? i think putin was hoping to be much further along than he is now. >> what we're seeing now is we saw china abstain from the vote at the security council and going to the stans, all those places. the problem i think are the chechnyans, they were seen on tape screaming, they're known for forced kidnapping, disappearances, they've got decks of cards with president zelenskyy's name on it. once the russians shell the tar out of that city, the chechnyans come in, i've fought them before, these are the guys that look like the tough ufc fighters. picture 10,000 of them with kalashnikovs believing in what they're fighting, and these are actually religious dudes that when they martyr themselves, they go to heaven. they're serious. i'd be concerned about that. the people of ukraine, keep it real. pete: you're right. man, that's quite a reminder

that we're just at the first chapter of this. speaking of chapters, you guys have a book you've co-written called "the way forward." it is out on tuesday. any book by dakota meyer and rob o'neill, i'm going to pick it up and take a look at it. dakota, what are we going to see in this book? >> we just hope to take the lessons that we've learned across life and show people there is a way, you know? breaking it down into basic principles, you know, keeping it simple and just getting up every day and, you know, focusing on what matters, and that's the people around us. finish you know, it's taking care of yourself, taking care of each other and, you know, understanding that we all have a lot more in common than we truly know, and, you know,st it's one of those deals like, you know, how do we push forward, how do we move forward through the trying times and, obviously, these trying times are not going to go away. pete: yeah. rob, real quick, 15 secs, the

book, why should people pick it up? >> because it's the way forward, like we say. our back's our weaknessest point. put your front towards the enemy. keep moving ahead, learn from the past, get over it, move forward. pete: the book is "the way forward." i hope everybody checks it out, and you know based on the experience of these two guys they've put their money where their mouth is throughout their lives, and now it's in a book. congratulations, guys. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, pete. anytime. pete: thank you. all right, the white house pressed on what biden is doing to deter putin that's actually working. caylee mcenaney reacts live next.

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>> so what have you guys done throughout this slow-moving russian crisis that has worked? >> what the president has done is he has built a global coalition to stand up in the face of president putin and president putin's aggression and unvegas of ukraine. what he has done is he has rallied the world. rachel: white house press secretary jen psaki boldly claiming that president biden has rallied the world in the wake of russia's violent incursion into ukraine, this as russian soldiers inch closer to the city of kyiv in day three of the invasion. let's get reaction from

"outnumbered" cohost and former white house press secretary caylee mci neighborny who's live with pete in orlando, florida. your reaction. >> yeah. so president biden's rally the world, except he hasn't because europe is the impediment to crippling sanctions on russia, rachel, which should have been in place a long time ago. literally, i think it was eight days ago, joe biden said is i can say with certainty russia is going to invade. well, if you know for certainty, issue the crippling sanctions then. but why can't we do it? because they are calling the shots, not the nation's foremost superpower, the united states of america. the dynamic on the world stage has changed. rachel: yeah. pete: as you look at this -- go ahead, will. will: no, it's yours. pete: we look like we're in different boxes, but we're sitting right next to each other. [laughter] it was the trump administration

that sent sting theres and javelins and actually kinetic weapons there, so there is a lot that you could argue that the resistance the ukrainians are putting up right now is thanks to the trump administration. >> yeah, thanks to the trump administration and thanks to the trump administration, pete, for four years there were no invasions from russia. it's laughable to me when people say the -- this wasn't anything novel. excuse me, crimea happened in 2014. the guy in charge was president obama. this happened in 2022, the guy in charge was president biden. there was a four-year absence of putin invading, and that was the trump years when lethal weapons went to ukraine cans, crippling sanctions. expelling the diplomatic presence of russia on the west coast of our country. the actions were different. will: you're the perfect person to ask this, we've been discussing it on the couch during the commercial breaks. the state of the union is next tuesday. obviously, domestic politics and

joe biden's role many what's going on internationally plays a role in all of this. and in the midst of that, he nominates judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. is that, i mean, is that calculated, caylee? what's going on with this happening at this note time and layer in the state of the union. >> it feels that way. it's interesting when you look at kind of the campaign or the sources that talk to publications behind the scenes. those sources have indicated, there was an article about a month ago just after breyer's retirement, i think there was a pressure campaign. it's my personal opinion. they need a victory, there's no doubt about it. and typically nominating a supreme court justice is a massive victory, think amy coney barrett, kavanaugh or gorsuch. but it says something about how bad the times in the world are when the nomination of a supreme court justice, a paramount achievement for a president,

it's not going to be enough. about 60% of the country categorized president joe biden's first year as a failure, so i think they're looking for some wins, a tailwind behind them. i think it's just that, a blip, which says a lot about where we are. rachel: sure does. pete: for sure. hey, guys, if i can, the camera caught me -- well, she gave great analysis, and you were going to follow up on that, which i concur. the camera caught me waving because i was trying to get back to a two shot because the two of us will be here, if i can pretty, will be hosting all access live on fox nation at 12 noon -- i was waving around -- will: we didn't see is it. rachel: i saw it. will: okay. [laughter] pete: but the two of us will be together in a two shot at 12 noon today on fox nation doing all access live covering what's happening at cpac, and a lot has to do with russia and ukraine. will: so the takeaway was pete was yelling put me on camera. [laughter] rachel: no, pete was saying

watch fox nation. will: that's right. [laughter] catch those two on fox nation at cpac. thank you for joining us. rachel: absolutely. there's the promo for it. make sure you catch it today. russia's attack sending people scrambling to escape the violence. our next guest, a professional basketball player from maine, shares his experience of leaving ukraine. stay with us. ♪ ♪ this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. promises of all shapes and sizes. each, with a time and a place they've been promised to be. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you.

will: fox news alert, turkish officials now denying reports the black sea is shut down to russia, this as ukrainian troops hold strong against putin's army. mike tobin is live in lviv with new reporting. so, mike, that's different than what we heard from a tweet from president zelenskyy or regarding the role of turkey. >> reporter: right. and president zelenskyy was very encouraged that turkey and president erdogan were going to step up and support the ukrainians in this effort. but specifically hear in lviv -- here, the mayor says about 60 miles east of this location russians attempted a troop insertion with some three helicopters and 60 russian troops. he says ukrainian fighters met them at that location, an

airstrip, and that was successfully if repelled. three days into the invasion and russia a does not control a single population center. russia does not have air superiority, and the ukrainian command and control is still intact. the russian president has been reminding the people in ukraine that he is still present, still in the fight. defiantly on social media, he spoke directly to the russian people. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: and now i'll talk to russians, all of them, thousands of victims, hundreds who cannot comprehend why they have been sent to ukraine to die and kill others. tell your authorities that the war has to be stopped, the more you will stay alive. >> reporter: remarkable video from kyiv where an apartment building took a direct hit from a rocket. no word on casualties from that attack, but the health ministry says 168 people have been

killed, more than 1,000 people injured in ukraine since the start of this invasion. as far as how this is being received in russia, thousands of protesters took to the streets in st. petersburg, more than 1800 of them were arrested as the russian authorities were attempting to put this, put the demonstration down, put the protests down. back here in lviv, the mayor with has been telling people that the soldiers will be away defending the nation, they need to defend the city. he told them keep calm and make molotov cocktails. back to you in new york. rachel: mike, can i ask a quick question to you? we saw remarkable footage of a tank overtaking a car. what do you know about that? >> reporter: what i am hearing is that that was an anti-aircraft weapon on track. it's not necessarily certain that that was a russian vehicle. so this is one of those situations where a lot of this video gets out on social media,

a lot of conclusions are reached, but the facts still need to be sorted out on that one. will: i had the same thing, mike. we're not sure if that's a russian or ukrainian military personnel. >> reporter: right. will: okay. thank you for that latest report. our next guest is a maine, united states, native and escaped ukraine just before the attack. while some of his friends remain stuck in bomb shelters and unable to leave. troy barnie is here now. thanks for being with us. a little earlier in the show we had a conversation with a basketball player in ukraine as well who is having trouble leaving the country. it appears you were able to escape. tell us the difference in your situations as far as how you were able to accomplish that escape. >> yeah. so i was going to be staying there for the time, but for my situation, my agent call me past weekend, and he advised me to, you know, now is time to go.

and i was wonderiing like, why the change of heart? we were talking about staying and, you know, nothing was going to happen, it happens to ukraine all the time. so i was like, okay, i got the call on sunday, we gotta go. i bought a ticket the same day and left the following morning. joey: troy, right before you left, i keep seeing ukrainians didn't feel this was going to happen. what was the tone and tenor of the ukrainians? the day you left, did anyone believe something like this could happen? >> no, no, nobody. if i was -- because, obviously, this has been an ongoing escalation over the last month or so that we've seen, you know, the troops around the border and stuff. even then my ukrainian teammates, the people around me, my friends in ukraine were saying, ah, russia does this to us all the time. they're prove candidating us. i'm like, okay, i trust you guys. it is what it is, what am i

going to do? i trust you. they were starting to get worried a little bit more -- will: unfortunately, troy, we've got to run. thank you. we're glad you got out. rachel: we're glad. wisconsin will more "fox & friends" moments away. or fist b, or...oh! i can't wait to go there! or reunite there, ♪ ♪ start here. walgreens makes it easy to stay protected wherever you go. schedule your free covid-19 booster today. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get.. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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