under attack. you are watching a rocket. a massive russian convoy coming closer. a lot going on. let's hope the people in charge have wizz and strength. we are paying for that. see you tomorrow night. the show that is the sworn enemy of of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. >> sean: a message for the world and vladimir putin. we begin with a fox news alert. russian troops are attempting to encircle ukraine's capital city kyiv. i fear the worst is yet to come. when putin looks weak, god only knows what he is capable of. i am dubious of the reports that are asserting that the ukrainian

insurgency is winning. new evidence that russian troops are targeting civilians with cluster pomes. -- bombs. we are about to it enter a scary new chapter. >> [sirens wailing]. >> [loud explosion]. >> [gunfire]. >> [loud explosion]. >> we are ready to die for the sake of our freedom. >> [gunfire]. >> this is our ultimate fight. >> [inaudible]. >> putin is the same. he will not stop until he is stopped. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> seeing how people are

desperate. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> [crying]. >> sean: yesterday in a concerning move vladimir putin put russia's nuclear forces on high alert as some question putin's mental fitness. and condoleeza rice called his behavior erratic and not the putin she knew.

jennifer griffin, my sources are suggesting this is not the same guy 5 years ago. >> it looks like that. what is putin capable of when his back is against the wall? the ukrainians are still out gunned by the russian military and they are encircling those cities. u.s. officials are reviewing putin's announcement that he put his put the nuclear weapons on high alert. experts are not sure what that means. >> we have seen mr. putin's announcement, we believe it's as unnecessary as it is

escalatingory. >> our team in kyiv saw an outgoing ukrainian air defense missile fired. ukraine still has war pliance that are operational. a convoy is snaking to the capital but only moved a few miles overnight because of fuel shortageings. -- shortages. the kremlin says anyone providing weapons to the ukrainians will be held accountable. the west's biggest weapon, sanctions target to russia's

central banks, putin faces a tough time financing his war. russia's gdp is 1.5-trillion dollars compared to the u.s. economy which is 20 trillion dollars. the u.s. economy produced more in january than the russian economy in an entire year. ukraine asked the u.s. and nato to set up a no-fly zone. but the problem is what happens if the u.s. and russian planes are in a dog fight and suddenly you are in a war. it's a message to stay out. >> sean: tonight all eyesor ukraine. a bloody new chapter of war is unfolding before our very eyes. civilians are in russia's cross harris. i have been critical of

ukraine's government and corruption in the country. and by government officials. now president zelensky and ordinary ukrainians are fighting against an invasion. innocent men, women and children are dying at the hands of a tine tyrant named vladimir putin. this six-year-old was killed in southern ukraine. she was pale. her brown hair was pulled back with a rubber band. her bloody pajama pants were decorated with cartoon unicorns and her blood is on vladimir putin's hands. my question to the soldiers waging this war on civilian and children, really? is this the legacy you want for

your life. do you have the courage to stand up. this is a hard tape to watcher but it's important to see. take a look. but it's important to see. take a look. >> [shouting]. >> [crying].

>> sean: the medical personnel try to resuscitate this girl, they are crying. vladimir putin killed that six-year-old girl and started this war. vladimir putin kills even children to satisfy his ambitions. you may notice here, below the u.s. flag is the ukrainian flag for people like that little girl standing in solidarity with the innocent people of ukraine. the world needs a new rule.

i want this new rule. if you are a murdering tyrant who invades a sovereign country and kill innocent men, women and children you forfeit your right to run any country. the russian military needs to stop taking orders from this murderer. putin should not be running russian. he is a thug killing innocent civilians and civilized countries must remove him by any means necessary. seens like this are everywhere as russia bombs schools and hospitals. these are not targeted attacks against ukrainian military

installations. it's vladimir putin attempting to punish ukrainians through violence. ukraine's minister of health over 350 civilians have been killed. it's likely much higher including many children over the weekend. here's what former donald trump said at cpac about putin's hostile invasion. >> when you have a weak president not reported by other nations, you have a chaotic world. i have no doubt that president putin made his decision to attack ukraine only after watching the pathietic withdrawal from afghanistan. the problem is not that putin is smart, of course he is smart, the real problem is that our leaders are dumb. >> [cheers and applause]. >> dumb. they have allowed him to get away with this travesty and

assault on humanity. it's so sad. putin is playing biden like a drum. >> sean: we played the tape of donald trump without a single no lectureing in the face of the leader of nato. we america paying the bulk of money for nato to protect western european countries from being attacked by putin and yet they are making billion dollars deals and becoming more reliant on vladimir putin and russia for energy needs and how stupid that whole policy is. i would play what the current president joe biden said but he was nowhere to be found this weekend. while putin was putting nuclear weapons in play, joey took time off in delaware. doing what? i don't know. president trump is right. the western world is being stupid. we need to understand this thug

for who he is. and we need to understand that the only thing that works is strength. according to a harvard and harris poll two-thirds of americans believe this is attack would not have happened under donald trump? why? because putin feared donald trump. putin knew in trump said it, he would do. weakness invites chaos and carnage. donald trump didn't need, after 4 years of his presidency, he made america energy independent and an exporter of energy. that's a big factor in all of this. without a doubt biden's disastrous withdraw from afghanistan emboldened every dictator around the world. i said it would.

i wish i was wrong. day 198. wednesday 2 monday days. joe biden turned the page. never mentioned them. the media mob never mentions americans left behind want green card holders left behind. our afghan allies abandoned and stabbed in the back. abandoned all by joe biden. if joe biden were a descent leader he would address this in tomorrow's state of the union. he would announce a new wave of sanctions against putin's oil and expand energy production to meet the energy needs of our country and our allies in europe. joe's economic energy policies have hurt every american family. we pay more for every item we

buy. everything costs hear to get it to the store and for a gallon of gasoline. he gave up america's energy independence and compromised our national security. he compromised the world security. who would think after inheriting energy independence joe biden imports 232 million barrels of oil from russia and a billion of barrels of oil from iran for the first time since 1991. joe biden is beholdened to the radical new green deal socialists and he won't admit he is wrong. italy is considering reviving the country's coal plants to break their energy dependency on russia. joe should block the u.s. from

importing all russian oil and every descent country in the world should put that main sanction on vladimir putin in russia. that would mean the most to putin. that's the one sanction they have not put in place. any sanction that doesn't hit russia's energy sector is pointless. russia is a gas station masqueradings a country. but the biden administration killed the keystone xl pipeline. this south of their control. really? take a look. >> why is the u.s. buying russian gas? can we pledge not to buy anymore russian gas? >> i think there is confusion.

one moment. [silence]. hmmm. as it relates to russian gas, the united states government doesn't dictate where the u.s. market silence our products or requires production for domestic consumption. >> sean: the new green deal people for charge and take top priority over the american people and over the world peace we would have being energy independence. under their leadership the world is falling apart. look at your screen: since joe biden's was inaugurated. ad the border crisis and the crisis in afghanistan and a full-blown war in europe

breaking out before our eyes. the state of the union -- well the state of the world is not in a great place because america doesn't have a strong leader. joe biden is probably asleep and probably doesn't know what day it is. tomorrow we are to expect joe biden to double down on the new green deal social platform as a cure all for america's woes. that's the dumbest policy you could embrace. even abc and "washington post" poll has him at an all time low at 37%. we will have a lot more on tomorrow's speech in a moment. first joining us from the big board with the latest from ukraine bill hemmer. it used to be the election birthday. now it's the ukraine big board. >> there are a lot of things to

so --. the image behind me. this is a convoy of the russian military. it's mostly 3 deep. this morning we reported there was 3 miles long. at midday we reported it was 17 miles long. tonight there are suggestions it's 40 miles long. it blows the mind to think about the might of military might the russian army is moving into this country. even if were 20 miles long that would scare the daylights out of anybody in kyiv or kharkiv. there is another image. 2 across all the way. these are armored personnel carriers and tanks. you name it. this is what the russian military is pauseing in some places. getting rest and getting ready

for their next attack to open up the next front. over here on the map. let's go back one. it's only day 5. yesterday was day 4. i want to show where the russian army advanced and kept territory. it's subtle on the map. everything in red is what they have done this far. this is last thursday february 24th. i see a little red here and there. we will go to friday. you see the movement here up in the north and in the northeast and the south. this is day 3 now on february 26th. this is yesterday. sorry. february 20th. you see where they are at the moment. put your eye on 3 things. the kyiv the capital city and

crimea and kharkiv the second largest city. kharkiv is 20 miles from the russian border. we showed you the satellite images about the military operation on the russian side of the board for back up and resupply. these were massive installations. i will draw a line here. there you see the russian border. you look at the video today, it looks clear these are residential areas. maybe there are ukrainians soldiers in some buildings but not all of the buildings. this is a residential area and dollar is fire everywhere from the daytime video. this is the side of san diego, california. taking on a city of that size, where does everything go?

this kyiv. a few things here. capital city is here. they had a truce meeting earlier today. that was a few miles into belarus. that's the russian border out to the east. this would be the belarus border to the north. they will meet again in a couple of days near the belarus and polish border. today they talked for 5 hoosiers. -- hours. maybe that's good news. >> sean: i am looking at belarus and that distance. troops are heading out of belarus down to kyiv. i assume its phoney meeting today was to buy time for munitions and more fuel. that's a close distance to the

capital. >> what i think is remarkable about the meeting that actually happened today is that on day 2, 48 hours into this war, putin let's meet in the capital of belarus. 48 hours in. what tactic is that from a military standpoint? it did happen. maybe something good comes from it, but when i show you the columns of trucks and convoys and tankers. you have to hold your breath and say a prayer for the people in this country. down here in the south. russia occupied this area for the last 8 years. after the invasion ever 2014. it wasn't hard to cross this border area and go into southern ukraine. very little resistance based on the reporting we are getting from the southern part. you showed the video of that six-year-old girl taken to the emergency room. that's in the port city right

here on the sea. over the weekend 2,000 russian marines land tread to seize that area? why? here's the russian border and the donbas area what was also taken in 2014 along with with crimea is right there to the west of the russian border. if you can seize this area and lock it down, you are looking a significant land victory early on for putin and the russian army. i am not saying it's done yet. you can see a clear military perspective for this part of southern ukraine. this is where we were yesterday. february 20th. down here in crimea. watch these convoys and what they do next. the imagination starts to run here and you start to think

about very, very bad things for a lot of innocent people in ukraine tonight. >> sean: bill, i echo your sentiment. some people on air were optistic thinking the ukraine insurgency is working but i don't think vladimir putin unleased 1-1,000th of what his capable it. i shudder to think what this idiot, madman may do. >> it's only day 54 o'clock -- 5, 4 o'clock in kyiv. >> sean: trey yingst live this kyiv. what is the latest? >> we heard explosions here in the ukrainian capital and sirens. another night that ukrainians

have to live under ground as their country is under attack. the satellite image the 40 mile long convoy of russian troops. it's just 17 miles outside of the city. u.s. defense officials believe that president biden's intentions are to surround the ukrainian capital. it's a city of 3 million people. some left but others remain here. we saw people trying to gather supplies to get ready for what appears to be a bloody, urban offensive on the horizon. women and children in hospitals trying to get shelter wherever they can. some of the heart breaking images. you hear the words of the parents. their kids are stuck in the middle of a war zone. listen to this one mother. >> we receive medicine we need

but we are running out of food. local charities promised to bring some. we are waiting for bread and juice for children. >> that's what the civilians in it ukraine are looking for. others are looking for weapons and ammunition and pledging to it fight back against the russians. there was a phone call today between russian president vladimir putin and the french president emmanuel macron say he would have to have them recognize an area they took in 2014. non-starters for ukrainians. >> sean: here is don hoffman and a florida congressman. congressman, my sources in the intel community, you know very well. are all telling me that

something is off. something is different. i was even told it is well believed that vladimir putin looks puffed up. maybe on some steroids or medication that he has become more paranoid and isolated. others say he's had incidents of facelifts. i don't know what to think about it. i always thought of him as a hostile actor and somebody you could never trust. >> yes, sean, we received a series of briefings. i can't get into details. but i can tell you a couple of things. they don't know putin's state of mind. there was reassureing in terms of his nuclear posture.

what i fear is this about to get a lot worse before it gets better. clearly he is frustrated with his generals that this lightning decapitation strategy hasn't worked to take out zelensky and put in his own puppet government. this is part of soviet russian doctrine. they will go to a scorched earth strategy. bombing civilians and inflicting mass casualties. they did that in at this time afghanistan in the '80s and syria in the last 10 years. they are moving in that direction now. >> sean: you look at tanks and fighter jet. the ukrainians are outgunned. this is a very, very aggressive military action by putin. i admire the ukrainian people for fighting back. i agree with the congressman, the worse is credit to come. >> looking for a silver lining

in these dark cloud look at president zelensky. i felt that leaders are not born. they are made. they are made in a crisis. we are seeing president zelensky emerge as a 21st century leader facing vladimir putin. he mobilized the international crisis. now nato is joining ukraine and switzerland gave up its neutrality. all because of president's zelensky's appeal to the cause of fighting for democracy and freedom and liberty. everything enshrined in the constitution and the bill of rights. ukraine citizens areifying with everything they've got. -- are fighting. he jolted the democracies which were in a slumber for a little

while there. that's something positive we can derive. we await for darker days to come. >> sean: congressman, donald trump gave the ukrainians the javelin anti-tank missiles even whether we thought corruption was rampant in the ukraine. finally germany, 1,000 anti-tank weapons. we are providing stinger missiles and fighter jet and they are providing anti--tank weapons. the u.k., poland, the check republic. greece, estonia, and that will give them some ability to fight back. will that be enough?

>> well, that's the other silver lining. these european nations got a kick in the pants. putin scared the snot out of them and it's a wake up call. look at the reversal from germany on nord stream-2 and providing lethal aid after had a blocked it a few weeks ago. can it get through poland since we can't fly it in and get into the hands of the ukrainian resistance fighters? i think if the russians get bogged down in urban areas, tanks are most vulnerable from the top, and from the rear, and then to choke off the long convoys. one story is that the russian army is a paper tiger in terms of itself capabilities. all drafts.

very young. treated brutally with old equipment. for putin to continue to sustain and fuel to maintain an army that big, if europe and the united states got them the arms they need fast enough, they may have a fighting chance. >> sean: dan hoffman, you were a cia station chief and studied vladimir putin in russian. he is threatening the west with nuclear weapons. is he capable of that or is that a lie? >> he took nuclear readiness to that elevated status because he is very nervous about the west providing humanitarian and military assistance to keep ukraine in the fight. time is on the side of the

ukrainians. vladimir putin knows and that's why he reminded us we have nuclear weapons. >> sean: we have our own and other countries do as well. did he forget that part? >> well, that's something that president biden ought to think for tomorrow's state of the union. speak to vladimir putin himself and the russian military. as you said eloquently in the program. russian military would think about twice about killing innocent civilians. president biden should address them. the mission for the u.s. nato alliance is clear. provide ukraine with lethal and humanitarian assistance and avoid a direct war with russia.

>> sean: i hope to think there are people under vladimir putin not as soulless as he is and seeing the killing of innocent men, women and children as a reason to say i won't go along with that and take care of business and make a safer place. also tonight. russian forces are facing a stiff and brave resistance from the ukrainian people. countries are supplying weapons am why they didn't do this in the build-up of russian troops on the border, i don't know. one brewery in western ukraine they are mixingul molotov cocktails instead of beer as this conflict intense fisa. theoo intensifies.

the brewery owner wanted do put his skills to use. -- he joins us now. different from producing beer to molotov cocktails. how much are you producing a day? >> [muffled audio]. if we cannot make beer, we decided to use our skills and chemistry and some experience from 2014 to produce molotov cocktails. >> sean: you know what you are up against. you are outgunned and out manned. they have tanks. they have rockets. they have fighter jet. i appreciate the molotov cocktails. do you believe that can beective

in terms of the resistance against this massive, overwhelming might and power of the russian military? >> ied like to say two things -- you have to do something you can do when you can do it. this is what we are doing. another we are putting together an army. they don't know what they are here for. they are going to face 40 million people absolutely outraged about what is going on. everybody will fight from that apartment building and the balconies and the street. our task is to it help those people get molotov cocktails. >> sean: we wish you the best. i hope you get back to producing

the beer and that you get your country liberated sooner than later and hope the world will help you and provide stronger weapons than molotov cocktails. i admire your resistance and fight. we wish you well. thanks for joining us. here with more former director of national intelligence john ratcliff is with us. you had access to information the american people never have access to. the consensus of everybody i know this the intel community. they have been right 100% of the time regarding this build-up. what was going on happen. my question is about vladimir putin and the reports he was not the same guy he was 5 years ago. did you see any indication before you left that indicated something was going on with him? >> we look at foreign

adversaries and leaders of other countries for every tick or bobble that might influence their decision making ability or the ability to stay in power. i spent a lot of time looking at vladimir putin. these reports from foreign leaders that have been spending time with him recently are concerning. folks that had access to him relate he is acting differently. i think some of the photos now compared to a year ago show that he is bloated or swollen. that may indicate a medication he is taking to mask should condition. my counterpart sergei was pub like -- publicly humilinated by the national security council and that's something he hasn't

done before. whether he is physically ill or mentally unstable, he is the leader of a country with one of the largest nuclear stock piles on the planet. he is in uncharted territory of a battle he expected to win quickly. >> tucker: do you believe he is capable of losing this to an insurgency? >> well, no. >> sean: if putin's back is against the wall, he will unload hell on the ukrainian people? >> i agree with you. the point, sean, is that he expected this to go much more quickly. he is frustrated. he barely deployed more than a third of his forces and his most potent weaponry hasn't yet been

deployed. if he is desperate and frustrated he is losing on the battlefield the way to change that is to act drastically and we should all be concerned about that. >> sean: you were the director of initial intelligence -- national intelligence. you had access to information and assessments you could never shareuous. -- share with us. it a pipe dream that some of his high ranking members of the cabinet that want no part of killing innocent, men and women and children and want no part it taking over a sovereign country. he annexed crimea in 2014. he wants to take all of ukraine. is there any risk to putin from

within that some people might see this as an opportunity to remove him by whatever means necessary? >> well, i don't think it's a pipe dream. and of his closest friends and inner circle, he is treating differently. which indicates they see he is acting differently. this is what happens to autocrats and dictators over time. they get isolated. at a get more paranoid. they become less trustworthy and become more dangerous. the people around them see that. in the end what you hope in a country like russia, that his military intelligent folks would get together if he is acting erratically and they are concerned, we could see

a change. that would be good for the world. if at the end of this exercise, vladimir putin was low longer this charge of russia the world would be a safer place. >> sean: there is an excite off order you can't target the leaders of foreign countries for assassination. the logic it being happen to an american president or american vice-president. my question is aren't they already at risk? don't we assume that there are people who want to take out our leadership? >> well, there are. and of the threats against president trump from iran became known. and so i think you are getting into an area where i probably

can't comment anymore than i have with respect to what is appropriate here. >> sean: i think i can read your mind. i have known you a long time, we can always hope. there are innocent men, women and children whose lives are at risk. >> sean, what i would say is this. the question i am getting mostly here: would this have happened in the trump administration? the answer is we know the answer. it didn't happen in the trump administration because there were a credible deterrent and the president made us energy independent. true deterrents on leaders in those circumstances it's appropriate to target foreign leaders when they are terrorists and committing criminal activities and threatening the lives and safety of the american people. you need strong leadership to act that way.

we had that way. the fact we don't have that led to this situation. >> sean: you know as director of national intelligence, when president trump first spoke to at this time taliban about a possible deal. i was told that he said before we ever talk about a deal, you need to understand clearly that if you don't follow every dotted i, and crossed t and every comma and period i will blow you off the face of the earth. i am told by sources, i know where you are right now and president trump named the exact location with the head of the taliban was much to the surprise of theitable leader. -- taliban leader. would that conversation be something donald trump would have had with vladimir putin in

your view? >> donald trump made it very clear. so clear that the talent did not kill one american soldier the last year of the trump administration. he spoke clearly and forcefully. that is a credible deterrent. when he talked to foreign leaders he was always strong and clear and that included dictators around the world. i have every confidence that we would not be in in situation because donald trump made that very clear and would have made that very clear to vladimir putin. that's why that didn't happen. it would have to be the strangest of coincidences, vladimir putin wanted to bring ukraine back into the fold of russia and took a giant bite of

crimea when joe biden was last in the white house. it's strange he would lose that an tight for 4 years and not move on ukraine until after donald trump left the white house or perhaps because donald trump left the white house to amass troops last april. he was moving on this last april, sean. president biden did not do anything to confront him. he appeased him by lifting sanctions on nord stream-2 and ignored the intelligence that showed that vladimir putin had this plan and that you have talked about often on this program tonight. he didn't take the sanctions necessary and still is not willing to invoke the most important sanction targeting russian energy. >> sean: the american people are facing pain at the pump and paying more for everything we

buy in every store and paying more to heat your home this winter, joe biden is as committed as ever to reducing the supply of america's energy and the worley's energy. he refused to cripple the kremlin with the one sanction that would be most meaningful. stopping the importing and exporting of energy from russia and refuses to make america energy independence. gas rises have reached a record high. california their prices are through the roof. some parts of the golden state they play $6 are gallon of gasoline. and even in florida there is a station in orlando selling gas for $5.99. there are steps to take to stop this pain that is impacting the poor and middle-class. here with reaction, the head of

gas buddy. patrick is back with us now. once a barrel of oil goes over $100. the amount of money we are paying will double again? >> well, sean, americans have seen the increase in the price of gas. it's been very painful. the station if orlando had the same price since 2018. eye popping the entire time. as we start to sanction russia the risk increases that there will be disruption. americans are paying the price. i think the president made a couple of one turns, but unfortunately the deck has been dealt. we had a lot of challenges between the pandemic and now with russia and americans will have to dig deeper. the question is: should the president make those strong sanctions? it would drive gas prices up.

is that the right move? we have seen a lot of our allies in europe doing. maybe it's time america does that. pay more in the long run but avoid the rick of what putin could become if we don't make those moves. >> sean: patrick, thanks. everything we buy costs more. the speech that joe biden should give tomorrow but won't give tomorrow, i just spoke with america's biggest energy produces and i as president informed them i lifted all restrictions i put in place in the last year for oil and natural gas and told them we are explanned energy exploration and they can drill here and frac now. my administration is lifting bans on, on-shore is off-shore

drilling and cutting off putin's money and financial resources to fund the invasion. i am asking every american ally to boycott all imports and exports of russian energy. the problem is joe one say that tomorrow night. why won't joe say it. >> because team biden is more concerned about their crazy, insane new green deal socialism. if biden believed he needed to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, why did joe lift sanctions

on nord stream-2? a favor for hunter? and give putin even more leverage. why was he helping putin in russia get rich again just like germany who rely on putin for the lifeblood of their economy. this is the one sanction that would be the single most effective and the one they are willing the least to do. why? here with reaction iowa senator joanie is where us. who just received a classified briefing on the latest developments in ukraine. if the argument by the climate alarmists cult people is that we can't harm mother earth and the carbon foot print, why aren't they consistent? does it impact the earth if you drill for oil in the middle east, drill for oil and russia or right here at home?

isn't the same impact on the environment? joe biden imported 600 million barrels of oil from opec and 232 million barrels ever oil from russian and even a billion from iran which we have not done since 1991. any difference? >> that point is so well taken. i heap the climate alarmists are watching your program. you're absolutely right. we scaled back american energy production and become much more reliant to russia oil. you are right. doesn't matter where that oil is coming from. all i know is that it we have lost 71,000 energy jobs here in the united states. we have ratcheted back and rely on russian oil and re-entering

the iran nuclear agreement. we are allowing russians to barter that deal which would allow iran to get back into the energy market. all of this is ludicrous. i don't understand this president's foreign policy. >> sean: you sat through a meeting. the one sanction that joe biden hasn't imposed on russia and putin is the one most effective. shut down his energy business. no importing or exporting of oil out of russia and the world out-produce him. that starts right here in america. did that come up during the brief? >> a lot of folks asked that

question and we got no straight answers. that's not something we are engaging in. it's something this a bipartisan manner we pushed on for quite a while. going back to the fact that the energy security is national security, we should be ramping it up here and ratcheting down on president putin and russia but this administration refuses to do that. >> sean: we appreciate you sharing that with us. over the weekend donald trump gave a rousing speech at cpac. he slammed biden's failing agenda at home and abroad. and gave a strong indication and hint about 2024. his remarks stand in stark

contest to what we expect to hear from biden in the state of the union address tomorrow. here is kayleigh mcenany and mike huckabee. the one thing he should say is that he is empowering every energy company in america to produce at levels that are the highest we have ever produced at. become energy independent and become a net exporter of energy. i don't expect joey to do that. >> i don't think he will do it either. the sad fact is energy independence on the part of the united states and even the capacity to export, which we were doing under president trump, would take away the most important tool vladimir putin has. this guy is a thug and will use every last dime he has to massage his own ego. the strategy is while joe biden champions him as a friend of the environment, there is nothing

that is doing more damage to the environment than those bombs and bullets going off in the ukraine. he could stop that sooner if he recognizes that the united states has a vast supply of energy. it's ready to go right now. we could do it today and would change the outcome not just in ukraine but for hard working americans as well who need the help. >> sean: we need to ask the question. how is it that vladimir putin puts a manifesty outlining his plans on july 12th and building up for months. troops and military equipment on the eastern border of ukraine. belarus is a satellite state. nobody lifted a finger to

provide arms of any kind. now everybody is trying to get in late in the game. i imagine the next offensive will be extremely severe? >> i hope i am wrong. >> i hope you are wrong too. guess who provided that lethal weaponry before that manifesto was out: president trump. he gave the ukrainians weapons. president biden was behind the 8 ball. president trump said why ever broadcast to your enemy your playbook and battle plan. president biden said we won't send american troops. we agree but don't broadcast. we won't sanction you until ever you invade and a minor incursion is different. why share that with your enemy? he did it. now we are watching what

american weakness on the world stage is. it's war crimes. >> sean: i had issues with it at the time but i am glad they provided javelin missiles but they are outmand and outgunned. putin is on a mission and has no problem killing innocent, men and women and children. >> president obama sent blanks over there in his administration. and the houston astros got in

trouble for stealing signals in a baseball game that doesn't change the outcome and joe biden gives away the signals. he one has to steal them. he gives them away. >> sean: there is an opportunity here for an insurgency but you just understander why did the world wait this long? the would up went up for months. 30 seconds for you. >> right, the zelensky hero went to the e.u. and gave a 10 minute passionate speech that changed germany's position and switzerland. the european countries across the globe are stepping up because of a man who had passion and fought for his country and that's president zelensky. >> sean: our thoughts and prayers are with the people of

ukraine tonight. to the innocent, men, women and children fighting for their country against all odds. the loss of life of innocent people. we pray about all of them tonight. tomorrow state of the union we are on later. and trump on wednesday see you nen. destroyed. [gunfire] >> laura: i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." the war for ukraine as russian forces are bringing their full force to bear. after what look like a major miscalculation regarding the right result of the ukrainian people, russian forces, not