there. and the military needs to establish back channels. relations. >> todd: great point. >> carley: congressman michael waltz we have to lee it there. thank you for joining us this morning and sharing your perspective. so appreciate it. >> todd: they call it the red phone. that's what waltz was talking about. get it up and going now. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ [siren] >> ukraine's second largest city rocked by a russian airstrike. >> thousands of bracing for the worst. >> all eyes are on this convoy now estimated at 40 miles long. >> this is a david vs. goliath situation. >> mr. president, should americans be worried about nuclear war? >> no. >> and this part of military doctrine escalate to deescalate by using tack tackle nuclear weapons. >> hundreds of thousands of

ukrainians are fleeing the country trip. we are scared. we left everything and just run away. >> ukraine's president accusing russia of committing war crimes for at attack on helpless civilians. >> war crime attacking your neighbors. that's exactly what the united states prosecuted at the end of world war ii and he should be prosecuted for that ♪ >> we begin this morning with a fox news alert. annual apparent assassination attempt in ukraine's second largest city as a missile strikes a government building in kharkiv. ukraine now under assault from multiple directions as russian forces are closing in now on kyiv, the capital. >> brian: at this hour a 40-mile long russian convoy just outside the capital city of kyiv. day six of fighting is underway as ukrainians battle for their lives and their freedom against the russian invasion. 9 word coming as president biden is set to deliver the first

state of the union address of his four-year term. >> steve: the president facing multiple crises at home record inflation, border disaster and approval rating has been plummeting. we will have more on the state of the union coming up. but, first, let's go to mike tobin who is live on the ground in lviv, mike, as we look at that strike on that government building, that looks like -- i know it's been depicted as an assassination attempt, that's one of those decapitation moves. >> it certainly looks like it was a precise weapon that went in there. if you look really close, you can actually see the projectile enter before the big explosion. so it does look like it was aimed. one source says it was an attempt to get rid of the local leadership as it hit the regional administration building. no word on casualties from that particular strike but you have a lot of casualties in the town of kharkiv where that strike was. and that is because the town was

subject to indiscriminate rock fighter throughout the day. also indiscriminate a cluster bomb which is alleged to have been used in kharkiv. what a cluster bomb is a bomb that releases high in the sky and releases a bunch of little bomblets, it can spread over the area as large as a football field. considered illegal by most nations to use in warfare simply because you can't aim all the bomblets. you can hit the civilian population, particularly if you use in an urban area. you are going to get. bomblets don't all explode. they can explode with years to come with unintended target. west of kharkiv where you saw that oterka the town military base reports of a direct hit with artillery on that military base resulting somewhere around 70 dead ukrainian soldiers according to the information we're getting out there now. to the far south, kherson, there is a battle underway and appears a target is a bridge that

stretches over dnieper river. of course all eyes today on this 40-mile long convoy of russian personnel, supplies, and armament moving south from the border with la reduce. we don't have a lot of updated information on this convoy, the latest information talks about the size of it and also the satellite imagery says there is supplemental helicopters and infantry in the north across the belarus border. guys, back to you. >> brian: can i ask you, mike? if i just asked you just about lviv, what type of damage been done so far to that city. how populated is it compared to when it was before this war started and how many just have walked? >> as far as the population, the population is much thicker than it was before the war started

because so much of the traffic has come west. the attacks are going in from the knot, the south and the east and that drives all the refugees west. this is a depot before you get to the border. the train station here is just packed with people trying to get out. it's absolute chaos at the train station here. as far as strikes around lviv, there have been strikes to the north and south on the outskirts of the city. we haven't heard the air raid sirens for a little while and we are grateful for that. >> steve: absolutely. you know, mike, what we have seen overnight, you talk about the cluster bomb, there are also reports apparently vacuum bomb were used. those are both war crimes. at what point does the international criminal court start to look into and say hey, russia, you are breaking all the rules and somebody needs to stop it. >> mike: what can they do? if you can't stop putin from invading a sovereign nation. particularly you talk about the vacuum boments that would have been in the area of car chief

presumably. that's where you saw the delivery system for vacuum bombs is that rocket system we saw in kharkiv. >> ainsley: those are the they're mow baker weapons they lungs vaporize bodies and crush internal organizes. most powerful nonnuclear weapons developed. they are illegal according to the geneva convention but still being used by russia. some companies are trying to stop russia from invading ukraine. they are trying to squeeze them economically. shell is exiting all russian operations including a partnership, del has suspended product sales in russia and ukraine. meta facebook parent company barred airs from russian state media. twitter it advertisements. delta stopped alliance with the. delta helping ukraine.

bp divesting 20% stake in russian company. airbnb. so many refugees there are 520,000 refugees from ukraine. they are going into neighboring countries like poland and austria and romania. and airbnb is saying we are going to allow to you stay for free temporarily. >> brian: look at overall in the military. phase 26 the operations on the way beginning to choke off the cities and run helicopter train addiction flights around the polish border. that's where all the aid and armament for the most part is going to come through. then we will have that clash. if it's going to be a nato vehicle bringing in armaments and food and water and they blow it up, is that a rule five violation? it certainly seems like that. if the main hope back to your point, ainsley, is that the sanctions become so severe and put such heartache into the russian people, they make it clear we will not stand for this. which makes you wonder the desperation that vladimir putin showed a couple days ago when he

said hey, by the way. i have gotten my nuclear forces ready for action because some of actions and sanctions taken by nato and made everyone wonder are we going to get on a nuclear footing? according to reports we have a nuclear footing, too. joe biden was asked and he had a very verbose answer. >> mr. president, should the americans be worried about nuclear war? >> no. >> steve: that's whawpght to hear ratcheting up. >> ainsley: is it naive to say that though? >> brian: of course it is. >> brian: is he blowing it off. it's so ridiculous. >> steve: think about what you said thermobaker vacuum bomb. >> ainsley: not supposed to use them. >> steve: who to mike tobin's point who is going enforce it obviously they know the rules. and what's going on. right now the invasion is costing mr. putin it's estimated by u.k. sources at $15 billion a

day. we are, the united states, actually subsidizing part of that because we continue to buy oil from russia. now russia knows we are turning the screws and i'm sure the president is going to talk more about that tonight as well. what he is expected to do, mr. putin is, he is expected to ask china to buy close to $100 billion worth of chinese assets in russia to raise the cash to keep the war and the economy running. now, as you look at that government building in ukraine that took the direct hit, there is one bit of really good news today and that ukrainian pilots have arrived in the country of poland, 70 jets have been donated from european countries and they are flying them back to ukraine, which is great. they are older russian made planes, there are 28, making 29 ss from poland. 12 from slovakia and 30 planes

from bulgaria. think about it, if you have a 4d armored vehicles. it would be great if you had a bunch of jets and. >> ainsley: fly over them? >> steve: sure they have done with to poland now to pick up the jets. they are going to fly them home. >> brian: here is what is so maddening we have retired a bunch of f 18s instead of moth balling them. we are about to have a war with ukraine and russia. why don't we give them or lend them to -- give them in the ukrainians to be able to use. train did really good pilots. we have a few months to build up to that. no answer from joe biden. don't worry about it. so now they are using makings instead of f-16s. senator marco rubio has been all over this foreign relations, armed supervisors. is he one of the leading thinkers when it comes to foreign policy. he weighed in on vladimir putin who he is getting on who he knows is capable of doing just about anything at this point. >> i don't think there is any

reason to panic. people are watching the show that we are on the verge of a nighthawk larr exchange of icbms. i do think it's fair this is -- this is not same putin 5 or 10 years ago. this is a guy entire legitimacy in russia is built on his argument that, you know, the 90's were an era of humiliation. he restored russia to great global power, status. now he is facing the free fall of his economy. what's facing russia's economy over the next 10 days is cat that chris mic. you add to that the humiliation on the battlefield that they have faced so far. even though they are keeping much of that from the russian public. and you see a guy who is facing some circumstances that he needs to reverse pretty quickly. he needs to reestablish some level of power balance with the west before he can even think about what else to do. he doesn't have a lot of tools to do it. i'm saying with a guy in that condition, with that mindset, in charge, you are going to get a different decision today than you would have 10 years ago. >> ainsley: at a special session of the u.n. general assembly,

the ambassador to ukraine stood up and read final text messages between a russian fighter, a russian soldier in ukraine, mom thought that her son was being trained in crimea. instead he was fighting in ukraine. this was their text exchange just before he died. >> i would like to read from the screen shot of the smart phone of a killed russian soldier. >> why has it been so long since you responded? >> are you really entering into training. >> that's the mother of the killed soldier. >> moments before he was killed. >> mom that i'm in ukraine. there is a real war raging here. >> i'm afraid would he be

bombing all of the cities together. even -- even targeting civilians. we were told that they would welcome us and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the wheels and not allowing us to pass. they call us fascists. momma, this is so hard. this is several moments before he was killed. >> steve: that's just heart-breaking. and so much of what he said are things that have been reporting over the last six days. and that is, you know, putin completely under estimated the ukrainian resistance. he also overestimated their reaction he thought when the russian tanks rolled into ukraine where have you been so

long? come on in. we can hardly wait and get rid of this government that didn't happen. >> ainsley: did he think that or telling the soldiers? >> steve: that's a great question. absolutely. he under estimated the app. tight that his own russian people have for protest. it's edge bare wassing for him the thousands of russians are taking to the streets protesting. then again, they're also freaking out of the russians are trying to get their cash out of atms, the big worry if you are an average russian right now is that vladimir putin is going to turn your country into north korea or iran and be completely ostracized from the whole planet. now, with marco rubio, you know, he is privy to intel briefings. he can't tell us most of this stuff there have been members of congress who have discussed what is publicly known, so this is according to the intel community where the state of the war is right now.

the russian forces have behind schedule, we knew that the ukrainian resistance is fierce and that is because of russian equipment failures we know that 75% of the russian forces are inside the country of ukraine, here's the important part. they expect a second overwhelming wave of attacks to start very soon and expect shear numbers of russians to flatten the resistance. it appears with that 40-mile convoy north of kyiv, that you can see right there, with those tanks and armored vehicles, the plan is to circle the city, to shell the city, and then the troops will move in and they will fight street to street against the ukrainians. >> brian: they only have a week's left of javelin and stinger missiles. unless we can get them rapidly, these people are going to be gradually choked off and wiped out. the question we have to ask ourselves is we just going to

let that happen and say wow, isn't vladimir putin crazy? aren't the russians relentless and ruthless? then ukraine becomes a war zone. signed application to join the european union. whose aspiration even though their government was far from perfect and probably didn't hit all the criteria was to join nato who, when asked from the mom, the 60-year-old mom to the 16-year-old kid their aspirations were to be part of of europe not to be part of repressive russia. even russians don't want to be part of russia. we will have to sit there and watch. and as much as we are beginning to move now and how heartening it is to see europe act the way they are and canada to shut up. refuse all russian oil while we sit on the sidelines and think about it? when we watch germany finally get involved. you wonder how much more prepared they would have been had we acted over the last two years when they took the donbas region in 2014 and they took

crimea in the same year. the missiles they have right now and the anti-tank weapons are from the trump administration. they were getting for the most part small arms that were initially targeted for afghanistan. but we pulled out and turned it over to taliban so we no longer wanted to give them. plus, the afghanistan had most of our arm. s because we left them behind. so we are rushing now to do something we should have been doing the last four years. >> ainsley: people are asking why don't they send them nor javelin missiles put them on carriers. blow them up so they can't get into the city of kyiv. where zelenskyy is allegedly hiding out. he keeps phoning in to the eu last thursday. he phoned in and said it might be the last time you hear my voice. they are coming to assassinate me. he is asking eu. he is saying that takes years. they rejected that plea. we know that the kremlin is sending in 400 men that are part of this group, the wagner group that are now in africa.

they are being sent to kyiv now to go and find zelenskyy. assassinate him. assassinate the cabinet and mayor of kyiv who is that boxing champion and his brother. they are all on the list. we heard that call of that young man or that text message to his mom and he is saying we are targeting civilians. well, yesterday there was a video going around that is really hard to watch. especially for me because i have a 6-year-old. a 6-year-old little girl in unicorn pajamas being rushed into the emergency room. she was the target of one of these russian missiles that flew into her apartment building or wherever and she was in cardiac arrest and her mother was crying and even the doctors and the nurses were crying. one nurse had to put her head down and the doctor looks at the cameraened assessor the phone or whoever is recording it says putin you did this. did you this to the 6-year-old child. i want you to see this video. >> brian: kharkiv. question is gradually suffocated and gradually wiped out. to say do what you are saying,

ainsley, would be really to start world war iii and vladimir putin couldn't care less, it seems. he will probably be safe. but, if you bomb that convoy in ukraine of all russians as poland, then you are starting war between poland and russia. then we go to poland's aid. >> then you are talking about world war iii. >> ainsley: ukrainian soldiers get those in poland. >> brian: ukrainians can do whatever we want. if we bomb nato gets involved then it's world war. it literally is world war iii. it's amazing. we are the civilized people. we don't wanted world war iii. the guy perpetrating all the carnage death and destruction doesn't really care about that. >> steve: that is why it is so complicated. and that's why it is so heart breaking. the president will tonight and you will see his state of the union address live on fox at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. he will talk about inflation. he will be pushing build back

better. going to say it's actually going to safety average american a lot of money but the main thing regarding ukraine is he is going to say how he and the united states have rallied the world to put the screws to russia. with these sanctions and the other regulations that he hopes choke them off. >> ainsley: you are asking my little boys, my little girls to go to war who are drafted and going to the atm i can't get my money out when i do i had $100 in the bank and now it's worth $20? why? why are we doing this? why are we asking our soldiers to go and fight? what's the point? i'm sure people are furious. people are wig to protest in that country. they are willing to be arrested and charged with treason. they are fighting against putin now. they didn't expect that. >> steve: ainsley on our program a little later on today folks from russia who are here in the united states who are embarrassed about what their country, mother russia is doing.

>> brian: president biden could say he led the world there but we are leading from behind like the person he served under president obama who proudly said that i'm not comfortable with that maybe you guys are. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. talk bring in someone who is no stranger to war. congressman former army ranger brian mast serves currently on the house foreign relations committee. how unbelievable is it, congressman, that canada cuts off their -- they just decide they are not going to buy russian oil before we do but yet we are leading the world? >> no. it's absolutely unbelievable. i would paint the picture like this. it would be like sanctions a farmer without sanctioning their crops. that's what the globe is doing by still allowing russian energy to flow to different places. those that are taking those russian sources of fuel are the biggest enablers of allowing russia to continue their madness. i think in the end the world is going to say those that were capable of the most did the least. you have right now western

europe. the west really the globe, those that can do the most, they are doing the least. let me just paint this one other way tactically very quickly. you have probably the most obvious and large tactical of this war. 40-mile parade of russian armament that can be entire destroyed by one wing of a 10 aircraft and if the west does not look at that and putting their finger on the scale, then that's how history will remember this. >> brian: congressman, they fight a lot different than us. if we kill civilians there is usually a two year investigation on it. the fact it doesn't started right away a scandal evaluation on who is covering things up. in syria, in two years they killed almost 7,000 civilians, a third of which were children, do you think there is any investigation in russia? and i say that for this reason. if you wonder how a frustrated russian armed service and officers do things when things don't go exactly their way. your answer is they leveled the

place. they don't care about schools hospitals and perception. >> i don't believe that putin or any of putin's cronies will be investigating the putin regime. that would be ridiculous to think about obviously. he is still setting the rules. the world is still allowing putin to set the rules. and everybody should reflect on this. that is the strength that nuclear weapons gives a state actor that is the only reason that the globe is allowing him to set the terms and the rules of this entire war because of that fear of what he will do with nuclear weapons. >> brian: i have seen some footage. use the thermo barak bomb already. which basically grbleg vapor rises people. just short of nuclear weapons. already, we are six days in. >> his commitment is total. he is going to commit every

single asset that he has to make sure that he defeats the ukrainian people. and there is nothing to tell us that that is where he stops. everybody that used to be a former soviet block country whether you are looking at latvia, lithuania, estonia, and poland. every one of those countries along that russian border. they are absolutely concerned about this. they have been for years and are rightfully so. nothing that says that putin stops at this place. >> brian: very interesting to see if norway, sweden, as well as finland decide to join nato it would cause world war iii but -- tonight the state of the union will take place and the president of the united states wanted to talk about build back better. here it's going to be a passing mention, thankfully it's never going to work. but is he going to talk about how he led the world to fight for ukrainians and he is going to be talking about things is he going to do to ease the pain of

inflation. what are you going to be looking for. >> look, what is he going to do is he is going to try to take a victory lap very undeservedly. is he going to do what he did with afghanistan is try to paint the world as though there were no other alternatives other than what occurred. everything else it was inevitable action that these things happen in the globe. ukraine, inflation, border, afghanistan, these things had happened. what i would like to see out of him is real, real solutions to what's going won supply chains and inflation here domestically. you know, look at the fuel tax, the 18 cents per gallon the 14 cents cents per gallon diesel. look at the excise tax on truckers. help relieve the labor issues going on. look at the fact that the fed is still literally printing money in the midst of the greatest inflation. there are so many things that can be done to help alleviate this pain on the american people. the self-inflicted wound. >> brian: real quick.

rashida tlaib will do a rebuttal really to the president of the united states in her own party. so this left wing socialist will talk about how they still didn't do voting reform and how they didn't get build back better and try to turn all her guns on manchin and cinema? have you heard of this a democratic president getting rebutted by a democratic congresswoman. >> i haven't heard of it but i will say thank you. paint the picture historically. whether a were bernie sanders policies entire presidential cycle ago that nobody thought were possible. became mainstream ideology or the democratic party in this last presidential race. so, what you see tlaib and others painting the picture of what should be right now that is the future of the democratic party. >> brian: congressman, you have a lot of pull when it comes to tactics and war. stay on dam raft. stay vocal because you know exact there what the russians are capable of. and i think this could get really ugly in the next few

days. thanks so much for joining us today. >> all the best. >> brian: meanwhile watch our special coverage of the state of the union address tonight at :55 eastern time with bret baier and martha maccallum that's the torso shots of both of them now time for carley shimkus. >> carley: horrific news here. california man killing his three daughters and chaperone inside a church before turning the gun on himself. the three girls age 9, 10, and 1. the man was estranged from his daughter's mother who had a restraining order against him. investigators believe the shooting took place during a supervised visit with the children. children in california, oregon and washington state will no longer be required to wear a mask in schools next week. the new guidance beginning marce recommending masks be worn indoors but no longer requiring it in schools and beginning today face coverings will no longer be required and most indoor places in california, regardless of vaccination status, oregon and washington

will lift all requirements next week. 15 states are suing the environmental protection agency over new oil and gas rules. texas attorney general ken paxton, who is leading the suit writing, quote: at a time when american gas prices are skyrocketing at the pump and the russian-ukraine conflict shows again the absolute need for energy independence, biden chooses to go to war against fossil fuels. it paxton warning the create disadvantage in all states regarding oil and gas production. netflix will no longer stream russian federal television channels. the move beginning tomorrow is an apparent defiance of a to air streams of 20 russian state tv channels. it comes as the walt disney company is pausing all new theatrical releases in russia. turning red from pixar. the private sector doing their part as well, brian. over to you. >> brian: thank you very much. up next on this show, carley

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specially trained mercenaries to kyiv last month. >> ainsley: ukrainian president is not giving up. is he standing by his people as putin ratchets up the attacks. threatening nuclear aggression and he is in hiding. president putin is. not president zelenskyy. >> steve: meanwhile virginia lieutenant governor and marine vet winsome sears joins us right now. madam lieutenant governor, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, steve. as something with vast military experience and you represent this commonwealth of virginia with a gigantic military presence as well. it must be frustrating to see the situation as it is unfolding military power russia with all those bombs and all those people a looks like they are going to circle and slowly strangle them you said putin is in a bunker is he? certain things, you know, we have had people in bunkers

before. and what we have to do, steve, is to show as america peace through strength. through strength. we must have a determined military. we must have a military that has the money to do what it needs do who putin is showing us is he not backing down. is he willing to lose. he is going to go all the way. they have already had their vietnam and they are not going to have another vietnam. they are going all the way and going to win because huge gentleman ha dean stopped them. we must be ready continue with sanctions and continue to hit, to hit but we must do strength canada says we are not going to buy russiany produce oil. why won't joe biden step up our energy production here in america so we don't have to depend on russia and our allies

don't have to depend on russia either? >> if anybody can get that question to him in a press conference so he doesn't call on the people are likely to be in his corner, but who will really take him to the task because, you see, we don't live on this planet by ourselves, mr. president. you have russia, you have china and korea. you have all of them. you must call on people who will understand that america is all ready for all comers. we need to find that out. why won't you reopen the keystone pipeline? why won't you stop, as a matter of fact, we are importing energy from russia. you know, why are we doing that? we have the means to produce it here? we were free from depending on outside countries for our energy and as soon as he came into office, his first day, he killed the keystone pipeline, killed all those jobs and all the other

attendant jobs with it we can be energy independent and it depends on this president. instead, he is telling other countries like saudi arabia to will produce more oil, more barrels. really? why don't you take care of what have you command here mr. president here? >> brian: it could be a rally around the flag, a rally around the drill and just tell the green people listen, right now, it's in our best interest to drill more and to be number one -- the number one supplier to our allies so russia doesn't have to be. they have finally sobered up. this is a window of opportunity. also, the president is not leading. the president didn't lead when it came to the swift sanctions. europe did. the president is not leading when it comes to cutting off russia's oivment canada did. they say we don't want to hurt the american people. nobody does. so drill more here that will

immediately will help the market. as president biden finishes his year in office he has a state of the union address latest any time in modern history. comes in with the latest poll from "the washington post showing he has 39% approval. job performance now according to other polls is at 43%. what do you think -- and he was up as high as you take a look at all of this as up as high as 56% in june of 2021. what do you want to hear him say today? >> you know, here in virginia, we have nato headquartered right here. we have the pentagon here. we have the third largest port on the eastern seaboard here. we have the largest naval base in the world here. there is a lot of military impact right here in virginia and so we want to sees a the rest of the country, we want to see and we want to see and hear

strength from this president. we want to hear that we are ready in case of anything we want to hear no nor gas lighting we want to be energy independent. we don't want you to keep livin'ing to all of these voices that are telling you, you are wonderful, you are good, no, no, no. that doesn't work with bullies. we want to hear that you are going to reduce our taxes. we want to hear that diplomatically other parts of the world sees a us a strong. >> steve: we will hear it tonight at 9:00 on fox. winsome sears lieutenant governor of the commonwealth of virginia. thank you for joining us live. >> thank you for having me. good morning to you all. >> ainsley: it is interesting to see how zelenskyy is emerging as such great leader. he is out on the streets. is he posting videos. he is calling into the u.n. you have got vladimir putin who

is hold-up. we don't know if is he in a bunker or not. it's interesting to see both of these leaders and how they are responding to this. >> brian: what about the almost comical sit at which is 100 feet long. >> steve: covid. >> brian: with his generals all the way to the other side. knowing that they have been tested. he sits there. he is afraid to get anyone even near him and that plays into what most experts say that this guy is isolated even from his own people. you need a bull horn to address his generals. >> ainsley: 39 minutes after the top of the hour. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are fleeing. going to neighboring countries. live on the ground in poland with new harrowing stories of survival.

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she was attacked by perez who allegedly hit her in the back of the head with a large rock during an altercation. perez was arrested and charged with assault but now charges would be upgraded. and new orleans first full dressed mardi gras kicks off today. nonstop plans throughout the city fat tuesday. parade routes will be shorter than usual due to a lack of police officers available to monitor routes. parades canceled last year after officials deemed that festivities in 2020 had created a super spreader event. those are your headlines, ainsley over to you. >> ainsley: thank you so much, carley. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are fleeing the country as russia's invasion continues. now day six as some refugees are having to wait nearly 40 hours in their cars to cross the border. fox business reporter connell mcshane is live in poland with the latest for us.

what are you seeing. >> right on the border right now. what we have seen is a number of people actually going back. do you speak english by the way in no english. this is a scene we have seen play out over a number of times people walking into ukraine as opposed to coming to ukraine back into poland all passports you walk in there you get checked out and on the other side of the border just so happened those gentlemen were walking by as you guys came to us some speak english we have had a conversation to a number of them. the conversations you are going back in the middle of a war? yeah. we are going to go back and fight for our country because we love our country. over and over that scene plays out people coming in often young women with young children. this woman named victoria, young mom. 4-year-old daughter was in ukraine visiting her mother, the daughter's grandmother, of

course, she lives usually in florida. she married an american man a few years back the war broke out when she was visiting her mom. she got stuck and told me her story. here's what she said. >> my flight canceled. stay in ukraine because. >> it was dangerous. >> yes, very dangerous. >> what are you going to do now. >> i'm going to fly to miami. >> to miami. >> yes. >> your husband is in the united states. >> yes. yes. >> going to get a flight back. a group of men real quick. you guys are going back into snurk. >> i am ukraine. yes, i am ukraine. >> where were you living? >> i live in ukraine. >> and you are going back now. >> going back now. >> you are going to joint fight.

>> to fight with russia. >> i am going to fight. >> are you a soldier or what is your normal job. >> i was this is not something you are used to doing. you have got to get back in there you are thinking. tell me why what are you thinking. >> ukraine is my country and i will fight. >> you will fight for your country. >> yes. >> let did you go and get back back in there. we are seeing this over and over again, example after example, so many people are going back. >> going back. back into your own country. >> my country. >> to fight for it. >> back to you guys in new york with that let you get going. >> this is the scene what is happening in this country.

we expected to see more people coming the other way and they're. the polish foreign minister just announced 400,000 refugees come in but that's the other part of it the people from here, somewhere in europe or poland going back in ains to your left is go back into the country into ukraine. that's incredible. we know 100,000 volume feared for the draft. there aren't enough helmets and in aren't enough rifles to accommodate all of them and bullet proof vests. they are requesting those. i know it's 28 degrees there on most lights. people coming in we saw from your video just two bags. little children, mostly women, children and the elderly because most of the men or all of the men are required ages 16 to 60 to stay behind but we did see in your video some of the men, i was thinking they were -- they were i thought that direction was to leave the country but to go back into ukraine? >> exactly. if you have to go -- if you are coming into the country.

this is a podesta crossing. 15 minutes you would be in a village in ukraine if you just walked up here. literally on the border. there is a vehicular crossing for cars. a little busier at the top of the hill this side is the side that i think surprised us the most. the story that's developing over the last number of days, all of these people fighters they call themselves but that gentleman explained and others have said not in their usual life. people have worked jobs of all kinds. europe and poland itself. going back. in will country love it they don't know what they will do when they get on the other side of the border. many times they don't have arrangements for who is going to pick them up. say they got to do it and figure it out. bag that's with them and on their way. >> president is setting quite an

example. most presidents in situations like this leave and flee and take their money and kids and wives because they know they could be executed. that's not happening with zelenskyy. is he tough and walking the streets in kyiv and these men are coming back to their country to fight and help him. thank you so much, connell, great job. i know airbnb is also providing free housing for 100,000 refugees going to poland and other countries, neighboring countries. still ahead, bad news for president biden. his approval rating reaches a new low ahead of his state of the union address that happens tonight at 9:00 on fox. "fox & friends weekend" co-host will cain on what this could mean for the midterms next. y ime a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? and it's easy to get a quote at libertymutual.com so you only pay for what you need. isn't that right limu? limu? sorry, one sec. doug blows a whistle.

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[applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> ainsley: he got a standing ovation after his speech. is he speaking to parliament. this is european parliament.

he is pleading to them. he really wants to be a part of the eu. he wants his country to be part of the eu. he looks like is he in an undisclosed location. obviously for safety reasons the flag is behind him. they love him. standing ovation and they support him. >> brian: he filled out the application yesterday. this is brilliant. exactly what vladimir putin fears he facility out the application. he doesn't want them part of europe and nato. they want both. they want no part of russia. nobody wants that culture. nobody wants that socialism. nobody wants that pseudo communism. to say prove it, he fills out the application while sitting there in fatigues saying even though i'm being besieged my city is being encircled and my capital suffocated i want to be part of the eu. he filled out the application. surprise to us his application is being looked at. he gives his speech. europe responds with a stabbed standing ovation. i'm wondering is that a that set admission they just admit their application to the union? are they technically or in some

way a part of the european union right now? europe is sitting there responding. and the eu is under such scrutiny ever since the u.k. left and others considered leaving they said well the eu is that an old model? this is a chance for the eu to be relevant again like nato be relevant again the exact opposite of what vladimir putin wants. >> steve: because we joined it a little late and we are just now pete'sing together what the circumstances were. it does sound as if two different things. one yesterday he applied for admission to the european union, which is a lengthy process. and that can take a very long time. today he appears to have just been essentially giving a briefing to the people of europe who are coming to his assistance. they are doing the best they can to strangle russia in sanctions and whatnot, and clearly he has -- he is on the side of the people in that room. gave him a standing ovation. a bunch of them had the

ukrainian flag with them. so, you know, if they could vote today, they would probably say sure, why not? it's a time sciewming. >> brian: briefing. i think what he was saying is we will make you stronger. he was selling his case. >> ainsley: we have proven our strength. do prove please europe that you are with us. do not let us go. pleading, he said glory to you my friends. but the eu foreign policy chief says admitting ukraine would take years. i'm not sure if there is some sort of quicker way to do this but they are in dire straits. they are in an emergency situation. >> steve: let's call in a lawyer. a "fox & friends weekend" co-host will cain joins us right now. will, the process is a lengthy one to join the eu. but, you know, if you were going to query those people in that room. they probably would all say let's do it today because mr. zelenskyy's back is up against the wall. >> wow, i don't know if they would say let's do it today, steve. there is a difference between a standing ovation and actually a move that could provoke vladimir

putin. here is my two take aways from that first of all, i'm surprised and i think vladimir putin is surprised, not just at the resolve and the fighting spirit of the ukrainian people but of their desire to look west. you know, student of history, enjoy reading about history, the history of ukraine, which technically by the way means border land is focused east. intrickly tied to russia and the soviet union. culturally linguistically, politically, militarily, it's a little surprising to me that i see athletes across the world. ukrainian athletes, soccer players, mma fighters, politicians zelenskyy, be so interested in looking west. until can you consider the economic implications and there is a lot of economic implications including a lot of oil and gas off the coast of crimea, which they want to be able to sell to the eu, which is a threat to putin. that's my second point. if you are vladimir putin and you are looking at this. it's not just about nato. it's about the eu.

it's about -- it's not just about geo politics, it's about economic interest. i want -- i wonder what vladimir putin's off ramp is? he needs a face saving measure. is he a quote, unquote. strong man. how does he get out of this with a win? i will tell you i would assume if you ukraine somehow is invited not just into nato but perhaps just into the eu, that's not acceptable to vladimir putin. it's getting harder to find a win for vladimir putin. and if there is no win, you wonder what type of desperate choices he makes in that situation. >> steve: absolutely. will, we know this is going to be a long day for you because you are going to be joining the fox nation state of the union preshow tonight and then tomorrow you are going to be doing breakfast with friends, where at? >> will: i will be at sweet temptations along the texas border. we have been there before we were there a year ago. we will check back in here after the state of the union and the texas primary hear how voters in what ended up being -- has ended up being swing districts.

voted for donald trump in 2020 prior were blue districts. how they are feeling one year into the biden administration whether on immigration, inflation, international politics. we will be checking in with you guys all morning. tom morning with the voters in texas. and, of course, getting their reaction to the state of the union tonight. which, as you point out. i will be on fox nation both before and after breaking it down. >> steve: indeed. will, thank you very much. >> brian: quality time with ukraine. it is 2:00 in ukraine and this is hour two of "fox & friends." ♪ [siren] >> ainsley: apparent assassination attempt in ukraine's second largest city. >> one source says it was an attempt to get rid of the local leadership. >> and at this hour, 40-mile long russian convoy just outside the capital city of kyiv. that could be entirely destroyed one wing of a 10 aircraft. >> mr. president, should americans be worried about

nuclear war? >> no. >> what i think putin is showing us is he is not willing to lose. is he going to go all the way and we must be ready. >> hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are fleeing the country. >> very dangerous. what are you going to could now? >> i'm planning to fly to miami. >> to miami? >> yes. >> shell is calling it ghits russia. >> there is only one road forward herist needs to step up on oil and gas and need to do it right now. >> brian: definition of a dramatic scene. zelenskyy addressing the european parliament from undisclosed location because is he at war as russia rages war for no reason killing countless innocent ukrainians. >> our people have very much motivated, very much so. we are fighting for our rights,

for our freedoms for life -- for our life and now we are fighting for survival. >> steve: there mr. zelenskyy's appeal comes as president biden is also set to deliver a big address. his state of the union, his first tonight here on fox. >> ainsley: that's right. you can watch it here at 9:00. team coverage with peter doocy they white house on the latest multiple crises president biden faces ahead the speech. first head over to mike tobin who is live on the ground in ukraine in lviv, good morning to you, mike. >> good morning, ainsley. trying to get any new information we can about this ominous convoy heading south from the belarus border in the capital city of kyiv. it was identified by satellite imagery and said to be 40 miles long. keep in mind the drive there is only 90 miles. talking about a chron i have half as long as the distance it

needs to travel. we don't have a lot of new information about it we know it has to go through a point that could slow it down. we know through the satellite imagery that additional helicopters, tact helicopters and infantry have come into the north of the belarus border to supplement the russian forces that are in that area. further east, a town of kharkiv. remarkable video missile makes a direct strike on regional municipal administrative building there. one source says it was an attempt to get rid of local leaders. will no word on casualty but the visuals of the destruction plain to see. we do know that there were many civilian casualties in the town of kharkiv as it was subject to relentless and indiscriminate bombing. just west of that location. owe term and condition can a name of the town the information coming out as many as 70

ukrainian soldiers killed because of that artillery. further south keeping a close eye on the town russian forlingses are fortified with the mainland where they could move north. back to you. >> steve: mike, before you go, i was reading this morning in some of the reporting going on over there that apparently to reduce their losses, this speaks to the fact of how effective the ukrainian resistance has been, but apparently russia is going to be shifting to nighttime operations to reduce their losses because they have not gained control of the airspace. have you seen any evidence of that so far where you are in lviv out in the western part of the country? >> we haven't seen any street-to-street come bat in lviv. there have been strikes on the outskirts.

lviv has not been subject to so much of that combat on the ground. in terms of what you are talking about combat at night, fighting always gets worse at night. and if you have more technologically advanced army. the nighttime is going to be their friend because it provides cover. >> brian: mike, the other thing is the russians for the most part, unless they borrowed them from afghanis because we left so many behind, the only the elite forces have the night vision glasses. so you are fighting at night without the advantage that our forces have, right? >> i don't know the extent to which the ukrainians have night vision, brian. >> ainsley: mike, i'm looking at the map here first it was crimea. then they moved into the donbas region. then they are moving into kharkiv. now we know they are heading into kyiv. they already took over chernobyl. you are west of that are the folks there on the ground worried that the russians are going to start coming your way?

>> they are very worried about that. and there is a terrific resolve among the people out here. there is an underground, that is boiling up. what they're doing now trying to supply the fighting forces where the fighting is more intense. they are doing things like make camouflage neglect to hide the weaponry. making molotov cocktails and shipping it off to kyiv. everybody here is in it. there is a tremendous resolve. they say it's much different than 2014 when the russians were able to take crimea. really unopposed. with no consequence. they say this time it's different losing a piece of the homeland. they are losing their homeland and they say this time around they do have better weaponry. >> steve: mike, are you of the opinion, with what have you talked to with people there in lviv, that what the russians are trying to do trying to come in. trying not to blow up as many buildings as they possibly can because they want the people to be on their side when this is all over. >> well, it seems a miscalculation on the part at

least of the russian leadership. is thinking that they would have been greeted with open arms when they entered ukraine with the idea that they were liberated from the west. obviously that's not the case. the people in ukraine, they want to be free, and they say very much that they're willing to pay with their lives. if that's what it means to fight for their homeland. >> brian: mike tobin, thanks so much. seven minutes after the hour now. talked to brian mast and winsome sears both politicians who spent their younger lives in the military. here's what they said about the one key to winning this war from the outside. and that is being aggressive when it comes to oil and gas. listen. >> those that are taking those russian sources of fuel are the biggest enablers of allowing russia to continue their madness. i think in the end the world is going to say those that were capable of the most did the least. you have right now western europe, the west really the

globe, those that can do the most, they are doing the least. >> we were free from depending on outside countries for our energy and as soon as he came into office, his first day. he killed the keystone pipeline, killed all those jobs, and all the other attendant jobs with it so we can be energy independent and it depends on this president. instead he is telling other countries like saudi arabia to release more oil. more barrels, really? why don't you take care of what you have command of, mr. president? >> steve: but, instead, the united states of america now is buying a billion dollars worth of russian oil each and every day. if when you think about it if it is true this war is costing vladimir putin about $15 billion a day, you know what? and we're giving them a billion dollars a day. we are helping with this invasion. apparently the kremlin feel the screws being tightened is expected to ask china to start

buying assets to raise cash. war and the economy running. it is running on empty. >> ainsley: we used to be energy independent. the president took office. shut down the pipeline and our production. now we are dependent. and we are dependent on russia. now we have inflation. now we have extremely high gas price. and ukraine is being invaded. >> steve: it is, indeed. all right. it is exactly 7:10 now here in the east. russia's invasion of ukraine expected to be a major part of president biden's first state of the union address tonight from d.c. >> ainsley: energy independence is taking center stage as we have been talking about as 15 states are now suing the e.p.a. over new oil and gas rules. >> brian: believe it or not, it is actually getting worse. peter doocy at the white house as texas' attorney general accuses president biden of declaring war against fossil fuels. peter? >> peter: yes, now even some of the democratic lawmakers who plan to attend the state of the union this evening want to hear the president say that he will sanction russia's energy

exports. >> putin has taken a lot of body blows. but now is the time to punch him in the face. >> peter: we expect to hear a lot about foreign policy this evening. we don't expect to hear that. >> sanctioning energy would effect russia's income stream, certainly that would be a reason to do it, but it would also have extreme consequences on the world energy markets particularly for our allies in europe. >> peter: staring down a potential fossil fuels plans to move the country off fossil fuels and that is being sued by 15 energy producing states worried about the impact on their bottom line if the president pushes electric vehicles and people start using less gas. the attorney general of texas sums up the suit like this. these severe new rules propose by the e.p.a. are not only unnecessary but they will create a deliberate disadvantage to texas and all states who are involved in the production of

oil and gas. the alaskan governor is now also out saying they have billions of barrels of oil in the ground. they just need permission from the people that live and work here to take them out. back to you. >> steve: peter, speak of working there, the white house has lifted the mask mandate. you are not going to have to wear it anymore as well as as the case in the state of the union tonight, right? >> peter: the time something kind of interesting because here at the white house, they emphasized that they follow the cdc's guidance and they follow the science and who would have thought that the science would have changed on the day the president gives the state of the union. >> ainsley: it's just a coincidence. >> peter: happy to take the mask off. >> steve: today is fat tuesday, it's mardi gras. >> ainsley: tomorrow is ash wednesday. >> brian: no partying in ukraine. take a look where we are at

right now. this is basically the red area, will continue to be the areas which are occupied, claim to be occupied by the russians and thought to be. this is where the -- a lot of the attacks are happening. if you see what is going on here, kharkiv getting really shelled in a way not been shiltd the previous 96 hours. through today. he wants to take the second biggest city of 1.4 million. are they sending troops through there? yes. where are they thelgd to the capital. keep your eye on this area. this is poland. this is where most of our armaments and are rations that are going to be coming through. aid committed by other countries some going through poland some through romania, which is below. and coming in through this area. guess what the russians are doing. the russians are deciding to send attack helicopters to that area and start blowing up some of these caravans of aid and

weapons. and if it's western caravans, and they are blown up. the question is that an attack on one, which is an attack on all when it comes to nato? so that's what we'll focus on. as we move ahead, the real focus will be on this. yesterday we were telling you this caravan, i don't know if you see closely. all different vehicles, some carrying people. some carrying armaments. some are self-contained artillery. it is now from four miles they said oops, we made a mistake or it just expanded. it is now 40 miles. and where is it heading? it's pretty clear. they are heading as i clear that out. to kyiv. now, what they want to do what vladimir putin wants to do is encircle this city. what he needs, they say, is 40,000 to 80,000 troops to do it. closer to 80. he doesn't have it. he had 115 all. they say a third are fighting. the other two thirds are supply. the other two thirds are resources. so he doesn't have it yet.

but will he have enough to simi circle anyway and suffocate the city stop arms from coming in and stop food from rations from coming in. if he does that and then starts moving in with weaponry and attacks, and he starts decapitating and literally killing zelenskyy, the klitschkos and the others are we going to sit on the side and say oops, we lost ukraine. the same guy that just addressed the european union and got a standing ovation when he said we will make you stronger, except me. we are just going to sit on the side and say oops, i wish we acted sooner. there is help and there is an exit strategy. the exit right now what we are seeing right now is the russians landing here and pushing forward. if you control the black sea, which i would -- i'm not going to make that blue. i will make that yellow. if you can call the black sea this continued quest to shut off ukraine from the western world and all the aid and people that want to support them. you will be halfway there.

odesa especially has not been hit and my sense n the next couple days it will be that is the biggest port city. this is where it is happening. here is the controversy. yesterday they told us this city fell to the russians. they told us this city fell to the russians under attack right now. special attack at this moment. they saw this went to the russians under attack. ukrainians say on the outskirts, shelling us but still ours. that's a little bit of a deception. i apologize for that but i was going with the information that we got. now, there is -- this is cowan tri of 40 million. roughly 500,000 have said we are getting out of here. many have come in to fight. many are leaving. many of which are poland. backed up and supported by the eu with fund for taking that in. eu made it clear giving money and rations. it's going to go to a lot of areas that are helping the most. getting the most refugees. as we move ahead. this is key, countries are sending weapons to the ukraine. this is much larger than anyone

thought, and the biggest surprise for my money has to be this country of germany. germany says not only in the beginning can you not send weaponry, will we not send weapons, you can't even use our land to send weapons through. all these nations, these baltic nations who said we got some stuff from america. we would like to send through. germany said no. in two days they totally changed their mind. do you know why? 500,000 people showed up in berlin and protested in support of the ukraine and upset at their government for not doing anything. that changed things. yesterday in paris, a big rally that changed things. when you see 40 different rallies in america that changes things in the political calculation. that is probably why canada did what they did. that's important. but it's not all. there is more help coming on the way and it's coming with sanctions. luke at the countries that have said okay, we are sanctioning you, and we are desperately going to do everything we can and this is really their best hope to stopping and strong russia from just flattening ukraine. but the biggest surprise for my

money is switzerland. switzerland, even go finer there, didn't even get involved when hitler was ransacking europe. they have seen enough what's happening in ukraine and do you know how many oligarchs and how much russian investment in switzerland is countless. they have frozen funds. they have effected almost every russian's livelihood with any type of wealth. whether you are at home or aprod. you have been hit. but it could be better if we would just agree to go after the banks, the banks that do the financing for the energy companies, the russian energy companies. we have had bp back out and shell say i'm no longer working with you. can we have the united states of america say even if we have to pay an extra dollar for gas for the next six weeks we will commit to drilling ourselves. making more from canada in through texas and say that is going to be our contribution to what these people are doing. and that is literally fighting to for their life. that's a quick look what's going on over there but it's a fluid situation. my sense is that we're done with

phase one and valor. my sense is phase 2 is going to be a bloodthirsty putin who could not care less about everyone points of voodoo everything to erase that country before is he economically ruined himself. that's what it is going to be a race against. militarily we have chosen and i understand it not to get involved. >> ainsley: on the borders. a matter of time before they start pushing in to the center of ukraine. >> brian: especially when we find out we only have one week left of stinger missiles and javelins. >> steve: that's what mr. zelenskyy knows is he shortly going to be surrounded. travelers why in the last half hour he has listed visa requirements for volunteers to come to ukraine to fight. we have seen some people turn around in poland. now, this essentially allows anybody from around the world to come to ukraine and pick up arms against the russians. >> ainsley: if you are just looking up. collin is over in poland.

we interviewed him earlier. is he at the border, at the crossing. a guy he interviewed who is ukrainian who was in poland. he was walking over across the border to go and fight. >> steve: it says a lot. >> brian: i saw a shot of sean penn trying to get out. he had to leave his car. is he walking to poland. >> ainsley: sean penn. >> brian: doing a documentary. sean penn is even for the ukrainians. >> steve: 7:20 now here in the east. still ahead a behind the scenes look at life in ukraine as russian invasion continues. a professor documenting his experience in lviv joins us live coming up next. ♪ out here, you're more than just a landowner. you're a gardener. a landscaper. a hunter. because you didn't settle for ordinary. same goes for your equipment. versatile, powerful,

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[applause] >> brian: 24 hours after signing a piece of paper applying for eu membership. president zelenskyy addressed the european union a short time ago. we carried most of his address live in which he talked about how he was going to make the eu stronger. we want to be western and european. put out your hands. we are now fighting for our lives. they long-termly are. it comes as the ukrainian professor is giving the world an inside look at the invasion by documenting his experience in lviv and sharing it on youtube. here is an example. we woke up this morning qui feel that support from the international community people we are in this case ago moment very difficult.

>> brian: t aras five children. kathleen university joins us now. professor, you say putin always wanted this. did he expect this type of trouble in taking over your country? >> no certainly didn't. putin doesn't believe in civil society. what we are seeing now is the resistance not only of the ukrainian army. the resistance of the whole nation. and putin just not have any society. this is something suppressed in russia and he doesn't think can exist in any other country. >> brian: right where you are in lviv, you say that he hasn't necessarily targeted you guys. have you felt under attack at all. has your life changed dramatically? >> yes. we feel under attack because we feel that we are part of one single united nations. of ukraine. we don't feel ourself as a

separate region of ukraine affected by war. actually the number of people from western ukraine fighting in the front lines since the year 2014. but especially in this last day is just as any other part of the country. and we also have several rojt hits in the western ukraine and we hear the sirens wailing, 5, 10 times a day we go to shelter. >> brian: don't have a subway system. you have to hide in your basement. >> yes. >> brian: that's got to be extremely tough. keeping your family together. your son is volunteering in the forces not necessarily trained in the military. what's the thought about keeping your family together and not heading towards the border? we have five children some 6 years and up. if we see that putin's troops are really close, we will make everything possible to flee but so far we think this our

country. i need to here my wife is needed here. my older children they are all volunteering they are needed here. why should we flee? we should fight. we don't ask foreigners to come to fight often people in america or western europe think that we're waiting for soldiers from the united states or canada or whatever come to fight for us. no, our soldiers are fighting what quha we need is support. we need no-fly zone across the gulf and other strong decisions from western governments to back us up. not to fight for us instead of us. >> brian: i know, as professor a student of history you know what putin's designs are and you know the way they fight especially when they start not reaching their goals and they are brutal. my hope is that you get the arms that are supposedly coming your way.

taras please posting your video. keep airing it we would love to know what's happening inside your city. thank you very much. >> thank you so much for your support. >> brian: you got it you have all of our support. meanwhile prices at the pump are on the rise as russia declares war in eastern europe as you could tell. fox business host stuart varney warns us inflation will soon get worse. ♪ find your beat your moment of calm find your potential then own it support your immune system with a potent blend of nutrients and emerge your best every day with emergen-c

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>> steve: this is a fox news alert. shell oil is now severing all ties with russian business owners over the war in ukraine. but you are also feeling the impact of higher prices at home at national average for gas prices had surged to more than 3.60 a gallon and experts predict inflation could soon get worse. >> ainsley: host of varney and company stuart varney joins us now. >> good morning. >> ainsley: we were energy independent and now we are energy dependent. don't to want to drill here because of the environment. do it somewhere why not do it domestically. >> my thoughts. american oil hit $100 a barrel. west texas crude $100 a barrel. $4 gasoline is on the way.

now, brutality, you have been seeing this all morning. usc showing it the brutality in ukraine continues it's not stopping the ball is now in our court. what are we going to do? there is serious talk of what is called the nuclear option. the nuclear option not to do with nuclear bombs. stopping russia exporting oil and gas and specifically america no longer importing oil from russia. that's the nuclear option. go that and deprive putin of $650 million a day in cash. he uses that cash to finance his aggression, cut him off, that's the nuclear option. it's being seriously discussed. >> you know at the same time while we can say because you can't stop russia from selling to somebody who wants their cheaper gas. but, apparently now china has a deal okay russia we will take any gas you want to sell us. there is market right there. so they have got the cash f they can get it there.

not going to be able to export 650 million bucks of gas to china just like that. can't wave a magic wand and have it happen. if they did this nuclear option, the price of oil would go up dramatically there will be a big political price to pay for that streef steve how dramatically. >> 125. >> steve: how much per gallon. >> 5 or 6 bucks. >> steve: in the u.s. >> if they put in this nuclear option without us, america, without vastly expanding oil and gas production. of the price of oil goes up from here and so gos the price of gasoline. >> how can americans afford that? >> can't. president biden adopt this nuclear option. that's a great political riske, quite frankly. you just raise inflation. but how good a war time president is he? is he prepared to go with that dramatic cut off the your oil and gas. >> couple of things, bp important. switzerland is also freezing

funds that's important. we left energy stocks out until now. once again, canada beat us to it. canada beat us to it and that pipeline from canada, can we compare how much oil roughly if the canadians actually were able to take their oil and put it through the keystone pipeline through into texas we would be buying it from them. deals with them let alone building it from them, right? >> i think it's about 600,000 600,000 barrels a day. don't quote me directly on. that was it would be nice, wouldn't it, if we could go and get the energy which is under our territory. it is sitting there waiting for us to go get it and pipeline it to somewhere. >> ainsley: it would be 5 or $6 a gallon. >> brian: actually have the answer to this thanks to tammy says the keystone xl pipeline will allow access to 830,000 barrels a day. if we finished it and used it and from this country called canada. >> how many times have we sat on this couch recently and said at

the state of the union message tonight president biden should reverse course. drill and frac for more of our own energy and just get on with it. pump until the cows come home. frac until the cows come home. whatever it is. that is the answer that he will not do it. greens won't let him. no way. >> brian: i'm going to pose this to the president biden if he would be listening. what would it be like in a week the death of zelenskyy, klitschko brothers. i don't want to charge the american people, hurt inflation charge american people 50 cents more for gas and didn't want to tick off the squad. that's the choice. because we won't use anything militarily economics is our -- is our offense. how dare you not do everything possible. >> i think the objective you have sanctions is not to get putin to withdrawal his troops. it is to ruin his domestic

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progressivings are pushing far left candidates trying to oust moderates who want tougher border policies. and grady trimble from our sister network fox business is live on the ground in houston. grady? >> good morning, and this here in texas in the governor's race greg abbott and beto o'rourke looking at today's primary and focus on the november election and they have raised quite a bit of money to take each others on. beto o'rourke taking in 10.3. governor greg abbott doubling that among the top issues for voters here in the lone star state, strengthening the state's power grid after last winter's devastating storms securing the

southern border. >> number one is the border issue. number two the cost of gasoline. our border has been an issue for a year now. >> very different relation for people in texas than it is for people in washington, d.c. >> there are 38 congressional seats up for grabs in 2022. including two new ones here in texas ken paxton under fbi. will challenged by george p. bush as well as louie gohmert. back to you. >> ainsley: all names that we recognize. thank you so much, grady. a new op-ed argues the russian invasion plays unusual role in mid terms and it may backfire on president biden and his party. town hall.com editor and fox news contributor katie pacheco listen joins us now to react. good morning to you, katie. >> good morning ainsley. good to see you. >> ainsley: great to see you

too. normally foreign policy doesn't affect an election here at home especially a primary midterms. but in this case we watched what happened in average. that was disaster. those images are frozen in all of our minds. and then when you look at russia, it's causing high gas prices, supply chain crisis inflation. so do matter in the polls down in texas, right? >> yeah, ainsley. americans watched the afghanistan catastrophe play out in realtime and you have the administration still today including president biden saying is he going to reject accountability for what happened there. that doesn't give americans a lot of confidence for the way president biden can handle foreign policy in the future. now here we where a crisis in ukraine. with russia invading and administration's response up until now has been to tell americans that they need to brace for higher energy prices while continuing this green new deal, climate change agenda, which has led to high gas prices in the first place as a result of leasing and not having here

in the united states. when it comes to the issue of foreign policy, the united states is still funding russia and importing more oil. president biden said right before a climate change summit in october of just last year, four months ago that russia needed to pump more oil. when it comes to the question of domestic energy production here at home where the average price of gas in california, the average price $4.33 today. americans are looking at this and saying this effects me and the domestic policies of the biden administration are not reflecting well in terms of being able to handle a crisis abroad that is causing prices to increase here at home. >> ainsley: so the hill did a poll only 37% of americans were confident in biden's ability to counter russia. 63% are not confident. so this is not good for the democrats. >> it's not good for the democrats and president biden, the white house has said that he is going to be out on the road more to help campaign for

democrats. they think that you have seen a number of democrats saying they want to keep him at arm's length. there is also a new abc "the washington post" poll that came out that shows that president biden's approval rating is just 37% with 61% of independence disapproving of the way that he is handling everything. the bottom line is that you don't have a strong domestic policy and your policies here at home aren't shoring up the economy. aren't bowl steger america's confidence in the way you are handling things here. you a foreign policy crisis on top of it in which in addition to the afghanistan key back of course in august, doesn't give americans much confidence that democrats are the ones who are capable of loading the country forward both domestic likely and national security perspective. >> our gas prices are going up. our independent friends gas prices are going up. our liberal friends gas prices are going up. we are all paying more to heat our homes. when he looks at those approval ratings. why doesn't he change course?

>> he is to the far left, ainsley. president biden campaigned on being a moderate. he has not governed as a moderate and you have pete buttigieg who, is a transportation secretary asked about the whether the biden administration will pivot temporarily to allow more drilling here domestically to bring the prices down. the response is we are in the middle of an alternative energy transformation therefore they are going to continue down this path of green energy what they call it for the future of america. but it's interesting because, you know, they are not willing to drill here but they are willing to ask russia, saudi arabia, opec to drill there and import it into the united states instead of exporting our gas here and allowing americans to be domestically independent when it comes to their energy to bring those prices down on top of everything else going up. one final point, if gas is going up, everything else goes up because trucks have to get to the market, everything that you buy at the store comes in on some kind of fuel and it isn't

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steve as the attacks against ukraine escalate, russians across the globe are denouncing president putin's war in st. petersburg, russia, riot police were detaining those who protested the invasion. while here in the united states russians are attending pro-ukrainian like this one in california. our next guests are both there. both russian citizens who fled their country and settled in the sacramento area. anna and yanna join us right now from california. ladies, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: anna, let's start with you, you are russian but you are embarrassed what your country is doing to ukraine. >> that is correct.

embarrassed to say the least and devastated and i know that not only i feel devastated but all of my friends feel the same. i feel we should speak out and say this is not russian's war this is putin's war. >> steve: yanna, when there are people in california who say oh, you are russian, what are you people doing to the ukrainians? what do you say to them? >> as anna said, i'm trying to repeat over and over because it looks like now russian nation is ashamed for years because of the invasion, because of the war. i'm trying to remind that most of russian people are benevolent and kind people but regime in russia now it's very abusive to

say modestly. >> dictatorship. >> absolutely. >> yanna, do you feel being russian somehow you are responsible? >> >> i am responsible to tell people around me to my kids, my friends, that i'm, as many russians, as most of russians i would say, strongly against the regime of putin. >> steve: sure. >> strongly against this dictatorship which is warmonger, right? >> steve: anna, you and your husband left russia because did you take part in protests over there but then it became so dangerous you had to come here. how many people in russia feel the way you do that what vladimir putin is doing, anna is

wrong. >> >> i know hundreds of thousands i would say millions feel the same. but many of them just are so afraid to speak out. so proud to be a friend of people who are not afraid now to take the street in st. petersburg and other cities and speak out and say we are against this shameful war. >> steve: indeed. you are speaking out here in the united states and people speaking out in russia very bravely as well. anna and iana, we thank you both for joining us today from california. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: you bet. coming up on the top of the hour, almost 3:00 in ukraine. coming up, congressman dan crenshaw and house minority leader kevin mccarthy will join us live as our coverage from russia's invasion against ukraine continues. instead, start small. with nicorette.

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>> addressing the european parliament. >> for our rights, for freedom, for our survival. >> the battle for seizures now in day 6. >> all eyes are on this convoy estimated at 40 miles long. those that were capable the most did the least. >> should americans be worried about nuclear war?

>> no. >> he's not willing to lose. he's going to go all the way and we must be ready. >> hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are fleeing the country. >> going back now to fight. >> energy giant is calling it quits in russia. >> the ball is now in our court. what are we going to do? [applause] >> a standing ovation for ukraine's. this leader there on the world stage as he addressed one hour and 5 minutes ago the european parliament. here he is. >> we are fighting just for our land. and for our freedom. >> you could hear right there

that person doing the simultaneous translation becoming emotional of what he was saying live from ukraine. >> as you see, rushed up at a target on his back. a threatening ukraine's city overnight. new attacks. >> ainsley: ukrainian man who fled to poland telling us earlier, he is returning to fight the russians. >> i'm leaving ukraine. >> and you are going back now. >> going back now. to fight, yes. >> ainsley: joining us live with new reporting. what's happening there? it's 5:00 in the afternoon there? >> it is. what's happening now is all eyes are on this convoy that is moving south from the belarus border. apparently not moving at a great clip of speed but apparently there's an information lockout. we are just not hearing a lot as far as what is happening with

this convoy that has been moving south toward the capital. of course an ominous sign of what could very well be the next stage in this conflict next stage in this invasion. dramatic video to the east showing a direct strike on a regional government building. some sources say it was an attempt to kill the regional leaders in that particular building. it was subject to indiscriminate rocket fire. video evidence of what appeared to be a cluster bomb. a cluster bomb and something that breaks up in the sky and explode really over the sides of what could be as large as a football field. these are illegal because they are indiscriminate. they could drop it into an urban population. chances are, you are going to end up with civilian casualties. there is a page to battle taking place they're focusing on a bridge that spans over the

river. this is of key importance. they have fortifications on the crimean peninsula which they've held since 2014. this bridge would connect them with the mainland. a key piece of strategic real estate if you will. it also would give them access to the water for resupplying your troops. we talked earlier about a base just to the west really between kyiv and khaki. that base took a direct start from -- that took, it resulted in 70 deaths. they got hit an hour ago. the best reporting that resulted in no casualties. back to you. >> steve: given the fact that you just detail that cluster bombs were used and there's a suggestion that the thermal bearing vacuum bomb has been used as well. normally those would be considered by the icc war crimes.

right now as we look at some of the demonstration on the streets of kyiv, there's nobody there to hold mr. putin accountable. >> it seems this is a pattern for the russians. they use these kind of munitions in syria allegedly. they did not face consequences were about. you just had the president zelenskyy addressing e.u. parliament saying vladimir putin is a war criminal and needs to be held accountable and the rest of the world needs to hold them accountable. it's up to the leadership at this point. >> ainsley: russia did use the vacuum bomb yesterday. it vaporizes bodies and crushes internal organs. one of the most powerful nonnuclear munitions, missiles. >> the father of all bombs they refer to it as. >> brian: we spoke to a

professor in ukraine beauty and the family of five are staying around good one of the major challenges as they have no subway system to hide it. everyone is hiding in their basements. he wants to stay pretty to not believe the western designs are on western ukraine. he knows that vladimir putin -- that's what he does. he talked about what life is like. >> what we are seeing now is a resistance not only of the ukrainian army, the resistance of the whole nation. and putin does not have any clue what society is. this is something he suppressed in russia. he doesn't think he can exist in any other country. we feel that we are part of one single united nation. what we need is a no-fly zone

enforceable and other decisions to back us up for us instead of us. >> steve: yesterday, the white house said the united states would not take part in any no-fly zone. i could bring us into an actual shooting war. dan crenshaw member of the house energy and congress committee and a former navy seal. >> good morning. >> steve: it's daunting. there is a 40--mile column of tanks and armored vehicles leading toward kyiv. just a matter of time before they circled the city and then they will slowly try to strangle it. the one bit of good news is apparently, there is something like 70 ukrainian pilots in poland at this hour picking up 70 donated fighter jets from european countries including older russian-made planes, 12

from slovakia and 30 from bulgaria. if the ukrainian airports are going to have a fighting chance, this is going to help them. >> it certainly is. i am glad to see a lot of e.u. members stepping up. i think they can do more. you got russia right on your doorstep. this is a fight for your life. a lot of people denied that until the moment it happened. it is clearly the case now. the e.u. has agreed to look at ukrainian's e.u. membership. that could be significant there that does require some kind of assistance to them. i think ross, i think putin in particular has clearly miscalculated. this is a bigger fight than anticipated. they lost thousands of troops. that's more than we ever lost in afghanistan. we need to continue to make this as painful as possible for them with that kind of legal aid we are talking about on the economic pain we are inflicting on them.

>> ainsley: the ukrainian ambassadors stood up and read text messages. these are texts from a soldier, the mother of that soldier, he is russian. the mother of that soldier thought her son was training in crimea. it turns out, he is on the front lines in ukraine. these are the text messages between the two of them just before he was killed. >> i would like to read from the screenshot of the smartphone of a killed russian soldier. >> why is it been so long since you responded? are you really doing training exercises? asks the mother of the killed soldier. moments before he was killed. mama, i am in ukraine. there is a real war raging here.

i am afraid. we are bombing all of the cities together. even targeting civilians. we were told that they would welcome us. and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the weald and not allowing us to pass. they call his fastest. mama, this is so hard. this is several moments before he was killed. >> ainsley: congressman, what i gather from that, they thought that we would be welcomed into their country. that's not the case. is it putin's regime, they want to you they have. and then also targeting civilians. you can tell the soldier didn't realize what he was getting

into. >> we have heard various accounts like that. this shows a deception that putin has incurred on his own people. you are seeing russia. regular russian civilians are seeing this for what it is. he has lost his way quite a bit here. this is what we need to capitalize on. he doesn't care if he loses international support. he certainly cares about domestic support and whether his propaganda is working. we need to continue to pull this thread. incur the costs on putin and turn the russian people against him. >> brian: know where it is they only have about a week or two left of javelin missiles. they need it. right now we can get everything through the air. it's got to be on the ground which will come through poland. guess who knows that, the

russians know that. it's going to be very dangerous delivering food, water, guns and ammunition and legal aid for "the washington post" reported that 3 minutes ago. kharkiv is thoroughly surrounded and bracing for an assault. we just told you about the caravan that goes 40 miles deep. they look like they will do the same thing. what do you think the people of kharkiv should be braced for judging by the russians tactics in the past? >> urban warfare is going to be terrible. of the russians don't seem to have any kind of restraint on what kind of tactics they are willing to use. the only good news here is that russian soldiers are having second thoughts. i would also say they are not good at biting at night. this is something we have learned by watching them over the last week or so. civilians can take advantage of that. guerrilla warfare is also very

scary for the people for the russian soldiers as well. ukrainian people can take solace in that. the european union have to step up with more aid, getting more aggressive with getting that aid in there. we have to be aggressive with getting that aid, the stinger missiles in there. very effective against russian fighters. these are questions we have been asking the secretary of defense. they say at least 800 were delivered over the weekend. ace will be very devastating to russia. we need to continue to push that. >> brian: they are going to do a carpet bomb berlin style 1948. >> i don't know. i would not put anything past putin right now. i do figure that as he begins to lose, he will engage in the scorched earth campaign. the european union has to step up for their neighbor. they have to step up for their

neighbor because they can reverse this with enough aid of its get into the right place at the right time. >> steve: and just takes time. it's something that people of ukraine just don't have as they are circling the cities. are you going to the state of the union tonight? >> they want everybody to get tested. i'm going to try. >> you don't need to wear the masks, which is progress. apparently, you know, the president's speech writers had to throw out the speech they had done a week ago because world events have changed. apparently, he will talk about the russian invasion and how the united states was able to rally the world. apparently he is going to talk about inflation. is going to talk about, you know, the cost to americans. once again, he's going to push milbank battery. i know that americans are hurting but you passed build back better and prices are actually going to go down. he's going to press you guys and

congress to do more. >> zelenskyy rally the world, not joe biden. joe biden's feckless leadership possibly lead up to this. the world has allowed russia to capture an increasingly larger share of the energy markets and therefore become dependent on russia and embolden them to do this right now. mistakes were made in the past. the question is what can you do in the future? biden will refuse to acknowledge the fact that american energy dominance would prevent this kind of thing in the future. there are two things that prevent war, credible force and leverage. we are talking about energy markets. america needs to be producing more oil and gas, or nuclear. more oil and gas that europe needs. russia cannot hold everybody hostage in situations like this. >> ainsley: i know zelenskyy is 18 to join the eu.

he addressed the european parliament earlier this morning. we had a live. let me show you and the audience a clip. >> we are showing everybody, the european union is going to be much stronger without us, that's for sure. we have proven our strength. we are exactly the same do prove that you are with us. life will win over her death, and light will win over darkness. glory be to ukraine. >> ainsley: and then he said "do not let us go." he stood up, raised his arms, and everybody in the audience gave him a standing ovation. do you know the process of the eu? they just allowed ukraine to be part of that quickly. >> short answer, i don't know. i'm not an expert in this field and am not sure what the processes like like. i'm happy to see the eu standing up to this.

previously neutral countries looking to stand out of this. it looks like putin's calculations are totally wrong. possibly increase eu membership which is the opposite of what putin wanted. it joe biden has to stand up to this. instead of saying this is a lesson where we need to move to cleaner energy, solar, and wind, there's a very clear message for joe biden. climate change is not killing scores of ukrainians. russians are. remove their leverage. it really is that simple. when alaska says we can produce more oil, let them produce more oil. when we have multiple export facilities they could be permitted to produce more lng exports, allow this experiments to go through the d.o.e. there are very simple things that we can start to do right now. stop this moratorium on lease sails for instance. there's plenty of thing that we can do so that with the next few months to a year, we can start to overtake that market share

from russia and remove their leverage. we should have done it years ago. at least you could acknowledge the problem. >> brian: we have imported more gasoline and refined petroleum products than any other nation in the world from russia. going way over in 2021 where we were in 2020. if you want to impact russia, and immediately change that policy. you can announce that tonight. >> exactly, exactly. i just laid out a couple of steps that would be very simple. when i forgot was the keystone pipeline. that thing would've brought in 830,000 barrels a day. we import around an average of 600,000 from russia. to that imported from canada -- canada by the way is announce that they will stop imports from russia. we have to be able to do the same thing and make that case to the american people. this is war. the russians have started a war. we are not talking about

escalation. we are not talking about whether they will or won't. they have, they have done it. the world is rallying behind zelenskyy. instead of leading, biden is tiptoeing around it. >> steve: if we did that, that would give us leverage. it's politics and the president's a far left of base would revolt because he can't do that. he did it the right way the first time. you are from the state of texas. first primary of the 2022 election cycle. what is your prediction on how this is going to go? >> i'm curious of how democrats will go. you saw aoc trying to unseat people. there is that more than a democrat party also interesting. on our side, i'm focused on races like morgan luttrell.

these are races that are occurring right next to me. i think everybody should go out and vote for morgan on mike morgan luttrell. we will move on to the general where we can flood at least one seat. someone you should have on your radar in south texas. that's another great candidate. the texas delegation -- >> brian: always great to talk to you. >> ainsley: thank you, congressman. the heroism of ukrainians inspiring soldiers across the globe to go and join the fight for freedom. up next year from the native of the country georgia was helping training ukrainians civilians for war. >> steve: dana perino will join us on how the war on ukraine will impact president biden state of the union address tonight. you will see on fox at 9:00 p.m. eastern. my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ it was time for a nunormal with nucala.

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>> we are fighting just for our land. and for our freedom. despite the fact -- >> even the parliament translator getting emotional as president zelenskyy addresses fellow european leaders. he standing firm in his fight against russia. the e.u. for stepping up. is it too late? their bravery on the front lines inspiring veterans from around the world to join their fight for freedom. a group of war veterans from the u.s. to u.k. in germany answering the call for foreign volunteers.

his home country in 2008. commends the georgian national region in ukraine and he is there to fight. commander joins us now from an undisclosed location in the ukraine. i salute you for what you are doing. why is it important for you to get involved in this fight against russia? [indistinct] >> that's why today -- >> brian: right. i want you to hear what president zelenskyy just sets up the men talking about the strength of the ukrainian forces and what he needs. >> nobody is going to break us. we are strong. we are ukrainians. we have a desire to see our

children alive. i think it is a fair one. yesterday, 16 children were killed. our people are very much motivated very much so. we are fighting. for our rights, for our freedoms, for our life. and now, we are fighting for survival. >> brian: and that's why you're there. can you tell every body how hard it was to get into the country? is it still possible to get into the country with supplies and weapons? >> we are receiving more -- [indistinct] even more than that -- [indistinct]

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>> steve: russia's invasion of ukraine expect to be a major part of president biden's first date of the union address tonight. president zelenskyy stands firm while calling out support from the bus to help them out. >> without you, ukraine is going to be lonesome. we have proven our strength. do prove that you indeed are europeans. and then, life will win back over death, and light will win over darkness.

glory be to ukraine. [applause] >> ainsley: joining us now, america's newsroom coanchor and "the five" host dana perino. >> get caught up on so many developments happening. >> here this morning that was lined this morning. came out of a commercial break. the standing ovation there from parliament. what do you expect joe biden to focus on the night. we have inflation, supply chain crisis, gas prices through the roof, over borders. i was a going to spin it in a positive light? >> one thing you will see him do today is getting a standing ovation. because of the president of ukraine. this man zelenskyy as you noted that os x even people in our country to be inspired by his courage and his bravery. i think the first standing

ovation you will sleep the night in a moment of unity and a grace note will be about the president of ukraine. he's going to have to figure out a way to talk about how we can support what we are going to be willing to do in the middle of what is an incredible split screen moment with the indiscriminate shelling of the major cities of ukraine as the russians try to take over in an 18th century land grab in a 21st century world. we have never seen anything like this. state of the union addresses usually take months to put together. i imagine this one went through many revisions over the last several days. >> we understand that president is going to talk a little bit about how he rally the world to help zelenskyy with sanctions and stuff. he's going to push for more build back better. and will help the average american. once going to be interesting after the president that you've got the iowa governor is going

to give the republican point of view. rashida tlaib is going to have a rebuttal to the rebuttal to the rebuttal. >> never accept a rebuttal assignment. i'm excited about governor reynolds. she submitted that deserves more attention in the republican party really making that stayed home along economically. she was smart on her rules. i think a real leader in the future of the party. on the democratic side, they like to do this where they play the left wing against everybody else. the problem for america and president biden is that he has allowed the left wing to pull him so far over to the left that now it's hard to imagine that anyone is going to believe that more pushes on build back better are actually going to help them when it comes to what they are dealing with with inflation and energy prices and groceries. >> brian: looking to grow more and is looking to block his party. he is actually for the

ukrainians. you predicted this. he said i imagine, state of the union address, magically we are going to learn that we can take off our masks, and the pandemic is over. we have a pseudo-announcement. you've got to wear a mask on tuesday. on wednesday you don't need one. after the state of the union address. >> it's and not for the first time, the chamber in the house will allow everyone to be there without a mask. if you look at some of the poll numbers that have come out of the last eight weeks, you see that president biden's numbers have continued to decline. that used to be his highest approval rating. now, he's underwater by a significant margin. on february 1st, they better not wait until march 1st to do what everybody else is already doing. and will be seen as partisan. >> steve: no masks are required as is the case in the chamber of the house of

representatives. later on your program, you're going to be sitting down with jen psaki, the president's press secretary. you have lots of questions for her about, you know, what is the president going to say? she's going to say i hate to get out of the president. she will give you a good idea of what tonight it's going to be about. >> we have a lot of questions about what is happening right now as we speak in ukraine and how the west is dealing with requests from some people about a no-fly zone. so far they've rejected that. one of them you talked about this morning. that is providing infill. and doesn't do the ukrainians any good to find out that an hour ago, but i think they just hate you, they were north of the city. that doesn't help. it has to be in real time. at some point, vladimir putin might say now america has entered this war or the west is enter this war if we are providing real-time

intelligence. are we going to get a standing ovation for zelenskyy and support him or get up standing ovation for zelenskyy and tell them the hope best? >> brian: kharkiv is totally surrounded. they expect the assault to happen any moment. >> it has been happening through the night, too. >> you are waking up the images that are shocking. you have to wonder about vladimir putin's thinking at this point. there are also things like small level tactical nuclear weapons, a question that michael waltz raised earlier with you all. i would imagine that vladimir putin thinks that would be may be a step to five. the west is not been clear as to what happens after he takes that step where he to do it. >> steve: we have been looking at some of the video from cluster bombing yesterday. we will be watching you and bill in 21 minutes. >> out next as russia puts

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putin is an evil man and he's reckless. he's being pushed against the wall. his troops are not finding the way he thought this was going to go out. and any given time, we should always be prepared to make sure that never happens. >> steve: i believe you got a phone call from an american who is from ukraine. you are either talking to them today or yesterday and they gave you an eyewitness account of what's going on there. >> i was awoken earlier this morning with a phone call from a ukrainian american that had immigrated to america. speaking to their family back home given the real story what's happening with the russian troops coming into villages killing women and children putting people in front of tanks. of course emotional and distraught wondering what more could we do. that challenge that we have is it is the actions that we could have done before from this administration to make sure today wasn't happening. he could have supplied their weapons to ukraine. they are not asking for american

troops. asking where the ability to fight. what they were hearing is ordinary ukrainians were going out and fighting but they had no weaponry. they were taking the knives from their kitchen outgunned in this process but they are fighting for their freedom. we could have been the individuals that could have deterred this from ever happening. >> steve: we've heard stories about the oligarchs and billionaire pals of putin. now they are saying let's give peace a chance and maybe this was a bad idea. that is because the united states community is tightening the screws financially and in a bunch of ways to russia. had the sanctions been clear before the invasion, maybe mr. putin would've thought twice. >> i think there are a number of things if you watch history that we could have done. how we pulled out of afghanistan gave putin the wrong impression. having a meeting with president biden and giving him norge stream 2 write up the back

was a wrong impression ago. this is putin. remember the way he thinks everything in black-and-white as he moves forward. he took crimea with really no punishment. there are a lot of similarities to history in the past that we do not want to make sure repeats itself. if we had supplied web entry early, had the administration about the amendment to block norge stream 2 in the senate, that probably would have been a deterrent to think he had not biden administration to keep his norge stream 2 inside congress and the sin that a wrong approach to take. killing innocent people. is very difficult difficult to get there. giving him a free test two months later, it will arrive at your door. in two months, and president zelenskyy still be holding court and still fighting back if he doesn't have the weapons to fight, himself?

>> steve: i was reading an article today that united states in part is financing this invasion because his wars costing putin something like $15 billion today by the united states is buying a billion dollars of russian oil every day. and the president not pulled the plug on things like the keystone and thought more about energy rather than his far left progressive environmentalist base, you know, we might not be in this pickle. >> we are 100% correct but we should take action today. american energy independence against russia. we will open up the pipeline, at least those permits at this administration is holding. open up the federal land for exploration that you closed in this administration. make it easy that america becomes energy independent but also can supply to erupt the lng that it it does not have to buy

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>> nobody is going to enter and intervene with time with freedom, believe you me. every square today no matter what it is called is going to be called today, "freedom square"

in every city of our country. >> ainsley: ukrainian president zelenskyy vowing not to give up the fight for freedom. it comes in some churches are being used for bomb shelters but faith is empowering citizens to keep the fight up. our next guest is the rx bishop for -- his name is archbishop. he joins us now. good morning to you, archbishop. >> steve: good morning, good morning. your parents immigrated here from ukrainian. he went to the harvard and went back to ukraine four years ago. what is your reaction when you see this happening to your homeland? >> we are beginning of lent. lent leads us to the resurrection. there is no bailed of the cross in between. ukraine is being crucified right now. people are strong. people believe that god is the lord of history. and they are putting up a fight. you can see the russian armies

which outnumber ukraine, the ukrainian forces and budget and tanks and planes 10 to 1 are not, are not allowing the russians to advance 200,000 volunteers have signed up in the last five days. there is unity. ukrainians are united. they have united the world. i thank you for bringing this story to the people of america that have always supported freedom. >> ainsley: we have seen rallies in new york that are happening all over the world. you had a rally outside of your charge. we are looking at a video of you churches in ukraine being used as shelters. we turn to our churches and family and time of crises. this is a david and goliath story. what is your reaction to that? you guys -- your people, they are just so courageous.

>> well, you know, putin thought the war would be over by saturday. there was an article that inadvertently was published that was already a victory article. it's not happening, and it won't happen. you can see it from every hour to our, the result of that country is getting stronger. it's really freedom or death. and it is a faith that, you know, we have our life in this world but we also have an eternal life and you stick to principles. sometimes you have to make big sacrifices. but ukrainians really are being punished because it is a democracy. it is a place where freedom of the press. at the place where people have freedom of religion. and that this is what autocrats fear. putin does not want this virus to spread to russia. >> ainsley: you said you've been warning people for years

about putin. he said he is psychologically unstable and he is unpredictable. archbishop, we are praying for the people in ukraine for their churches and their residents they are. so many people say they are going back into fight and we are surrounding them with prayer and a hedge of protection. god bless you. thank you for coming out. or "fox & friends." you're welcome. more "fox & friends" moments away. heartburn... claire could only imagine enjoying chocolate cake. now, she can have her cake and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? ♪ ♪

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>> i was lucky enough to ont the program but producers put it together about putin. you'll have a competency of who he is. >> join us tomorrow. the post-game show for the state of the union. >> dana: have a wonderful day. see you on wednesday. >> bill: good morning, everyone. the war in ukraine in its sixth day. russia frustrated with a lack of progress early on-ramping up attacks on civilians as we say hello and good morning. brutal day today. live in washington, d.c. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: good to be with you. i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." we have so much to get to. many developments overnight. russian missiles targeting a government office building steps away from freedom square. it is the cultural heart of kharkiv. >> bill: sources telling fox news it was