huddle in hospital basements interrupting their treatment, essentially sentencing them to death. those were president putin's choices. now it's time for us to make ours. the united states is choosing to stand with the ukrainian people. we are choosing in coordination with our allies and partners, to impose severe consequences on russia. we are choosing to hold russia accountable for its actions and we will soon turn to vote on a resolution that does just that. we believe this is a simple vote. vote yes if you believe u.n. member states, including your own, have a right to sovereignty and territorial integrity. vote yes if you believe russia should be held to account for

its actions. vote yes if you believe in upholding the u.n. charter and everything this institution stands for. thank you very much. >> the representative of the united states. >> harris: we're covering the breaking news now and want to let you know what's happening at the united nations right now that is really important. that was the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., linda thomas-greenfield. there are three additional speakers. among them representation from the vatican and working for days on the resolution to condemn russia for invading ukraine. they wanted language in it that also included to stop the fighting, pull troops and a few other things and last night in the general assembly of the 193 members, about half were in

support of this draft resolution. of course the complications at the u.n. is that, well, china and russia have been voting to condemn resolutions like this along the way in the seven-day war. it will be interesting to see if it has any teeth or what it could accomplish. taking you there live to see it happening as it unfolds. also this fox news alert. terror on the ground and freedom on the line. protestors in ukraine confronting russian forces in a city in the country's southeastern border. with just their voices. about 250 miles to the north of that vladimir putin's army continues to assault kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city and coming under heavy air strikes now hitting a civilian

population. i'm harris faulkner and are you in "the faulkner focus". ukrainian president zelenskyy condemning what he calls a blatant terror campaign. russia is hitting civilian sites in all corners of the country. in kyiv russian project tills struck the main radio and television tower temporarily knocking out broadcasts in the capital. today an explosion at the police and intelligence headquarters in kharkiv killing at least four people. zelenskyy has said russia must stop bombing his people before he is willing to meet again for potential peace talks. last night at the state of the union address president biden made it clear the united states stands with ukraine. >> president biden: russia's vladimir putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world. thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. but he badly miscalculated. putin has unleashed violence and chaos but while he may make

gains on the battlefield, he will pay a continuing high price over the long run. >> harris: retired general jack keane said the president's words were not enough and he could have gone much further. >> i thought he really missed a real opportunity. he squandered it. to talk to putin and to the ukrainian people. given putin's invasion of ukraine, what he should have just said unequivocally we are not going to let this stand. we intend to assist the ukrainians resist this invasion with everything that we can. >> harris: that is certainly not what the president said. senator ted cruz of the great state of texas is in "focus." we have fox team coverage with peter doocy at the white house. and trey yengst live in the capital city in ukraine and we know how much putin wants to get to that government center,

trey. >> good morning. overnight violence erupted once again across ukraine as russia pushes from the northeast and the south trying to make their way toward this city. we know in the south of ukraine the city of kherson is under their control according to the russians. it would give russia a major territory gain and allow them to bring in more troops from crimea. in kharkiv destruction overnight and into today. it was the hardest hit with russian missiles slamming into more buildings. this video shows the police headquarters on fire after a russian strike. the scenes of total destruction are getting more widespread in kharkiv as russia ramps up its attacks on the city. russian paratroopers reportedly landed there overnight to support the ground offensive in this area. other images show heavy damage to the residential areas of kharkiv despite claims by the russians they aren't targeting civilian areas. images speak for themselves. further west more evidence of

russian forces striking residential homes. russians trying to demoralize the people they shot down two russian jets overnight. in the city you could see significant damage from the missiles strikes around the television tower and roadblocks. checkpoints set up throughout the city and real concern that russian forces may send advance troops trying to get an idea of how much resistance they are going to face. >> harris: trey yengst, thank you very much for keeping us informed. president biden kicked off his first state of the union address last night with a heavy focus on ukraine yet he also spent considerable time on the pandemic, gas prices and inflation. and if you have seen the latest polls you know those are all the issues a majority of americans say he is failing to deliver on. iowa governor kim reynolds gave the republican response and a reality check to president biden. >> instead of moving america forward, it feels like

president biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late 70s and early 80s when runaway inflation was hammering families, the president told us that he wanted to, quote, make america respected around the world again and to unite us here at home. he has failed on both fronts. >> harris: a "washington examiner" op-ed also calling out the president. this headline, pants on fire. biden claims he will lower your costs and the deficit. peter doocy live for us at the white house. peter. >> here at the white house just a few minutes ago i had a chance to ask president biden for the latest assessment that he has concerning the danger facing zelenskyy. how worried are you about president zelenskyy and do you think he should stay in ukraine or try to leave? >> president biden: i think it is his judgment to make and we're doing everything we can to help him.

>> something else the president said there on the south lawn that sanctions on the russian energy industry are on the table. but a little while ago we heard some white house officials explaining that that comes with some problems. >> what he does not want to do is topple the global oil markets or the global marketplace or impact the american people more with higher energy and gas prices. that's something we heavily weigh. it is still on the table, it is not off the table. >> bill: some things are off the table including troops in ukraine even to enforce a no fly zone. >> it is heart wrenching to be sure but i will tell you the president is clear, we are clear, we are not going to put u.s. troops in ukraine to fight the russians. not on the ground and not in the air. >> also not in the air in the u.s. any flights that take off from russia >> president biden: we'll join our allies in closing off american airspace to all russian flights, further

isolating russia and adding additional squeeze on their economy. he has no idea what's coming. >> we have no idea who he was referring to when he told lawmakers in the chamber and everyone watching at home to go get someone. >> president biden: this is our moment to meet and overcome the challenges of our times and we will. and as one people, one america, the united states of america. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. go get him. >> go get him or em, not sure. the president will focus on his domestic agenda. he was heading to a campaign style event promoting his spending plans in wisconsin. >> harris: glad you were able to chat with him there. by the time we see each other

again what's happening in ukraine is very fluid. good to see you. thank you, peter. president biden presented a growing unified world against putin. you saw that from peter's reporting and last night. ukraine is now being hit harder than ever by putin's army. >> if you were to take that speech from here you wouldn't have got a lot of comfort with air raid sirens it sounded like a victory speech. we're only six days into the war and the bombs are still falling. vladimir putin is doubling down on this war. it felt too early. i think the people of ukraine, the people i spoke to earlier wanted more. they wanted concrete helped and idea how it can be stopped. i don't think they got that tonight. >> harris: wow. that is raw truth right there. the cover of the "new york post" depicts both the bravery and anguish in ukraine. we're fighting for our freedom. prove that you are with us.

ted cruz republican senator from texas member of the foreign relations committee. senator cruz, thank you for being in "focus" today. i want the start with what benjamin hall was reporting about the perspective of the people on the ground in ukraine. maybe seeing president biden take more of a victory lap. something accomplished that hasn't been yet. what is your reaction to that? >> i agree very much with the sentiments being expressed. the state of the union speech last night i thought was incredibly disconnected and out of touch and biden referenced a number of the challenges in this country but took no responsibility for any of them. he talked about inflation, didn't acknowledge the trillions of new spending and debt that's driving inflation. he talked about gas prices going up but didn't acknowledge his policies that are destroying the domestic energy market. when it came to ukraine he didn't acknowledge the direct responsibility he bears for the russian invasion of ukraine because of two things. number one last year the disastrous withdrawal in

afghanistan. the surrender to the taliban. every enemy of america took the measure of the man in the oval office and they determined unfortunately that the president was weak and affectless and ineffective and a big part of the reason russia invaded ukraine. secondly, joe biden specifically made a series of concessions to putin and russia, most notably waiving sanctions on nord stream 2 the pipeline putin was building to go around ukraine. i authored the sanctions in the senate and passed them into law. donald trump signed them into law and stopped nord stream 2 until joe biden came into office. gave him the pipeline and caused the invasion. biden admits no responsibility for anything and the sentiments that were just expressed a second ago i very much agree. joe biden and kamala harris and this administration are resigned to putin winning. there is no resolve to win.

there is no focus on how do we stop putin from taking over and conquering ukraine? the way we do so is two-fold. number one we use economic power, massive economic sanctions. biden has exempted as you noted energy. he has exempted oil and gas. that's where putin gets all of his revenue. we need to be boycotting russian energy and leading the world in a boycott of russian energy to cut off the cash to putin. number two we need to be doing much more to provide military aid to ukraine. not american soldiers. american soldiers should not be fighting the russians but we ought to be providing stingers and javelins because the ukrainians are heroicly defending their own homeland. >> harris: we've been talking to people on the ground there. they are out of guns. i want to visit a couple of things that you said because it

is just so jarring if any of that part has evidence that this administration would be accepting a victory already by putin. it is -- that is unfathomable. we don't have the right to write history for them. but certainly with as many americans and people around the world who are professing their love and solidified with ukraine in its fight for freedom it is way too early in history to try to do that. i mean, we don't know what we are capable of until we lean in. my question for you, senator, putin did this no matter what anyone would have done. how do we know? because very shortly afghanistan after, troops were massing just in october we left early -- late august, early september. just weeks later he was already putting now up to 200,000 troops on the ground along borders with ukraine. so he was going to do this. how do we stop him from his

next move if we don't show that we might use might? i am not advocating in any way no one wants nuclear war. but he has already said he is willing to go there. >> so let me take that in two pieces. it is important that we remember what america's interest is in ukraine. sometimes there are republicans who talk about ukraine and talk about the need to defend democracy and global norms. frankly i think it is all -- the objective of u.s. foreign policy and the job of the military is to defend american national security. the reason we have an acute interest in what putin is doing is because putin has told us his objective. to reassembly the old soviet union. we were in the cold war with two super powers, america and the soviet union.

putin is trying to rebuild the soviet union. the speech he gave a week ago said he wanted to rebuild the russian empire of 1922. it is in our interest to keep our enemies weak. we don't want a stronger vladimir putin with desires to conquer europe and the world. it's why we have a strong interest in preventing him from getting stronger because it's more dangerous for us. the second point you made respectfully, i don't think it's right this was inevitable. it was preventable. the most frustrating aspect about it. i think joe biden made specific mistakes that caused this invasion. a couple of weeks ago we had a classified briefing with all 100 senators and one of the democratic senators stood up and asked the secretary of state tony blinken, why did putin not invade ukraine in 2017 or in 2018 or 2019 or 2020? i have to admit i and several other senators began laughing. the answer is obvious.

which is that putin only respects strength. and he believed president trump was strong. he didn't want to risk the consequences and critically trump had signed into law the sanctions that i authored shutting down nord stream 2. if putin invaded ukraine he risked jeopardizing the pipelines that go through ukraine. without those pipelines putin can't get his gas to europe and why nord stream 2 was so important. when biden came in he just surrendered nord stream 2 to putin and waived the sanctions and did so because this president and this administration believes when you are facing an enemy, you should show weakness. you should show appeasement. they think that's how you stop aggression. that's what they did with the taliban and with russia and what they're doing with china and iran trying to give iran hundreds of billions of dollars which will only allow the ayatollah to get a nuclear

weapon. appeasement doesn't work. >> harris: your description of why we are being told to sacrifice with the gas prices. pushed higher than they were already with the inflation disaster we were having before the end of 2021, that explanation was missing from the president's address quite frankly last night. people who were listening to put those puzzle pieces together didn't get that. you have done some of that today and tremendously helpful. i know there are politics mixed, too, you have given a primer on what we're about and what our foreign policy is about with regard to that. i hope people are paying attention. senator cruz, thank you very much for your time. the state of the union address is not bringing unity to the democratic party, certainly not. the deep divide on full display as progressives are now taking pot shots on the president's

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>> harris: fox news alert. putin's forces frustrated by ukraine's resistance have amped up the violence today. russia is pounding civilian areas of ukraine's second largest city. men 18 to 60 years old we know are required to stay and fight. we know of even foreign fighters now with visa restrictions lifted by the president of ukraine so some of them can come in and help out. the people who maybe lived in ukraine years ago are now coming at border points where they can get in just to help. but the united nations is reporting 900,000 people have fled ukraine to escape the violence. that's created a mass refugee and humanitarian crisis along borders where they can get out like poland. scenes at the border are heartbreaking. >> i left kyiv on the 25th. 24th or 25th i was in the

basement. >> you went with your baby to the basement? >> three babies. >> where are you going to >> to budapest with my relatives. they will take us kindly. >> you and three babies. >> my husband is left to protect the country. our country and my three friends died. they died the day we left. the shelling. >> sorry to hear that. >> i have just left with children. >> harris: terrible news for me, she says. she has left with her three babies and her husband is trying and trying to get to family and friends are dead. natalia is a professor of economics in ukraine. she is staying inside the country. first of all, tell me what you are anticipating to do there? are you going to fight? can you get out?

>> yes, so i am near kyiv not in the center of kyiv. so far it is more or less calm here. a few days ago we were closer to kyiv and we have -- there was shooting at the nearby airport a few kilometers from where we stay. i plan to stay. me and my team. we work basically all the time. we are not prepared to fight. so we are working on supplies, helping the government, organizing different supply channels, there is a lot of work and everyone is busy so there are 40 million people who are trying to do something in

ukraine to win the war and we are sure that we will win this war against evil. of course, it get very difficult for many of my colleagues. some of my friends, they have panic attacks and they cannot leave. they are without drugs. some of them lost the whole regions they come from like kharkiv. they cannot get in touch with their relatives. somebody is fighting like my analysts. i never thought they could do, you know, any squad or something but now they are fighting with real weapons in the center of kyiv and haven't slept for nights. my husband is a professor so he had a chance to stay at the university of pittsburgh, have a good career and everything

but just when the war was starting he got the last plane and came to ukraine. today we stand on the register to get -- we get process from everyone from 18 to 60 to register into the military forces. >> harris: i want to just interject for a second because i am reacting now to some of what you are saying. you have a colleague there with you at the university you said you never thought he was trained to fight and now he has picked up a weapon. i would have to imagine that is happening all over the place as people try to fight. the logistics that you are helping with right now for all the people who maybe can't leave, first of all, thank you. thank you for your bravery. you cannot even imagine the

inspiration you give people seeing you stay. i thought i heard a little one's voice in the background. was that -- are you with children? >> these are not my children biologically but of course in the war everyone is somebody's child. there are a lot of kids around there and yes, some people who have cars and who have connections they are more easy to locate but, of course, many people who don't have cars, they have to stay and especially they have disabled people or small kids they had to stay in really dangerous locations. >> harris: tell me if you will about what you were told in the days leading up to the start of the war. it has only been seven. it has been one week and it must feel like it is much longer than that to you. i can only imagine. but what were you told and did you have time to get out and just make a determination even

then i'm not leaving? what were those early days like? >> so we've been watching this situation for some time. we are analysts and think-tank and been analyzing what's going on. basically it was more or less clear that something will start like that. so we prepared evacuation plans for our organization and made our decisions who would stay and who would leave. we decided to stay because yeah, we want to fight. we want to contribute to ukraine winning in this war. and i don't see how we can lead in the world where we can tolerate -- live in a world where we can tolerate putin or some other guy killing thousands of people. over the seven days, 2,000 civilians were killed.

and these are people like you and me and they are just a little bit more distance from you than your colleagues are from me. so we made a decision that this is war, this is evil. there is no strategy, diplomacy, anything. he is just a criminal and we have to fight because the world would be really an ugly place if we would tolerate killing millions of people inside of europe and any other place and hide behind all kind of strategies. he is not strong. he is not -- he is just crazy person who is killing people. >> harris: natalia put it so eloquently. really what is the choice? how can you celebrate someplace else while this is going on? i feel so blessed to talk with you. i'm glad our viewers got to see it here in the united states.

and i wish you well. we'll check back with you. my team does that. we reach back and make sure. i don't know how we get you what you need. i remember the air lifts in previous wars and how we took a part of that. there must be some things that you need. think of those things and i will tell the world what they are from here. god bless you, natalia, you and your husband and the people who are hunkered down with you. >> thank you. >> harris: this is where we started that conversation before we were just able to get natalia up on the bird as they say. i know that's not very technical but i want to revisit this. an explosion rocking kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city. you heard natalia saying she had friends to leave the area and nothing to go back to. they're ripping the city apart.

layering this on top of all of the days of intense russian shelling here. they went after this second city when they couldn't get into kyiv and they haven't gotten there yet. she is in the center of kyiv and that 40-mile long convey, that blood thirsty killing convoy of russian forces is still headed in her direction. in other areas like kharkiv people have had to flee. they do not stay. fighting has reportedly killed dozens there. i don't like to talk about numbers like that but it is hard to come up with hard numbers and i know people are not eggs but we are trying to give you a context that it is more than one, more than a few. despite the relentless attacks ukrainians are holding steady against the onslaught now. and a senior pentagon official is telling us that there is evidence morale is starting to wane among the russian soldiers. ukraine foreign ministry tweeted this shows some russians reported losses.

they include 5840 russian troops. 862 armored vehicles gone. 30 aircraft. let's get into this now with mike tobin live for us in lviv, the western part of ukraine over by the border of poland where people have been able to get out. mike, what do you think about or what can you tell us and inform us about when you see the numbers of what the russian forces are suffering? are you hearing or seeing any evidence of that yourself? >> you also have to think about where it is going to go from here as the russians get hit, the russians will respond heavier. just like they did yesterday when they hit that tv tower in the capital city of kyiv 24 hours ago. we now have video of the aftermath. it was quite a blast. five people were killed and that happens when you hit an urban area. the holocaust memorial wasn't hit directly but a lot of businesses in the area.

you can see from the video the businesses were blown apart. that is the west side of the dnieper river moving into kyiv. the russian forces have been pushing down from the west side. the big convoy came down and they are parked somewhere on the west side ready to make a move. on the east side of the dnieper river russian forces moved down and the allegation that belarus forces have joined their ranks. to the east side the border are russia you were talking about city of kharkiv. russian forces have moved in toward kharkiv. it got hammered yesterday with artillery and rockets and the allegation of cluster bombs and russian paratroopers have moved in and taken up position in kharkiv. if you move around the country to the south and the east the russian backed region, they've been moving up from the crimea

peninsula. a town of kherson where the battle is pitched over the last couple of days because there is a bridge spanning the dnieper river to connect crimea to the mainland. the russians say they have dominance in that town. ukrainians dispute it. the town of mariupol, they're out of water and been without heat and electricity. >> harris: you know, mike tobin, before i let you go there have been areas and you mentioned the holocaust museum. we know part of the propaganda of this war because we don't really know what to believe coming out of the kremlin, is that they want to denazify the world. that makes absolutely no sense when you consider that the president of ukraine is jewish by faith.

and from what i'm reading, the son of someone who survived nazi conditions in world war ii. he is a survivor's son. his personal story is amazing but these places are not being protected. they certainly don't seem like that is their goal if that's what putin is really about. >> what we've seen over the last day or so the russian army has been taking out television towers and municipal buildings. anything they can apparently to sew a little chaos into the mix. initially they were taking out things like air strips and air defenses, anything the ukrainians could use to strike back at them and also when you see the withering artillery fire. it seems they moved in pair treerps unopposed. >> soften the battlefield trying to break the will of the people which is why zelenskyy

calls them terrorists. thank you very much. retired u.s. army brigadier general, a former u.s. senior defense official and attache' and the author, a u.s. army officer's experiences in pre-putin russia. you just heard our reporter and i can paraphrase it for you softening the battlefield. i mentioned some of the targets they've been hitting. clearly civilians are getting hit in this. some of the things that go counter to the propaganda that we're hearing. >> yes. the russians actually time is not on their side. and while they have this stumbling, clumsy, tentative ground offensive, they fired the first suite of missiles the first couple of nights. knocked out a lot of things but the bottom line they have

stirred up a hornet's nest and president zelenskyy, the epic first 72 hours this young, charismatic but untested leader has become in my mind the young george washington of new ukraine. and they are fighting and they are angry and it's not just military. the population. the russians should remember what happened to the nazis when they came surging through between 41 and 45. the most hellish partisan fight in military history occurred across these lands. you discussed also -- the russians are there and pushed in and made gains. they have had really, really tough resistance, surprising resistance. yes, they have the lines of logistics and forces coming in. i believe that's in part

because they have been partisan and stay behind units. hard to knock out a tank but anything will knock out trucks and jeeps and these columns are full of that. laden with that. vulnerable. it is getting muddy and those vehicles can't go off road very well. so that road, yeah, there are roads to the left and right but many of them are dirt tracks. it is muddy. so they are restricted to that. also we've heard that there is some defense -- a lot of these russian soldiers, 18, 19-year-old draftees in the logistic supply units and they've been fed a line that again nazis, fascists. hey, it is far more justifiable to your country and remember putin is talking the his country, to ukraine is far more

invadeable if it's fascists than if it is an independent democratic nation. so the russians -- ukrainians by holding on -- russians are holding on, time is not in russia's side. all the other things that are happening. >> harris: a lot for us to think about from a general's perspective. thank you for your time and expertise today. fox news alert. brand-new video coming into fox news. now we can show you rescuers in a central region of ukraine trying to help young children escape the war. look at this. look at those little ones holding onto each other. some being carried by the forces that can help them out. we know hundreds of thousands of people have already left. so many more are still trying to escape. we're also getting new images of the sheer destruction of the

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>> president biden: president zelenskyy -- to every ukrainian their fearlessness, courage and determination, literally inspires the world. groups of citizens blocking tanks with their bodies. everyone from students to retirees to teachers turned soldiers, defending their homeland. >> harris: that was president biden from his address last night praising the leadership of ukraine's president zelenskyy who is emerging as a hero in what is happening there. he has been standing strong alongside his people for a week now as russia has invaded his country with a brutal assault on many of his cities. on social media zelenskyy has urged his people the take up arms with him saying he is willing to die if necessary. but who was he before he became ukraine's leader in the fight? you heard me talking about his personal story earlier. it is important to know it.

nate foye joins me. welcome to the fox news family and welcome to the mez in "focus." who is he and was he? >> he is such an interesting story. great to be here. thank you for the warm welcome. the first thing he is a political outsider. that's very important to point out. no political experience before elected in 2019. background was in entertainment. he actually won the ukrainian version of dancing with the stars and then stared as ukraine's president in a tv show he created. some wondered if a man what that background was the right person to lead during war. so far the answer is a resounding yes. from the ballroom to an active war zone. president zelenskyy is once again back in the spotlight but now the stakes are much higher. >> they have ordered to erase our history, our country and all of us. >> zelenskyy is still in the capital city of kyiv. as satellite images show the russian army encroaching with a

convoy some 40 miles long. >> i am here. we won't lay down arms. we will defend our country. >> the political newcomer is using social media to inspire ukrainians to fight and push western leaders to punish russia for killing innocent civilians. >> we call on all countries of the world to immediately and firmly react to such criminal tactics by the aggressor and declare that russia is carrying out state terrorism. >> the 44-year-old leader was born to jewish parents. something that contradicts vladimir putin's claims of neo-nazis leading ukraine. >> zelenskyy does not hide the fact that in 1941 and 42 the nazis killed about half of his family. this whole nazi thing coming out of the kremlin is completely absurd. >> after earning a law degree in 2000, zelenskyy founded one of ukraine's most successful entertainment studios. >> it pays the rent.

>> he is the voice of paddington bear, he played ukraine's president in a popular tv show called servant of the people. >> a smart guy. comedian but you could call him a media entrepreneur. he built up a big multi-million dollar enterprise. >> zelenskyy is now building a resistance that could save his country from an authoritarian takeover. his life is at risk. ukraine defense officials say two chechyan groups trying to kill him were eliminated. he continues putting his life ton line to protect ukraine's sovereignty. >> harris: i caught a little bit on youtube of an interview he was giving in the last day or so almost completely in english. not totally. he is somebody who can talk to the world, figure out their nomenclature and jump in. >> he was speaking to the e.u. i watched the speech and lifted up the paper and said i don't need this paper. i'm talking about my real life. he went for six or seven

minutes without breaking eye contact. definitely an impressive leader in a difficult time for his country. >> harris: thank you for being here. important part of our coverage. >> a foreign policy is the skill set. joe biden was joe biden for most of this. >> very energetic. i thought he was clearly passionate. >> that was genuine. >> he didn't have a partisan edge to this speech. in fact, the overriding message was one of unity. >> uncle joe is back. >> proud we have a leader like him. >> harris: a sample of the liberal media gushing over president biden's state of the union address. cnn van jones as you heard declaring uncle joe is back. joe concha, i guess that would make you cousin joe, fox news contributor and media and politics columnist at the hill. what was all of that about? why? >> i'm also joe in the basement. i was the first to be the joe

in the basement. it is the wwe of pundits. we knew many outlets would come to praise the speech regardless of content or delivery. i'm old enough to remember van jones on cnn saying after biden's acceptance speech in 2020. we were prepared for it to be a terrible speech as long as he didn't embarras himself we'll come out and praise it. i can appreciate the honesty there. put aside the partisan emotion about how the president performed in terms of wow, he really bought it or things that have to do with feelings and not so much about content. ask basic questions. did the speech directly address 40-year high inflation? top issue for voters by far. no unless you consider passing bills with trillions more in spending. address rising gas prices? he released 60 million barrels from the strategic oil reserves but only three days of domestic consumption. no. did he address crime in a real way? talked about funding the police but a logical position, not a

centrist position but a pragmatic one that every american believes in. we didn't hear d.a.s not enforcing the law. did the president address the border crisis? no, because as long as remain in mexico policy and the wall not being built it is hard to see the flow of millions of migrants reversing itself. it is hard to remember a state of the union address that ever changed things. >> harris: he went for the line reflected in the polling against him. it was i'm going to secure the borders. i just thought well, you can actually hear the silence inside the room from my kitchen. because you -- he didn't go into the details of how he would do that. it was one of those lines that you would think maybe somebody said look, you really say this one line and it will tell people you know about it. quickly 10 seconds to go. >> sure. then kamala harris in charge of the border. ask her today are you willing to start building the wall

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