>> tucker: we got a brand-new episode. tucker carlson today, interview with tulsi gabbard. it is significant in a moment like this. we will be back 8:00 p.m. every week no. sean hannity, take it away. >> sean: thank you. welcome to "hannity." we begin with a fox news alerts. multiple explosions have rocked the city of kyiv. they are bombing everything within range including residential neighborhoods, killing men women and children. putin's invasion is entering a new dark chapter. ♪ ♪ >> people dying in the streets. i look at people.

[non-english speech] >> this war is about freedom. it is about the right to live. [non-english speech] >> on the subway now, and it is terrible how many people are dead. i hope all of the violence ends soon. >> sean: sovereign country, innocent men, women and children killed by one person, letter put in. in kyiv, trey yingst is with us. what is going on? >> trey: we have heard multiple bless tonight in the capital of content. the russians are not just hitting military targets but

also civilian homes and different installations across the city and the country. it comes as convoy of russian troops is stalled outside of the city limits. current estimates put in about 15 miles awake. but this is significant because those soldiers could be regrouping, we organizing and preparing to launch an attack by ground on this capital city of nearly 3 million people. u.s. intelligence analyst one in the coming days, this city could be surrounded, put off and all of those zavinsky many of them currently hiding underground at this hour amid air raids could be in that targets, in that scopes of these russian forces. it is not just here in the capital of kyiv. that second largest city in ukraine and in the itself, that russian forces have been indiscriminately shelling different civilian areas and not taking into account anything as they move forward throughout this country and continue to put invasion into sovereign ukraine. sean callebs. >> sean: trey, thank you for that report. somebody four videos are showing

workrooms from putin's invasion. appeared cluster bombs and neighborhoods, rocket attacks on apartment buildings. of the map our weapons are now being prepped and used across the country. thousands of civilians are now dead including dozens of children and babies and the saddest part of all of this is one joe biden's amendment of energy independence is crushing our economy with 40-year height and completion to. more at the gas pump. for everything you buy at every extort you go to is great up because gas prices are up and everything you buy in every store get there by a truck. and number two, as long as the u.s. and joe biden and our european allies, as long as they continue to import oil and gas from russia, you the american people, ostensibly are funding this war and making russia and putting richer than he has ever

been. last year hunter biden. listen to the. >> we imported a whopping 245 million barrels of oil from russia in 2021. that is 671,000 barrels every single day. for a 24% increase over the previous year. crude oil imports from russia are up a whopping 163% under joe biden. because he artificially produced the world's a project in an effort to appease the climate alarmist called, which is the base of that new greenfield socialist party, job pretended to go green by restricting oil and gas production but only here at home. as a consequence, the u.s. is now forced to import more oil from opec over 600 million barrels even a ran -- iran south america and yes, russia. it is insane. and frankly unconscionable that joe biden cares more about this

radical new greenfield socialist and his friends that he is beholden to then he does about you because the american people and of course, the national and world security that he is now put in jeopardy. putting national security and the american people first, he would immediately return to the energy independence policy that he inherited. yet he steadfastly refuses to keep in mind this is the same interest, make that europe has used for years. get this. in 2021, our nato allies imported more than 4.8 million barrels of oil from russia. that is every single day. we are talking about 2 billion barrels of russian boiled each year. on top of that, 41% of all natural gas imported by the european union, that all comes from putin and russia. publican, europe and the u.s. are making putin and russia rich again and that helps fund and enable this war. according to statements from the biden administration, oil and

gas exports from russia are still flowing even this day. that raises another record text is important question. why not import all of the oil that we have with our vast resources right here in the u.s.? we have more than enough natural resources right in our country in the u.s. for at least 100 years, likely much longer. so what difference does it make to mother earth if the oil is produced in the middle east, in russia, or the u.s.? the one extension that would work, the one that would be effective, the one that joe biden and nato refused to adopt and discuss raises a whole other set of questions, about russia's banks and that is that joe now says we are -- russia is facing steep sections. okay. we are importing 167,000 barrels of oil from russia a day. how is joe biden paying for the

disk imported oil especially because he put sentience on the banks? maybe somebody in the biden administration could answer that question because putin is not getting paid for the 671,000 barrels of oil a day. i doubt he is going to keep sending it. that means either putin and russia are giving us oil for free. i would say that is highly unlikely. or kick joe biden and nato and their allies lied to all of us about these banking sanctions are really all about and they put in a million loopholes so that putin can still get the money to the oil that they are addicted to. even biden accused putin of targeting civilians. but he refused to call it a war crime. why? i will let you decide. >> reporter: russia is committing war crimes. >> president biden: we are following very closely.

>> reporter: civilian areas. >> sean: such strength and clarity end like joe's and inspiring state of the union speech last night, instead of showing real leadership on the world stage, joe basically ran off a wish list of repackaged bill back broke proposals and offered no plan to curb inflation. no plan to deliver gas prices, no plans to secure the border. no plan to reduce violent crime. no to counters china and by the way, taiwan, i would argue, keep a close eye on it. probably not going to be that long. he did not even bother to mention the 13th u.s. soldiers who died as a result of his disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan the americans who have been trapped behind enemy lines. to date, by the way, is day 200 job abandoned them. joe and the media not only abandon them. they turned the page. they moved on. pretty unforgivable. joe also didn't seem to have

much of a plan to assist the people of ukraine, but he did manage to call them iranians, leaving the vice president-elect embarrassed. to make they will never gain the hearts and souls of the iranian people. >> sean: ukrainians, not iranians. one of many awkward moments from a very simple speech, one that could have been written by a fifth grader that still proved too difficult for our struggling commander-in-chief if you decide. >> president biden: we spent much building coalitions in europe. we are cutting off the largest banks, preventing russia's central banks from defending the russian ruble. and a pound of ukrainian people, proud, proud people, pound for pound, ready to fight with every inch of energy they have.

you can't build a wall high enough to keep out a vaccine. the vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases. ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. over 100 thanks. do you think the deer are wearing kevlar vests? and may god protect our troops. thank you. go get him. >> sean: goat to get? trying to emulate larry the cable guy, trying to get 'er done? over 81-year-old speaker of the house nancy pelosi, it was having her own malfunction in a very look at her joyous reaction to biden's comments about burn kids in the iraqi war. you can explain this to be because i can't. >> president biden: facing many dangers. one being stationed that

breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits. many of you have been there. i have been in and out of iraq and afghanistan over 40 times. these burn pits incinerate waste. >> sean: can someone explain that to me? i digress take the scope vice president, matt harris and kamala harris brilliantly described the conflict in your e this. ukraine is the country in europe. it exists next to another country called russia. russia is a bigger country. russia decided to invade a smaller country called ukraine. so basically, that is wrong. okay. when you add these three together, we are really screwed in the state of our union is not strong and it is no surprise with these three pathetic losers in charge. sadly, ukraine needs our help right now. they need all the javelins, all

of that missiles that we can provide. they need ballistic they need guns. they need air defense systems and they need humanitarian and medical aid and while we are at it, vladimir putin, he needs to win. he is a murdering thug with nuclear weapons committing atrocities and ukraine, invading a sovereign, innocent country. we see all the images. he is killing children. he is killing women and he is killing men and he is trying to take over that country. and now putin has deployed 400 mercenaries and ukraine to hunt down, to assassinate president zielinski. no, putin i've been saying it all week. it is interesting that may get put it up. putin has to be stopped by whatever means necessary one way or another. it is a simple rule in less. if you invade an innocent country and you killed women and children and men, you forfeit your right to lead a country and for your right to live.

and i hope that people around vladimir putin cookbook i hope they take action sooner than later. currently, the u.s. operates under eight decades old executive order. first time -- signed by president gerald ford improves the u.s. government from engaging in illegal assassination. when it comes to putin is it time to now revisit the role? marble i like better. neutral, you made a sovereign country. you killed innocent men, women, and children. you forfeit your right to front a country and you forfeit your right to live. that simple. cut off the head of the snake, the snake does. here's senator marco rubio. you know a thing or two about dictators and i have a lot of criticism over the years of ukraine and double government and their corruption that has gone on there. but you have seen a lot of this over the course of your life. you are a student of history and

what is the best way to deal with murdering dictators, thugs, authoritarians like putin? >> senator rubio: i think it is to inflict maximum damage possible. he got to stop them and other people becoming like him, we take that into account. putin has done this because he has calculated, i think wrong, calculated that he would get that sentience but they would not be overwhelming. he thought zelenskyy would abandon kyiv. he is either going to have a very costly military victory followed by a painful costly occupation or he is going to get bogged down in a quagmire and his economy is post-a week from today, people will be shocked at what samples that the economy is in an eye in the last problem he

has right now is today, especially we have seen enormous increase in the awareness of russians that they are involved in a full-scale war and that russians are dying. >> sean: we have been watching this 40-mile convoy with satellite imagery. and my question is, apparently been stalled for a period of time. we know where exactly where it is. if convoy makes it to kyiv, the capital of ukraine, in my humble opinion in i pray to god that i'm wrong temps this is going to be a massacre. my question is, we can see exactly where it is why isn't there some group because nobody has to take credit for it. i believe in covert operations and plausible deniability. they are sitting ducks right now. why don't we take out that convoy right where it is write notes. it doesn't have to be.us. but why doesn't someone move and take out that convoy knowing

that there are going to be likely thousands, tens of thousands of ukrainians that if they don't do it? >> senator rubio: first of all, it is unfortunate kept all of the commercial overhead set of light. it was very those satellites. for the first time, we are starting to hear and see that ukrainian reports and real degradation in their readiness. you can't have people sitting out in trucks in a traffic jam. we are not privy to your plans about what they intend to do about it. they have been good about picking these things out. part of the reason that convoy is stuck is because the ukrainians have targeted and taken out of the first trucks in the convoy. that is a two-lane highway in some spots. everyone behind them is stuck. i don't know if you have seen the imagery that ukrainians have

put out about the turkish drones they have been using. like i said -- real problems on his hands. >> let me ask you this question. you talked about that ruble and their finances collapsing. that said, our country even today is importing 167,000 barrels of russian oil every single day. you know, 40% of the natural gas in europe with nato and our western european allies from russia. on top of all the oils that putin sends. price of oil, i think hit $115 a barrel today. he is making billions of dollars a day. i don't think they will have a problem financially. if we continue to the important any oil, any energy, weeping the united states, space and europe from putin. that is the one section that i think would work that that that is the one section that nobody wants to put in place. why is that? >> senator rubio: i think because the -- it can be done in

a way that it does it. 5% of the oil we buy in this country we could replace that with our own domestic capability. canada don't -- virtually by no oil from russia. we are producing less then we did under donald trump. we can get back to that if they walked away from this crazy green new deal as they call it that has waged war on fossil fuels. there are fields ready to go in places like alaska and texas. we could easily replace the russian supplied with our domestic supply. of course, we would have to go to where the squad and other radicals. >> sean: senator rubio, thank you. we appreciate your here with more is the ceo of ukraine's they don't oil and gas company. his name is [indistinct] along with that ukrainian member of

parliament. thank you for being with us. let me ask you first and foremost, from your country's perspective, where do you see this headed? >> well, what is happening, the victory by ukraine. the reality is that russians are -- but essentially this is the reality of the fact that the world sees the true face of russia, the truth face of -- true face of putin and getting that weapons to tempt -- defend themselves, the reality is that as far as getting ready in kyiv and the seas of kyiv, people are pushing back with everything they got. up pushing them back around kyiv.

same situation occurring around the country. my country is coming together and the world has come together. and the point is that this battle, this continues anyway. if we keep up the pressure -- >> let me ask you, you see this 40-mile convoy. if makes it to kyiv for this is going to be a massacre. you understand that, correct? control that is exactly the right few days that we have been. >> speaker pelosi: to get the best we can get. all that weapons we can get. the ammunition from everywhere and trying to -- most -- in that case. the point here that we are basically ready because millions will not be taken down by a convoy. this convoy maybe 40 kilometers. for our nation's 40 million.

we will resist. we will defend. >> sean: i wish you godspeed. i will say that the people of ukraine have shown tremendous courage and incredible tenacity inviting back for their country. let me ask you, the world is governed by the free flow of oil at market prices. why do you believe vladimir putin has taken these extra ornate measures to take over your country? do you think he wants natural resources? do think he wants to perhaps rebuild the former soviet union? what motivations do you think our guiding him at this hour? >> he wants to rebuild the former soviet union. that is his motivation. he is not interested in resources. he is able now to produce a lot of oil and gas and sell it everywhere. >> sean: and you see the price of energy, the price of oil.

has your production been disrupted? >> our production has been disrupted. the russian army is tracking some of our sites. so it is already a huge damage to ukraine and to civilians because it is used for heating. it is also about some kind of critical supplies for ukrainians. >> sean: thank you both. our prayers are with you. watching something like this unfold in this day and age is beyond comprehension. but evil exists and we are watching it unfold in your country right now. our prayers are with you because of the connecticut republicans on capitol hill are demanding joe biden do more to cripple putin. this is more than a war. this is dennis edward take a look.

>> this is not a war. this is a genocide of that ukrainian people by a crazy man. i have my grandma. she is 95. she is in the city of -- and they came into the village with heavy machine guns. they killed almost every person in that village and they kill women and children. bombs. i mean, they are using illegal weapons and i can tell you one thing, if we don't stop him there, he is not going to stop. >> sean: joe biden, are you listening? we certainly didn't see that person. we did not see that passion from biden last night. here now is congresswoman from indiana's fifth district,

victoria spartz is with us. you were born in ukraine. i'm sure you still have family and friends there. you are watching all of this unfold. i would argue that joe biden's economic energy policies pushed europe right into the hands of latimer putin and they became dependent on gas and oil and i would argue that the america importing energy, oil, 157,000 barrels a day from russia alone, and europe so dependent on russia for the lifeblood of their economy. if that is a big factor in all of this, is there a short-term solution to put off the money supply to let me putin? >> congresswoman spartz: thank you for having me. no doubt energy security is number one. security issues. and unfortunately, we have too

many people that live in -- hopefully they change the provide the bigger threat is the climate change right now because we have much bigger problems right now and a half lack of common sense. we have lack of common sense in europe. we also have lack of common sense in our country. created a stability instability, bloodshed and a lot of problems. so we need to be smart and i think that you look at this president needs to understand if we want to tip the scale and the president listens to the s-curve the most effective way to do it is stop financing his work because -- i told them, i'm very disappointed in you. they said, victoria, you imported a lot of oil, too. and i did not have an answer because it was true. it is a disgrace that we are doing that. >> sean: viktoriya let me ask you this question. we are told that putin sent in

for hundred mercenaries with the goal of killing the president of ukraine, zelenskiy. not the question is, one report says there might have been russian intelligence officials that tipped off zelenskyy of what double operation was all about and may have even saved his life. you believe that there are russians that are willing to step up and stand out against vladimir putin, not wanting to be a part of a modern-day mass slaughter? >> congresswoman spartz: i think there is another problem, you know? used to be we always had bandits, i actually grew up in the soviet union. but they were not part of the government. now present putin made chechnya mafia. and threatened russia. i think a lot of people even in his police force do not like

that because these people are lawless and he is using them to suppress russian people and everyone else. i will not be surprised in the police force and his people, and the tools he is using. and that was what he was using in you can. a former criminal to get around this country with a criminal way. and the ukrainians said, no, enough is enough. they took him down. he sends police forces. they killed 100 people. guess what. millions shot next day. now he sends an army because he wants to teach them a lesson and destroyed them because they cannot be suppressed. but i think he understood -- underestimates that ukrainians. the people are going to fight. and they are going to win. >> sean: if putin is the one responsible, every dead man woman and child in your former

country of ukraine, the blood is on his hands and if somebody is able around him and his inner circle to take him out, by whatever means necessary, it does not matter to me. if they are able to, wouldn't that senate message to every two bit wannabe dictator in the world that you are next if you have to resort to territorial ambitions as vladimir putin does? >> congresswoman spartz: i mean, you know, that threat is always like that. a lot of changing regimes happen like that through history. i think any dictator always -- >> sean: you don't think a dictator would think twice about invading an innocent country? >> congresswoman spartz: unfortunately, -- this is irrational and this is sad what is happening. but you know, we are also probably should have done a better job dealing with him more proactively and not reactively because he was very clear and i don't know if you remember years

ago, he was on fox news and he was talking about that. you are not taking it seriously. but i'm not trying to with my money to defend. i'm going to go on offense and development -- and i think that was a clear message. we need to take people like that seriously. we need to stop that bloodshed because a lot of people are going to killed. >> sean: congresswoman, our prayers are with the ukrainian people. we appreciate it. donald trump provided that ukrainians with the game-changing jabs and missiles. that was back in 2017. he did it knowing that past governments have been crept. he did it anyway. it was a risk, but it was the right called think it was donald trump toward germany's of them being dependent on russian energy. it was donald trump who warned all of nato on how idiotic and dumb all of this was we were painted to protect europe from putin and russia and they are

making russia and putin rich again. he was correct the entire time. new poll finding that a vast majority of americans believe putin would not have invaded if donald trump was president. i agree with that. joe biden's witness that set the stage for these evil dictators to unleash destruction. that is unfolding before our eyes every night now. threading to the taliban and afghanistan when he had six months to lead without a single problem. he had a wide-open field. the taliban was way down south. now joey is appeasing iran with nuclear talks. lifting sanctions on north stream two. simultaneously killing the keystone xl pipeline and killing of career energy jobs for so many americans. ask yourself tonight an important question. what can ukrainians do to save their sovereignty? i still remain dubious of these reports. i think they are premature

declaring that that ukrainians insurgency is a success. i see 40 mild convoy that scares the hell out of me. the people of ukraine, putin is showing no signs of stopping and frankly biden's weak diplomacy is not going to the turk him. here with the action that former cia station chief dan hoffman along with the author of the book putin's live look and a former intelligence officer for russia, rebecca koffler. you know that america as much as anybody. you worked for our intelligence community for decades. you studied him. he wrote a book on him. what is vladimir putin taking today? is there anything he was fear? >> rebecca: there's very little and partly that vladimir putin will fear. wuky would fear most if

president biden were not in charge right now, he would fear the full fury of the nato force unleashed on russia. but that is not on the table, as you know, president biden promised to putin that even a small conversion is okay. why did he do that? because he knows that he does not have a plan and he knows that putin has a plan. up on the biden has ignored every single -- indicating to us what putin was up to and he did not develop a counter strategy that putin and now he is grasping at straws looking for magic bullets. but it is not possible to find. >> sean: dan hoffman, you have spent decades in the intelligence commuting, a lot of that time focused in russia. you know all the history of the soviet union. that may putin's division here, we see what is unfolding. we have seen this 40 mild

convoy. if makes it to trip kyiv, i that was. i imagine a massacre. what do you see happening? >> dan: i just think vladimir putin is passed the point of no return at this point. you know, he has slated. he has invaded ukraine. he has come -- committed massive war crimes, bombed residential areas, hospitals and buildings and apartment buildings. he is actually -- his playbook is to level the city. that is what he did during the chechen war. he did it to aleppo. i will tell you, i fear for the worst. my heart breaks for ukrainians because you can see what is in store for them. the insurgency frankly has not begun yet. let me putin is seeking to decapitate that ukrainian

government and he has not succeeded yet. that does not mean, the worst is not yet in store. >> sean: let me asked both of you that same question. are there people around putin high-ranking members of his military, are there advisors around him? people that perhaps have a conscience and a sold and they see the killing of innocent men, women, and children and taking over a sovereign country that are not in agreement with putin that would take any action against putin? >> yuriy: my assessment, sean, that no -- >> yuriy: my assessment, sean, that no. it is like what victoria was saying they would have been criminals if they want at the top of the russian government. they are called -- secure prospect number intelligence operatives just like putin and the primary goal right now is to topple ukraine and to remove

president zelinski from palmar. -- zelenskyy from power. the ultimate goal is to level cities. >> sean: and your take a than hoffman? you know the intelligence officers as well. you had interactions with them over the years. anyone around him that might up to him and let's just say find a way to stop this by whatever means necessary? >> dan: i got a slightly different take from my friend rebekah. rebekah will know this russia saying. your own shirt is closest to your skin. the senior advisers, senior elite might not have a soul. but they are worried about their own future. they might -- some of them might think that they can discard that reporting, withdraw troops and maybe get back to some semblance

of normalcy. the ones who matter or the minister of defense, director fsp, and that national security adviser. they answered their own constituencies. we bunch of russian army officers and their soldiers fighting many of them definitely questioning that leader's orders. that is going to be -- >> sean: he has got billions of dollars in oil revenue, refilling every single day. so it is not that punitive because europe and even this country are still dependent on his energy and he is making billions. i would not imagine that the money is the public right now because the west has been unwilling to do the one thing that would work to dan.

>> dan: the economy is in pretty bad shape. people are making a run to the atm. the stock market was closed for a couple days. their rainy day fund is frozen. the european union has mentioned some pretty serious sanctions. could be due to more quick for sure. hydrocarbons palmar the russian military. yes, it does look more to be done. further steps we can take on energy, i agree with you there. >> sean: dan hoffman, rebekah. thank you. we are learning more about the apparent plot to assassinate ukrainian president zelinski. the chechen fighters were eliminated by ukrainian forces. the leader of the republic is a close ally of putin and these special forces and commandos were also used to quite ukrainians check in 2014. what exactly is putin thinking?

is there anyone who would like to see this madman in decline and push him out, whatever way they choose and by the way, the people that won't go along with this bloodied conflict are the russian people like what people -- they are people with a heart and a soul about him that would remove him. this has no end in sight as was back here with reaction author of the dying citizen hoover institute senior fellow, victor davis hanson. what is your assessment, victor? >> victor: i don't think putin cares. i think he feels if he is successful, people will not great about the brutality. they will think, wow, he absorbed the entire ukraine. he feels -- i don't think he is right, but he feels that germany will start buying oil and gas

and nato will be back to being nato. he will go all out because he thinks the ends justify the means and very pessimistic about human nature. this is a strange work when we look at that middle east wars or iraq or afghanistan or perhaps the '90s, thousands of reporters flocked into war zones. we had all of that major news outlets. we had more news that we could absorb. we had almost a black object it is inexplicable but we have this stated world stage that is launching this convoy. we have no idea where the ark, whether they are out of chaplains or needmore or ready to strike. we have no idea about the service missiles. it is very strange and it is -- we are watching a global paradigm shift because china is watching this and they are thinking to themselves, wait a minute. is there any chance that the taiwanese would fight like the ukrainians?

is there any chance that western world would have that confidence again to isolate, ostracize, alienate us from all the world financial, cultural levers of power and do to us what they are doing to brush right now? is there any chance that australia, japan, south korea, the united states would pour javelins into what they are not sure of the answer. and mr. zelenskyy has been the global hero against his antithesis putin. he is challenging putin and the chinese are saying is there going to be someone in taiwan like that? it is going to be very important in deterring china and there's the dialogue inside the west right now. people are saying in europe, nato, that you care for and then get they are saying to did we really because this with this

self righteous idea about green power? does that get people killed? does that hurt our own middle classes? can't weep transition in a more rational fashion? do we want to wait our military up and not emphasize military greatness? does that get people killed? so there's a dialogue in the west and i think in a very weird way, there's some reason for optimism. nobody expected ukraine to last this long. china is obviously watching this and they are puzzled by it and i never thought in my entire life sean, i would hear the chancellor of germany, give a speech like he did and i just wish that biden had given half of that. >> sean: the problem, victor, 167,000 barrels of oil a day, still importing from russia. that makes no sense in putting any energy from iran which i did not know until this crisis that biden did in 2021.

that shocked me as well. i think you've touched on it in the very beginning of your segment when you said that there have been no consequences in the past. when what happened in georgia it happened, there were no consequences. in 2014 took when putin annexed crimea, it was business as usual. a controversy. it went away and he has crimea. the same thing as he set up a satellite stayed in belarus and mulled over, et cetera. there never seems to be consequences and the addiction to russian energy never goes away. cripple i think he looks at joe biden and says that this is a man. he is threatening europe and the west in general with nuclear warfare, and thinking, on a hot mic'd in south korea, barack obama just dismantled any idea of missile defense in eastern europe.

that would have come in handy right now. before we went into crimea and ukraine and he says, joe biden came over to me said, i'm not going to -- if you're going to hack don't pack these 16 entities. joe biden called me a killer and eight thug, but he begged me to pump oil. these are the people who -- so cute is very happy. he says, they have no credibility. it does not mean joe biden is -- and there are people in germany who were in control. but we are starting to see a recalibration in the west, i think, in our 11th hour, sean, of cultural define and inertia and i think we will see something happening in germany in the midterm. if people get out and vote and say, i reject cutting back on oil and gas because i care about the american people's ability to keep warm and i care about us

endangering other people worldwide that have to depend and i'm not going to take it anymore or i'm going to make sure that our military did for -- deters people rather than try to become a school of social justice. but right now, the key thing that we are all watching is can that ukrainians hang on and we do not expect this. but their fate is affecting a lot of other global issues. it is going to be sending a powerful message to the west to regroup and rethink and get back to our values and people in china as well will say, i don't think i quite want to go into taiwan now. >> sean: those are fascinating times and extra nearly dangerous. victor davis hanson, we always loved having you. the cost of putin's war crimes are taking direct aim at children across ukraine. for example, young cancer patients are now being forced into shelter in hospital basements and will soon be

forced to evacuate. take a look at your screen. new video shows hospital patients and ukraine including infants being forced to shelter as russian ramp up their inpatient and another report saying that russians have even bombed a ukrainian maternity hospital. here with reaction that he is a republican senate candidate and -- in the great state of pennsylvania. dr. oz is with us. here is this humanitarian side of it. might fear is you have a convoy and only about 18 miles away from kyiv. that is going to be a human massacre. medically speaking, many people will die because they won't have that means to take care. this is what you have done your entire career. >> dr. oz: let's put some numbers on it, sean. we just finished a big town hall

and these folks stick around me because they are bread up by this issue. two-thirds of casualties were casualties, our civilians and we are witnessing right now with dwindling supplies. it becomes a humanitarian crisis immediately. we are seeing crazies like children who are using the basement of the hospital as childress. these are young cancer patients. imagine the trauma they are facing think they will be scared. they are fighting two enemies at once. they got that russians. and it is a fight that can't wait and these kids are going to relapse. they are transfusing blood from the parents to the child because they don't have any other choices. traveled even with the ukraine is dangerous. there are adult trying to get the across the border. putin is this murderous thug and causing all kinds of

consequences. they are hidden in that basements. >> sean: let me ask you on the issue of defense providing that javelins and stinger missiles i think would be very effective because i wanted to be very clear. i don't support an american boot on the ground every time we put american troops on the ground, the work gets politicized and then we end up pulling our troops out and losing. military technology has become so sophisticated we could push buttons in tampa, florida, and we can hit with pinpoint accuracy. targets all over the world. i preferred that level of warfare. i guess my question becomes on top of providing the javelins and stinger missiles, i see this -- these satellite images of this convoy and i'm wondering, why hasn't anybody -- you don't have to take credit for it. but there is 70 -- something called a covert operation. why hasn't any european country

stepped up. they are sitting ducks right now. take out that convoy and prevent that massacre. >> dr. oz: i think someone is waiting to go first. folks behind me and some of them are from the ukraine. they were upset because i'm here in pennsylvania where there's natural gas under my feet that could address our domestic issues and some of that financial concerns and help their allies in europe weaned themselves off their dependence on russian natural gas. i just don't understand why we are importing russian oil. the humanitarians crisis gets much more animated. i do not know why joe biden did not break it -- bring that up in the state of that union. i think putin feels enabled and what he is doing. he can't believe his luck. nobody seems to want to stop him. he gave an example of a covert

operation. legal -- leaders across the globe need to be counted. make the difficult decisions. stop that russians from being able to make money from energy. >> sean: the state of pennsylvania has been smart. they have been tracking. there's a lot of natural gas. i would assume the production of natural gas could be increased rather dramatically and we could help supply our nato and western european allies with their energy needs. but that would take leadership. i would think the people of pennsylvania would want that. did you hear anything from the town hall tonight. >> dr. oz: these folks are livid. they see it firsthand. i go to diners and i'm lectured by the people serving me my food of what we should be doing. this is a national security issue. we need to prioritize the national gas harvesting from the

-- beneath my feet here, put it in pipelines. don't stop because of a green activist. we can't ship natural gas from one i'm standing here to the east coast to new england, new jersey, or anywhere. they are important from other countries. sometimes they take will from russia. it assembled -- unbelievable that it is happening. it will be a massive event in the midterm elections. they are losing money. they are paying a ten of money under gas punch. they are printed witnesses. we have got to be brave enough to make the right decisions for our country and others as well. >> sean: commonsense is not so common. dr. oz, thank you for being with us. for more breaking development we go to fox's own lucas tomlinson. what is the latest effort you tonight? >> reporter: sean, u.s.

officials told me that several russian warships are underway from crimea heading northwest to that city of odessa. they think an of biggest assault take place as soon as tomorrow or thursday. let's go to a map of ukraine. five ukrainian cities are now surrounded. the russians claim to have captured the largest city since the invasion began. just north of criteria in the black sea. russia has fired 450 missiles in ukraine. this is the national university and regional police department on fire. roughly the size of dallas. one many people have fled the country. the government since 2,000 civilians have been killed since the start of the war. russia has released casualty figures. they safe for hundred 98 russian soldiers have been killed u.s. intelligence says that number

could be four times higher. sean? >> sean: lucas tomlinson, thank you for being with us. joe biden refuses to take the one action that would try to the kremlin and that is sanctioning russian oil and gas. vice president harris was asked about it earlier today and responded with this rambling word salad of her own. take a look. >> vice president harris: is that on the table? the something the administration would consider cutting off the oil and gas part of the up on my? >> vice president harris: as it relates domestically as well as what we need to do in terms of this issue generally, if we have, as the president said, we have evaluated what we are doing here in the united states that that make sure that it will not have an impact or we can mitigate the impact on the american consumer. >> sean: that was not even the vice president's worst low light of that week. here's how she explain the

russian/ukraine conflict in a recent radio interview. this is profound. >> break it down for people who don't understand what is going on and how this could affect the people of the united states. >> vice president harris: ukraine is the country in europe. it exists next to another country called russia. russia is a bigger country. russia is a powerful country. russia decided to invade a smaller country called ukraine. basically that is wrong. >> sean: okay. ukraine is a country in europe. russia is a neighboring country. okay. anyway, joining us with reactior to laugh or cry, fox news contributor ari fleischer, mark meadows. i will start and s both of you that same question that is that you both have been involved in preparing the state of the union address is and what i wanted to hear from joe biden last night

which i knew i would not hear was i'm here to announce tonight that i have had conversations with every big oil producing and i have now authorized all of them to begin the maximum amount of exploration and extraction of energy to once again make america energy independent and also to produce more energy for our allies in europe. mark meadows, that is a by dream, did not happen and it seems like it won't happen. why? >> mark: it did not happen but he talked about the fact that we need to make sure that it is made in america. he did not mean energy made in america. sean can you talk about this. when we look at this if we have a new epiphany with germany starting to wake up and see this green energy deal is not what -- was all cracked up to be, let's take advantage of that. let's actually have a new united

states initiative to provide them with liquefied natural gas, increasing the import. let's have a positive plan to do that. but one of the problems we are facing is the progressive wing of the democrat party, it is a religion to them and they can't let go of it. you heard them complaining about moderate joe biden from last night already. >> sean: re: same question. >> ari: joe biden is doing for america what german leaders did germinate. the green party started to rise up in germany and politically threatened the chancellor at the time with -- that he switched off all of the nuclear power points -- power plants in germany. joe biden is doing the same thing to america but he is getting rid of america's energy independence because of the rise of the green new deal party. there's no difference?

with the -- there's no difference. we don't need to do it. you mark 100% right. we need a new leader. >> sean: we talk a lot about how -- but they also have nordstrom one the u.s., i have been saying it all that, important even today, 161 or 67,000 barrels of oil every day from russia. it is making putin which again. it is allowing him to continue his territorial ambitions and then of course, all of europe, the natural gas comes from vladimir on top of all of the oil they are importing in that middle of what is going on right now. so they are absence of leaf a third-party aiding and abetting in his work effort. >> mark: they are a. you are exactly right. when kamala harris says you got

a big country next to a small country, if that is the level of sophistication we have got keshawn, we have got a real problem. here's the other aspect and you hit on it. last night, after the speech, what we saw was the price of oil goat up. it has gone up continually today about ten bucks a barrel and that is the answer because the international market saw what joe biden put forth was not an answer. president zelenskyy showing unbelievable, you know, heroic efforts. this is his "braveheart" moment. let's be proactive in finding a real solution for the ukrainian people and for the american people where we lower our own gas prices to boot. >> sean: what other options if the world, if the west are -- unwilling to implement the one section that matters, if they won't do that, i would argued that it renders every other

sanction meaningless and negates those sanctions and i think there's a light associated with this because i don't think vladimir putin is gf that oil to western europe and our nato allies and not getting paid. we have been told that he has been cut off from all these banks. there's got to be some needle that is being thread here otherwise keep shut off the spigot, didn't he? >> mark: this is recorded runs into principal. the principal is to do exactly that. they don't want to angerer their constituents. but they are misreading the amount of sacrifice constituents are willing to make. president zelenskyy has led the world and morality and in righteousness and teaching a lesson in sacrifice. i think the people of europe and the people of the united states would be willing to pay more.

we could solve the problem by backfilling it. >> sean: he has to be getting paid some way, through cryptocurrency. is there a loophole they created to do it through a separate banking system? because he has to get paid or the world does not come in. >> ari: we did not sanction all of their banks. which banks weren't sanctioned. sanctions are never going to be perfect. >> sean: but a sanction on oil would work. wouldn't that be the most effective tool. mark curtis. >> mark: [overlapping speakers] >> mark: you need to do that, yeah. >> sean: ari, last word. we only have ten seconds. >> ari: absolutely got to hit

putin where it hurts the most. >> speaker pelosi: thank you both. that is all the time we have left for this evening. stay for continuing coverage. intimate term, set your dvr so you never miss an episode. laura ingraham is straight ahead. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ [sound of gunfire] >> i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. the civilian death toll climbs more than 2,000 according to officials there. the city underwent a 15 hour bombardment after being