her guests include the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. and senators chris murphy and joni ernst. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. we have got continuing coverage of everything in ukraine and around the world. jesse watters "primetime" continues that right now. hey, jesse, have a good weekend, man. >> jesse: you, too thanks, bret. ♪ >> jesse: we start again in ukraine where the country was victim to another day of deadly fighting. russian troops continue their assault on the country's major ports in the south. while the two largest cities of kharkiv and kyiv remain under constant bombardment. intense fighting has been taking place in the streets for the past few days. [gunfire]

[explosions] >> women and children are trying to flee before the war lands on their front door. correspondent trey yingst is live in kyiv with the latest. trey? >> jesse, good evening, tonight in kyiv we have heard multiple explosions in the distance. russian ground forces are still trying to make their way into this city. now, the ukrainians say they are keeping them on the outskirts of the city in the northwestern part of kyiv. we know the frontline is changing every single hour. at this hour there are concerns that the gostomel air base airport just outside the city limits is under russian control. again that frontline continues to change and this evening fire fights do continue. now, in other parts of ukraine, we are seeing some significant and concerning developments in the southern city of mariupol.

they are completely cut off right now. civilians trapped inside the city limits as russian forces surround this area, looking to create a land bridge to some of the separatist controlled areas in the eastern part of the country. now, further north in harr kharkiv second largest city in ukraine. reports ukrainians are trying to launch a counter offensive even up to the border where they crossed nine days ago. all of this as civilians are caught amid the crossfire. many trying to flee to western ukraine. those who can't hunker down in the ukrainian capital and beyond waiting for what could be bloody urban warfare in the days to come. jesse? >> jesse: that sounds tense. thanks so much, trey. as war ravages ukraine, russian forces continue to focus their attacks not on military targets but civilian ones. residential builds, schools, hospitals are all become victims of putin's onslaught.

in the city just outside the capital of kyiv, an apartment building was leveled by a russian missile. now, sources on the ground say about 100 innocent people may be trapped under the rubble. with rescue efforts nearly impossible, as the city remains under a barrage of shelling by russian troops. and it's not just rocket fire that is disseminating the civilian occupation. the roads have become a frightening maize of russian military activity with danger around every turn. and kyiv a ukrainian father and son were gunned down when they tried to evacuate with their dog. the two men came across a russian military convoy when trying to escape. and the events were caught on camera. i want to warn you, the video you are about to see is hard to watch. t it is the reality of war.

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>> jesse: these are the horrors of war. the father dying in his son's arms. all they wanted to do was get their dogs and reunite with the rest of their family in safety. instead russian savages took yet another innocent life. and when witnesses came across the scene, they noticed that the owner's dog refused to leave his side. this heart wrenching scene is one of many across the war torn nation as this becomes the war crime capital of the world. just the act of venturing outside can have deadly consequences.

[explosion] >> jesse: putin refuses to admit his forces are targeting civilians, but anyone with eyes knows he is lying. and this morning nato made it clear putin is committing crimes against humanity. >> the russian invasion of ukraine is blatant violation of international law. and we have seen the use of cluster bombs. we have seen reports of use of other the types of which weapons -- which will be in the violation of international law. >> jesse: yesterday russia and ukraine agreed to create humanitarian corridors to allow residents to evacuate. but so far russia has failed to uphold their end of the deal.

ukrainian officials are now saying russia is refusing to cooperate in the city of kherson, which has already been taken by putin's forces. and there is more ukrainian cities remain on the brink of falling into putin's hands, we're only going to see horrors like this escalate. my next guest is stranded in a city under russian control. and says that putin's troops have started raping and killing women. i'm joined now by mana. have you witnessed these atrocities? are these things you have heard about? tell us what you know. >> i heard about these things. i didn't witness any of them. i know there is a lot of information right now and people who i know started to share this information. and this information is also shared in local, you know,

channels. nearest information. >> jesse: what specifically are they saying that the russians are doing? >> the first story i heard it was girl 17 years old. she was in the car with two other people. and when the car people were shooted and people were killed, the girl got out of the car and they blocks away from there raped and stabbed and there is information that. [broken audio. >> jesse: tragic, i'm so sorry to hear that and i just can't

believe that this is happening right now. >> yeah, me too. >> jesse: in your country. you must be terrified. >> yeah. it's true. i needed to go outside today. and i was just afraid. i didn't want to leave the apartment because i was scared to death. but i needed to go because, you know, [inaudible] pretty tough right now because we are surrounded and russian don't allow organize to get food and humanitarian aid for kherson citizens and because they say they will bring their own. >> jesse: it's astounding that the russian military would be raping ukrainian women because vladimir putin has said that this is all one country. you know, this -- they are all

the same country men, country people, and this is just a peace keeping mission. what is your reaction to vladimir putin? >> it's hard to say but my reaction i just don't want to say like i hate him or other because, you know, evil thing only becomes stronger stronger after this war. we are different ukraine. russians brother, big brother or something. we want to be independent as we were. i'm 27 years old. i was born in the united states. i live here almost all my life. and stay where i want, what i want to anybody. i want to say. and now today, for example, our

signal was blocked and our tv channels videos like that russians came here to save us, you know. to bring us food and humanitarian aid. i saw this video it's not even -- nobody came will on the side of the road. and they just were, you know, >> jesse: do whatever you can. and our hearts are going out to and just please try to remain

safe. svetlana, thank you for being brave and sharing heart wrenching stories with us this evening. >> thank you, bi. >> jesse: meanwhile, ukrainian president zelenskyy is begging nato for help. telling them we won't forget this. watch. >> all the people who die day forward will die because of you, because of your weakness, because of your lack of unity. the alliance has given the green light to the bombing of ukrainian cities and villages by refusing to create a no-fly zone. >> jesse: former u.s. deputy representative to nato joins me now. all right, so this is going to be a lot of pressure now. is he begging for a no-fly zone. he is meeting with the senate tomorrow via zoom. and the pressure is on. do you think that we're headed towards a no-fly zone? >> well, good evening, jesse. it's good to be with you.

i will tell you i certainly hope that we are. and no-fly zones just so everybody understands they don't come in one shape and size and one size fits all. there is many ways to engineer something. now, to general breed love who has been making the point yes, it's an act of war but we are at that point where we have to consider this after all, there is a stalinist who is butchering innocent people, and has become a stalin and we're sitting by. now, we need to do a lot more. because you have to ask yourself, will this stop at ukraine? i for one do not believe so. >> jesse: all right. so, just the performance of putin's military alone in the first week, makes me think there is no chance he goes into a nato nation. i didn't think that before. but after watching these guys move on the battlefield, there is no way. they just don't have what it takes. so you are willing to risk a

confrontation with russia on their doorstep by enforcing a no-fly zone? you are willing to do that? >> so let's unpack that a little bit. we would make the calculation that army and they won't further but he still has tremendous forces and mobilization options available to him. he has talked about the nuclear option. he is working with globally with other parts of the globe and so all of the indications are his aspirations go well beyond ukraine. whether it's ugly conquering or not. i agree multi-dove have a is not

a nato nation. >> no. they are partners. >> jesse: not a united states toe nation. >> certainly there is a delineation between the two. if he is willing to talk about nuclear weapons being on the table and he is got mobilization option or he could consider tack nukes, well i think nato would be in play. i'm not convinced now that vladimir putin is trying to avoid a global conflict or world war iii. what i do know is that i think militarily, it's wise to consider stopping this here in the ukraine and not allowing for it to grow. and i do believe it will grow. >> jesse: you believe it will grow but we don't have any evidence that it will grow beyond ukraine's borders yet. >> once they start moving on a nato nation, then i think that's something that reconsider. but until then to start that kind of aggressive action in europe, in eastern europe, in a country that used to be russia,

seems like a massive escalation for a country the united states sits in the atlantic ocean a long way. you don't think that's a major, major escalation. i'm not saying i'm never against a no-fly zone. i might get there. but not now. >> okay. i think, jesse, what you are describing are the reasons that the heads of state and the leaders of these nations grapple with the hardest decisions that they will ever make. but what i would say is that to do a no-fly zone or not a no-fly zone is by no means a clear cut no-brainer. it is absolutely -- not doing one can also not work out for you is what i would say. >> jesse: okay. if we do a nato no-fly zone. don't all the nato nations have to agree to it? i mean how many are those? there are 30 nations. >> right. and that's why good morning there will be a no-fly zone. >> jesse: right. >> because in nato you have to have a consensus of 30. but there are many other ways to

show support and solidarity with the ukrainians and to protect the civilians and that's going to be with logistics, whether it's a coalition of the willing or nato. that's going to be with the ability to free flow stocks and support from here. >> jesse: yeah. >> and declaring aircraft that we don't need anymore excess of n. giving it to them. >> jesse: i'm for all of that. >> i am, too. i am, too. i'm simply saying we should stop this here in ukraine to the west of our ability because it doesn't stop here. >> jesse: i would like to stop it in ukraine without a no-fly zone and hopefully that works. and. >> >> i appreciate that. >> jesse: case this out proper. thank you very much blain holt. >> thank you. >> jesse: when putin wants someone dead, he calls the chevy. why that's bad news for president zelenskyy. ♪ got my hair ♪ ♪ got my head ♪ ♪ got my brains ♪

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>> jesse: things are going badly but he could -- according to reports a chechen based mercenary group called the wagner group has been hunting down zelenskyy trying to assassinate him. and we're hearing that zelenskyy has already dodged three assassination adepartments two of them being from the wagner group. the chechen hit squad came close to until the group of assassins were taken out by ukrainian forces right in the middle of the capital over the weekend. ofno coincidence that putin is putting his money behind the wagner group to get the job done. putin has deep ties to this group. especially to one associate asso

happens to be a russian oligarch nicknamed putin's chef for catering dinners to the kremlin. but that's not all he has been up to. the wagner group has been behind a lot of the hit jobs that tied back to the kremlin like being deployed out to conflicts in syria, and libya to do putin's dirty work and even behind the poisoning of a former russian intelligence officer who started looking into the group. so it's clear putin is letting this group do all his dirty stuff and a lot of people think he's now become so deranged that ordering a hit on the russian president is the only way to stopping him. senator lindsey graham endorsed that idea last night. watch. >> how does this end? somebody in russia has to step up to the plate. is there brutus in russia. is there a more successful colonel to thenberg in the

russian military? the only way this ends, my friend if there is somebody in russia to take this guy out. you would be doing your country a great service and the world a great service. >> jesse: senator graham's comments turned out to be pretty controversial in washington. with the biden administration come out earlier today saying this. >> not the position of the united states government and certainly not a statement you would hear come from the mouth of everybody working in this administration. >> jesse: let's turn to a former cia operations officer who spearheaded plenty of paramilitary and counter-terrorism missions overseas, he is also the author of black ops, rick prado. before we get to senator lindsey graham's idea, prado, tell me what's happening now in the capital of ukraine. there is multiple assassination squads chasing down this president. what does that look like in a city in ukraine? >> first of all, you have a city that's in chaos.

you have to blend into that chaos the way you dress, and the way that you act. they are trying to be covert. so that's the part of the training that people that do this have. they have that capacity to blend in. you know, the fact that they have put three different hit teams of this quality on him and they have failed each time, it's not that the ukrainians are that good. somebody is helping them out. somebody is leaking. that's my personal opinion. >> jesse: they are compromised somehow. these are high quality assassination teams? >> yeah. they have a long history of doing this these guys are not boy scouts they have been around for quite a while. you got to understand there are surrogates in buffers for russia to do what they want. and what amazes me the most about this situation is -- why are we surprised that putin is doing this? >> jesse: we shouldn't be surprised. the first things he said when he took power i am going to resuscitate the soviet union.

>> jesse: now, if you look at the history this 11917 how have they created the soviet union? complete control of the people take away their guns and expand. they did in poland. >> jesse: exactly and knock off the leaders they don't like. >> look at the track record that they have with poison and radioactive. >> jesse: so when you hear someone like senator lindsey graham say that, you know, he is on television, he is saying that someone in russia should assassinatethe russian presideno you feel as a former cia officer when you hear a senator say something like that? >> well, in my case, i probably like a little more than the average american. but, you know, one of the reasons for the book is what we do is not like hollywood. you know, this isn't that you are going to have these guys in black suits repelling from the roof and shooting this guy. and the concept that somebody

can get close enough to putin to kill him it has to be somebody from his inner circle that turns. and that's gobble -- unlikely because they are all in the same boat. if you are the leader and i have been with you for 10 years, if i let you get killed or if i kill you, guess what? >> jesse: you're done. >> i'm done. >> jesse: someone from outside putin's inner circle to do that. >> i'm cuban born. i went through the whole cuban revolution thing i have no love for castro. they tried to kill him also. >> exploding cigars. >> jesse: and sea shells. >> jesse: thank you very much. ric prado book is out. i will be reading it over the weekend. >> i hope. so. >> jesse: joe biden may be flip-flopping again, this time on oil. that's next. ♪ out here, you're a landowner,

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♪ >> jesse: support is now growing on capitol hill for a ban on russian oil imports production and democrats like pelosi, manchin and even bob menendez are all on board, watch. >> i support an oil embargo even though it would equate to if it's just the u.s. alone about 4% of russian sales globally. but, i think it is an important step to make. and i think it is gaining traction. so i think we should stop russian oil. now how the president chooses to meet the challenge of that percentage of russian oil that quawlsz the entire oil of the united states that it imports is a question for him to decide. >> jesse: he is right. it's up to joe biden whether is he going to help americans pump more of our own oil. solution simple, you ban russian oil and gas imports, you cripple their economy and then you boost production of our own energy here at home.

but the white house they still won't budge. biden happy to pay russian blood money and sock americans in the wallet. today, americans pay an average, are you ready? 3.84 a gallon. joining me now house minority leader kevin mccarthy. all right, soon-to-be speaker mccarthy, have you seen at these gas pumps people have been slapping joe biden's stickers next to the price and says i did that? that's how bad things are getting. will he change. >> i don't think he will change. president biden said he would move air from the scro he is didn't say american escrow. he said from the middle east. when nancy pelosi says she is gore banning oil from russian. just this week 220 democrats voted to block that woe mutt a bill on the floor pipeline. he has six permits president biden sitting at the secretary

of energy to export out. >> to our allies? >> he said no. do you know if you are concerned about the environment as you and i are american natural gas is cleaner than russian natural gas. >> that's why emissions are dropping because of natural gas. >> pelosi says she still wants to ban any drilling on federal land. the reason why america is in a bind is the actions by this president. he started banning, he closed the pipeline, he gave putin a pipeline, when he pulled out of afghanistan, that's why ukraine is in the problem it is. >> jesse: yeah, begging opec to pump. opec hates joe biden not really helping he him out too much. >> what's worse today i sent a letter to secretary blinken about the iran agreement. what i believe they are really trying to do and why don't we know what's in it but we have russia and china knowing what's in it to bring iranian oil back. in why would you fund another country that funds terrorism that wants to have a nuclear

weapon give it to them and give them billions of dollars. >> jesse: they are for russian oil and saudi oil but not american oil. >> you get american oil cleaner, american jobs and the world is safer. you are sending $22.7 million today to russia that you just showed that are killing innocent people, creating a genocide just today from america. >> jesse: we are reporting that zelenskyy is going to have this huge zoom call tomorrow with the senate. do you know what's going to happen? he is going to extremely persuasive. is he going to be emotional. he is going to say i'm surrounded. we are dying here. kids are getting slaughtered. and is he going to demand and he is going to beg for a no-fly zone. are you seeing movement in your capitol where people are going to say you know what? member we send american fighter jets maybe we enforce a no-fly zone. i'm feeling a little momentum. i have noticed it. >> i don't think people jump directly to that the real challenge here, five years ago i

was sitting in the white house in the situation room with joe biden as vice president trying to talk them into send the stinger into ukraine. >> jesse: really what was that by the way. >> that was in the last years of their administration. do you know what else months ago when the president was talking about standing up to putin? i was on the phone with let them have weapons now so they can defend themselves. he wanted to wait until russia had invaded. what benefit is that? it's too late. >> jesse: he waited until, i believe the day of the invasion. >> then he has a press conference that says putin just takes a little bit of the country. >> he gave putin all the missed signals and misreading of it. this is the 100th anniversary of the creation of the soviet union. putin wants to put the mother land back together. is he like a mafia boss.

is he evil, right? and in that he wants to put his lieutenant in charge. you are pushing them back against the wall. if we had deterred them beforehand, we have seen time and again the bravery of those in ukraine that will defend and fight themselves. the problems they are fighting tanks with sticks. >> jesse: you have got to give them more javelins and stingers and. so a-10s, if he learned today what we should do for the future? let taiwan beat speed up the weapons for taiwan to defend themselves. >> jesse: another arms package to taiwan. >> what is he talking about? he is working with china and russia to bring iran back not world economy give them a billion dollars and a nuclear weapon. >> jesse: don't worry kamala is going over there to work it all out. >> she did well with our border. >> jesse: you don't have to look far back in american history it's repeating itself. record high inflation, gas

prices at almost 4 bucks a gallon and heading toward 5. a major foreign catastrophe unfolding failed economic sanctions. it all sounds familiar, doesn't it well, my next guest says joe biden is on the road to becoming the next jimmy carter. you are right the president biden presidency is petering on the verge of a foreign policy cascade disaster as bad and potentially worse than carter's in 1979. obvious implications for his and his party's political future, this year and in 2024. joining me now historian and author of "doom, the politics of disaster" niles ferguson. all right, a lot of similarities here. i think a people see the write song the wall. any way joe biden can turn the clock back and not have it get this bad? >> there is a way, jesse, it wasn't too hard to predict that

putin was going to invade ukraine i said it would happen on january 2nd. it's harder where do we go from here in the russian war effort has not gone as planned. they are showing significant signs of being bogged down, even with the inadequate armaments that they have received from the west, the ukrainians are fighting heroically for their freedom. and, of course of the the russian economy is cratering dr. is a chance victim, palace coup if the failure is big enough. now, i don't want to erouse false hope but i do think it's worth paying tribute to the performance of volodymyr zelings and ukrainian people in fighting a superior force.

if they can stop the russians to a stand still it will be at high cost, of course, in terms of life and destruction, but, if they can do that there is just a chance that may fail and the penalty for failure in russian politics comes to war can be high, very high indeed. >> jesse: it can be extremely high. and i think everybody know what is we are talking about. nile ferguson thank you so much and that was a great article. i suggest everybody read it. shelling looting violence and rape. now every day occurrence in war torn ukraine. a look at the humanitarian crisis next. ♪ ♪ dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame.

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integrated. the technology not that sophisticated. training and morale poor tammars and operations sloppy. supply lines are a mess. what happened to the feature russian military? and would they even move on a nato nation after this performance in ukraine? break it down mark antonio write, marine corps reserve. what happened exactly happened? it seems like a lot went wrong. >> i don't think for the marine corps but my analysis russian army in this invasion. more fierce than the russians had counted on the. significant problem for the russians small unit level. second, the russian military does not appear to have planned

for the operations at this level at the training, at the small unit leadership level, at the morale level and that is costing them heavily as they move into the first week of this invasion of ukraine what we have seen looks like they come in with tanks get stuck in the mud and smaller ukrainian units that out flank them, light them up, and then move back and the russians have no answer for these types of ambushes is, that basically what you have seen, too? >> well, jesse, i think it's important to not get too carried away here. the russians are still more likely than not to work their ways into the cities and win this are a. the ukrainian resistance is having an effect. and, you know, there has been a lot of talk about the russian army being a paper tiger. i don't think the russian army is a paper tiger. they're a wounded tiger and wounded animal can be very dangerous. what you will see in the next couple of days already seeing

this the russians are going to use their preponderance of power are a till ler a sets. their thermobaric weapons to try take advantage of their advantage and smash their way into the cities. they don't have the will to fight toe small unit take advantage of stand back arms and put damage on ukrainian cities and unfortunately the ukrainian civilians as they apply that pressure on the ukrainians. >> jesse: what a gruesome situation. to sit back and shell it. that's all they are doing. >> we have already seen this russian strategy in syria. we saw it the second chechen war in grozny. they are artillery army first. >> we have good at this. vel supplied when it comes to artillery assets. this is exactly wheeled expect a russian army gets its nose bloody to turn to. >> thank you so much. mark antonio wright. >> thank you. >> jesse: putin's invasion has caused ukraine to spiral into a full blown humanitarian

catastrophe where violence, starvation and looting plague the streets. trey yingst is on the ground in kyiv with the latest. trey? >> >> jesse, concerning developments across the country of ukraine but specifically in the port city of mariupol where there are civilians cut off from the outside world. you can see in this video the russian shellings continue against this city. the shellings have cut off water supply and power supply. setting up a massive humanitarian crisis. this city has a populatio of around 400,000 people and it is strategic for russian forces to capture so they can connect their front lines. there were videos posted online showing people looting local shopping malls while other areas of the country, people are actually getting taped to lamp pools by locals as they attempt to steal things it gives you a sense of the desperation. these people are facing not unique to the south but the entire country as russian forces advance tonight across europe. many are demonstrating in support of the ukrainians. in georgia the czech republic,

germany we have seen antiwar protest erupt. thousands in the streets. the ukrainian people see this solidarity but it's really not exactly what they need right now. they appreciate the support but they need supplies. they need sanctions against the russian government. and they need weapons. to push back against this offensive that does continue at this hour. jesse? >> jesse: thanks, trey. earlier in the show, i spoke to a woman in ukraine who claims russian troops are raping women in the city of kherson. here's what she said about that. >> first story i heard it was the story about the girl who was 17 years old. she was in the car with some -- two other people. and when the car was shooted and people were killed, they didn't find the girl in the car. and they found her two blocks away from there, raped and dead. and now there is another information that there are

already 11 cases of russian military raped our girls. >> jesse: here now wes mitchell former assistant secretary of state. so, wes, we have heard several reports of the russian forces raping and pillaging this poor country. is this something american people need to do something about in your opinion? >> without question, the american people need to be aware this is happening. think i we need to put more pressure on the biden administration to help the ukrainian army in its heroic effort to defend -- to defend the ukrainian homeland. and i think your previous guest said it well that we have seen this same russian behavior basically organized barbarism on a grabbed scale. we have seen it in chechnya in the 190s, where the united nations tells us that more than

50,000 civilians were killed. we have seen this in syria. when the russians came through and assisting the syrian army. killed more than 16,000 civilians by u.n. estimates. so this is, indeed, an established russian method of warfare. i think it's terror for the sake of terror. but i think it's also a calculated political act to put fear in the hearts of the ukraineible people so if that they won't resist. >> jesse: so it's a military tactic. psychologically, that they are perpetrating these vicious crimes on the women of the country recalled the russian red army. reportedly responsible for the rape of over a million german women during that war, wes. >> yes, that's right, jesse. and, of course, closer to our own time, the russian army under putin's control command has conducted these same tactics on

a vast scale. if you look at chechnya, the atrocities that were committed against chechen women, really are too barbaric to repeat on television and don't belong in the annuals of history for any civil lied nation. this is the army that putin has created. he enleashes it against civilians to shock the population into not resisting. so it's a political act as much as a part of the russian military playbook. >> we're still going to buy their oil, apparently. does that sound like smart strategy to you? >> it doesn't sound like smart strategy and particularly for an administration that has made such a clear political point of saying that we will do everything in our power to resist vladimir putin in ukraine. but when it comes down to it, it looks like the president --

won't do the things radio-to-resist putin that would collide with his own domestic agenda. we could be producing much more american oil and gas to compensate for russian gas and oil on the markets. spring temperatures are coming on and of course that means less demand for oil and gas. so, there are a number of reasons that the united states could be doing more. certainly we should bring sanctions to bear against the russian energy sector. european allies would support that at this point. and the europeans, of course, depend even more on russian oil and gas than the united states does. so it's at this point in light of what we are seeing on the ground in ukraine and the strategic interest that the united states has in europe, there is really no excuse for the biden administration to not take decisive action against russian oil and gas. >> jesse: yeah, global warming 100 years from now looks pretty silly when people's legs are being fractured by cluster

bombs. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> jesse: kamala harris to the rescue. well, kamala is finally taking her big trip to europe next week. poland and romania to be exact. and to show support for ukraine and nato the vice president will meet with leaders of both countries to discussing russia's invasion. no surprise she was chosen to go since she has always been a foreign policy wiz. >> you know, joe is -- talking with joe about a lot of these issues, and you know, joe, i think he said it quite well, he says, you know, foreign policy might sound complicated but really it's relationships. just think about it as relationships. and so we know this in our personal and professional relationship. >> jesse: here now douglas murray, author of requested mad madness of crowds. "just about relationships. >> straightforward that whole thing. >> jesse: not that complicated. >> if people could point me one thing that kamala harris has sold there might be one reason

for europeans to have hope. jesse, you know very well, nobody can point to one thing she has solved. she has given the southern border crisis, 2 million i will meal migrants came across the southern border in the last year. that's just one of the crises she has failed to solve. look at anything she has been given in her strange portfolio not solved any of it so who do you send to solve the most intractable problem of the moment and the potential for world war iii but kamala harris? >> jesse: maybe is he sending her because he doesn't want to solve the problem? maybe he thinks that you know we drag this thing out, you let russia fight this thing forever, he doesn't want a quick fix. the west way to do that send kamala. >> he is expecting that kamala will say so many benile things such a long time that the conflict will be over by then. remember she went to munich the other day and told the europeans that they they had to remember they were in europe and that

there was a war and that, therefore, this meant there was a war in europe. >> jesse: war is bad. >> war is bad and kamala told them that and she told them where they were and that war was bad. so, but if we can expect more of that from her, then, yes, it is possible that joe biden simply send her to just keep this running until the end. >> jesse: do you think because the last time she went there the very day she left putin invaded? so do you think he is going to tweak the united states again on the week she shows up? he has got maybe a trick up his sleeve. >> obviously all just about relationships with jesse. >> jesse: it is about relationships. >> all that she needs to do is to get a better relationship with vladimir putin. can get in there, charm the kremlin and maybe they stop. i mean on a serious note. >> jesse: really we should not be joking about this but it is the last person that i would be sending. >> i spoke to ukrainian leader they said how devastated they are that joe biden has done so

little for them. and this even -- even more than little, he sends his vice president to solve it. >> jesse: he has to send kamala he is in delaware. they have a lot going on in delaware this weekend. relationships. relationships. all right. thanks for watching. will cain is filling in for tucker. thanks for watching ♪ ♪>> good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am will cain, filling in for tucker. so much of what we are hearing is that the ukrainian russian war, or where hearing has turned out to be false. in war, propaganda is a tool by both sides. nobody has a monopoly on falsehoods or