>> people try to flee. >> vladamir putin's strategy is clear. >> up to the minute reports, stay with fox news channel. >> todd: russia says forces are observing limited cease-fire to give civilians safe way out. ukrainians are skeptical after thousands were trapped in the war zone. imagine that circumstance, it is horrible. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro.

>> carley: and i'm carley shimkus. biden administration considers banning imports of russian oil and nato gets green light to send fighter jets to ukrainian fighters. we have griff jenkins standing by with more on those major developments, but first we go live to lviv with jonathan hunt. >> jonathan: good morning to you, the ceasefire supposed to take hold in the capital kyiv in the southern city of mariupol and the eastern cities of kharkiv and sumy. if guns and heavy artillery fall silent, it is difficult to see how many ukrainian people will have trust in the russians to hold their fire, given what we've seen over the last couple of days. a mortar attack on families running for their lives across a bridge in irpin near kyiv, that

attack killing a mother and two of her young children. in the meantime, there are so many citizens across such a large swath of ukraine under constant bombardment in the southern city of mariupol. we are told there are something like 200,000 civilians in desperate circumstances, no water, drinking from puddles in the street, little food, no power and president zelenskyy of ukraine is clearly getting angrier and angrier that the west is not doing more to help. listen here to president zelenskyy. >> think about the sense of impunity, they announced their planned ark trosities. why? there is no -- there is silence.

>> jonathan: the third ceasefire in as many days, supposed to be a third round of talks between the russian and ukrainian delegations. we expect that to get underway in a few hours, it depends whether this ceasefire holds and whether ukrainian citizens are able to make some progress towards at least relative safety. carl and he todd. >> carley: people are running out of food and water. i can imagine the situation will get worse. how do you get supplies to a city that essentially turned into a war zone? >> jonathan: it is extremely difficult to get any supplies in at all. the load of supplies has essentially been stopped in cities like the capital kyiv in southern city of mariupol. it is impossible to get anything to the people, that is why they are desperate to get out and

desperate to get to some measure of safety. mariupol, when they declared ceasefire over the weekend, they said it would take them to zaporizhzhia, where russian troops control the nuclear power plant, the biggest nuclear power plant in europe. it is a relative statement when you say they are getting out to safety. there are few places in ukraine that are genuinely safe from russian fire. todd and carley. >> carley: we spoke to the former spokesperson for volodymyr zelenskyy, she said the same thing, a lot of so-called safe corridors are just sort of getting people into russia and also belarus channelling people into those areas, as well. it is like, is this a safe situation? exactly right. jonathan, thank you for that

reporting. we appreciate it. secretary of state blinken continues his trip in baltics after announcing military aircraft to ukraine. >> todd: griff jenkins joins us with a warning for countries that help ukraine. >> griff: secretary blinken are in lithuania, one of three baltics states on edge worried they could be putin's next target. putin was greeted by lithuania's president who was stressing the urgency of the crisis. watch. >> mr. secretar -- if he will not -- >> we have a moment why solidarity, it is also important to think and rethink how we are approaching security. nato not the most urgent is

increasing russia to stop this war fare. >> griff: poland has green light to send mig fighter jets to ukraine, which could be backfilled with u.s. jets. there are fears the move could draw nato into the conflict as russia warns any involvement will be seen as act of war. spokesperson says the use for aviation with use of force against russia army can be regarded as involvement of the states in an armed conflict. warning comes after it is estimated 4500 russian soldiers have been killed and comes as general milley puts putin on notice against any -- of nato commitment. >> we intend to defend, that is purpose of why this army

battalion is here. >> griff: in washington, the war enters 12th day. congress is rushing to pass $10 billion deal with economic support for ukraine, interesting to note, speaker pelosi is breaking from the administration, saying she will ban russian oil out right, something president biden is talking about, but not willing to do so far, we'll see how that develops. >> todd: this is the administration on an island when it comes to this. general jack keane says it is surprising russia hasn't established total superiority at this point. >> jack keane: it shocks me russia has taken the ukraine aircraft down. the cyber attack, instrument of national power that the russians are very good at, have

negligible effect on this campaign and there are casualties. we have to do more, if this lasts longer, they will run out of the tools that be being so effective on the russians. >> carley: oil prices reaching $130 per barrel as russia's war in ukraine continues. this while the biden administration is in talks to cut off russian oil imports. >> i was on the phone with the president and other cabinet members and we are looking in accord natasha:ed way at prospect of banning russian oil while making sure there is appropriate supply of oil on world markets, that is very active discussion as we speak. >> carley: tech giants dealing a blow as netflix suspend service in the nation.

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wildfires after evacuating 1100 homes. the wildfires taking the lives of at least six people. >> todd: in iowa, several people were killed after a tornado. janice dean has more. it is so sad. >> janice: it is devastating. national weather service knew there was potential for tornados on friday and they came saturday and sunday. there are the tornado tallies, eight confirmed tornados and national weather service will observe the damage and tell us how strong the tornados were. we are getting into the season, we have clash of two air masses and left over winter smashing the springtime and summer air temperatures and that is giving us or helping give us those tornados and threat for severe storms. on the radar across ohio and tennessee river valley, north of

that, you have cold air and southward, we have summer-time temperatures. we will see risk today. severe storms. there is future track. large hail, damaging winds and tornados. heavy rainfall and some snow. there is your threat from portions of mississippi to alabama and georgia to new york city. i think it is a strong wind threat in the northeast, nevertheless, d.c., you have pittsburgh and know what to do if there is a watch or warning. heavy rainfall will cause flooding. several inches is possible and the snow forecast on top of this, we could see one to three, four inches toward northeastern new england. will break records across mid-atlantic to northeast. richmond virginia, 82.

clash of two air masses, we will see severe weather impact. foxweather.com, will keep you covered. >> carley: as will you. russia's war on ukraine sparking higher prices at the gas pumps and president biden's oil and gas crackdown is driving up energy costs to prices not seen in years. >> todd: i spent the day in vermont with some truckers who say it is at the end of a cliff. watch. >> we've been delivering products for the past 100 years and will continue to do so, we have cold winters in the northeast and we need greg and trucks he drives in order to stay warm. >> todd: when your families started this business, they were using horse? >> yes, horses with a 300 gallon

tank. 32 years i've been driving truck. >> todd: supply chain is major focus, have you experienced a problem getting oil? >> during a cold snap like a couple weeks ago, it is hard to get transport out of albany new york, we are short of truckers. carrying milk or maple syrup or fuel oil, lack of truck drivers is single largest problem to make sure fuel gets where it needs to go at the time it needs to get there. we need traind and skilled labor force that quite frankly is graying out, they are retiring faster than we are replacing them. >> todd: that is a problem in all 50 states. >> i talked to a fuel dealer who said he spent 80 hours in the truck and he owns the company. how do you solve the problem? the person with the name on the truck is likely driving the truck. >> todd: seems like greg's story

and other stories of people you work with are hard working american stories. >> absolutely. >> todd: could that go away? >> that is my fear. this is competitively priced product, the more people in the business, lower the cost. >> todd: from gasoline to natural gas to dees and he will home heating oil explains why 73% of americans are frustrateed with american energy from the shores of california all the way to the mountains of vermont. we talk about how bad gas prices are, you see it in reality. how bad is it? >> it is tough on families, tough to heat homes. most understand, there is a degree of sticker shock. >> this is bernie country, joe biden following a lot of environmental policy from the green new deal, do you see any chance oil, gas, that type of energy will be gone in a few

years? >> the idea we will move to all electrical heating system, not enough to meet the demand now is absurd. >> todd: why? why are they doing that? if their dpoel is improving the environment, that is the opposite of what they are doing and prices will go through the roof more? >> in the northeast, most people want to lower environmental impact, we understand that, so does our energy. we can't tell customers convert to electricity with a straight face and think they are actually reducing their energy burden, reducing cost and carbon emission because it is not happening. >> todd: that is the key takeaway under all this discussion that focuses on what is happen nothing ukraine. from the oil and gas perspective, everybody wants clean environment and clean water and air and all that. this is not a situation where we

rip the bandaid off quickly, it needs to be gradual, or it incentivizes vladamir putin to invade, if we were energy independent, this would not be happening. >> carley: we are seeing oil prices surge over $130 per barrel, $4 gallon gas for first time since 2008. todd, now biden administration says we are talking to allies about cutting off russia oil and gas, same time, u.s. sent delegation to venezuela. when all is said and done, will we buy venezuela oil and gas instead of russian, we are funneling money to pockets of venezuela -- >> todd: perpetuate the cycle.

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>> todd: moscow snubs un's highest court, where ukraine is trying to put a stop to the war in day 12. something must be done to stop war crimes being committed against unarmed men, women and children. >> unfortunately, we have disastrous humanitarian situation. we have dozens killed civilians,

putin is a war criminal. putin make crimes against humanity, this is genocide against ukrainian people. >> carley: former ambassador to ukraine is joining us now. what do you make of this conversation for investigating vladamir putin for war crimes? is this more symbolic? could he be held accountable in some way? >> given the fact he is the president of one of the world's most powerful states, it is more symbolic, but there is a moral element to it. it shows clarity to what he is doing is in fact a war crime. extend war crime charges against whole military chain of command, which is carrying out war crimes. you want to close out in the mind of generals, colennels,

committing war crimes making them less likely to do it. like those who shot the poor ukrainian family, those people should be held accountable. they face war crimes, they wouldn't pull the trigger. >> todd: we've seen shelling blocking escape routes, in a reported ceasefire today, we'll see what happens. europe facing worst refugee crisis since world war ii. is this indiscriminate shelling or are the russians trying to close off escape routes? if the latter, why does putin want a country with people that despise him? >> well, putin unfortunately won the war on chechnya and northern syria by massive bombardment of cities. those bombardments -- starting

to do in ukraine. the shelling of apartment building demonstrated that approach, certainly the shelling of not just shelling, shooting at civilians trying to escape from mariupol, after agreeing to -- shows that approach. looks like he is heading in that direction. >> carley: one big thing out of conversations yesterday, secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. is in discussion with nato allies and europe to ban russian oil and gas, which is great. but europe relies on russian oil and gas more than the u.s. does, where does that leave us? >> they are looking at ways to increase oil production globally, increaing hydro. the head of naftahus says russia

would sell at reduced prices to china, free up the oil to be sold to us and europe. >> carley: it is all cyclical, i hear you there, key is reduced prices. if we ban russian oil and europe does the same, it would greatly hurt the russian economy, which is the goal there. ambassador herbst, thank you for joining us, we appreciate your perspective. >> carley: putting pressure on president biden to ban russian oil imports. >> we actually take more petroleum from russia than saudi arabia. it is extraordinary for all the sanctions imposed and are unprecedented on russia to sanction everything, but what

drives their economy. >> todd: joe concha joins us now. it is odd to have consensus on anything, we have democrats, republicans, media, so many parties, except for one, the president. how much longer can biden stay on this island? >> joe: not long, todd, this is what the white house pays attention to. when allies call them out on this particular decision, that is going to get their attention. 16 senators using bipartisan legislation to sanction oil in russia, includes obviously merkowski, as far as that is concerned and democrats in the house, as well, pushing for similar legislation. at some point, this white house will have to break. when jen psaki is asked about

keystone pipeline, she pooh-poohs that idea, and says it was not operation sxal it could take a long time. start the process now, the white house won't do that, they have a big problem admit whenning they made a mistake and they made a mistake with the keystone pipeline because of the signal it sent to putin, okay, we'll stop doing this at home here and now you have the cards as far as providing europe your oil. here is where we're at at this point. they can't ignore too much longer. >> carley: you can't and you hear nancy pelosi say ban russian oil and gas, they don't agree, they want no oil or gas, they want to go completely green. should that matter? or people who want energy independence, should they take wins where you can get them?

>> war broke out, he was saying russia holds to what they promised us as far as what they want to do about the climate, this is what john kerry, the green czar is thinking as bombs are fall og civilians in ukraine. take the wins where you can get them? i suppose, there seems to be such sentiment, make ourselves energy independent, this could send a message to the world that we are the ones that have leverage right now, sir. >> todd: it has to happen, we appreciate your insight. thank you. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians trying to escape, overtaking their country. >> carley: ukrainian exchange student live nothing texas is fearing the worst for his family back home. and only fda approved eye-drop that improves age-related blurry near vision.

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[bleep] >> todd: breaking right now, war on ukraine, kremlin claims ceasefire is giving civilians gateway out of cities. as you know, shutting down critical evacuation corridors, third round of peace talks set today as u.s. and nato work out

deal to send fighter jets to ukraine. jonathan hunt has more from overnight. >> jonathan: ceasefire supposed to take hold today in capital kyiv in mariupol in kharkiv and sumy. if artillery and guns fall silent, it is difficult to see how many ukrainians will trust russian. there were two ceasefires and mortar attack outside of kyiv near irpin, mortar attack on civilians running for their lives, a mother and two children killed in that attack, so will the ukrainians feel they can board the buses being lined up to take them along so-called humanitarian corridors? they are desperate to get out, also in the back of their minds

will be idea those buses make slow moving and easy targets should the russians decide to open fire again. mariupol is hard hit in the south, 200,000 civilians with no water, little food and no power, they are desperate to get out, but weighing a difficult decision if the ceasefires do hold. >> carley: an exchange student is in texas and watching his country's invasion from afar. the 17 year old is fearing for his family back home. joining us is daniel. daniel, good morning to you. is your family still in kyiv? if so, how are they doing? >> no, my family left like two days ago, when russia started bombing nuclear power plant. already maybe here, it is like the biggest nuclear power plant in europe, so my dad decided to

leave kyiv, to leave to their friends. it took them two days to do. now they are in western ukraine. >> carley: they are in a safer spot, that must make you feel better, right? >> it feels me a little bit better, i am nervous of the situation and my dad can't leave the country because he is the age restriction and can't leave the country at all and my friend's dad is stuck on the border because of that. >> carley: what do you make of the ceasefire russia announced? they say they will hold fire so ukrainians can get out of hard-hit areas. do you trust them? >>-- trust them at all. during the meetings with ukraine and russia, they still continued fireing and bombing, i don't

believe them. >> carley: i hear that and i'm sure so many ukrainians are feeling the same wap and facing difficult decisions, life and death they are being forced to make, you are in unique position, you are ukrainian, but you are at an american college, i am sure you are watching closely. how do you feel about the biden administration handling of the war in ukraine so far? >> i still speak to all my classmates and we discuss all together from ukraine, i speak to them. i actually may feel usa more like ruins russia economy, but it doesn't affect putin, for example. putin is like dictator and it doesn't help ukraine, to ruin russia economy. putin continue this war even if the economy is ruined.

doing all this. >> carley: yeah, you have friends who are russian live nothing -- living in russia, how do they feel about this war? >> they all have this news like tells them wrong about ukraine and describes them real situation happening now, but now really they are worried, some go to meetings and try to do something like try to also help ukraine. >> carley: you are having to try and combat putin's propaganda effort, which is unbelievable. daniil, we are praying for you and your family, thank you for joining us and sharing your thoughtos this situation, we appreciate it. todd. >> todd: russian economy reeling under western sanctions, china appears to be bailing moscow out. >> carley: we will look at the

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>> todd: cheryl casone from our sister network fox news, ouch. >> cheryl: let's talk about the oil price situation, oil prices did soar to 13-year highs. west texas crude hitting $130 per barrel. for context, up 64% year to date. a week ago oil was $95, a week ago today. all buyers paying premium to replace the impending loss of russian crude supply, they are thinking ahead. russia provides 10% of the oil. dell futures are falling on the heels of that spike in oil. we were down 600 points overnight for futures. in large part due to nancy pelosi letter to democrats about moving toward ban of russian oil import. here is explanation for the biden administration policy for

all of this. >> the administration's office put us in this position with energy independence in the united states instead of being an exporter of energy, we pam consumer of russian oil. >> cheryl: one of the first things biden did was cancel -- regular unleaded for $7 a gallon and change and in l.a. county, we are seeing $6, highest lest we've seen since 2008. this is big piece of the numbers we reports. tomorrow we get price consumer index for february. when you have elon musk, man who makes electric cars, talking about more oil and gas production in this country,

people need to pay attention, especially the biden administration. >> todd: me thinks you are right, cheryl casone. let's bring in maria bartiromo, fox business. great to have you. what is the expression, everyone has a number, everyone has a price? is there per gallon dollar amount joe biden says, i need to take action and maybe lead to some domestic production once again? >> maria: i think that is great way to put it, good morning, carley and todd, great to see you both, cheryl casone was spot on, this is the story of the day and that number should be $4 a gallon on gasoline, which is of course, what we're seeing across the country. i spoke with someone over the weekend who said it is $8 people are worried about, look what cheryl casone reported in california, you are seeing $7 a gallon gasoline, this is why you see the numbers with the dow industrials down 500 points.

shock of oil will reverberate across markets and you will see it show up in the inflation story and the stock market story and the economic growth story, a number of economists and analysts are taking expectations for gdp down because of this oil. the big story is the fact biden administration has finally discussed potential or possibility of cutting off supplies from russia over the last year, we've seen imports of crude double. it is extraordinary this country is no longer energy exporter and we are reliant on this in ukraine and upset across the world. the story is oil prices surging, this morning $130 overnight, that is going to cut economic growth, seeing people like nancy luzar take expectation for the economy lower, she was growth of

3-1/2 percent for the year and now 2-1/2 percent because of upset in the oil market. this will put fire under oil stocks, that has been a place to invest over the last year, a lot of legs to this story. your question, todd, is spot on. it is gasoline that is going to impact american families as opposed to price of crude, they move in tandem. >> todd: of course they do. rushing to switch to chinese card system, am ex and mastercard and visa have suspended business there. >> maria: you are seeing china be the life line. will work with the chinese bank to become the digital transactor because mastercard, visa and

american express are pulling out. you have to wonder if all the things being pulled away will create more upset in russia, turn the people against him and maybe that acts as another lever to stop this madness, but so far, he's acting as if it doesn't matter. you have a number of american companies having pulled things like netflix, apple, phones, now mastercard, visa and am ex. little by little russian people are seeing -- pull him back from the ledge. so far, of course, he is not stopping with this attack on ukraine inching closer to the >> todd: some point when you go to buy something and your credit cards don't work and ruble is worthless, you will wake up and say something is going on. if you are waking up, watch mornings with maria 6 to 9 a.m.

on fox business. thank you for your insight on this, it is important in this day and age, we appreciate it. >> maria: thank you, guys issue let me say, we have the former president of the kansas federal reserve on the show today to talk about this oil shock and what it means for the fed, big meeting is next week. >> todd: not to be confuseed with tom homing, he does other talking. >> carley: thanks, maria, she's the best. congressman michael waltz on deck for breaking news out of ukraine overnight. first look what the is coming up on "fox and friends." good morning . >> good morning. coming up on "fox and friends," russia war in ukraine hits home for tight end drew sample as his wife angelina works to bring her family to united states and safety. hear their prayers for her coming up. also, we are going to check in

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good morning, congressman. >> thanks. >> todd: why weren't they in ukraine already for a conflict we have been predicting for months now. >> the entire approach from the administration was let's not provoke putin. 'let's not escalate the situation. and their strategy basically rested on a hope that putin wouldn't do what, you know, many of us saw that he was determined to do. so now the administration is leading the the world in a strong reaction. which is fine and certainly needed. but many of us, including president zelenskyy and members of congress were demanding exactly that. let's provide those arms on the front end, even if putin wasn't deterred by them, the ukrainian resistance would have had them on day one. not weeks after the fact that they're struggling to survive. >> carley: yeah, congressman, also, it looks like the biden administration is finally considering banning russian oil and gas, but then at the same

time, as antony blinken says that he is actually talking to nato allies about this, the u.s. sends a group to officials to venezuela over the weekend. >> this is the highest level u.s. visit to venezuela in years. how do you read that situation? does that mean that we might start buying venezuelan gas instead of russian? is north korea also selling gas that we can buy as well? where do we go from here where when we could be doing this here at home? >> carley, we cannot trade one dictator's oil, putin's oil for the iranian regime's oil and for the dictatorship in venezuela maduro's oil. that is the devil's bar ghan that this administration appears to be about to enter into. on the one hand we will have maduro flush with cash if we allow him to open up his spigot with his murderous regime.

the thing i'm most russian the russians as the go between between our two size for the iran deal, is just jaw-dropping to me. and, yet, that's the path that we're on. let's unleash american energy and american oil. not make us more reliant on u.s. opponents and foes and dictatorships. >> todd: it looks like this administration has had a really bad situation. how can we literally make it worse. carley's joke about what about north korea, i feel like that's where we are headed? >> yeah. that is exactly where we are headed. >> we have doubled our imports of russian oil over the last year. and the same type of heavy crude what russia exports is similar to what iran exports and is similar to what venezuela exports, and that appears to be where the administration is

headed to replace one dictatorship's oil with the other, and we need to be replacing it american oil. and it's -- it just blows your mind that this is the strategy that this administration. it's unconscionable. >> carley: the solution seems so simple, congressman, and yet there is absolutely no willingness to reach that goal. got to leave it right there. ♪ [bleep] >> brian: wow, we start with a fox news alert. day 12 of russiaens war in ukraine beginning with blast you just heard, rocking a city outside kyiv. >> while you were asleep russia vowing a cease-fire, a third such promise after two failed attempts, nato allies getting the green light to deploy those fighter jets go and support ukraine. >> then what happens is the question. this morning secretary of state antony blinken is in europe after