making you the journalist you are and why i would say my mentor and friend brit hume had the biggest impact. i was a big fan of tim russert's and i watched peter jennings growing up. and wanted to know do you know what we will save this one for next time fair balanced and unafraid because i, unlike "the five," would like to hit the next show. jesse watters on time. >> jesse: thank you. i thought i was your mentor, bret. >> bret: you were, you were. >> jesse: thank you very much. appreciate it ♪ ♪ >> jesse: we all love to measure our accomplishments, whether they are personal, professional or even athletic, you like to take stock of where you stand. and if you are truly the best at something, you might just set a record. most of us we love when a good record is broken. you know that can trigger a heated debate like who really is baseball's all-time home run

king? hell, there is even entire book dedicated to keeping track of our most insane achievements. but, unfortunately for us, our commander-in-chief keeps breaking records. just not the ones we want. after setting a new high with the number of illegal aliens crossing the border, biden has done himself one better. with the price of gas skyrocketing to it highest level ever. a gallon of gas up to now 4.17. go ahead, joe. take a bow, and things aren't getting better any time soon. >> today i'm announcing the united states is targeting the main artery of russia's economy. we're banning all imports of russian oil and gas and energy. this is a step that we're taking to inflict further pain on putin. but there will be cost as well here in the united states. i said i would level with the american people from the beginning and when i first spoke to think said defending freedom

is going to cost, it's going to cost us as well. >> jesse: you are damn right it's going to cost us. if you only ban russian oil and don't pump american. biden promised the american people he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone making under 400 gs, but if the cost of your every day life surges, thanks to inflation and this gas price spike, that's a tax hike on everybody. energy consultants are already increased fuel costs are going to cost the average american household $2,000 more for gasoline this year. $2,000 more. this isn't just an energy crisis we are up against. it's an economic crisis, too. banning russian oil and not replacing it with a fuel from another source like what we are doing right here isn't a plan. well, unless your explain to drive up oil prices. if that's the case, you are doing a great job, joe. and maybe that is the plan.

>> accelerated transition to clean energy. loosen environmental regulations pulling back clean energy investment won't, let me repeat, will not lower energy prices for families. but transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles powered by clean energy, with tax credits to help american families winterize their homes and use less energy that will. jet j. >> jesse: biden can't let good crisis to go waste. he used a pulpit to push little pet projects like electric vehicles that you just heard him talking about. i mean, that's less than 1% of cars on the road are electric. suddenly, we're supposed to fill up the other 99% of america's roadways with evs? that's biden's short-term solution? electric cars are pricy. and their cost is only going to surge as supply chain issues are going to make the price of those

batteries rise. so the american people still reeling from a pandemic recession and fighting historic inflation, we're supposed to go out and fork over hard earned dollars for a new electric car. and then install little charging station in the garage if you have a garage? is biden nuts? we here at prime time wanted to know what the people thought of these energy policies. so we did what we do and we hit the street. ♪ ♪ >> why aren't you driving an electric car? joe biden says that's the way to go. >> i don't have $100,000. >> if i could afford one i would. >> i can't afford one. >> takes a half hour to fill up electric car. >> i don't think tech no for full lick trick is right there. >> i don't care for electric cars. >> do you plan on buying an electric car? >> no time soon. >> absolutely not. >> not right now. >> no. >> no. >> more like electric ports charge card. >> i won't be able to afford electric card i will be out of

money buying gas. >> joe biden says you are polluting if you don't drive an electric car. what do you have to say? >> how am i going to work. >> you need to keep in mind he has been rich forever. a lot of people can't oh i'm going to switch to a tesla. >> he better focus the gas price not about the pollution. >> if he is going to support us and basically give us some electric cars, i don't see why not. he ain't giving nobody a car. >> pretty accepted that we all pollute. it's part of our lives. >> everybody else is polluting. >> you are polluting if you do a lot of things. i don't care what biden says to be honest. joe biden doesn't know what he is doing and what is he doing in this country. >> f. joe biden. >> not only are gas prices on the rise, they are now the most expensive they have ever been in u.s. history. how is it affecting you. >> you are kidding me. that number depresses me, dude. >> shopping. >> i take the.

>> i charge people to get in my car. >> i don't drive more than 50 miles through the week. >> we're making less money. >> i make less money. >> a lot of bills and food and gas, everything is going up. >> i'm not able to afford to get gas sometimes. i have to leave my car home parked. >> some days i go $50, $60. you think that's enough to make a living? no. >> you are on "jesse watters primetime," if president joe biden is flipping the channels tonight, what do you want to tell him? >> you know, help us out, man. >> what's wrong with you, man? >> give me an electric car, man. >> do a better job. >> please get it together. >> more stimulus money, please. >> wake up. >> he better come retirement. >> retire. >> retire. >> we want trump back. >> the people know who to blame even though biden won't accept it. joe, this is all putin's fault. >> going to go up. can't do much right now. russia is responsible.

>> jesse: just mother biden flip flop. he spent the entire last week telling us is he doing everything he can to lower gas prices. but now suddenly there is nothing he can do. putin played a part for sure but gas prices were at 2.77 this time last year. long before russia started this war. so, sorry, joe, this one is on you, too. on your first day in office you killed the pipeline and paused drilling on federal land. you didn't think that would have some effect on gas prices? instead biden continues to lie to our face about his energy policy. listen. >> it's simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. that is simply not true. >> jesse: here's what is true, a judge just revoked the biggest federal offshore lease in u.s. history and biden won't appeal

the ruling. he won't appeal it. so he just killed the biggest federal energy lease of all time. joe biden. will gulf of mexico. another record you broke, joe. way to go. you see, biden cares more about his far left base than he cares about doing what's best for the country. he is looking to help aoc instead of you. it's very alarming that many of the people pushing to increase and skyrocket either import or production, domestic production in the short-term are not talking about what we really need to be doing in terms of rapid investment solar and wind. >> jesse: solar and wind. citizen stead of listening to please people biden needs to come up with a plan to lower energy costs now not become the punch line of late night jokes. >> since the invasion, oil prices have skyrocketed. today, the average gaffes price in america hit an all-time record high of over $4 per

gallon. okay. clean conscience is worth a buck or two. i'm willing to pay $4 a gallon. hell, i will pay $15 a gallon because i drive a tesla. >> jesse: of course you do. it's not just the left. all of america's enemies are laughing at us as we try to turn for energy needs. biden is going hat in hand begging kings and dictators and saudi arabia and venezuela and possibly even the mullahs in triune pump more oil. he wants to pay blood money to these countries for their fuel while they turn around and use the cash to continue to terrorist us and their own people. well, if they take his call. there is a new report in the "wall street journal" tonight claiming biden got certified by the saudis. joe biden called and the crowned prince refused to pick up the phone. didn't take the call from the

president of the united states. so much for being the most powerful man in the world. and for the whole climate change crowd, the oil that we make here in the u.s. is produced cleaner than any place on earth. so biden's plan is to buy dirtier oil while making our enemies rich. boy, is that stupid? but here's a novel idea, mr. president. how about we use more of our own oil here rather than ask bad guys to throw us a bone. and if you are open to suggestions, we have a few. for starters, how about we repeal the gas tax, even members of your own party are pushing it. >> we need to suspend the gas tax 18.4 cents a gallon. it will reduce the inflationary pressures that are causing rising gas prices at the pump and americans should be angry. >> jesse: never thought i would

say this but listen to richard blumenthal. and don't stop there, how about you cut the ethanol blending mandate. that actually causes more pollution they just discovered. and while we're at it, let's open alaska for business. alaska has billions of barrels of oil ready to be pulled out of the ground. time to restore the suspended leases on the artic national wildlife refuge. there is 600,000 square miles of alaska with most of it fertile drilling land. look at that this is how we restore american energy independence. we become self-sufficient on oil and gas and then we can sell it to our allies who need it in europe. why do we keep pouring money into the pockets of our enemies? let's protect ourselves, by fueling ourselves. governor of alaska mike dunleavy joins us now. all right, governor. government a lot of untapped

resources up in your gorgeous great state. what is stopping you guys, us, from fueling this beautiful land here? >> unbelievably bizarre policy. a set of policies coming out of washington. jesse, i don't know to laugh or cry when i was listening to the intro here. i think i did both. because it is so absurd, no matter where you turn, i mean, can you imagine for a moment the ayatollah in iran saying to his people we have to ask the saudis the americans for more oil. why, ayatollah? did we run out of oil? no, we just decided that it's a bad idea to produce. it makes zero sense. alaska, north dakota, texas, pennsylvania, louisiana, and other states if we are allowed to you produce, we won't have this problem. keystone pipeline, what 800,000 barrels of oil we would have had if that was allowed to

be built,age we are disputing the president's ability to not enforce that law and so it's just no matter where you turn it makes no sense at all. >> jesse: so many people don't know, this alaska is the biggest state in the united states. it's huge. look at a map. it's gorgeous. and people in alaska know how to extract the things that god put underneath. and you are doing it right now and on you are producing a lot of beautiful, clean u.s. energy, no one produces it in a cleaner and safer way that balances the environment, which is pristine energy needs. what would you like to do in the great state of alaska that you are not allowed to do specifically orb woe would like

to produce on federal land. we could actually have 2 millioh that pipeline which we once did he back in the 190s, late 1980s and 1990s. jesse, we find it remark be in alaska we are scratching our heads because we are artic nation. the biden administration does not want oil and gas produced in the artic. so, a couple hundred dreld miles west in the russian artic, you have a massive gas plant that has about 1400 wells that flare 24 hour as day 365. alaska we never did flare our wells on the north slope. we passed a law we reinject our gas into the reservoir. in other words, we do it better here in alaska as you mentioned and this idea that if you don't do it here in america somehow all the, quote, supposed ilsz of oil and gas will just disappear, it's just going to -- it's just going to be magnified overseas.

the environment is going to be destroyed in a much rapid rate larger scale. the human rights issues are going to be exacerbated. we are going to as you mentioned just fund our adversaries, all, all at the expense of what we could do here. all at the expense of america and alaska in this case. so, what we would like the president to do, personally, is immediately put forth executive order to all of his agencies, fish and game. fish and wildlife army corps of engineers, e.p.a., energy, you name it declare an energy emergency and instruct those agencies to flatten their regulatory processes, shrink regulatory processes. get as much energy on line. make this a national security issue not just for us but for our allies as well. and include renewables. we are not against renewables. >> jesse: neither am i. i'm not against it either. i'm for everything. and you have everything up there in that beautiful state.

so, "primetime" is going to be pushing hard. i think alaska is the solution to this energy crisis. and we need to make sure everybody knows that governor, did you know leavy, thank you so much. >> thank you, jesse. >> jesse: let's turn to colorado congresswoman lauren boebert. i couldn't believe this when i saw this cross the wire, congresswoman. the saudis hung up on the president. he went and begged and they wouldn't take his call. how humiliating is this? >> jesse, maybe biden needs to send a text. i don't know, did they send him a voice mail? what happened there? >> jesse: i don't know. >> international leaders want to talk to someone who is really in charge. not the guy with the ice cream. and what's really sad is this is the cost of the afghanistan surrender. when biden started taking orders from terrorists, world leaders saw that and now our entire country is suffering the humiliation from that failure. i don't know, maybe biden needs to get on telegram, snapchat, signal, something.

that message has got to get across. >> jesse: it's really a lack of respect. we protect the saudis. we have spilled blood protecting the saudis from the iranians, from sunni muslim jihadists isis and everything. they don't even take the president's phone call when we are getting hammered here breaking records at the pump, it's really disgraceful. it's almost embarrassing that's that's happened. i thought president biden said america is back. apparently the saudis don't think so. what do you think about our suggestions though, congresswoman? you know, you get rid of this silly ethanol mandate. you kill the gas tax. you open up alaska, that sends the oil prices worldwide down just on those announcements alone. >> absolutely, jesse. and you know, we have been told for more than a year now that the adults are back in charge. i'm just worried if we are going to call on alaska to start producing this, is biden going

to want to sell it to the saudis or venezuela and think that's the only way that he will be able to buy oil and gas from alaska? but, in all seriousness, here's biden's energy policy, anyone but america. opec, venezuela, you name it, if it's not american energy, joe doesn't want it. jesse, under president trump, america became net -- a net energy exporter for the first time in decades and became the world's number one producer in oil. president trump unleashed our energy potential because he knew what we know. america cannot only be energy independent, we can be and must be energy dominant. american natural gas is 42% cleaner than russian natural gas, we make the cleanest energy right here in america. our roughnecks do it better than anyone. i say we should be relying on our guys to do the work, not opec. and i don't know who is running the federal government these

days, joe biden or prince john from -- prince john, but they are taxing us into poverty. look, gas prices are higher than jerry nadler's pants right now, and the federal government is making it worse with their 18-cent per gallon tax and additional regulations like the ethanol mandate that adds nearly 20 cents per gallon of gas. people are going to have to start calling j.g. wentworth at 877-cash now just to get a loan to fill up the tank, jesse. >> jesse: thank you, congresswoman, always love having you on. the u.s. policy plan for this proxy war in ukraine. right back ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

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- i had an important job and it wasn't just a job, it was keeping my brothers and sisters safe. and coming back, it felt like, kind of thrown away. it's like, you're useless, you know? "we don't really have a need you now because you can't really do anything for us." that's the way i felt. if it hadn't have been for wounded warrior project, i honestly don't know if i would be here. it was the comradery that i saw it was like, i got my family back again because we all had some sort of injury or illness that we didn't have to talk about but we all felt the connection, like, that brother and sisterhood.

>> jesse: for years the west has been dangling ukrainian membership in front of ukraine. join the alliance ironclad security guarantees protect you from a russian invasion. back in 197. joe biden said poland and ukraine were both in play for membership. quote my view is by making them part of nato reenhance security. joe biden continued playing this game with ukraine a decade ago and then again last year. >> the united states also supports ukraine's deepening ties to nato and to the european union but, again, we recognize they are your decisions. your choices. not ours. whether you choose to join the eu or seek to or nato. >> ukraine wants a clear yes or no on getting into the nato

membership action plan so what's your answer? >> depends on whether they meet the criteria. >> jesse: while joe biden and the west of the rest continue to dance with ukraine, vladimir putin was watching. and could not have been more clear about how he felt as the nato alliance grew closer to russia's border. he used every chance he could to jawbone western leaders in public and in private meetings telling us this nato edges packages was a threat to russian security. that was his view. and he told every single american president that he met in person that ukraine joining nato was the final straw. it would be like mexico aligning with russia. america would never tolerate that. eventually putin snapped after biden signed a charter with ukraine on strategic partnership at the end of 2021. the deal was another step to on ramping ukraine into nato. i'm not blaming america for the

invasion of ukraine but what weighs your strategy here and was it a good strategy? was there even a strategy at all? when ukraine begged biden for the iron dome missile defense system before all of this, biden and the israelis turned them down. joe knew it would have essentially created a no-fly zone for ukraine. but that didn't happen. and now ukraine is at the mercy of russian air power. so is this just a proxy war? hillary clinton, she seems to think so. >> remember, the russians invaded afghanistan back in 1980. it didn't end well for the russians. the fact is that a very motivated and then funded and armed insurgency basically drove the russians out of afghanistan that is the model that people

are now looking toward. >> jesse: you won't see us in ukraine. now ukrainians are getting massacred. while putin's forces are getting beat up. but the rest of the world is suffering from an energy shock. a looming recession and there is even the possibility of famine and even revolution as wheat exports stop. so is this tragedy avoidable? south carolina senator lindsey graham. so, senator, you understand where we're coming from here. do you think that we should have been plowing full steam ahead to bring ukraine into nato? was that our strategy here or what was the strategy? >> well, i think you are misreading the tea leaves with all due respect. putin gave a speech last year where he said that ukraine was a fiction. if you don't believe putin wants to take the ukraine and make it part of russia, you are not listening to what he says. >> jesse: i do. >> moldova is next.

hitler did this whole thing. people didn't believe he had the ambitions he h he wanted to take over the world and kill all the jews. here's what putin wants to do recreate the soviet union. he thinks that it was a low point in russian history. and in 1994, jesse, the third largest nuclear nation on the planet was ukraine. they signed an agreement with russia, great britain, and the united states where they would give up their nuclear weapons with a promise by russia to guarantee their sovereignty, putin stepped all over that like hitler did. so putin is the bad guy, biden is the incompetent guy, and i just want to say. >> jesse: i agree with that it was bill clinton that signed that deal to move those nuclear weapons out of ukraine if they had had nukes now would have been a different story. >> you got it. >> jesse: do you think that american foreign policy should have been a little bit more delicate with ukraine. maybe used a little more finesse and tried to keep it more as a buffer instead of just wrenching it out of putin's hands and just

bringing it right into nato as aggressively as possible? would that have changed things because now americans are suffering, ukraine is definitely suffering and who knows where the hell this could go. >> they had the same arguments about hitler. why don't we just give him the german speaking portions surrounding -- why don't we give him austria, you have got to understand who putin is. putin is not trying to have a buffer zone from nato. is he trying to to destroy the ukraine and make it part of russia. is he trying to recreate the soviet union to the best extent possible. and taiwan is going to be given up if we think like this. i'm not going to let putin control nato. nato is an independent organization. nobody in nato is going to invade russia. but if you don't believe that putin's ambitions are to recob recopstructure the greater sovit union you are missing. >> jesse: i agree.

that is what his motivation is that aggressive approach to ukraine might have made things a little differently. i could be wrong. i could be wrong. >> listen, i really like your show because you let people talk, number one. and you ask good questions. here is why i think they made a mistake. we should have punched putin in the nose when he had 100,000 troops on the border of ukraine. we should have went after the oil and gas sector early on to maybe deter the invasion. at every moment biden appeased putin and here's what have you today. you have good people in the ukraine fighting to the death for their freedom. you have the russian army stalled, i think the chinese p chinese are watching how we deal with putin, so are the iranians, so what happens to the ukraine doesn't stand the ukraine? let's help ukrainians fight back as hard as they can. >> jesse: yeah. >> let's start destroying the ruble. do you know why biden went after oil and gas. no change of heart. change in politics.

americans are pissed that we allowed putin to get so reckless and so strong biden makes chamberlain look like churchill. here is my view of this and i said this on the show weeks ago. when it comes to bull ys, stand up to elm this putin has a pair of twos. we have a full house. i want him to go. i want himst his regime to end. i hope people in russia will take the bastard out. if we done this 20 years ago we would be a lot better off. what have we learned from history? the longer you let people go who furnished rape, steal and funder. you live to regret it now is the time to be all in to help the ukrainian people fight for their own freedom. no boots on the ground but we can turn the tide of battle and we have got to tell the russian people you will never have a normal life if you follow this guy putin. we're going to destroy the russian ruble, the russian economy and i'm hoping somebody in russia will step up to the plate and do what they have youd have done in germany. >> jesse: i have got to get your

answer ton, this senator, the polls send pols sending migs to us in germany. what do you think about that? also, are you for a no-fly zone? >> i'm not for a no-fly zone. you know, one thing you have been talking about world war iii is not going to happen because this engagement. but what could happen is that china could take taiwan and iranian could ski our weakness and try to get a nuclear weapon that boo start a nuclear arms race in the middle east. i'm all for the mition going into germany and into the ukraine. let the ukrainian pilots come into germany and fly them back into ukraine and to the russians. this is a defining moment in european history. defining moment in american history. putin can't determine who is in nato and putin doesn't want to stop nato he wants to reconstruct the soviet union and the russian imperial life. and we have got a chance here to deliver a fatal blow to putin. the best chance in 20 years and god whether he is the ukrainian people for having the guts to

fight for their freedom. >> jesse: we will see how it plays out. senator lindsey graham, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> jesse: for 15 years putin has proved that he was willing to do whatever was necessary to stop nato from coming anywhere near his border. he has made slow advances towards ukraine over the years to try to prevent nato from advancing there. so, what could have been done to avoid getting to this point? you heard the last interview. let's ask lieutenant colonel daniel davis the military analyst and a senior fellow at the defense priority. all right. so what's your response to senator lindsey graham? >> well, with all due respect to senator, just dead wrong on nearly everything he said. i mean, i just got to be honest. the first thing that putin has been saying unequivocally for 15 years that nato on his border in ukraine is a red line. and he has never said anything besides that and even if he may want to take other countries and

rebuild the soviet union, he doesn't have the force capacity to do that. and if anyone had any doubts about it, his performance so far against infantry bound country that only didn't even have an army 8 years ago and he could barely advance against it, he would have no chance against the 30-member block of nato if he went one inch into a nato country. and he knows that. but he does desperately want this border, no matter what anybody wants to think, he is clear on. that was and he needs that -- the boundary in between. the buffer, and that's what ukraine. that's why putin has said he is willing to negotiate if they will declare neutrality, he with draw his forces. right now that's probably the only thing that's going to keep the ukrainian people more people from dying. >> jesse: do you think zelenskyy should negotiate and work out a deal vlad.

hell bent and is he never ever going to sacrifice any land to putin? >> as the president of any country that's been be invaded. you can are understand why he would be fierce in his defense and not want to give up anything. at some point you have to recognize just a combat reality and the amount of power that putin has on the ground in his country. is he not going to be able to prevents it from coming up. especially because no one is coming to his aid. if you can realize it if the longer time goes the more of your people are going to die and eventually you may have to make a deal under pressure on your capital city it might make sense to do it now while you have a little bit of room to negotiate. >> jesse: they are going to surround that city and lay siege to it hopefully he can hold on. but that's going to get get ugly once that happens. what do you think about the polg our hand with fighter jets. do you think's it's possible that biden could get roped into throwing up no a no-fly zone?

and do you think a no-fly zone is out of the question? >> it should be out of the question. it shouldn't even be on the table for a discussion. it should be point blank no. because the possibility of putting american pilots in the air to either be shot down by russian migs or surface to ground missiles that would trigger article 5 and we are in a war that should immediately just quell any thought of that. so definitely not and in terms of these mig fighters to be honest that's not going to make any dinners because ukraine has aircraft right now that can't get them in the air because of the russian ada air defense capabilities. bringing in some more will just add to the target list if they could and it's not going to make enough difference. >> jesse: interesting. all right. thank you so much. that was really enlightening. we really appreciate you coming on. ♪ >> jesse: now for an update on the latest in the war in ukraine.

benjamin hall is live in the capital of kyiv. hi, jesse, weigh saw today what we have seen the people who need them and the people stuck in many of these cities unable to get out. in the city of mariupol, which has been shelled for much of the last week, 200,000 people remain stuck, corpses there die in the street and for a week they have had almost no food. no water, no heat. hospitals are reporting severe shortages of antibiotics and pain killers. the death toll is unknown and putin's bombs keep falling on it one successful evacuation today from the northern city of sumy. 3500 people taken out on buses. >> it is the first successful prearranged evacuation since the invasion began. but others failed. according to the red cross, the routes to mariupol have been mind and other corridors have been shelled. russia has announced another cease-fire for tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and will try again. across the country while russian forces do continue to make some gain they also continue to suffer losses. this convoy was destroyed

outside of sumy but despite these ukrainian successes and the often dilapidated condition of the russian forces the shear scale and size of the russian army means they just keep coming. today president zelenskyy again called for help. >> we are looking for your help, for help of the cityless country. please, increase the pressure of sanctions against this country and please recognize this country as a terrorist state and please, make sure that our ukrainian skies are safe. >> around kyiv there were more scenes of desperation as ukrainians kept trying to flee to reach the capital. scenes repeated across the country. the mayor of that town saying he would never surrender and he would stay and fight. he is going to get some help. 40,000 foreign fighters have come to this country already. on the diplomatic front it's quite interesting because president zelenskyy today saying he would no longer insist on joining nato. quite a significant shift on his part and there is a meeting between the foreign ministers in

turkey on thursday. let's see if there can be any progress made there, jesse? >> jesse: that is a shift. thanks, ben. it's not just ukrainians taking on the russian army. military vets from around the world, including the united states are traveling to ukraine to fight. president zelenskyy said 16,000 volunteers from all over the world have offered to help ukraine fight. we can't confirm that number. but we do know that the ukrainian people are getting support from american military veterans in a variety of ways. we're did b. to talk to two u.s. vets. who were doing their part to bring aid and supplies to the ukrainian people here now is dakota meyer former marine sniper and medal you have honor recipient along chad, former marine and co-founder of save our allies. all right. i can't say where you guys are. you guys are probably in the right place at the right time

where you two usually are. we will start with you, dakota. what is the game plan for you over there we are over here trying to make a difference where we fit and supply medical aid and supplies. as well as helping, you know, get people out. you know, good people out. americans, you know, people on the side of good. >> jesse: chad, you aren't pull any triggers are you or that could happen or not? >> no. you know, i know a lot of veterans talking about going in combatant roles. for us we are mostly special operation veterans. we have a tremendous amount of experience. we have done our time fighting. we're here to do the right thing and help people when they need help. we evacuate americans. we evacuate wounded people. bring medical aid to the frontline. just support the effort and stand on the right side of this terrible, terrible thing. save our allies in afghanistan. we were able to rescue 17,000

people. and we didn't engage in any combat there. even though, you know, we don't like the taliban. but we stayed out of trouble there and the same thing here. we are just here to help. >> jesse: save our allies everybody can go there right now and support that organization; however, they want. so, dakota, you guy respecting doing a lot of low jis tickets. any intelligence? >> i mean, yeah. there is -- you know, this is auto complex situation. you know, it's not like iraq and afghanistan. i mean, this is two sovereign nations who are fighting against each other. you know tit-for-tat. this is not, you know, this is a complex situation. and so the intel aspect of this and making sure you are doing this right is not only going to keep you and your team safe but even more importantly it's going to help you keep the people we are trying to help be safe. as well as be able to do this, you know, long term. and that's kind of what we're doing. we are not trying to rush in there i mean, look, we have you

know, our team has already gone in and made successful extractions. but, you know, right now, we are trying to make sure that we have got everything lined unjust to ensure that not just that we're safe but that the people we are trying to help that we're not putting them in a worse situation which is very critical right now. >> jesse: absolutely. light. >> chad, dakota, thank you. it's an honor to talk to you and ukrainian people and americans over there are very grateful for everything that you guys are doing. thank you. >> thank you, jesse. >> thank you. >> jesse: the media has done it. it took about 13 days but it has happened. the press has played the race card in ukraine. right back. ♪ what are you recommending for muscle pain? based on clinical data, i recommend salonpas. agreed... my patients like these patches because they work for up to 12 hours, even on moderate pain. salonpas. it's good medicine

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>> jesse: if you have ever helped watch cnn during a layover or cnsbc you will notice every story is somehow some way about one thing, racism. since russia was ukrainians white on white war it took a

while for the media to figure out thousand play the race card. they figured it out. according to joy reid the reason why americans care about the war in ukraine is because black people aren't involved. that's right. real vale alan isn't putin it's us. >> only reason focus on ukraine isn't first major land war on the european continent since world war 3. >> not because russians threatened us with nuclear weapons. not because trigger world war iii if the nate toes attacked and not because it's causing energy crisis or the market meltdown or because innocent civilians are dying, no, no, no. americans only care about ukraine because ukrainians are caucasian. >> let's face it, the world is paying attention because this is happening in europe. if this was happening anywhere else, would we see the same outpouring of support and compassion? we don't need to ask ourselves

if the international response would be the same if russia unleashed horror on a country that wasn't white and largely christian. >> jesse: and if it's about racism, which it is obviously, it also has to be about the president. >> not the current president though. the war in ukraine is all about the former president. trump. watch. >> you know, a bone head was -- had been president, and i say what i said last time, no. there wouldn't have been any inner. because that guy would have handed ukraine over to the russians. >> look at the trump spent four years weakening nato, wind had to come back and strengthen nato again and that's why we have some clout now in the world against this guy. >> every western democracy standing in solidarity opposing putin with a possible exception of the republican party. especially their dear leader former president

supercalifragilisticexpialidocio us super sexy nazi potus. >> that ladies and gentlemen is what the media is left with. the race card and the trump card. not only are these people dumb but they are boring. buck sexton is the co-host of the tray travis and buck sexton show mom hemmingway editor and chief of the federalist. they are here now. monthly live, they finally did it, it took a while. obviously this is a war about race and that is the only reason we are paying so much attention. >> what these people say is so stupid and they just make up lies whether it's calling interest in the ukraine war racist or this outlandish stuff that they're saying about donald trump. i mean, this is just not true. we have -- i heard chuck todd say that it defied logic to think that putin would not have invaded ukraine under trump. that's just historical fact that

he didn't invade ukraine when president trump was in office. and that's different than what we saw under this presidency, under obama, and under george w. bush. the fact of the matter that goes against what everybody is saying here is that under a trump presidency we had peace breaking out throughout the world. not looming nuclear conflict here like we have with what the foreign policy that's espoused by many of these people in our regime whether they're people like you had on the show like senator graham or the bush administration that projects bin administration. what they didn't like american first foreign policy strong be country and economy and our adversaries were kept on a leash. >> jesse: buck sexton your thoughts. >> i think you can break this down into the delusional and tactical in terms the propaganda. start with the delusional side of the democrats. joe biden is actually good at this. is he a steady hand on foreign policy. he has made good decisions for the last 40 or so years on

foreign policy i. that's just an historical and delusional. on the tactical side i would offer up that anything that they can do, anything that the media can do to distract from the various crises of the biden administration of which the most notable global crisis right now is ukraine, but also gas prices hitting all-time high, inflation, the most porous border and most lawless border, u.s. mexico border we have ever seen, crime riding in cities and economy that looks like it could be on the verge of a recession. all these things, anything, jesse, that they can bring up, it's trump's fault. oh, actually, it's something else. it's racism. who knows. yet they are thinking about and talking about something other than this regime is actually worse than its harshest critics thought it would be before joe biden actually took office, which is, i guess, in some way remarkable. >> jesse: that's a good point, mollie, if you were to say a year and a couple of months ago that if electing joe biden you would have $4.17 gas, you would have a russian war in eastern

europe, you you would have more covid deaths, and a looming recession, do you think people would have maybe chosen differently? >> it's stunning what has happened in just over a year. the weakness of america is a global -- can cause global problems and we are witnessing that right now there are a lot of people to blame for the situation that we are in but it is a very important moment that we get this right. and too many people, i think, are trying to escalate conflict rather than as you have widely said throughout this show kind of thinking about how to calm tensions and how to keep this humanitarian catastrophe in ukraine from spreading to countries beyond ukraine. >> jesse: all right. 30 seconds, buck. go ahead. >> look, i think the biden administration came into office making a whole number of promises on covid, on the economy. and specifically on ukraine. and it is just falling apart. what you are seeing here is the results and in this case on foreign policy, are outpacing the propaganda of even the most

sophisticated apparatus we have ever seen which include social media trying to prop this guy up. they can't keep up with all the failures. they can't keep plugging all the holes in the dam. let's hope for the best interest of the whole world that the situation in ukraine doesn't get markedly worse on biden's watch. >> jesse: buck, monthly live, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> jesse: fox news alert. under secretary of state sick tore i can't new land just confirmed something that many people feared. there is, in fact, a potential biological threat looming in ukraine. >> chemical and biological weapons. >> ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we are now quite concerned russian troops -- russian forces may be seeking to gain control

of. so we are working with the ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of russian forces should they approach. >> jesse: let's go to "special report" anchor bret baier. how are you doing, bret? >> bret: hey, jesse, we don't know exactly where those biological call research fittings are on the map here. we do know that russian forces are on the move. we have seen them active in the kharkiv area here. some bombardments and outside kyiv a lot of the suburbs. there is some movement here and i want to talk about that in a little bit closer on this next map. and that is this is jack keane's study group, the institute of war group. and they are seeing some significant movement of russian troops from the eastern part. they are also seeing down from the north and northwest in an effort encircle kyiv, they think, within the next 24 to 72

hours. they are getting resupplied by that base we have talked about in belarus. and that is making that move a little bit faster. and whether they do that effectively is really, you know, yet to be seen, in the south they have had that success that we talked about. they are this control of kherson. they have had bombardments in mariupol. there is fighting in the south. they obviously have crimea. the big question is odesa, right now the residents there are fighting back very hard and they have got sandbags there was a thought that there was going to be a marine landing there. it has not happened yet for the russians. so we're watching that closely. and the other big story today is the migs. what happens with poland's invite. they want to send migs to ramstein, germany have ukrainians get them to kyiv. but the u.s. is saying no, we can't do that so there is a big question about the migs and

what's going to happen to supply ukraine. obviously the ukrainians would like to have that fire power. we are providing them stinger missiles and javelins as well. but the polish put out this statement and it caught u.s. officials off guard today. and what happens with those mig jets is really a big question as of tonight. >> jesse: why do you think the pols would want to transfer them to the germany base first and it seems out of the way. why wouldn't they just have them directly transferred to ukraine, which they border? >> bret: right. this is the question. i think beare seeing some geopolitical face-off between allies that maybe there was a blame game that poland was dragging their feet on the mig 29s would will move them to ramstein and then you tell us what to do. in other words forcing the biden administration's hand to say no. and what's really going to happen is both bases there are

nato bases. and you know, whether they come from germany or come from poland. they are still coming from nato or the u.s. so the reaction from putin if you are concerned about that or starting world war ii with some elevation of weapons is the same whether it comes from poland or comes from germany. we are going to see i think in the next 24 hours what happens with migs 29s. >> i guess if the americans touch the jets last. we're going to follow that thank you so much, bret. >> bret: you bet. >> jesse: time for some of your text messages here. doc from iowa. i would rather ride a horse than ever drive an electric car. kamala and buttigieg are crazy. [laughter] we might be riding horses pretty soon if gas prices keep skyrocketing. we got rick here, hey, joe, instead of build back better. why not just put it back the way you found it. rick right on, man.

i could not have said it better myself. a text from paul: are they going to make air force 1 an electric plane? i think we should challenge biden to do that, you know. maybe put his money where the mouth is all right. that's it for us. tucker carlson suspect next and always remember, i'm watters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you may have noticed that joe biden announced today a new front in his ongoing war against america's middle-class. biden didn't frame it that way, of course. democrats rarely say with a mean. they tell you it's about something else. in this case, biden told us it was about latimer putting. biden explained that we are going to hurt putin by making it illegal for americans to buy russian energy. this, he said, will amount to a