and to all those folks on twitter who always say i'm full of crap, turns out i wasn't. tomorrow on "special report" talk with senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner fair and membered thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" fair balanced and unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" starts right now. jess thanks for sharing. >> bret: too much information. >> jesse: glad you are okay. >> jesse: start with a fox news alert. children r. russian forces have bombed a children's hospital in ukraine. warning some viewers may find these images disturbing. [explosion] [sobbing]

>> jesse: trey yingst is live in kyiv with the latest. >> devastating images from the port city of mariupol tonight. we see these women and children at this hospital, pregnant women there waiting to give birth as this missile struck the area and the destruction so widespread you see in this video just how bad it was as they were looking for survivors. officials say at least 17 people were wounded in this strike. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy tweeting out the first video as we got some insight into what happened. but this is just a taste of what is taking place in that city of mariupol. a population of around 400,000 people. and the deputy mayor there, gave us some new details today about

what exactly happened over the past two weeks. he says more than 1,000 people have been killed in this town where the hospital was struck. 47 of them were buried today in a mass grave. he goes on to call this medieval and it is really just a taste of what is happening across this country. the russians today said they would allow people to flee not only this city, but four other locations. and then they shelled many of these evacuation routes, making it so dangerous for these innocent civilians caught amid the crossfire. there is also some concerning news today, jesse, in chernobyl, just about two hours north of where we are standing right now where officials say the plant is no longer connected to the power grid. emergency generators are reportedly turned on. one ukrainian member of parliament calling this a very dangerous situation. adding if russia will not cease-fire, they expect radiation leaks. ukraine's nuclear power operator added that the wind could actually carry radioactive substances to other parts of europe. the international atomic energy agency confirmed that chernobyl is no longer transmitting data

but say they see no critical impact on safety at this point. all of this coming as the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy once again is calling for support from the international community. they need things like anti-tank weapons, they need anti-aircraft batteries, and we have actually seen a number of those in use today in the capital of kyiv. as during the day and night the ukrainians are attempting to shoot down russian aircraft. so far they have actually been very successful in doing so since the war georgian. jesse? >> jesse: good news, thank you, trey. it's now been two weeks since russia started this onslaught against the people of ukraine. and after 14 days, we're waking up to additional threats emerging from this war zone. it's a stark reality but what happens in ukraine could destroy more than just europe. last week we reported on russia's attack an eventual occupation of europe's largest nuclear power plant. after a fire broke out,

following an assault by russian forces, alarm bells went off across the world. that we could be witnessing a nuclear meltdown. luckily that didn't happen. as the facility held up without leaking radiation. and we dodged a bullet. but russia's stupidity knows no bounds. they were willing to attack a nuclear plant. so what else are they willing to destroy? well, we know russia is one big fang news operation. brainwashing its own people into thinking they are the good guys in this war. so it's safe to assume their troops are falling for similar propaganda. and they're largely conscripted army made up of, you know, young, misinformed kids. you mix young, stupid troops with guns and a nuclear reactor and you could see why the world held its breath for a moment last week. and unfortunately, this isn't the only unforeseen risk emerging from ukraine.

yesterday, on capitol hill, under secretary of state victoria nuld went before the senate where she had this exchange with senator marco rubio, listen. >> does ukraine have chemical and biological weapons? >> ukraine has biological research facilities which now we are 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: biolabs in ukraine. biolabs. you heard that right. there has been a lot of talk, you know, propaganda and fake news regarding this whole thing so we wanted to look into it this afternoon the first

question we had was why are these labs in ukraine and what role has the united states played in making that possible? well, parts of it comes from an expansion of the nun lugar cooperative threat reduction program way back in 2005. this agreement was put into place, quote: improve security for pathogens stored at biological research and health facilities in the former soviet republic. under the agreement ctr funds will for the first time flow directly to projects aimed at securing pathogen strains and sensitive biological knowledge within ukraine. now, the plan came together through the work of two u.s. senators dick lugar, one of the name sakes of the program and a junior senator from illinois named barack obama. >> you may remember this, dick, i was in ukraine, we went to a facility an old factory. we walked down these long dark

corridors, we are ducking our heads, stepping over puddles of something, we're not sure what it was. >> jesse: so we know these facilities exist and how they got there. but, what are they actually doing inside? well, according to a national review report, citing a 2011 conference organized by the u.s. state department biosecurity engagement program, the facility is described as a biosafety level 3 lab. which works, quote: with microbes that can cause serious or deadly diseases through inhalation like covid-19, tuberculosis, yellow fever, sars, west nile. some strains of influenza. so these labs are a petri dish of some of the world's most contagious diseases and they are sitting in a war zone. you can see why we are a little concerned. and from what we can understand,

ukraine's level 3 labs are found in odesa and kyiv. guess which two cities russian troops are closing in on? odesa and kyiv. these two facilities could very well be in putin's hands in a matter of days. and then what happens? nuland says she was quite concerned about russia getting ahold of the research and it's not surprising why. because just because something was not created as a weapon doesn't mean it can't be used as a weapon. we only have to look back two years to see what happened in wuhan for gain of function research led to a pandemic that killed millions across the globe. millions. and why did we work to put these facilities in ukraine? putin hasn't been shy about his desire to invade the country for years. couldn't our leaders have found a more friendly place for their

research? we know the russians are stupid enough to attack one of the largest nuclear plants in europe. do we really trust them to handle highly contagious viruses with the proper precaution? it's unbelievable. wisconsin senator ron johnson, a member of the homeland security committee attended the hearing with under secretary of state nuland yesterday. senator johnson, have we incapsulated this accurately and what more can you tell us? >> well, jesse, i was at that hearing. i was pretty surprised to hear what secretary nuland had to tell us. i any you have described it pretty well. i can't really add much more to the conversation. you know, i certainly was concerned what activity was in the wuhan lab. i have been trying to get, for example, the state department report on the wuhan lab and the state department is not being transparent with me. but what can i say is that i'm

concerned about what russia is doing in ukraine because of these types of facilities, the nuclear -- i mean look how reckless they are with nuclear facilities. now they have have bombed a maternity hospital. these are war crimes. there is no way of stating it. these are war crimes. and the commanders in particular are guilty of war crimes. i think the world ought to be stating this clearly, so that the russian commanders are on full notice that they are -- they will be -- they will be accused of war crimes. hopefully they will all stand trial for war crimes when this is all over. hopefully that will deter their action. but, no, i'm highly concerned about the carelessness, not to mention the atrocities now being committed by russia in their unprovoked and aggressive war towards ukraine. >> jesse: you are a sitting senator. you have been there a few years now. did you have any idea, you know,

former colleagues were involved with state department funds, placing biolabs all over the world? i mean, in places that are a little dicey. i would say. are you even aware of that? i mean, it sounds like after what happened in wuhan we should know where these biolabs are, what the safety situation is, if we're still funding it, what type of research is being done. this is so risky. don't you think? >> >> it is. i was certainly aware of the concern we had after the fall of the soviet union about the nuclear weapons, the bioweapons, and the chemical weapons that the soviet union did possess. and we were trying to gain control over of those things. i'mware of that i was surprised of the number of labs and different locations they are. in we are certainly checking into it as you have attempted to do as well. >> jesse: all right. well, i hope we get a handle on.

that was because that's not good. i don't trust putin with bio. it's just too nuts after what happened in wuhan. we can't have that happen again. thank you, senator ron johnson. we appreciate it. >> have a good evening. >> jesse: let's now turn to dan bongino, host of "unfiltered" on saturday nights. dan, what do you make about this revelation that are these biolabs in a war zone that putin is closing in on? >> well, outside of the obvious, i mean, we have just been through a pandemic. you know you might have heard it of it this covid-19 thing. you are like oh, so there is a potential bioresearch facility as sick tore i can't nuland called it that they are concerned about in ukraine that is dealing with bsl 3 pathogens that sounds like kind of a big deal to me. that's the obvious story who has a hold of these. are they destroying these samples right now? apparently they have what's called i learned this word today

depositarium a pathogen collection there what else in the collection? i promise you it's not samples of lysol. it's probably pathogens. again, an area of obvious concern. the real story i see here, jesse, there is a bigger story here. and not to try to wax -- we are in this crisis of truth here. people who are supposed to be nonpartisan trusted arbiters of truth, the media, fact checkers, i mean their name is fact checkers, you literally have one job. they are actually doing the opposite now. they reported just a week, a week and a half ago that this story about these bioresearch facilities in ukraine was a conspiracy theory. you had snopes reporting on it. now when "u.s.a. today" and snopes fact check it say it's a hoax and conspiracy theory or

imply as much, you almost know it's true. so the problem we are having in america right now is because you can't trust the government. you can't trust bureaucrats anymore. fauci and the cdc. you can't trust fact checkers and you can't trust the media. we have this hole in the stand and filled by basically anything and any place that can fill it in with something that even sounds tenable or rationale. that's the problem. and the fact that the media, jesse, doesn't understand this and the fact checking community and the leftist censorship community is so bizarre to me. they keep whining and griping and moaning like little kids and you need to shut your mouth and look at what's going on. there is a misinformation crisis because you created it. people -- think about this. my last point on this, right? people trust the three card monte guy from 1982 times square more than they trust the media or fact checkers. and you don't sense that that's a problem?

this story was real. yet the fact checkers who had no special access information at all came out last week and said no, no, no, no, no. it's a bad story for the biden administration. obama may have been involved in it that's a hoax and you are banned from facebook if you put it on. you wonder why we are where we are right now with the information crisis in the country. >> jesse: we had our team at "primetime" just research it and we found it was on some senate websites, we found barack obama on camera talking about. >> hold on, i want to show you this. this took me two seconds. you and i, jesse, we have a special internet just for me and you. this took me two seconds doing my show this morning. here is my i phone. here's the article. "the washington post" 2005: u.s. do aid ukraine in countering bioweapons. as long as it took me to type bioweapons, ukraine, that's "the washington post." 2005. yet the fact checker says it's a conspiracy theory. right here. one lab to receive -- each has

the name of the lab the iimenchakov research institute. "u.s.a. today," snopes, nah big conspiracy theory. all you had to do was go to that magic interweb and you could have seen that this wasn't, in fact a conspiracy theory. one more quick thing, folks, we deserve the truth here, okay? if there is a bioweapons facility in ukraine, we don't know that's what they were doing at all. if there is, it doesn't make vladimir putin a saint. the guy is still a global terrorist. it doesn't change what he did. but it does change the risk calculus. does it not? i think the american people shouldn't be lied to. again. i think you should tell us the damn truth. consent of the governed. our country. you work for us. >> it's not a darn campaign slogan. i get it we are not all in the cia. we don't have to know every single dark detail but stop freaking lying all the time. stop it. nobody trusts you anymore. >> jesse: treat us like adults that's all we want.

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>> jesse: president biden broke another record today a gallon of gas now costs 4. 25 on record. the more records biden breaks the more broke you become. biden doesn't care about that much though. he only cares that you don't blame him. >> i'm going to do everything i can to minimize putin's price hike here at home. >> jesse: do you notice that? putin? putin is making you pay more at the pump which, you know, that's kind of true. there is a putin premium for

sure. the price of gas was already up a dollar a gallon before the invasion. now that wasn't biden's fault either because nothing ever is. that was because of covid or supply chains or greedy big oil. you see, biden is just a tourist wandering around the white house while all these things just happen around him. he can't be responsible for anything because he is not really in charge of anything. so biden's tour guides at the white house they had an idea. you know the tour guides, they write things on his note cards and make him walk away without answering questions. the tour guides had an idea that would make any millennial proud. no, it's not a solution to high gas prices, it's a #. the putin price hike #is popping up on twitter. with a little help from ceo jack, you know the guy who blacked out hunter biden's

laptop? peter doocy asked seang about it today. >> why did you guys decide rebrand the rise in gas prices as the putin #putin price hike? >> i mean, if you want to use that on fox, i welcome that russia's build up of troops. president putin's decision to do that early this year led to a lot of the instability and volatility in the oil market. if president putin's build up military troops leading to volatility and increase in oil in prices hence you have putin pump gas price pump. >> jesse: prices moving up the minute biden was elected. the putin invasion on biden's watch accelerated it. putin obviously is curled up in a fetal position in the basement of the kremlin. hashtags or. his kryptonite. the obama state department #united for ukraine in 2014 nearly pushed putin out of power. but he clung hard. and now he is back. just in the last few months,

biden told us he is doing everything he can to reduce the price of gas. he claimed credit for reducing the price of gas. and then he told us there is nothing that he can do to reduce the price of gas and it's going up. and then he also said nothing he has done has made it harder for company to produce more fuel. after he campaigned on making it harder for companies to produce more fuel. >> i guarantee you we're going to end fofs sill fuel. >> would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a biden administration? >> no. it would -- we would -- we would work it out, we would make sure it's eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those. >> no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry no. more drilling on federal lands no more drilling including offshore no more for the oil industry to drill period, end. >> jesse: what biden is saying is this: don't listen to anything i say. nothing i say matters. nothing i do matters.

exception when i want it to matter. now, other countries are figuring out what americans already know that joe biden isn't someone you take seriously. or listen to. we told you last night the "wall street journal" reported the crowned prince of saudi arabia refused to pick up biden's phone call. biden has to beg arab royals for more oil and they won't even listen to him beg. it's not even worth their time. the saudis hate joe biden. he called the crowned prince a pariah and iced him out. he partially stopped arms sales to the kingdom and reuping the iran deal they are morality enemy. oil could hit $200 a barrel as more russian oil comes off line. that means $6, $7 gas in america. imagine that? joe, he might have to pull the plug on american exports and sever our connection to world oil supplies.

it's the only way. the transition to green takes decades. and we don't even have days so joe is frantic. doesn't know what to do. well, i have been telling you this is what we can do. scrap the federal regs, encourage domestic production, cut the fracking red tape. repeal the gas tax, kill the ethanol mandate and open up drilling in alaska. we have billions of barrels of oil just waiting. drill, baby, drill. let's bring in the former governor of alaska herself sarah palin. governor, you know, we joke about it, but it's really common sense. there is plenty of natural natural resources in this country if we just look under the ground and take it out. don't you agree? >> i agree. and these are horrible, horrible people who are leading our country. they are leading our country into world war iii because they don't understand the inherent

link between energy insecurity and energy and pros supporter. yes, there are storehouses underground for responsible use for mankind in alaska, texas, new mexico, all over the continental u.s. and, yet, these are choices that the biden administration is making to prohibit that energy independence that we were -- we were beyond being on the cusp of when trump was president. we actually were net exporters of energy. biden got in there and reversed it all. and you are talking about gas prices and it costs about almost 140 bucks to fuel up my truck. and i know that the jen psakis or however you say her name, of the world are going to say don't drive a big truck then, sarah, because they don't understand that petroleum products are everywhere. every piece of plastic we touch, everything that is transported from here to there, everything

is petroleum-based and all they think about are well, you know, drive your little tiny rice rocket or something and don't spend so much on gas. they have no clue, jesse, what's going on. and it's a very scary place for us to be as americans. i implore america finally let under the circumstances not let the left, those are ho are clueless and leading us into world war iii, let us not this time allow them to hijack the narrative. and allow the propaganda like that #thing you were just explaining, it's -- we see what's coming. we know unless we take it back, the narrative, the explanations, the education that other people, perhaps, need, when it comes to how foreign is to produce our own energy, then that is how they lead us into war, jesse, is they get to hijack that narrative and too many people start believing them. >> jesse: right. and we just have to be honest

and tell the truth about what is out there and what they are trying to pull. i think the american people get it. i really do. sarah palin, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> jesse: a "primetime" investigation into putin's personal hit squad. the wagner group. trained assassins as the mercenaries operate and where they are tonight. (young woman) three? (grandmother) did you get his number? (young woman) no, grandma! grandma!! (grandmother) excuse me! (young woman vo) some relationships get better with time. that's why i got a crosstrek. (avo) ninety-six percent of subaru vehicles sold in the last ten years are still on the road. (grandmother) i'm so glad you got a subaru. (young woman) i wonder who gave me the idea? (avo) love. it's what makes subaru, subaru.

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>> jesse: hundreds of blood members san new year's from the wagner group have infiltrated the city of kyiv for the past few weeks. their directive assassinate 23 prominent ukrainians including president zelenskyy. the orders reportedly come directly from the top of the kremlin putin himself. when putin wants someone rubbed out. he doesn't send the b team. the wagner group is always his first call because he knows exactly how vicious and barbaric

these guys are. they have been putin's personal hit squad since 2014. just take a look at their founder dmitry who is a former russian special forces colonel he named the group as an whom he richard wagner. is he taking orders from a guy nicknamed putin's chef, a russian oligarch. he got his nickname for catering some of the kremlin's biggest parties. where he was able to build a relationship directly with putin. and he just so happens to also be a high priority for the fbi. he is on the fbi's most wanted list. for his role in running russia's troll farm. now he is funding the whole operation over there at the wagner group and putin's hit orders go directly through him. and they have been deployed all over the map. they first emerged in 2014 to help out putin's invasion of

crimea and putin liked their work so much that they were later deployed to syria to make some people disappear there. they were behind the beheading and mutilation of the syrian army deserter. and putin rewarded his chef for it. firms linked to the wagner group took over syrian oil fields just around the same time. now lately putin has been sending the wagner group into sudan as a central african republic to take over some diamond minds and some gold mines. they have been forcing their way into these villages and torturing and killing and raping innocent civilians while they are there. they do this blood diamond work kill any journalist that day or so investigate them. these guys don't play by any rules. as long as putin keeps them in ukraine, they are a serious threat. rebecca cop fleury is a russian

born former u.s. intel officer and she has been following putin and his hit squad for years. rebecca, what more can you tell us about the wagner group. >> these are putin's assassins, jesse. officially, the wagner group is supposed to be just a regular private military company. but, there is nothing independent about it. this is effectively a proxy of the russian government that was created specifically for the kremlin to conduct sensitive operations. just like the one right now they are conducting, hunting for president zelenskyy. the putin government wants to maintain plausible didn't and do its dirty work without the world actually knowing about it. >> jesse: so are these assassins doing work with poison? are they doing things with high powered rifles from distances what kind of work do they do? >> all of the above.

>> they are highly trained. they in fact conduct their training in bases that belong to the ministry of defense they are controlled by the russian intelligence services. the giu military intelligence the wallingner group has sophisticated capability. they are able to conduct anything from hybrid warfare to asaturdays sin nations. torture gang rape, you name it these people are absolutely atrocious. >> what does it say about zelenskyy that he has dodged a few of these assassination attempts by the wagner group in kyiv? >> yes. he definitely dodged three is assassination attempts which reveals that his security

services are pretty strong and capable. my heart goes out to zelenskyy. i'm very worried about him. he definitely needs to be super careful. a cover company provided by putin's chef. so they conduct covert operations and their tactics are very clandestined to zelenskyy definitely needs to be super, super careful. >> jesse: yeah, he sure does. that's an understatement. thank you so much, rebekah. >> my pleasure, jesse. >> jesse: as war rages on in ukraine. biolabs being threatened at the top. babies being blown away. global energy and food crisis growing worse by the day. joe biden has decided to send kamala harris to europe. and everybody in america knows

we are not sending our best. russia knows, europe knows. even kamala harris herself knows. she is in way over her head. riddled with self-doubt. you could hear the anxiety in her voice whether she was there two weeks ago. she was asked about ukraine joining nato, something that as we have reported has been driving a lot of these factors of this war. and here she is kind of feeling around in the dark for the right word. >> i respect president zelenskyy's desire to be a member of nato. nato is a membership. it is about nations coming together as a group, making decisions collectively around, again, principles. >> jesse: this is an insult to send kamala harris to europe at this moment in time. she is traveling to romania and poland, nato allies. these countries should be insulted. i would say that's biden's

strategy but that's assuming he even has a strategy. two weeks ago on the eve of putin's invasion, kamala thought the russians were interested in diplomacy, not war. >> we still sincerely hope that there is a diplomatic path out of this moment and within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening -- open, although it is absolutely narrowing but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open. i mean, listen, guys, we're talking about the potential for war in europe. i mean, let's really take a moment to understand the significance of what we are talking about. it's been over 70 years. and through those 70 years as i mentioned yesterday, there has been peace and securitiment. >> jesse: we're talking about war in europe. yes. this is what kamala was talking about just two days ago as putin's army was bombing women and children. this was her solution.

>> we are also announcing funding for, yes, one of my favorite topics, electric school buses. our transportation sector has reached a turning point. >> jesse: kamala harris is landing in the middle of the war. and an awkward situation over polish fighter jets, too. biden has been trying to force the pols to give migs to ukraine and the pols were trying to transfer migdz to us and buy fresh cigarettes us at a discount on the back end. biden got caught playing old maid with fighter jets, basically. and because kamala harris has so much experience with aforts asset procurement and nato force posture, i'm sure she will finesse this little spat perfectly. here's how she broke down the war in ukraine recently. >> so, ukraine is a country in

europe. it exists next to another country called russia. russia is a bigger country. russia is a powerful country. russia decided to invade a smaller country called ukraine. so, basically, that's wrong. >> jesse: former speaker of the house and the author of "beyond biden" newt gingrich. speaker, if you are the prime minister of poland or leader in romania and you hear that kamala harris is landing soon and she is there to rally nato, would you feel a little insulted. >> i don't know if you would feel insulted. i think you would regard it as one more example of the absolutely lack of seriousness in the biden administration. i mean, she obviously doesn't know anything and, what she believes doesn't work. but then biden currently is basically tout lunch, too.

so, i mean, if i were european, i would almost be in despair about the lack of american leadership. now, what you used to open the show tonight which was devastating was an attack on a children's hospital which is a war crime. what we watched all through the show when you started talking about what's been happening with chernobyl and the attacks on nuclear reactors, those are war crimes. what we just talked about with the wagner group, which is targeting for assassination, that's a war crime. so, let's be clear. on the one side you have putin, who should be tried as a war criminal, and we should be very clear that there are no futures in which putin survives as the head of russia. on the other side you have a group of people who are so shallow, so lacking in any sense of history, so trivial in their approach. i mean, the american people can't afford to buy gasoline and the answer is we're going to

have electric buses. now, an administration, you know, marie antoinette once said let them eat bread and buttigieg said let them ride in electric buses. this is madness. we don't realize how bad this is and how bad it's going to get. the price of wheat is going up faster than the price of oil. millions of people are going to be starving because of this war. the turkish economy is being shattered by what russia is doing in the black sea. the fact is that there are ships all around the world making the logistic supply chain worse because they can't land. now, all these things are going on simultaneously and our answer is kamala harris? i mean, we were once a serious country. we were a country that defeated the soviet empire. we were a country that defeated nazi germany and imperial japan. now we have two people who are totally hopeless as president and vice president surrounded by a cabinet that may be even worse and we are dealing with a man

who is a ruthless war criminal prepared to push his luck and potentially shatter the entire world order if that's what it takes for his ego and his plans. >> jesse: i couldn't agree more. the stakes are high and the world is demanding more than we are providing and i hope we straighten it out. i hope we straighten it out pretty fast because people are dying and people are getting hurt here, too. speaker gingrich, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> jesse: major update on russia's air force. something is going on there. and an amphibious assault on odesa. what to watch for right back. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> jesse: now for the latest on russia's push towards the city of odessa, the keyport city on the black sea. we turn to the coanchor of

america's newsroom. bill, what you anticipating? >> good evening to you. odessa is a town of 1 million people. you see there is no right around there therapy of the russian forces on the ground have not gotten any closer than 80 miles away to the east. a little more in here on the southern part of the country of ukraine. odessa is over here, population 1 million. about a week ago they had brush and more ships off the coast. we believe they have come back to the west side of the peninsula located here on the southern end of the country. this town is the town that the maternity ward that was sit there -- the baby hospital. and they've been hit for about a week now. they've got no power, 200,000 people that want to get out. this is the situation that has become very dire in the south. so what is putin strategy? let's come back up here to the

satellite imagery found from june of last year, jesse. we believe this is a supermarket and this is a shopping mall. that was june of last year. look at it today. the 9th of march, jesse. it is absolutely obliterated. i do know what kind of targets these are for war between supermarket and a shopping mall, but these have been decimated. the other story to watch is clearly up in the north. watch what happens with putin's army in the red and white stripe. that is what we believe the forward progress is for putin's army now. we've taken note of this on the west and northwest side of the capital city. but the east side is something to watch. >> jesse: yeah. >> just more screen here. sorry about that, jesse. here we go. in the north we continue to move. watch that story. what will putin do?

will he make it to rain on odessa? or surround it and try to choke it out. remember now, odessa means a lot to putin. will he choose to fire on both those cities is something to watch. >> jesse: thank you so much, bill. while the russian army is advancing, in some ways they continue to take a lot of hits. nine russian aircraft were shot down just over the course of 24 hours. and analysts are saying these losses -- they cannot be sustained for may be more than two weeks. the russian armies already weekend and wasn't anticipating the strength of ukraine's air force. surface-to-air missile systems. russia hadn't planned for a long war and may be ground down into a brutal and draining, and very costly obligation. is that our strategy? joining me now is general jack keane, fox news

senior strategic analyst. what's going on with the russian air force situation, general? >> it spends pretty a surprising. a couple of things really stick out. one is the russians don't have the same electronic warfare ability that the united states as pure these are airplanes that are designed to take down an opponent's integrated defense systems. and therefore we can then kinetically eliminate those systems. and they don't have sufficient numbers to do that. the ukrainians don't have anywhere near the kind of integrated air defense system that the united states or russia has. it is still operating. and that forces the airplanes therefore to go low to avoid those long-range missiles. and when they go low, they get

hit by the stingers. which we have thousands of in the country spread out all over the place. so that is the dilemma that air force has had. plus they have limited numbers and i'm sure that they are flying and some others to make up for the losses. and they've had similar problems with their ground forces as well, jesse. it >> jesse: you think these -- poland in the united states are going back-and-forth with sunday with sunday and possibly to ukraine? would that really be critical to helping ukraine survive this seizure? or can they get by with the stingers and the javelins and the rpgs and those types of weapons? >> i think of you as the ukrainians, they would absolutely tell you, give us the fighters. listen, i am getting to think that putin is really getting inside the head of some of our leaders in the administration

here. the pattern has been pretty profound, but i thought we were getting out of it. by that i mean remember back in march they show up on the border of ukraine do to leave that month for ukraine. president trump's shipment. the biden administration powdered for 90 days bid would we do? we delay until august beer they show up again in the fall -- another shipment is due to go up it would we do? we delay it. end of the reason for both of those delays is we would provoke them to attacking ukraine. and we have similar issues. we didn't give them the stingers until last week. other nato countries have been giving them stingers for months. and i believe, unstated reason, we didn't want to provoke them. now here comes the polls and they want to give them their fighters. providing the fighters directly

to ukraine. they said, send them over to a nato base. and the united states those up their arms and says no, that could provoke the russians if we give them the fighters. that is a lot of nonsense. stingers, antitank weapons, they are all there. why are we afraid we are going to provoke the russians here? it's nonsense. if we keep going down this letter, it is going to tie our hands when they ukrainians need everything that we could possibly give them to help them. we've artie made the decision we are not going to defend them, but let's help them with everything we've got. sure, these fighters would help. it is the complement to love all of them together that makes it such a difference. >> jesse: thank you so much for joining. >> great talking to you. >> jesse: we have mike from depew new york. what is the big deal about

soaring gas prices? emily "jesse, what do you think about us sending stephen colbert the bill since he doesn't mind paying 15 bucks a gallon. thank you for watching. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ spiel good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if you had told us just four days ago that the biden administration was funding secret bio labs and ukraine of all places, we would not have believed you. i don't think we would put that on tv, no thanks. it then if you told us that on only did the administration fund the secret bio labs in ukraine, but that they then failed to secure the deadly contents of those labs before t