to shame him over his parental rights bill. >> companies that have made a fortune off of being family-friendly and catering to families and young kids, they should understand that parents of young kids do not want this injected into their kids classroom. >> laura: i love it. he's not taking any you know what from anyone. that's it for tonight. >> trace: continuing our coverage of breaking news, the war between russia and ukraine is in its third week with no end insight, the united nations believes civilian deaths in ukraine are in the five hundreds with nearly a thousand people wounded. new satellite imagery of peelers to show the 40-mile long russian military convoy outside the capital city of kyiv has now fanned out and is apparently redeploying into smaller towns and forested areas that surround

kyiv. some parts of the convoy have turned around, though it's unclear exactly why it. the images also show more damage to civilian areas near the city, and u.s. defense officials say the convoy appears now to be about 9 miles outside of kyiv. president zelenskyy is urging russian troops to go home, watch. >> you can save yourselves if you just go home. do not believe your commandos who say you still have a chance in ukraine. nothing but prison and death awaits you here, you are taking our lives and will pay with yours. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher live in los angeles where it is 8:00 p.m., it's 6:00 friday morning in the capital city of ukraine, kyiv and this is the 16th day of the war but the diplomatic effort to pause the war may be end the war altogether went nowhere as the foreign ministers of both russia

and ukraine made zero progress on thursday during their face-to-face meeting in turkey ex-president kamala harris is in poland and vowed to the u.s. and nato will continue to provide support to the ukrainian people. >> we will do everything together. in partnership, and solidarity to support what is necessary at this very moment in terms of the humanitarian and security needs of ukraine and the ukrainian people periods people to spring in our ford affairs correspondent and a special coverage correspondent benjamin hall who is live on the ground in kyiv. >> ben: good morning from here in kyiv, you brought up that convoy that is what everyone has been watching for the last two weeks. big questions why it hadn't been moved and whether it had broken down. as we talk about the potential assault on kyiv, we are seeing it finally start to fan outcome

experts suggest what has happened is those convoys are being hit left and right by ukrainian forces armed with javelins and stingers, finally could this be vladimir putin's forces learning from their mistakes? people talked again and again about the logistical problems that convoy faced and technical problems, one that said it looked like a 1941 is all these tanks drove down the road in a similar fashion making it easy to pick off the first one and the last one. the fighting approach is 9 miles from the city center, we have seen them adapt and fan out. on assault on the capital could be imminent. elsewhere in the country these grounded patients have failed, putin's forces have not been able to move into cities en masse, that is why we have seen the devastation we have seen in the cities of mariupol, in kyiv, so the gloves have been taken off, vladimir putin

decided to shell indiscriminately instead, the war we are facing today is perhaps the beginning of the battle for kyiv. there was reports of hand-to-hand fighting in the district surrounding it, air raid sirens going off in the city of kyiv. air defense systems firing from the city, a few times throughout this day and one russian plane being shot down as well. look at the figures being released by the ukrainian forces, they say that 12,000 russian soldiers have been killed, take that with a pinch of salt because it comes from the ukrainians but even if it was half that much, 6,000 which is what the u.s. estimates it could be, that is a remarkably high figure considering the war has only been going on for the last two weeks. i think yesterday was a turning point, the images from mariupol, that maternity hospital shocking the world. pregnant women being carried from the rubble after that strike, it's something i think people realize now that vladimir putin is not going to stop, he's going to keep going until he has achieved his objectives.

the thing he has in his sights as the capital of kyiv. everyone bracing this morning to see whether or not now is the day that he finally invades or if he can invade because again, ukrainians have done a remarkable job of ringing the city with defenses. whether or not the russians can break through that today remains to be seen. this war is not slowing down. reports that vladimir putin willing to use chemical and biological weapons as he's cornered, does he lash out? how does he find a diplomatic settlement? all of these questions we will talk about throughout the hour with our guests go for now, back to you in l.a. >> trace: if i can just briefly pick your brain for a second, i'm wondering if you are getting any guidance or any intel on possible tactics of this convoy if, in fact, they do encircle ukraine at some point. do we know if they will fire from the outside, if they will go in for ground war or will they just sits there and try to

choke off the capital city? >> we expect them to try to cut off the city, that still is a route down to the south which means the supplies are still getting into the city. the fact is as long as supplies or get again, this city can continue arming itself, people can continue to live and feed itself. we managed to surround completely, that as a weapon in itself. hundreds of thousands without food or water, medicine, that is one of the ways that he diminishes the will of the people to fight back. how the battle for kyiv itself will play out, we don't know. we do expect if he cannot get that convoy and armored vehicles through the defenses, we expect him to start shelling your column he has done a time and time again not only here in ukraine but it other conflicts. it is expected to be a brutal battle and he has learned of is not able to achieve his objectives one way, he tries another and that second way is

always far more brutal. >> trace: to you in moments. continuing our breaking news coverage on the ground, let's go to fox news correspondent lucas tomlinson who was standing by for us live in lviv. >> tens of thousands of refugees continue pouring into western ukraine, many moving on to poland. many thousands are finding some of the safe haven here in lviv to escape from vladimir putin's army. speak of the street we were walking on was bombed, if we had left a day later we might have died, we could have been under fire. >> there is no side the flood of refugees is slowing down, the united nations has had nearly two and half million people have fled the country in two weeks, that is the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since world war ii, according to the u.n. i want to the train station and stumbled upon this working

party, dozens of volunteers packing food and other critical supplies on the train to send back east, to other cities to help resident or a lesson besieged by vladimir putin's forces. >> the people who are coming now have less means than the people who came initially to go have also experienced more likely conflict directly, so they are probably more traumatized and that requires often more specialist support. >> just a short time ago, we heard air raid sirens of lviv but no sign of russian air strikes, missiles, or planes flying overhead to. ukrainians told me they expect to win this war because they are fighting for their land and russian soldiers, many slavic people don't really want to be here as we just heard from ben, thousands are being killed on the battlefield. >> trace: lucas, thank you. 42 republican senators want the white house to reverse course

and allow the transfer of polish warplanes to ukraine, the white house rebuffed the offer saying transferring fighter jets to a u.s. military base in germany could escalate the war. pentagon officials also questioned the efficiency of the planes. with us now a former state department advisor to president trump and new hampshire congressional candidate, always great to see you. it seems like we are developing a pattern with this administration because it seems just last week, they canceled that missile test because they didn't want to send the wrong message to vladimir putin. now, they don't want to send these fighter jets in because they fear it would be misconstrued as an aggressive tactic. is vladimir putin setting the rules and we are following them? >> vladimir putin doesn't play by the rules. one of the things i learned in the trump state department is if you're going to make a commitment, you have to follow through in foreign policy. joe biden said he would hold russia accountable when he came

into office, he didn't. he waved the sanctions on nor to 2 to -- they invaded in the donbas region and they have stepped measures on it. now joe biden is saying he will do anything necessary to support the ukrainian people and their efforts to defend themselves and now he's looking in the eyes of diversity, he refuses to do something that most including the 42 republican senators have said is necessary which is to provide the necessary planes to ukraine from poland so they can defend their own airspace. right now they are losing the air war why they continue to fight a ground war, they need these planes to defend themselves. i don't think any of us support, i certainly don't, putting american troops on the ground but we owe it to ourselves to ensure that russian aggression is held back and we take very necessary steps to allow the ukrainians to defend themselves.

>> trace: tom cotton asked the great question that i asked last night, what is the difference between shooting russian planes down from the ground and shooting them down from the air? they do not want to give the planes and it hasn't been a great answer as to why. >> you've got joe biden who is still treating vladimir putin like he is a rational actor on the world stage, that he's going to -- he's going to sit down for tea and crumpets. he's out in his own orbit right now acting without the advice of his own advisors right now and that is why he's in ukraine. it's a distorted sense of himself and also his own distorted sense of his place in history. that is what is driving vladimir putin. he's not going to respond to happy talk coming out of the biden administration. this is the guy who can only respond to true strength. >> trace: "washington post"

said letting poland would send fighter just ukraine would heighten the risk of a wider war, military utility should be the yardstick. sending used mig's doesn't meet that test. what's the counter argument against that? >> what joe biden is trying to say is that somehow if we are providing basic level of support to ukraine that escalates our involvement. what he's ignoring is the reality on the ground, he's living in a fantasy world right now. there is already escalation happening in the region. vladimir putin clearly is trying to find any excuse anyway to escalate tensions there. i think he made that clear when he rolled tanks across the ukrainian border. we have to put america's interests first and foremost but holding back russian aggression falls into that and protecting america's interests and this isn't something that is very

common sense, we need to make sure the russians do not have air superiority. if they continue to do so you're going to see ukraine fall and that's something that's going to set all of us back. >> trace: good of you to join us, thank you. from student to a full-fledged reporter in just a few weeks, we will hear from a 21-year-old woman who had a chance to leave ukraine but decided to stay the report from the front lines. (vo) for me, one of the best things about life is that we keep moving forward. we discover exciting new technologies. redefine who we are and how we want to lead our lives. basically, choose what we want our future to look like. so what's yours going to be?

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>> trace: washington and the rest of the western world getting worried about vladimir putin's next moves, fox news white house correspondent kevin corke's life for us in d.c.

>> growing concerns denied that russia's vladimir putin frustrated by the resistance he is facing in ukraine may ultimately resort to using chemical weapons. that is a charge the kremlin denies but raises the specter of an even deadlier escalation of the conflict as it stands. >> this is something as all of you know very well is very much a part of russia's playbook, have use those weapons against their own citizens, they have encouraged the use in syria and elsewhere. it's something we take very seriously. >> critics are slamming the biden administration for its "cynical" and disputable claim that inflation is soaring because of vladimir putin. how bad are things? prices have risen nearly 8% since last year. to make matters worse for a third harrowing month in a row, we are talking about topping 40

year highs. even a former obama economic advisors deacon sell stephen ratner is calling out the white house saying this on twitter "no, these february numbers and they only include a small brush in effect, this is inflation and he needs to own that." he needs to own it. from capitol hill to the kremlin, there has been a strong reaction ranging from disgust to bemusement. >> the biden administration has tried to invent some laugh out loud, laugh out loud revisionist history. they are trying to rebrand the entire increase in gas prices on their watch -- listen to this -- as an effect of putin's recent invasion of ukraine. >> mitch mcconnell speaking right there. vladimir putin said just about the same thing. setting aside the fact that only a fraction of the inflation

report captured the invasion as part of its numbers, it didn't begin until the 24th, gas prices have been going up and up and up. they were $2.37 a gallon on inauguration day, then went by and paused new leases on the lands for gas explosion that inched up a bit, topping $3 again by the time he lifted the sanctions. it got worse from there, if you have been following along you know this is true. on the interior department ended gulf drilling, russia invaded ukraine all the way at $3.60. mr. biden asking venezuela for oil helped, the prices were at $4.10. i saw places in california that were almost at $9 a gallon if you can believe it. to top it off, economists insist things will get worse. keep in mind, the summer months are just around the corner, lots of people driving about which means a lot of pain at the pump.

>> trace: i drive by it every day, they are seven, 750, you're going to get $8, $9 a gallon. benjamin hall brings up a very good point, the whole problem here is you have kyiv waiting to find out what this convoy's next move will be and you have the world waiting to find out what vladimir putin's next move will be. >> ben: we set it time and time again, the only person who knows what he's going to do next is putin. he has been unpredictable. it does appear he is making all the decisions here, him and him alone, there's no cabinet around him, handling this single-handedly alone. he's fighting for his own survival. if he loses this war, he will inevitably lose his position

back home. extra importance to him and we expect them to fight until the bitter end. so many people out here covering this war, reporters from all over the world, brave reporters covering it from every angle and i want to bring in our next guest was a 21-year-old, she was at business school studying at an american university before putting down her books, starting up work for kyiv paper, the independent. that is ukraine's english-language paper and i want to say thank you so much for joining us today. we will get to the war in just a moment and everything we've seen but i want to know if you can tell us about your own journey from business student to war reporter how does that happen? >> i was at an english language newspaper before called kyiv posts. i got along with the team and

when it was shut down because the owner of the kyiv host fired the staff, we decided to start our own media called the kyiv independent. >> benjamin: you had the option of getting out, your family had left ukraine, you chose to stay, why have you decided to stay here risking your own life? >> i have grown up here, ukraine has been my home for the last 12 years. the ukrainian people has been nice to me, they made me feel at home. i wanted to do my own -- i wanted to give back to them for what they have done for me for the last 12 years. i think that's what i can do right now to help ukraine is to continue reporting so everyone in the world can witness what is happening. >> benjamin: what the people at home need to know about this war that they might not realize

from watching the mainstream media, the u.s. media? you live here, you have seen it up close and personal, what do we need to know? >> one thing i want people to know is how ukrainian people are so resilient. it's very difficult and many people are still trapped in basements, they are hiding from russian shelling which is continuing and is still killing thousands of people across the country. ukraine people are very resilient, they are doing their best to live their daily lives and they are supporting each other. i think this bravery of ukrainian people and ukrainian soldiers who are combating a much stronger enemy -- they're doing the best in their situation. stay calm and do not panic, they believe in themselves and they will never surrender.

>> benjamin: absolutely, that's something we see here in kyiv as well. i wonder what you would say about the u.s. support, western support, what people around you are saying? have you been getting enough, do you think the u.s., nato, and td the west are doing enough? >> of course we want nato to close the sky. we see every day there are many civilians being killed do to russian shelling which comes from air. the ukrainian sky is becoming a target every single day and the civilians across the country, we all fear what could happen because russia continues to attack civilians. targeting military objectives in ukraine, now because of the distance from ukrainian army, it's shifted to targeting ukrainian civilians and this has been very devastating, a

devastating consequence across ukraine. >> benjamin: president biden making it very clear there will be no no-fly zone here but certainly willing to give weapons instead. thanks so much for joining us with kyiv independent which had 33,000 followers, today it has 1.3 million. thanks so much for joining us today. >> trace: she makes a great point saying 16 days ago the ukrainians really believed in themselves and very few others did and now the world believes in the ukrainian people. back to you in minutes. meantime the brutal war in ukraine already blamed for the deaths of thousands of people. does the white house have a redline that russia cannot cross? the details on that are straight-ahead to. ♪ ♪ i've always focused on my career. but when we found out our son had autism,

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>> trace: continuing our breaking news coverage as the russian invasion of ukraine rages on, major cities are being bombarded by artillery. let's get back to our coanchor benjamin hall live in kyiv. >> benjamin: the big question now is when does the assault on kyiv begin? we have been saying for the last hour we are seeing satellite images of that 40-mile long convoy sitting outside the city for the last two weeks fanning out into defensive positions heading into the woods. artillery pieces being trained on the city itself. real concern is this inevitable assault on the capital is going to start soon. the other question, what is the redline for the u.s., is there a redline? president biden taking off the table u.s. intervention and no-fly zone, sending jets. at what point does that change, his use of chemical weapons considered too far, tactical

nuclear weapons? suddenly some people are starting to think if putin is cornered he could lash out and these are all questions a week ago we are hearing more and more discussion of them western governments, trace? >> trace: white house press secretary jen psaki posting though u.s. has destroyed the russian economy. >> we are directly involved, we are the largest provider of security assistance, we are providing the u.s. military going and engaging in ukraine and fighting a war against russia. we don't have any intention to do that. >> trace: let's bring in the national director of the u.s. navy, we know over the past few weeks, 16 days to be precise because u.s. intelligence tells us so that vladimir putin has committed war crimes. he has gone after civilian

targets, bombarded humanitarian corridors. nuclear power plants, hospitals. the question is, there have been zero consequences and i'm wondering if the biden administration has a redline and if so, what is it? >> what we have heard from the white house so far as they do not have a redline. i think the white house has been consistent about this. they are not willing to engage directly with ukraine. i think that has been clear from the beginning. as the white house hasn't tilted its hand a little suggesting the intelligence forecasting in the future, bear in mind they have given us reason to believe there will be a chemical weapons or biological weapons attack and blame that on the russians. note, in that forecasting, but didn't mention anything about a redline. based on what they hear, i don't think they've got one and they made it pretty clear the american public is not hungry

for a land war or engaging with the russians in ukraine. that i think they had been consistent about. >> trace: nobody wants to see an escalation of war but the white house was directly asked, what you just brought up about chemical weapons and kind of noncommittal, watch. >> would president biden let it chemical weapons attack go unanswered by the united states? >> in not let anything go unanswered with president putin has done to date. we have not let anything go unanswered to date, any steps president putin has taken to date. what that would look like i can't give you an assessment i'm here. for >> trace: to say they have not let anything go unanswered is a little bit disingenuous. they are talking nothing except for sanctions. financially, there is a point but to say these things have all been answered, there have been consequences is not accurate, your thoughts. >> this is what we have heard, a lot of this from the kabul

disaster and all the way through this, the white house is going hands-off observational role. they are here to report to us what's happening for their answers are coming in the form of diplomacy, sanctions or ineffective measures. what the ukrainians aren't feeling on the ground is what those answers are, it's not affecting the battlefield. but they have signaled they are giving lethal munitions and aid, humanitarian and otherwise to the ukrainians. president zelenskyy to his credit has asked for that, he said give us the tools, we'll do the work. he said no weapons criminal or civil are going to match the spirit of a free people that are fighting for their homeland and the ukrainians have put up a heck of a resistance. they are showing their teeth, the russians are embarrassed in this. >> trace: yesterday you had president zelenskyy saying the west is not doing enough and what if we lose this is because the west didn't do enough. lindsey graham had a comment i

would like your comment on, watch it and give your final thoughts. >> when it comes to the war itself, the people in charge of telling you how we should handle ukraine are also in charge of the border and the very ones that pulled out of afghanistan. i think the incompetence of this administration scares me. we are going from incompetent to dishonorable and that bothers me greatly. >> trace: i think he's saying when it comes to afghanistan or the border for this war, that the buck doesn't really stop with the white house, your final thoughts. >> i think the white house has been clear about that as well, they are taking responsibility for much. they told us in afghanistan there wasn't much they could do about it, left a lot of people on the ground. we have had private citizens doing the work for special operations folks. when we get to this ukrainian example, the intelligence suggested there was going to be an invasion, rather than pump the economy full of assets and

missiles, they sat back and said we are going to threaten sanctions. i think he's got a point, the white house has been specifically aren't getting involved. >> trace: kind of always a step behind. always good to see you, thank you. senators pressing intelligence officials as fears mount that moscow is preparing a chemical weapons attack and we will have much more on that as well as continuing coverage. 6:37 in the morning, daylight breaking and the troops from russia are trying to encircle the city, next. ♪ ♪ "how bizarre" by omc ♪ no annual fee on any discover card. ♪ ♪

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>> trace: that is a live look, 6:41 in the morning, the capital city of ukraine, kyiv, right now. we've been talking about that russian convoy for days, it has

been stalled and now it's back on the move. we are being told it's fanning out and moving into the smaller areas outside of kyiv. smaller towns, forested areas and some of the members of the convoy even turned around and for what reason, we still don't know. let's get back to benjamin hall live on the ground in kyiv. >> benjamin: that convoy has been a mystery all along. it was the perfect example of how poor the logistical efforts whereby the russians early on but they seem to have learned their lesson. the question is now whether they are heading towards kyiv. on thursday senators requested a u.s. intelligence officials amid escalating fears that russia had launched chemical weapons in ukraine potentially receiving a nuclear conflict. i want to bring in our next guest, a former intelligence officer. thank you very much for being with us today i wonder if you could give us an overview of whether you think this war now stands or or where you think

it's going to the next few days. >> that is the question of the day, isn't it? in terms of where we are now and where things have come from as you mentioned in your lead up to this report, the russians themselves have learned quite a lot with regard to their own capabilities, capabilities of the ukrainians have and the fighting force that ukraine has particularly with regards to its morale. where it's going from here is going to be a real question. the primary challenge of the intelligence community at least is going to face in the coming days is going to be predicting president putin's next moves. the reason i say that is because of the united states and the white house in particular have told the russians what we won't do. the white house has taken options off of the table such as sending an american troops, they were clear from the beginning

this would not happen and without that potential threat hanging over putin, it's likely it has made him even bolder and brutal in conduct of the war since he knows the americans do not want to get involved. i think what we are seeing around the cities, we are starting to see total warfare, they're getting starved out and extraordinary desperate. it's very sad and very scary for them, absolutely. >> benjamin: there are people saying it was a mistake to take all of those options off the table early on. when you look at taiwan, strategic ambiguity, you don't say you will but you don't see you absolutely won't. let's talk about the potential of vladimir putin and his forces using a chemical weapon at the moment. with everything on the table,

u.s. forces not coming to ukraine, what would the response be to that? how could they respond to that kind of an escalation? >> that has a great question. i think if i may i may slightly reframe the question as well. the question is what is the white house proactively doing to give russia serious doubts about whether or not employing chemical or nuclear weapons is worth it for the russians? if the u.s. wants to prevent putin from using the chemical and nuclear weapons, president biden needs to have a backbone and to say that russian usage of those weapons would result in greater american involvement. he can be ambiguous about what that might mean but he has to signal that there is going to be a serious result and a serious payment if the russians are going to have to pay if they choose to go that far. if president biden is too timid or afraid to draw that line in the sand, there needs to be some message from nato or some

message from the british or the west that chemical or nuclear weapon usage would result in greater involvement. we need to be very clear there is going to be serious costs of a rush this point otherwise they are going to continue in the driver's seat and they will continue escalating the war as see fit. >> trace: quickly i want to get your thoughts on this because it seems as if many people have underestimated the ability or overestimated the ability of the russian forces. everyone thought it would be more successful, they had a lot more tactical advantages -- that has not turned out to be the case. i'm wondering if you think that was an intelligence failure on the part of the u.s.? >> sure, it's a great question. this is a good example showing that no matter how good the intelligence is, intelligence itself is not a magic bullet to solve international crises. it's a tool used to accomplish her objective, the intelligence the united states released in

the lead up to the invasion, it was excellent in alerting the world that russia was lying to the international community about its buildup. the release of the information alone was not enough to stop russia from invading. the intelligence committee was great at counting tanks and predicting what putin was going to do with them but there were still some drawbacks. >> trace: i'm afraid that's all we got time for, thanks for joining us again. thanks very much. >> trace: the white house blaming vladimir putin for sky-high oil prices, but republicans are putting the lion's share of the blame on the biden administration and they have some very strong evidence to back it up. we'll have more on that, next. de you're a target for chronic kidney disease. you can already have it and not know it. if you have chronic kidney disease your kidney health could depend on what you do today.

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>> trace: the white house blames putin for soaring gasoline prices and says all options on the table, not exactly. they don't involve restarting work on the keystone xl pipeline which the white house said would not address problems we are currently having. a number of republicans are pushing back and saying the keystone pipeline would in fact work if it was restarted, among them is new york representative

claudia tenney. if you're dealing in facts on this whole thing, the gas narrative coming out of the white house is dishonest to a certain extent. we have the videotape of president biden saying months ago it was because of a supply line crisis. after that it was because big oil is gouging us and now it's all about putin saying even the gas prices before the war started is about putin. >> there is a war on fossil fuels coming out of the white house and even our own governor of new york, kathy hochul which was started by the climate activists, we aren't using abundant natural gas. we are using the keystone xl pipeline. we can greenline the nord stream two a pipeline we can benefit the russians but we can't use the keystone pipeline where the oil will be flowing from canada and making up for that russian, the russian deficit that we are

now in because we voted on suspending imports from russia. i'm concerned about this, it was a hard decision to make on the floor. in my district, people are struggling. senior citizens and others were paying an incredibly high amount for gas. people had to travel to work, we don't have public transportation in many areas, so this complete energy illiteracy that's taking place in this country is concerning. even the white house put out once we have clean running electric cars, no longer need fossil fuels that can be leveraged against us. i'm paraphrasing a tweet that came out of the white house this afternoon, it couldn't be more naive. how do they think the grid is operated to run those electric cars? we use natural gas and coal and fossil fuels to keep that grid running. >> trace: the white house keeps saying the keystone xl pipeline would not help.

here's peter doocy western egg jen psaki. >> is it possible jill biden will ever say you can go ahead with construction of keystone xl? >> there's no plans for that and it would not address any of the problems we are having currently. >> trace: every oil expert we bring on and talk to says the keystone pipeline if you restarted that tomorrow would be a jolt of energy and it would itself but we the markets because they would be looking forward and it would start things up again. >> not only that, jen psaki keeps talking about these 9,000 permits that are out there, a permit doesn't mean the ability to actually explore gas or oil and extract it. there is so much that goes into it that is invested by oil and gas companies, thousands of them around the world that competes. this is a critical issue they don't understand. this isn't about greedy oil

companies gouging their customers as they are contending, this is a commodity where the price is determined on the open market. investing huge amounts of money to provide reliable energy which is what we need in this country and this world -- imagine what new york could be doing to my own district where we have abundant untapped potential for natural gas exploration and i'm talking about responsible, regulated gas exploration, we could be exporting that to europe and we could be providing great prosperity to our region. not to mention we are the only country that allows royalties and mineral rights in the individual landowners would be benefiting from this. that's amazing from our farmers and other people who owned large tracts of land in upstate new york in my district. >> trace: you have a lot of these oil companies say we can't truck this stuff we need pipelines to move this stuff because there's a lot of it's. thank you so much for coming on, we appreciate your time.

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♪ ♪ >> welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream. breaking tonight, new satellite imagery showing that 40-mile russian convoy outside the ukrainian capital of the kyiv has largely dispersed and redeployed. we have a live look on the ground at the very latest. push back against the biden administration for trying to