eastern time. the republican letter that went to him. they should reconsider the air support thing because vladimir putin has already expanded this battle. and if we don't, it doesn't matter whether you technically call it world war iii or not, the world battle is on and getting bigger. see you tomorrow. "the five" right now. >> hello. i'm jesse watters along with judge janine, >> haroldford jr.. >> a will mccain, 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." >> day 16 of brietal invasion and russian forces are pummeling targets in ukraine. a fireball seen after russia struck the western side of the country for the first time.

that comes as u.s. officials believe the enormous russian convoy outside of kyiv has redeployed and the city braces for a ground assault soon. in this chaos, president biden trying to cripple russia's economy even more by going after trade. >> who is an aggressor? he is the aggressor. and putin must pay the price. he thought he could divide democrats and republicans at home. but he failed. he failed. moscow stock exchange is closed for a simple reason -- i get asked, why is it closed? because for the last two weeks, the moment it opens, it will be disbanded. you hear me? it will blow up. >> benjamin hall is in kyiv, ukraine with the latest from the ground. >> hi, jesse. i can tell you in the last hour or so, we have heard some of the biggest explosions we've heard around the city for the last couple of week, off in the

distance, but explosions that you felt, explosions that shocked the ground. not sure if they're shell or rockets. that's the artillery fire we hear. on the other side of the building, trace of fire fired up in the air earlier. not sure if it was just a jumpy ukrainian soldier here. say jumpy, this city is on edge. people are warning the city that it will come under offensive soon. everyone is waiting, bracing for the inevitable. we see images from around the rest of the country and we know it's heading this way. we know putin wants the capital, kyiv, and we know he moved the troops in the northwest and in the east. the convoy you talked about, many of them use the example, the logistical problems and the supply issues. finally yesterday the satellite images showed it had disbanded. some moved to the h. other pieces, artillery and how witters have moved to the tree lines. there's battles in the outskirts. brave russian -- ukrainian

soldiers, holding back the russians. mainly with the javelins, which have been so -- so successful in keeping back the russians. so, here we are today, waiting, again, another night to see whether this is the night that putin forces decide to attack. president zelensky speaking said when it did come, he didn't know how long the battle would last. >> it possible to say how many days we have to free ukrainian land. it's a patriotic war against a sovereign enemy which doesn't pay attention to their own people, kyiv soldiers. to throw them into the hell of this war. >> and around the country, the ukrainians are fighting back and successfullyment. the devastation that we see happens in the north to the east to the south. putin's ground forces have been unable to enter almost every city. one city of carson.

but the ukrainians are fighting back. the missiles fired now, the ukrainians firing at russian warships in the black sea and with an assault on odessa giving russia control of the coastline. a lot is happening on the country. a lot of the focus here in the capital kyiv and the sense that any day now, if not any hour, that attack is going to happen. it doesn't seem that the russians have been able to surround the city totally. they have been trying for sometime to calm down the east and the west and cut off the south. they've been unable to. the fear is they'll start firing the longer range artillery, the rockets, softening the target, cutting off the will of the people before they send in the troops. when they send in the troop, it will be difficult. the city is like a fortress. going to be their stalin grad in the word of many people who are from here. >> you've seen the report of near action with regards to the capital. but zelensky comes out and says

we have reached a strategic turning point. and teams would be sounding even more confident with regard to the resistance that he has before. how do you read that dynamic? >> you know, i'm not sure how much is posturing because the russians are widening their aerial campaign. they're talking now about 16,000 fighters coming in from syria. 16,000 volunteers, which is almost a whole u.s. army division. and, you know, you've got zelensky saying they reached a strategic point, if anything that taking kyiv is what putin is looking to do. he's surrounding the city. it's not going to be impossible for him to do that in the next 24 hours. that's 24/48 hours. i'm not a military expert. i don't know. but what i do know is that the russians have been delaying and delaying because they've had food problems and they've had all kinds of fuel problems, weapon problems, but so has -- so has zelensky. in the end, i don't know where

it goes. let's assume that they take kyiv. then what happens. they're not going to stay there. they're not going to occupy. what do they want to do? they want to put their own leader there and take off and we're going to be left with an insurgency and it's going to be like afghanistan all over again. but one thing i want to bring up. there's article 42 of the u.n. powers to do a collective military intervention. no one has talked about that. and i think it's probably too early. but the u.n. does have powers beyond what we're talking about with nato. they will kick russia off of the security council there and do their own intervention. but who knows where the red line is. up to this point, putin is deciding where the redline is, and we're cowering in the back. >> i didn't know you could kick anybody off of the security council. >> according to this article, you can. >> okay, all right. i think we know who we need to kick off. i had a colonel on last night, and i thought this was kind of a, you know, preparation to

shell the hell out of the capital. but he said they were getting lit up so badly in these convoys by our javelins that they were strategically retreating behind tree lines so they couldn't get hit. so, it's kind of hard to know what to believe here. >> i think what we have to come away from this is russia, vladimir putin, i think, is in real trouble, jesse. the judge invokes afghanistan. benjamin hall invoked stallen grad. napoleon bon part said don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake. i think putin is making a massive mistake. is it to radicalize a population in ukraine over the long term? it would take enormous resources. put in a puppet government? not just a president. ministers at every level. he would have to put in a puppet at every level of the government. i don't think he has the capability of doing. he may get short term victories

and decapitate the government in ukraine. then, i think, his problems just begin. >> that's a good point. so, if nato does go in and introduce early escalation with migs and no-fly zone, does that bail putin out and give him a justification to say it's us against the west. or should we just let them just die on the rocks in ukraine. >> i don't think it bails putin out. i think the larger picture here is crystal clear. if you're a nuclear nation or you run a nuclear nation, and you can turn your country if you're willing to to turn it to a pariah state and all that comes with it. but you're going to get away with it. that nobody is going to stand up to you if you have nuclear weapons. that there's not much anything people will do to stop you from aggression invasion war and war crime. and it's going to lead to no one evering up the nuclear weapons. and even a race to get nukes. iran.

if a country wants to do this or a country is worried that it would happen to them. and i would point to -- you look at russia and in china, in japan, the former prime minister, abe said it was, what, a couple of weeks ago, but said he's calling for japan to host american nuclear weapons. so, it doesn't pay to be a pacifist. being a pacifist in this environment doesn't look so good at this point. one other thing about the most favored trade status -- wait, we cut the oil off, but russia was still selling us hooch and fish eggs and diamonds? what kind of trade policy is that? >> and my father was really upset they now banned russian vodka. and it's -- you know, taking action, stocking up. the dictator in north korea addressed that very point dagen made. and she said, this is the reason why you need a nuclear weapon. this is the reason.

you think you're going to see a nuclear arms race because of what we're seeing in ukraine? >> we could. i think that all of the points have been great. i think they deserve amplification. first thing's first, we have to deal with this situation. and the unrest and the motivation and the dissent that our efforts are stirring in russia is real. i think in the long term, you -- you host nuclear weapons, you build nuclear weapons. you uh build a huge army and armed services to protect your people. the people of russia ultimately will be let back into the world community once they retire putin. once they decide that they, too, want to respect decency and humanity. now, we can have disagreements politically. we will. we have in our own country and other countries. the question becomes, when you violate those very basic rules, which he is and continues to, an amazing thing happens, you run into the resistance of people, you run into a will of a people who are not going to consent to

a dictator. i think china is watching this. the chinese people to the extent they're able to watch this. this victory, if they're able to achieve this victory, stopping putin, won't be an american victory. lit be a victory for people and the people around the globe. >> it could be xi xiping may step up and realize that this needs to have some limits. china gets cut off from the world financial system even in a small way from the euro and the dollar financial transact. >> i don't disagree. my point is building on top of your point. this is about people. you have government, an economy to support people. if people don't want that, they have the right to say so. the ukrainian people have said -- the minute ukraine have said, we are not going to allow you take our country and determine our freedom and future and armed people. this should be the end of the debate over gun control. it requires an armed people. >> right. >> we can -- we can invoke -- but i'm saying it takes people

to say, we are going to stand firm. russia thought these people would capitulate. they're surrounded because they thought they would need an occupied force in the beginning to figure some of these things out. the people said, no, we'll take our bb gun, knives, whatever we have to defend ourselves. that's the story, that's the real story in my estimation. >> standing up for freedom, they're freedom fighters. in terms of russia, if russia is controlling the press, the russian people are being fed a totally different narrative here. they're being fed a narrative, not that putin is the aggressor, but putin is defending russia. not like they have access to all kinds of western information. >> they know sisters, brothers, fathers, uncles are over there fighting and not winning. >> we've seen it in interviews. >> they know everything is a lot more expensive. coming up, republicans recuse biden for bowing to putin by refusing to arm ukraine with fight jets.

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with eligible trade-in. >> we want to make sure ukraine has the weapons they can defend themselves from an invading russian force. but, look, the idea that we're going to send in equipment and have planes and tanks and trains and going in with american pilots and american crews, just understand. don't kid yourself no matter what you say, that's called world war iii. okay? let's get it straight here, guys. don't kid a kidder, you know the expression. >> president biden promising to make sure ukraine has weapons to defend itself, but not fighter jets. reports are that biden personally killed a plan for poland to give mig 29s to

ukraine while the vp is calling vicious attacks on civilian, war crimes. gop senators are furious and demanding biden start putting pressure on putin. >> i believe there's a sentiment that we're fearful about what putin might do. and what he might consider as an escalation. it's time for him to be fearful of what we might do. >> we might as well call the commanding general at ft. lewis outside of seattle and tell them to go take down the flag and surrender our position because we will never stand up to russia if every time vladimir putin says, "boo," we back down. >> okay, let's start with the mix-up. poland refuses to give the migs directly to ukraine. they want to send them to germany so we can give them to ukraine. blinkin says we will. now the report says biden says we're not going to. if we're going to make sure ukraine has weapons to defend itself, why not migs. >> illogical and weak, judge.

illogical first. i don't understand the redlines completely here. why is it not crossing red lines to send manpads or surface-to-aramis sills or javelins but offering up migs is beyond the pale, that would make him mad. if it's not that effective, why would it provoke vladimir putin. now to weakness, i agree with mitt romney and tom cotton. i think there's a very, very thin needle here that must be thread. i do respect the potential, as we all should, of nuclear escalation. but, there's something more than something to be said for the way the president trump handled his business with unpredictability, leaving your enemy wondering how you might react. it's clear this is predictability, irrationality and weakness. if we do this, we're worried you may do that. giving vladimir putin the

opportunity to do whatever falls outside of those lines. we need to be more unpredictable, stronger, and rational. >> jesse, if the u.s. backs off every time. >> i agree with that. but now it's partisan because you have 40 u.s. senators, republicans, calling for the migs. that's not how it should be. we should be united on this. putin sees that. he sees the political splits here. that wasn't good. we shouldn't have this conversation out in the open like that. we were fine with the poles transferring the jets. that was fine. we just didn't want to bring them off of our air base in germany and the germans didn't want it coming off of the german air base. that was an escalation in our opinion, and that's because we haven't been giving them jets to begin with. we've been loading emthis up with javelins. javelins cost $80,000. these are 4.5 million. that's

the concern from the west, right now, you're safe. things are fine, this is a one-on-one. you don't have to make it a five-on-one. when your buddy's buddy gets in a fight. not yours, but a buddy. your buddy jumps in, that's what you have to avoid. >> you jump in with me if somebody was fighting me. >> you're my buddy. not your buddy. staying out of it. >> so, dagen, if every time the u.s. backs off when ever putin says, well, that is engaging war, this is engaging in war, doesn't putin just continue to do what he's doing for the past 20 years? he's committed war crimes before in chechnya and syria. we're just giving him -- he's the schoolyard bully. and nobody says anything.

>> he's shown so far nato has no teeth, number one, two, to will's point, why was this information played out about the migs in public? so, to all of the moronical liberal trump haters and the -- the never trump republicans who said we finally have an adult in charge, and this is what we get. we get afghanistan and this, where the world should have found out jets wound up in poland and ukraine when the russians got killed with them. that's how the world should have found out. we would have lost world war ii if this is how strategy was conducted with a megaphone over the radio. >> the poles jammed us up a little bit. it shows weakness in biden's ability to keep nato together. if a random eu diplomat can

throw a mig transfer under the bus, what else is he not in control of. >> one thing that we're not hearing a lot about, harold, is there seems to be some communications going on in turkey behind the scenes with lavrov, who's been personally sanctioned but he's over there negotiating. what else is going on there. >> potentially a lot. jesse framed this exactly the right way. with we can dislike and disagree with the president. he's done a good job with how they dealt and played the hand out. if you -- if what jesse says comes to fruition, the president believes and the military advisors believe you can escalate to some place you don't want to be. you have to balance out with i don't always agree with the cotton guy, agree more with romney on this than i do -- romney laid it out well. if he's escalating, how come we can't match the escalation. it's a legitimate question on the part of everyday americans

who wonder with our strength and ability, how come we're allowing this guy to move us around. the president said we have to keep nato together. he's not moving us around as much as you think they are, i'm a believer we have to give them every other weapon we can. i'm still a believer we need to find fighter jets. some democrats agree with the republicans that we ought to advance jets there. we should not ignore reality. if they do, when they escalate and we escalate again, when does the escalation turn into a tactical weapon -- >> doesn't it depend on who's flying the jet? >> well, the idea behind it, if you give them the jets, they're going to fight and use the jets themselves. however, who knows? >> it might. it might. >> who knows. >> that's the question. there's not a great neat answer to this. >> up next, democrats have a new midterm strategy, blame everything on putin.

>> the democrats have a new midterm message, if anything goes bad, just blame vlad. the president doubling down on his claim that record inflation is putin's fault. >> i'm sick of this stuff. we have to talk about it. because the american people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money. simply not true. make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of putin. democrats didn't cause this problem, vladimir putin did. and we're -- we are working on to fix it. >> working on to fick it. >> it doesn't look like americans are falling for that talking point, neither is the judge, as you can hear. a "wall street journal" poll finding biden and the democrats are losing ground on key issues, 57% of voters unhappy with biden's job performance. jesse, if i had a line graph, but i don't, because i just fill in on this show, if i had a line graph, i could show the rise in inflation over 12 months and yet we're going to be convinced or they're going to attempt to

convince us, no, this is the events of the last few weeks. >> yeah, thank you. >> everybody knows it. what else are you going to do. i blame putin too if i were joe biden. when you're a politician, when things are good, you say, hey, that was good, i did it. when things aren't good, you uh say what are you looking at me for? you're looking at the other guy. this is all he has. and he's now promised americans that things are going to get normal now. the new normal is more dangerous and more expensive. the people didn't vote for that. so he's going to have to figure out a way to tell his party to -- i'm not going to say it on the air. and he just needs to run like a one termer. you know? like know you're not getting re-elected. screw the donors and the base. i'm going to do what's right for the american people. if he could do that and focus on being a populist president, lower gas prices, try to help out with inflation, he would be much better off. but right now, he is going off of a cliff. and it's going to be a blood

bath in november. >> off this one issue. harold, let me go through the executions. n't inflation is transitory, the broken supply chain. it's a good thing, i think jen psaki tried to tell us, now it's putin. will he pull off these excuses? >> i don't know, i'm not sure any of us believe that vladimir putin is not a big reason for some of the challenges we have globally with prices going up and recessionary pressures affecting other parts of the world. is it all about -- did this problem exist before putin? of course it did. no doubt we were facing inflation. and this problem has complicated things. i think he laid it out about right about what the president has to do to get re-elected and more importantly, in his short term, what democrats have to do to avoid losing majorities in the house and in the senate. a long way away still and we'll see. but, democrats have to be brutally honest. 57% disapproval rating for the president translates to a lot of losses in november,

congressional and senate seats. you have to get that number back and what's on people's minds -- crime, the border, inflation. he manages us out of this ukraine thing in a meaningful way like george h.w. bush got a huge bounce when he ejected saddam hussein from kuwait, this president is standing up to putin on behalf of nato and the west, it will help him as well. george h.w. bush lost, you know why? he neglected economic issues. you ufp cus with the economy. you're honest with the american people, what you've done right, wrong, what you can do to correct it, we can salvage some of the seats and the president can find himself in a better spot two years from now. >> if you dig into "the wall street journal" poll, the one place that president biden does seem to have a little bit of positivity is on ukraine -- is on these international conflicts. is this promise to be a life preserver for the biden administration? >> not a chance. because in the end, everything is about how much you can afford, how it affects your life. whether or not you can pay for

groceries and buy gas or pay for medicines or do all of the things that everyday americans do. spending now $300 more a month for every house hold. look, the truth is that the democrats, in order to win, have to stop lying. it is that simple. >> let me write that down -- >> stop lying. stop telling me this is putin's fault. stop telling me inflation is transitory. stop telling me that this administration is in favor of, you know, fossil fuels. when we can do all of the stops and sound on tape saying biden saying we're going to put an end to it. all americans want is honesty, all we want is honesty. the fact that biden is saying at least putin is wrong. we're shocked. that's a reasonable position to say. but in the end, it's not going to help him. it's not going to help him. his vice president is not going to help him. his policies are not going to help him. >> to both of their points, dagen, this ukrainian-russian

conflict will go on for sometime. inflation may be there when its said and done. i was doing a spot for fox and friends. diners were projecting $10 a gallon in gas. what will he do in inflation getting to the midterms. >> no way to know. you have biden and his posse of fools who will not do everything in their power to produce fossil fuels and tap one of our greatest resources here, which, again, is prosperity for us, it's protection for nations that currently rely on russia for natural gas and oil, and it's starved vladimir putin and this war on ukraine. but they won't do it, number one. biden incorporated a problem since the beginning of the time in office is that he believes that the electorate and voters are stupid. and he's talked to them like that all along.

we're just a bunch of hay seeds and hicks and roobs and deplorables and red necks. and if you -- particularly, if you disagree with them and question them on their recklessness, like their tack on fossil fuels on day one, then they really dismiss you. and that is their biggest problem. i can tell you that if somebody walked up to my father at the food lion and said to him, you pay -- how much were your groceries? putin's problem. how much did you pay for gas, putin's problem. my father would glare at them and say did somebody hit you in the head. you would walk out to the parking lot and he would saw the side view mirrors off of the tesla with the hatchett in the back of his pickup truck and that's how all americans feel right now, especially when they got sold the lie about build back better is going to lower inflation. we need to spend more money to bring inflation down? >> you know who killed?

putin. >> i want to see the video of your dad hatcheting off the side view mirrors. ahead, hate crime hoaxer jussie small let melting down after he learned he was going to go to jail.

>> jussie smollett going for staging a hate crime. >> i did not do this. and i am not suicidal. and if anybody i am not suicidal and i am innocent. i could have said i was guilty a long time ago. >> smollett will also have to pay $120,000 to the city of chicago and do 30 months of probation. your honor? yes, as you watch that, you feel

for him in ways because there's something -- >> if someone acted like that in my courtroom, i would have made sure they sat back down, kept quiet. until they were quiet, they would have to stay in the courtroom. they would not leave my courtroom like that. that's indicative for everything he did in this case. he is arrogant, condescending, he's everything that the judge said he was. he was convicted on five of the six counts. and in the end, he imagined and created this racist homophobic

schism in this country that he is a victim of white maga people in chicago. >> how many -- what was the penalty that could have been? what was the range? >> he could have gotten -- my understanding was three years on each count. >> three years on each count. >> but those were the five year -- >> five counts, three years on each count. but they probably would have been concurrent because it was all part of the same case. he is arrogant enough oh fight with the judge and say, why didn't you sentence the two brothers i hired that i gave them a part in the plot. why didn't you try them and charge them with a crime? they didn't lie to the police, jussie. you lied to the police. you created it. you wrote it. you forced law enforcement to spend $120,000 in overtime. this is a guy who was upset because he couldn't get more of an audience in the courtroom, even during covid. and he wanted, you know, he wanted his brother -- his brother gave the judge a lecture on racism in america at the sentencing. these are arrogant people.

he's a convicted felon, five-time convicted felon. he's going to prison and coming out a convicted con. that's the end of it. >> want to say -- >> we'll let will get a word in here. was it a long enough sentence? the judge -- you saw the range the judge -- >> definitely not. i think he should have gotten the max. if they were three year, run concurrently dwleeshgss is the max, give him the max. what he did for this crime, perpetuating a hate crime is the max. i couldn't have thought of someone committing this crime in a more heinous fashion. what he did was dupe a nation and put the nation on a razor's edge of race war. this is race relations set on fire. it doesn't stop there. he was perfectly fine, i guess, with the police randomly rounding up some white dudes and throwing them in jail for his fake crime, meaning he would have sacrificed the lives of a couple of individuals as part of this theater, as part of this entire hoax. that is not just as the judge

said profound linares cystic, selfish, and arrogant, that is sociopathic. that's criminal behavior, criminal mindset. i hear what you're saying, he's a broken man. there's something wrong inside. but that shouldn't preclude him from getting the ultimate max. >> we know what it's like to audition for msnbc. for the view, maybe. if they need a dude, they need some testosterone on the view. he won't fall out of his seat. but, to will's point, what if he -- what if he insighted a -- incited a riot and took up the time of police officers in chicago where murder is rampant. he has to pay restitution of $120,000 for overtime by chicago police officers. not only could he have triggered race riots. but what did this do to the people and the victims and the families truly suffering who deserved those police officers on the beat investigating those

crimes. just to add one more thing, i think people were shocked he got jail time. around here, people -- we see criminals punching people in the face and sending them to the emergency room and they don't even get held on bail. they don't go to jail. they don't get prosecuted. but if this is a racial issue, i'll note that lori loughlin spent two months in prison for the college admissions scandal. two months. so, this is about in line, isn't it? >> well, he's lucky he's not going to general population. because he can't fight. he cried on national television, blacks don't want to have anything to do with him. whites have no use for them either. i don't know what the latin guys are going to do with them either. thank goodness, he wouldn't survive a week. gut feld said the other day the reason he didn't commit more crimes is because he had to sleep closer to people in prison. that's not the reason you don't commit crimes. you don't commit crimes because

the food in jail is terrible. i researched what they serve in cook county jail, this is your breakfast. cold cereal, and two slices of bread with margarine and two packs of sugar. lunch? two slices of slimy, poor quality baloney with four slices of bread. then you get cool aid. dinner is ground slop. they say it's not fit for a dog. so he's going to wish he had that subway sandwich he went out for past midnight. because he's going to lose a lot of weight next time we see him. >> heel beef up. >> ahead -- >> beef up. >> fentanyl overdose is rocking spring break. a shocking report, next.

>> six college students on spring break in florida overdosing on what appears with cocaine laced with fentanyl. rescue crews reportedly arrived to find multiple people in cardiac arrest in the front yard of a house party. one is stable condition in the hospital while two remain critical. fox news confirming that some of the students were cadets from west point. jesse, these are not overdoses. this is a poisoning.

they don't know the fentanyl is in the cocaine. and they're poi sopped by this. >> yeah, it comes from china and it's being brought up by these cartels in the border is wide open, so it makes it easier. biden just knocked off a bunch of statutes to -- if you're trafficking this stuff, he just knocked the prison time off. for trafficking the fentanyl. so, he's soft on this. the whole government has been soft on this for decades. no one has really woken up to this, a couple of years ago, trump woke up to it. but if someone had died in ukraine, an american, the president would have been out talking about it, out in the rose garden. but this happens in this country, you know what? heel never say anything. and that's the problem. your know, you -- you peg all of this -- all of these taxes to these politicians to protect the border, to protect our streets, to protect our children, and they go off and spend that money and do all of that stuff and all across the atlantic ocean in another country. we want people to be cared for

here. and that's all the american people are asking for. care for us, protect us, protect us from these cartels. these chinese synthetic traffickers. that's all we want. close the border, protect us. we're not getting it. it will reach a boiling point. i think it has. >> it's a second plague coming from china,ings will. and it's time for the people and the administration to start going through the funeral, opioid overdoses and poisoning is the leading cause of death among americans 18 to 45. >> you have both said it. the main concern of the american people is the american people. let us focus on taking care of our own. and we are being poisoned from outside. you're exactly right, jesse and dagen. this is coming from china, coming through mexico. we are being deliberately poisoned. when i was a kid, and therefore as a parent, my biggest fear is will my parents drink and drive. it's still a concern. you remember growing up. mothers against drunk driving. now, i'm terrified that my son,

and they're not old enough to make these choices yet, will take a pill, some random -- i don't know what it could be -- because fentanyl is being laced into everything and to your point, jesse about the -- 100,000, 100,000 americans in a 12-month period have died from drug overdose. i might say, this is -- this should be at to top. >> russia hasn't killed a single american in ukraine, but chinese and mexican criminals have poi sopped 100,000 americans. we have not slapped any economic sanctions on china and on mexico because of that. where is that economic warfare? i think that would be justified. >> yeah. and customs and border protection vilified by joe biden and the left. they're the ones seizing the fentanyl at the border. fentanyl seizures were up 1100% in the most recent year just down in texas. >> you know, this is really an undeclared war by china against the united states.

where they are literally paying the cartels and laundering money to the cartels by killing americans. and whether it's lacing coke with fentanyl or whether it's a pill, you don't know what it might be. it might be xanax and they put the stamp on it like an ordinary xanax and you ask a friend of yours -- asking for a xanax and it's laced with fentanyl, it is murder. it is murder. and the biden administration is doing nothing about it. >> i see it a little differently. i'm going to politicize this. i think one of the things that -- judge, you can, i'm not. the lesson for me from this is, anyone taking an illegal drug should assume it's laced with fentanyl. and shouldn't take it. now, we should have our government should be doing different things -- i'm not going to sit here and blame joe biden or donald trump or bill clinton or barack obama or either bushes. the reality is, we've had a drug problem in our country for a

while, it's only escalated. the key tonight if you're going to take an illegal drug, you should assume it's laced with fentanyl. >> two of those people exposed got it from giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. that's how dangerous it is. more breaking news on ukraine next. . . ♪

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that's for sure. you? >> harold: ukrainian people your resolve and strength we pray for you and hope to get you more weapons soon. >> jesse: inspiring. >> judge jeanine: all those prayers for those families and the hope they will be able to be reyin nighted at some point. >> jesse: we are praying for you. that's it for us. "special report" is up next. ♪ >> bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, russia's invasion of ukraine enters its third week with moscow intensifying its attacks near the capital of kyiv. also striking airports, airfields in the west and an industrial city in the east. russian president vladimir putin has approved the use of volunteer firefighters from the middle east and elsewhere. the mayor of warsaw, poland is appealing for international help as his city becomes overwhelmed by refugees. here in this country, president biden announced the u.s. will dramatically downgrade its trade