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under heavy bombardment setting up a potential humanitarian catastrophe with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the onslaught. hello, everyone, and is welcome to "fox news live," i'm mike emmanuel. alicia: i'm alicia and acuna. it's day 17 of the war, and vladimir putin is inflicting pain on even more -yard line ukrainians -- ukrainians, hitting cities and towns far from from the front lines. analysts say he's trying to break the will of the ukrainian people, but president zelenskyy says their resolve is only growing stronger. [speaking in native tongue] our our armed forces are doing everything to deprive the army of the war against ukraine. we've already gone down in history, but we have no right to retuesday the intensity no matter how difficult it is. alicia: we have reporters across the region from the war zone to countries faced with the worst every few gee crisis in europe

since world war ii. we start with trey yingst live in kyiv as russian forces inch closer. trey. >> reporter: alicia, good afternoon. over the past 24 hours, we've heard the loudest shelling around the capital of kyiv since this war began. explosions in the distance and those air raid sirens going off every few hours. this city is bracing for bloody days ahead. this weekend we met an american who traveled here to help out with the evacuation of civilians from some of the hardest hit areas around the capital. his name is dwight, and we met him in irpin partially controlled by russian forces. his words give you a sense of what people are doing to step up and help those to evacuate who are the most vulnerable residents. >> not even, you know, that. i'm mostly carrying stretchers helping civilian and wounded evacuation. there's a lot of really incredible ukrainian volunteers who are leading the charge and

putting themselves in harm's way for their countrymen, and i'm just trying to help out. >> reporter: the evacuations come as southern cities of mariupol continues to be targeted by russian forces as they look to occupy more land. the mayor was shown being abducted. volodymyr zelenskyy reacting today saying this: >> translator: today in m if elitpol, a major who has bravely defended ukraine and the people in his community, the russian forces have switched to a new stage of terror, and they are rying to physically eliminate representatives of the legitimate local ukrainian authorities. >> reporter: citizens in that southern ukrainian city started to protest today against the russian occupiers. they're trying to send a clear message that those troops are not welcome here. back to you. alicia: theirman chancellor and the -- german chancellor and the french president have been in talks with putin, and from the readouts there's a lot of

fantastical accusations against the ukrainian people from vladimir putin. many your assessment, do you think that there's some sort of mistake here in the wen style and sensibility of diplomacy with a man who clearly sees our way of thinking and our way of diplomacy as a weakness? >> reporter: well, look, everything that we've heard from russian president putin and from moscow about the ukrainian people and the government here has basically been a lie. russian propaganda continues to flow out of moscow to try and convince the world of something that simply isn't happening here. president putin of russia has called the ukrainian people nazis, he has said that his forces were going to come in and be welcomed with open arms, and it's not the case. it is just simply not true. and it's difficult for these western countries to try to negotiate with putin when he is prop a gating this idea of a world that simply doesn't exist. he's trying to support the military action here for his own gain, and it's going to be very

difficult to cut any sort of peace deal with a man like this because he is someone who is operating in his own world. he invaded crimea in 2014, he sent support to russian-backed separatists in eastern areas of ukraine, and now he has launched this full scale invasion into a sovereign country. any sort of negotiation or peace deal with the russians will have to have a broad framework at first, and then officials are going to have to work extremely hard to bring that in and take sure they are holding -- make sure they are holding the russian government and military accountable for their action. alicia: very good point. trey yingst in kyiv, thank you. mike: now to western ukraine where trainloads of ukrainian refugees have been seeking asylum in nearby poland. people in lviv now bracing for the russian advance as vladimir putin's military gains ground. mike tobin is live in levine -- lviv. hello, mike. >> reporter: hello, mike. with all of those people who are seeking refuge and heading to

the western part of the country, most of them are getting off the trains here in lviv, and what you see behind me are the people completing the journey over the western border. a lot of these tour buses are now lined up in the parking lot at the lviv central train station picking up these people. as they're loading board, that particular bus is going to crack cow and will -- krakow and will continue to warsaw. the train rides are free and chaotic because they don't operate on a schedule anymore. you don't need a ticket, you just get on the train, and you go as soon as the passenger car gets full. it's different with these buses. these are privately operated, cost you about $50 to complete the journey on one of these trains. most of them that we see in the parking lot here are going in to poland. we've seen a couple today that were heading into moldova is. what's interesting is ukrainian authorities are stressing that the borders are so full going into poland, most of traffic is going into poland, the borders are so full they're encouraging

people to head for hungary, slovakia, moldova, romania saying the tripp is going to be a little bit easier if they a head in one of those directions. but this trip can't be easy at all. we've talked with people who came in from knee e pro -- dnipro today, and just the train ride to get to this point was 20 hours. we talked with people who the bombing broke and is they left with whatever they could put into a small backpack, one family doesn't have anything. the only clothes they had, warm clothes they had were things that they got from aid organizations. so the people are leaving as fast as they can for this arduous journey, and this really is the last step for a lot of them unless they get into poland. a lot don't have a plan to wherever they get, where they head from there, i guess the journey continues. mike? mike: mike, you've been out and about, i'm wondering whatst it's like when you go to grocery stores or restaurants there in e lviv. are shelves empty? what's the status in terms of

food and critical beverages to keep people alive? >> reporter: well, i'll be honest, i haven't been inside of any grocery stores since i made the trip, but in term of restaurants, they have what what they -- they have what they need. they run out from time to time. in this town is bouncing back a little bit. there was a run on the banking in the early stages of it. all the atms were empty. now they're coming back. there still are a lot of precautions. the bars are closed. mayor of this town doesn't want people out relaxing, he wants everyone to stay serious until the threat has alleviated. and you see people on a war footing such as the churches, the artistic type act tech church that is all sandbagged with the idea, especially what we've seen in recent days, the russian strikes have come this far west now. mike: mike tobin in lviv, many thanks. alicia: and the u.n. says more than 2.5 million ukrainians have pled to -- fled to neighboring

countries since russia invaded. as mike tobin just mentioned, poland has been the destination for many of them with more than 1.5 million people crossing the border. now the mayors of poland's two largest cities are asking for help saying they can no longer handle the influx. alex hogan is live in poland. alex? >> reporter: hi, abe liberty shah -- alicia, there are more centers just like this one, bed after bed, air mattresses on the floor. the volunteers here mow that not every single bill will be filled. there's not that many refugees here yet, but they anticipate there will be soon, so they clean all the sheets every day, they've laid out pillows to make sure when people do need somewhere safe and warm, they will find refuge here. but for the ukrainian families who have arrived here today, they say regardless of the hospitality and the generosity that they see, they ask

themselves the same question, how did this happen, how did we get here. >> they blow everything up. we went in donbas, now we have crossed -- [inaudible] >> reporter: more than 2.5 million refugees have fled ukraine. 1.6 million came through poland, and the government says that it's struggling to keep up. there's larger cities that are seeing backlogs of refugees who are now sleeping in train stations and bus stations. they're sleeping on the floor because they don't is anywhere -- don't have anywhere else to go. toland is calling on the e.u. to provide relief. the center is one of the cleanest we have seen and that's largely in part to the fact that we're seeing dozens of people here, not thousands just yet. this warehouse has fresh food, a bathroom, a laundry room and even showers which is something

that many of these centers do not have. meanwhile, over here there is a complete shoe station with every size of boots for adults, for kids. there's also jackets to keep people warm and hats and gloves, anything that they could need as they're traveling, again, in the bitter cold months here in poland are. there's also an entire walk-in room full of shirts, pants for adults, for kids, anything that people could need if as they continue this journey, hopefully, to safety. over here is something that is almost unimaginable for most people, it's sort of a makeshift daycare for kids who have found themselves in the situation. but the beauty of children that we heard them smile, they're laughing, they're playing completely and blissfully unaware that it's war that has brought them here. alicia? alicia: isn't that nice that it's -- that they're blissfully una aware that it's war that a brought them there. it just looks like a village

that has been erected within a matter or of days, beautiful to see all of those donations and that generosity. but the mayor of poland's second largest city, krakow, in a facebook post said they are getting to a tipping point because they have received so many people, they're getting to the point where the functioning of the city could be hindered. are you sensing that from the people of poland or even authorities there, that they've reached a saturation point? >> reporter: we are. we are -- alicia: that's got to be so hard. >> reporter: that's what we've seen pretty much in every town, that they know that they cannot sustain this. there's volunteers that are flown in from countries all around the world, but they realize these volunteers will only stay here several weeks, maximum a month if they're lucky. and while they do have all of these resources for clothing ask for toys that we've seen, food donations and numbers of people are astounding. thankfully here we don't have

many people who are sleeping on floors, bus stations that we've seen. but that's exactly why this kind of center exists. they have the air mattresses and these makeshift beds that are ready to go because they don't want a situation like what we're seeing in some of the larger cities. but unfortunately, poland can't keep up. there are just simply too many people. that being said, they're calling on other countries to step in and to help out, but they are continuing to say they will welcome in anyone who needs refuge. alicia: so hard. alex hogan, thank you. mike? if. mike: president biden hearing it from democrats as well as republicans as he defends rejecting poland's offer to send ukraine fighter jets through a u.s. air base in germany. brand new reaction next. ♪ okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition

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alicia: as putin's invasion expands, the baden administration says it's working to seven more military aid to ukraine despite the president sinking a deal to send desperately needed polish fighter jets. mark meredith is live at the pentagon. >> reporter: well, now russia is threatening to target

military aid being shipped into ukraine, but here at the pentagon u.s. officials assist the security assistance is goino keep flowing and even today just another $200 million got approved which will eventually make its way into ukraine. however, the u.s. is not giving everything the ukrainian government is asking for, it's rejected calls to set up a no-fly zone over the country, and there's been this big back and forth all week long about the u.s. rejecting poland's offer to send those mig 29s into u.s.-based germany so they could be shipped into ukraine. still, officials insist ukraine is getting the support it needs in its fight against russia. >> we are working with allies and partners to help get the kinds of capabilities that we know that ukrainians need and are using very well inside if ukraine, get more of that stuff to them. some of that material we have and we are providing. >> reporter: the pentagon was asked about specifically what weapons are going in each day, where they're going in.

they declined to give specifics, of course, because they realize these could become targets. however, we're told the assistance continues to flow into ukraine including this weekend. but up on capitol hill we have heard from lawmakers from parties who have urged the administration to recrur that fighter jet proposal. ing some lawmakers believe the decision was the right one by the president over fears the situation could mean an even larger war across europe. >> fighter e jets are taking off from a nato country and attacking, then we're pretty much directly engaged in the conflict with russia. and that's why poland's trying to avoid it. all the hay toe countries are trying to direct -- nato countries are trying to direct that direct -- avoid that direct confrontation. >> reporter: secretary austin will be in brussels, we expect he'll rea affirm the support of the nato alliance and look to shore up defenses across eastern europe.

alicia. herb liver mark meredith, thank you. mike: president biden defending his veto of that deal, he says it would only provoke vladimir putin into, quote, world war iii. joining me now texas republican congressman, pat fallon, member of the house arm ad services committee. welcome. >> thanks for having me on. mike: is president biden being too cautious about sending those jets to ukraine? >> yes, absolutely. what president -- i mean, the president of the united states, mike, is allowing vladimir putin to deter him. he's not deterring putin. transferring 28 migs from poland to the ukraine, we're not going to fly them from poland to germany and then they're going to go on hot missions, we're going to transfer them to the ukraine with, and then the ukrainians can arm and man them. so it was just more of a proxy fight. we're sending them war materials now, and i don't see this as any different. i think it's a great idea, and i distinguish president had done it. mike: let's show our audience

the mig 29. they started production back in 1982, a response to american f-15 and f-16 fighter jets. wouldn't they have a significant impact in helping ukrainian pilots, who know how to fly them, defend their country? >> there's no doubt. you know, we want -- if you want to have a no-fly zone for the ukrainians, give them the tools to enforce it themselves, and i think they're totally capable. i'm not worried about escalating. we're not going to put american troops on ground in -yard line. in ukraine. they're not going to directly fight the russians. vladimir putin escalated it when he was shelling civilians and targeting cities filled with noncombatant, and also he deliberately targeted a maternity hospital. i mean, this guy's a war criminal, and we needed to do everything we can to get the ukrainians the material they need to win this fight. mike: here's what press secretary jen psaki said about arming the ukrainians. quote: in protecting, defending,

providing assistance to the ukrainian people as they are fighting courageously and boldly, we are also trying to prevent ourselves from taking steps that would be further escalatory. the russians have made it clear that any weapons shipments they think are fair game. do you have concerns about the russians taking shots at americans transporting weapons into ukraine? >> no, because vladimir putin knows that would be something that a may end his life very quickly. i don't think the russian generals, the oligarchs that are complicit with regime want to see further escalation, and we're not doing that. we're simply providing an ally that was attacked illegally and criminally with the means to defend themselves. and quite frankly, mike, as well, i signed on to a letter back in november urging the president to send asymmetrical war materials then, and he dragged his feet for weeks. we need to be serving them rifles and anti-tank mines,

javelins to take out the tanks, the stingers and other things that are take out helicopters and some aircraft and light machine guns and the american version of the rpg. that will put heat behind the defense of the the ukraine. mike: do you have a sense of how this ends? if does the united states, the international community need to offer something to vladimir putin to, basically, for him to go home to his country and say i got something and then basically to pull out of ukraine? how does this end? >> well, you know, we'd love to see some symbolic gesture that allows him to save face and him leave. that would be the ideal scenario. but, you know, we've seen reports of as many as 5-6,000 russian soldiers killed in the first two weeks of this wariments that is an astromom astronomically high casualty rate, and and if that continues, this war of attrition is one that putin will lose. mike: on capitol hill what further do you think will happen in terms of you and is your

colleagues as you look at the situation in ukraine and try to provide support to the ukrainian people defending their homeland? >> well, one thing i've only been in congress for 14 months, mike, and this is the most bipartisan i've seen the chamber. and that is heartening. i'd also like to see us secure our southern border as well. we can do both, but biden simply lacks the will to take care of things back here at home. mike motorcycle congressman pat fallon of the great state of texas, thank you so much for your time. have a wonderful day. >> thanks, mike. god bless. alicia: we're getting new video from the if ukraine war zones as russian forces continue the brutal bombing of civilian targets. alexis mcadams is live with more. >> reporter: that's right. new video just keeps on rolling in, and most of it is so graphic we can't show some of it. but those attacks near kyiv in ukraine are intensifying again today. explosions and gunfire are getting worse. listen. [background sounds]

[inaudible conversations] >> reporter: you hear those shellings as people are walking around, and take a look there, that's on the sidewalk there in irpin, artillery left laying around. this area has been under fire by russian forces for several days, no signs of slowing down as it's growing worse. you do see people trying to evacuate from irpin, some trying to hold out and stick around, but it was too dangerous. supplies are also running thin, and the bodies of the civilians who were killed are left on the ground there. it's still too teenagers they say for families to even properly lay their own relatives to rest. people were hiding in pitch dark underground basements, one woman said she and other residents are hanging there because they have no options. one of the areas russian troops are also focused on taking is

odesa, ukraine's largest port city, considered strategically important to vladimir putin. and as this happens, people are stepping up to help ukrainians. look here, this egyptian man, this is the video of him driving out of that neighborhood, was hailed a hero after he drove back into that war zone and took at least 18 people out including 9 kids to the polish border since the start of the invasion, he says he plans to go back and help more. ukraine's president zelenskyy says his forces have lost 1300 troops since in the invasion started add -- and this comes as russian forces are getting closer to the capital of kyiv. mike: the united states announces more economic penalties against russia, the white house is looking to shift the blame for the gas prices and inflation that have been rising here for months. more on that next.

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mike: the biden administration if announcing more economic sanctions on putin and russia as it continues to blame the russian president for skyrocketing gas prices here at home. yesterday president biden said gas prices went up 75 cents the moment putin put troops on the ukrainian boarder in january. peter doocy is live at the white house with the latest. hello, peter. >> reporter: president biden does not want his name anywhere near the word inflation if as this new "wall street journal" poll now finds that is the number one issue voters are most concerned about. [applause] >> 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. >> reporter: but, but, but the president admitted his policies did contribute to inflation, specifically the stimulus checks attached to the american rescue plan, and he explained how in november. >> it changed people's lives. but what happens if there's

nothing to buy and you've got more money, you compete for -- it creates a real problem. >> reporter: a real problem for lawmakers from energy-producing states. red tape. the president claims oil and gas companies can drill here if they want to, but producers are saying climate-minded executive orders are making that impossible. >> i say give me a break, mr. president. i mean, this administration from today one, day one, i've seen it in alaska, has come into office and has focused on shutting down the production of american energy. they do it all the time in my state, i see it all the time. >> reporter: president biden is at camp david, the vice president is back from poland and romania and explain fromminging now how she tried to get the west to gang up on putin. >> when i was meeting with our allies, i emphasized that the greatest strength a we share is unity. especially at this moment.

as we stand together in defense of democracy ask stand together in defense of each other. >> reporter: and so unity and financial punishment are the president's preferred approach. no u.s. troops are going to go to ukraine to fight russians, although president biden does say there's going to be a severe price to pay if russia uses nuclear -- chemical weapons. he just hasn't said what the severe price is yet. mike? mike: peter doocy live of at a snowy white house, so much for spring. peter, thanks very much. alicia? hirsh liver and back to our top story, russian forces are advancing closer to the ukrainian capital of kyiv while also attacking other cities with airstrikes and artillery. russia has largely focused its invasion in the north, south and eastern regions of ukraine, but yesterday all also launched missile attacks on two cities in the western part of the country. joining us now is national

security analyst dr. rebecca grant. dr. grant, thank you so much for being here. yesterday president zelenskyy said his forces had reached a strategic turning point, and he didn't know how long it would be, but he believed they would be able to hold on to their land. as we heard from trey yingst with at the beginning of the newscast, forces -- the explosions that he's hearing in kyiv are getting closer than they ever have been. what do you forecast for the next 24-48 hours in. >> here comes the battle for kyiv. and president zelenskyy was congratulating his forces on holding out for so much longer than anyone expected. but the reality right now is a little bit grim. we see russian forces making a pincher movement from both east and west, closing in on kyiv, and they are beginning to put more artillery in position and to use those small tank units to probe through kyiv's suburbs. this is really fight on, and putin will fight for kyiv the

ugly way. alicia: we're going to put up a graphic here so you can just take a look at what we're talking about, military to military, ukraine to russia head to head. when you look at active personnel if, ukraine military's immediate -- made up of 209 active -- 209,000, russia, 900,000. and then you start talking about armaments here. tanks, 858 for ukraine. 2,840 for russia. active air force planes, 125 for ukraine, 1,000 for russia. so it is pretty impressive what ukraine has been able to pull off so far. but you're really thinking the next days are going to be pretty brutal. >> yes. and we know that ukraine is outnumbered, but what really matters in in this fight right now is that the position of the forces on the ground. so as russia tries to move down and encircle kyiv, ukraine will have some advantages. the russians are to stretch out, and they become vulnerable to

attack with the anti-tank enweapons. also ukraine is defending they're on shorter lines of operation, so they do have some natural advantages as they take up this brutal defense of the city. in a way t not about the ukraine force and russia's army, it's very close in combat in the kyiv such you shoulds -- suburbs. that's what's going to decide the battle the next 24-48 hours, and we'll see if ukraine is able to slow town that russian encirclement. alicia: i talked to trey about this a little earlier as well that we've seen the german chancellor, the french president in these talks with ukraine, and the western leaders really seem to -- anyone who really comes into contact with him or their negotiators, hay seem to be running around in circles. is this just a waste of time, do you think? if because putin seems to be just making them chase their tails. >> right now putin is

battle-fixate. he is not paying attention to anything except the progress on the ground. he's ignored world leaders, sanctions, and we wants to encircle kyiv to either catch zelenskyy or take kyiv down. now putin's said he'll do more attacks in western ukraine. that's going to start to threaten the supply if lines coming in to ukraine's forces. alicia: right. it's possible with all of the assaults on civilians there that he would be tried at some point or at least his commanders for war crimes. listen to what the ukrainian foreign minister had to say about what it would take to end things. take a listen. >> i believe at the removal of president putin will be enough to stop the war. but the restoration of peace and security in the atlantic states will not only require the removal of putin, but the

de-putinization of russia. putin is not just a person, it's a system. and russia has to be de-piewzennized. alicia: beyond the removal of the russian president, a complete shift from the ideologies of this country. >> he's saying that ukraine can just never trust russia again, and shows you how far apart they are right now from any if negotiated settlement. but remember, this really is putin's war, and i don't blame ukraine at all for saying they don't trust him. we've got to have some kind of ceasefire, but right now putin still thinks he can take kyiv, the rest of ukraine, so we're going to see this fought out on the ground, in the streets to see who gets the victory. will hirsh liver dr. rebecca grant, thank you so much. more nudes right after this. --

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mike: one world leader who's guided the opposition of president putin is winston churchill. ukraine's president zelenskyy have both taken a page from the leader with johnson echoing churchill on behalf of our allies. eric shawn reports. >> reporter: boris johnson declaring the ukrainian battle cry to ukrainian citizens under attack. the british prime minister taking the fight to vladimir putin opinion. >> boris has been leading the pack, and i think that is a chenation to him -- commendation to him and his style as a leader. >> reporter: besides president biden, johnson is in a small group of leaders confronting the crisis. -and-a-halfalty bennett held talks with putin last weekend, french president emmanuel macron

has talked to him on the phone, and new german chancellor olaf shots has cap selled the nord stream 2 pipeline from russia, but it is johnson who echoes winston churchill. >> i think the churchillian connection in wartime is very a., and i think it's -- apt, and i think it's helpful having a prime minister who understands how to communicate at this note time as we're trying to keep the international coalition together like churchill did to dephoenix the aggressor of the day. >> reporter: this was churchill's famous speech against the nazis in 1940. >> we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. we shall fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. >> reporter: this was certificate remember sky last week. >> translator: we'll fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets. >> reporter: the prime minister even wrote a best

selling biography of churchill. now he and president zelenskyy are using the lessons learned facing hitler 80 years ago to confront vladimir putined today. in new york, eric shawn, fox news. alicia: inflation hit a new 40-year high before russian troops invaded you know with the war sending gas prices even hire, is there any hope for relief in sight? analysis from "wall street journal" associate editor john bussey next. the house in yea. nothing will stop me from vacation. no canceling. (laughs) flexible cancellation. kayak. search one and done. we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast. [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪

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alicia: an activist disney shareholder is accusing the company of, quote, complicity in the china genocide. in an annual shareholders' meeting this week, he claimed the entertainment giant is being hypocritical for pausing all business in russia over ukraine while still doing business with china. beijing, of course, accused of human rights abuses of uighur minorities in northwest china. walt disney's stock closed down 3.4 -- 1.4% yesterday. mike? mike: inflation hitting a 40-year high, climbing a whopping 7.9% in february, the spike driven mostly by soaring gasoline prices, but grocery and housing costs also up sharply. let's bring in john bussey, associate editor of "the wall street journal" and a fox news contributor.

john, welcome. >> my pleasure to be here. mike: i went to fill up yesterday in the washington, d.c. area, i was struck. a gallon of premium was $5 a gallon. let's put on screen for our viewers the youth in prices over a past year. a 40-cent increase just over past week. john, for millions of middle class meshes, even working class, what's the impact? >> well, the impact's rather substantial. if you had kind of a shock when you went got gas station in d.c., try filling your gas tank in new york city where gas prices are even higher: and it's going to play through to a lot of things. it's not just the consumer at the pump, but transportation costs. and when businesses have higher transportation costs, guess what? they price that a through in the product that they sell to consumers, and so you see inflation associated with crackers and cookies you may buy or ice cream because the transportation costs have gone up as well. energy costs are a major

function within any economy. so you're going to see those rising prices play through the price inflation across the board. mike: take a look at the february consumer price index. gas up 38%, electricity up999 %. used cars up 41% and airline fares up 13. are there some common sense ways to address these expensive problems? >> well, the fed's going to do that this in part by raising interest rates which is going to slow the economy. that's the normal tonic for inflation. but remember, you were sort of introducing this segment in part by reference to the war in ukraine and that's going to crimp oil supplies around the world because russia's a big oil provider and exporter, and that's going to boost inflation further. it's a very different war that we're fighting right now regarding the bulk of inflation. yeah, what's going on this in ukraine is going to hurt a little bit more, but the big waa

war -- there is rising costs associated with it on if mart of you are -- on the part of our government and there's supply disruption as a result of it. and that's the continuing war against the virus. the coronavirus, which continues to disrupt supply chains around the world. and that means that prices are going up because there are shortages of the commodities and the parts that go into making the products that consumers buy. and until governments and media provide the best messaging on that, that people should get vaccinated and boosted, we're not going to see diminution of inflation. it's going to continue. mike: now let's go to the grocery store. meat, poultry and fish up 13. flour up 12%. milk up 11%. eggs up 11%. coffee up 11%. and fruits and veggies up 8%. that sounds like many americans are going to have to make some tough choices if they live on a fixed income or are not getting

substantial raises, right? >> yeah, that's right. and the problem also is that there's not enough americans producing those products. it's the tight labor market. we've had a very robust economy. that's broke. higher prices for labor because businesses have to compete to get people to come to work for them. they're going to have to pay them more, and that gets played right through to pricing as well. i think, mike, you begin to see this get under control two ways. one is that the fed will raise interest rates, it will be a cooling effect on the economy. people won't be able to borrow as freely and easily and as cheaply to buy a new car or house because interest rates will go up. but the second part of that is that, eventually, somehow we're going to get the coronavirus under control, and you're not going to have semiconductor shortages coming out of plants in malaysia and in asia into cars that are built in the united states, raising prices because the car makers can't get

enough of those semiconductors. that begins to diminish when you get the infection under control. mike: "wall street journal" associate editor john bussey. john, thank you very much is. we'll be right back. for learnin. and now we're providing 88 billion dollars to support underserved communities... ...helping us all move forward financially. pnc bank: see how we can make a difference for you. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! (sighs wearily) here i'll take that! (excited yell) woo-hoo! ensure max protein. with thirty grams of protein, one gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health.

republican lawmakers are calling on the biden administration to take stronger action to help american stuck in russia including a basketball star and a marine veteran.

christina called minutes following the start of the party jumped story live in los angeles for. >> this week republican congressman byron donaldson president biden and the state department a letter expressing concern that the russians could use w nba star britney greiner and other americans who they detained as leverage. text i'm not been the biggest fan of this version of the state department. we look back and sit thousands of americans left in afghanistan to see that in my view they don't pull every lever that needs to be pulled this is also very different environment to correct the biden administration needs to do more to try to raise this issue. what putin and the russian government and get them released. >> former u.s. marine had been jailed in russia for what their families view as lawmakers call politically motivated in trumped up charges. and brittney griner was detained last month over allegations she had cannabis oil in her luggage

adoration airport were democratic congressman said he has worked with the state department to get griner back home. >> she was detained on the 17th at the moscow embassy has requested counselor access with her the same way they would for any american who has been detained or incarcerate abroad that is not been granted now for over three weeks. that is extremely unusual in extremely concerning. >> there's a lot of concern from her family and friends congressional black caucus discussed russia's detainment of brittney griner with president biden this week. >> the best news we got today was that they know about it and she is on the agenda. that agenda we have trust they will continue to work through this process. >> it concerns the state department is not giving specifics on greater situation they do say they are providing every possible assistance to americans detained on foreign

soil including russia. >> christina coleman and los angeles thank you so much. and please, stay tuned to fox news channel for continuing coverage of russia's war in ukraine. >> we are back at 4:00 p.m. eastern, top of the next of the journal editorial report is up next. have a great day. ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of the journal editorial report i am paul gigot. it's 10:00 p.m. and kyiv and the control of the capitol is intensifying with heavy shelling rocking the city and its outskirts as russian forces because it let's go right to kyiv or fox's trey yingst is standing by, trait. >> good evening. to date we have heard some of the loudest shelling from the capitol of kyiv since the war began. it is significant as russian forces try to move in on kyiv about the east and the west.