>> tucker: that's it for us tonight. that interview on fox nation really is worth watching. it's great. we will be back tomorrow. in the meantime, you have a right to care about what happens in your country to your family and the right to demand more from your leaders. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. tonight, amidst stiff resistance the russian army isn't tempting to encircle ukraine's capital city of kyiv inch by inch and tonight it does appear they are making progress, albeit slow progress. president zelenskyy says that russia can only take the city if it raises kyiv to the ground, but that is exactly probably what putin is planning. this is now an extra ordinarily dangerous time for ukraine and the entire world and to make things dramatically worse, the world does not have a strong and a decisive u.s. president or

u.s. vice president. just take a look at your screen. this is drone footage from southern ukraine were multiple cities are being utterly destroyed by indiscriminate russian artillery and bombing attacks and what is being described as a medieval siege. there is no power, there is no food, there are no medical supplies and just miles and miles of smoldering a apartment complexes, thousand men, women, and children are now dead including this pregnant woman and her unborn baby. putin's plan to quickly capture ukraine and install a puppet regime didn't work well, and now a very angry vladimir with his back against the wall and the world watching is hell-bent on going up everything and everyone in his path, and that includes, yep, innocent women and children.

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ukrainian people are fighting hard for the country, but they are severely outmatched, outmanned, and outgunned and is bad it is now, all indications are things will deteriorate quickly, very quickly, on the ground. ukraine, they need weapons, ammunition, antiaircraft systems, the two dozen fighter jets that poland offered them. that proposal joe biden personally vetoed and blocked. joe was worried the deal would upset and anger putin and russia. he chose nothing but weakness, it reveals how easily joe is intimidated by vladimir putin. maybe he should be reminding him of the weaponry we have. as we all know, weakness invites aggression. look at what happened over the weekend, iran nearly destroyed our u.s. consulate building in iraq with a ballistic missile attack. america needs to be asking tonight of their president, joe, what are you going to do? pathetically, it looks like he may be handing over billions in frozen iranian assets while

negotiating to import oil from the number one state sponsor of terror and make iran and the mullahs of iran which again. and the worst part is as of now it is russia and china, they are the ones brokering this deal and because joe biden is so desperate for a nuclear deal with iran, even worse than the first one, obama and biden and the mullahs in iran, they are pretending this attack, though, it's nothing to worry about, really? the administer ration claiming the u.s. wasn't even a real target. that i call out as total adam schiff. i believe that's a lie. joe biden is the modern-day neville chamberlain. iran was targeting israel they claim, so no reason to be upset. our number one ally in the middle east, no big deal, just iran being iran, really? the administration claims the u.s. wasn't even a real target again. so now it's, oh, no reason to be upset. meanwhile, as bad as all of this is -- and it's bad -- china is

now openly threatening "the worst consequences for any country that supports taiwan's military." there is the problem. we currently have a u.s. military presence right there in taiwan and we also equipped taiwan with weapons and training. so again, we ask joe biden, what are you going to do about this overt threat, joe? are you going to do anything anywhere at all? china is reportedly ready and willing to ship weapons and other aid to russia to help resupply putin's bloody invasion of ukraine. it's kind of official, with telling you it's happening, china, russia, iran, they're all threatening the u.s. and the world of the same time and joe biden is doing absolutely nothing to counter all of this aggression on the world stage. and it's pathetic, feckless, weakness. it is causing all of this. there is no president in our lifetime weaker than joe biden. with the world crumbling around him after major failures at home and abroad, joe, of course, he's

not taking any responsibility. he's not owning up to any of his group that he's not changing course. which is worse. instead, joe, oh, i believe everything i scrub as latimer put a spell, he is lying to you, the american people. take a look. you decide. >> president biden: the second big reason for inflation is vladimir putin and gas prices. not a joke. make no mistake, the current spike in gas price is largely the fault of vladimir putin. it has nothing to do with the american rescue plan. >> sean: simply embarrassing and humiliating is now beyond dangerous. joe biden's polymers are in the tank, the american people see that he's lying, no one respects him, no one believes him, and maybe it's time that joe biden, kamala harris, jen psaki, stop lying to you, the american people. putin is not to blame for the record high gas prices. joe's economic and energy policies are buried putin didn't lock the keystone xl pipeline,

he didn't ban extortion auction on federal lands. the keystone xl pipeline for example would have been finished now according to the premier of alberta in canada and we would have 900,000 barrels of canadian oil flowing through that pipeline into the u.s. every single day. that oil we could use now. that was joe biden in the new greendale socialist democrats, they stopped this. putin didn't spend trillions and because america's 40 year record high of inflation, and joe, stop lying. putin didn't cause that because long before putin invaded ukraine, we have month after month after month, 40 year high after 40 year high inflation. that was you, joe biden, and just like putin didn't abandon our fellow americans in afghanistan. in case you're counting like we are, it is day 212, joe biden did that, not vladimir putin. putin did not pull out of the country in the most dangerous and chaotic way possible, wait until the very end to do it

leading to the deaths of 13 u.s. servicemen and women, abandoning our fellow americans, green card holders, our allies and 80 some odd billion dollars worth of military equipment. that was all joe biden, just like joe biden ran out of covid tests and monoclonal antibodies over christmas. unforgivable, inexcusable, just like joe gave up energy independence and gave up america being annexed exporter of energy. just like joe biden's disaster the southern border, you going to blame putin for that too? stop blaming putin, joey. you have created one preventable disaster after another. let's be clear, putin isn't evil evil, murdering fog. this is a regime that's looking for as much territory as they can get. but all of these proms did not originate $5,000 away in moscow. they are your policies. don't expect joe biden to ever right the ship or taker spots ability. that would mean he has to admit

that donald trump was right on the border, right on energy, right on afghanistan, right on the economy. but that's never going to happen. biden has never been particularly competent but now he is also weak, frail, and a cognitive mess. i'm not even sure he knows today is monday or what day of the week it is on any given day and on friday before jetting off for his weekend of ice cream at camp david for some rest and relaxation, biden delivered this truly, even for him, bizarre speech. take a look. >> president biden: the moment it opens it will be disbanded. if you hear me? it will blow up. for mom to get her kid on the internet to be able to do their homework, has to pull into a mcdonald's parking like? i mean, for real! that's was happening. this law is going to put an end to all that. it's going to put people in much different position to be able to determine their own judgments about when to sell their cattle,

when they should -- i just -- it's going to change things. >> president biden: on track to be the first president in history to lower the deficit by over $1 trillion in one year. i'm sick of this stuff! >> sean: really? okay, mcdonald's for internet and selling cattle in this guy doesn't have a clue. here's a serious question every american needs to ask tonight. do you feel safe and secure with that man as your president at the home of your country? do you really think he has the mental strength and stamina and acuity to make sound decisions. does he even have the courage to do what is obviously right for you, we the american people. and while america's president is struggling every day, mightily, there are so many people all over the world, they are now risking it all to do what is right. in russia for example, look at this employee of a tv channel rushed onto the set during a live propaganda broadcast with a

sign that reads "stop the war, no to war." she will probably be thrown in prison and faces a 15 year russian prison sentence. let this be an important reminder, never take your freedoms for granted as ronald reagan said, freedom is but one generation away from extinction. here with more, florida senator marco rubio is with us. senator, thank you for being here. i don't have all the answers but i do know this, senator, that if we -- the ukrainian people have shown the willingness to courageously fight back. if we give them the javelins, we give them intelligence, we give them stinger missiles and i would argue give them the jets that they want, i'm confident that they can do a good enough job with their insurgency against putin. what are your thoughts? >> i think you're seeing that play out. the russians are bringing to bear about 55%, 60, 65% of their

entire conventional forces now inside the country of ukraine after 20 years of massive increases in defense spending. i think you're seeing a couple things. bad planning, no doubt about it. i think are also seeing some of the russian equipment isn't as good as advertised but the last thing is that will to fight and that's not something that's easily measured. i don't think putin or the russian military thought that ukrainians would fight the way they have right now, and they are plain defense, they are in a defensive position, which has allowed them, for example, for weeks to build up defenses around kyiv so i don't think the russians are going to go in and take the cities. they may be able to level them like you were saying but taking them, that's going to be a tough task, especially kyiv. >> sean: we have afghanistan, we know the disaster that that became. we had over the week and ballistic missiles from iran slamming into a base in iraq but they are saying we weren't the target. i'm not sure i buy that. china is morning of the worst consequences of any country that supports taiwan militarily. senator, you know as well as i do that we have an agreement

with taiwan and we are an ally of taiwan. are we going to abandon them next? >> i think what this is reminding us of it is if you look at the history of mankind, about 5500 years, it's largely been the story of authoritarianism. what we have here in america, you were saying it in your monologue in the outset, it's very rare and unique, almost all of human history has been about a tort to authoritarianism. now you have authoritarians in charge of some pretty powerful countries like russia, china and then they have nuclear weapons, places like north korea, and they're trying to get them in iran. and so what you're seeing here is the number of countries testing freedom. they view this is their opportunity right now to expand for a lot of different reasons. they see weakness in the white house, they see distractions and complacency in the west, and are we -- yeah, do i believe the american people are prepared to do what it takes to defend taiwan? absolutely. but just know we are not going to have the same options to sanction china him as we've had sanction russia which is reminding us why we need to

protect her own economy. one thing is to cut off the russian economy but right now we depend way too much on china for the things we buy, we have to stop that. >> sean: senator, i still for the life of me can't get over the negotiations brokered by russia and china between the u.s. and iran and that would transfer tens of billions of dollars to the mullahs in iran, make them rich right off the bat, but then we would be possibly, according to pete buttigieg, the genius that he is, with all the experience he has, importing oil may be from iran, then possibly lifting sanctions with venezuela and a murdering dictator thug and still joe has been begging opec to increase their energy production. they keep turning him down and he doesn't turn to texas, alaska, and oklahoma for oil, and he doesn't turn to west virginia and ohio and pennsylvania for gas. why not? >> because these guys have an agenda that becomes an object of like religious worship, right?

would have to sign a deal with iran, they are so obsessed with it. no matter what else is happening in the world with have to get that iran deal done. doesn't matter how may people they kill, many attacks that carry out, we got to do that. the same with the green new deal and so forth. they are so obsessed with it that on the one hand matter who they have to buy oil from f or a barrel of oil from saudi arabia were cleaner than a barrel of oil from united states, no matter who we have to buy from, but by not from them and let's bag them but let's not produce it in america so that we can say at least it isn't our oil that's destroying the environment. i mean, it's just lunacy, it's nonsense, it's left us vulnerable, the american people see what common sense decisions are but these guys can't make that decision because they've got radicals in charge of the democratic party. >> sean: why are you against a no-fly zone? >> i just think a no-fly zone is not what people think it is. it would require going to war with russia. we would have to go after all of their antiaircraft -- their surface-to-air missile -- not just in ukraine, would have to go after them in russia,

belarus. you have to be willing to shoot down any airplanes that fly over the air in ukraine. i don't think a lot of people fully understand, no-fly zones are not some faa role that's out there, yet they have to be enforced, you have to be willing to go out there and show people down and in the case of russia you're going to have to knock out their surface-to-air missiles. this is not syria, this is not iraq. these guys have real missiles and i just think before we go to world war iii, which is what that would be, we have to be prepared to -- we have to be prepared to understand clearly what we are talking about doing here. >> sean: all right, senator, this is very fluid all around the world, thank you for being with us. senator marco rubio. i will never agree, i don't even like late-night liberal host bill maher, but on friday he asked a really good question. take a listen, you decide. >> if putin thought trump was really that supportive of him, why didn't he invade when trump was in office? it's at least worth asking that question if you're not locked

into one entrenched thought. >> sean: here now to answer that question from a trump organization, eric trump is with us. i think it's a legitimate question. i had your dad on this program thursday last week. he was very clear this would never happen if he was president. why? >> well, listen, putin was in with kgb, he can read people and he can tell that donald trump was a very strong person, right? and my father was tested. kim jong un try to do it as you remember very well, and what did my father say? kim, you mess around with us, you will be met with fire and fury the likes of which you have never seen before, right? and he talked about the button on his desk and actually working, et cetera, et cetera, and a couple months later they're shaking hands in north korea and the relationship was perfect after that but he was tested, he showed backbone, he showed strength. he read presented what america should be. biden does the exact opposite of that every single day. member biden was the same guy that turned away three different shipments of missiles that were going to ukraine that my father

had sent over there -- my father sent a lot of javelin missiles over there years ago but there were more shipment that were going over there. biden literally turned those missiles around and sent them back. he's got every foreign policy situation wrong and the guy is weak and then you look at kamala who goes over to poland and she is sitting there saying yes, the ukraine is a country in europe and russia is a large country next door. i mean, you really think that any world leader is taking this nonsense seriously? it's a laughingstock. neither of these guys may be the varsity football team, that much i can tell you. they're not -- these guys, they didn't make the dodgeball team in school, that much i can tell you. >> sean: i talked to your data by confirmed it with other sources before i asked her dad, about the conversation when he was going to negotiate with the taliban before that ever happen. your father said that i want you to hear me clearly, i will obliterate you, and apparently sent the exact location of the

leader of the taliban, where he was, during the phone conversation so he basically was saying i know where you are right now, and i can take you out this second and for the last 18 months of his administration we didn't have americans dying in afghanistan. it seems to me if letter put in mentions the word nukes were to read others reports, they might use chemical weapons or bio weapons or cyber warfare, et cetera, et cetera, rather than saying we will do that to you if you ever dare touch us, it just, you know, it seems like joe gets afraid. poland was willing to give the fighter jets. joe was the one that vetoed the fire jets, why would he veto that? >> listen, my father would call up and said he would have said latimer, don't even think about it, don't even try us, telling you it's not going to work up very well from you and then when putin is watching him literally drone generals when he's watching them drop bombs on top

of mountains, on top of terrorist camps, people knew that donald trump was very, very serious and donald trump was very on pretty double and donald trump was incredibly strong and he would fight for this country. and by the way, my father had a great relationship with putin. all the while he is sending thousands of javelin missiles to the ukraine. isn't that really amazing? biden has no relationship with putin he is literally sending blankets to the ukraine. again, sean, it's about strength, it's about how in messages delivered and my father was very, very good at delivering that message and i think that's exactly what bill maher said. he has no fan of my father's, he's no fan of our families, but that's what he's saying this would have never happened under donald trump, and frankly he's right. and, you know, i applaud the courage to say that. >> sean: i'm going to pick your economic brain for a minute because joe biden inherited energy independence and for the first time in 75 years we achieved that and we were a net of energy. now, your father, i played tape

of him lecturing, getting right in the face of the head of nato, telling them how stupid they were to be help -- to be importing all of their energy from russia. he sent a white flag, he told me, on thursday night, to angela merkel saying you might as well surrender now because you're giving -- are basically over your destiny to vladimir putin by doing these multibillion-dollar deals. how big a factor is that in all of this? because i think it weakens all of nato, all of our western european allies, and there's no america or american president that's strong enough to lead right now. >> my father has always had great intuition. he was 100% right with this. listen, that $40 oil, russia is not a great economic force. they are actually a very small economic force. oil and gas make up the majority of their economy. it's awfully strong when oil is at $130 a barrel, sean. it was at 40 under my father, it

was at $40, so you're weakening russia by doing that, you're also strengthening america by having low oil and gas because it's effectively like attacks. it's like getting rid of attacks in this country and my father realized that. it's one of the reasons he wanted this country to be energy independent, it's one of the reasons he was so insistent on taking oil and gas from america and exporting it to europe, because it was just that much less oil and gas that they had to buy off of russia who was otherwise an adversary. he had the foresight to think of this. he had the foresight to send missiles, you know, well before putin ever put troops on the ukraine border, he had the foresight to put javelins in ukraine. my father was so far ahead of this whole situation with north nord stream 2. he goes this is insane, he wanted the xl pipe want to be built because that benefited america and he didn't want the nordstrom to be built because all they did was benefit russia. i mean, he was so far ahead of all these issues. he called it right, exactly

right. >> sean: he also predicted gasoline would go through the roof and we are setting a record almost daily. eric trump, always appreciate having you, thank you for being with us. china, president xi, they are watching all of this very closely. everything that is on the lifeblood of their economy from putin and making putin and russia michigan. you can thank the green new deal climate alarmist called the

joe biden answers to proportion western european countries right into putin's arms. joey was late and ignored confronting putin on his troop buildup from the start, so ask yourself, what happens if beijing starts providing russia with key military assistance like they are asking for? will it be time to level sanctions on china too? their economy is mostly about exports. so far china has refused to call out putin for this destructive, evil invasion killing of men, women, and children. we've seen images, which shown them to you on this program, mass graves, one body being tossed on top of another. they have their own territorial ambitions in china, namely taiwan. here to react to that and much more, south carolina senator lindsey graham. you know, i keep reading that you want the u.s. to put boots on the ground and you told me because i do not want that, and i asked you and i said under no circumstances. can we get that cleared tonight?

>> yeah, i do not want any american boots on the ground in ukraine, i don't want a no-fly zone but if there is the use of chemical weapons by putin against ukrainian people, i would support a no-fly zone because that would be breaking every war crime rule in the book. and to ban all chemical weapons would be nothing if we didn't act with a no-fly zone but right now no boots on the ground, no-fly zone. china. china is trying to bail out putin. if putin loses, china loses, so to the biden demonstration, don't make the same mistake with china you did russia. if you believe the chinese are going to help putin survive by providing military quit become economic assistance. by the way, they backfilled their credit card problem that happened when mastercard and visa pulled out of russia. china's credit card system took over. put on the table for china to read the sanctions that will come your way if you help putin. i will help you as a republican, mr. president, president biden,

if you will write down sanctions, secondary sanctions against china, what will happen to the chinese economy if they bail out this war criminal putin. i will be your best alley in the united states senate. write it down now so china can read it. because nobody believes who in less you write it down. >> sean: i'm not sure if he remembers your name. we watched large ballistic missile slam into our base in iraq fired by iran. we got a warning this weekend from china that the worst consequences for any country that supports the taiwan military and it seems -- correct me if i'm wrong, senator, all that blood improvement has to do is mention of glare weapons, biological, chemical weapons, and joe backs off. joe vetoed them from poland himself. he made the decision according to all of the reports. what is biden willing to do in

every one of these cases, because i don't see a president that has any type of doctrine -- what is the reagan doctrine, the trump doctrine, the bush doctrine? what is the biden doctrine? bow down and pray and hope for the best? >> yeah, apparently. slow and indecisive is his reaction. but here's an idea. if you believe zelenskyy knows what he's doing at the ukraine people are heroic and the efforts to protect their country from a russia invasion, give them what they say they need. i'm not asking for boots on the ground, i'm not asking for a no-fly zone, but i spoke to the ukrainian ambassador at length today and here's what she told me. they can fight on the ground, they are holding their own on the ground. they desperately need some help to control their skies. they want them. they believe if they had them, they could really push back against the airpower of russia. >> sean: senator, hang on a

second. >> yeah. >> sean: we are giving them javelins, stinger missiles, why can't we give an approval for fighter jets? why not? >> welcome here's here's what president biden says, that's an offensive weapon. how many americans are worried about giving the ukrainians the ability to go on offense? this idea they will take the squadron of them and invade russia, ukraine we do that, is stupid and crazy and it's just a reason to deny them the help that they want because biden is afraid of putin. here's what happened. it was okay for poland to give them, we were going to green light it. i'm confident that the putin and administration, the putin government a biden said if you do that, all bets are off and we folded like a cheap suit. here's what i want you to understand. what should we do? help the ukrainians with reasonable requests, give them the makes, give them the air defensive abilities they don't have and if you can neutralize

or leets level out -- victory for ukraine is my message here tonight. let's help them achieve victory. >> sean: all right, senator lindsey graham, we appreciate you being with us. also developing tonight, the nato country of estonia are actually calling for that fly zone but u.s. and u.n. officials continue to urge caution, arguing that such a move would essentially usher in world war iii. so i guess the world's position is let's kiss vladimir's ass, don't make them mad, cower like a first grader in front of a bully. i would be likely to argue that would rush her usher in world war iii. putin is now looking to import syrian mercenaries to do the dirty tricks against innocent civilians in ukraine. with reaction, fox news senior strategic analyst, retired general jack keane. general, it seems that all putin has to do is threaten or push

back a little bit and joe is like okay, i'm not going to do that. that's what it seems like to me. what does it seem like to you? >> well, he's trying to internationalize this as best he can. he wanted to get to belarus military involved, but they don't have much, they've got six brigades and lower performance than what we've been seeing the russians do, three -- despite it being in his orbit, he probably does not want to lose his military out there to the ukrainians. now he's gone to the syrians, and he has gone to them. he's going to get -- he's asked assad for some of his syrian wishek, which assad has said yes to, and also an organization called the fifth corps, which they put together, these are syrian rebels who converted to support assad versus rebel against. what remains to be seen, are they coming as personal

replacements, or are they going to come as coherent units? listen, the syrian fighters are purported to be experts at urban warfare. nonsense. that is not the case at all. did they do some of that? yes. are the experts? far from it. it's an act of desperation. there's no way that whether they have 10,000 of them were 20,000, this is going to be decisive. putin's problem is his army that he's got deployed on the battlefield in front of the ukrainians is having a difficult time gaining territorial control due to their poor performance, poor morale, poor discipline, and ukrainians are just the opposite. tough, disciplined fighters. >> sean: but they have made progress. i give a lot of credit to the ukrainians fighting back valiantly with the weapons that we've been giving them and other countries have been giving them. do you think america, if we

really want them to be successful and defeat putin's russia, that we should and we ought to not only allow poland to give them the migs but me to give them jets ourselves? >> i definitely agree with the fighter jets. and listen, the basic thing is -- this is why don't like the president talks about what you doing -- what's the issue in ukraine? i'm trying to prevent world war iii. that's not the issue. the issue is we are trying to save ukraine. and save ukraine as a country as a sovereign independent nation. that's the mission! and we should be all in. so yes, i totally agree with sending and fighters. this lame thing that went on, i think it's very embarrassing. the second thing that i know for a fact that they need, the mission against them this weekend -- ukraine -- if those

missiles can be defeated by getting rid of air defenses. they are -- the targets on the russians are firing them, not even from their own airspace from the range that they have. the airpower introduction that we can accomplish without establishing a no-fly zone is very significant with the addition of the fighters, as you suggest, and the additions of the sophisticated air defense systems that deal with missiles and airplanes at altitude, which is something the stingers can't do. the stingers can only go out about 3,000 meters, and that's very limited. a powerful weapon, but only good against aircraft flying low.

>> sean: let me ask you about -- you know, we now see every hospital regime, every hospital act towards the u.s., a beastly putin invading ukraine, also threatening the u.s., you saw that president xi and china is threatening anybody that offers any aid to taiwan, which they are an ally of ours. you saw what happened with the ballistic missile this weekend. iran firing at our facility in iraq, although joe was quick to say they didn't really mean to hit us. i would turned to believe the opposite, even north korea is doing more saber rattling. it looks like they see a weak president and that this is going to get worse before it ever gets better. i hope i'm wrong, general. >> well, this is a very complicated threat we are dealing with. the trump administration set the new strategic framework that we

are in a big power competition between russia and china but also being threatened by iran and north korea. and that set a new stage. ignored the policies of the past where we were about appeasement and accommodation and said these are our adversaries then we have got to have coherent plans to deter them and confront them when necessary. this administration came in and i think because they believed it would be much like the obama administration, right from the beginning we saw their aggressiveness testing the biden administration. heck, putin puts 70,000 troops on the ukrainian border in march, 90 days into the administration. and what did this initiation do? they delayed the shipment of arms going to ukraine. why? the stated reason publicly was we did not want to provoke putin into invading. they did the same thing when it

was 150,000 there in the fall of last year. same reason given. yes. other countries look at that and what did they see? they see an unwillingness to confront and they see weakness and it encourages them, sean. it emboldens them. it is common sense that it's taking place out there. and yes, there's no substitute for strength. >> sean: if you're going to give into these threats and not remind them that there are consequences to them too, then there's no -- there's no territorial ambition that they can't just make the threat and do what they want. we love having you, thank you for being with us. also, we continue to follow major development on the ground involving rescue operations in ukraine as the russian invasion has caused millions to flee. many others are still desperate to get out as putin's forces now get closer and closer to the capital kyiv. former u.s. army intelligence

and special ops soldier is with us, he is part of the team conducting these life-saving operations. he joins us live from ukraine denigrated tell us what your group is involved in and what you're seeing on the ground. >> nice to see you again. i just came out of the capital kyiv for an operation that was successfully complete it. i'm in ukraine supporting an organization made up of ex-intelligence, ex-special operations personnel that are extracting stranded americans and allies and ukrainian women, children, and elderly. there are thousands, sean, of americans who are still trapped in ukraine who don't know what to do or how to get out of the country, so i felt compelled to come out and do something. it's really been a wild week, the situation is changing rapidly, the humanitarian crisis from the ground perspective is so much worse than i could have ever imagined, and you can't fully begin to grasp it until you're on the ground and are actually staring at these refugees in the eyes. you get a glance of the horrors that they witnessed just even getting to us. it's terrible.

in these cases there's no electricity, there's no heating, food, or water and some of these locations, people are literally melting snow to drink or drinking water out of the sewer. gas stations not open, limited supplies, homes are being looted by russian troops, hospitals destroyed, and dynamo is trying to get as many people as we can out, but it's getting harder and harder because russia is exacerbating this humanitarian all around the country. they're targeting civilians, targeting evacuation routes, the russians are trying to help people. they've created these green humanitarian corridors but they are still shooting civilians in it and as a result, the team at dynamo is having to go deeper and deeper into the country as russia takes more terrain and it's just frankly getting more and more dangerous for us and we got a case right now that's very serious that's very personal to us. someone is literally surrounded by the russians. that got russian tank on one of the street and the other end of their driving past trying to get to their house and we got individuals that are trapped even at this moment so it is just only even getting worse.

>> sean: a deep scene -- you've done multiple tours of duty yourself. we've seen the images of women and children dead in the street. we saw that one mass grave being dug in one body being thrown on top of the other. we know the maternity hospital was hit. >> absolutely. i was just in the capital we are already seeing strikes there as well but the smaller towns are getting crushed right now by the russians. and, they say they are not striking civilian targets and they absolutely are. we've seen firsthand from some of the people we pressured. there were criminals, plain and simple. they insist they are not charging civilians but they absolutely are, they are bombing the evacuation routes and we are seeing it firsthand from the men and women that we've helped to get out and you know, look, overall this is going to be a war of logistics, in my opinion.

whoever wins this logistics battle between the russians and ukrainians are going to win this war. the ukrainians deeper weapons. when i came out of kyiv with a group of evacuees, we got stopped no less than probably 40 checkpoints on the way out and you see the men and women manning these checkpoints, you see that they absolutely need more and more weapons to fight. every single one of these checkpoints at some point are going to have to fight the russians and they are ready to do so. they are digging in, they are hardening sites, and so i see there are deftly going to be adjustable challenges going forward and i hope that people within the u.s. government help where they can. >> sean: thanks for being with us, good to have you back. stay safe. the biden administration is under increasing pressure to facilitate the transfer of poland's fighter jets to ukraine after reports that in fact it was biden who personally nixed this deal. he put in the final veto and the question remains why aren't these fighter jets being sent? joining us now, the author of the book "the strategy of denial," former trump defense

department official, along with florida congressman michael waltz. one of the 15 lawmakers to send a letter to biden urging him to facilitate the transfer. congressman, why hasn't he done it? why did he veto that? what's the difference between javelin stingers and fighter jets? >> right. well, sean, congress -- both republican and democrat have been pushing biden all along on this. we pushed him on the stingers, bipartisan group went to ukraine a couple of months ago when the administration was sitting on the stingers. they didn't get them until a week after the invasion. but just last week we almost doubled the amount of lethal aid authorized as part of the budget. we had another 40 billion to our defense budget. we pushed them on the oil band, we pushed them on dropping them from the world trade organization. in their permanent trade status. all of those things would have passed through congress but

biden said no, no, we want to announce it, so pelosi backed off, but we are the ones pushing them and now we have the pentagon saying well, but ukrainians really don't need air superiority. they really don't need these jets to be able to challenge russian air superiority to protect their cities, protect the supply -- >> sean: i'm not buying that. >> it's a cover. it's a cover because biden is afraid of putin's escalation. >> sean: that's like biden blaming putin for 40 are high inflation that happened in the last five months. that's like winning putin for high gas prices, it's one big lie. strategically, where would you take this? what should we be doing, what are we doing, are we doing anything right at this point and when you add china and iran to the equation, where does it take you? >> sean, i think as you point out it's looking bad on the world and i think if the congress men pointed out, the congress is leading the way. i think the jets -- i mean, we missed opportunity, it seemed

like they had it kind of figured out and now it is sort of blown to high heaven to fanatically but they seem to make sense. the key here is to help the ukrainians defeat the russian invasion but at the same time avoid world war iii. i think that's a reasonable goal and let's be honest, the russians have a newer more modern, more capable nuclear arsenal than we do so we need to take that seriously and the key here, you mention some of president trump's successes, president reagan, president eisenhower, the key is to be strong, to be resolute, not to get pushed around but also know what you're trying to achieve and stick to it, not too far like we did in vietnam. and i think the thing here, sean is putin i think is into martial arts. i'm not sure which one but in martial arts if you go too far back -- >> sean: i think is into -- i think i know the answer. i think it's tae kwon do. i do an eclectic blend of martial arts starting with krav maga, but go ahead. >> right, it's tae kwon do, but i think it's in jiu-jitsu but if you lean too far forward, you unbalance yourself and you allow your opponent to take a managed and we don't want to put our self into a pretext. the jets aren't that. they are relevant to fight, it's

your guess just said. the logistics are going to be key, the chinese will probably end up supporting the russians so we want to help the ukrainians defend themselves. we don't need to do that in the way senator rubio was talking, no-fly zones, i think there's a way to thread the needle and again, goes back to that model you are talk about with president trump, present reagan and going back even farther. >> sean: it's funny because donald trump had quoted to me a number of times, i brought it up on thursday, art of war, keep your friends close, your enemies closer. that was his strategy. interestingly he doesn't like to reveal it. thank you both. thank you for joining us. straight ahead, greg palkot will join us, he has the very latest on the ground in ukraine. and kamala harris embarrassed herself yet again. shocker, over the weekend. we've got another day of bad poll numbers for biden. kayla mcinerney, ari fleischer, they weigh in as we continue. ♪ ♪ i'm from colorado. i've been married to my high school sweetheart for 35 years. i'm a mother of four--

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♪ ♪ >> sean: now we turn to more big breaking of elements on the ground in ukraine with fox's own greg palkot with us tonight. greg, what's going on? >> sean, we are here in lviv where for the moment it's quiet, and eerie calm here. there's a curfew in place but russia continues to pound this country from all corners. especially in the capital of kyiv. main forces, they are about 9 miles outside of the city, but the artillery rounds are hitting a variety of locations across the city, even to the center. two civilians were killed when their apartment billing was hit. another one a checkpoint was struck. yet another one a bus was slammed. in the undersea show port city of mariupol, a caravan of 160 cars made it out today but the humanitarian convoys still blocked going in, over 400,000 people there, sean, are trapped

for weeks under intense fire with no water, heat, electricity. all told, according to the rep pentagon, some 900 russian missiles have hit ukraine including the battered city. here in the western part of the country there was another deadly missile strike early monday morning, we are now tuesday morning. we heard another air raid siren just a couple hours ago, but we don't have the tracking on whether something else was hit but clearly, sean, russia is going for all corners, it's going for broke, and remember, there's refugees caught in the middle, a lot of them coming through here, 2.8 million out of the country right now. >> sean: greg, correct me if i'm wrong but last week there were 18 miles outside of kyiv, so it's slow, albeit a very slow, their progress, but they are closing in on kyiv, the capital, is that correct? usa 9 miles now out? >> absolutely. we are seeing 9 miles now what they're doing to kyiv is what they've done to mariupol, they

are pounding it now. basically the capital of ukraine is under seizure. the people there are trapped, and there is no -- there's no military targets that moscow is going for now, they are just going for broke and they are hitting a variety of civilian targets. it's uglier and uglier right now. >> sean: that was my worst fear realizing if they get in there, sadly, i hope -- i pray to god i'm wrong. that will be a massacre. greg palkot, thank you. at the dnc winter retreat this weekend, vice president kamala harris said the democrats plan for the midterms is to tell voters that they got what they ordered, and in a way, she's really right. we've played many times on this program joe biden saying, for example, we get off fossil fuels. joining us now is our very own kayleigh mcenany, and also ari fleischer with us. ari, let's start with you. i play the montage all the time, joe biden said he was going to

get off fossil fuels, i promise you, and then he proceeded to do so and then some people act surprised. why should they be surprised? >> exactly right. i love kamala harris. i will never forget when she went to virginia a week before glenn youngkin's election and she said i promise to the democrats are going to win virginia. keep her on the road, keep her talking, keep making the case for the biden administration. she can't deliver in a favorable purple state. she is certainly not going to be an asset to the said administration going forward. she hasn't been yet, and yet they think she's one of their strongest spokespeople, one of the people they sent to poland and romania. so it's a flawed administration from top to bottom and the american people have seen that, sean, and unfortunately we are all living it. >> sean: and who can ever forget, ukraine is a country, it's in europe, and next to another bigger -- a bigger country in the bigger country invaded the smaller country.

and i'm sitting there saying i think a first grader could explain it on that level. and it's a little frightening, and then of course the giggling on the world stage at all the inappropriate moments. if you're talking about refugees, what is so funny about that? >> yeah, i mean, sean, at least she didn't try to use a polish accent when she was standing there giggling about refugees as she did when she try to use a french accent in france. it's a total embarrassment. she went on during that same trip to seem to imply that ukraine was a part of nato, at least in implication in the way that she structured her sentence. it's very embarrassing. this woman is a heartbeat away from the presidency and sean, i've got to tell you, you know, this is number two in line in the democrat party when you look beyond that you've got transportation secretary pete buttigieg and that's just about it. man, what i look at our party, the republican party, i mean, you can sit here and name 20 names of incredible young talents that we have that is a very deep bench, and they got

this person, kamala harris. >> sean: let me ask you, ari, because you work for a wartime president, president bush. thank goodness military technology, weaponry, drones, pushing buttons in tampa, florida, now, there is a new way to fight and win wars, that's how donald trump beat the caliphate that grew under biden and obama. at what point do you see a point where we will militarily have to get involved? because i don't of the extent of putin's territorial ambitions. is that the baltics? is it estonia, lithuania, latvia? is it? nobody knows. >> well, we should be militarily involved. we should be building up a fortress called nato. a bulwark against boudin. that is exactly what alliances do and that is what the nato alliance needs to be and that means no hesitation and not being shy about sending armaments, deadly armaments. if you want to deter war, be

strong. that is the lesson. >> sean: do you see any strength out of joe biden? he won't even give them a migs. he's the one that vetoed that. >> no, he's the problem. he's done some things right. he has started to supply ukraine, he has helped ukraine in many ways, but not enough, not all, and his weakness in afghanistan was part of the problem that sent the signal to putin that he might be able to get away with this. the decision on the migs is a terrible decision, he should be helping ukraine with these things. but very clearly i want to make one point, your talk about precision weapons. the united states fights clean and fair. so does israel. we don't target civilians, israel doesn't target civilians. syrians do. the russians do, the iranians do. it is heart of america's moral fabric, and i'm proud of that and proud of our country. >> sean: thank you both. more "hannity" straight ahead. ♪ ♪

i think helping them is the right thing to do. lit not your heart be troubled here at laura ingraham is next. see you tomorrow. ♪ >> laura: this is "the ingraham angle" from washington the military continues to close in on the capital city of kyiv. wearing development to the rest as the questions have extended their attacks firing at the training lyrics near the border with full and. in moments we will bring you a live report from ukraine we are standing by with the latest. first, no leverage job.