the masks need to go. >> lara, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks, guys. good to be with you. >> todd: likewise. make sure you are with us all morning long definitely 9:00 a.m. zelenskyy addressing congress. >> carley: that's right. all eyes will be on that speech. with that "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ [explosions] >> in just hours ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> stop the bombing. [explosions] >> fighting has been intense. ukrainian forces destroying russian tanks. [explosion] >> now president biden is saying he will make his way to europe next week. >> it's no longer a perception that joe biden be seen as weak. it's the fact that joe biden has proven that he is weak.

[siren] >> real trouble. the russians have stepped up indesvictim mat bombardment. >> ukraine's very existence right now is in peril. it seems that vladimir putin is deterring us from doing the right thing. >> steve: good morning, it's wednesday, march 16th, 2022, and three hours from right now ukrainian president zelenskyy is set to deliver a virtual address to our u.s. congress as he presses the united states for more assistance in his fight against putin. >> brian: yup, ukrainian cities under 35 hour curfew as russia continues intense bombardments with dumb bombs. >> rachel: jonathan hunt in kyiv with the latest. >> rachel, steve, brian, good morning to all of you. in the last hour the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has said there has been progress to what he called concrete

agreements on some issues in the peace talks. now, take that as you will, given that the russian foreign minister's relationship with the truth has been tenuous at best over the past few weeks. but any progress would be welcomed given the continued fighting and continued suffering that is going on here in ukraine. ukrainian forces meantime say they are still inflicting heavy casualties on russian forces handed us video which is, they say, of ukrainian forces attacking and destroying russian tanks in the luhansk region, that is a disputed area in the eastern part of the country. meantime russian forces continue the bombardment of several cities, those include the eastern city of kharkiv where hard pressed residents continue to run when the bombs drop, continue to seek shelter wherever they can as civilian targets appear to be hit again and again. it's against the back drop of

this ongoing russian bombardment that three european leaders, the prime ministers of czechoslovakia, poland and slovenia arrived in kyiv yesterday to talk to president zelenskyy, to make what they called an unequivocal show of support for ukraine's fight. listen here to the polish prime minister. >> this invasion has to stop. those who are killed by putin, they can never be forgotten. we will never leave you alone. we will be with you because we know that you are fighting not only for your homes, for your freedom, for your security but also for ours. >> and talking of potential progress in the peace talks as the bombardment of kyiv, the capital continues. it was interesting to hear president zelenskyy say that ukraine is not now a member of

nato and might well not seek future membership of nato. that, obviously, a key condition for the russians. listen here to president zelenskyy. >> ukraine cannot a member of nato. we understand that we have heard for years that the doors were open. but we also heard that we could not join. it's a truth and it must be recognized. >> now the ongoing a little more quietly and privately than they have been in the past. and private diplomacy is usually more successful than public diplomacy. steve, rachel, brian? >> steve: absolutely. jonathan, given what lavrov is talking about. the foreign minister from russia that there is it progress and you have got zelenskyy. we just showed a soundbite from him yesterday talking about nato

in his wednesday speech. today, he said russia's demands were becoming more realistic, quite smartly, they are not negotiating in public. so we have no idea what they are talking about, right? >> right. we can know the grod outlines of what both sides want. there are the big issues, of course, which a nato manipulate nate membershipis one of those. zelenskyy backing off a potential nato membership is significant. bigger issue here obviously, steve, is going to be a cease-fire. ukrainians say the firing has to stop. russian troops have to stop killing ukrainian civilians and then you have got the really difficult question of territory. what happens to all the eastern and southern areas that the russians are en masse with their troops right now? do those troops just get out of there or do the russians try to hold on to territory? that's a key issue and a very, very difficult one.

>> rachel: jonathan are are these peace negotiations or talks, are they blawrm? bilateral?>> i have seen little information out the united states is assisting in the diplomatic peace talks. what kind of role is america playing in this? >> well, you can be fairly confident that behind the scenes u.s. diplomats are involved in very intense work here but publicly, they can't be the face of this kind of diplomatic push the obvious conflict with russia. you are seeing other nations such as israel. israeli prime minister naftali bennett at the forefront here. seeing turkey at the forefront. they can play an easier role in that they can talk more directly to vladimir putin in russia at the same time as talking to president zelenskyy here in ukraine. but you can be sure that nothing is happening without the

knowledge of u.s. diplomats, too, rachel. >> brian: jonathan, when you think about it only reason for both sides to talk sincerely if they both need to talk. it doesn't seem as though russia can take a single city, they can flatten them. running out of munitions by almost all accounts and begging china for more. on the other hand with the ukrainians, they can get very little offensive gun but how long with they spend in this defensive crowd and lose some civilians. i guess the key would be are you going to reward russia with the land game during this unnecessary invasion by stopping it here or are you going to let them just have the donbas and crimea area which i didn't think ukraine had much hope of getting back anyway. >> that's an extremely good analysis of the entire situation, brian. first of all, yes, you are absolutely right. you have a russian army that is struggling. it's struggling on the ground. it is not making the gains that it thought it would as quickly

as it would. at all right now. you are absolutely right. and then, yes, you have the really difficult questions of these territories. that is the detail, the granular detail of the peace negotiations which will be so hard to get. to say but if they can get to a basis for -- it's a first step if you like. they have to get to the cease-fire. then they say okay. we will willing to talk about this area. we are willing to talk about that area. you are willing to talk about stopping the firing, pulling back some troops at least then we have a basis to move forward. but let's stop the killing of innocent people first. and that's the only way you are really going to get any significant progress. >> steve: one of those areas that the russians have pretty much taken over is mariupol. talk a little bit about the situation at the hospital there. it sounds like russians are holding about 500s who thrages. you can see mariupol in the red on the far right.

apparently what happened was the russians gathered up people in the neighborhood around the hospital, 400 people, put them into the hospital, about 100 doctors and nurses and patients and now they can't leave. they're being used as the human shields because there is so much shooting outside. >> yeah. we are getting word from local officials that there are as you say several hundred people in that hospital. now, the word hostage kind of has weighted tones, of course, it would normally imply somebody inside a building holding somebody against their will there with the aim of achieving something. now, it appears that the russians are outside the hospital and aren't letting people come and go. but either way, whatever way you look at it, steve, essentially russia is holding the entire nation of ukraine hostage. every person in this country is being held hostage right now by russian aggression, steve.

>> brian: including the staff at chernobyl. evidently they came in there. the russians are making them work around the clock at gunpoint, cut off all communication they know if they stop working we could have another nuclear catastrophe. it's amazing what's going on so little responsibility. jonathan, thanks so. >> rachel: thank you, jonathan. >> sure. >> rachel: i thought it was interesting jonathan said obviously the americans can't get involved in this. i think maybe that's true in this administration. but i think there is no doubt in my mind that if this was happening under donald trump's watch, under president trump's watch, he would be talking directly with putin. that's just his style. that's the way he was. >> steve: sure. well, mr. zelenskyy is going to be talking directly to congress. >> rachel: today. >> steve: and to the american people. essentially what he is going to ask. is he going to ask for a no-fly zone. and migs and joe biden has made it clear he is not going to give it to him. the wish list, apparent live what they are asking for and joe biden is going to give close to a billion dollars worth of aid

to them. asking for stinger and javelins and anti-aircraft batteries, able to shoot down russian cargo and fighter planes arriving. according to the "new york times," and this is interesting, the president is considering sending something called the switchblade drone, which essentially is a remote controlled smart phone. it's very cheap. i think each one is $6,000. and the question is whether or not they will release them because at this point the only other country that has been licensed to get them is the united kingdom. they are worried if the former soviets, the russian get this technology they could reverse engineer and it next thing you know we have got them flying against us. >> brian: two russian drones one in romania and one by poland. you are wondering what they are thinking. also the president of the united states is going to be asked again for the migs. and he is going to, maybe perhaps say no. he tends to be kind of pushed into things by president zelenskyy who has so much

political clout right now on the worldwide acclaim. and what president zelenskyy always does so well he makes it a we effort. it's not about him or ukraine. you don't understand, i'm fighting for all of you guys. i'm fighting for freedom and democracy, look at all the countries around us, they are all in jeopardy. do you know who realizes that the three country has showed up yesterday in kyiv, slovakia the czech republic and poland, i imagine estonia i'm for the no-fly zone. latvia and lithuania all feel the same way. super power pretty evident. and this is a recommendation transfer more anti-tank missiles and more anti-craft missiles, also the shoulder fired stingers are good. what about sending the turkish made drones, much more deadly. convince them to send more out. it's not clear that they're. and missile defense systems as well as antiship missiles to russia's dominance in the black sea. if you want to see russia go to

talks they take odesa okay i think we will talk peace now. if they take odesa they have the black sea which leaves ukraine as a land locked nation without their great natural resources. >> steve: you will see the president of ukraine on fox delivering his virtual address to congress coming up at 9:00. in the meantime, as you know, you probably heard it's been a tough week for the fox news family two of our co-workers have died in ukraine pierre and translator and journalist olex sandra known as sasha. >> working with benjamin hall outside of kyiv when gunfire hit their vehicle. ben hall is seriously injured. pierre and sasha did not survive. >> rachel: leave behind a loving family and colleagues and d.c. as well who are absolutely heart broken at the loss of a legend.

>> we were just outside the refugee camp filming refugees and we could hear there was gunfire in the background. pierre or zach as many called him has been with fox for years in and out of war zones. >> on the run gunmen are coming closer, pierre, let's go, grab the sticks. >> before ukraine pierre was on the ground in iraq, afghanistan, in syria. he covered conflicts between countries and helped us report from the middle of riots. pierre was a steady presence in uncertain times. when a correspondent or producer arrived and saw pierre waiting for them, they knew they were in good hangetedz because he could do just about anything. he shot video, fixed equipment, produced stories and edited pieces on the fly. pierre also seemed to also know the background of every location, every story. and he had an extraordinary ability to do his work under incredible pressure and without

sleep. some of our correspondents who worked closely with him feel this loss especially hard. today trey yingst posted this photo with pierre. said he was as good as they come. selfless, brave, passionate. jonathan hunt says he has never forgotten the smile and welcome he received from pierre in 2003 when he first arrived in baghdad. he says pierre made everyone a better journalist and a better person. amy kellogg says pierre was warm and generous with his time. and he was a rare breed of war reporter who never got jaded. greg palkot says he and pierre were embedded with a marine company during iraq's battle of fallujah. he says that pierre saved his life on many occasions over the years. he adds that pierre hated sitting around the newsroom. he wanted to be out chasing the story and greg noted that even when the worst was happening, pierre would repeat his favorite advice to keep on smiling.

>> steve: pierre zakrzewski was just 50 years old. we offer our condolences to all who knew him and sasha's family she was just 24 years old. >> rachel: working as consultant and helping our team to city. our correspondents said she was hard-working so funny, kind and brave. this is such a remind of how these foreign correspondents, in particular, risk their lives. so that we can be a better informed nation. our democracy, it's essential that we have this information and they do it professionally and at great risk to themselves. so grateful. >> brian: got to be tireless. no clock. usually different time zones. different shows ask you to come up at different times and you want to provide new information so you never stop working. always feel as though you are

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>> carley: multiple people killed in a crash carrying golf team. collided head won a pickup troubling in texas. both vehicles caught fire. university of southwest president thurman says they're deeply saddened to learn about the loss of their students' lives and their coach. thurman also said two students have survived and have been airlifted with serious injuries. the russian state employees who stormed on set stop the war has been fined 30,000 rubles now finance influencer kevin is offering her 1 million rubles. the employee hasn't responded to his offer yet but kevin would be shelling out aren't 10,000 u.s. dollars to her. new york governor kathy hochul didn't get the warmest welcome from hockey fans at madison square garden last night.

watch this. hochul dropping the puck during a pregame ceremony at the garden. the fans booing the governor for the reinstatement of new york's mask mandate which has since been revoked. listen to this unvaccinated players for the new york yankees and new york mets will not be allowed to play home games under current new york city vaccine rules. the yankees working with city hall and other officials on the matter. mayor eric adams has admitted the rule is unfair but will not change the rules arguing fears of another covid shut down. i know you have thoughts on this. >> brian: kyrie irving same thing. >> carley: they are playing outside. >> carley: some so dumb. young, healthy playing outside. >> steve: welcome to new york city. >> brian: you coming from another city and unvaccinated and you can play. >> rachel: the mayor has turned out to be such a disappointment

honestly in this area. >> brian: i did not have high hosts the hopes and she did not hit those high hopes. >> rachel: i had high hopes. >> brian: the mayor has 50% approval rating. some things he has done well. definitely a better communicator. definitely more self-assured. he is trying to do some stuff as opposed to de blasio who slept until noon and went to the office and put paper over his head. >> rachel: that's the key to success, follow de blasio. >> brian: lower the bar. >> steve: carley, thank you so much. >> brian: she gone already. >> steve: talk american politics for a while. it's midterm election year. we know that and democrats privately are grousing that, you know, their prospects don't look good because joe biden has kind of not done a great job for them. particularly when it comes to inflation, which before the inflation, was at a 40 year high. particularly with gas, which had gone up a dollar since he essentially declared war on fossil fuels when he took over on the first day.

national price of gas. here's the thing. we have heard from joe biden over the last 48 hours, and he has made it very clear. he can no longer blame donald trump for everything, so instead he says well, you know, i inherited that situation with covid. but now i have got putin. so if you have got a problem. blame putin. >> rachel: that's right. g.o.p.'s lawmakers actually got together and here's what they had to say about all of this. >> i think it's perfectly clear that vladimir putin is not the cause of this rampant inflation that began at the beginning of year. >> if you just take a look at what prices were like when joe biden took office. price a gallon of gasoline 2.38 the day biden became president. probably lower than that the day he was president. before the invasion of ukraine by russia the price was 3.53 in

the united states. this is all on joe biden. >> a typical family we're told is going to pay $2,000 more this year for gasoline than they did last year. and the administration is now shamelessly trying to say these are putin's price hikes or this is corporate greed. >> the president is literally gaslighting the american people. he feels that if he says it enough, people are going to believe that fuel prices were putin's fault. we know that's not true. >> rachel: he is doing nothing to actually fix the problem. he got a bunch of teenagers to help him spin it with these tiktok influencers but he is doing nothing to solve it it's interesting, brian, because you have kamala harris who is like i'm going to get to the root causes of the border. let's look at the root causes of inflation. money printing. money spending and a war on american energy. it's pretty simple stuff. stuff that you know, our

transportation secretary doesn't even get. listen to what he says is the reason. >> of course, the long-term solution for this is energy independence and a shift to renewable energy here in this country. but let's also remember that while oil prices and gas prices are famously something that is largely outside of the direct control of any political figure, there are a lot of things that we could be doing right now that would bring direct relief to the pocketbooks of american families that are greater than most any families family's gasoline bill. >> brian: spend more. proposing spending more dollars putting it into the economy. that will be a great way to turn the economy around and the cnbc anchor says nobody thinks spending is going to help us get out of this. meanwhile most experts say including larry summers the rescue plan laid the groundwork for increased inflation and things we can do at home about drilling. the people who do this for a living say if you do drilling and you up the flow of oil and gas through pipelines and

actually start on finishing pipelines that you already started that would send a signal to the market where we are heading that would bring prices down which are now under $100. i thought larry summers also, who was treasury secretary under president obama had an interesting line today. he said the fed is really letting us down along with the administration. he said the fed thought inflation would be at 2% for the next year. six months later expecting optimism that inflation was transitory. two weeks ago it was still buy mortgage backed securities even as ohio state prices had increased by more than 20% no. information offered total flat out confusion. meanwhile look at joe manchin, a democrat, moderate, from an energy state is for clean and renewable energy but also actually understands that we have to worry about now. listen. >> worrying about the global climate, anything and everything that the united states does to replace and help our european allies, nato allies, we do it

better and cleaner than anybody else. i can tell you, much, much better than russia does it much better than what venezuela or what iran does it so why wouldn't we use ours? why don't we ramp up and use the energy that we have? and we have the ability. we have the producers that can do it. they just need some support. that's all. rather than beating them up and taking a club to them. let's basically encourage. basically do more. be able to produce more quicker and let's make the united states of america truly energy independent. and let's work with our canadian allies and friends right across the border. let's work with mexico. let's make this a north american energy hub. >> this should be the greatest energy market in the world. >> steve: we know the administration from the get-go, they have been trying to push renewables. it would be great if everybody drove a $70,000 car but we can't do that between now and the midterms. so they are in a pickle. but the reality is america runs on oil. i mean, this show runs on

dunkin' but america runs on oil at this point. >> brian: right now 40% of electric energy is from fossil fuels. 40% is coal. 65% overall runs on fossil fuels. plus we have nowhere to put these batteries yet. no one has found a economical ebb environmentally safe place to do with all these batteries. >> steve: they wear out. >> brian: they store energy. who is going to create that energy to go into the car? i think i'm telling you, man, joe manchin is laying the groundwork to run for president. he might get two democratic supporters in the primaries. buff he is winning over so many people. >> rachel: it's just by saying common sense. is he not incredible he is telling the truth. >> steve: so unusual for washington, d.c. >> rachel: it is. >> steve: i don't know any democrats that would vote for him. i don't know that a lot of republicans would vote for the democrats. >> rachel: i don't think so either. >> steve: we are paying attention to what he is saying. >> brian: is he helping save the country.

>> rachel: state college in upstate, new york is hosting convicted cop killer as on campus speaker. anthony bottom will speak to students about diversity even though he killed two nypd officers in the 1970s. >> brian: todd piro is here now with more on the controversial event. >> todd: this is such a head scratcher. good morning to all three of you. upstate college will honor political prisoners on campus event sunny brockport inviting history of black resistance u.s. political prisoners and genocide. 1971 two new york city police officers were killed by julial formerly known as anthony bottom. he was with a group of black liberation army assassinated. called a mentor to many and a loving human being. diane, the widow of one of the slain officers telling fox news digital that brockport

misrepresented him quote they are presenting him as a political figure and that is so untrue. nowhere is that biodoes it say he is a two time cop killer. we do not support the violence exhibited in his previous crime and his presence on campus does not imply endorsement of his views or past actions. , however we believe in freedom of speech. he was denied parole nine times before being released on parole back in 2020. back to you. >> steve: you are right. it's a head scratcher. >> rachel: it's okay if he speaks but then like ben shapiro and other conservatives can't. >> brian: thanks, todd. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. up next conceding never nate tonight retired brigadier general anthony tata reacts next

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>> ukraine is not a member of nato we understand that we have heard for years that the doors were open. but we also heard that we could not join. it's a truth and it must be recognized. >> brian: beginning to maybe break down when it comes to these thoughts what they were willing to give on. i'm talking about the ukrainians, president zelenskyy conceding that ukraine will never join nato he says. he is expected to keep pushing for as no-fly zone from the president when he addresses a

joint session of congress today in a few hours. anthony tata. first off, what are the two things if you are zelenskyy, what tangible do you walk away with from this speech today hope to? >> well, first of all, he has created this great image for courage and leadership on the battlefield so he has got a lot of political capital right now. so he has got to make his ask very directly to the american people, which, you know, if i'm zelenskyy. i'm asking for he wants a no-fly zone that's rather meaningless. if that's what he wants he needs to ask for it. then he needs to ask for equipment for support, for lines of communication from all the nato nations that border him. and there are several to get support into the country. >> brian: let's talk about -- you believe some of the reports he has already killed over 1,000 russians. took out 81 planes, 404 tanks. as we look at the whole

battlefield, you see the red areas in which the russians occupy. and not without turbulence. but you see a lot of direction on kharkiv, mariupol, as well as kyiv. as well as kyiv. what worries you the most, the capital? >> brian when you look that the map dnieper river in the middle. pressure come down from belarus to the command and control center on kyiv and from the russians. and then you have got the russians trying to move from the south and east, west toward the dnieper river to seize the terrain and the key ports and cities that you see on the map there and then eventually do a river crossing and secure the whole country. now, it's not going as putin had hoped what we are seeing is great leadership from zelenskyy,

thankfully and good action on the ground from the ukrainian troops. i commanded ukrainian troops when i was a commander in the 101st airborne division. >> brian: pretty tough. battalion working for me. >> we have good troops. they are great fighters. and what we're seeing is that passion right now, that atlantic nickel school playing out on the battlefield and disrupting the russian invasion. >> brian: general, i hear there are strong reports the russians are running out of food and running out of fuel. and they're running out of munitions and armament. a lot of people think you hold out 10 days there could be a big victory. as i see the map of europe and i see the blue nato nations. i'm wondering where finland and sweden have always said don't bother me, we are happy the way we are neutral. i'm wondering if they are going to apply to become part of nato because they don't want to see what happened to them, which has happened to the ukraine right now. what do you think?

>> i think finland and sweden have a real decision to make and nato has a decision to make with regard to whether or not to continue to expand the territory. whether or not to provide that protective buffer. do we want, you know, them within the article five rubric of attack against one is an attack against all? it's a tough decision and a lot of policymakers will be working flew it. >> brian: sweden and norway hit all the marks. if they apply they should get it russians should understand people have a right to pick their own government. i would love to see them apply and see if things change now. because i really think nato is really coming to their own at a time in which everyone thought they were just dying by the wayside. let's hope something comes out of the president's speech today and the talks over in the ukraine. thank you. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: border crossers were up 63% in february froms that year. 63%. chad wolf reacts to the surge as another massive wave of migrants

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>> rachel: we are learning more about china's role in the war on ukraine. warn europe that putin asked china for armed drones just days after russia began their invasion. but china now claims they are, quote: completely objective and impartial and constructive on the escalation. here to react is former acting dhs secretary chad wolf. chad, so china says we are impartial. we also know that they made some deals with russia prior to the invasion that indicates that they may have been, you know, givens in the about the fact that russia, indeed, was going to invade ukraine. >> well, i think that's right. i think if did you go back to early february where russia and china signed a no limits

relationship, so i think it's pretty clear china also abstained from two u.n. resolution votes against the invasion. >> rachel: that's right. >> their impartiality is questionable at this point. i think there is a lot of discussions going on between moscow and beijing. i think that's really what we need to look at. i think china really has a decision to make are they going to go full support for moscow, provide them military equipment, military aid as though that's what russia is actually requesting today? and i think beijing is starting to realize that as their ambitions for taiwan at the end of the day are very similar to what we are seeing in ukraine that they have got to understand, what you know, the fight that they are going to have. and the international outrage that they are going to have to go against at the end of the day. so i think probably beijing's eye was a little bit more open now than they were at the beginning of february. >> rachel: maybe a little more humbled. theirs is an army that never

fought a war. a lot more battle hardened and struggling right now. hopefully that is causing the chinese to pause a little bit on their ambitions in taiwan. let's take another subject here. we are talking a lot about borders but just not our own borders. so, the brave border patrol just released these numbers of encounters in february up 63%. you have been seeing these numbers just explode since the end of the trump administration. your thoughts? >> well, a couple of thoughts. one, it seems to be the norm under the biden administration that you are are going to have over 150,000 illegal apprehensions every single month. that's an astronomical number that has never been seen before it seems to be the norm. those numbers are not going south. i think we are on track. we are in the first five months of fiscal year 2022, we are on track, the biden administration is on track to beat it 2021 numbers of 1.7 million. which was an all-time high. but, what we are seeing is those

numbers will likely be surpassed if we continue to go down this route. and you have to remember, february, january and february historically low months for border crossings, but we don't see that now. we don't see that under the biden administration. it's extremely high. so if you are at 160 plus thousand in february. and march, april, may, you will see that number skyrocket. >> rachel: no end in sight. we will have to have you back. i was in mexico not long ago. really shocked by the security situation there. i'm really afraid that we are turning it into a narcostate that we are destabilizing our neighbor country with our policies that are absolutely enriching and empowering the cartels. so we will have to have you back because i think this is a big, hot topic we need to talk about. chad, always great to talk to you. you are always so informed on this topic. >> thank you.

>> rachel: carley? >> carley: woman facing 20 years in prison for possessing the gun that killed her. kate steinle was shot by zero rattay on san francisco pier in 2015. this week he pled guilty to two gun charges each holding a 10-year sentence. at the time of the shooting he had been deported five times and wanted for a sixth deportation hearing. he was acquitted of the murder and other charges in 2017. pfizer submitting the bid to the fda for a fourth covid dose to americans age 65 and older. data from last year found that efficacy of the two dose vaccine wayne's after only 5 to 6 months. will americans could receive a fourth jab in the coming months. tesla ceo elon musk is doubling down on his challenge to duel for a single combat. took a bizarre turn when branded

as elona and invited him to train on firearms and martial arts. thank you for the offer but such training would give me too much of. musk changed his name on twitter to elona musk. more than 3 million people fleeing their homes to neighbors countries. working tirelessly to provide food hygiene as well as helping people to get to safety. fox corporation has helped raise more than $8 million to help support red cross' efforts in ukraine. can you help, too. head over to red cross.org/fox forward to give to the cause. >> rachel: we all know pain at the pump is costing you more money. but now it's costing some businesses their employees. how a surge in gas price is impacting the american workforce.

jamg january good morning, everyone. happy wednesday. temperatures are going to warm up in the northeast. 54 already in new york. we will take it look at this, feeling like springtime in philadelphia today and richmond, even boston we are going to get up into the 60 and close to 70 degrees on friday. look at this. hello friday. 75 in philadelphia, 68 in

boston. so that's kind of nice. we do have a storm system to the south of us. and that could bring the potential for severe storms including hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes from florida up towards the southeast. and then we're going to watch this next storm system that moves in. but this is the one from today that will move into the mid-atlantic and the northeast tomorrow if you have some travel plans just march ahead for that our next system comes out of the rockies. that's the one that could produce more severe storms on thursday and friday. look at those temperatures. we love it 80 in dallas. 61 in atlanta. and we will also watch the northwest where things are unsettled with coastal rain and some mountain snow over the next couple of days. all in all, not too bad a forecast, especially if you like the springtime weather here in new york city. steve, back to you. >> steve: bring it on. all right, j.d., thank you very much. >> janice: you got it. >> steve: america's businesses. staff shortages have rocked many industries across america. but could the surging gas prices cause a new wave of people quitting their jobs?

one indiana metal factory has lost more than 7% of its workforce in the last two weeks and the ceo who is joining us right now j.d. brown is the ceo of bci solution. j.b., the reason people are leaving is because they can't afford the gas. >> that's one of the reasons, steve, good morning and happy wednesday. you know, a year ago we were at $2.70 a gallon. a.a.a. standards for south bend, yeand indiana, that's increased to $4.26. just a month ago we were at 3.34. a 22% increase in prices in gas. in 2008 we learned a valuable lesson. we were rocking and doing great job. we had a great economy doing things and gas got above $4 a gallon. and when it got to be $4 a gallon, you know, we started losing employees and we were wondering why. they said it was too far to drive. right now in our county in mark county in breeman, indiana we

are .09% unemployment. rv capital of the world. in northern indiana we have more available jobs than we have people available. and, you know, the gas prices are real serious issue for our employees. >> steve: no kidding. i remember when i was in high school, we live 25 miles from my job, in clay center, kansas, at one point during the oil embargo i said to the boss i will have to quit because i can't afford the gas. they wound up giving me like a $50 a week stippen or something like that. have you talked about giving your employees a some sort of a little gas bonus? >> yeah. you know, that's been an interesting conversation in the last, i would say starting thursday we started talking about that. you know, as we are close with our team members here, and we hear them talk. we hear what they are having to say. nothing is off the table. we are looking at all the situations to keep our talented employees and our team members here. you know, we are trying to figure out what else can we do to ease the pain for them?

but, at the same time, we are going to have to help pass that on to our customers as well. we are still fighting global economies that, you know, we have issues right now where we are getting force majeure letters because of the illegal invasion of ukraine and all the minerals and metals that come out of ukraine and russia, you know, is coming to a stop. i don't even know where it's going to be in april. we might not have an employee shortage we could have a material shortage. >> steve: you brought up ukraine. you heard the president blames vladimir putin for the high price of gas. you just laughed. what do you think of his assessment? >> well, let's see what was a gallon of gas when he became president, what is it today and what was it before the ukraine invasion? and we all know that, you know, it's gone up like 20% before the ukraine invasion since he became president right around that area. so, you know, blaming the invasion -- yes over $4 a

gallon. but it was still going up before that and on 2019 on the campaign trail. what did he say? he was going to end fossil fuel. end america's depend dense on fossil fuel at no costs. now we are seeing the costs. what's going to happen with u.s. manufacturers? >> steve: joe bastardi. you know the answer he wants you to buy a prius. >> well, i don't want to buy a prius. i wouldn't fit in one. second of all tesla is the answer. well it's $60,000 for as at the a la. who is going to be able to afford $60,000 tesla and where does the nickel come from for the batteries russia? what's going to happen to battery prices? >> steve: every story that's happening in the world is at your doorstep right now. they are awful impacting you, j.b. >> we are celebrating our 83rd an verse sorry tomorrow we turn 83 years old tomorrow. this isn't the way we wanted to celebrate talking about these kind of things. we wanted it to be happy and have great economy. yeah, we have a great backlog it's because of the covid pandemic. we thought covid was hard to manufacture in.

wait until we have to go through what we're getting ready to go through in the next couple of months. >> steve: exit question. you are in indiana. if anybody wants to work at your fountain dry, do you have a website or something. >> we sure do wwwbci solutions.com. we have a full machine shop and full assembly. we are just not a fountain dry. >> steve: indeed you are are not. j.b., thank you for joining us and telling us your story. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: you bet. knives to meet you. 1:00 in the ukraine in the afternoon and "fox & friends" hour two starts right now. ♪ two hours from right now president zelenskyy is set to deliver a virtual address to the u.s. congress. >> the main thing we need right now is a no-fly zone. without that basically useless. [siren] ukraine. >>en cities including kyiv under a curfew as russia continues intense bombardment. >> putin is intended to collapse this country by slaughtering them. >> three european leaders

standing alongside president zelenskyy. >> you are fighting not only for your city but also for ours. [explosion] >> president zelenskyy speaking to the canadian parliament. >> this is historical moment and we need your support. [applause] [explosion] >> ukraine very existence is in peril and it seems vladimir putin is deterring us from doing the right thing. >> brian: in just two hours ukrainian president zelenskyy is set to deliver a virtual address to congress as he presses the u.s. for additional assistance in his defense against the russia unnecessary invasion. >> steve: ukrainian cities including kyiv under 35-hour curfew as russia continues intense bombardments overnight. no one, it seems, is safe. >> rachel: that's right. we have peter doocy standing by at the white house with more on the major developments out of

washington, d.c. but, first, we go live to lviv where jonathan hunt has all the breaking updates. jonathan, good morning. >> rachel, steve, brian, good morning to all of you. there is a glimmer of hope this in that both the russian and ukrainian delegations are hinting that there has been some progress at peace talks. we await the details of that but both sides are motivated to keep talking because they are essentially fighting each other to a stand still on the battlefield. ukrainian officials say they continue to cause huge casualties among russian forces. they have put out this video of what they say are ukrainian forces attacking and destroying russian tanks in the luhansk region in the east of the country. meantime russian forces hit back continuing their bombardment of several cities across ukraine,

including kharkiv in the east. much of which appears to have been reduced to little more than rubble against that back drop, the ukrainian government and people got a huge and significant display of support yesterday with the polish czech republic and slovenian prime ministers showing up in kyiv to sit with president zelenskyy and express their support for him and every single ukrainian. listen here. >> this invasion is has to stop. those killed by putin they can never be forgotten. we will never leave you alone. we will be with you. because we know that you are fighting not only for your homes, for your freedom, for your security but also for ours. >> and in what may be a significant step forward, president zelenskyy said that

ukraine might not now and might not in the immediate future seek nato membership. that could make a big difference in the talks. listen here to president zelenskyy. >> ukraine is not a member of nato. we understand that. we have heard for years that the doors were open. but we also heard that we cannot join. it's a truth and it must be recognized. >> now that is very significant. if president zelenskyy put more detail on the bones of that and actually commits to not seeking nato membership, that is obviously a key demand of the russians in return we are hearing today from the ukrainian delegation that they believe they are making progress on security guarantees. that would mean, in other words, guys, if the ukrainians say okay, we will not seek nato

membership now or in the immediate future, nato countries, including the united states and the russians on the other side would have to sign some sort of security guarantee for a free ukraine. those are obviously very big points that both sides want agreement on before there will be anything like a real cease-fire here. steve, rachel, brian? >> brian: jonathan, of course the last time they had a peace agreement they gave up their nukes and look how that turned out. they were told guaranteed i security by russia and nato nations especially the u.s. does this sound right to you, jonathan? these ukrainians are releasing these numbers. they say they have killed 13,500 russians. took out 81 planes, 4123 tanks. 479 armored vehicles and 95 choppers. i know they have had success but do those numbers sound accurate to you from antidotal evidence that you might have seen?

>> i think the general view, brian, is that those numbers might be somewhat inflated of course one of the tools every side uses in any war is propaganda. the ukrainians will want the russian troops who are here to believe that they are taking out a great deal of russian armory. that they're killing a large number of russian troops to keep fighting against them. so, take it with a grain of salt. but there is no doubt, brian, that the ukrainian forces are inflicting greater losses on the russians. and the russian president vladimir putin and the russian general thought they would suffer. so, the exact numbers are hard to come by, but certainly this has been a lot tougher for the russian forces than they expected, brian. >> steve: if zelenskyy took nato off the table, then, you know, putin could claim a win, hey, that's what we wanted in the lock haul but ultimately

mr. zelenskyy wants a cease-fire desperately. and he wants all the russians out. the big question is russians out of what? because they have already installed some mayors in a couple of different towns to try to establish new break away republic. so, in addition to the territory on the east, they would have some stuff down south. >> right. and territory is going to be very important when they get to the nitty gritty of any peace deal here. which ultimately they will have to get to, steve. but you make a very good point about nato, non-nato membership for ukraine. that coming off the table being a win for president putin. you go back and read the art of war. one of the great philosophers of war. he said that you have to build what he called a golden bridge for -- along which your enemy can retreat.

that -- ukraine agreeing to not becoming a member of nato might be part of that golden bridge, at least one brick in it. they have to find, if you like a dignified way out is that what a that golden bridge means for president putin. a lot of people will say, of course, that man does not deserve any dignified exit whatsoever but the reality on the ground and in the air is that they have to give him what other people have called an off ramp, steve. >> steve: there you go, the off ramp could be a bridge. jonathan, thank you very much for the live report from lviv. >> rachel: thanks, jonathan. sounds hopeful. i'm really happy about that. >> steve: it does indeed. if lavrov is optimistic and zelenskyy is optimistic. we will hear the president of ukraine's speech to congress at 9:00 this morning. he is going to deliver a rare speech to a joint session of congress. ains. >> rachel: he is expected to

pressure president biden no-fly zone over ukraine. >> steve: peter doocy at the white house with a look ahead at this pivotal day. >> we expect president zelenskyy to challenge members of congress to back up all this big talk that they have about supporting ukraine by enforcing a no-fly zone there. >> close the airspace, please stop the bombing. how many more gruesome cruise missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen? >> pete: but a no-fly zone is a no from the only person who can order it. the commander-in-chief joe biden who is also hesitant to facilitate the transfer of mig fighter jets to the tiny ukrainian air force because the president thinks that would be escalatory. >> to put it bluntly is zelenskyy wasting his time tomorrow asking for these things. >> well, i would say because of the passion and the courage and the bravery of president zelenskyy, there has been

support for expediting the delivery of an historic amount of military and security assistance and weapons that have helped him and his military fight back against the russians. >> and the russians have now announced their own sanctions against members of the united states government including the president by saying that joe biden can no longer visit russia if he wanted to. but the white house is saying that because of a clerical error where they didn't list him as joseph r. biden jr. they think that the russians may have accidently sanctioned joe biden's late father. back to you. >> steve: that would be embarrassing. hey, peter. you made it very clear. axios is calling this zelenskyy's shame on your tour-shame on you tour where he is calling out the united states for no-fly zone and no jets. but it does sound as if the president is considering this smart bomb drone called a

switchblade. hadn't signed off on it yet but that could be a game changer. >> pete: yes. what that weapon does, it's basically like a bomb that has cameras attached. and you can only use it once because it explodes on target. but it would allow the ukrainians to operate from about 50 miles away to take out russian targets. so that's one of the options that is reportedly being considered as part of another $1 billion in security assistance that we expect the president to announce later on today. >> brian: all right. thanks, peter. let's talk oil and gas and let's bring in governor mike dunleavy of alaska and, governor, there's an offer being made by the russians to buy back alaska. they say they never should have sold it to us. it cost us $7.2 million. are you worried we're going to sell you to russia? >> no. not at all. >> brian: were you surprised this brought this up. >> nobody worries about that.

>> brian: were you surprised they brought this up? >> not really because we hear this every now and then. we a have heard this over the decade so many in the russian parliament they lament the fact that they gave up alaska 1867 as a matter of fact. we never take it seriously. we have a pretty significant military presence here in alaska air force, army, and who knows what we have under the seas. but we feel pretty protected up here. >> governor, it's been interesting because alaska and drilling and oil has been right at the forefront of what is going on. you said we have got the oil here bring about independence. will sanctioned more than. iranian oil, venezuelan oil. stealing the brunt of the

sanctions. maybe the upside of russia taking alaska you would finally be able to drill and maybe biden would buy the oil from alaska. >> you know, some have said that if that were the case then we would be able to drill. honestly, we are trying to have discussions with our own federal government and trying to get them to understand that alaska can be a huge piece in our energy independence. not just oil and gas, but renewables as well. we have a robust hydro situation here in alaska. geothermal. you name it nonetheless it should be an all-in policy. what's happening now out of washington is it'sen being for renewables at the expense of oil and gas. we are seeing the problems and continue to see the problems if that's going to be the policy. our hope it's an all-in approach. if it is alaska is there to do its job and be a part of this. i think we can contribute significantly to america's independence. >> steve: you described the very famous alaska pipeline right now is bringing to the united states

main land something like half a million barrels a day, something like that. but, at its peak, it was doing 2 million barrels a day. so it could go up 1.5 million barrels a day. what's stopping the oil producers in alaska from producing all that extra oil to put it in the pipeline to get it down here so our gas prices go down? >> well, we couple oil will willow put in 140 to 160,000 barrels of oil stopped by a federal court. the judge in this particular case was concerned about downstream carbon, in other words, what happens after you drill and that oil goes somewhere and it's used, how does that contribute to carbon? i mean this is a whole new approach to shutting down clays here in alaska, anwar which we have tried to get open for decades open 2018 under a bill president trump agreed to

compels us to sell leases in anwar and start the process of developing those oil leases that was stopped by the biden administration. so, we have a whole list of approaches and projects that have been curtailed by the federal government and it takes years to get oil online. we have those plays in place now. if we are just allowed to go through the process we can contribute significantly over the years to our oil and our independence. hopefully this unfortunate situation in the ukraine will be a wake-up call from the federal government. >> steve: you heard from the white house joe biden and jen psaki said there are 9,000 leases out there the oil producers could do what they want with them. you are detailing the federal government and the administration has pretty much standing and saying hey, stop. whether it's the court or whether it's the federal land, they are the ones stopping it. >> right. we don't feel the support. as soon as the biden administration got in to office, they began this process, for

example anwar stopping that. offshore oil leases. stopping that. and in the case of the play i mentioned willow the federal court stopped that nonetheless, if there was support from this administration, i think you would see things moving and you would see a significant change, i believe, in what we could produce here in the future. not the long-term future but, you know, future years we could be putting a lot more oil in this pipeline which, again, will contribute to our security and independence. >> brian: joe manchin is from energy state west virginia. a democrat. this is what he said we should be doing now after all why are looking at a global crisis. >> if you are worried about the global climate, everything and anything that the united states does to replace and help our european allies, nato allies, we do it better and cleaner than anybody else. i can tell you much, much better than russia does it much better than what venezuela or what iran does it so why wouldn't we use ours? why don't we ramp up and use the

energy that we have? and we have the ability. we have the producers that can do it. they just need some support. that's all. rather than beating them up and taking a club to them. let's basically encourage. basically do more. be able to produce more quicker and let's make the united states of america truly energy independent and then let's work with our canadian allies and our friends right across the border. let's work with mexico. let's make this a north american energy hub. this shoud be basically the greatest energy market in the world. >> brian: how hard would that be, governor? >> not that hard. we have the energy. in alaska we have the infrastructure as mentioned we have a pipeline. it has capacity. we have ports. we already have, you know, significant fines that we have identified. so not hard. all we need is for the federal government and its agencies to say go get the oil started producing the gas. and we will do it we have it here. we are ready to roll. >> steve: i think we have solved the problem. thank you. >> rachel: the problem is governor manchin is the only one

in his party who thinks that way. that will be what holds us up. governor, thanks for joining us this morning. we would love for lawnk to help us solve these prices and energy crisis self-inflict flicked. >> brian: when a real state calls from russia do not answer the door. i do not want to sell. >> steve: also asking for california. and we have not heard from governor newsom whether or not is he going to turn it over. >> rachel: one of a lot of people in line for reparations the russians. >> carley: also russia, a lot of republicans are call for an investigation into whether russia was funding climate change groups in the u.s. >> rachel: of course they were. >> brian: congressman banks looking into that. >> carley: hurt our energy independence. definitely a story to watch. two sheriff deputies are shot in broad daylight in washington state. the pierce county sheriff's department says the deputies were running a high risk warrant on a felony assault suspect. deputies say the suspect got out

of a car and fired at officers. officers opening fire in return killing 40-year-old suspect jeremy dayton. sergeant rich skinify undergoing surgery and expected to survive. the other failed attempted ballistic missile launch by north korea this morning. the missile fired from the capital region exploding just 1. the u.s. indo-pacific commands says it did not pose any threat to u.s. territory. this is the 10th missile launch by north korea just this year. the senate is ready to drop mask mandates on public transportation after a 57-40 vote. this rolls back the requirement that most people wear masks in transit including trains, airplanes and buses. the tsa has issued more than $650,000 in proposed fines to passengers who did not comply

with mask mandates in the last year. and those are your headlines, guys. >> steve: there is no mask on the airplanes that will make it easier to drink the little bottle. >> carley: that's true. i have a feeling the house is going to block that one though. they got to keep on masking. >> brian: at least hope for april. thanks, carley. ukrainians are desperate for medical splice and ambulances being shot at by unknown forces can you say russia? update on the ground from ukrainians who stayed behind to help. >> we have to deal with some people people in the hospital. just devastating to see that nobody, you know, stepping in to stop this madness. ♪ it's my woke-up-like-this migraine medicine. it's ubrelvy. one dose can quickly stop my migraine in its tracks within 2 hours. don't take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine.

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♪ >> rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." ukrainians are desperate for medical supplies and blabs and they are being shot at. our next guest is the ceo of an emergency response organization who joined us at the start of the invasion as he worked to help his fellow ukrainians. eo joins us now within a update. thank you so much for joining us this morning. what are you seeing, i know you are having trouble getting medical supplies from moldova. >> basically we have an issue -- in the way pro-russian area and i think that political issue that we cannot get it to there but we able to buy inside moldova and bring it to the border. this is what we do basically. we don't have any other choice. the only way that we can do

that. >> rachel: i understand fuel costs are actually beginning to hamper your rescue efforts. explain. >> fuel costs are -- it comes to around $3 a liter. you can see this bus. this bus colmes cost one trip $2,000. which is crazy high. it's getting also very hard to find fuel because a lot of gas stations don't let you fill up more than 10 liters which is basically nothing. we get stuck. knee need to go and collect. it get us in a place where it's very tough to help the people get out. but, of course, with the help of the people, we can always do more and try to do more. those buses we bought because of fox news thank you very much. >> rachel: that's amazing. >> absolutely. >> rachel: that just warms my heart knowing that that bus was bought by our viewers and ondurr

corporation. that's amazing. >> we also have a lot of special operations se. evacuations of people with, you know, issues, health issues and things like this. those ambulances that we also got through the assistance of fox news, thank you very much. we managed to do a lot. we had one heart breaking story of autistic child. his grandmother died and he stayed by himself and we had to find him and managed to take him out with the help of minister, one of the israeli government ministers. we managed to get him out, thank god and he is safe and sound in israel. that's one of the many stories that we have dealing with in the

past couple of weeks now. >> rachel: you are doing amazing work. i don't know how you are holding up. you have such great spirit about you. i'm sure people in ukraine. many of these beleaguered families walking to the border. >> hungry, cold, thirsty, in need of medical attention it r. probably so grateful when they see your beautiful bus come by and able to help. >> thank you so much. i will tell you this. i know you have a lot of kids. >> rachel: yes. >> and i have seen those kids, you know, i'm coming from a family of 10 children. so myself, i know how it feels and i see the mothers with many kids, you know, you see them around roaming, you know, little kids maybe 2, 3, 4-year-old, it's freezing cold at night. you have to understand it's really freezing and they are buy the border waiting or walking to the border miles away because there is no way to get to the border with cars or buses. it's packed. everything is crowded and it's heart breaking to see those

scenes. >> rachel: yeah. listen, as a mom it has been really hard for me to look at and take it all in. i can't imagine the cold, i can't imagine all the things that moms have to do for those children. the bathroom breaks. the diapers. everything that goes with young kids. >> absolutely. >> rachel: they are doing heroic efforts to keep their families safe. and so are you. >> so we thank you so much >> go to h ukraine.org. no dashes just h ukraine help ukraine and please come help us. thank you very much for having me. >> rachel: you are doing god's work. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> rachel: still ahead congressman dan crenshaw and senator john kennedy will join us ahead of zelenskyy's address to congress. plus your springtime road trip might be hitting a road block and not just because ever the high gas prices. the other rising cost forcing drivers to rethink their travel

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as you see there is almost not an empty pump out here despite $4.30 an average of gallon up a nickel down a little bit from yesterday which i guess you could say is good news. when we did a survey or at leastth a.a.a. did a little bit ago, 60% of folks said if prices got to $4 a gallon they would buy less gas. 75% of the $5. what is the reality? well, the reality is the folks that morning consult did a survey and the survey says only about a quarter of us have actually bought less gas since the prices came up. 68% about the same and 9% even bought more gas. you talked about other things going up as well like spring break vacation, folks at aaa say we are still going through with it, just going to cost us. listen. >> people have been cooped up because of covid. they are ready to break out.

no exodus from those plans as a result of higher gasoline prices. >> in addition to prices renting a place to go. take a look at these numbers. if you want to go to the shore, 16% more for those vacation rentals, about 20% more if you want to go to the mountains. there is help on the way when it comes to gas price. take look at the latest forecast from the u.s. department of energy. despite the obstacles in their way, u.s. producers are ramping up the forecasters maybe 12 million barrels a day in 2022 on average, about only 11.2 million barrels in 2021. and i will leave you with this last possible piece of good news. that is that we're at 4:30 right now. the forecast as we get down to 4.10 in the fairly near future and diesel comes down about 50 cents cheaper than it is right now. worth noting that those two numbers if we get down that low will be the all time record just

before all of this craziness began. still going to stay high get your wallets out. >> brian: 63% of the country say we are heading in the wrong direction. in your gut feeling is this part of it? is everything more expensive especially when you get behind the wheel? >> i will tell you people talk to say yeah i understand climate change and green future that's great. right now we are in the mix of a war in this country and we need to realign our priorities at the moment. >> rachel: absolutely. jeff, the two groups indicating the most hurt from the gas prices and the inflation are hit-and-run men and black females both heads of so many working class. that's who is really hurting. >> me, you guys right there. we have enough money.

there is a lot of people in this country have a lot of money to pay for extra gas. there is a whole lot of people that don't. those are the people that are getting hurt most by this. >> steve: he is out by the highway. is he out standing in his field. jeff flock thank you very much look at that somebody gave you a honk. thank you for joining us live from pennsylvania. >> rachel: thank you, jeff. tonight my husband has been hosting fox business the 5:00 p.m. hour all week and this week he is having inflation town hall inflation in america. is he having dave ramsey, governor rick scott and a lot of americans. going to talk about their inflation and gas price problems. and how we can, you know, manage and navigate this very difficult time for so many americans. >> brian: think how much cheaper that would have been able to do last year. >> rachel: sean is a lot more expensive this year. >> steve: 80 minutes from right now ukrainian president zelenskyy is going to address lawmakers in congress.

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>> close the airspace. please stop the bombing. how many more cruise missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen? >> steve: the president of ukraine expected to double down on his request for a no-fly zone in his virtual address to congress in an hour and 15 minutes. you will see it right here on fox. our next two guests are two bipartisan colleagues calling on the biden administration to provide more stuff for ukraine. republican congressman congressional ukraine caucus co-chair brian fitzpatrick joins us now along with democratic congresswoman christie houlahan, good morning to both of you. >> good morning.

>> good morning, steve. >> congresswoman houlahan, let me start with you. i know your father was born in ukraine. you have a vested interest in it. mr. zelenskyy is going to ask for a no-fly zone and the migs and joe biden at this point is going to say no, sorry. >> sure, and thank you very much for having the both of us. you are right mile. father was born in lviv what was actually poland and now ukraine. certainly it is personal to me. but it should be personal to all of us. this is very much reflective of 1939 and that is worrisome time for those of us who are student of history. in terms of what zelenskyy will ask for. likely it will be a repeat of what we heard the last time he addressed our congress, which is, as you have mentioned more stuff. we are very much in support of answering that call and, of course, the administration is where the buck stops and we are responsible as members of congress to ask the questions and push for answers. >> steve: sure, absolutely. congressman fitzpatrick was an fbi agent who posted to ukraine

for a while. so he completely understands things. so, congressman, the administration says at this point i heard the pentagon say, you know, at this point, ukraine still has airplanes left. and we don't think that they really need them at this point. and they don't want to anger vladimir putin and draw us into world war iii. when you are dealing with putin. it is a delicate balance. >> well, sure. but, it's pretty consistent to say on the one hand to say they don't need them and on the other hand it's provocative if we give them to them. i don't understand the distinction, steve between lethal equipment ie javelins and stingers being driven across the border and lethal equipment, ie migs, and drones being flown across the border a distinction without a difference. we ought to give volodymyr zelenskyy what is he asking for. >> steve: congresswoman houlahan it does sound as if the administration is considering the smart drones, they are

called switch blades, which only cost like 5,000 or $6,000 a piece. i don't know if the company that makes them is up to producing thousands of them, but you, nonetheless, the administration is considering that because that would be very helpful to the men and women on the ground in ukraine trying to defend themselves against the russian aggression. >> yes. and i know that we are also looking into a variety of other different asks from zelenskyy and from his administration. and i'm hopeful that we will continue to be as creative in our solutions and what we are able to deliver them as possible. they are in a fight for their lives. and we are hopefully going to be able to be as helpful as we possibly can. >> steve: one more thing congressman fitzpatrick that both of you stand on the same side of, and that is, i think, where the zelenskyy address is going to be taking place a little later on today. in about 80 minutes. congressman, the both of you are bipartisan in urging the

administration to now sanction not just russian banks but chinese banks as a way to keep the chinese from going into taiwan. explain this to the folks at home. >> yeah. well in the criminal justice world, the get away driver is as chargeable and prosecutable as the bank robber is. so if china is in any way aiding and abetting to circumventing of sanctions by russia, then they should be held to account. obviously that's important. >> we need to keep china on the sidelines as much as possible and these are some of the mechanisms that we can do to do that. >> steve: sure. because we have heard the united states is leading the sanctions against russia, but then we heard there are stories about how china is calling and said you know, we can take that extra oil from you. i was reading that apparently the country of india, congresswoman, might also be saying hey, you are selling cheap gas, we will take it. >> yeah. i'm frankly confounded by india

in this particular set of circumstances and their movements right now have been a little bit perplexing to be honest. but you are not wrong to say that places like china and india are people that we need to be making sure that we're keeping an eye on to make sure that this doesn't snowball or escalate into something that we don't anticipate or plan on. >> steve: sure. and congressman fitzpatrick, i know you know people in ukraine. they are calling you or contacting you. what are they saying about the conditions on the ground? >> it's heart breaking, steve. as you know, i was there on the border just last week. the image of seeing these men age 18 to 60 who have to stay and fight for their country saying goodbye to their spouses, their wives, their moms, their daughters. one of the most heart breaking things i have ever seen. we have to get them the help they need. >> steve: absolutely. all right we know you are going to be in attendance for the address coming up in an hour. they are both from pennsylvania. congressman brian fitzpatrick and christie houlahan thank you

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>> >> good morning, happy wednesday. beautiful day here in the northeast. we have some rain coming tomorrow. let's take a look at temperatures on the map. and it will feel like spring time for much of the country. look at what happens as we get into thursday. adn dallas. 53. friday is the jackpot day. a nice taste of spring. we have some storms to talk about in an area of low pressure

that has been lingering in this area. essential for severe storms all the way up to the carolinas factory portions of alabama and georgia. some tornadoes. this is the next storm system that comes out of the rockies. we are getting snow for parts of colorado. that will bring this moisture into the region for texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama. we will have to watch for that. i think it's gonna be too warm for any kind of snow. all right, i'm going to send it over to you. >> thank you so much. russia's invasion of ukraine any more than 3 million people fleeing their homes to neighboring countries. the red cross is on the ground working tirelessly to provide food, hygiene, and resources as well as helping people get to safety. fox corporation is helped raise more than $8 million to support the red cross' effort in ukraine. you can help to head on over to the website. get to the cause.

>> brian: thank you very much. you're gonna love this story. a warm welcome at the pga players tournament last weekend. they finished up on monday. after fleeing russia's invasion of his country, the 15-year-old, he arrived in orlando with his mom on friday. at 2.5 hours over to jacksonville. to see the golf tournament in person and thousands were happy to see him. with us now, at the golf tournament. i know the weather wasn't great. you must be glad to be in america. >> and was awesome. i really enjoyed it. it was very nice to meet the players. it was great going to think about something positive. >> brian: absolutely. you won four championships in ukraine. russia in that region thought it was a western sport. you picked it up.

he started excelling at 10. what was that like competing here in the past? >> it was definitely a different competition. it was because america is a different kind of progression in golf. bigger in america. it was an awesome experience to try -- go playing for a longer time. >> steve: what was the situation on the ground when you left? who is still back in ukraine? >> everyone is back in ukraine. my friends and grandparents are in ukraine right now. it was awful. when i was back at my house, i was hearing explosions every day and war sirens and air raid sirens. my parents unfortunately could not leave and had to stay in ukraine to take care of grandparents. >> brian: have you been a contract with them since? >> yes, fortunately, they still

have wi-fi. i contact them on facetime pretty much every day. >> brian: they are in kyiv? >> they are. >> brian: what is their greatest need right now? >> they really need to get their parents, which are my grandparents to a safer place. it is very tough for grandparents to leave their home they've been in for their whole life. >> steve: how do they get out? what do you hear? >> from my grandparents we are staying in kyiv, it's much better to leave the safer place, for her verbally to where parents are staying. it's a much safer place. >> steve: that would be a lot better. do they have supplies? >> yes, in the small town where my parents are staying, although shops are still open. thankfully, they still have food and water. >> steve: tell me what it was

like. did the golf community embrace you? what was it like? how did people know your story over the weekend? >> it was awesome. i really felt a lot of support coming from all the people. the people that came out last weekend the people showed a lot of support. they showed a lot of love. i felt really special being there. i really hope my family could be there to experience it. >> steve: did you let him know how it was going? >> absolutely. they turn into golf channel. they saw me, they heard me me, it was awesome. >> brian: where you going to stay now? >> i was staying in the orlando area for the next couple of months and then go to school in florida. >> steve: are you going to be watching president zelenskyy today? >> i will, yes. >> brian: it will be a

historic time. so glad this is able to happen. hopefully everything will be safe and sound for your family. you can support the golf community's efforts to help ukrainians by donating. thanks so much. "fox & friends" at least the last 45 minutes till. ♪ ♪ >> ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to he's >> fighting has been intense. in the ukrainian forces destroying russian tanks. >> kyiv, the capital is in real trouble. the russians have stepped up. their indiscriminate

bombardment. >> meeting with several european leaders. >> this invasion has to stop. >> certainly it is personal to me. it should be personal to all of us. it's very much reflective of 1939. >> steve: it's 2:00 in the afternoon in ukraine. overnight, we understand that president is now denying russian planes that he called for ukrainians to put down their arms. instead, calling for a renewed strength to defend their country until they claim victory. so far, that's not the case. >> brian: that was big news. took congress in less than an hour. president biden valley more financial help to the tune of $13 billion as he prepares to head to europe to address the crisis. >> we have team coverage.

let's get right to peter doocy at the white house as we await zelenskyy's address. >> there's all kinds of talk on capitol hill about the wording ukraine. officials around here say the best thing that they've done in the last couple of weeks is really the world around ukraine. today we expect to hear zelenskyy say then prove it. force a no-fly zone. [speaking non-english language] >> interpreter: how many more missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen? >> a no-fly is a no-go for the commander in chief, joe biden because that introduces the possibility of shooting at russian pilots. the president is going to give medical equipment, antiaircraft stinger missiles. there will be no, no fly zone and no help for now getting

fighter jets to beef up ukrainian air force. >> to put it bluntly, zelenskyy is wasting his time tomorrow. >> because of the pageant and the courage and the bravery of president zelenskyy, there has been support for expediting the delivery of a historic amount of military and security systems and weapons that have helped him and his military fight back against the russians. >> mr. zelenskyy is not can have to wait long to find out what he can squeeze out of the biden administration, because about 2.5 hours after his speech went about speaks, the congress we expect to hear from the president and we expect to hear about $800 million more in aid to be announced. back to you. >> the president is going to go to europe next week for some sort of a nato summit. you've traveled with the president last year when he was in europe and he was face to face with vladimir putin. >> i was thinking about this

this morning. the last time we were at nato and brussels with the president, there was a star in the room while we were waiting for him. someone had put out a report that nato was going to accept ukraine. i remember an associated press reporter tap antony blinken on the shoulder and said is this true? is ukraine going to become part of nato? he said that's not right. the president came up and said that's not right. i think it was the middle of june. ukraine just was not needing the requirement for nato, the rest of nato wanted. that's why they were not then. it doesn't seem like even with all of this going on in the russian bombardment, like, they have still done enough to satisfy other nato leaders. they are going to go talk in brussels next thursday. not ruling out a possible stop

in poland and a possible face-to-face with zelenskyy somewhere. >> steve: the big question is where appear to thank you for joining us from the north lawn on the white house. >> ukrainian cities under a 35 hour curfew. as russians continue intense bombardments overnight. >> president zelenskyy must admit, it will not join nato, i guess. >> steve: lets go live to kyiv. we've heard from mr. zelenskyy. he said that the negotiations continue and russians demands for ending the war or becoming more realistic. the russian foreign minister sounds optimistic. it sounds like the two sides are getting closer but they are not there yet. >> good morning. the fighting here continues as rushing forces advance or they are targeting buildings inside the city. two people were injured at this

12 story residential building early this morning after it was hit by a russian shell. rescue workers evacuated 37 others according to a statement released by emergency services. ukrainian air defense does remain active as russia tries to attack from the air. officials say that military monster counteroffensive said in a number of areas. the ukrainian strike against the russian tank in the eastern part of the country in the southern city. thousands have been able to escape. cars and humanitarian court orders. the deputy prime minister of ukraine says the agreements around these evacuation routes are being violated by the russians and some are being held hostage. she had this to say about the situation. >> the occupants were shooting at humanity. convoys of buses, residential areas and points of gatherings of people as well as taking hostages accompanying people. so, he has been kept hostage.

>> kyiv is under a 35 hour curfew as we speak. we've heard small arms fire and the artillery shelling continues. >> really quickly. we are talking about the potential of a peace deal. one of the things that we mentioned was that finally, zelenskyy put on the table the neutrality of ukraine and not entering into nato. i know you are on the ground. have you spoken to other ukrainians? and how they feel about that statement. >> yeah, look, the ukrainians are preparing for what could be more weeks of battle. they understand that the russians will often say something in a negotiation and continue their military offensive. it's exactly what we're seeing right now. trying to corner the ukrainian officials making them give up the really large demands and continuing the fight in advance on the capital city. we have to be careful with these early statements.

it is a positive development that they are talking about peace conversations. we will certainly have to wait and see. >> is not entering nato something that ukrainians are willing to put on the table should there be a peace agreement? aside from the leader. >> members of parliament are willing to accept ukraine that is not a member of nato. they have to have an understanding that their borders will be respected in their sovereignty will be respected. so far, russia has not given the ukrainian people any indication that they will do so. that is why the push for nato is so heavy by ukrainian officials. they need another number of other things that you hear zelenskyy zelenskyy when he speaks to congress. >> what would you say the nature of the counteroffensive by the ukrainians is? i heard it's moving toward kherson which is occupied by the russians. i also hear they are subject of a ukrainian offensive.

from what you have been told, these significant counteroffensives by ukrainians? >> i don't know if we can get the video but there is significant video ukrainian forces targeting an airfield near the southern region of kherson. they are hitting russian helicopters indicating they are striking russian forces back from the air in airfield that the russians took over in recent weeks. there are reports of small arms fire. before we came in front of my camera, we could see smoke on the horizon. ukrainian forces are not only trying to hold that hard line to protect their capital city of a push back the russians who try to move in. >> live with the very latest. meanwhile, let's bring in texas congressman. i'm sure he's going to be looking to zelenskyy less than an hour from now. congressman, it sounds like

there is a glimmer of hope. if russia is saying, you know, it's more optimistic. progress is being made. zelenskyy is saying, we are going to take -- is just a thing. we're gonna have to take nato off the table. it sounds like both sides are moving toward something. >> it does sound like that. i think there's room for some hope they are. disappointing but it's also unsurprising that zelenskyy may move in that direction. he is wondering what alliances i've done for him in the past. clearly nothing. this gets to his address to the congress coming up shortly which is going to ask for more purities going to ask for things that we as americans are not willing to do like a no-fly zone. that brings us into direct conflict with russia. he will probably also ask for things that are perfectly reasonable like air defense systems, missile-defense systems. i'm sure he is very disappointed that joe biden completely botched of the deal with that

poland offer providing aid to ukraine. necessary to provide ukraine with what they need without actually provoking russia into a full on war with nato. and i think congress listens to those kind of demands. >> i understand that they could provide some of those turkish drones. they've been extremely effective and more than just soldier fired stingers. you mentioned those sophisticated weapons systems. you have a better idea than most. how hard is it to ship something like that in with the supply lines as you know them to be currently? >> i'm not on the ground. i don't have that information exactly. it's hard but it's doable i think is the answer. we have been doing it consistently for months now. other european countries have been doing it for months. it's a matter of will. the excuses often, putin said it

would provoke him. i didn't realize putin was our national security -- >> i'm so tired of hearing that. >> how do we not know his formula by now? he goes outside the bounds of norms and claims victimization when people react. he uses that victimization to pursue more aggression. this is how putin acts. we have to stop falling for it. i don't care if he thinks it's provocation. >> it's interesting, yesterday, brian and i got into a discussion on the couch. we had two different positions. that's what makes this so great that we could do that and still be friends. you know, twitter was trying to make is to enemies after that. i think what's interesting to me politically and you are a politician on the ground speaking tickets as to its every day. think within the base of the republican party, maybe not at the political level or at the elite level but i do think there's a discussion about the role of america of how he lost

the last two words, the exit from afghanistan. about whether we should do provocative things with this particular administration which is so incompetent at the head of it. i think that's a really healthy discussion that we are having. i believe it's happening on the republican side. interestingly to me. anything that gives a different perspective to your position. my twitter is full of that. what can you talk to us about the need for americans to be able to have these discussions and talk about it? the answers are not clear-cut. there are good arguments on either side. i don't know where that side of the party went. there seems to be no hippies left. >> i don't think it's as evenly

split as you make it seem on the republican side. i believe it's a small minority that believed we shouldn't care about anything that goes on in the world. i know, that's what a lot of people say. they do repeat putin's talking points. that's a problem when they start repeat putin's talking points. that's a problem. unfortunately, it gives the left something to latch onto which is an accurate description of how the right field spirit is always going to be discussion in america about what we should be involved with. that's always going to be discussion. alliances do matter. what we do actually does matter. what happens around the world does affect us at home. it's naive to believe otherwise. that will always be the case no matter what. it is not america first to watch around the world as russia and china take over and destroy our allies. that's america last. >> that's america cowering and not doing anything. >> rachel: i appreciate your perspective. since you said that repeating russian talking points, i'm gonna push back.

i'm not repeating -- >> not you, not you. i never said you. >> rachel: i think i represent, you know, the way away a lot of other conservatives feel. i don't think they repeating russian talking points. what they are doing is they're not isolationist. they are seen for example the alignment of china and russia because of the way this war was handled. i think they are seeing a lot of things. on the republican side say they repeating russian talking points -- i think it shuts down conversations. >> that's repeating russian talking points. when you claim that the money is going to neo-nazis and only neo-nazis, that's repeating russian talking points. >> rachel: never heard that. >> it's a real problem. it's not from you. don't take this as i'm talking about you. i don't know what you said about these things. there has been some problems with how they have been represented. the russians take this conspiracy and they run with it. if you actually analyze social media, that was another story for russians until people

here domestically started making that a conspiracy. that's a problem. >> it is a problem. the other problem is the high cost of gas. as you know, congressman, being from texas particularly where a lot of refineries and oil rigs are -- it went up a dollar before, you know, putin stepped into ukraine. nonetheless, they are blaming it all on putin. pete buttigieg -- >> shift to renewable energy here in this country. let's also remember that while oil prices and gas prices are famously something that is largely outside of the direct

control of any political figure, there are a lot of things that we could be doing right now that would bring direct relief to the pocketbooks of american families that are greater than most any families gasoline bill. >> steve: you know what? the president of united states on day one took control and did things that made gas more expensive from day one trend, congressman. >> i don't think anybody believes these talking points that the administration has been putting out. everyone has been watching the price of gas. one of the prices that everybody seems to know about. it's plastered on the front of every gas station that we drive past. you can't trick us on this one and you certainly can't drink the american people that if you would just buy a tesla and spend $25,000 installing solar panels on your home, you would be fine and peered what's wrong with you? stop complaining. in 20 years, it will be fine once we've made the transition. this is really nuts. it's tied into the russian problem as well because one of the biggest issues we face right now is the e.u. being completely

dependent on russian oil and gas. they should be dependent on american oil and gas. our leadership would have prevented this crisis from happening in the first place. but we failed to show that leadership. now, they are trying to switch up the game here. and sell you false talking points. >> brian: the europeans are saying that. i'm listening to boris johnson saying we never should have gotten this deep into a business deal. it came to -- that's why he went to saudi arabia to get things going. they actually let him in. they didn't pick up the phone for our president which i find a national embarrassment. "the wall street journal" did all poll. the country think we are on the wrong track could only 19% think the president is going to run again. what is the feeling on the

ground in texas? >> we just had our primaries and we feel pretty good about it. the way to win a good election is to let good people in the primaries. we have three new members that are going to be really great. wesley hunt, monica de la cruz. monaco will have a top general, but i think she's going to crush it. that's how he wins the rest of the medford redistricting has heart republicans overall. blue states went to an extreme, extreme efforts to gerrymander and get republicans out of there. that will i think didn't some of our gains. we are still going to win. get out and vote in their primaries were good sensible candidates that are conservative and can win. >> rachel: i love you brought out, you know, how ridiculous it is that pete buttigieg said how ridiculous it is to buy a tesla and get over it or we will come up with some more government

programs to throw you to compensate for the price of gas instead of making us energy dominant which actually makes us safer in the world. i love that you brought that up. i think that the democrats have lost the working class. we talked earlier about hispanic men and black women that are the most dissatisfied with the energy costs and say that it's hurting them the most. that is the head of working-class families right there. why don't the democrats -- they claim they care about minorities. they claim they care about the working quarry. have they lost all credibility with the working class? >> i hope so. they deserve it. i think what they really care about is an ideology of wokism. it's largely centered around environmentalism. radical environmentalism. it's not a bad thing. i'm a rational environmentalist.

they deify, they actually worship these gods of solar power and wind power. they believe is the only possible way that you could get any energy you need. it's false. they are living in a dream world. people get that. we've been beating this drum for a long time. they gas prices and all this talk about energy dominance and energy independence. people are paying attention now. people are starting to realize, basically everything you own is made from some kind of petroleum product. here's another thing. russian gas, venezuelan oil, it is made much dirtier than american oil, canadian oil. if someone's going to produce it, no matter what around the world, it should be us. it will provide american jobs and provide global stability. provide disincentives for authoritarians to invade

other -- >> steve: we will have clarified the whole world thing situation in ukraine. people can really pay attention to what is impacting them. that is your point about how gas and food and rent, everything is higher. the current speaker of the houses at the joe biden, we need a better message because this one is terrible. the former speaker of the house at this observation about your party running this year. listen to this last night. >> republicans should encourage candidates everywhere. the congressional campaign committee has done an amazing job. i think they are going to have more candidates than we had in 1994. which at the time set a record. when you look for example at san francisco where the school board members who are recalled 70% vote. asian americans are deeply offended that these left-wing

nutcase want to destroy those schools which asian americans see as the key to their children's future. when you look at for example, hispanic americans, they are patriotic, they are pro-life. they are for the work ethic. they believe in take-home pay. they are anti-crime. they look at a democratic party which increasingly looks crazy. 89 democrats today sign a letter to biden from the house saying that the greatest threat is global warming. we are in the middle of a war. the greatest threat is global warming. how whacked out do you have to be? >> steve: voters this time have a lot of motivating factors to get them into the booth. >> yeah, they do. he made some great points. democrats have made a habit of trying to pander to identity. as a result, they lost a lot of hispanic report. hispanic americans want to be referred to as americans. they don't want to be called

latinx. that's not a word. i think there's 2% of latinos that identify with that word and know what it means. it is just the basics. treat people like people. to treat them like americans, and look out for that kitchen table kind of issue which is your tax dollars. your gas prices, the rate of inflation. is there stability around you? these are just the basics. when you have a free and prosperous society, you will really do well up there that's when americans want. speak to that sounded like a name personally. he never made sense to me. only 2% of hispanic americans think that they want to be called out. they want to be called americans, you're right. >> steve: thank you, dan crenshaw. 25 minutes after the top of the hour. >> turning the headlines now starting with this overnight multiple members of the

new mexico university golf team killed in a fire he had on car crash. police say they are van collided with a pickup truck in west texas causing both vehicles to catch fire. university of southwest president quinn sermon says the team head coach was killed along with several students. he also said to students have survived and have been airlifted with serious injuries. ufc fighter and training partner saving the day. the houston restaurant holland and patrick robinson quickly subduing the gunmen who walked inside and shot a bullet into the restaurant ceiling. nobody was injured in the incident. the suspect was arrested. a black lives matter activist is charged with fraud after she allegedly used the money from her nonprofit organization dupont her lavish lifestyle. monica and her husband were

arrested on 18 criminal counts making false statements to a mortgage lending business. the couple spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hotel reservations, gas, restaurants, meals, and personal travel. denying all allegations made against her. there's into this. an unofficial lego version of ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy have raised over $16,000 for ukrainian release efforts. independent chicago toy company citizen bricks says all the money raised is being used to help deliver medical supplies to ukrainians per the lego figure sold out immediately. of course, ended. guys come over to you. capitalism. [laughs] >> steve: from capitalism to the capital city. >> rachel: a live look at the capital city of ukraine where president zelenskyy will virtually addressed members of the u.s. congress at the top of the hour. we expect them to make a

directly for help following this admission yesterday. >> ukraine is not a member of nato. we understand that. we have heard for years that the doors were open, but we also heard that we could not join. it is a truth, and it must be recognized. >> brian: douglas mary joins us now. douglas, he came out and said i want them demilitarized. you can have a military. and i don't want them to pledge to join nato. i imagine he will want to hold onto all the territory he claims to have gained since this offensive started. is that something you think the ukrainians can live with? >> not joining nato is definitely a viable start to a peace deal. make sure that ukraine is roughly what austria was in the cold war. not in nato, obviously not by russia. that is a perfectly viable -- e.u. could be a stumbling block.

what is absolutely not possible is the demand for demilitarized ukraine. that's absolutely classic kremlin propaganda and kremlin insistence. why would any country in the region demilitarized after what we've seen again in the ukraine? i think one of the most important points as we tried to edge toward some kind of cease-fire peace deal would also -- what does russia get to keep? a hard-line view might be to say actually, not only do you not get to keep anything with you try to take in recent weeks, you also don't get to keep crimea. you don't get to keep the areas you rolled into, exactly. and it all depends on the incredibly difficult negotiation which is how is ukraine going forward going to have its security insured by others without being part of nato? that is very tricky. we made this assurance 20 years ago. >> how did that go?

>> all that well. >> steve: his going to go to nato and summit next weekend. brussels. if zelenskyy and his country cannot join nato, can't join e.u., maybe there's going to be a new alliance of some sort. >> that could be. there could be another assurance as we said. this happened in the '90s. britain, russia, and the u.s. -- >> steve: he needs something. >> he does. membership of the e.u. could be something. the problem is the e.u. is at the moment is talking about having its own army. would you trust going forward that basically joining the e.u. doesn't mean joining a military alliance? i wouldn't have thought so. >> the center of this whole debate has really come forth as energy independence. so much of europe has been so decadent and really bought into all of this, you know, climate, you know, green energy and let

go of their own ability to produce their own oil, to get oil and gas from other places besides russia. and so now you see boris johnson is going to be meeting with the oil industry. you know so much about that confident. what's happening? >> it is so infuriating seem boris johnson doing this. britain had the opportunity to seriously explore gas. i'm from the united kingdom. we have significant reserves under the poorest areas of great britain. we had the opportunity to explore it. it could have been working by now. here is a story that doesn't get enough of attention. we hear a lot about russian involvement in all of this sort of we have all become very skeptical about. things shown over the last ten years, the russian government pumped tens of millions of dollars into anti-fracking propaganda in the u.k. including

backing green organizations that were anti-fracking. then i went countries like the u.k. to be energy independent. our government i'm sorry to say, it was boris johnson and his conservatives who fell for this. the conservative government got scared of tracking by russian propaganda among other things. they said there will be tremors. the tremors he might get from fracking are roughly the same you get from truck college. they were scared of this spirit to see boris johnson traveling the world -- and other delightful regimes to give us more oil. >> brian: is an encouraging that they said they made a mistake? you think it is just lip service. >> who didn't see this coming? with the germans, everybody told the germans, don't do -- >> brian: this was his first shot at being leader. there is this green leader who

saw 500,000 people in berlin to stand up for the ukrainians. maybe he sees the light. >> his predecessors, responsible for that nor a extreme 2 pushing it forward. her predecessor works for the russians. we saw this coming awfully long time ago. >> that's the russian collusion. >> that is the russian collusion. thank you very much for giving us your point of view. >> rachel: thanks for coming on the couch. >> steve: we showed you the capital city of ukraine. on capitol hill, and about 28 minutes, ukrainian president zelenskyy will address lawmakers from both chambers of congress. >> brian: republican senator from louisiana, senator john kennedy. we know what is going to ask for purities can ask for the planes in a no-fly zone. i'm not sure he's going to get. should he bring something else to the table besides those two requests?

>> yes, but let me put this in perspective. i want to be fair. president biden has done some things right. it's a short list, but one example, the west has imposed sanctions on russia's central bank, which have hurt putin. haven't brought him to his needs, but it's been helpful. president biden has been bambi's baby brother. he won't give president zelenskyy what he needs to fight the war. it zelenskyy who frankly has been an icon of guts and liberty. he has united the west. he's been asking us to send in our own planes, own pilots, knows where you're not going to do a no-fly zone pretties made a very reasonable request that we facilitate the supplying of planes through the west that the

ukrainian pals can fly. we would do it. can i mention one other thing which the press just hasn't reported on? treasury secretary with the white house is okay gave resident putin $17 billion for the international monetary fund in august. we've known since april that he was building up troops going in. at the same time, the treasury secretary gave iran $5 billion. in china, she signed off $40 billion for china. we are going backwards here and nobody will talk about it. >> what is the money for? >> it is the imf. they are called special drawing rights. they are gift cards. russia can take its gift card and go to the imf and say, i want dollars or i want euros or

i want pesos. and the country who owns that currency has to give it to him. russia has to pay a really teeny tiny interest rate -- which they probably won't pay. iran with no more negotiating, not well but we are trying to negotiate. we gave them $5 million. and, look, i don't know if you want to talk about about the president has a huge conflict in trying to negotiate with iran. he needs to step aside and let congress do it. >> brian: the way you lay it out, senator, you make it sound like the international monetary fund and the united states by extension has been subsidizing mr. putin -- subsidizing the war. we had this problem two weeks ago when members of your party were calling for -- it got to stop buying russian gas and eventually the

administration was kicking and screaming to the table. they said we are going to stop that. we know that india is going, russia, you got cheap gas, we will take it. >> we need to change our energy policy. back in april and the banking committee, i beg secretary not to do it. she did it anyway in august then she threw in $5 million for iran and $40 billion for china. through they are called special drawing rights. i will be glad to come on and explain it. they collect hide their heads in a bag. they need to go to amazon and buy a spine online. they are going backwards here. >> what's going on with the iranian deal in total secrecy in third room. it should not be something that we tolerate. they are cutting awareness deal

with the worst country on the planet that is going to diss and launch any type of balance in the middle east. how are they allowed to get away with this? >> their president has a conflict that is open, obvious. >> rachel: what is that? >> the president refuses to stand up to the wokers who have taken over his policy. his energy policy is wind, and pixie dust. he refuses to -- any deal he makes with iran, there's going to be an appearance of a conflict because the world is going to figure, well, he made a deal to get the iranian oil because he refuses to produce his own. the president needs to step aside and turn the negotiations over to a bipartisan group in congress.

>> rachel: start by getting russia out of the negotiating -- out of the negotiating for us and that they'll appear to senator, today speaking of deals, zelenskyy is coming into speak to congress. he honestly has things that he wants. at the same time, he is working on a potential peace agreement with russia hopefully to end this war somehow, someway. how do you think the two things happening at the same time impact each other? >> i hope it works. but i remember 1994. i remember president clinton. i remember the united states congress. they sent by and watch the majority of hutus in rwanda shot to death, 300,000 of the minority tutsis. and we did nothing. we did nothing. it was not a lincoln moment.

and i'm not saying send in troops to ukraine. but i'm saying weakness invites the wolves, and the only way we are going to negotiate a peaceful solution to this is by showing putin we mean business. and president putin needs to give zelenskyy what he needs. >> brian: we have to finish off the russians. they've been exposed as a hollow former superpower that needs to be reined in. this is the chance, isn't it? >> you are not going to bring russia to its knees until you stop its cash flow. it gets its cash flow from oil and gas. countries have to buy its oil and gas because they say we can't get anywhere else. yes, you can, it's called the united states of america. all biden has to do tomorrow is say sorry about that, but i'm adopting and all of the above

energy type policy, wind, solar, but also nuclear, fossil fuels, oil, gas, and turn to the shale producers and turn on the palm spirit >> brian: in the meantime what the message he's pumping out is if it costs too much to fill up your car, blame putin which i think -- right up through -- >> brian: buy a tesla which is the other advice they have. >> steve: we know you have a busy morning. thank you very much for starting by. the president of ukraine, zelenskyy is set to make that historic address to congress just 20 minutes from right now. >> rachel: peter doocy is live at the white house with the latest details. what's the latest? >> the latest, if you look at the calendar, we know that president biden is going to head up to brussels next thursday for a meeting with the rest of nato heads of state. that's going to be almost exactly one month to the day

after the president said just give the sanctions that were putting on russia about a month. it seems like this president is going to continue betting that financial punishment will eventually wear putin down to the point that he stops bombarding ukraine. it later on today in about 15 or 20 minutes, we don't expect to hear volodymyr zelenskyy asking for more sanctions on russia. we expect to hear him asking for fighter debts. asking for help clothing the skies over russia. that is something that this president does not want to do, because he says that americans agencies have concluded putin with think that's an escalation. he would see that as the u.s. entering the fight against russia. they do not want to get in a shooting war with the russian military. we will see exactly what zelenskyy is able to squeeze out of biden around lunch time. he is set to speak extensively on this later on this morning.

>> he's not going to give him the no-fly zone. it sounds like it's got a blizzard of other stuff, drones that explode. antiaircraft stuff, some technology off the self stuff. he's got a bunch of stuff. he's going to give them, it is not they want. >> at the pentagon the ukrainians don't need more planes, because they think that the stingers and the javelins and the antiaircraft missiles that the ukrainians have right now are effective at repelling the russians. that doesn't mean the fighting is going to end. it means the pentagon thinks that without the ukrainian military has right now is working. >> probably the most on the line since this guy named winston churchill spoke to congress in 1941.

we entered world war ii after the bombing of pearl harbor. zelenskyy sits there and honestly could say when he spoke to the senators on the congressman on that saturday two weeks ago, i don't know if i'm going to be here the next time you see me. in the same sense that not a day can be weighted, can you imagine if they were bombing your cities? we are in this together. that's going to be his message. when he has been so brilliant that is not someone speaking without notes, speaking from the heart by letting everybody know, this isn't just about ukraine. he's fighting for freedom and the ability to make their own decisions about their own government. for the right to have a good government or a bad government but a right to have elections and not have the terrible system that the russian people were suffering under that they would like to reestablish in that region. he knows this is a shot not just for him but for everybody which is why the three prime ministers went to a war zone to express

the feeling of solidarity with him. >> today he speaks to the united states. he's going to be talking to spain as well. keep in mind, this is framed by the fact that zelenskyy's team sees a glimmer of hope with the peace talks that are going on with the russians and the ukrainians. president zelenskyy said this morning that russia's demands were ending the war will becoming more realistic. the foreign minister says we are making progress. mr. zelenskyy is also said we are going to take nato off the table. it sounds like there is some give-and-take. >> rachel: that's definitely a very important piece of that puzzle. the most important piece of that puzzle. the question is, what's going to happen in this joint session of congress where he's going going to be speaking to our u.s. lawmakers asking them and requesting of them weapons to defend his country. >> brian: he's not going to be

nervous, he already spoke to the u.k. and canada and going for their grand slam pretty want the u.s. to act in any time the u.s. is acting, as from other forces whether it is from our allies or they are from zelenskyy himself. meanwhile, bill hemmer are going to take it from here. thanks so much or watching all of us here on this couch. the pregame show in the big show top of the hour. >> good morning, everybody. 8:45 here in new york city. in wartime president. president zelenskyy about to deliver a major speech before congress urging america to step up its defense of a democracy that continues to be under siege on day 21. good morning, everybody. history today. dana's got some time up in a big welcome back to my colleague. >> this is america's newsroom. president zelenskyy has rallied the world behind him pretty much every step of the way here since the war began nearly three weeks

ago now. today, he makes a direct no doubt emotional appeal to the united states to do more. this speech begins at 9:00 a.m. and we will bring that to you live as it happens. >> bill: there's new video from overnight that shows russia's escalating attacks in and around the capital city of kyiv. watch the series. >> bill: putin's army blanketing the road with bombs. officials say the targets include kindergartens, museums, and churches. a number of tiles on the outskirts without water and electricity. >> martha: the human suffering is unimaginable for the war is worth more than 3 million people from their homes. many of them are children. more than 100 children have lost

their lives in the past three weeks. >> underscoring the urgency of the address you are about to hear. advanced missile systems. fighter jets in a no-fly zone. president biden has denied those requests. today he is scheduled to outline -- peter doocy report from the white house. >> reporting live from the ukrainian capital of kyiv. good morning, good afternoon to you. >> good morning. as russian forces advance on the capital of kyiv, they are targeting buildings inside the city. at least two people were injured and many evacuated at this residential building this morning. after a russian missile hit the complex. rescue workers working around the clock to try to get people out of the way. we do know your ukrainian air defense remains active over the city as russia tries to attack

from the air. ukrainian officials say they launched offensive in a number of areas. a ukrainian strike against russian tank in eastern part of the country. in the southern city, thousands of cars have been able to escape their humanitarian corridors but the deputy prime minister of ukraine says the agreements around routes are being violated by the russians and some people are even being held hostage. she had this to say about the situation. >> interpreter: occupants were shooting at humanity. convoys of buses in residential areas and points of gathering of people as well as taking hostages accompany people. he has still been kept hostage. >> the capital is currently under 35-hour-long curfew. in the distance we've heard small arms fire and there is black smoke rising up from the act of war zone horizon. >> thank you very much.

>> another alert right now. this is news we've been waiting on. an update on our colleague, ben hall. he's safe and out of ukraine. man is alert and said to be in good spirits. it is being treated with the best possible care in the world. we remind you, please continue to keep them in your prayers as well, the news from yesterday. >> we are all thinking of his family and our thoughts and prayers go out to all of them. we hope for good news in the days ahead. >> they've been married seven years coming up. his three young daughters back at home. that is a dose of good news. meanwhile, peter doocy, more from the white house. good morning there. >> there is pressure coming from inside president biden's own party to do what zelenskyy reportedly plans to ask him to do and that is in force a zone

over ukraine. >> they need more weapons and equipment and specifically, they need to shoot down russian aircraft and air defense systems or fighter jets. they need to contest the skies over ukraine. >> president biden is going to announce $800 billion of summit security aide. that will bring the total assistance to $1 billion. it does not plan to go along with a no-fly zone. it is not plan to help get fighter jets to the beleaguered ukrainian air force, because u.s. spies still believe that would be seen by moscow as the u.s. during the war. >> was related to where these plans would take off from. how would you get them into ukraine. that was something we were exploring and discussing with a range of partners. but their assessment was also based specifically on the transfer of it to ukraine. that may be mistaken.

>> he's only going to have to wait about two hours to find out what he can squeeze out of president biden. he is set to speak expensively on the matter. 11:45 right here. >> martha: secretary of defense in brussels for talks with the nato military chief, mark continues our live coverage from the pentagon. good morning. >> good morning to you. multiple goals. one being of course to show the u.s. remains firmly committed to nato. the second is a chance to talk strategy among european defense leaders as everyone tries to figure out here exactly what russia may do next. we saw the secretary meet face-to-face with his defense counterparts there in europe. a chance to talk about what it would mean for russia if they were to attack a nato country that it would trigger a response from the hall -- ukraine is not a member of nato. the u.s. and its allies continuing to to condemn this invasion.

>> presence here sends a signal to the world that we remain united in our support from ukraine. and that, we condemn russians on unprovoked and unjustified invasion into ukraine. >> even as fighting is intensified in recent days and that those weapons are being delivered as fast as possible. russia is threatening to attack those shipments calling them legitimate targets. the u.s. has made it clear it wants to support ukraine. there have been limits what the administration will do and will not do. last week rejecting a deal by poland to send some of their soviet era planes. the u.s. could send them into ukraine. some in congress want the u.s. to reconsider. nato secretary general is praise in the u.s. and others for its response so far.

speak out nato has responded in the united and swift away. allies provide significant support to ukraine, military support and national support. and we are reinforcing our defense. >> the secretary will be in brussels today making other stops in this trip including slovakia and bulgaria. the two countries that may be crucial in the fight because they can have some soviet era weapons systems that they can move into ukraine that might be able to challenge the russians. it's likely of course that president zelenskyy will talk about the weaponry he wants. >> bill: on your screen by the way. the congressional -- that's brad baer. welcome to our coverage here. that is the congressional auditorium. the program describes as newly built somewhat. you could argue with the new visitor center between the house chamber, u.s. supreme court and that area.

just east of the capital. looking for the house chamber like we were a bit earlier tonight. that's the explanation. i don't have the audio and visual equipment to do this. it was a different story 81 years ago when he made his address to congress and the senate chamber? at spring in some analysis now. rene, it is like this military to step the commander in chief is doing with the ukrainian president. he's going to ask for a lot today. he's going to get a fairly substantial amount when president biden comes out just before the noon hour today. how do you assess right now? our partnership with kyiv. >> good morning, bill and martha. great news about ben hall. that's fantastic and continued prayers for him and his family. this is the capitol visitors center auditorium. this is technically not a joint session, joint meeting of

congress although speaker pelosi will gavel it in. there's house and senate lawmakers will pack into this auditorium. they will listen to president zelenskyy give a very specific list of what he wants. among that list in that list will be a no-fly zone which is the red line for lawmakers up on capitol hill and for the white house. i talked to the foreign minister from ukraine on the special report. can you take no for an answer on this? he said we were not in a place a couple of weeks ago where germany was going to do anything. the power of persuasion by president zelenskyy is going to be significant. as you have mentioned, talks to the e.u. you can get 27 nations of the e.u. to do anything together. he did. he talks to parliament, the house of commons and was very well received there. likely will be well received here. i don't know if it will move the needle and some of that when it

comes to the no-fly zone. scared the daylights out of berlin. you saw especially the change in german policy. changed overnight. >> that's right. and it is putin that's driving a lot of the action in europe, because they are scared. it's been their neighborhood. it's next-door. what we're seeing on the ground is an effort to erase some of these cities. what's coming out of my ripple is heinous. it's really awful. and we will see if they can survive. >> martha: that becomes the question. the response from congress. one know that thing that's interesting here is that congress has really been leading the white house and a number of these moves. the ban on oil from russia. you know, your thoughts on where the white house is positioned right now in terms of the leadership role and we've got

such strong voices coming from congress. >> you know, they are even leading from behind the e.u. and nato countries and some of these junctures. i think that is the criticism of the white house is that they have been slow. the white house is saying they are taking a deliberate careful step to avoid world war iii. this is the balance. zelenskyy is going to make this hard pitch today. we will see what lawmakers do. >> general kellogg and dan hoffman, welcome to our coverage here. to the general in a moment here, we have talked and heard admiral kirby from the pentagon last week talk about giving the fighters to the ukrainian air force would be in escalatory act. you wonder why he uses that phrase. i think if you dig a bit deeper, the rationale would be, if

that's escalatory or is that escalatory giving the ukrainian air force the edge in this contest? it almost seems like the pentagon believes that based on putin's feeble attempt to overtake this country, that three weeks income of the ukrainians can fight one on one with the russian red army. that seems to be where the pentagon is pretty content to have it right now. >> i thought that you are talking to general kellogg. i think that you are right. there is a growing sense on capitol hill that ukraine could actually pull this off with enough material, with enough weaponry that they can hold off russia is lives to the point that putin is not continuing. there is another analysis that says putin will not stop at anything and he will continue.

with the surface-to-air missiles going on, we should point out that the u.s. nato allies are moving and other not just what we have seen so far about some soviet air, surface-to-air missiles that have a bigger range than the stingers. they are starting the flow in as well through the russians want to stop that. that's the battle we are seeing along the way. >> there is going to be ukraine and independent ukraine a lot longer than there's going to be a vladimir putin. it raises the question of this tipping point. i think that we are going to hear that from president zelenskyy this morning that if he just gets what he needs, he can move that needle in a huge sort of underdog potential victory. there's a lot of folks on the other side of that argument. that is likely what we will hear this >> i think as we look at this, we need to remember where this leader was. a former comedian, former actor discounted on the world stage, it left out and some areas very he has now stepped into this

role in is making a pitch aroun the world for his country to survive very. >> thank you standby with us as we await the address to come in from kyiv at the moment we will take a little possum bring in our cable channels in tv networks throughout the country her. as we pause here on the cable side. this is fox news coverage of th zelenskyy address. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is 3:00 p.m. in the afternoo in kyiv. welcome to our coverage here as precedent for 32 addresses adjoined session of congress. this we'll be history, some had put it in the category of churc hill 81 years ago. when you think about zelenskyy in that bunker in his capital saying city saying he's going nowhere and the famous