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you've helped us raise so far for the red cross to do so much great work in ukraine, donate now, the website is on your screen. we will drive that number higher . well done to america and the people around the world watching . >> if you want to do it on the corner you can do that as well, make your feelings known. "the faulkner focus" >> fox news alert. president biden is set to speak this hour after ukrainian president zelensky took the mantle and basically gave his own state of the union address from inside the war zone. what action will president biden take now? i'm harris faulkner, you are in "the faulkner focus." zielinski urged american lawmakers and biden to step up and help put an end to vladimir putin's slaughter of ukrainian citizens. >> today, the ukrainian people are defending not only ukraine, we are fighting for europe and
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the world, in the name of the future. i see no sense and lies of cannot stop the deaths i'm addressing. to president biden you are the leader of the nation, of your great nation. i wish you to be the leader of the world. being a leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. thank you. slava ukraine. >> glory to ukraine. [applause] >> harris: while that was going on, russian forces bombarded the capital over and over again, as putin's murderous war enters day 21. it has been nonstop. kyiv remains under citywide
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curfew until tomorrow morning. russian ground troops have not made any significant progress. however, attacks from the air, which is what zielinski was talking about, have been intense and effective. killing people indiscriminately. senator tom cotton is in focus with us. we will have live fox team coverage, peter doocy at the white house. we will first go to très yanks, reporting live from the capital of ukraine. tray. >> harris, good morning. as russian forces advanced on the capital of kyiv, they are targeting buildings inside the city. two people were injured here in an apartment building very close to where we are at right now, this morning and rescue workers had to evacuate 37 people from this area. according to a statement immersed released by emergency services. air force does remain active over the city's rush also tries retire from the air. ukrainian official says the military has launched counteroffensive's and a number of areas. the strong video captures a ukrainian strike against a russian tank in the eastern part
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of the country. in the southern city of mariupol several cars have been able escape through humanitarian corridors. agreed it's these evacuation routes are being surrounded by russians and some people even being held hostage. she had this to say about the situation. >> occupants were shooting at humanity, convoys of buses, residential areas, and points of gathering of people. as well as taking hostages of accompanying people. so, a rescue has still been kept hostage. >> harris, we are hearing small arms fire and explosion spare the city right now remains under 35 hour curfew. harris. >> harris: and trae young's, our journalist on the ground inside kyiv. in q very much. we are waiting now as i mentioned, to hear from president biden. president zelensky this morning, repeating a desperate plea. we have heard it many times.
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>> russia has turned the ukrainian tied into a source of death for thousands of people. countless bombs. they use drones to kill us. with precision. this is a terror that europe has not seen for 80 years. we are asking for an answer to this terror from the whole world. is that a lot to ask for? to create a no-fly zone over ukraine to save people. >> harris: the white house however does not tell mack support the idea of a no-fly zone. that would pretty much be for all that we've heard from nato with the exception of maybe estonia. part of the baltics. the white house repeatedly saying that it could go further into escalating the war if they did that. >> the president has to look at decisions that are made through the prism of what is in our national security interests and global security interests.
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he continues to believe that a no-fly zone would be escalatory to prompt a war with russia. >> harris: peter doocy live outside the white house. peter. >> has good morning. officials are the white house say that they do not like talking about redlines. but some of the lawmakers who were there this morning were very moved by zielinski's request for help are wondering, how much russian and bombardment of civilians in ukraine is too much for this president? >> we have one hand tied behind our back and one hand reaching out. i think a lot of americans, we don't want to just sit back and watch a boy hit the little kid on the playground. at what point is the red line cross? >> zelensky wants a no-fly zone pair that's not going to happen. but the president is considering giving him switchblade drones according to a report and nbc drones. those are smart bombs that would
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let the ukrainians target russian troops and equipment from afar. zelensky is also hoping for some mig fighter jets. president biden fears this will escalate the conflict. there are even now some democrats call on him too, just do it. >> they need more weapons and equipment and specifically they need to shoot down russian aircraft. they need to contest the skies over ukraine. >> there's not been a lot of direct u.s. russian diplomacy until this morning. jake sullivan, the national security advisor talk to his russian counterpart. we were told that mr. sullivan told general protrusion of that if russia is serious about diplomacy, then moscow should stop attacking ukrainian cities and towns. mr. sullivan also warned general petrucci about the consequences of e russian decision to use chemical or biological weapons in ukraine. the defense secretary lloyd austin is at nato right now. the president will go out there next thursday for an in person meeting.
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they have been trying to make russia back down with zoom diplomacy. now they will try something different. harris. >> harris: peter doocy. thank you very much. tom cotton, republican senator from arkansas, member of the armed services and intelligence committees is standing by with us right now. first we want to show you some video of president zelenskyy air during his speech. we need to warn our viewers, that the images are disturbing. some of you may have seen some of this. some of it is graphic. let's watch together. ♪ ♪
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>> harris: senator cotton, president zelensky said that the skies the the death of zone. he called for help. what was the reaction in the room and what is it been like outside of that u.s. congress meeting, that address by president zelensky? >> good morning, harris. president zelensky's address was very moving. he get repeated rounds of applause during the address. i agree with his call on president biden to lead the free world to help ukraine defend itself from vladimir putin's war of aggression. unfortunately, president biden has been on the back foot throughout this conflict and indeed in the run-up to the conflict. he has been trade in many cases by the congress and in many cases by president zelensky and the various ukrainians fighting against russia in taking steps that we should have taken long ago. president zelensky today repeated his urgent request for those polish mig aircraft. over antiaircraft and antimissile defense systems.
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for drones and other kinds of air defense systems. we should have been providing those over the last three weeks. really over the last three months. there is not a moment spared to get them to the front lines to help ukraine close its skies. >> harris: real quickly. how unified are you actually in the senate right now? because a statement by the senate intelligence chairman, a committee that you sit on, mark warner just moments ago said he was in credibly moved by the words this morning of zielinski. president zelensky noticed that the u.s. is artie taken an unprecedented step to rally the world. to support ukraine's efforts to defend itself. we should heed the call for defensive aid defensive aid on my knowledge on antitank weapons, antiair weapons. i read this entire thing. there is no mention of supplying mig 29's. that was the biggest ask next to a no-fly zone which we know this point will probably never happen.
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>> a lot of democratic senators are carrying water for the president. privately, they wish the president had moved faster as well. >> harris: how does that help? >> i hope they are privately pressuring the president to move again. you've seen this time again whether it was the central bank sanctions or the sanctions of the international swift payment system. supplying those antitank missiles and supplying the antiaircraft missiles. there is more that we can do. we should have provided those aircraft last week. he looked ridiculous for the secretary of state on sunday last week to say that they have a green light. and then on tuesday, the president to overrule it. it's not only those aircraft that we can provide ukraine to help them close their skies. there are air defense systems, much like our patriot missile systems that ukraine urgently needs that many of our nato allies have and are willing to provide, that president biden should have been pushing in the ukraine days or weeks ago. >> harris: i hear you on the should of, whatever, could have. we are where we are right now. i have to be honest, senator,
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from what we saw as the world and a nation this morning, and then reading statements and looking at what the democrats are saying, i don't know if private conversations get it. senator graham is putting together a resolution that he wants to try to get on the floor asap. maybe even by the end of this week. do you really think you have that much bipartisan support? because that's going to call out those democrats who don't do it the very least what you are talking about. >> i think that most democrats, if they had to go on record, will support the request that president zelensky is made. but again, look at president biden announcing that he will be going to a nato summit next thursday. eight days away. we don't have eight days to help ukraine. we have to get these weapon systems to ukraine right now. they urgently need them, not just to protect against russian aircraft but against russian missiles that are being fired from russian soil. there is not a days to wait. >> harris: one quick one before we move on.
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there is mention of reports by nbc that switchblade drones are being talked about. have we use those? what actually would that help the ukrainians do? >> those drones would be effective against a lot of the ground positions. because a lot of the shelling is not coming from the sky or from missiles, it's coming from artillery batteries. those drones are effective against one-way kill vehicles that can target those missile batteries that are inside of ukraine that are currently targeting ukraine's major cities. >> harris: president zelensky, with a lot of pleas for help this morning, this one in particular. let's watch. >> we propose that the united states sanction all politicians in the russian federation, who remain in their offices and do not cut ties with those who are responsible for the aggression against ukraine. from state duma's members less
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officials who have less morale to break the state. >> harris: that's happening. part of the piece from actio's reads this way. the unprecedented sanction is the west impose on russia have hobbled its economy and are hurting a global system too. but their primary purpose, arguably is to stop the fighting and that has not yet happen. senator cotton, your reaction? >> unfortunately the sanctions have not stop the fighting. it would be much better to start the sanctions weeks or months ago. this is another example of president biden been on the back foot. not wanting to take any action that might defend our allies in europe. hoping that he can somehow dissuade vladimir putin from invading when he had 200,000 troops on ukraine's border. that time has passed. we need to focus on the here and now. more important, we need to get these weapons the frontline. do you know it will stop russian aircraft in russian missiles? as 300 air defense systems. not sanctions on russian
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politicians as appropriate as those are. it is time for the white house to quit dragging its feet and sent everything that shoots to every ukrainian that can carry those arms. >> harris: before i let you go, because i know that you have led many, to serve this nation and in the military. is there any come, conjunction or any way that we see lawmakers for the next time for them to stand together bipartisan, is there any hunger for that and who would put that together? particularly in the senate? >> there is a way, harris. he sought last week in the house of representatives when they voted to repeal russia's permanent most favored nation status appeared we will do the same thing in us senate this week i hope. it is an example of how congress has been united in a bipartisan fashion in trying to make this president more forward leaning to help get the united states back on their front foot. i do think you see democrats in congress you know that we should have acted earlier and we should have acted more strongly and who want to do that now. >> harris: it's interesting. we will be covering all of that.
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so appreciate your time today. senator con from the great state of arkansas. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: also holding up that sign, protest the war in ukraine during a news broadcast. remember, she quietly disappeared and reappeared yesterday in court, thankfully after her lawyer really push. for this crack down on the, although incomplete. >> is an international criminal case. >> harris: it's not just about reaching kyiv or turning over government. it is about annihilating its people. kyiv's mayor, calling out pruden's merciless, is president zelensky begs the united states to step up. retired marine bomb technician,
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joey jones, in focus next.
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you to do more. >> harris: ukrainian president zelensky there, invoking the words of an american civil rights icon, dr. king. in a plea for more help as russian forces are shelling cities, killing civilians. including outcome a high percentage, a growing percentage of children through the russian government has released this video if an air strike on a ukrainian missile and artillery warehouse just today. that warehouse, destroyed. it's all part of what some are calling pollutants scorched earth strategy. if he can't win, he will burn everything to the ground. in wind, meaning can he take ukraine and flip its democracy. his troops now surrounding their main target, the capital city of ukraine, kyiv. three weeks after the invasion began. despite russia's advances, secretary of state, antony blinken says this. >> there's going to be a ukraine, an independent ukraine a lot longer than they will be a vladimir putin. one way or another, ukraine will be there and at some point,
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putin will not. the real question is, how much death and destruction is brought by russian aggression in the meantime. that's what we are working as hard as we can to limit, to stop. >> harris: joey jones, fox news contributor. retired marine bomb technician is with me now. first of all, what is your reaction to secretary blinken? there is going to be a ukraine long after putin? >> he certainly says it with some authority appeared he says it is if he knows something we don't. man i sure hope he does. i just don't trust that he does. we have not seen our administration played her hand in a way that they knew what the other players were holding. we see afghanistan, we saw how this folded over the last three months. the other thing about president biden saying that gas prices are so high because president putin has been stage in his troops for three to six months, you have to ask, what we doing in those three to six months to stop us from getting here? it's a convenient narrative for him when we talk about gas prices. but is more inconvenient for him when we talk about where we are, as far as the war ukraine in
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these technically deterrents that are deterring anything. just to take all that a step back and talk about how zielinski addressed president biden today. i'm not going to hit president biden for not sending airplanes right now today. i understand enough to know that there are a lot of questions that should be answered before i believe that facilitating the sending of mig is the end-all be-all for ukraine to win this war. quite simply, if it were all about ukraine getting the airplanes to defeat russia and savior up, i believe poland would have them on the train already. the airplanes that zielinski wants her in poland. poland just wants to hand the hot potato to us and facilitate getting in there. so as to not draw russia's ire to them. it seems our government is worried about that too. if all of europe is sitting still right now over mig's because they believe how russia will react to that then maybe they are operating on intel that we do not have its citizens sitting here. i don't know that. >> harris: that's an
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interesting point. i'm glad he won tactical. that's what i want to go. so what really does work? you got these switchblade, which senator cotton was explain to us, those drones. what they can do. although, does anybody think that they just come out of the sky? someone has to send them. have you really got around what you needed to go around in terms of anger and potent, who seems crazy man angry anyway. i don't even know if you calculate that in. there is that, we can do the, what was the s300 antimissile defense system. how much that would help. what are your thoughts on these latest tools that we could put in their hands? >> we have some defensive weapons sitting in poland. i believe there is a video on social media today. they are basically there to defend poland from cruise missiles. those, making their way into ukraine, more of them there would be basically the biggest bet right now, we are extremely
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long range high altitude. to get extremely long-range coming have to go high-altitude. zielinski is saying that these planes, they are ground to air defense systems that would be helpful. our imagine that we are working on getting them there. man, i really hope that we don't know every detail of everything we're doing to help ukraine through the help we are not so exposed that we can debate, the forenoon on a wednesday, what our president should do. i hope that our intel and defense community has a plan in action. i get it. as a politician, you have to take the heat on till perhaps the truth is revealed. we saw that with president trump. that's hope. i don't have any intel for that. i hope that our president is working on a plan that ends this work quickly and does not drag us into world war iii. i think that should be the hope of every american. it is easy for politicians, just like greg us posted on this network yesterday, it's easy for politicians to imagine more and talk about war and romanticize
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war and even call for war. at some point some but he has to go fight it. i think that's what the american people have to remember. we spent 20 years fighting a war that sounded a lot like this one does on the airwaves and in the newspapers. but it really did not affect anybody at home and the perspective of 330 million americans. we simply cannot allow government that i do not trust to get us through another conflict or even into one, to do so without answering some hard questions and understanding we are in for. >> harris: and for someone who has served and given so much as you have, in blood and treasure as well for the united states pay those questions you were talking about. that's what we also hope that they are talking about on capitol hill. although you and i both know that hope is not a strategy. it's either happening or not. the russian state television employee who held a sign protesting the war in ukraine during a broadcast now faces up to 15 years in prison. she has been fined and had this to say after russian authorities let her go for a bit. watch. >> these were uneasy days of my
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life because i spent two days without sleep. the interrogation lasted for more than 14 hours. i was not allowed to contact my relatives or provided with any traditional help. i was in a rather tough situation. all the comments will be made tomorrow. i just need to rest today. >> harris: she may be the only one holding a sign in inside of a television station, but they have arrested north of 6,000 people in russia for saying no more war. no invasion on ukraine. old ladies, in their late 80s with signs say no more war. you see the videos of them carting these people off. >> yeah real quick, let me just say that from my perspective, from our perspective, she's a brave hero. she brought truth to power in a place that you are not allowed to do that. but if somebody did that here, we would probably make fun of them and said that they are crazy. we have to understand that russians sitting there might not receive that message at the same way we do. that is the human element of a dictatorship that we are trying to work through.
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i don't think lindsey graham called for assassinations is the right thing. i think that political pressure like we are trying to do, i wish our president had implement of a stronger plan six months ago. and we weren't sitting here in this position. i think vladimir putin will leave office when he decides to come and not one american him to. >> harris: you called everybody out. >> that's a difficult truth. i don't want that to be the case. i just believe that to be the case. >> harris: joe jones. thank you always for your perspective. >> thank you. >> harris: putin's brutal and bloody worn ukraine driving millions from their home spirit we have been watching this and the numbers now are growing. their lives are in danger, on all fronts. including the complete lack of basic human needs. whether they stay or they go. fox news contributor, dr. janette nesheiwat is on the ground in ukraine, providing medical aid to desperate ukrainians. the doctor, is in focus, next.
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>> russia has attacked not just us, not just our land, not just our cities, it went on a brutal offensive against our values. basic human values. it through tanks and planes against our freedoms. against our rights to live freely in our own country. choosing our own future. against our desire for happiness. against our national dream. just like the same dreams you have, you americans. >> harris: speaking to our u.s. congress, the house, and the senate this morning. but also to all of america in the world. ukraine's president zelensky highlighting his people suffering. an estimated 3 million refugees have fled ukraine since the start of putin's invasion. 50% of them are children.
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many forced to leave their parents behind, as they seek safety from the brutal assault. >> every day, over the past 20 days, in ukraine more than 70,000 children have become refugees. that is every minute, 55 children fleeing the country. >> harris: about half of them, that 3 million, have made their way to poland. jeff paul is live in its capital, warsaw. jeff. >> harris, this has become one of the busiest travel spots in poland right now. a constant flow of ukrainian refugees showing up to this train station. getting on buses like this one. to head off to a new city. or in some cases a new country. that's exactly what we found with one man who is clean ukraine. born in ukraine. as a teenager he helped the
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world war ii. decades later, he is now refugee due to russia's invasion. he said, he could have never imagined this. when we ask him about the attack from russian troops, juergen told us that his father fought together with their fathers and now their sons are killing our sons. >> it is a nightmare. it is stressful for me. i cannot imagine this in my head, that are brotherly people would invade ukraine people for the whole world, my message, people should be friends. help each other so that there is never any war. god forbid we have to be friends. that's all i can wish. >> juergen wanted to emphasize that he does believe ukraine will eventually win. but like so many people right now, who are refugees, they have to have a new home. harris. >> harris: jeff paul thank you
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very much. some 28,000 civilians escaped through those quickly closing and unreliable humanitarian corridors and mariupol. that successful evacuation came in spite of russian forces renewing shelling on that coastal city. there are many more ukrainians who are still trapped there. i mentioned that those corridors closed so quickly. they don't have heat. it didn't have food. they don't have medicine or clean water. it's the kind of dangerous situation ukrainians are facing in all the cities across the country now. fox news contributor dr. janette nesheiwat is on the ground in ukraine to provide medical care for those in need. she is at a mobile hospital in lviv. first of all, doctor, when people make their way to you what are the key things that you are seen and are some of them treatable and some of them not? >> good question, harris. i'm seeing all sorts of ailments and diseases. for people today, i'm working at
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the base of the train station. i had a patient come in with a full-blown myocardial infection. having a full-blown heart attack. by the grace of god, there happen to be paramedics there the station who were able to take him over to the hospital and get him the care that he needs. it's important to get that in a timely manner. a lot of anxiety, a lot of headaches, lot of high blood pressure. patients also came in with palpitations. i was at the tent working in a conductor ran off the train to come and grab me. took me over to the tracks of a train because a woman had collapsed. she was dehydrated. we are seen all kinds of things. unfortunately we are doing everything that we can to give them the treatment that they need. give them the support and love that they need. it is tough. it's a challenge. it's really sad out here. >> harris: talk to me specifically about the children. with all that you were doing, i don't know if you could watch the ukrainian president address the houses of the u.s. congress. that video was really revealing.
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things that we had not seen happening to children. >> yeah. we are seeing a lot of children as well. fortunate off to work also with a pediatrician peer dr. weaver. a lot of kids are suffering from anxiety, upset stomach, they are not eating. this suffering from constipation, their on their digestion. it is significant as well. especially when they have to travel on the train for hours and hours. days of time. crammed in a train with little food and water. it impacts them mentally, physically, nutritionally as well. it is really tough. it is so important and we continue to donate. we continue to volunteer. we continue to pray for the ukrainians. i tell you, harris, one thing that i'm seen that is really so inspiring is this strength, the spirit of the ukrainians. it is really something that i've never seen before. spew one last quick question because i want to let you get back. you mentioned some of the other doctors who are working you. every city now is getting the sirens going off. including where you are in lviv.
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you've got about 200,000 forces now. the total russian forces. a huge amount now trying to go around the entire country. what is it like there? you are inside of a war zone. >> i admit, it's a little scary. i was working yesterday in the sirens went off. we had to go underground to the tunnels. sometimes you're underground for about three or four hours. fortunately i was only underground with my team for about one hour last night while i was sleeping in the bunk the sirens went off again. we were sleeping on the ground so we enough. it is important to make sure that everyone has shelter. everyone has a place to sleep. but what kind of life is that to have to do that? it is heartbreaking. >> harris: it is. i would imagine having to pick up people with ivs in the arm, i don't even know how you get underground with everybody. god bless you. i can only imagine. dr. janette nesheiwat, thank you for what you are doing and i will do exactly what you ask and tell people how they can help. that is part of the healing for
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all of us. >> amen. >> harris: the red cross is working to help those in ukraine, provide food water fuel medicine through fox news, more than 51,000 people have donated a total of more than $8 million so far. you can donate, by logging onto fox redcross.org/fox forward. we will leave that on the screen for just a moment. we are waiting to hear from president biden. he is expected to announce additional military aid to ukraine, perhaps we will get his response to the ukrainian president, who addressed both houses of congress today. we will bring you that as it happens live, this hour. plus, the president, catching heat. for blaming inflation and gasoline prices solely on pollutant. pollutant is the devil but there was a lot going on before this war. despite the fact that the prices have been rising for months for the invasion of ukraine.
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our power panel in focus next. >> vladimir putin is not the cause of this rampant inflation. >> he says that if he says it enough people will believe it. that's not true.
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>> harris: while he's like, president biden has just let the world know that he is delaying his remarks, or his team has, by nearly an hour now. we will be in the middle of out number. you have to imagine that he is getting all sorts of reaction. he and his staff the white house, from a bipartisan group of senators and house members over what many of them think our issuing statements after ukraine's president zelensky gave a very powerful impassioned plea for everyone to do more. but for america in particular, to lead. lead the world. what will he have to say? after zielinski gave what basically was his own state of the union address. to our lawmakers. estate of his union, how it affects the rest of the world. a standing ovation going for quite some time. we will cover it when it happens. we still await the president to the united states. and as i always say, will he
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take a question? moving on. >> i think it's perfectly clear that vladimir putin is not the cause of this rampant inflation that began at the beginning of the year. >> this is all on joe biden. >> the administration is now shamelessly trying to say that these are pollutants price hikes or this is corporate greed. >> the president is literally gaslighting the american people. >> harris: republican lawmakers turn into president biden over sky high inflation and gas prices that are spiraling out of control. every single american is touched by this. some suffering because of it. members of his administration are digging in, insisting that their policies are not to blame. nothing to see here. >> a lot of people do not even know this, that the deficit has gone down. some of the investments that we
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make help with inflation. the fiscal policy's success that our economy is growing. >> everyone who is a credit card bill thinks that the answers to spend more. >> the administration is also under criticism of its energy policies, even from some members of the president's own political party. west virginia senator, joe manchin continuing to stand alone. hitting the voters in his state, calling for friendlier tone toward big oil companies. >> why don't we ramp up and use the energy that we have. 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 taken a club them, let's basically encourage. basically do more. be able to produce more quicker. let's make the united states of america truly energy independent. >> harris: power penn mile. fox news contributor, sean duffy, also former wisconsin congressmen. and david carlucci, former new york state senator. gentlemen, great to see you. david, i will start with you.
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just get your overall reaction to the white house's plan to say that putin did it. all of it. >> i know a lot of people are trying to point fingers. by figuring out who best to blame is not going to lower gas prices will help heat one family's home. the reality is, inflation has been going on around the world. look to the european union. germany has had at record levels of inflation that they have not seen since the reunification of germany. so to say that it's just president biden, i think it's foolish and naive. the reality is, we have a whole slew of issues, like covid that have flipped the american economy upside down inside out. and has caused all of these problems. i think president biden is really to be commended in terms of passing the american recovery act. and making sure that we have been able to rebound and not lose the whole of the american economy during the covid crisis. >> harris: i think it's
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interesting, sean, what david points out. you can't just blame biden. but apparently he's okay with, and i don't want to put words in your mouth, david, but you did not dispute it. but maybe you can just blame pollutant? >> going back for second. in canada inflation is about 5% in the u.k. set about 4.8%. in the u.s. it is well into the 7% range. we are running hotter than other economies. but to be clear, joe biden, bernie sanders, aoc, they have basically ran on having a war against energy. you don't want to permit any new leases for oil and gaze on my gas on federal lands. you want to shutdown the keystone pipeline out and five. that also goes into michigan. there is a war on energy and that war is driving down production and driving up prices. it is very simple. but now for joe biden to run away from, what was the intent of the policy? again, have gas prices rise so more people will buy electric cars. when the american people see that they don't like it. so now he wants to go it was not
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me. it was not aoc. it was now the green new deal. it's putin. no. every american understands that this was happening before russia went into ukraine. this is joe biden and his democrats who have allowed these policies and these are the consequences of the deal. >> harris: it is important, david, you say that we don't have to really concentrate on how this happened. we do though. that means that if, by the grace of god, and hopefully our role in some way, leading. ukraine is able to sustain and move on independently. fewer people died. if all that happens, we still are left with the inflation. we are still left with the biden policies that got us here. so that's why we focus on the origin. i want to move forward. president biden has been saying that he will run again in 2024. >> you also just made some news by saying that you are going to run for reelection? >> i said that that is my expectation. >> if you do run, will vice president harris be on your ticket? >> president biden: i would fully expect that to be the
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case. >> the president has every intention of running for reelection parents because you plan on running for reelection? >> president biden: yes. if i'm in good health and in fact i would run again. >> harris: he might not want to look at the polls. because they show that more than half of those surveyed, 52% say, they don't think biden will seek a second term. 32% of democrats say the same. david. >> looked, president biden is running for reelection. that's what he said. i think we have to be happy that we have a president that is less concerned with the next election and more concerned with the next generation. i think he's making these hard decisions, like we talked about, energy policy. we are addicted to oil and gas. look at how these oil and gas companies have us at our needs. we have to make sure that we are moving away to be independent. these are hard decisions to make. president biden is leading. >> harris: sean duffy. >> david, have an assignment with oil producers, that would be a step closer. all really good things.
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but just quickly, joe biden is going to run for reelection. republicans want him to run. the only thing that will change that, harris, is that if the media turns on him and stops line for him. he will be forced to get out because of these policies for the american people have been so devastating. >> harris: sean, david, great heavy. power panel today paired thank you. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." outnumbered, after this commercial.
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>> as russia escalates attacks against civilians in ukraine, we are waiting to hear president biden's response to president zelenskyy's emotional appeal to congress this morning where he pleaded for more help and for biden to stand up and be the leader of the world. this is "outnumbered." i'm kayleigh mcenany with emily compagno and harris faulkner. also joining us as dagen mcdowell and ari fleischer. vladimir putin keeps up his relentless shelling of ukrainian cities, president zelenskyy told

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