don't have unsafe conditions in this country. some of these are great people who help the united states. some of them aren't. it doesn't matter. they're all allowed to stay because they are not american. that's it for us tonight. don't forget a brain episode of "tucker carlson today" with chief craig we will see you tomorrow. >> sean: welcome to "hannity" and we begin with the fox news alert, we will take you life to the ground in ukraine for military activity is now ongoing at this very hour. earlier, a new barrage of indiscriminate russian bombing completely leveling a local theater in southern ukraine where hundreds of innocent civilians were sheltering in place. by the way, including many young children. in fact, as you can see there on your screen, the word children was painted on the ground in russian on either side of the theater, but russia blew it up

anyway and now an untold number of innocent kids are dead tonight. many major cities in southern ukraine are being besieged. there are fears that kyiv could be next, and today during his virtual address to congress, the ukrainian president zelenskyy played this very powerful video showing the true horrors of vladimir putin's bloody invasion and war. these images show a normal happy country in the aftermath of vladimir putin's murdering invasion. viewer warning, what you're about to see is extremely graphic. for many of you it will be hard to watch, but necessary. you decide. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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president zelenskyy, he urged americans to remember pearl harbor, september 11th, 2001, when our country was under attack. sadly, his country is experiencing their own horror now every single day. he also invoked martin luther king jr. and zelenskyy said his dream is to protect ukrainian skies and now president zelenskyy is begging joe biden for help. take a look. >> today, the ukrainian people are defending not only ukraine, but they are fighting for the values of europe and the world in the name of the future. that's why today, the american people helping not just ukrainian, but europe and the world to keep the planet alive. i am addressing president biden, you are the leader of the

nation. to be the leader of the world, being the leader of the world means to be the leader of this. thank you. >> sean: many americans tonight are asking this question. what should america's role be when you see horror and mass graves and dead children and women in the streets, what is america's role in this? let me be clear what it shouldn't be, a no-fly zone over ukraine, that's not america's role, that can't happen. that would likely put american fighters in a direct fighting position and in war with russia. we cannot be the world's police force. u.s. boots on the ground, that can't happen either. it hasn't worked out well in the past. this would involve the united states engaging then with russia in a war and that could very likely signal the real beginning of world war iii with nuclear proliferation just a button away. but america, we have a conscience and a soul and we

care about innocent men, women, and children. there are many ways that we can help. i go back to ronald reagan. he provided, for example, in afghanistan, the stinger missiles. that helped afghanistan defeat the former soviet union in the 1980s. reagan made that happen. reagan also provided weaponry to the freedom fighters, the contra rebels in nicaragua to battle -- he was successful there. reagan never put a single american boot on the ground. these weapons helped these freedom fighters defeat bad actors. we should learn the lessons from reagan. give zelenskyy what he's asking for. the weapons that they need so they can battle back against russia. the ukrainian people, frankly, if showed incredible courage and effectiveness so far against russia. they are showing their willingness to do their own fighting. they are just asking for the tools of war. the late great charles krauthammer once wrote enter the reagan doctrine, which

relies on indigenous, revolutionaries to challenge for reasons that parallel but need not coincide with ours the soviet empire and its periphery. this strategy effectively countered the soviet communists, like i said, in places like central america. again, without putting an american boot on the ground and not risking a single american life. this is similar to what president trump did in 2017 with great success in iraq. this is after joe biden and barack obama let this isis caliphate buildout without a large group presence. donald trump utterly destroyed the isis caliphate using modern weaponry and technology to do it, pushing buttons in tampa, florida, and with pinpoint precision -- precision, taking out one target after another. and two years later, president trump utilized a similar strategy. he took out iran's top terrorist, solomonic, with a drone strike in baghdad right

there on the tarmac of an airport, again without putting a single boot on the ground. trump projected peace through strength. this is peace through strength. look, i am a registered conservative. i like to say when people ask me, the media mob likes to -- how do you describe your political philosophy. well, a reagan conservative. i'm a make america great again conservative, a save america conservative and america first conservative. the reagan doctrine worked, the trump doctrine work. we need to or member these important lessons from both trump and reagan and apply them to any future conflict where american interests and the cause of freedom are at stake. now in ukraine without the possibility of american airpower or boots on the ground, it is critical that the u.s. take a moral stand in europe especially, give ukraine the ability to protect their own skies, and that would include sending dozens of fighters that were offered from poland. but unfortunately our weak and frail and cognitively struggling

president joe biden single-handedly nixed that plan and today he refused to answer any questions about the decision to block these critical planes were being put to good use by ukrainian pilots. take a look. >> mr. president, for you to send the fullest migs that president zelenskyy is asking for. >> president biden: are not going to comment on that right now. i'm not going to comment on anything other than what i told you today. >> sean: they told him not elected to questions questions, they get mad at me and everything if i take a question, they tell me i'm not allowed. i woke up my ice cream tonight. anyway, we need to be brutally honest here. i don't trust biden, i don't trust kamala harris and i don't trust nancy pelosi. they are all pathetically weak in terms of the leadership. the top three people. there is your chain of command and they are enthusiastically cheering on zelenskyy, that's fine, while denying him the planes that poland was going to give him. american politicians generally, we learned this through covid,

we learned it in past wars, they are not to be trusted. i don't trust most of those swamp creatures in washington. the last 60 years has taught united states a lot. politicians, they are all gung ho, they start their wars, they send our national treasure, our kids to go fight these wars. they don't fight to win these wars, they politicize them, some point thereafter and then say never mind, it's hurting my poll numbers and they do that after how many american kids fought, bled, and died? how many come home severely wounded. i mean, debilitating injuries. never again. we can never trust them again. but we can stand on our principles. at the leading one being freedom. meanwhile, europe, europe, have a message for you tonight. you've got to step up to the plate. this war is in your backyard, not our backyard. it's time for you to pay your fair share and your full dues to

nato. it's time for you to get these important weapons and supplies to ukraine and get them there one way or another and stop asking joe biden for permission. but here's where things get really strange and very concerning back here at home. the biden administration is actually forging ahead with their idiotic iranian nuclear deal, which is still, according to reports, being brokered -- this is unconscionable -- by russia and china. and according to "the washington free beacon," this deal could include a plan that would let russia cash in on a $10 billion contract to build a nuclear site in iran. now, if you think the world can't get any nuttier, there you go, it just got nuttier. but it gets worse, axios tonight reporting that the biden and administration is also weighing a deal to remove terrorists from iran's islamic evolutionary guard, that's their top tier terror list, so long as they promised to be good little terrorists in the neighborhoods in the middle east. are you going to trust them?

they are vile, murdering terrorists responsible even for the deaths of american soldiers in iraq. and remember, by the way, this is a week after iran nearly blew up our own consulate in iraq with a ballistic missile. not a peep out of joe or kamala harris. if these reports are true, joe biden is truly the neville chamberlain of our time, and of course china, they are watching all of this. they plot their violence what they call reunification of taiwan, really a takeover of taiwan. recently they vowed to oppose the worst consequences, maybe even nuclear weapons, on any country that might help taiwan militarily, which by the way we already do. in a few days ago, my next guest traveled to taiwan, a country that is now preparing, rightly so, for the worst, and herewith more as former secretary of state mike pompeo. mr. secretary, good to see you. first, let me get your reaction to president zelenskyy today and i like the reagan model and i like the trump model.

am i wrong in my analysis? do you have a better idea? >> sean, i think that's right. those two models were very consistent. they were speak pretty softly but when it was time to swing into action, you did it with full force, you weren't late, you weren't behind, you weren't slow. you were protecting america's interests everywhere you went, in your opening talked about the moral imperative to do this. i think president zelenskyy talked about that eloquently today. there is an important american interests here as well, the american economy is going to be impacted by this, fertilizer food, oil, gas all going to be more expensive because the buy demonstration for climate change ahead of protecting sovereignty and freedom in this place. i think you have it right, we should be providing all the tools the ukrainian people need to defend themselves. we have them, the europeans have them, they can do an awful lot more but instead president biden has been behind, is allowed latimer prudent to dictate the pace and the response. he is allowed is allowed latimer prudent to dominate how we think

about the structure of what's taking place here and we can do better than this, americans deserve it, the ukrainian people deserve it as well and i think president zelenskyy spoke to that very nicely today. >> sean: why, when poland wanted to give the migs to ukraine, the person that vetoed that idea was joe biden. it went right to him. why wouldn't he say to poland do whatever you think is right? >> hard to explain, sean, why he would take the posture that a european country wanted to provide weapon systems that probe long to that country to give to their european friend and partner, the ukrainians, the present biden would say no, we're not going to let that happen. it's hard to also explain, sean, why we are second-guessing what the linsky says he needs to defend himself. he has demonstrated, his military leaders have demonstrated their capability to defend against a russian military that we thought was really capable. if they're asking for certain tools, we ought to do our best to give it to them, and we

shouldn't wait, we are months behind, and i know this war has only been going on for a handful of weeks but we've known for months that this was there and we should have been stacking the weapons, javelins, missiles, stingers, all the things the ukrainians need to defend themselves for months and months and months. instead i hope we get them to them fast in a serious way. >> sean: one of the things we got to keep in mind as we see hostilities with north korea heating up and their icbm testing, doesn't always work out well for them. then we have this iranian deal now back on the table, which seems to be -- seems dramatically worse than the first bad deal that they did. i guess joe wants to import oil from iran and i guess joe might be okay with latimer prudent building a nuclear facility for the iranians and i guess joe wants to import oil from venezuela and iran, those are things that i can't really comprehend, mr. secretary, but you were in taiwan recently but also you know president xi. he's watching all of this, what

is he thinking tonight and what is taiwan thinking tonight? >> i was just in taiwan. i can tell you with a time people are thinking. they are thinking that being stuck in the middle without an american set of leaders that are prepared to assist you when a superpower, big nation comes to attack you, they're very concerned, it puts them on edge. i think xi jinping is watching this too and while it seen the biden administration applauding saying we have european unity. that unity came only after an enormous a lot of destruction inside of ukraine that continues to this day. i think i want certainly watching. but i'm confident that xi jinping is not only watching what's going on in ukraine today, but he's watching us sit at a table in vienna while the russians are killing innocent women and children, we are sitting on the same side of the negotiating table as the russians come about to hand iran a clear pathway to getting russian wash and sipped some -- weapon systems. it sounds like we've allowed russians to sell the equipment to the iranians as part of this deal. this is onyx mineable.

it is a level of appeasement that we haven't seen in the united states in an awfully long time and it is dangerous not only for the taiwanese, not only for the ukrainians, but it's dangerous for the united states of america to watch bad guys rule the west. >> sean: when you watch the communist chinese fly their fighter jets over time on airspace to the degree that they have, and they talk about reunification to the extent that they have, it seems clear to me they have their own territorial ambitions and they are probably going to follow through on them. i hope i'm wrong but i don't think i am. >> sean, i hope you're wrong too. whether you're wrong or not will depend awful lot on how the united states responds, how the japanese, the australians, the south koreans respond. if we do this well, i promise you the taiwanese people are very capable and they are prepared to fight the same way you've seen the ukrainians fight. they can change the calculus for

xi jinping, they can make this cost extraordinary for him, but we can't wait. we can't wait until got ships at sea and airplanes in the air in a blockade established. we're going to gather it someplace and decide what we are going to do, should be preparing the taiwanese with all the tools they tell us they need and make sure that xi jinping understands that we are serious. when he raises the specter, as he did just this past week, when the chinese talk about the big price that the united states will pay for sending equipment to taiwan, is talk about the use of nuclear weapons too. we cannot allow tyrants to threaten nuclear weapons and engage in coercive behavior. it didn't happen for four years and art administration, we shouldn't let it happen now. >> sean: i hope they're listening. secretary of state mike pompeo. we do need the adults back in power, that would be really helpful. thank you for being with us. all right, we take your life to the ground in ukraine where our own greg palkot is joining us with more. greg, my understanding is that in fact there's been a little bit of a shift in strategy by

russia, they are using more airpower rather than going in on the ground and they still are surrounding kyiv, but to a lesser extent because of the firepower that's coming in from missiles and et cetera? >> yeah, i mean basically, sean, you got russia pounding away at various cities and we just had a really new expansion of offensive activity tonight, not far from the belarus-ukraine border, a town was hit by shells coming from delivers to this western area of ukraine. it's picking up as well. a lot of attention though is being placed on kyiv. that's the capital. that's the big enchilada that russia is going for. it was blasted again, one shelling happened just a mile and a half from the residence of president zelenskyy. another 12 story building was destroyed. yes, as you say, the bulk of the russian forces remained still

outside, eight or 9 miles outside, but they are being dispersed, getting ready for the big kill. in the important city of mariupol, huge theater was being used as a shelter for civilians was destroyed, including a lot of children. no word on casualties there yet. our hospital was commandeered as a russian shooting position and aid convoys once again could not get in. and in the city ten people were killed while they were waiting on the bread line and a bomb dropped on them. all of this because in president zelenskyy, as you've been noting, to speak to congress today, the video link, his words, we need you now, and also announced today, president biden, additional military aid to the tune of about $800 million. finally, sean, the update from the talks going on between officials from the ukraine and russia, they were described today as serious and realistic

as some very unrealistic horror continues here across this nation. back to you. >> sean: greg, can i get a little more clarity? talked about there were eight, e perimeter, but you talked about the troops now being dispersed. if that in anticipation of them dispersing to go into kyiv? or are they using more missile and air attacks instead? >> the thinking is, sean, that they will apply the same siege technique on kyiv that they have already done on mariupol and several other cities. they don't seem -- they seem to be worried about getting into street fights with the very savvy, very handy, and very -- turning out to be very skilled ukrainian soldiers. if they are worried about the casualties there, so they will sit outside the city, they will cut off all the means of communication, all the means of transportation, they will pound the place, and they won't care about whether they will hit civilian targets are not until

basically try to starve the city out. that's the real concern for the next week or two in kyiv, the capital, right now. >> sean: greg palkot in ukraine tonight. thank you, please be safe. we will get back to ukraine in a moment. breaking moments ago, jussie smollett has been released from jail after his lawyers filed another appeal. there with the very latest from our very own evolution is with us. what's the latest there? >> well, sean, pretty shocking turn of events. convicted felon jussie smollett was just released from jail a short time ago. take a look at the video here. this was after an appeals court agreed with his lawyers that he should be released pending his appeal of his conviction for faking a crime. at this ruling came out from the appeals court today after a cook county judge sentenced him last week to immediately begin serving 150 days in jail for his conviction on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police. the appeals court said today

smollett can be released after he posted a personal recognizance bond of $150,000. his attorneys have argued that he would have finished his sentence by the time his appeal process was completed, and that smollett could be in danger of physical harm if he had stayed locked up in cook county jail. as smollett was leaving court last week, we saw him make this outburst, take a look. >> i am not suicidal. i am not suicidal, and i am innocent. >> and sean, just moments ago his attorneys wrapped up a brief press conference where they essentially said they strongly disagree with the conviction in this case, they went after the judge, calling him on professional for chastising their clients. they said the smollett family is happy that he is being released. they said this case is political, and they said that jussie smollett hadn't eaten since he went into jail. we will send it back to you. >> sean: bill melugin tonight, thank you. joining us now with reaction to

all of today's breaking news, senator john kennedy. senator, you not only watched president zelenskyy, but i'm quoting you, you said we are at war with russia, we need to win it militarily and economically. i want you to give us a little more detail what you mean by that. >> i would make a couple of points, sean. first, i think it's clear that the leader of the free world is president zelenskyy. he and the ukrainian people are tough as a boot and we need to have their backs. .2, i think it's important when we do right to acknowledge it. the west sanctions on russia's central bank hasn't brought him to his knees but he's hurting. suppose you can say president biden has gotten it right, once in a row. point three, the rest of president biden's economic response to the invasion and

military response to the invasion, in my judgment, has been a wimp-fest. let's take it first militarily. president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people are holding their own on the ground. they need air cover. today president zelenskyy said can you please help me get planes, can you please help me get service -- surface-to-air missiles, not asking for american planes or pilots, our troops, help me with your allies, president biden's response is the same as it always is. i'll get back to you, in three to five business days. and he never gets back. >> sean: spill go ahead. >> i was just going to say the final point i would make, and less youth -- and less still living with your parents, you understand that you can't put putin on his knees without

cutting off his cash flow. and you cut off his cash flow without cutting off his oil and gas and a lot of our allies say we have to buy's oil and gas, where we going to get it? the obvious answer is the united states, except for one problem. the woke darlings in the democratic party will not allow president biden to adopt in all of the above energy policy, which includes oil and gas and the president just doesn't seem to have the courage to stand up to him. >> sean: he's beholding to this new religion, the climate alarmist religious cult called the new greenville socialism. i want to go back to the specificity of what you're saying that america should do. i know reagan trump, make america great again america first conservative. we saw what reagan did to help in afghanistan defeat the

soviet union in the '80s, helped the contra rebels against them. we saw donald trump use modern warfare, weaponry, technology, to kick the living adam schiff out of that caliphate and defeat them that was growing under obama and biden. you're saying no boots on the ground, but if ukrainians, who i think have shown a real willingness to fight back hard, if they have the right tools and the right military equipment, they have a shot at winning this war, i would argue vladimir putin ran into a force he never anticipated up to this point. >> sure. and i'll give you a perfect example. poland said look, will deliver our jets to a nato, an american airbase in germany and then from there they can go into ukraine. president biden said no, no, that makes me nervous. well, i'm nervous too, but there's an alternative, just have poland either fly or truck

there planes flown by ukrainian pilots either directly into ukraine where they can put them on a truck and put them next to the border and let the ukrainians drag them across and president biden won't even agree to that. as if he's looking for excuses. i would ask the president to consider -- i know, you know, you don't want to make mr. putin matt, but you know, in the vietnam war, you know who supplied planes directly to north vietnam to russia. in the korean war, you know who supplied planes directly to north korea? russia. so i don't understand the reluctance of the president. i do know this though. i do know this though. some people in his administration believe that $6 gas will make people buy electric vehicles, and that's the hell of an attitude.

>> sean: we will get into more detail on my radio show, we're going to be a guest on my show tomorrow. >> i look forward to it. >> sean: always great to have you, thank you. as putin's bloodiest outrages all across ukraine, millions of men, women, children are being forced to flee, leave their homes of these russian forces now continue to target civilians. nearly 3 million refugees since his invasion just weeks ago. frankly, they are showing no signs of letting up and we also learning that samaritan's purse that's franklin graham's group, a great group, they received its first patience at an emergency field hospital in ukraine amid the growing refugee crisis. here now in the field hospital in ukraine, fox news medical contribute or dr. jeanette is with us. good to see you. you've got your stethoscope on, you're ready to go. what are you seeing coming in on this, your first day? >> well, sean, we've been at it for a few days now and it's

intense, it's severe, you know, the refugees keep coming in, innocent people are still dying. missing hundreds and hundreds of people coming off the train at the mobile medical unit that i've been working at, more disease, more illness, more significant life-threatening conditions. you know, i started off my morning today taking care of an 84-year-old male. he came in from his hometown, he -- he hadn't eaten in days, he was confused, having chest pains, turns out he was having a full-blown heart attack with me in the tent. then shortly after that, the train conductor rushes towards me, desperately seeking help for a woman who collapsed on the train, so i rushed over to her, her along with many others are suffering from dehydration, they are fatigued, they are weak, they're called, there injured, and then add fuel to the fire. the sirens go off, the alarms go off, we have to seek shelter and go underground because of the potential strikes. and you know, the inhumanity, the cruelty, it's appalling and

the brutality and the incoming refugees, it's not slowing down, it's not stopping, it's getting more intense day by day. >> sean: yeah. when you see the refugees and we are talking about now a couple million people that now are in need, are you also seeing the severity of injuries to civilians, and if so, how bad, and how many? >> yeah. we fed everything from lacerations come in to shoulder fractures, some people have wounds that are infected, and we do the best we can. i'm working with a great team here with samaritans first, we do the best we can to provide them with the care that they need, but it's a challenge, because, you know, we got a lot of people who have fled their home town, they have medical conditions that need to be treated, they don't have the medications, they are without their insulin with their asthma inhalers, you know, with their blood pressure medicines. these are life changing, life-saving medicines and the

challenges very difficult but we are doing the best we can with the resources we have to give them, you know, the best care possible. >> sean: i appreciate all that you're doing, samaritans first, thank you, thank you for all you do. we send our best. it's necessary and very important work and it's the best inhumanity, thank you, and the worst of times sometimes. coming up, we will bring you the shocking details, putin's continued brutality amid his ongoing evasion card we will check in with victor davis hanson, keith kellogg, they will join us with reaction, and much more as we continue our coverage, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ we just haven't been properly introduced. say hello to the place where rolling hills meets low bills. where our fields, inside and out, are always growing. and where the fun is just getting started. this is iowa. so, when are you coming to see us?

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♪ ♪ >> sean: more big development on the ground in ukraine as putin's evil, destructive rampage across the country is sadly getting worse as he is now targeting civilians left and

right. look at your screen. new footage shows that russian troops are shooting in cold blood innocent civilians waiting in line for bread in northeast ukraine. that's not all. ukraine officials say russian troops destroyed a theater for hundreds of residents were sheltering and by the way they had children are in here written in russian and they still attacked it. that's evil, it's plain and simple. this is a complete disregard for human dignity, there were crimes, not that it matters to putin, but like i've been saying, there needs to be a new rule for the international community. if you're a leader and you invade a sovereign country, you kill innocent civilians and women and children, you forfeit your right to lead any country and you should forfeit your own life and be taken out by whatever means are necessary because when you cut off the head of a snake, the snake dies. the mayor of kyiv was asked about the path of destruction, here's what he had to say. take a look. >> we will defend our city.

it's our home. we don't have -- we never think to leave. it's our home. we defend our children, families, our buildings, our cities, and our future, future of ukraine. >> sean: here with reaction, author of the book "war by other means," keith kellogg, along with hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson. you know, it seems, victor, that it's not going as planned for vladimir putin, i would argue that targeting civilians is evidence of that. and that would, to me, it would be a window of opportunity. for european countries and the u.s., now that the ukrainians have shown they are not only willing to fight, but they are very capable in their fighting if they are provided the weaponry to win, that this might be a window of opportunity for them to really make a significant gain, because i sense that as vladimir putin

gets more and more embarrassed on the world stage, he'll go more and more -- on his way in or out. your thoughts? >> absolutely. i think he's had to pivot, so he's cracking down on internal defense. he is pivoted to medieval war against civilians the way he did in grozny and talking loosely about nuclear warfare and wild threats and that shows he's desperate. things are not getting better and remember, we got this far, the ukrainians did, and the west, with not very many supplies. when we have a big controversy about the trump initial symptom make shipment of javelins, it was only 150 javelins, so we haven't geared up yet and i think now we are gearing up in the weapons are pouring in. i don't know why we don't take ukrainians out of the country, 90 or 100 of them and train them to do patriot and antimissile batteries and we could train them in that sophisticated weapon that has a lot of capability. i think that we can train them to use even more and more

sophisticated weapons and ramp the pressure up, and it was going to happen now is that putin is going to get wilder and wilder and give more and more threats and we've got to be very careful because he's a wounded tiger he's caged, but he's going to try to expand the conflict even though in a weird way to win while his losing in his primary objective of taking ukraine. >> sean: general kellogg, is that your assessment as well? >> yeah, looked at sean, thanks for having me. he's creating generational hatred is what he's doing right now, and if i had to write a book on this campaign right now and title it, it would be out of the forest, movie, "stupid is as stupid does." shelling those cities is just actually stupid because one, he's creating rubble and you never want to fight in rubble in cities. he's getting absolute hatred of the ukrainian people, and it just makes no sense to me. he's not going to take kyiv. it's a huge city, it's a 2,000 year old city they are not quick to give up, they are just not going to quit on him. it's reaching a point right now

if this was a prizefighter, putin is losing on points. he's never going to get to the west crossing the river, i think he's really -- he better start figuring out how he negotiates to a settlement because i don't think he can win it and when we talk about -- >> sean: general, let me play -- you know far more about strategic warfare than i do, so i beg your indulgence here. but if he goes scorched earth and he's like a cornered rat, what will he be capable of doing at that point? that's -- victor davis hanson, i hear that's his concern and i share it. >> yeah. my concern, and that is a concern, is they do have a military strategy of escalate to de-escalate an absolute fear that i've got is he's going to use a sub kiloton nuclear weapon and they've got them in their inventory. we don't have those in our inventory. we did away with it in the apostate he 60s, we had a system called the davy crockett

and he would do a demonstration. what that means is you shoot it into the water, you shoot it into a big field and there are sub kiloton weapons but mix a demonstration that he's using a nuclear weapon. i hope is not that stupid or crazy to do it because to me underwear weapon is a nuclear weapon, but that's going to be the sign of absolute desperation. and the best thing i'm hoping is that we get somebody who can talk him off the wall right now. biden can't do it because there's no communications between him and putin, but some but he needs to talk to putin and get him offer he's going because right now he's in the process of losing the war and when you start losing the war you do go to extremes, and that's the worst extreme we could look for. but somebody got to tell him don't go there, we have to be very, very stern with him until the russians, don't go to this nuclear posture. we made a mistake, sean, by when they raised their nuclear level, special combat readiness, we should have responded in kind by raising our nuclear readiness. we are normally what's called

defense condition, we are normally at a 4. it's 1-5, we raised it to three, we went up to 2 during the given missile crisis. just raise it and say look, you need to understand -- president trump told kim jong un, when he said it was pretty funny, when kim jong un says i have a red button, or member president trump said bakhtin, well, i've got a red button, it's bigger than yours, and mine works, and i think we just need to tell putin that. don't go to this level. >> sean: victor davis hanson, what i see in biden kamala and nancy pelosi, i sense that anytime vladimir putin, you know, mentions nukes or tensions in escalation or throws out a warning against any country that might supply any weaponry to ukraine, i sense that joe runs for cover, that this genuine fear and an unwillingness to confront vladimir putin even

simply by arming zelenskyy and the ukrainian people and letting them do their own fighting here. i don't think he can be the leader of the free world and operate from a position of fear, do you? >> no i think historically anytime you are sure and enemy what you're not going to do, your insuring them that they will do it, and biden is always telling putin what we are not going to do, and that's a mistake. we had kind of a missile spree. it's not just in ukraine. after afghanistan and this administration, north korea let off more missiles in january than it has in its entire history. and then we have iran jump in and send missiles pretty close to a consulate and then we have putin send missiles near the polish border. and remember i think it was in october, the chinese sent a hypersonic muscle, so all of these players have been watching afghanistan in this administration and are thinking, you know what, there's no consequences, and this is a rare

moment to get real strategic advantage over the united states and its allies. i really -- i think looking back it was really terrible when the obama administration gave up missile defense in the czech republic and poland. if we had those batteries right now, even though they were ostensibly aimed at maybe an iranian robe missile, we would have a level of deterrence and we haven't cut back on missile defense in 2009-2016, so we are going to have to rethink things, pumped more gas and oil, really concentrate on continental and forward missile defense and start arming people before -- when you have just the faintest sense that putin is on the move, start arming them en masse, and we haven't done that. it's working and he's getting cornered but with got to pour it on now. >> sean: we could look at the blunder here and start arming taiwan now. anyway. victor, thank you, general, thank you. straight ahead, biden's bizarre

blunders. i mean, they just continue beyond 2 million, embarrassing. wait until you see what he called kamala harris yesterday and what he is saying today. mark meadows, mike huckabee, they are next as we continue our coverage. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> sean: now another day, another batch of bizarre blunders from joe biden. here's joey yesterday referring to kamala harris is the first lady. he did it in front of his own wife jill biden. take a look. >> president biden: look at -- i was going to say look at the stage, but that's enough too. look at the stage. little change who's on the stage because of the first lady of estevez husband contracting covid. look at this room and what you see -- pardon?

[laughter] that's right. she's fine. [laughter] not together. the second late -- the first gentleman how about that. >> sean: so tired whenever i have to -- i'm sorry. of course only got worse from there because today during an event at the white house, all right, biden gave these rambling remarks about naked pictures and blackmail. i don't know, maybe he was thinking about hunter. that's only a guess. take a look. >> president biden: so we established a new civil rights -- a new civil rights cause of action for those whose intimate images were shared on the public screen. how may times have you heard -- all that everybody knows somebody somewhere along the line that in an intimate relationship, what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend or whatever in a compromising

position and then literally in a sense blackmails or modifies the person, send it out, put it online. >> sean: can you figure that out? here with reaction, former white house chief of staff mark meadows along with former arkansas governor mike huckabee. all right, governor, i'm going to throw that you because i'm being nice to mark tonight. can you go ahead and explain that? [laughter] >> sean, you may know a guy down in georgia, on wonderful comedian by the name of durwood fincher, he goes by the moniker of mr. double talk and he goes on and on and he says a lot of stuff but it makes no sense whatsoever. durwood fincher to be president of the united states. he talks on detox. it makes no sense. otis campbell on andy griffith show when he would take the key and let himself in the jail after a three day drunk made

more sense. it's funny in one way, but this is our president, and this is how the world is looking at him, and it's frightening. >> sean: you know, i made a lot of fun of him for a while because for that very reason. i mean, it's that serious. mark meadows, under biden-obama, the caliphate grew. under biden obama, crimea was annexed. under donald trump, nothing happened. under biden, this adam schiff showed now takes place. why didn't it happen under president donald trump? >> because we had a president who was not only a strong leader, but make sure that -- as well knew exactly what he was going to be about, and that was about being a strong america. he got rid of the caliphate, outback daddy is no longer on the face of the globe

we had other terrorist leaders that met their demise as well. and so when you see this, it's all about having a strength and a will to lead. and what we're seeing right now is a real weakness and sadly, the gaps that you have there, you take no joy in seeing that and are busily the more that they've done, the more problematic they become because you try to make excuses for them. but really where we need to focus is again with our world leaders, whether it's president xi or president putin, we need to let them know that we are not going to just roll over and take their domineering dictatorship and allow the american people to just sit back in a spirit of appeasement. we've got to really take a leadership role and donald trump did that. >> sean: in the 50 seconds we

have left, governor huckabee, what should the u.s. role be those americans that don't know? >> i think it's to show support for the people of ukraine in every way possible and what we've seen with president biden is that, you know, he fumbles his communication and we would forgive that and not even care if he didn't fumble the policies and fumble the decisions that he has to make at moments like this. but when the fumbling of your communications is equal to or sometimes even less than the fumbling of the policies where people's lives are at stake like we saw in afghanistan, that's where we have a real problem, and that is serious. >> sean: by the way, next time you guys are on, a hard question is going to go to mark meadows, not to governor huckabee, just to be fair and balanced. we do appreciate both of you, thank you both for being with us. we will take a break, more "hannity" straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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>> that is all the time we have this evening very thank you for making that show possible very thank you for joining us for eight set your dvr in never mis an episode great i don't think it is difficult. joe, follow reagan, paulo trump and you will do fine. laura ingraham is next. have a great night very. >> this is an ingraham angle from a very busy washington tonight. treatment is here with the contrasting styles between president biden and zelenskyy. new reports of bombings at this hour in ukraine. we will have a live update in just a bit, but first, roadblocks to peace. that is the fake focus of tonight's angle. nearly three weeks into this wa of choice we see the horrors of