mortgage now they don't know if they pay for gas to get to work. >> todd: taking the bus is not an answer for all people. thank you for your time this morning. ashley, thanks for being with me, my friend. >> ashley: thanks for having me. >> todd: "fox & friends" starts now. ♪ ♪ [gunfire] >> todd: ukraine has rejected russia's demand to surrender mariupol. >> i'm ready for negotiation your cannot pay off that would mean this is a third world war. >> there was another missile strike on the capital kyiv hitting a shopping mall. >> putin is on the trajectory towards nuclear warfare and we have yet to respond. [explosion] >> wednesday the president will meet with nato members in

brussels. on friday is he scheduled to travel to poland. >> china's tradition is russia needs an asset to solve the crisis in a peaceful way. >> i think you will see putin right in his pocket and essentially then own russia. >> steve: good morning, it's monday, march 21st, 2022 it is 6:00 a.m. here in new york city. it is noon in ukraine. and we start with a fox news alert. ukraine defies the kremlin's demand to surrender the seaside stiff mariupol where tens of thousands of people have been trapped. >> ainsley: the refusal comes as the russian strike levels a shopping mall in kyiv, killing at least 8 people. >> brian: that's new. mike to be begin joins us from lviv, ukraine. hey, mike. >> good morning, steve, ainsley and brian.

russian defense ministry offered escape for the people trapped in the city of mariupol. in exchange for that, the ukrainian fighters needed to lay down their arms and surrender. that was flatly rejected with the deputy prime minister telling the russian counterpart they wasted their time and the paper on which the cease-fire proposal was written. now, the people in mariupol have been pounded really for two weeks. they don't have food, water, power. it's very drive difficult for them to get out. the deputy prime minister says some 7,300 people escaped from mariupol yesterday, but 300,000 are still in that city. another 50 bus also attempt to get into mariupol today and get those people out. the refugees are telling that russians are creating their own escape routes for the civilian population but they need to go back to russia. >> i have been sitting in a basement for two weeks. i just left it.

>> why did you decide to leave. >> they kind of said we can no native land and i decided to do it. >> in a district just to the north of capital city of kyiv, shopping mall took a direct hit from a rocket. it is flattened. ukraine's office of the prosecutor general says 8 people were killed and there add to the long list of incidents that ukraine says are war crime. guys, back to you in new york. >> brian: clearly, mike, they have no problem digging in and just shelling. have you seen any reports of going door to door in any parts of this country? are they still staying on the outskirts? >> we are seeing in the city of mariupol, there are reports that the russian forces are now on the ground, out of vehicles and, frankly, the phrase i have seen is guerrilla warfare now, door-to-door, street-to-street in the city of mariupol where the ukrainians are barely hanging on. >> steve: i saw a story this

morning it talked a little bit how the russian troops shell the city and took the people's homes. they actually broke into people's houses and took the stuff they had if there. mike, as you tell us about the art school that was hit with 400 people. you know, we still are wondering what happened to that theater in mariupol where there were over 1,000 people down in the basement and i read just an hour too long on the associated press, it sounds like 1,000 people, here we are five days later a thousand people outside that place where they had translated into russian the word children and it was flattened. there were 1,000 people in the basement, still. >> clearly marked actually translates to kids in the front and rear of that theater. also if you look at the there is a lot of real estate on either side of that theater. the bomb went right into the center. it's hard to imagine it wasn't a deliberate targeting of that theater. the problem right now and what we are hearing from citizens in

mariupol no one can get to that theater. they try to come in and get to the theater but they are fired upon. unfortunately we heard that 130 people got out of that theater and we're just not getting any more information. >> ainsley: mike, what about the wagner group? we are told that the group has now returned to ukraine. >> steve: mercenaries. >> ainsley: mercenaries. they are looking for zelenskyy. he is doing interviews. one with israel. pretaped so when they air we don't know his location. what's the latest on this wagner group? >> well, the way that the wagner group operates not insert people but have had people here for along time and activate them. that's the way they work. the product of the guy who operated the ira internet research association. all that big troll farm so active during the election.

certainly a shadowy operation. what you see with president zelenskyy is he taking at love risk. thieves guys are out there. it's not going to be hard to pinpoint their location. they get activated do their thing. one plot with the wagner group according to the ukrainians was thwarted already. we will see. usually when we start hearing about operation goes away because it was made public. hopefully that's the case here. brian bribe yeah. remember we killed a few hundred of them in syria when they decided to come at us and mattis gave the order to wipe them out. they evidently aren't supposed to really exist. there wasn't even outrage or declaration coming from russia at the time. >> you are breaking up quite a bit but clearly this is a shadowy operation when they are activated they do their thing. and one thing i can tell you here in the city of lviv to the far west, people are very

paranoid about plants, about operatives that would be here on the streets. >> steve: i completely understand that mike, thank you for joining us from the streets of lviv. stay safe. thank you. >> brian: mike had a small section. let's take a look at the map, guys, and go over some of the news that's happening all throughout this country. first off, the one thing that is pretty clear, they're leading from the front, the russians. whether it's frustration, they have lost between 5 and 9 generals, depending the ukrainians say it's 9. they say over the weekend they killed another 2. they just killed another 5 military commanders who were in the field. russian commanders. they are making some progress. first off, where they have been repelled. important to point out right around kharkiv where they thought they would be three through second biggest city. right now counter offensive by ukraine to push them back. they are rumbling the city, no question about it making great progress that's clear if you think wrecking things is progress. they are not moving in. and right here we understand around kyiv and so much red

around here. it's not totally encircled but this is what the main objective was in the first phase of this russian war. so what they're doing is they are about 25 column centers, about 20 miles outside the city but they are now dig. in i understand the ground is getting softer. they have got to stay on the roads. they are digging into this area. they are beginning to mine on the outside. but picture new york city only bigger. how are they going to take a city like that block to block heavily fortified. heavily supplied and they are getting more in n. and out still. that's going to be the biggest story. chernobyl now important to have a rotation of nuclear experts in there that's pretty clear that was a dangerous situation but the russians don't seem to care much about nuclear energy, the other thing is here the theory is the russians are going to change their objective and instead of trying to take the capital and kill zelenskyy and decapitate. they might just try to take this part we will take half of ukraine and call it a day.

look that that comes up in talks. just as we go to the south this is what everybody is focused on mariupol. they were told to surrender two hours ago. they said the hell with that they are going house to house. we understand that they want this area, most of all they want the coastal region, to connect these two areas which they already had. and then the other area to focus on is right here. mykolaiv. these people are fighting like spartans no. one can understand where they are getting the energy and weapons to fight off. this is why it's so key. if mykolaiv falls then west. i got my buffer zone. i got the coal, i got the iron, i got the gas, i got the seeside, i got the ports that's something he might want to declare as a victory. of the question is do the ukrainians continue to fight on or do they say let's just end it here because too many innocent civilians being killed.

that's what's going on on the map. it's an active situation. but i tell you the russians clearly failed phase one. >> ainsley: you mentioned chernobyl, i was reading the 46 employees hold up inside trying to still work there when the russians took over. >> ainsley: those ukrainians were allowed out yesterday and they did a shift. i wonder how long the new ones. >> brian: 500 hours in. crazy. there might be talks maybe in jerusalem. there might be talks in turkey and the thing is. >> steve: there is a containment building. >> brian: a war of attrition. how much damage can the russians do from the house and how long county ukrainians hold off from the inside and can they get some of the weapons that we already paid for and delivered? we got to get those weapons delivered to the country. >> steve: well, you know, we heard yesterday when russia gave mariupol they said surrender by 5:00 a.m. and mariupol and ukraine itself just said no, come and get us, and they are

there. and they will not back down. >> ainsley: zelenskyy said they have greeted them with bravery and weapons in their hands, talking about his people. he said the ukrainian people have not met russian soldiers with a bunch of flowers and warned of a world war iii. >> steve: no kidding. meanwhile a world war would involve china, obviously. because china has aligned themselves with russia. our president got on a video call with president xi on friday at 9:00 a.m. from the situation room. and now we are learning some of the things that they talked about apparently, according to the ambassador. are to the united states from china says that the call was candid and deep and constructive. says that president xi told our president that china stands for peace and opposes war. now, here's the important thing. china is not sending any arms to any party involved. they say they are only sending aid like diapers and food and

medicine, baby formula and sleeping bags. what about financial help? obviously there is a china-russia relationship, and china said essentially hey, we have normal trade with them. so, in other words, the tap is still open. plenty of cash between china and russia. >> ainsley: that ambassador was on face the nation over the weekend and says he refuses to condemn russia. >> actually, on the second day of russia's military operation. president xi jinping did talk to president putin. china's trusted relations with russia is not a liability. actually it's an asset in the international efforts to solve the crisis in a peaceful way, you know. china is part of the solution.

it's not part of the problem, that's why. >> just to be clear china. >> good friendly, good nashville nashvillely relations. >> you acknowledge not a good 150,000 troops on the border of a neighboring country and send troops into that country. in those circumstances why can't you condemn this as an invasion? >> um-huh, let's don't be naive, condemnation? >> sounds naive to say that's not an invasion. >> it doesn't solve the problem. >> i would be surprised if russia will back down by condemnation. >> will they back down -- >> brian: the difference is. by the way can you see the anger come out. it was a really good interview. i'm sure he is not coming back there one thing is pretty clear. never believe anything the chinese say.

the drones they stole, the hypersonic missiles they stole all of that from us. if they are not sending weapons, i understand that. easily identifiable. >> are they jamming the drones sold to the ukrainians right now. number two, by them condemning russia, if a legitimate condemnation came down and stop providing aid to russia, this thing ends the day before. they are single-handedly, along with bad decisions by india's government, sustaining russia now by circumventing the sanctions, ignoring them buying additional oil discount rates. continuing to supply. the question is when it is detected are we going to interdict some of these supply ships as they come ashore? we know if they actually condemn russia, this thing ends the next day. >> ainsley: she is absolutely right. how can he not call this an invasion? we are seeing the images. >> steve: don't be naive he said, because condemnation doesn't work. well, i got news for you. try it. let's see.

>> ainsley: exactly. russia is targeting innocent civilians, mothers, children, the elderly. targeting homghts and schools. neighborhoods are totally leveled. we have seen mass graves being dug in the earth with thousands or hundreds of people being thrown and rolled into these graves stacked on top of each other. sorry, that's the mall, brian. >> brian: that is new. we are just getting that in. what is so amazing. we don't have any transcripts from this call. donald trump give up all his transcripts leaked out. they talked for two hours. we have dramatically different tales of what took place there jake sullivan met for seven hours in italy with china. we don't have a readout of that. what do you talk about for seven hours and get nothing out of. >> ainsley: that reminds me of kid rock on with tucker compared the difference between joe biden and donald trump with the transcripts. you mentioned the transcripts. that's coming up in just minutes. >> steve: it is indeed.

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the four marines killed in a chopper crass on friday: losing their lives during the drills. before the war in ukraine broke out. similar to this one going down in bad weather in an area with rough terrain. delayed access to the site crash. just hours supreme court nominee kentanji brown jackson will begin facing questions from lawmakers. some who promised the process would be tough. over the last few days republican senators have stepped up their criticism of jackson's soft on crime approach. today's confirmation hearings come after the high court announced supreme court justice clarence thomas was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. a virginia tech swimmer missed a cutoff for the 500-meter freestyle by one spot. will ripping the ncaa's policy which did allow transgender swimmer lia thomas to compete. 2016 olympians saying, quote, i feel like the final spot was taken from me because of the ncaa's decision to let someone

who is not a biological female compete. i asked the ncaa to take time to think about all the other biological women in swimming, try to think about how they would feel if they would have been in their shoes. a colorado school district is planning to do away with high school valedictorian awards. cherry creek school district stop giving the academic recognition starting with the class of 2026. officials notified parents in a newsletter saying, quote: we believe all students can learn at high levels and learning is not a competition. they claim that the decision will not harm students in the college admissions process. and those are your headlines. we'll see if it does or doesn't. >> steve: it always helped if you could say i finished top of my class or valedictorian. >> brian: don't do class rank anymore. doesn't matter if you are the best. what if you are the middle. >> ainsley: i any of use

valedictorian. >> ashley: same. >> brian: i wasn't in because everybody else cheated and i refused to cheat like everybody else. class rank is the best way to do it. some schools are easier than others. if you are like 230 out of 700 people. i think okay, that's the curriculum. that's what you took. i thought the class -- class rank is so old school. to me, it's the best way to judge. along with the sats. >> steve: not in colorado in that particular town. all right, meanwhile, you saw the number last week, inflation has gone up year over year in february. close to 8% and of course joe biden blames vladimir putin. >> ainsley: now he does. >> steve: he is blaming it for the big number even though there was a big number before the invasion. well, anyway. bloomberg, rather than talk about inflation and how joe biden should fix it, an op-ed writer by the name of theresa --

i mispronounced it from new york. a new york based labor and retirement expert. she looked at what you should do to navigate through joe biden's world of inflation close 8% if you make less than 300,000s dollars a year which is pretty much everybody in america. >> ainsley: only 1% makes above that this is her advice. she says inflation stipulation most if you earn less than 300,000. here is how to deal. take the bus. don't buy in bulk. try lentils instead of meat. nobody said this was fun. she also goes on to say if your dog has cancer, maybe skip the chemotherapy, implying that your dog should just die because chemotherapy is too expensive. >> brian: exactly. cutting right to it. dave ramsey has a episode on. that was stop the chemo, save a dollar.

>> steve: 10,000. >> brian: sorry fido, you are are going to die now, inflation blame vladimir putin. tasty meat substitutes. i think they are talking about spam and sizzlean. >> ainsley: lentils chick peas. >> brian: vegetables where price are up. lentils up 9%. cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. go to somebody's vegetable garden and just eat out of their garden or grow your own food. why don't we start living off the land. >> steve: with inflation now gardens back in the 1970s, people will remember that joe biden was saying grow your own vegetables. she wrote the vegetables are up 4%. lentils and beans up 9%. 'meat is higher. just do that gas is up 38%. stop driving, take the bus because is only up 8%. so she is using the numbers. but, rather than address how joe biden can bring down inflation, it's how you have got to live

with inflation at these rates. >> ainsley: most people can't take the bus. >> steve: there is no buses 2:00 in the morning when we get up. >> ainsley: exactly. this reminds me of remember when bloomberg said you can't get the big coke anymore and no more chocolate milks in kid's schools. >> brian: lay off the salt. >> ainsley: pictures of what the trays looked like in the cafeteria or we will increase gas prices and shut down the pipelines you will have to have higher gas prices so you should just buy an electric car. >> brian: ask north dakota and alaska to pump more. this is so much easier to have each individual sacrifice. could you take an uber in if the bus is not near you. >> ainsley: uber probably cost more than the meat you bought instead of the lentils. >> brian: david axelrod you overcorrected with the putin price hike. nobody is buying it when david

axelrod turns on his former vice president, i think that's a big deal. >> steve: ronna mcdaniel is going to be with us in about an hour. the republicans. >> brian: bus is on time. >> steve: got a strategy. she tweeted this out don't like the biden gas hike? vote republican. republicans are coming to gas stations nationwide to register voters, #. >> ainsley: smart idea. >> steve: that is where look at those numbers over there. >> ainsley: look at the sign to the left. >> steve: you sigh those joe biden stickers everywhere. i was down in florida over the weekend. i saw more of them. that's where people are really angry. so many people cannot afford to fill it up anymore. okay. i got 10 bucks. i will see how far 10 bucks. this is when i was in high school. i had 5 bucks. i'm going to drive $5 worth. >> ainsley: lauren just walked. in she is our assistant. from california and visit parents over the weekend what are gas prices in california?

almost $8. unbelievable. some of the people at the pump were holding up pain at the pump? vote republican. another one said feeling joe biden blues? vote red. and a g.o.p. activist never been more excited about gas prices in my life. this an opportunity to get votes. >> brian: exactly. that is why the republicans are going to start standing at the sinclaire station or texaco or chevron just to make sure that the people who are angry can voice their opinion not only at the pump but in november. >> ainsley: did you see them out in the "new york post" had a story in manhattan at the gas stations and long island. >> brian: the signs? >> ainsley: signs, people trying to register. >> steve: meanwhile tonight on tucker carlson, tucker last week sat down with bob richy, also known as kid rock and they talked wide ranging, one hour special on fox nation. here is kid rock talking about the current president and the

past one. >> you can see now if you watch joe biden interview and you watch a trump interview. there is no comparison. and trump, yeah, he speaks off the cuff. i understand what it's like. sometimes you get it wrong. this, that, and the other. i would way rather hear somebody do from here and get it wrong once in a while and see this contrived every politician until he came around. everything stripped. stood right next to him with the prepared notes and watch him read like one sentence and then let's go. you are like this is awesome. i liked him from the beginning. >> steve: i believe that was taped at kid's place in nashville in the barn. you will see apparently tucker goes out to an event with him at his bar in downtown nashville, and also hangs out at his house behind the scenes. now, you will only see starting tonight at 8:00 with tucker carlson. >> ainsley: he has a point. donald trump, he made decisions

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>> ashley: back a fox news alert. a boeing 737 jet liner with 132 people on board crashing in the mountains in one of china's southern provinces. official says the aircraft lost contact over the city and nose dived 30,000 feet. the plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members. no word on the number of deaths or injuries aboard the china eastern airlines flight. we will, of course, bring you more details as soon as we get them. we want to warn you the video in next story is graphic. a 23-year-old man is in critical condition after being run over by a driver doing donuts in new york city. the nypd releasing this chilling video showing the victim falling in front of that drifting car. police say he suffered a fractured skull. brain injury and severe body trauma. police are asking for help identifying the driver in that red car. now to march magness.

duke overcoming a late 5 point deficit to keep coach k's last tournament run alive 85 to 76 win in a final over michigan state in a heavy wait coaching matchup tim izzo and coach k. 11th seed iowa state advancing after upset win over three seed wisconsin. cyclones punching their tickets sweet 16 a year after winning two games. meanwhile houston beats fourth seed illinois. after the game, 66-year-old head coach calvin sampson going shirtless do you work his team's locker room celebration and it was definitely a celebration for him. those are your headlines. back to you. >> brian: thanks so much, ashley. meanwhile the white house reportedly in the final stages of reviving a nuclear deal with tehran, i'm not kidding. with the state department official saying this, we are prepared to make difficult decisions to return iran's nuclear program to the jcpoa limits that would include lifting the terrorist designation of iran's

revolutionary guard corps. we killed their leader a couple years ago. let's ask a member of the homeland security committee florida congresswoman kat cammack for her opinion. congresswoman, can do you anything to stop this? do you know any details of what is taking place in geneva. >> here's the thing. russia as a mediator putting this deal together on behalf of iran and the united states. >> brian: we are not in the room. >> we are not in the room. not only does russia get a big fat contract from iran out of this deal to build nuclear reactors. but we are left behind. in this entire deal. listen, this is a unilateral deal being put together by this administration. the maximum pressure campaign that president trump put on the table that he put out, cut the g.d.p. of iran in half, there hasn't been any resources in iran to conduct acts of terror. they haven't been age to fully fund their proxy hezbollah. but this is going to absolutely put a surge of money into iran which then will up the terrorist attacks around the world. >> brian: they will say, democrats will say to you is we

have no choice. if we don't do, this they have a nuclear weapon. >> that's nonsense. why would you -- why would you put the resources in the hands of someone or some entity to finish the project. listen, israel, our number one ally in the region and other countries in the region are screaming at the top of their lungs, this is not a good deal. not only will it destabilize the entire region but the world. we are already seeing supply chain issues. we are already seeing these acts of terror. they took credited for ballistic attack on our consulate in iraq three weeks ago. why would we come to the table. this is unilateral action by a president who is desperate for a win. that's why is he doing this. >> brian: anything can you do to stop it when can presidents go and cut deals with other countries with congress being cut out? is there going to be a process get a look at and this vote on this. >> that's why i think what is happening in congress. rnc republican study committee leading the charge in pushing back against this administration. again, this is unilateral action

by the administration because they can't get a deal through congress. we are pulgted under the front. and then when the next administration comes in, because we all know that biden is going to be a one-term guy that's going to be unilateral action to take it off the table. >> brian: going to be interesting to see and democrats are going to sober up, especially ones that are pro-israel. there would be no abraham accords if there was no isolation and walking away from the jcpoa. that's directly related to the fact that joe biden could not get the head of saudi raush uae on the phone when needed him to pump more oil. they said you totally screwed us in this deal that you are about to sign. forget it, not doing you any favors. you have something else that you want to talk about and this is this new -- you are part of a new leadership pac aimed at electing more blue collar conservatives called. >> the american greta pac. and in large parts of what we were just talking about. listen, our credibility is shot around the world. and it's in large part because of this administration. it started under obama and now

we have the obama 2.0 administration only worse. this pac is going to be electing candidates that have blue collar values. blue collar experiences. while i am very impressed with people that have the ivy league degrees. votech degrees and university of hard knocks. >> brian: unions are in many cases personification of blue collar workers. >> i'm married to a first responder my husband is a firefighter and swat medic. i think there is a time and place for a union. but of the way that they have been leveraged and exploited and used for political gain here and there, that can't be happening. what we need to do is focus on those blue collar experiences. people of real world experiences because we are the ones that bear the brunt of the bad policies come out of big government washington. green brian hopped on a train came here like 2019. united states to see you in person. >> good to be here. thank you. >> brian: hopefully you can stop this deal. with americans feeling pain at the pump.

some democrats blame oil companies. >> these companies have said let's just ask an extra big dollop of cost increases to expand our profits. >> it is time to hold these oil companies accountable. >> brian: right. for pumping less because you told them to. oil and gas expert responds to that next ♪ running on empty ♪ running on ♪ running dry ♪ running on ♪ running into the sun ♪ but i'm running behind i'm alphonso, and there's more to me than hiv.

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of pinnacle a company providing reliable data to oil, gas, and other industry leaders. good morning to you, ryan. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> ainsley: good morning. thanks for coming on. exxon is making so much money, last year 23 billion in profit what you hear from the democrats. what you don't know is how much they lost the year before. the year before they recorded record losses they suffered 22.4 billion in losses because of covid. it's easy to hear these democrats. easy for them to say the oil industry is to blame for the highs hikes. isn't that a distraction because of biden's policies? >> it is absolutely a distraction. the fact is oil prices are up because supply is down. and the reason supply is down is that banks and financial institutions are hesitant to invest in the oil industry because of all the narratives coming out of government entities. people are afraid that, you know, government is going to try to push oil down and hence there is not enough supply in the market. >> ainsley: biden has put restrictions on federal lands. and implemented strict new environmental regulations and

obviously stopped the keystone pipeline that everyone hears about. has that impacted the company's ability to produce more and to charge less? >> it is not only impacted their abilities to produce more. particularly on the refining side. right now is all this oil is being limited to the market because our russia sanctions. we are realizing the pain of not having access to the keystone pipeline. so in terms of strengthening american energy, these policies have really put a clamp on our ability to produce that energy, which is, yes, driving up all the prices of these raw products. >> ainsley: we hear a lot about the keystone pipeline, the prime minister in alberta canada, if joe biden didn't stop production 9 could be flowing. if we could do this in a year, why aren't we doing it. >> you know, it is such a sad example of putting policy and politics above strategy.

i mean, if you look right now. the united states needs to replace 500,000 barrels a day of russian crude that we were buying just a few months ago. and the keystone pipeline would have replaced that not just replaced that volume of crude but the type of crude that we needed to buy from russia. the heavy crude oils that make our refining industry work. it's such a sad move that it is painful to us right now because of the implications of bad strategy. >> ainsley: i'm sure you don't want to hear that you are the reason, you are to blame. we know the truth here. thank you so much, ryan, for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> ainsley: you are welcome a live look at our nation's capital. we have a beautiful sunrise this morning and our senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. we will tell you what the weather looks like in your hometown. >> ainsley: what a spectacular picture that was. across the northeast, a good looking day. we do have severe storms we have to watch throughout the day. throughout this week across the south. let's take a look at it we have got an area of low pressure that's going to eject out of the rockies where we have cold air

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>> steve: ukraine defies the surrender the seaside city of mariupol. >> russian portions are on the ground door-to-door, street-to-street. >> ainsley: the russian strike levels a shopping mall in kyiv. >> local officials now saying at least 8 killed. [siren] >> i'm ready for negotiation but if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third world war. >> wednesday the president will meet with nato members in brussels on friday.

>> innocent people are dying russia needs to be held back or this war will escalate. >> global threat doesn't stop with russia. the biden administration revive iran nuclear deal. >> that's not only nonsensical but it's very, very dangerous for the future of the world. ♪ ♪ >> steve: it is :00 in new york city. 1:00 in the afternoon in ukraine. and we start another hour with another fox news alert. the country of ukraine has rejected russia's ultimatum to surrender by 5:00 a.m. the encircled port city of mariupol. hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped after weeks of shelling. they can't get out because the russians won't stop bombing them. ains ains meanwhile, getting the pictures in this morning. look at that this is the russian and ukrainian capital of kyiv. a strike levels a smopg mall and kills at least 8 people.

>> brian: they are aiming nor stuff. these aren't mistakes. mike tobin in the ground in kyiv. he joins us. >> good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. the defense ministry offered escape for the people really tortured in the town of mariupol. their deal was that the ukrainian fighters had to lay down their arms and surrender that deal was flatly rejected with the deputy prime minister saying that russian counterparts wasted their time and the paper on which they wrote the cease-fire. meantime the people in mariupol are paying a terrible price. they have been pounded from the sky two weeks now. they don't have power. they don't have water. they haven't had food. the civilian casualties are the so severe loved ones being buried next to houses as any for dignified burial are overrun. 7300 people escaped yesterday. 300,000 are still trapped. some 50 buss are attempting to get into mariupol today and drive the civilians out to the town of we hear russian troops

next town over. enter gantz 50 miles to the west one of the first town russian forces claim to control and this as russian forces say they are tightening the noose on mariupol. north to the capital city a district north of kyiv a shopping mall was hit by a missile overneed this is putin starving the people to threaten the leaders. anticipating more bombardment. another curfew going in effect in the city of kyiv it will start at 8:00 tonight and last for a day and a half. steve, ainsley and brian? >> steve: hey, mike, i have got a question for you. you were talking about the evacuation roots. and ukrainian officials are now accusing russian officials of deporting people from mariupol, taking them in to mainland

russia where they are set to filtration camps and they are forced to sign papers that say we will stay here for two or three years. and we will work for free. that sounds like a forced labor camp. >> it sounds like annual offer they can't refuse. we can't confirm what's happening on the russian side of the border. but we are getting multiple accounts that the civilians are here are being offered that opportunity. stay here and get bombed or escape to russia. and unfortunately for them, the choice is easy. >> steve: yeah, no kidding. >> ainsley: mike, thank you so much. >> brian: bring in retired four star general former commander of the army training and doctrine command. spent years in the pentagon and battlefield. are general perkins, welcome aboard. now a contributor, a part of the team. that's great news for us. but first on this war in particular. would you say as many are concluding that the first phase of go take kyiv, decapitate the

government, put a new government in has failed and they have moved on to a different battle plan? >> yeah, good morning, brian. clearly putin's plan has not turned out as he thought it was going to. the -- their momentum is stalled. they didn't have this rapid advance in the city, especially kyiv. they did not capitulate overnight as the plan. they are going to phase 2. phase 2, unfortunately for the ukrainians is it's the old russian way of war where they sort of back off and they just bring in a lot of fire power and just start leveling the cities because, quite honestly, the russian army has shown a lack of ability to actually maneuver in to built up and see con nice mounted soldiers. so the easiest way to conduct war is to pummel something, destroy it with fire and move in after that and it seems that is now the tact. ainsley: unbelievable that putin said put down your weapons in

mariupol. we will take the city, but we will give you an exchange free passage way. if this happened in america, would we allow another country to invade us? reminds me remembers patrick henry give me liberty or give me death. you have zelenskyy who is saying we are not putting down our weapons. we are fighting for our country. >> this shows the grit and determination of the ukrainian people and the leader such as president zelenskyy, when this offer, if you want to call it that was made yesterday, i was thinking to myself i would be very surprised if the ukrainians took it for one, i'm not sure how you really execute that i mean, this is not a medieval walled city unto itself a nation state. it's part of a larger country. and, therefore, one town just can't decide that the war is over and leave and then the rest of the country keeps fighting. i'm not surprised that they are hanging on, fighting tough. and i am sure part of ukrainian's calculation is we are now fighting a war that the

russians didn't plan on. and one that is not necessarily on their terms even though very bloody for us we are the defenders, it's our town, and we are starting to set the terms by which this war is conducted. >> steve: sure. yesterday the defense secretary lloyd austin had what i think one of the sound bites of the day. he was talking about how russia is stalled. they didn't make -- you know, they didn't just dash in to kyiv in two days and take over. it's taken much longer. enough to they have had to dig in. he said yesterday, general, it's had the effect of him, putin, moving his forces into a wood chipper. explain what he means by that. >> well, secretary austin previously general austin should know very well. he actually was my boss when we went into baghdad. and what happens, if you have a heavily armored force like the russians have. speed is your friend. you want to keep moving fast.

you that wants shock effect and you want to be able to get into the heart of city. take down government centers and take down command and control things. once you slow down, especially with that heavy armored force like the russians. your logistical requirements shoot up. lose the advantage of speed and armor and now the advantage that the defenders have of exphownted people using the javelins being in closed in areas. you start losing vehicles one at a time. you start losing soldiers one at a time. and it is like a log being chipped up into little bits and pieces just constantly; general we have heard about hypersonic missiles that russia has and sending in to ukraine. do we have missiles that are similar? >> well, no pun intended but this discussion of the hypersonic missiles is really a bit of hype. yes, they have them. they use them. but it is not a particularly useful weapon for this type of fight. those are meant to evade interceptors when you are

shooting intercontinental ballistic missiles. as you start to close in on the enemy as happened in mariupol and kyiv, places like that, technology provides you less of an advantage and what becomes more advantageous in close-in block by block fights morale, training, leadership. if i was an in an urban fight, which i have been, and i have a choice between an hypersonic missile and unit with good leadership and good morale. i would take the good leadership and good morale any day. >> brian: right they lost will five generals and ukraine lost 9 and four commanders over the weekend. real quick, general, i don't understand because i don't have access to the intelligence nor i do know anybody else, what does russia have left? if holding out can deliver ukraine a victory, they will do it. but if holding out means they have got to hold on for a year, it's not going to be possible. who do you think -- whose side is time on? >> i think time is clearly on

the ukrainian side. i think the question you asked what do they have left? that's what you are seeing with these hypersonic missiles, hypo baker bombs, throwing the kitchen sink at the wall to see what's going to stick. they are getting at the point in the fight what makes a difference, training, leadership, motivation, and that's clearly not the russian strong point. as they hold on and don't have progress, i think the big concern from the ukrainians and those of us in the west we don't want to see them report to something which is a complete escalation of what he currently has going on. >> steve: speaking of putin. i'm sure you saw these stories over the weekend. particularly in the european press, general.

accord toipg tell officials grouch russian elites really being hurt by the sanctions have decided essentially they want putin out. so they are going to try to get rid of him. either going to poison him. an accident, a sudden disease or something like that. that explains why he has food testers and stuff like that. that could be disinformation, we don't know for sure. but, nonetheless, you do wonder what kind of pressure putin is under. >> well, clearly, he is losing face from what he thought the original plan was going to be. and for people like this, this is almost the worst fate that they can suffer. so he is unfortunately getting very i think he is going to get very desperate here. desperate people do desperate things. when your nation is at war and trying to deal with the hardships with both sides are here, what you don't want to

have to also deal with as a leader is you want your subordinates to rally around you, coming up with new ideas. new alternatives. not being worried about which one of them is going to poison you and/or make sure that your term doesn't go go to completion. he has a lot of challenges both inside russia and obviously in the ukraine. >> a way to get s 300s into that country. i know we write the checks. i have no idea what's getting nnsd nand out? what do you hear. >> s 300s as far as ukrainians go that's old soviet system. they have used it before. they are trained on it that does lower the overhead with most of these systems, as you would try to get them into a country. he would sort of infiltrate them in. so it's harder to accept -- intercept them. the thing is for air defense system, you have to set up the whole system. that is what takes a while. so you have got to get the missile launcher set up. you have to have the radar set

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crazy or at least he appears willing to use them. all right. we all know that but what if the i have tri of iran had nukes? do you trust them? absolutely not. >> brian: he was on with mark levin. >> ainsley: okay. >> steve: it says the next revolution in the prompter. >> brian: i watched it. ainsley: i read about it anyway, he was on. >> steve: he was on the fox news channel. >> ainsley: he was on our channel and he warned about this global danger if they do get nuclear weapons. >> first of all put the entire world, they can take the entire world hostage, you know, once you have a predatory and especially in a rogue theocratic regime like this have nuclear weapons they can use them in two

ways. one, they can threaten you directly with atomic bombs. secondly they have a nuclear umbrella, which is what you just mentioned to threaten you with conventional weapons like regular missiles or terrorists or anything else. and that gives them awesome power. and i think you have to understand that i think iran would be a nuclear power different from all the other nuclear powers and some of them are bad enough but i think they won't obey any rules. dangerous for arabs and europeans. it changes history. >> brian: changes history. so you know you thought the way we left afghanistan was an embarrassment of epic proportions. the way we have not built up ukraine's sufficiently to fight off russian forces, and even predicted that they fall in two to three days according to mark milley much, this would equal that disaster. this has an expiration date when they can go back to making

nuclear weapons. we don't have any type of surveillance of military sites where they build nuclear weapons. >> ainsley: inspectors can't go in. >> brian: selling oil and terrorist nation with a lot of revenue and the bad news is the worst of the iranian people hopefully get a normal government in there and terrible for the rest of the middle east rallying around, believe it or not, israel to normalizing relations and maybe have a time in our life when there was somewhat peace in the middle east, we identified the cancer there. it is iran. guess who is leading the negotiations. russia. where are we in ancillary room. we are not there where is congress? totally blind to it democrats and republicans totally blind to this process. >> ainsley: we are asking russia to negotiate. begging opec for oil. shutting down the keystone pipeline. relying on other countries, sending representatives of venezuela who deal with the socialist dictator there. insane when you think about it dangers if they get nuclear

power in iran, think about what they could do to israel. they hate israel. they are saying wipe israel off the map. they are saying death to america. arab people as benjamin netanyahu was saying. we think it russia has it but f. iran gets it even more dangerous. >> steve: no kidding. bipartisan in congress. a lot of people say this is a bad plan by joe biden inc. all right. men while, 7:17 here in the east. and ashley joins us with news of a manhunt. >> ashley: we have a couple of things to get. to say good morning, guys. a manhunt underway in arkansas after one person is killed and at least 27 people were hurt in a gun fight at a car show on saturday night. the event was being held to promote nonviolence. police made one arrest at the scene but they say it was unrelated to the deadly shooting. shocking dash cam footage highway patrolman suck every punched on the side of the roadway. continues until truck and other

drivers pull over to subdue him. he is facing several charges including battery on a police officer. >> "wall street journal" editorial board calling out the yale student who interrupted a bipartisan free speech panel. a new op-ed argues the students should not be eligible for judicial clerkship after this display. watch. >> yale has a policy of freedom of speech. [talking at the same time] >> come on, grow up. i look forward to hearing you when we get to question and answer. >> the editorial board argues, quote: if these students are so by ideology they can't tolerate a debate over civil liberties on campus. the future of the american legal system is in jeopardy and those are some of your headlines, guys, back to you. >> steve: make a good point. those are the future leaders of america right there and they

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>> steve: well, because rather than increase american production which is all about supply and demand. we have got the stuff under our feet right now. but he does not want to do it. instead -- because his environmentalists left flank doesn't want that because of damage to environment, and instead, what we are doing is he has been talking to saudi arabia and iran and venezuela about hey, can we borrow your oil, which doesn't -- go i don't get just because oil is imported from another country doesn't mean there is no environmental damage. it's the same thing. >> actually, we are cleaner. we produce cleaner energy than venezuela or russia. so, biden is actually hurting the environment with his policies in the name of helping the environment. is he hurting american jobs. 11,000 jobs were lost with the keystone pipeline and seeing great energy with voters as we are doing this registration. listen, we have been doing

registration for the past two years. i have been doing it five years as chair. we just overtook democrats in florida. we are winning in north carolina with 85,000 new voters registered in the past two years. there's a huge energy coming towards republicans right now because they understand democrats do not understand real pocketbook issues and it starts at the top with joe biden. and he did this day one. two executive orders killing the keystone pipeline and stopping drilling with that moratorium he created. >> steve: exit question. i know you are in michigan, really what he wants is somebody like you, you know, a family member, with a family, children, husband, all that stuff, just to buy a prius. how many people in michigan are going to buy a prius. >> that's the plan or take a bus in states like mine that don't have great public transportation. he is funny how he puts it on the american instead of realizing people are hurting. i have been buying gas and oil from russia for the past two years. maybe i should open up american energy. even my sister who is in

california, her gas bill was $100 last week. she sent me the picture. and she said joe biden it's time to open up the gas and energy production in the united states of america. and she has been a big fan of his. and she is telling him it's time to reverse position. >> steve: and that's the kind of sentiment you and the republican party are banking on in november. ronna, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. up next on this monday, the future of the supreme court is on the line as confirmation hearings begin later this morning for judge kentanji brown jackson. senator josh hawley of the great state of missouri joins us live after raising concerns about her record. before treating your chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more, you're not the only one with questions about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start, with about 10 minutes of treatment once every 3 months.

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at the finish line. thankfully all the drivers involved are okay. byron was able to take the lead from bubba wallace on lap 316 of 325. this is his first cup series win of the season those are your headlines back to you, brian. >> brian: all right, ashley, thank you very much. this story, confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee kentanji brown jackson. support for 1619 project caused concern for some republicans including our next guest. joining us senator josh hawley who will in a couple of hours question her. i heard you say soft on crime is something that concerns you. what proof do you have? >> well, it's her record, brian is really what concerns me. and in particular just to take one example. if you look at what she has done with child porn offenders. while she has been on the bench

judge jackson every case child porn offender in front of her given defendant lenient sentence lower than what the federal guidelines recommend and lower than what the federal prosecutors have sought. did it case after case and going back to her time on the sentencing commission, brian, before she was on the bench. she wanted to eliminate the current mandatory minimum sentence for child porn offenders as far back as law school she talked about whether child sex offender registries are even constitutional. this is somebody i think who has a lot of issues when it comes to being lenient with criminals. soft on crime and i just want to know is this a person who is going to protect our kids or who is going to protect child sex predators. we need to get those answers. >> brian: senator dick durbin is on that committee and pushed back against you on abc yesterday. let's listen. >> he's wrong. is he inaccurate and unfair in his analysis. judge jackson has been screweddized more than any person i have can think of. there is no truth to what he

says. he is part of a fringe within the republican party. this was the man who was first bumping the murderous mob that descended on the capitol on january 6th of last year. he doesn't have the credibility he thinks he does. >> brian: your reaction? >> well, the facts are the facts and the facts are that dick durbin can call names and cast aspersions all he wants but judge jackson sentenced below the sentencing guidelines for every single child porn offender that has come before. it's not just one or two, brian. she has henged to the extent that we can find her cases she has had 10 different cases with child porn offenders and in every single one where she had discretion she sentenced below what the federal recommendation was. she sentenced below what the government recommended. now, listen, here's what is the new line is that's fine yeah because child porn sentences are too high so it's good that judge jackson is sentencing leniently. i guess we can have that debate i want to say i disagree with

that i don't think this is the time to go soft on child porn offenders. >> brian: senator mitch mcconnell said yesterday we are going to hear her and treat her with respect. i think america needs to hear that we don't want to hear about what she was doing in 11th grade like we were witnessing last time. but he said i asked her a simple question, where do you stand on packing the court in the last two liberal supreme court justices who were asked that question were against it. don't you think she should be against packing a court that would diminish her authority? >> yeah. i think this should be an easy question for her to answer. it's troubling that she won't just come out and say that this is the right number, that 9 is the right number. every that is what every justice who has been asked this question in my living memory has said including, of course the late ruth bader ginsburg and justice breyer who she would like to replace. this, again, reason whyfar lefte jackson.

>> brian: judge thom was hospitalized infection: house and senate going to be a harder mountain to climb but it's more than possible. where do you want to probe first? >> well, in terms of what this administration has done, i would start with, firm, their withdrawal from afghanistan. their chaotic disastrous with gradual afghanistan that left hundreds, if not thousands of american civilians behind to the enemy that cost 13 american service members lives at that explosion at abbey gate. i would like to know why joe biden and relatedly has shut down american energy production. why isn't he pushing forward? why isn't he opening up our production so that we can be energy independent so that we are not reliant on people like vladimir putin? i think there is lots of questions to ask here of i start with their disastrous policies and the chaos that they have led this nation into. >> brian: also other people have brought up an investigation into anthony fauci what was going on

before and hunter biden's laptop. it turns out we can believe it who would have thought. maybe there is something there it's not about him being addicted to crack. it's nothing to do with this in the big picture. the big picture who what kind of deals was he cutting and who was the big guy? maybe we will get answers. senator josh hawley we will watch you today. thank you. >> thank you. >> brian: president biden spending another weekend in delaware ahead of his nato visit to discuss russia's war on ukraine. there he is biking. former house speaker newt gingrich says president biden's performance on the world stage has been humiliating and inexcusable. he's next. ♪ music is now a good time for a flare-up? enough, crohn's! for adults with moderate to severe crohn's

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our -- the crisis in the peaceful way. >> why can't you condemn this as an invasion. >> um-huh, well, let's don't be naive, condemnation. >> it sounds naive to say that's not an invasion. >> it doesn't solve the problem. >> ainsley: china's ambassador to the united states scoffing at calls to condemn russia's war on ukraine, and our next guest has long warned about china's threat to our country. >> steve: who is the next guest? fox news contributor and former speaker of the house newt gingrich. newt, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: so the ambassador just said condemning russia won't work. how would they know? they haven't tried. >> well, first of all, they are russia's ally. both xi jinping the head of the communist party in china and putin have pledged that they are going to be close friends and allies, period. so there is, you know, china sees a great deal of its future as part of sort of the

dictator's against the free world. and i think that it's very unlikely that they are going to break with putin over something as small as invading ukraine. you know, after all, they are looking at some day invading taiwan. so i don't think they see themselves as wanting to set a precedent that what russia is doing is bad. i don't think anybody in the west should rely on a communist dictatorship to be an ally in maintaining the rule of law. >> steve: good point. >> ainsley: mr. speaker, we saw president biden, the video of him riding his bicycle. he spent the weekend, another weekend at his home in delaware. he is heading to poland and to brussels to meet with nato leaders, to meet with eu leaders. and then he is going to -- he was being asked by one of the diplomatic advisers in ukraine. she invited biden to come over to kyiv. she said one should not be afraid if you are brave. but jen psaki tweeted there are no plans to travel to ukraine.

what is your reaction? and what can he say on this trip to ensure our allies that they have confidence in the united states and joe biden? >> well, let me say first of all i don't mind presidents taking some time off. it's the toughest job in the world and what worries me about biden is what he does when is he working not when he does when he is bicycling. let me make a couple of really quick points. one, we ought a document a policy of giving ukrainians cruise missiles and surface-to-surface missiles and we should say any russian airfield that is bombing civilians, any russian depot supplying missiles to bomb civilians is fair game and ukrainians ought to start hitting russia this idea that russia gets to invade ukraine. russia gets to destroy ukraine. russia -- everybody is timid and terrified of putin. nonsense. i mean, there is a point you got to say when you cross a certain line -- and, by the way, the one

one thing that biden should focus on when he is in brussels is an open, public declaration of the scale of military reaction that will occur if putin uses either a chemical or nuclear weapon. this is a line nobody believes biden if he says there will be strong sanctions whatever that means. if we were to say using chemical weapons or using nuclear weapons will trigger the following response within hours, then all of a sunday the russians would understand that's a line they couldn't afford to cross because the cost would be so horrendous. but there is a real danger. you watch what he is doing in mariupol and elsewhere. there is a real danger that out of frustration that he will use the same kind of chemical weapons that he used in syria. we can't tolerate that but not tolerating it means you have got to move and do something. one last point. all the aid we are sending them

is 1/44th of the equipment we left behind in afghanistan. >> steve: oh, man. >> think about that. we gave the afghans 85 billion. biden wants us to feel good that we are sending about 2 billion to a country fighting for its life. and lastly, if you had a chance, peter or somebody should ask the white house, are the missiles, are the high altitude anti-aircraft missiles in ukraine? the president talked about it last week. victor said i think very intelligently in the "wall street journal" that time is life. and i think we need to realize ukrainians are dying every hour while americans are holding press conferences. >> brian: yeah. secretary of defense had no answer to that. and he looked like he wasn't hiding the answer. he had know answer yesterday. are these missiles getting. in we know bulgaria and france has gait systems. i don't want to hear about any more money. what is in their hands. last thing real quick. you are a military historian. has anyone played out what

happened if russia wins this? then what? >> i am certain what happens. every dictator in the world decides they can get away with something. the world becomes dramatically more dangerous. and, putin will then start pressuring finland, latvia, poland, lithuania, he is not going to stop. he wants to recreate the soviet empire. >> brian: we have no i can majeure he doesn't. >> we teach had it's we increase the taiwan if putin gets away with this. >> brian: that should be the message he can't win. thanks, newt, appreciate it. >> ainsley: thank you so much. >> thank you. >> ainsley: 49 minutes after the top of the hour. still ahead, we are working world down syndrome day with our very own rachel campos duffy. how her sweet daughter valentina became the family's sweetist gift.

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>> good morning, everyone. happy monday. let's take a look at the maps real quick because we have a severe weather outbreak that's going to start today. ejecting from the rockies, that jet stream is very strong and

the moisture from the gulf of mexico is going to get in on this. a lot of potential for hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes from texas through florida over the next couple of days. know what to do if there's a watch or warning in your area. we will country with fox weather. ainsley, back to you. >> ainsley: thank you so much. today is world down syndrome day. it holds special meaning for our own rachel campos-duffy, whose daughter valentina, was born with down syndrome in 2019. rachel joins us with her beautiful daughter, valentina. good morning to you, ladies. >> good morning. >> ainsley: she is so precious. how has she changed your world? >> in never way. she's amazing. that's why this day is so important. one, we think about one in every 800 births end up having a child with down syndrome. but we don't know, ainsley, because so many people are

scared when they get this diagnosis and our organizations like the w.h.o. and some doctors who just are so misinformed, just scare women and they end up getting abortions instead of just realizing that these are humans and they are wonderful and they are blessings to their families, to their parents. you know, the w.h.o. put out a statement just this last month listing down syndrome in a list of birth defects. and it is not a birth democratic. it's a chromosomal variation. valentina has one chromosome more than my other kids, but she's just as human, she's just as precious. i think that these kinds of statements lead to discrimination and clearly lead to abortion, ainsley. iceland, for example, other countries, china, you don't even see children with down syndrome because they claim that they have cured down syndrome, which they haven't. they have literally exterminated the population. so this is something i think world down syndrome day and the

chance for me to show people valentina and let other moms who have a diagnosis like this know that they are wonderful, they are precious, they are blessings to the family. she brings so much joy to this family. i can't even explain it. she loves music, she loves to hug. she's so affectionate. i'm glad you guys gave me an opportunity to talk about her and about down syndrome and about this really terrible that's happening where we are literally exterminating nazi style an entire class of people and it's totally discriminatory. >> god has a big purpose for her life. she has eight wonderful brothers and sisters and wonderful parents. she's so cute. hi, valentina. hi, darling. you have to bring her to play with hayden. more "fox & friends" coming up. god bless you.

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>> rejected russia's ultimatum to surrender mariupol. >> part of ukrainian's calculation is we are the defenders, it's our town, we are starting to set the terms. >> the russian strikes levelled a shopping mall in kyiv. >> local officials now saying at least eight killed. >> wednesday the president will meet be nato members in

brussels. >> innocent people are dying. russia needs to be held back or this war will escalate. [sirens] >> i'm ready for negotiations. but if fail, that would mean this is a third world war. >> why can't you condemn this as an invasion? >> don't be naive. >> i don't think anybody in the west should rely on a communist dictatorship to be an ally. >> 8:01 in america's east coast. a video showing president zelensky pleading for admission into the european union. >> president zelensky's remarks come hours after ukraine rejected the kremlin's demand to surrender the town of mariupol where hundreds of thousands have

been trapped. >> mike tobin joins us live. >> the russian defense ministry offered an escape for the people in mariupol. the condition is that the russian or the ukrainian fighters lay down their weapons and surrender. it was flatly rejected. the ukrainian deputy prime minister told the russian counterparts they wasted their time and the paper on which they wrote that cease-fire proposal. meantime, the people in mariupol are paying a terrible price. we're watching siege, warfare play out in real time. they have no food, no water, the bomb shelters have been taking direct hit. the deputy prime minister said yesterday some 7,300 people were able to make the escape from the town of mariupol, but 300,000 remain. some 50 buses are going to run this gauntlet of gunfire and

artillery today and get them to the civilians. president zelensky in his morning address said, among other things, the sanctions came too late. >> nobody has a right to destroy nations and tear europe into pieces. we warned it's not safe when in moscow to decide whether you have gas and how much it costs. we said that sanctions were needed for this war not to start. >> in a district north of the capital city of kyiv a mall was hit by a missile or rocket. the ukraine prosecutor general says eight people were killed. brother of the mayor says this is russia pressuring the people. more bombardment overnight, another curfew is going into effect in the capital city of kyiv. it will start at 8:00 local time tonight and last a day and a half. guys, back to you in new york.

>> thank you very much for the live report. >> steve: let's bring in dan bongino. >> good morning, guys. >> steve: you've got to admire the people of mariupol. russia said, we'll give you until 5:00 in the morning to come out with the white flag and surrender or we're going to kill all of you. they said, nope, drop dead. >> yeah, they gave the double-barrelled middle finger there. listen, it's what i have been saying for three weeks on the show now. there's a significant difference between taking territory and occupying territory. it's not the same thing. we have seen this -- i mean, russia -- the former soviet union has experience with this. they steam rolled into afghanistan, had really very little resistance whatsoever when you go back and read the history on it. but look what happened. it turned into a suicide mission as the years piled up and the losses accumulated as they tried

to occupy the same territory they took, with air quotes. now you have the more organized population with kind of a better sense of cohesive national identity and you think you're going to walk into their towns and cities and say, hey, look, we're here, everybody genuflect and get down on the know. it's not going to happen. i'm not claiming to be some future teller here. anybody who has had my experience in national security or military tactics, guys, said the same thing. occupying the place and taking it are two entirely different things and putin is finding that out now the hard way. >> >> steve: he's not occupying, he's not taking the place. he's got one town. there's actually people in the streets of -- people in the streets protesting their existence, screaming at the soldiers as just get out of my house. let me ask you, if you're

zelensky, do you think time is on his side, if russia is bled out, he can get them out of his country or does he say, i have to stop it here and -- >> there are really no good options. there are only a series of less, bad malicious options. going forward, what happens? let's say there's a peace agreement tomorrow, he gives up certain portions of eastern ukraine and southern ukraine, how long is it before putin or potential replacement for putin does the same thing when they get in political trouble in russia and engaging in another attack in ukraine? i mean -- >> it will be such a disaster. i would say he wouldn't do this -- >> i don't know, brian. we said the same thing after the

soviet -- afghanistan -- maybe they learned their lesson there. that didn't happen. >> brian: they dissolved afterwards. >> then they are back in ukraine. you've got another leader, same problem. here's my issue. what's your other option? your only other option would be to do some kind of soft defense agreement like we tried in 1994. that didn't work. or admit them into nato and you have potentially a severe escalation. i'm not here to give good news and be a phony. there's only temporary bad options. >> ainsley: dan, let's talk about hunter biden because the new york times said they didn't authenticate his laptop. it was his laptop. gop is talking about possibly probing him and probing this after the midterms. does that happen? and why aren't democrats talking about this? other media outlets aren't talking about -- there's a survey that said the majority of

democrats don't even know about this story. >> there's a reason they want this hunter biden laptop to go away. the media doesn't care about hunter biden. they care about protecting democrats. let's get that straight. ok? they throw hunter biden overboard tomorrow if they thought it would save joe biden. the reason they need the laptop story to go away is because ukraine has been a piggyback for swamp rats on both sides of the political aisle for decades. if you were pro-russia or pro-european and ukraine, you could make a fortune and make american lobbyists and former politicians and swamp rats a fortune by lobbying congress for either side. everybody knows that. hunter biden and his job was symptomatic of a swamp problem. donald trump did look into this. that was the essence of the impeachment thing saying what's going on there and they said it was a quid pro quo.

do you think it's a coincidence the exact same group of people who were involved in the cocollusion hoax were the same people involved in the impeachment hoax? when the collusion hoax didn't work, they moved to the impeachment hoax. it's the same people. i'm going to cover it in detail using left-wing political reports on my podcast. there's not a conspiracy theory. they have actually had meetings at the white house afterwards with the same group of people. that's why they need the laptop to go away, because it's symptomatic of a larger problem, swamp rats making money in ukraine for either side. >> it is curious after 17 months of radio silence the new york times suddenly addresses it to fix their history with the story. >> there's a reason for that, steve. either hunter biden is about to

get indict and they are trying to massage the story early on or the new york times decided joe biden, the polling is too bad, that they need to send a signal with wink and nod he needs to go away before the next election. >> we said the same thing on friday. why did they suddenly snap out of hibernation? we want to go to colorado real quick? if you have got kids in cherry creek school district, when they graduate, they will never be the valedictorian if they get ready grades and they will do away with class rank. >> ainsley: we were saying we're old school. i never was jealous of the valedictorian. i used to think god gave that person gifts. wonderful. praised that person. i couldn't wait to see which school or he she was going to go to. talking about brian, but i didn't want to embarrass you. >> steve: thank you very much. it's going away. how do you feel about that? >> we kind of laugh at the

stupidity of the leftist nonsense all the time. meritocracy is not their thing. they believe everybody should be equal. you have to think about. to treat everybody equally using things like getting rid of merit and other things, right, to treat everybody equally, you have to treat everyone unequally, right? if brian works harder than ainsley -- not suggesting that -- and then brian doesn't reap the rewards, then brian is being treated unequally. that goes for me too. that goes for the valedictorian -- >> ainsley: brian does have three shows on fox. do you think he would make more than we do? >> this guy has got like 25 -- hosts for ingram on friday night. does this guy go to sleep? >> brian: this is not the

talking point we're supposed to be having. >> the point, brian, is they will not make you the fox news valedictorian. >> good point, steve. to treat everybody equally, you have to treat them unequally because those who work harder -- >> right. we like to keep score in this country, even if we lose. even if you lose. you learn and you move on. how do you know how you're doing if there's no way to keep score and your class rank i thought was a fundamental way to keep score. it levels everything out depending on how hard your school is. >> i'm not kidding. i learned more from the losses, whether in politics. didn't get into medical school. i went to business school. i learned more from the things -- not always the win. >> me particular, i have never failed. so i don't know what you mean exactly.

but other people. >> it's true. it's why i look up to you so much. so sarcastic. >> dan bongino, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> let's hand it over to ashley. >> the pentagon is identifying the four marines killed in a chopper crash during nato exercises. captain ross reynolds, gunnery sergeant james speedy, corporal jacob moore losing their lives. planned before the war in ukraine broke out. at least seven people are in the hospital after authorities in ohio say fentanyl was released through air vents at a juvenile rehab and detention center. it's unclear how the deadly opioid got into the air ducts. we're told the three corrections officers and four juveniles are stable and expected to make a

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was taken away from me because of the ncaa's decision to let someone who is not a biological female compete with other females. our next guest is olympian and swim dad whose daughter has competed against thomas and is challenging the ncaa to take responsibility. evolution swim academy founder felipe delgado joins us from l.a. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> this is a topic people have been talking about for a while. when you look at what has happened over this past swim season, how do you explain lia thomas? >> well, i explain lia thomas like i would explain any other athlete. she's an athlete who spent the majority of her life training to be able to participate in college sports and went through the club ranks, was an ncaa

athlete, part of the u penn men's swim team for a few years. yeah, just like everybody else, she put in the hours to get to where she was. >> right. and your daughter swam against her and then was eliminated. so you're coming forward now to talk about what? >> i think the important thing is my daughter participating at the ncaa, she was part of a field, a very talented field of athletes and she wasn't eliminated by one athlete, she was eliminated by a few and not passing the finals. i think it's important to state here that there was an opportunity for the ncaa to adopt more strict policies in inclusion of trans athletes and they could have done that in february. it seems as they chose not to or chose to avoid litigation by possibly changing their stance halfway through the season and causing bigger themselves. >> sure.

>> i think, had they adopted u.s.a.'s swimming policies, we could have avoided the controversy that took place over the weekend and you and i could be talking about and celebrating the accomplishments by these incredible athletes and their accomplishments over the weekend. >> right. and more from that letter from the virginia tech swimmer who posted this to instagram saying thursday was not a specific athlete's fault. i ask the ncaa take time to think about all the other biological women in swimming trying to think how they would feel if they would be in our shoes. and just to remind people, lia thomas is a biological man who now identifies as a transgender woman. what you suggested a moment ago, felipe, was perhaps part of the ncaa's thinking in allowing her was the fear of a lawsuit? >> yeah.

i mean, changing your position halfway through the season is changing the rules. but i think what they could have done is they could have taken a step back and said, ok, we're rushing this process a little too much, let's take a step back, look at what u.s.a. swimming, governing body of swimming in the united states, align ourselves with those strict policies so we can avoid any controversy. see, i was at the event over the weekend, i had the honor of watching the performances that took place. there was controversy. there were protests on either side. nobody should be, no matter what your stance is, especially these athletes, they shouldn't be exposed to that, there should be anything that takes away from the performance in the pool. that's exactly what happened. that's what i wish would not have happened. so had the ncaa taken a more strict stance in allowing or being inclusive of trans women in the sport versus being exclusive of biological women, i think we could have avoided a

lot of the controversy that took place. >> was it fair that she was on the team? >> you know, i think i'm going to leave that one up to the experts. i think we have -- >> you're a swim dad. >> yes, i am a swim dad and i'm a coach. i have coached athletes from young age group athletes up to olympic athletes. i can tell you that something -- to me, something didn't seem right. something was out of place. anytime you have protests at sports, which is supposed to be the great unifier, right? anytime you have protests and divide, something is not right. i'll leave it to the experts. but i think the ncaa can do more to protect women and be more inclusive of trans women in the sport of swimming. i think we have time to make this right. >> flee delgado evolution swimming academy thank you for joining us.

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struggle with record gas prices. >> the price at the pump never seems to go down. whatever the situation is. we understand there are fluctuations between the time it comes out and the time it gets to pump. there's clear profit eering. >> oil executives are invited to the white house today to discuss this issue. trump used to televise this stuff. it is closed. >> fox business's own larry kudlow. larry, welcome. is it right to vilify oil companies? do they have a right to make a profit or are they gouging americans? >> of course they have a right to make the profit. the problem is progressives on the left don't believe in free market capitalism.

they don't believe in profits. they believe in taxing profits, income leveling, redistributing income and wealth. that's the problem. by the way, not one single charge has ever been proven. not one. go ahead, go to the justice department, antitrust, go to the federal trade commission, come up with some evidence. not one. so it's just a bogus political thing. by the by, gasoline prices have come down a bit, oil prices have come down. but it's very uncertain, things are jigging and jagging -- the volatility is enormous. so it's very difficult. most of the gas stations, brian, are little mom and pop operations. a lot of them make more money -- they have these small supermarket-type things. the gas pump stuff is an excuse to go in there. anyway, show me the money. show me any evidence, brian,

then we can look at it. so far, they got zero. just a bunch of socialist charges. >> we always hear they try to make the oil and gas feel like tobacco companies. you're getting people addicted, you're killing everybody. but they are not. but they are fuelling the country, if you're a gas or oil c.e.o., can you stop being the recipient end of uneducated lectures and can you start going on the offense? >> well, look, unfortunately, from day one you have had this biden regulatory assault on fossil fuels. it's like a regulatory octopus with -- the e.p.a.

it's very hard for oil guys. prices are good. i think they would like to increase the rig count. i think they would like to produce and invest more. i think if the president would send a special envoy to midland, texas, he might hammer out a peace deal with the oil and gas industry instead of going to iran and venezuela. but, brian, i want to make a point this morning. it's very important. the inflation that we face, the inflation tax that we face -- some estimates are $3,500 a year on a typical working family -- that is much bigger and much broader than oil and gas at the pump. virtually every price is rising. and the bidens have a lot of amnesia about this. you could take energy out of the consumer price index, ok, you could take it out and you'd still have a 6.6% increase in the last 12 months.

that's how bad inflation is raging because of deficit spending, because of federal reserve money creation. the government spending too much money, the fed is putting too much cash into the economy. it's a tough inflation. it's going to go on, probably get worse before it gets better and it will not end well. my point is it's not just about gasoline prices, brian. virtually every price is rising. that's sign of a very nasty inflation that will not end well. >> i'm not going to tell you what to put in their show. but in bloomberg they had an editorial for those people suffering from inflation they recommend we take the bus and eat lentils. would you also recommend those two things? >> lentil? >> that's a meat substitute. >> oh, meat substitute. my counter to these things is to just bring brian kilmeade onto our show. it is our single strongest weapon.

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>> this is a live look at capitol hill where in a few hours senate confirmation hearings begin for supreme court nominee judge ketanji brown jackson. the proceedings come after the high court announced that clarence thomas -- justice

clarence thomas has been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. here's what to expect from today's hearings. fox news chief legal correspondent and "new york times" best-selling author and author of the upcoming book there's a picture of it called the mothers and daughters of the bible speak, shannon bream. good morning, >> good morning. how are you? >> doing well. thank you. a lot of critics say she's soft on crimes, like sexual crimes. she praised the 1619 project. she's going to be grilled today and tomorrow. what can we expect? >> i do think you're going to hear they are going to push her on soft on crime issues. senator josh hawley. i think they will say, what were these concerns that you had about child porn predators being stigmatized by having to either register as sex offenders or you

decided to give them less time than would have been called for in some cases. republicans know soft on crime played well for them. also, her representation of guantanamo bay detainees. she worked as a federal public defender, which is rare to send someone to the supreme court. she's got law enforcement in her own family. brothers and uncles who served in law enforcement. so i think she's going to try to say, listen, i understand both sides of this issue, i bring unique perspective. but the crime issue is one i think she'll get questioned on the most. >> yale law students had a panel and they were heckling some of the speakers. there's an editorial where a judge wrote and said students who heckle shouldn't be considered for judicial clerkship. you're an attorney.

went to law school, covered the supreme court for decades. look at this video. this is what's happening at the panel discussion. what's your reaction? >> you think students the best and brightest at one of the toughest law schools to get into, you want them to have open minds. by the way, judge silver man is somebody who has had incredible clerks come through his office, including justice barrett, who now sits on the supreme court. i think he's trying to say, as federal judges, no matter where you are on specific issues, we should want to protect freedom of speech, exchange of ideas to be able to do that in a professional and a calm manner. we do expect students from any university across this country where we have free speech to be a place where a college a university campus is where we want people to explore ideas, hear from people they disagree with, have conversations so they can understand each other and go into the world and have important debates.

i would hope that yale and other universities hosting -- there are controversial speakers who face protests. we should want open conversation on our campuses. >> shannon, thank you for coming on. shannon has a new book coming out. she wrote the first book women of the bible. the new book is coming out next week. the mothers and daughters of the bible speak. you can buy it at foxnewsbooks.com. let's check with our senior meteorologist janice dean. >> one of my favorite people, shannon bream. you too, ainsley. >> my favorite. >> the love is here. i know a lot of spring breakers are down south. if you live texas through louisiana, parts of arkansas, mississippi, alabama, georgia,

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>> ukraine ignores russia's demands for surrender in mariupol as president zelensky calls on nato to help prevent world war 3. nuclear plant workers were allowed to go home. ketanji brown jackson will be welcomed to the u.s. senate as her nomination gets under way. you'll meet save our allies, an organization going way over and beyond to help innocent people caught in the crossfire of the war. we'll see you at 9:00. >> now to a fox news alert. >> the kremlin's forces continue to shell civilians. they do that as moscow's military progress stalls out. alex hogan is live in hungary with the latest on the refugee crisis. alex, that headline is that 10 million people in ukraine have been displaced from their homes.

only about three million have gone to other countries, including hungary. but nonetheless people are everywhere. >> it is a massive number, steve, brian, ainsley. about 305,000 people have come here to hungary, unlike the refugees that we saw in the first few days of the invasion, those arriving here today at the train station often waited weeks in bomb shelters. >> i was shaking all the day until night, what are you going to do -- >> over the weekend we visited smaller towns in hungary, town halls and sporting venues are filled with military and hospital beds now giving shelter to refugees. the volunteers running the camps are taking on two massive goals. helping those who seek safety, but also supporting those who chose to stay, by sending donations to ukraine, clothing,

medicine, blankets, seeds for crops so is residents who live along the border don't feel the need to flee for their safety. the question we're seeing for people back in ukraine is do we flee or do we hide? of course places like hungary say they are expecting to see even more refugees on their doorstep in the coming days as conditions continue to deteriorate in ukraine. >> alex, thank you. live report. our next guest just returned from bringing supplies and aid to ukrainians at the poland-ukrainian border. dakota meyer joins. i saw you over the weekend on "fox & friends" weekend, you said i had one thing in my head about what it was going to be like. you have returned and you said you were wrong.

can you explain that? >> yeah. look, i had the same mindset as a lot of people i see of, you know, logically, the logical mind, you know, none of us want to go to war, is there really a strategic reason for us to go over and get involved in this fight? i would say not at this point, right? but after going over there and seeing the inhumane side and not the inhumane side of obviously there's always civilian casualties in any war, it's something that's part of it, especially when you're having to hit cities like this in kyiv and all this. but after seeing that -- there's no military strategy of going after the military, you know, just the post or fighting military to military -- it's literally just terrorism that putin is putting in these people. >> dakota, we have heard so many stories about these children and we saw some videos that looks

like orphanages and children with stalls and pushing carts. what's happening to the children if their mom and dad were killed in ukraine? >> look, a lot of these children are in orphanages all across the entire country. they are all hiding. like you were talking earlier, people are trying to figure out do we leave now, do we flee or do we try to hide? if they are trying to hide -- how do they even get out? a lot of these people don't even have a place to go. think about it for yourself. what would it take for you to leave everything you have and not know if you're ever coming back? would you try to wait it out? about the time that you realize that you have to leave, it's probably a little bit too late. >> supposed to be 5:00 a.m. today their time, it was the russians told the ukrainians surrender mariupol or you'll die. surrender with your hands up, drop weapons. they said no. does that surprise you and what do you think is happening now?

i am seeing footage, the new york times on their front page had video of them raiding door to door, raiding apartment buildings. >> we have said here across the globe -- have sat here and watched putin make threats and he's followed through on every single one of them. i don't think how long it's going to take for the entire globe to stop hoping this problem is going to go away. i don't want to go to war. i don't want to get in this fight. we are exhausted with fights. we know where this is going to go. but i think we can either do it on our terms or on putin's terms. that's the reality that american people and our allies have to come to a realization of. the scary part is not necessarily the war aspect of it, but the fact that the leadership, the incompetency of the leadership that we have in our nation right now, which has caused this, to imagine they are going to have to lead all of

nato, they are to lead the fight on this and that's what we're relying on -- >> and we're the more powerful force. we don't have to hit above our weight. we have so much more fire power than putin has. yet, we walk around like we have none of it. final thought? >> i can't hear you. >> all right. dakota, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, dakota. your heart is at the heart of everything you do. and if you have heart failure, entrust your heart to entresto. ♪ ♪ it's the number one heart failure brand

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>> tampa, this is your 9:00 a.m. wake-up call. 85 and sunny. >> they're happy because tom brady is staying. have a good day, everyone. >> dana: day 26 of the war in ukraine. country's defiance on full display. ukrainian officials rejecting a demand for surrender in mariupol. we have trace gallagher today. >> russian officials gave a deadline of 5:00 a.m. moscow time in mariupol to lay down their weapons. the latest car get a school where 400 people took shelter.