get your vengeance and the world becomes a better place. thank you very much. that's all for tonight. don't forget to catch me on fox & friends tomorrow and i'll go right to radio from 9:00 to noon. until then, tucker carlson with his perfect hair and those snare drums, he's ready to inform and entertain. thanks for watching. just it will be soon ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." one upside of a very sad war in ukraine is a national conversation in this country about freedom and democracy. those are words on everyone's lips. and so it set us off on a nationwide search for americans who are living as if this were a free country like, say, it was 1989. one of the first people we found was kid rock. spent the weekend interviewing

him in just a moment. just what exactly is democracy? pluralism is the hallmark of it. in a democracy, citizens can have any opinion they want to have. in the opinion they want in public whenever they care to discuss it in through mass media. if citizens are to satisfied with their political leadership, they can challenge their leaders for office. all of these are true in every free country in every. all periodalways be these are presss for democracy. you should know about a party the largest opposition party in that country. over the weekend, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy band of that party. opposition platform for life is not prohibited from "all activity within ukraine." with a single command, zelenskyy made it impossible for anyone to run against him for president but he did that not just to

opposition platforms, but to ten other political parties he thought were originally loyal to him, they are illegal now. there's a war underway in ukraine and on the basis zelenskyy has declared martial law. there is no evidence the opposition parties he banned were even in and its war against ukraine. denounce the zelenskyy took the opportunity to turn ukraine into effectively a one-party state which it now dead. having banned all opposition, he seized control of the country's media outlets. zelenskyy signed a degree that the curries all television channels in a single platform the controls. he supports this as a "unified information policy" and it certainly is unified. if these details seems shocking to you, not the zelenskyy you heard about from "the today show," you might not have been paying attention to ukraine. zelenskyy has been solidifying complete control over ukraine for a long time, long before the

russian invasion and the war. last year, he made his political opponent arrested. at the same time, space a shutdown of three of ukraine's popular television networks, channels not coincidentally had criticized him. how should we as americans assess this? first and most obviously by admitting that his authoritarianism, not democracy. second by acknowledging that actually it's pretty common around the world be even in 2022, real democracy is a rare thing anywhere. most countries are still governed by some variety of dictatorship, whatever they may call it fair that includes close american allies. the kingdom of jordan and saudi arabia come to mind, but there are others. others we preferred democracy everywhere in every country but as americans it's probably a waste of time to get too involved in the internal affairs of other countries bear their hearts have changed. what we care about them of all americans should care about is what happens here in the

united states. the united states is, despite the fact that it's also a bumper sticker from doesn't make it untrue, is a beacon of hope and freedom to the rest of the world but how do we maintain that inspiring position? by not simply setting people missiles but by remaining free ourselves. the united states cannot be a beacon of freedom, of light in the world, if we are not free. so that's the first thing we do, if we want to inspire and change the world, ukraine. make sure that we stay free. with that concern in mine, you should be very worried by your leaders response by what's happening in ukraine, the growing dictatorship there. and that's a word for it. what's another word for it? if you have ideas, send it to us. the very same day that zelensky shut down opposition media and opposition political parties, professional liar and pundit dave and from posted this on twitter, "ukraine might be the for example in human history

that under the pressure of war is becoming more tolerant and more liberal. delma." right. when you undermine all criticism that's called tolerance, democracy? do not take the word of warmonger propaganda. all of washington is telling you that. watch. >> so proud of president zelenskyy and the courage he has shown and in congress we are trying to get the administration onboard. >> president biden showing lower leadership just like president zelenskyy showed laurel leadership. >> show the example that we all could reach, a moment of real testing. >> government doesn't give us our rights. our rights come from god and government is just a shared tool to secure them and you see that spirit, the american, philadelphia 1787 spirit in zelenskyy right now. >> tucker: these people.

so the man who just declared himself king is actually the world's newest george washington. okay. so you can be deeply concerned and that deeply saddened, outrage, by what's happening to ukrainians without saying things like that. this is absurd. it's a lie! that's the word from senator ben sasse of nebraska, a republican. at one level you know why people are whipped into an emotional frenzy when they are talked about ukraine but russia's invasion of ukraine was shocking, wrong, the suffering of civilians is horrifying. it's entirely natural to wait for the ukrainians to expel invaders and obviously we are rooting for them to expel the invaders, russia. but. just because what russia has done in ukraine is wrong doesn't mean you have to lie about the ukrainian government. in fact, if you really cared about ukrainian people, and all people use on tv, "we care so much" -- you wouldn't want them

to live under a dictator. you be highly upset with what zelenskyy just did. even when they know better, some are too dumb to know. but barack obama's ambassador to russia, unlike ben sasse, actually understands eastern europe. he has lived there. he knows exactly who zelenskyy is and exactly what he's doing. here's his assessment of the ukrainian government, not the people, the government of this afternoon. "if zelenskyy remains in power, ukrainian democracy is preserved." that man teaches in stanford. but that's not true! ukraine was invaded by its neighbors it we oppose that. we should oppose that. but that doesn't mean ukraine is a democracy. it's not. we shouldn't tell americans it is because it's alive. we should tell the truth. but virtually no one is telling the truth, everyone is lying.

why is everyone -- why not say, it's outrageous that russia did this and we like ukraine better. why go the extra step to tell us that ukraine is a model democracy when it's not at all? why are they doing that? maybe it's because ukraine exactly has a sort of democracy they'd like to see in the united states. they hate to think that could be true. it's scary to think that's true. but ask yourself... play this word game. if they can find a "national security pretext for it," a war, do you think adam schiff or kamala harris, or mitch mcconnell would pause for even a second before manning their political opponents for running for office from this country. where they hesitate before pulling the show off the air forever? of course not. they do it in a flash. they'd call it "democracy." you think these people love zelenskyy not because he represents the ukrainian people but because zelenskyy is exactly

the leader they would like to be. with wildly expanded war powers to make everyone who complains to shut up at gunpoint but maybe that's what's going on. it seems obvious if you think about it. ukraine, they never had the power to do that in this country, the last free country in the world but we should not let them do that because freedom in america is not just important to us, our children, our grandchildren, it's important to the globe. we are the last free country. we must remain free. but in the meantime, if war is being wage in america's name and arm down the come in with our money , they are an awful lot of heroic citizens on television but how is the government behave in question but we have the right to know even if state media in ukraine will report it, even if our sort of state media controlled here downplays it, dismisses it. here is a man, drew

's appeared oncnn. in this clip he casually announces that he's ordered the castration of captured russian soldiers. watch. >> [speaking in ukrainian] >> tucker: "cockroaches," not people. that doesn't mean the broader ukrainian jaws delma causes unjust. it is just pay they have the right to fight back and expel back the russians. we are paying for this bid we have a right to know exactly what's happening. that video, by the way, disappeared, people on the

internet managed to get a copy of it. you might hear it dismissed as russian tropicana as hunter biden's laptop was but it's not russian propaganda. it's real. the man you saw speaking confirm the video is authentic. he apologized for it. murdering pows as a war crime, so is castrating them. we aren't shocked by this. atrocities happened during war. every war. always come in the matter what the neocons may tell you. this is a war we are paying for it. this is a war with moral implications. this is a war the white house is involved in at every level. so when the ukrainian government does something, we have an interest in knowing exactly what it is and what it means. but more than anything, we have an overriding interest in the moral obligation to keep the united states free. when you see them admire someone shutting down any opposition to him, you should mishima

one of the bravest people on twitter relatively braving the truth no matter what the response is. in the meantime, he's a broadcaster and journalist bear we are grateful to have him join us. thank you so much for coming end. >> pleasure. >> tucker: you said in the very beginning that you are against putin, strongly against putin for years because of other conflicts in the middle east. so your bone bone a >> thank you for that,tucker. during the arab uprisings, in particular regard to syria, there are videos of me online speaking about putin in terms that people i'm sure today would hope that i continue to do. anybody that wants to accuse me of being particularly close to putin can find those videos but i've criticized putin probably to a wider audience than many of my critics today have done so.

that's first be 11 be a very different to what i think is happening in ukraine that you touched on and where i stand on that and i think actually we are being led down a garden path. we are being pressured through intense began the lead by our governments did not the question what's going on in to see this in purely good versus evil, in manichaean terms, and to accuse anybody who tries to look at the great in between as somehow a putin apologist. >> tucker: if this is a war being fought over principal, and i'm willing to believe it is, why wouldn't our leaders care if the guy who is running ukraine declares himself all powerful and bans all opposition there. why wouldn't that bother him? >> exactly. i don't think it is a war on principle when it comes to the reason our governments are involved. that's different from why we on principal would support the ukrainian people. but ultimately we've got to ask

this question that you've got a country led by a man who even before the war, axios, the guardian, the atlantic council, all of them were reporting that zelenskyy, even though he ran on an anticorruption ticket, has through the panama papers and other such leaks has stashed his millions offshore like most corrupt oligarchs have. even before the war, his corruption was known. you fast-forward to what he's done this week and with the banning of 11 opposition parties and i want to know at this stage that he banned these opposition parties, including as you mentioned the second largest in his parliament, while the elements, and i use the word not sick i'm not neo-nazi, these are actual nazis, not kneeling anyway. the continuation of nazis as we know them and study them in history and bandera, the man they revere, was actually a nazi and the maid home national hero

and icon. thes have s the nazis have not been bannec icon fighting for freedom and democracy and our way, way of life, backing opposition parties, controlling through the state the media narrative, while refusing not only to ban nazis, often not banning them, incorporated them into his state. the azoz battalion serve in the national guard. the analogy here is imagine, tucker, in america, the kkk had a former battalion in the u.s. military. that's what we've got with swastikas, insignias inside the ukrainian army. people would say that what you want to do this? putin invaded our country, they have to fight. i find this line of argument absolutely absurd.

the best analogy is west syria with syria. it's as absurd as allying with isis in syria to defeat putin. you've got an extremist and armed extreme terrorist militia known as isis, none of it has had more difficulty in understanding that assad was a dictator, the people opposing him were also wrong. why can't we have that moral complexity when it comes to ukraine? >> tucker: keep the u.k., particularly united states my country free. you can't try to shut down honest questions in this country or punish people for telling the truth. it's super cynical, i should say. you are telling the truth. i'm grateful you are. godspeed, as you do. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: as we told you in the top them always in the lookout for people who live like they are free. kid rock lives as if you were free. like it was 1989.

let's hear his extended interview.

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the truth is if you say something that is accurate, even factually accurate out loud in this country, if it is unpopular you will be in trouble. we are always looking for the ones who are not silence. kid rock would be the top of that list. he has an album called "bad reputation." spent a lot of time with his place in natural for the documentary making this summer. sat down with them in the show in his studio there. a pretty amazing conversation. here's part of it. so we are sitting where you major most recent album in. i hope you get a full shot because i've never seen anything like this. when did you make this album? >> we got the studio down, write everything down for my michigan studios right before [bleep] hit the fan. >> tucker: to be 20.

>> covid you know, you spend years with that first album and from there, it's getting more records out when you hit a lick and be successful. this record having a couple of years to find tune every lyric and every note and leaving some stuff for all to see what works, what doesn't, keeping the go back to the drawing board was a luxury. you say it, everybody says, this is my best album! of course. sell, sell. but it really is... in my heart it is one of my best efforts in a long time. >> tucker: you been doing this 30 years but you still bring intensity to it. how often do you come here? >> i'm a workaholic. i'm usually the last one out at 6:00 at night. >> tucker: in the studio? >> yeah. 3:30 in the morning i'm writing

to my doing, checking emails. 7:00 a.m., my buddy comes in, play pickle ball, do some cardio. he will start showing up at 9:30, my engineer gets here at 9:30 and we record all day. grandpa gets a little nap in the other room. groundhog day, do it again. things are feeling good, crack some beers, have a big time friday-saturday, relaxed sunday, get back to it. >> tucker: that's amazing. you are a rock star with accountant hours. >> yeah. i play one on tv pretty well. >> there is a lot disciplined around it? >> this doesn't happen without discipline. people see the wild side and the parties side and hopefully some of the charitable things and things i've done through the years. there are both sides. but i work my ass off.

when people ask me advice, i say, i work harder than you appear that's what happened. >> tucker: what was the idea behind this album? >> it came together at the end my calling it "bad reputation. pretty much sums me up. it's everything. i wanted to go a little bit back to my roots, hard rock, hard wrap must veer stuff, but i wanted to throw in the tunes of southern rock and country music and the soul music, and rock 'n' roll. all which i love so much and have really honed my craft over the years to not just be fluent in one, but the touch on them all. >> tucker: is... so if there was a measured behind the album, what would it be? >> to my fans? i love you dearly. to my critics and haters, go [bleep] yourself. >> tucker: you're not hiding

that message. >> everything i do... to solidify my fans, i love the trolls, the haters, the critics who have been trying to knock me down to 20-30 years, i'm still standing operating at the highest levels. sometimes i do things purposefully just to be a wise the fans will get the tongue-in-cheek and the people will hate me. it'll just piss them off more. >> tucker: why haven't you been canceled? >> i am uncancellable. >> tucker: why is that? >> i don't give up [bleep]. at the end of the day i i'm i have noone i'm beholden to. you can't cancel me. i love it when they try. >> tucker: why aren't there more artist like that? >> because they are in bed with record companies and corporate deals and structures at every

level. you know... if someone finds a way to get me here and there, i'll find another way around them. >> you never see artist talk like that. they seem easy to intimidate. at one point do you realize that you just aren't going to be intimidated? >> day one question mike i crawled out of the womb with both middle fingers in the air. a lot of it is a little fun in there, be rock 'n' roll, this, that, and the other. because my art is big at the end of the day and i have love and respect who shows that back to me. but grandpa ain't plano mess either. speak with the other guys in your industry tell you, i wish i could say what you -- >> every [bleep] day. especially the country guys because they had to be understandably careful. the awards, radio, corporate interest mean a lot to country music. rock 'n' roll is like, you're

getting award for this air like -- i couldn't care less about their awards. i never play that any of those games anyway. >> tucker: you must've watched a lot of people flowed off in the atmosphere >> tucker: i'm coming >> i'm come and go. >> tucker: we've all seen up well behind the music." how do you get above that. >> i have a sense of discipline. whether it's back in the day with drugs and alcohol, you go, what's important? eventually, you cut some things out, you focus on what you love. focus on friends, family, music, what's important in life. you don't have so much time. make the most of your time. >> tucker: who are your fans? do you have a picture of who they are? >> hardworking folks who love to have a good time.

>> tucker: do you hear from them? >> how can you not hear from people these days? >> tucker: you have a pretty good sense of what they think? >> they seem to think things i do. not all of them, not everyone's views online. friends who are still left in a little farther than that on some things, i love getting together with them and cutting it up and talking a couple of things and hear from both sides. i think that's important. >> tucker: you are going on tour. where are you going? >> a lot of midwest and south, east coast, select dates on the west coast. america! i don't show a passport too much. >> tucker: you don't? you've been around the world... >> i show no interest. i see why some bands do it. if i wanted to be the biggest deal in every country in the world, i could. but i like my own bed. i'm big in kentucky, man! >> tucker: that's good to know. so you are not playing venues that require vax cards?

>> no! that's what they had ryan left from the left, kid rock said... great, so my tour for me. there would be no vax cards by the time we toured. the only place we didn't that we decided not to play with buffalo, new york, because new york look like you probably could have something where you have to wear a mask or show up with a card or whatever. and it's like, no. why? it's stupid. >> interesting guy. smart guy. and highly self-discipline. you don't bang around the around the entertainment industry and survive unless you are very self-discipline. we couldn't stop asking about fauci or trump if anybody ministry disagrees with him. spoiler alert, we yes. we've got that next.

>> tucker: a lot of entertainers are very quiet about their political views. bob ritchie, kid rock is not. what's interesting, according to him, his views are not uncommon in the music industry, they are just a press but we him because ease down like he is a frequent golf partner of former president trump from what he thinks of him, and above all, what do you think of tony fauci? here is more of our extended interview with kid rock. how did you meet trump? >> at the white house! with sarah palin. sarah palin asked my early right when he got elected, he invited her to dinner to bring some interesting people. she says she called me and had to commit ted nugent, and we were like, hell yeah! go up there, spend a lot of times on the golf course now. really weird to get phone calls

from him and stuff. it's kind of mind-blowing. >> tucker: what's he like? >> awesome. so much fun. >> tucker: why? >> he knows how to have fun. doesn't take it too seriously. engaging, just opening up with politics but i was there with the end of the caliphate, he wanted to put out a tweet and it was like... i don't want to speak out of school and i hope i'm not. i'm like, tell him, but a was like, he was paraphrasing, if he ever joined a caliphate trying to do this, he would get beat to death. i say, awesome! tweet that out. i can't add anything better than that. it comes out, it's rewarded and more political we rewarded and morepolitically co. we were like...

[bleep]. i make there to record sometimes! >> tucker: you didn't think you'd have a hand? >> "what do you think we should do about north korea?" i don't think i'm qualified to... [laughter] >> tucker: you are still playing golf with them down in florida? how's he seemed? >> he seems great. he seems great. after the election, he was... you know, a little different there. but he's still the same guy. he sits down and just cuts it up. you start cutting it up. how sharp he is, it's incredible. you can see how you watch a joe biden interview and the trump interview. there is no comparison. and yeah, trump, he speaks off the cuff. sometimes you get it wrong. but i'd way hear someone get it wrong once in a while, at some level everything was scripted. i've stood next to him in the white house with the prepared

notes and watch and read one sentence and like, let's go. it's like, this is awesome. >> kid rock, great friend. do you like as legislation or you hate it? >> i like it. >> we been fighting for a long time. >> i'd like them from the beginning. i said he was my guy before he got the nomination in "rolling stone." that dates to now, [bleep] coming at you from every angle! >> if you had a manager who was in control of your career, he'd say it, may be let's not on this. >> i'd give my old manager a punch. told me flat out when he started to manage make him just what you know, everything you've done to this point in your career to get where you're at, i would've told you know. >> tucker: what does that tell you? >> go with my heart. just going by my heart by the seat of my pants, trying to be a good person. be educated if i'm going to speak on some things but

sometimes not so much. whatever. just call it like i see it. >> tucker: we had dinner and you rolled up in a rolls-royce, the "let's go brandon" edition? for our viewers who might want the rolls-royce "let's go brandon" edition, where can you get one? >> you go onto this thing called google and you type in "car badges, let's go brandon." there are companies with my truck, white boy edition -- but it looks official! i would never drive -- i used to say to myself, i'm so proud for how hard i work and what i charge people for shows is what i think is fair. i can hold my had to hide because i can feel like i never made an not honest dollar off someone's back. i had this license plate that i had forever. and i'm like... i need a car to put that thing

on. i need to get that rolls-royce. and the "let's go brandon" badge came out and it's like, there is a heaven. this is too good. this is too much fun! >> without naming names, are there other people in your business to agree with you privately? >> yes. it was funny, during the last election, some people on his side, they don't name of hollywood people. they kept going like, you know, they are very in the closet. it's like, those people are all gay, that's nuts? no, they are closet trump fans! that was kind of mind-blowing. i'm not going to talk out of school for people who don't want to be in the open for whatever reason they have. but yeah, there's a ton of them. me and trump talk about that a lot. "they have no idea how many of us there are. the vocal ones, sure. but they have no idea how many

of them are out there. are either trump fans who are more conservative. i don't know, when i was young, conservative was... sweaters, collared shirts -- oh. >> tucker: i haven't updated my looks since the '80s! >> if i said the f word in the house, i was ran out the house because i was paddled or something like this. nowadays, conservatives are a little hipper, out in the open. i'm sure that'll be the headline from the left wing -- i can already see their headlines in this interview. "tucker and kid rock's love story together." >> tucker: i'm not embarrassed! i'm a fan. i respect anybody who thinks for themselves. what i don't like is people who just signed up for the program because someone in power, they don't respect that. why would you? >> we can agree from certain levels, we can think each one is

a dumbass. >> tucker: what's your view on fauci? >> [bleep] fauci. >> tucker: did you believe him in the beginning, fauci? >> i believed in all the bull ship. shooting this documentary, so embarrassed, everybody is spring off ups packages. and like... what? it's knocking out old, overweight unhealthy people? i'm good. most of my friends. after people started getting it, some people have a little worse than others, but it was nothing. i don't want to... you know, to throw any shine on people who had a bad time or passed away with it. it's horrible. when anyone is lost. to me, it's like, this is some bull leap in all this mask [bleep], all the disinformation it's in the world now at every level. i don't know what to believe.

>> tucker: there is a man who talks in lives like you might talk or live if you are totally insulated from big companies and could afford it. it was a fascinating empyrean experiencewith kid rock on his n tennessee. it's going to be good. so as we look to eastern europe to bring freedom, twitter suspended the babylon be for a satirical headline about joe biden's assistant secretary for health rachel levine. apparently, it's now hate speech to acknowledge that rachel levine is biologically a man, which is true.

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>> tucker: rachel levine is a biological man who has lived life as a biological man, married, kids, the whole thing, then decided that i am a woman, dressing a woman come up fine, but yet the call me i hater

dolomite woman or else you are a hater. almost everything happening in this point is beyond the parody on the basis of that claim, i am a hater, of course, not a woman, joe biden made rachel levine and admiral in public service. >> i'm honored to serve as the first female four-star officer of the u.s. public self >> tucker: you are not a female. nobody wants to attack you. but you go up on stage and say everything is not true and you demand to agree with it, you demand the rest of us. it's outrageous and not everybody wants to play along. so this person is now an admiral. to memorialize the moment, the babylon bee made rachel levin their "man of the year." it's a joke. but it's kind of true. in response to bass, twitter, were no jokes are allowed, suspended the babylon bee for hate speech. per policy, if

the whole point ofthis is to ge. they don't care if weather rachel levine is a man or woman, they care about humiliating you and making you upset when you know it's not true. it's fascinating to watch this. in a brilliant substack, but we finally figured out how to trick them and defending men." that's just so smart! the babylon bee is not backing down. happy to have them join us tonight. they are demanding... this is part of your business, i should say. it's not like most people tweeting this, they are going to keep it down until you delete the tweet. are you? >> no, we are not. like asking us to say two and two make five great sitting here at this email that tells us in order to reinstate this account and have access to be able to tweet again, we've got to delete this tweet. the tweet is a joke. that's a very thing they get straight here. it's just a joke. it's pretty harmless.

it's certainly not hurting anybody. this is a public official. it's not like we are punching down at some downtrodden person. it's just a joke and they are asking us to basically bend the knee and say that we admit this is hateful conduct, please keep us on your platform. we aren't going to do that. we don't know where this ends. there is an appeal process. but i'm not going to delete the tweet. >> tucker: i hope it ends with twitter being shut down by congress but that's not going to be happening. does it occur to you that that's fine on twitter, but if you make fun of rachel levine's ludicrous claim that he's a woman, you are a hater? what's the standard here. >> there are no standards where they aren't applied evenly. they are applied very unevenly. the problem with comedy right now is it's our job a satirist, comedians, general humorists, the job is to poke a hole in the popular narrative. that's what we do and we are being restricted from doing

this. they are making the rules and rigging the system where you cannot actually poke holes in the proper narrative, you have to promote the popular narrative. comedy is being rendered ineffective, they are making rules of what you can and cannot joke about the point where we say that we are going to continue to make these jokes and if we have to we'll do it off twitter. >> tucker: they are pretty fragile, no! if you can't joke about some dude pretending to be a female admiral, what can you joke about? >> it's just not... it's one of these things, the two plus two is five thing. most people see things for what it is and it's one of the things that most majority of americans are really sought down night on our side in this issue. it's not like we are some fringe group that has outrageous ideas that -- this is the case where somebody is telling us, look, the word was even used "female." a reference to your biological sex. that's not true but we do not believe that facts are hate

speech, speaking truth is hate speech. at some point people are, if they want to deny the truth in order to stay on the platform, we speak the truth, make them take you off. make them boot you. >> tucker: it's there ideas that are fringe and crazy. i appreciate your stand in your site, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: more with kid rock outside the studio next.

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>> interesting duo. tucker carlson and kid rock at kid rock's bar over the weekend. down there, drinking, went back into the vip room. there were some "let's go, brandon" chance, obviously. >> he's so out of place.

>> it's nice, though. you get a free open cab. >> do you think tucker carlson is drinking that much? >> he's drinking at shirley temple and going home going home. >> tucker: club soda. that's it from us tonight to have the best night with the ones you love. we will be back like clockwork. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity" and begin with a fox news alert. russian forces are stalled in the north around kyiv and in the south, the city of maripol face shelling. one ap reporter inside the city described it this way. "time was measured from one shell to the next with bomb to apartment buildings and an endless line of dead people and dead children. on the radio,