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>> as to where those two cars were, and ricky stenhouse has one neck daytona 500 ♪ ♪ >> steve: we start with a fox news alert. it's 3:00 in the afternoon in ukraine, where president biden has just left kyiv after making a surprise visit to ukraine's capital city earlier today, affirming the united states is still going to help mr. zelenskyy is much as we can. >> this comes days before the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion. >> peter doocy joins us for more saw. >> part of the reason this was so hairy, unlike past presidential visits to war zones, in ukraine, the u.s. does not have a military presence. so it had to be a big secret, and we saw as air raid sirens were blaring while president biden and president zelenskyy were walking

the streets of kyiv. the secret trip included a lonmo ukraine, according to "the new york times," and the president brought with him a big check, half a billion dollars' worth of taxpayer-funded gear. >> that announcement includes artillery ammunition, more javelins, antiarmor systems, surveillance radars, to protect ukrainian people from aerial bombardments. >> no f-16s listed there like the ukrainians want, but president biden briefly said he will have an announcement later today about something. >> this is the most important visit in all history of ukraine-u.s. relationship. this is the visit in this most difficult period for ukraine, when ukraine is fighting for the liberties of the world.

>> a world where looms, according to zelenskyy today, if things shake out like the u.s. is hearing. china helping russia, because that would pit china and russia against the u.s. and nato. >> we are concerned that china is considering supporting russia's war effort in ukraine with lethal assistance. as president biden said going back many months when the aggression first took place and spoke to president xi jinping, he told them at that point that they would be the consequences in our own relationship. we are trying to provide assistance. >> reporters traveling in today's slimmed-down traveling press pool surrounded there devices at joint base andrews before the journey to keep it clandestine, so a lot of details remain unknown for now about this trip that officials insisted wasn't happening until

the very last minute. >> we obviously are maintaining a high degree of solidarity with ukrainian people. there are no plans for the president to enter into ukraine on this particular trip. >> and kirby said that, the president had already left for ukraine, roughly 40 hours earlier than his initial departure time that had been advertised. we thought he was coming to warsaw. instead, he popped up in a war zone. back to you. >> but he's heading your way, right, peter? >> yes, at some point we do expect to see him in warsaw. he's got a meeting with the president here and a big speech tomorrow, talking about all of this. >> lisa: thank you, peter. >> steve: remember back in the day when george w. bush and barack obama both had secret missions where they would have the reporters on board to surrender their devices and then they would fly into places like iraq or afghanistan? in fact, so few of the

secret service knew of one george w. bush trip that the agents that he was still on the ranch in crawford texas. >> of course we have entered into this "mad max" era of foreign policy. because we have new leadership at the white house and putin has taken advantage of this, we have pushed them closer together, but i think that question for a lot of people in the audience is how long this goes on. what does winning look like? after years, additional money, potential more human casualties committed to the end of the same place russia was back in 2014 when the head crimea and the eastern region of the donbas area? >> brian: they took 25% more land, knocked it back to 15%. let's see if they can go the rest delay. let's bring in florida governor ron desantis, kicking off a special salute to police tour as he goes out and shows

his support for law enforcement. first things first, governor, great to see you. welcome to new york. i know you're going to philadelphia after come over to pennsylvania afterwards. first things first, on the president's unannounced visit, is this a good move? >> brian, i am reminded of when he was vice president. obama and biden opposed providing lethal aid to ukraine during those years. that i'm also reminded that i don't think any of this would have happened but for the weakness the president showed during his first year in office, culminating, of course, the disastrous withdrawal in afghanistan. i think while he's over there, i think i and many americans are thinking to ourselves, is very concerned about those porters halfway around the world. he's not donating to secure our own board here at home. he had millions and millions of people pour in, tens of thousands of americans dead because of fentanyl, and we just suffered a national humiliation of having china fly a spy

balloon clear across the continental united states. so we have a lot of problems accumulating here in our own country that he is neglecting. >> lisa: n, governor, great to see you, as a floridian. nice to see you, sir. >> steve: you're both in new york today. speech here but we have to get back to florida. we have seen incoherence from this administration, no defined policy in ukraine, no defined objective of what winning looks like, and i think a lot of americans are asking how much more money, how much more time, how much more human suffering? >> they have effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified, and these things can escalate, and i don't think it's in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with china getting involved over things like the borderlands or over crimea. so i think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they are trying to achieve. but just saying it's an

open-ended blank check, that's not acceptable. >> steve: governor, what does a win look like for us for ukraine? >> i think it's important to point out, the fear of russia going into nato countries and all that, and steamrolling, that has not even come close to happening. i think they have shown themselves to be a third-rate military power. i think they have suffered tremendous, tremendous losses. i got to think the people in russia are probably disapproving of what's going on. i don't think they can speak up about it for obvious reasons. i think russia has been really wounded here, and i don't think they are the same threat to our country, even though they are hostile. i don't think they are on the same level as china. >> brian: you're doing something very important, announcing your tour as you go to liberal cities to talk directly to officers, many of which moved to florida, some of whom might move to florida again. but you are very strong on that.

what is the mission today in staten island? >> i think the mission is to say you see florida success, number one in that migration, fastest-growing, all these things people have said, and yes, taxes, covid, all of that helped. but the foundation of their success has been law and order and support for the people that wear the uniform. we've done that in florida. we are now recruiting more and more people from other states. we have done a thousand different officers. i've gotten $5,000 signing bonuses since july. we want more people from new york and chicago, these places were they not happy. they know they have a home in florida. but i think i we have governed versus how these woke cities have governed, the woke approach to crime and law and order and being anti-police, those policies have failed. florida's policies have succeeded. so we need everyone around the country to support the people that wear the uniform, to support policies that keep communities safe, and to abandon this woke nonsense like

releasing criminals or electing prosecutors that don't follow the law. >> lisa: governor, a lot of it comes down to the mentality. the cities you're going into, we have arrived at this point where they see criminals as the victims. how did we get here? >> to me, it's all putting ideology over public safety. you look at new york city, no city -- it was the safest big city probably in the world under rudy giuliani and under michael bloomberg. people loved it and now they found that all t away, and i hae described spy, officers' lives are more at risk, because they have to risk their lives to put somebody away, but the judge releases them so they end up having to arrest the same diet week or two later in risk their lives again. you've also seen places like chicago where these prosecutors are not going after the people. so this has huge effects on quality of life, and i can tell you this, lisa -- when people

moved to florida, you expect to hear, "i had to get away from the covid restrictions, or the taxes," and you heard that during that time in particular. but the number one thing you hear over and over again is, "i need safe communities." it's because a lot of people to leave these formerly thriving areas. >> steve: governor, i know a lot of law enforcement members down in florida at about half of them used to work within about 10 miles of where i'm sitting right now. so why are you in new york today? are you recruiting officers to go from these liberal cities down to florida? or is this one of those things people who might be running for president would do, to go ahead and start to get the ball rolling? >> i think it's definitely the former. we have put a lot of money into police recruitment. it's been very successful. so we want to let people know, we are here, we've got a lot of great benefits. you will be appreciated and

you'll have policies that work. but he think also just the broader message. not even about the president or anything like that, but for our country, it's important to admit that these left-wing policies have failed. they've empowered criminals. they put the public at risk, they put law enforcement officers at risk. so i think this experiment has concluded, and we need to move in the direction where, across the board, from sea to shining sea, we have a commitment to respect for law enforcement and for law and order. >> brian: governor, i know tim scott is on the listening to her. last night nikki haley formerly went in. we know former president donald trump is in. what is your timeline to decide if that's the next best thing for you and your family, for you to run for president? >> i've got two big things coming up. one, have a book coming out on to berry 28th. you can see it at desantisbuch.com. it's called "the courage to be

free." it's about the florida blueprint for american revival. we are going to spread the message of florida. and then on march 8th i have the legislative session kicking off. i think, as you know, we would make a big victory in florida, which is great for the governor, though we have super majorities in the legislature, so you're going to see -- i think people look at florida like, "man, the governor has gotten a lot done." you ain't seen nothing yet. this is going to be the most productive legislative session we have had across the board, and i think people are going to be really excited. so those are what we are going to be doing over these next few months as we get beyond that, then we decide from there. >> lisa: you come under a lot of incoming fire recently. nikki haley taking aim at you, at larry hogan, as well, and the governor of illinois, from your visit coming up here to chicago. what is your reaction to some of those attacks? >> well, lisa, you know, if you

are an office holder and you just sitting there twiddling your thumbs and not getting anything done, no one ever says anything. you can kind of just fly under the radar. but when you're out there leading, when you are out there setting the agenda, not just for florida, but for the nation, which we have done over the last few years, people see that, and people that don't necessarily like that are going to respond accordingly. but i can tell you, if people are not firing at me, i must not be doing my job. so it's really positive feedback. >> you can get some positive feedback if you just stood up and turned around and said, "hey, folks, i'm going to president." you would have a standing ovation right now. we'll give you 20 seconds. >> wouldn't you love to have that announcement on "fox & friends"? >> steve: of course we would! >> lisa: governor, emma floridian! help me out! >> brian: that's called a standoff. we do have a speech on fox nation coming out, "who is

ron desantis?" and we talked a baseball coach if i know you're like on the field wearing a bit and picking up a bat. that'll be an interesting specially have coming out. >> we look forward to welcoming you very soon. >> i'll be on the ground with you again. it's going be great. >> enjoy staten island. a quarter after the top of the hour, and actually joins us with news from ohio. >> ashley: good morning to all three of you. more health concerns mounting for east palestine, ohio. the cleanup continues weeks after the toxic train derailment as they say locals have a right to be skeptical about their community getting back to normal. one man who has been on the ground there for weeks during his earlier. listen. >> the matter appears, in my opinion, to be getting worse, not better. they need some serious help in this community, and i feel like our governor is definitely dropping the ball on this. >> ashley: transportation secretary pete buttigieg demanding norfolk southern "live up to its commitment to make the

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>> just today, that announcement includes artillery ammunition for high-margin howitzers, or surveillance radars, to protect ukrainian people from aerial bombardments. later this week, we will announce additional sanctions against elites and companies trying to evade sanctions and backfill russia's war machine. >> brian: that'll be interesting. fox news alert, president biden committing unwavering support ukraine with a surprise visit with zelenskyy. they met together nearly one year after the russian invasion and it all began. >> steve: her next guest interviewed president zelenskyy over the summer. piers morgan is the host of "piers morgan uncensored" on fox nation. he joins us on the curvy couch. >> great to be here. we just had a little debate as to whether brian kilmeade is the hardest working human being in the world. whether that's a role model aspiration we should all want to

be like, or complete lunacy. >> brian: let's open up the phones. [laughter] >> is it true you get four hours sleep at night? >> brian: four hours, 20 minutes. >> you know who else did that? margaret thatcher, and she went complete debunkers at the end, as well. >> brian: from 75 on. she was pretty strong at dylan. >> you've got wet, another 15 years? >> brian: i've got plenty of time. >> lisa: we have to maximize those years. >> steve: wrote about the fact the president showed up one year after the invasion started? you made it in before the president! >> i think it's in a really important statement that he's going. i've been watching the show all morning. i completely agree with you, brian kilmeade. i think it's a really important show of strength to vladimir putin. interesting that they warned the kremlin, apparently, before they went in. that's just emerged, it's just come out.

i think it's interesting that he let them know he was coming into kyiv. i guess sort of saying, "okay, if you do anything while you're there, you've been warned, so don't." but i think it's an important one. it's a really interesting thing with your audience, i think. and a lot of republicans think, great, the west should be fighting putin and taking him on like this and helping the ukrainians win this war, but there are many republicans you don't agree with that. but your debate was interesting this morning. from where i sit, i just think you cannot let this despotic monster win. if putin wins, as you've been saying, he's not going to stop here. this is a guy who believed the soviet unions should have never been broken up. he wants to restore it to what he thinks was his great imperial power. so if he prevails in ukraine, two things will happen. one, he'll keep invading other countries to try and install the soviet union. two, china will look at this, and i think it's more significant because they are

more of a danger. if we going to taiwan, what's going happen? probably not very much. these are the reasons why i think he's got to be defeated. let's be honest, america as always, if america doesn't supply the main hardware year for ukrainians to do this, they're not going to enact. you have a great position to being the number one superpower in the world, but that means, i'm afraid you carry a duty and responsibility when democracy and freedom are under this kind. you have to step up in the way that i think president biden is doing is doing. >> lisa: the frustration with people like me, when there's all these different buzzwords, but there is an incoherent response of what that winning looks like, and we don't have a coherent response from this administration, the defining -- >> but i can answer it. on that point, this is what winning looks like. you kick the russians out of all the land they've seized in the last year. >> lisa: how many -- >> i think, actually, it takes air power, and i think president zelenskyy, when he

came to the u.k. couple weeks ago, made it very clear that it's the airpower that will help him prevail. but you need to take back the land. what i was in ukraine -- >> l>> lisa: 20 time? >> brian: they need the longer-range missiles. >> but i think airpower is what they desperately need right now. when i went to ukraine and i spent time with president zelenskyy and his wife, the first lady, and a lot of the local ukrainians, the unbelievable spirit is tangible. to a man or woman, old and young, i spoke to you on the streets of kyiv, none of them want to concede 1 inch of land to putin and his barbarians. when you go to places on the outskirts of kyiv 90 see what that massacre did to those people, i met people who had lost their children in that massacre. when you speak to them, the fire inside them to repel the russians -- i think they are right. it's an attack not just on ukraine, but on freedom, democracy, and a sovereign country. >> i hear you, i can't imagine

how heartbreaking that is to speak these people. they should want to defend their homeland. it's a question of what our involvement is as the united states or the u.k. involvement. that's a question. and what it should come down to you, is this a war we want our children to fight in? you are a father. is this -- >> brian: we don't have to come in that sulfite done my point of it. they're fighting like warriors. >> i understand, i've heard all the arguments against it. i would liken it to this. when there's a bully on the school playground and they're going around just bullying people, punching them in the face and getting what they want and taking anything they want from the people in the school, eventually you need someone who has the guts to stand up and punch the bully in the face. the beauty of this position in terms of strategy is america doesn't have to put boots on the ground, nor do the brits. it's a very different situation. we just have to give zelenskyy

the tools he needs to win. >> brian: the bottom line is they're fighting like it's 1910. the same strategy. this is modern warfare, they have better tactics. ukrainians are better fighters, better equipped, more driven. >> governor desantis -- by the way, impressive guy. i haven't heard him do an interview recently. it was impressive. he summarized it right. the russian military is not what used to be and certainly isn't what putin thinks it is. >> steve: plenty to talk about. tune in at 4:30 this afternoon. >> i should have a morning show! >> lisa: will keep talking, piers. >> i'm glad we all reach an agreement. [laughter] >> brian: he's coming on a little bit later, and he's on "uncensored," of course. >> and your show. i am warming up. >> brian: thank you. coming up straight ahead, more evidence of inflation's impact on the country. one small kentucky town has not one, not two, but six local

dollar stores. >> steve: first, a live report on the ground in ukraine after president biden's surprise visit. that's coming up next, live from kyiv. what the? good morning hallow makes it easy to build a daily habit of prayer and meditation want to start with a five minute daily gospel? sure. take a deep breath and focus your attention on god in the name of the father, mother, son to the holy spirit. amen.

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in kyiv and president biden has left ukraine after making a surprise visit to that country earlier this morning. >> brian: met with president zelenskyy in the capital city. >> lisa: steve harrigan is live with the latest. steve? >> good morning, guys. president biden has come and gone. he spent over four hours on the ground here. his first stop was meeting with president zelenskyy in the presidential palace. later he went to st. michael's monastery behind me, and the two men walked in for a while. as they came out, air raid sirens were sounded throughout the city of kyiv. kyiv has been hit a number of times by rocket attacks. this air raid siren might have been set off by a russian fighter jet taking off from belarus. the white house has said that russia was informed about this visit beforehand. president biden announced $500 million in additional military aid for ukraine, and he said russia's president putin one year ago was wrong. wrong about nato, and wrong about ukraine. here's president biden. >> he's just been plain wrong.

plain wrong. and one year later, the evidence is right here in this room. we stand here together. >> this visit comes at a critical time in the war. russia is trying to mount an offensive in the eastern part of ukraine. they have been really launching thousands of troops and firing artillery but making no significant gains for the one-year anniversary. putin really wanted to hold up any sort of military victory for the world and for his own people. instead, to mark this one-year anniversary, we are seeing the presidents of ukraine and the u.s. walking together on the streets of kyiv. back to you. >> steve: in fact, the president was just behind you on the ground below. thank you very much for some great reporting this morning. >> thank you. >> steve: let's check the weather here in the united states of america on this presidents' day. adam klotz joins us from, i believe, the streets of new york city, where nobody is

going to work today. >> nobody is going to work today, and i hope a lot of people are enjoying a pleasant morning, but a winter storm is on the way. that's a big weather story in the week ahead. sitting close to 50 degrees out here on fox square. some colder air across the upper midwest, that's going be the first round of a couple of low pressure systems that will be this big winter weather system we are tracking. going to drag snow across the mountain states and across portions of the upper midwest, and we will talk about what at times will be blizzards. as you tuesday, wednesday, thursday outlook. it begins tomorrow across the western states. bill and say we ceases to move into the middle the country and that'll include the southern plains and the southeast, and this almost to the east coast on thursday. it's going to be a little bit further north where this is a real snowstorm, as no event for interior in england. in the mid-atlantic, it's been mostly rain event. here's where the snow will fall as a system works its way across the country. some of these areas will be blizzard-like conditions. so even though it feels warm out

here this morning, we are still tracking that winter weather and moving to february. those are your weather headlines. they are tossing it back inside to you guys. >> steve: adam, thank you very much. >> lisa: thank you, adam. let's check back in with fox news contributor raymond arroyo having breakfast with friends at a coffee stand in new orleans. raymond, how much fun are you having right now? >> lisa, i love sharing my city with the country, and we are doing it today. this is bobby hennessy. he and his family have been running this place since 1870. but there is a special way to pour this. this is coffee and chicory. we don't just pour coffee, we split it with the chicory route. >> it is cafe au lait. >> show us how to do this. look at these pots, they are over 100 years old. look at this. now, that's talent. don't try this at home, folks. you can't do this with

mr. coffee. by the way, the smell of this, i wish you all could taste it. i'm going to bottle cement bring it back to you guys. here the beignets. a lot of people try to shake it like that. don't do that. bobby says you have to turn it over and spank it a little bit, then you got the perfect bei beignet. there are some people not taking part in mardi gras. why are you skipping this year? >> is not like he used to be. it's a lot more dangerous. just yesterday five people were shot on the street, one of them being a little girl. i grew up or you could come out and it was all family, and the kids could run around on neutral grounds and it was safe. it's not safe anymore. >> the city has changed a lot. that is what is driving a recall efforts to recall mayor latoya cantrell of new orleans. these are two of the organizers.

tell me, how did you get involved in this? where people signing this recall? >> because everyone wants to make new orleans safe again. we are uniting to pull anything back together and get rid of the people who don't believe in the city. >> and you're very close to getting the signatures you need to recall the mayor? >> yes we are. >> wow. this little someone have to share with you who is so adorable. tell me what you're looking forward to for mardi gras? what do you want to do and what you want to see? are you going to catch beads? >> yep! >> lots of them? uh-huh! [laughter] >> i promised to explain that. i was the grand marshal of a big mardi gras crew last year. they give you this, only captains, kings, and grand marshals wear it. i figured i better wear it quickly. mardi gras is almost over. before i go, they also give you little cups of your face on them. okay, guys. who's looking forward to mardi gras? [cheers and applause] you will have more. thank you, bobby.

more from new orleans, happy lundi gras. will be back in a little bit. >> brian: raymond, what's better? raymond? what is better, being the grand marshal of a parade, having thousands of people cheer you and your existence? or being honest 20 on "fox & friends" " for two hours? >> this is a lot safer than being the grand marshal and a lot less wear and tear. and i get free coffee and beignets all morning. >> lisa: that little boy so cute. >> brian: i never knew what that was. >> lisa: now you know! >> steve: tomorrow is mardi gras. and lent begins wednesday. coming up, it was the longest running of the race ever, and it took double overtime to declare a winner. ricky stenhouse jr. is going to join us fresh off his

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and long live life. >> steve: we don't have to tell you about today's high cost of grocery shopping. many americans now are turning to dollar stores for a lot of everyday items. the discount mania hitting one kentucky small town, which now has six area dollar stores to meet the demands of just 1400 residents. all of hill kentucky resident and carter county times editor, jamie dean wells, joins us to discuss. morning to you. in your town you have six tele- stories. do you have a favorite? >> probably the one in downtown, it's the biggest one. >> how do you explain why your town in kentucky has wound up with so many dollar stores?

>> a couple of them are on the edges of town. these dollar stores don't just serve the city of olive hill. they serve the entire western end of carter county. we have four family dollars that i'm aware of. they feel dumb i fill a niche that was left on the big box stores drove out all of our local mom-and-pops. it used to be there was a family owned store where people would run to get their bread and milk, and now those aren't there anymore. dollar general fills that niche. >> steve: sure. if there are $6 stores, people must be going there. that would squeeze out the mom-and-pop businesses, ultimately. but what about the variety? i was reading that, unlike grocery stores or local stores that might sell local stuff, the dollar stores have canned stuff and it may not be as healthy as some of the other things, from a

locally owned produce kind of business. >> they have some produce in a few of the dollar general stores. that produces the same tract in produce you will find at the save-a-lot, or if you go downtown to kroger. it's not the fresh local produce you'll find at the farmers' market in season, which is where a lot of folks buy a lot of their stuff when it's available. >> steve: absolutely. what you think the moral of the story is to people looking in on how your little town wound up with $6 stories six dollar stories?>> if you had business knew you that you can support, shop local. do what you can to support those people that have the dollars recirculating in your community, that employ people locally, that the money doesn't go out of your community. i think that's the moral of the story. and i'm not anti-dollar general, but i would preferred that each

of those spaces be filled by a local retailer. >> steve: you would no, because you are in local news. he is the carter county times editor. things for joining us today from kentucky. good luck. >> thank you. >> steve: coming up on this monday, ricky stenhouse jr. wins his first daytona 500 after a record 212 laps. he's going to join brian coming up next. first, bill hemmer and dana perino join us to preview what happens on the channel in 30 minutes. >> bill: happy presidents' day to you, steve. a big morning news. >> steve: no kidding. >> steve: what does president biden's trip to ukraine f need r that work, almost 1-year-old ron desantis is a new york city talking about law and order. is he any closer to a future decision for him? we will talk to the reporter he might just know today, coming up. >> dana: and cancel culture is on fire. wait until you hear this one

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>> brian: it wasn't a big daytona 500 finish. ricky stenhouse jr. pulling out a double overtime victory. the longest ever running of the great american race.

i'll stop now. >> as nascar's decision as to where those two cars were when the button was pushed to activate the caution, and ricky stenhouse has win the daytona 500. >> brian: there you go. there was a big accident at the end, and stenhouse is the winner. and the decision to jump into his crew's arms, when was that decision made? let's find out. let's go to ricky stenhouse jr. now, who's got to be one happy man. first off, congratulations. number two, when did you realize you're going to to jump into their arms connected they know you are coming? >> thank you. good morning, everyone. i had no clue, that was just spur of the moment. i was on top of the car jumping up and down, just excited to see all my guys around the car. i knew they were strong enough if i just jumped that they would catch me and not let me hit the ground. [laughs] that was kind of spur of the

moment, and we are supposed to climb the fence, and after the interview they were gone, they were already waiting in victory lane, so i climbed the fence by myself. >> brian: nice. what has been like? for his win since 2017. now obviously qualify for the playoffs already in week one. can you put it in perspective? >> it's the biggest win of my career, and for us in this race team, we have worked really hard. i've been here since 2020, and i feel like we've had a lot of ups and downs. a lot of bright moments throughout each season where we feel like we have kind of got everything figured out, and then it just kind of seemed like we weren't able to maintain that pace. we have put a lot of work in this off-season. we've got a lot of great racetracks coming up for us here at the beginning of the season that we are excited to get to you. we are going to enjoy the st daytona 500 win. you only get one shot at this race in our sport, and there are so many other drivers that have

won championships, accomplished so many things in this sport, and never got a daytona 500 victory. so that doesn't go unnoticed by myself for this race team. >> brian: wanted you realize you had a legitimate shot at this? towards the end, everyone thought they were in the mix, you didn't know how this was going to come out. when did you realize that you could take this thing? >> you never really know when it comes to speedway racing, especially the daytona 500. last year i felt like i had a great shot at it, and we got crash leading the five laps to go. so at the end of stage two we were up front, battling for the win, and i think we ended up third in that stage. i felt really good and comfortable with my race car and felt like we had the speed to get the job done, and then when we restarted in sixth, kyle larson, my buddy, was pushing me down the backstretch. we cleared the 22 of joey lugano, and the caution came

out. i felt really comfortable in that position of leading the race on a green-white checkered, and we made all the right moves to make it happen, and the caution came out at the perfect time for us when we were leading. >> brian: it is so good to see everybody back in the stands, pandemic over, things seem back to normal. we hope this becomes the norm, with you winning. congratulations, ricky. i hope you had a great night. we hope to catch up with you along the way. >> i'd love to do this more often. it feels good for everything to be back to normal here. the daytona 500, record crowd. the eighth sellout, i believe, straight, and the most people in the infield since like 2005, which was really cool. the 75th year of nascar starting, and we are daytona 500 champions. couldn't get much better than that. our team was on it this weekend and we look forward to the rest

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>> yep. listen, you know, thank you very much for joining u president's day. it would usually be a slow news day. not today. >> there will be a big event at mount vernon for george washington, our first president. also run to the radio. big show lined up. brian kilmeade show. >> great to be with you, take care. >> bill: good morning. on this monday morning a show of soli solidarity. president biden had an unahn -- unannounced visit to ukraine. >> dana: i didn't get it. usually i can guess. this took me by surprise. this is "america's newsroom." it is a big deal. it marks biden's first visit to a war zone as president.