>> what surprises me is that as the world leaders do not understand what is happening and they are more like children because what is happening is terrible. they aggressor, russia attack ukraine without any reason, simply because they want us to be their territory and they couldn't take my talks or something like this, they decided to take us by force.

they will not control us. ukrainians will not surrender. mr. president biden, if you stop russian aggression, if you stop aggression of vladimir putin right now, with a very serious, very a concrete decision to intervene immediately with all the needed forces and prevent the genocide and prevent catastrophe and prevent the third world war, you will be the best man in the world, a person a big part of history. the president who stopped the global catastrophe. neil: you remember her? she became the iconic face of a resistance movement against russia toppling ukraine, from a bunker enconed with her children, and her husband went on to fight the good fight in ukraine. and she's back with us, how things are looking right now

and what she thinks of this war and where it's going right now, a war that steve harrigan has been covering from the very beginning as we look back at a year that shocked the world. >> we just -- whoa. large explosion two miles behind me, black smoke coming up. >> president putin of russia putting his own spin on russian history time and time again, this time comparing himself to competer the great and that's not what's been happening under president putin. there are rumors that president biden might make it all the way to kyiv. the fact that this 80-year-old president went to the war zone and heart of kyiv, a lot of ukrainians say it's a boost for their morale. neil: steve harrigan with us right now. i think it's fair to say that

peter the great, the analogy that vladimir putin wanted is not turning out the way he thought, what do you think? >> no, it's an incredibly bad year for putin and the russians and seems to some here, needless. there's just a pain and sadness here that's not going away from the losses. right now we've been seeing more economic sanctions against russia from president biden and leaders of the g7 and zelenskyy all meeting virtually. the first round of sanctions initially at the start of the war damaged the russian economy, but that economy has been able to come back considerably since then. real concerns now about china and what role china could begin to play, giving lethal aid to the russians. especially concerns about artillery shells. it's really an artillery battle in the east, they're just lobbing thousands of shells at each other, killing them and destroying the landscape and towns at the same time.

and those artillery shells now are in short supply for each side. both sides running low on shells. as far as any talk about a cease-fire goes, ukrainians are really rejecting that out of hand. they say it would simply give putin a chance to reload and bring fresh troops up to the front. zelenskyy stayed firm in kyiv, an underground bunker for some of the time. one year later he's out on the streets in the capital and addressing troops in broad daylight. he visited the wounded and had a multi-hour press conference with really, i'd have to say an adoring media at this point. certainly some of that deserved for his heroism and his ability to articulate ukraine's position and gather support around the world, but some journalists pausing the presser to ask for a selfie with him. at the same time one of the questions to him personally, what was his darkest day of the year he says it's when he learned about atrocities

committed by russian forces around the town of bucha. >> the moment we deoccupied bucha, made me realize the devil is not in hell he's on earth among us. >> the devil is here on earth. you don't hear a lot of that, from this former comedian and actor. and ukrainians casualties, dead and wounded the past year roughly 100,000 and in the city of kharkiv there are 15 new rows at one cemetery and those new rows to try and house some of the dead from heavy fighting. one man brought some carnations to a friend who was killed in a

battle. here is what he had to say. >> it's hard to explain how i feel. and in the truist sense of the wor word. >> support from the u.s. to ukraine has not flagged. they've just announced another $2 billion worth of support and a lot of this is going to be artillery and drones as well, at least four different kinds of drones, including those kamikaze drones which can drop from the sky and destroying a russian vehicle. back to you. neil: thank you, steve harrigan in kyiv. olena one year later where it stands. i had the honor of talking to her several times beginning with a bunker with her beautiful children and sometimes you could hear the bombs outside. a year later now back with us to take a look as we go into a second year of this war. olena, good to see you. how are you holding up, the

kids, everybody? >> thank you for calling me again. i'm very good, thank you. it's of course painful to know that the war still goes on in my country, but me and my whole family safe after eight months in the army, my husband came back from the war alive and healthy and in october, i received an invitation a letter from an american woman who invited all of us to her home in the american state of georgia, and here we are right now in a safe place and my children who are so much traumatized by the war, my daughter was there, she's autism spectrum, they were feeling worse and worse in this war and now we're here in a safe place, started healing process for our children, started rehabilitation for them. they are doing psychological therapy and all of this because this america woman, this

american family invited us to come here. and i think when i come here, i see the other people face-to-face here in america and i see how great your nation is, how kind are your people. whoever finds out that we are from ukraine, they immediately try to help, there is so much support and love in here that we feel here. this is just amazing. neil: olena, your husband was fighting the good fight, like a lot of men in your country, women as well, i should say. and now it goes into its second year. how is he doing? is he with you right now? what can you tell us? >> well, i talked to my husband who was trying to come back to the army, that the president and the parliament and the minister of defense told him, thank you for your service, now goo home and take care of your children. and i'm telling him that this is now our battle here to bring

our children back to their feelings, to give them back their childhood, to make them stronger and healthy personalities because they are our future and replace us and they will be the ones who will rebuild ukraine. neil: olena, you're probably hearing that china is getting involved in this and sending mixed signals. you know, offering some say, it's kind of reoffering a 12-point peace plan, i don't know how much is new there, but also, we hear that chinese president xi jinping plans to visit russia and meet personally with vladimir putin and there's a hint of maybe china providing weapons for russia for the fight in ukraine. obviously mixed signals like i said. what do you make of it all? >> well, you know, i think i'm a very international political expert. you know, for all of this, and

just a simple ukrainian woman, but what i feel is that if this war continues for longer, then more and more countries, i don't want to say about china, but iran and north korea feel more powerful about doing bad things. if russia is not punished not stopped better sooner than later, this will normalize this aggressiveness, they attack. whoever has nuclear weapon and who is more aggressive will be ruling the world and this is the world in which we do not want to live. this is not the future that we want for our children, right? we want for our children the world where there is democracy, where life of people matters, where there is respect and love and there is no threats. in this future, a neighbor doesn't attack another country

simply because they want to have their property. now, so i think that we have to do what is right and try with ukraine because ukraine is a shield and paying the highest price with the lives of people, with its blood to save the free world, to protect the free world and we have to stay united as we already are, you know, and be strong. and i don't see-- i can't say that the world is doing not enough at this point. so many leaders, american leader visited kyiv and provided more and more help and all of us we're doing so much, but unfortunately, russia and other tyrannies they do not stop. they are doing so much, too, that means we have to do more. it's hard, you know, you better turn off tv and do something,

but this is what is happening on your planet and it's about all of us. it's about the future of our whole planet. it sounds pathetic, but i think this is what happens, this is what's at stake right now. neil: very well-put olena. i'm glad that you and your family are doing well and safe. my best to all, especially those beautiful children. ole olena gnes, a ukrainian mom, a response to the callus war by vladimir putin that he thought would end in days, rages on to this day and the subject i brought up with pat rider who did mark the occasion and some surprises since. take a look. >> the one-year anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine, certainly not a day to

celebrate, but it is a day to commemorate the bravery and the courage of the ukrainian people who have fought so fvalue van echlte value in that plan they do highlight that there should be respect for sovereignty of all countries and one would hope that they mean it and that as we go forward, that they would not put themselves in a position to provide any type of lethal assistance to russia which would only prolong this needless and unnecessary conflict. neil: general, president zelenskyy says he plans to meet with china's leader, xi

jinping, presumably about this peace overture. your thoughts? >> well, again, we know that russia and china have a relationship. that's something that we, of course, here at the department of defense closely monitor, so that's no surprise in and of itself. again, what we're mostly focused on here is ensuring that ukraine, along with the international community, is working together to ensure that the ukrainian people have what they need to defend their country and importantly, take back their sovereign territory. neil: you know, general, it's interesting that french and german leaders were telling president zelenskyy that they need to consider the peace talks and i'm wondering, the official ukrainian position has been they don't plan to give up an inch of land in order to accommodate the russians or sign an agreement.

i can't imagine president putin would leave ukraine without something. do you think it's inevitable to the point, it's up to ukraine to decide that it should show more flexibility here? >> yeah, well, you know, as an american and as a fellow american, i could never imagine anyone telling us when to stop fighting and i can't imagine whenever to tell ukraine to stop fighting. at the end of the day, they're going to be determining when this conflict ends and how and when they're ready to go to the negotiating table or when to stop fighting. and in the meantime, our focus, again, is going to be on supporting them in their fight to defend their country and take up sovereign territory. i'll make a point and you've heard others say this, that president putin could literally end this conflict today if he decided to withdraw russian

forces for ukrainian territory and end the needless suffering. but as you say, it doesn't look like that's going to happen so we're going to continue to support ukraine for as long as it takes. neil: we have gotten the mixed messages to your point from china, the 12-point peace plan and president xi jinping talking about lethal weapons in the fight in ukraine. what would our response be to that? it obviously ratchets it up a significant level. >> that's a great question. so we haven't seen china provide lethal aid or assistance to russia yet, but importantly they have not taken it off the table and you've heard our leaders, second awe continue, secretary blinken warn china about the implications to them doing so,

to include the suffering of the ukrainian citizens in this conflict, so, again, you know, i would hope that china would live up to its words, to respect sovereignty of all countries and not extend the needless suffering, and to kill civilians and extinguish ukraine as a country. neil: general, you talked about our commitment to ukraine and the latest tranche of goods, $2 billion of a package sort of put together right now. already we've got signs that some in congress are getting leary of pouring good money in this race. marjorie taylor greene is ready to propose a bill to audit the

money and support for this. are you worried? >> well, we've enjoyed excellent bipartisan support from the congress to date when it comes to ukraine and as i'm sure you can appreciate, i'm not going to comment on potential or pending legislation. i will say that within the department of defense we continue to stay very focused on working with ukraine, working with our allies and partners to ensure that we're meeting ukraine's most urgent needs. and i think the other key point here is that beyond being the right thing to do in terms of helping the ukrainians and their moment of need, this conflict and russia's actions and the potential implications extend well beyond the borders of ukraine. if russia, countries like russia, authoritarian regimes are allowed to succeed it won't stop with ukraine. and the potential cost associated with loss of lives, with loss of freedoms, the potential impact on the

security and international rules-based order that's largely kept the peace, the international peace since world war ii, will be in very serious jeopardy. so, again, we're very focused on helping ukraine right now, but cognizant of the broader national security implications to include on our own country as we move ahead. neil: you know, general, it's not surprising a year into this, an impatience grows. still, most americans favor what we're doing in ukraine, but not quite by the american margin was looking for support almost a year ago. it comes back to another issue that's come up in the face of what's been going on, even in places like east palestine, a lot of residents are saying there's president biden providing all of this money for ukraine and we're getting nothing here. and others saying similarly, how about focusing on americans and not ukrainians. i know you've heard this argument many times, sir, but

what do you think of that? >> well, i obviously, you know, as a military member, as a dod spokesperson, i'm not going to wade into the political discussions. i will say from a department of defense standpoint, our mission and our priority is defending this nation and taking care of our national security injuries. as i highlightled earlier, you have a nuclear armed country, russia, that invaded its sovereign democratic neighbor and the potential implications not only for european security, but for u.s. security, if russia were allowed to succeed, are stark. it would send a message to authoritarian regimes around the world that might makes right and that sovereign borders don't matter. so, again, we're going to continue to focus on supporting ukraine. we're going to continue to focus on defending this nation and our interests around the world.

neil: now, the chinese to whom you're referring to earlier, general, are not at all pleased with our plans to send up to 200 troops to taiwan. they've looked at that along with joint military exercises the united states has had with south korea as part of a provocative stance on the part of the united states. what do you say to that? >> yeah, so, a couple of things, neil. first of all, when it comes to our relationship with china, the department of defense, the united states, we don't seek conflict with china. but at the same time, we're also not going to stand for stepping all over the international rules-based order that i mentioned earlier that's largely kept the peace since world war ii, and so when it comes to things like encroachment, coercion, militarization of islands, lack of transparency in terms of why they're operating, where they're operating, you know, that's something that we're

going to take seriously. our focus is on preserving a free and open indo-pacific region. we've been working closely with our allies and partners to make sure that that region stays security and peaceful and that's going to continue to be our focus and we're going to continue to be very verbal about that. neil: all right. pentagon press secretary brigadier general ryder on that. some residents in ohio who are not assured that everything is fine or getting that way after this. get ready for a shock. the rate on credit cards is now over 22%. if you want to save hundreds of dollars every month, pay off the balances on your high-rate cards with a lower rate va home loan from newday usa and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. no one takes care of veterans like newday usa.

>> all right. there is the official position on how things are improving right now in east palestine, ohio and those on the ground, either near or very much in the

neighborhood of east palestine, surrounding towns that aren't buying it. count my next guest is in the latter group. good to have you, you're what, a few miles away from east palestine. maybe you can help me out? >> yeah, 3.5 miles away. we could smell the chemicals when it all happened and i actually live right beside leslie run where it dumps into bull creek. neil: how was it there the day of the derailment and what you saw, what you experienced and obviously, what you had to deal with. >> i did not hear it. i live in a valley so things are pretty muted, but we caught word that it happened and we actually went up to see what was going on. now i feel that i probably shouldn't have done that, but we could smell it when i got up

the next morning. we had it, the odor in the air for a few days after on and off. it was mainly by the creek that you smell it really bad and we ended up, before the monday, we evaluated. i -- we evacuated. and i put as many animals on a horse trailer. and i had other animals i had to leave behind and take care of. we came back, i have not smelled it since, but i have been down to the creek. i've seen the devastation down there and i've seen the chemicals, you know, they tell us everything is fine, but we see other. neil: now you experienced a number of your farm animals dying. right, could you tell me a little about that?

>> yes, sunday after the derailment i went to put my animals into the night for the coops. and i had a dead rooster in my yard. i found another one over kind of out of the yard, he didn't put himself away, he wasn't acting normal, wasn't with it and he was the same, but he has since recovered. i had another rooster who seemed to be having neurological issues, his feet weren't working with his brain and i had to put him down and lost three rabbits all within 24 hours of each other. neil: when you're told by authorities that drinking water is fine, i don't believe it extend to their recommendations about drinking well water, as i don't know what you have. but even surrounding towns, i've been told a lot of folks there are leary, they're worried that things are worse than they're being told.

how about you? >> absolutely. since we don't have the 44413 zip code, they're not doing anything barely for us. they're doing bare minimum. neil: when you say there, norfolk southern? >> norfolk southern, epa. it was under my understanding and i have been talking to our trustees of our town and our county commissioner, they didn't want to do the air testing or water testing down here. they have been fighting them tooth and nail from the beginning. like i said i'm 3.5 miles away. everything runs downhill. i am downhill. where is our help? it's just a very frustrating situation. neil: how do you think this ends? >> i don't know. i hope that it ends with them doing their drops properly,

decontaminating and giving our lives the way that we had planned for our futures. neil: yeah, listen, i wish you well, kayla. i'd love to check back with you. i've been talking to a number of residents this past week, how they're faring and i'd like to include you in that list to go back and update how you're doing and some of the other farm animals are doing. thank you for taking the time, kayla. >> oh, absolutely. i appreciate you giving me the time. i'm just trying to get our story out so we're not forgotten about in negley. neil: you should get that story out, kayla miller, negley, ohio resident. this is more than east palestine, we want to get the point across it's not limited to just one mile wide geographic point. keeping practice of both sides on the aisle, politicians headed to the border are talking about the border and talking past each other what they're going to do about the border after this. oh booking.com, ♪ i'm going to somewhere, anywhere. ♪

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>> all right. between visits to the border and hearings in washington about the border, it's become a very prominent and almost a bipartisan affair to rant about it, but very little progress about doing anything about it. matt finn following that from mission, texas. hey, matt. >> hi, neil. we have a little bit of a developing situation near eagle pass, texas. according to law enforcement and border patrol source, an

agent's life might have been jeopardized during a pursuit or some type of apprehension today and a border patrol agent apparently opened fire on a female subject, which is not something that we see something in high speed pursuits. the female taken to the hospital and other illegal immigrants, and we'll bring that to you today as we confirm it. at the border, high speed chases and pursuits every couple of days or weeks, we bring you, this one from south of san antonio, pulled over a ford f-150 on texas state 85. four illegal immigrants bail out and start running and texas dps was able to charge him with evading arrest and four illegal immigrants were turned over to border patrol in that situation. and the border patrol in the

rio grande valley, seven migrants were trapped inside a flipped s.u.v. this week. a total of 17 migrants were discovered in that area after that pretty stunning crash. and in mission, texas, border patrol reports this week, a human smuggler failed yield on the road and firefighters had to extract migrants from that crash and illegal migrants were turned over to border patrol. and u.s. border patrol said it rescued an illegal migrant struggling to stay afloat and apparently drowning as they attempted to cross. the migrants rush into the river and struggle to stay afloat. and border patrol says the agents quickly saved that migrant and two others and took them for processing. border patrol sources tell fox news a short time ago today that we've now hit the one million mark of migrant

encounters just since the beginning of the fiscal year 2023. and one million migrant encounters and they're not the got-aways, not those who intentionally avoid law enforcement. that's hundreds of thousands additional, neil. neil: thank you, and lieutenant olivares is here from public safety. chris, we're headed into march. next week and how does that stack up as either problematic month, as you've been telling me every month is problematic. what do you look for in march? >> well, neil. great to be with you. especially for a fact we look at the previous past fiscal years, march, the spending going into the summer have always been when we see the increase in total encounters and more activity, criminal activity, more smuggling cases and people coming across the ports of entry and the drugs coming across. that's what we anticipate and we're going off data we've seen

the previous fiscal years and we talk about the numbers, especially january and february, we had over 100,000 encounters at the border and that's still not-- that's unacceptable and we should not be seeing that even though cvp initiated that, cvp mobile one app and we see the increase, people coming through both sides, through the ports of entry and at the point of entry. that has been the flow of mass migration that we're seeing and hasn't stopped the criminal activity and the troopers have been involved with the high speed chase and the human smugglers are arming themselves with weapons and that's not changed. that's actually increased where the smugglers are becoming more dangerous now and more bold in trying to get away with law enforcement. that's what we anticipate going into the spring and summer that we're going to see increased in activity from the prior years. neil: so when you have, you know, these encounters, and then you have those who are

got-aways, 350,000 got-aways. the bigger the encounters get, obviously, the bigger the got-aways figure will get. the got-aways figure is now dwarfing what used to be the total encounters figure a little more than two years ago. where do you see this going? >> well, exactly, neil. that's our concern as a state agency. obviously, we don't have the legal authority to enforce any type of immigration policy or law, but as a state agency we can focus on an activity, and focus on the got-aways, there's not enough border patrol in the field and we have to augment the resources having more state troopers and more along the border to apprehend the got-aways and we've been successful in the efforts. over $350,000 illegal immigrants. these are between the ports of entry. that's pretty significant for us as a state police agency. so we're going to continue trying to expand our operations

and see what we can do as far as address any threats, but that's the focus right there as far as the criminal activity and we cannot ignore that. that's the reality of the situation now, is the got-aways, the criminals and drugs between the ports of entry and that's a clear crisis at the border. neil: i don't know how you do what you do, day in, day out. you have to be commended, men and women. and this is growing exponentially and with the warmer weather to come will continue to do so if something isn't done. in the meantime, we make a big deal, as we should, shooting down a chinese spy balloon, but sometimes we lose sight of the spying going on on terra firma here. and in new york city. hey, bryan. >> hey, neil, it's not just china's spy balloon programs, dozens of unauthorized police

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you're not gonna believe this thing is possible but it is. >> all right. it almost looked like china was policing our skies with that balloon crisis, right? but police stations in the united states? who are they policing? bryan llenas has more from manhattan. >> neil, good morning. look, china is accused of operating unauthorized police stations around the world, intent on stalking, surveilling, harassing, chinese dissidents who are against china this morning. in downtown manhattan there was a rally by bipartisan congressional members of the

house select committee on chinese party. they rallied with dissidents, not only condemning china, but to do more to stop the ccp's efforts. >> how have we allowed this to happen on american soil? the answer, in my opinion, is that we have been blind while the ccp has been very cunning. >> it's about the systemic surveillance and depression of dissidents. it's about striking fear in the hearts of the critics of the ccp. >> chairman mike gallagher wrote a letter to the fbi's director christopher wray demanding more information about what we know about these stations, while saying he's troubled that the fbi appears to have been late to the game on this issue. last fall, the fbi reportedly raided the so-called secret police station in chinatown here in new york city. there are reportedly at least two others in the u.s., including in los angeles. the nonprofit safeguard

defenders released a report saying that china has established over 100 of these unauthorized secret police stations in over 50 countries around the world and there are some 14 governments around the world, neil, that have started investigations into this issue. why would they do this? apparently, part of this reasoning is that the china wants to force, is forcing thousands of chinese nationals to involuntarily go back to mainland china and using these outposts worldwide to harass and to force people to do just that. neil. neil: that's pretty scary, my friend. bryan llenas, thank you very much for that. in the meantime it does look like joe biden is running for another term as president, at least to hear his wife tell it. to hear democrat mary ianne williamson tell it.

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>> and how many times does he have to say that until you believe it. >> he says he's not done. he's not finished what he's started. i mean, he's done so much and, darlene, he's just not done. neil: that's what jill biden says about her husband. her husband was not quite so equivocal on abc. more on that. i want to go to lee carter, and doug shchoen.

and there's marianne williamson, and some say, what chance does she have. sometimes there could be a brush fire where there's a challenger and others might be following in this case if it looks like she might be registering. doug, as a democratic pollster, what do you read into the williamson challenge? >> you make an important point, neil. when i was in the clinton white house, our prime goal was to prevent jesse jackson or any other opponent to run against bill clinton and divide the democratic electorate. joe biden has a similar goal. democrats have consolidated recently behind him, yes, but

there's still substantial disapproval, particularly many on the far left. if marianne williamson or others appeal to that it could be damaging in a close general election, which the polls now show it to be in the fall of 2024. neil: you know to that point and i'll pursue this, lee, with you as well. to finish off a democratic point with doug. when ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter, he might have survived that, but losing the election and not blaming that on ted kennedy, but generally the challenges in the party at the white house. >> they do, i was part of the kennedy campaign and i believe, as you suggested that but for teddy kennedy's candidacy, jimmy carter would have been a much stronger candidate for reelection. neil: lee, switching to republicans, who have dealt with this, jumping ahead of the other battle that was famous for democrats, lbj, was

intending for run reelection, gene mccarthy did well in new hampshire and after that, lbj jumps out of the race, bobby kennedy entered the race and it was a nightmare after that and lost. and ronald reagan and jerry ford. came close, same result on the public side, they lost the white house. what do you make of that? >> what i make of that, these are disrupter candidates who are damaging to the person in power, so if you look at the polling, there's nothing to suggest that if biden wants to run again that he is going to be the candidate. but what happens when you have challenger candidates they point out the weakness that that candidate, they divide the party. they create less enthusiasm for that party and if you look at polling right now for biden, only 12% of democrats are extremely enthusiastic about

supporting him for a second te. so what ends up happening when you have this kind of a situation, is you end up losing some of your enthusiasm, some of your base. a lot of weaknesses get pointed out and a lot of ways, you're having your opposition research done for you before you enter into the term. it can be damaging, especially when you're coming out of a position of weakness as joe biden is. certainly when you talk about jimmy carter, his polling numbers were much worse than joe biden's are. the situation remains the same, you've got a candidate coming out, do a lot of punching before we get to the general election and that can be really hard to come out of. neil: can it also, lee, republicans get fractious even when they don't control the white house. in other words, if they can't agree or can't support one another, donald trump famously saying he doesn't know if he would support a republican nominee if it were not him. and a couple of others who don't want to pledge to support

the nominee as well. and i'm wondering if it can bedevil the challenging party if you've got a crowded field. >> you can. and the republican side the more crowded it is the better for donald trump. many americans right now don't want donald trump to be the candidate, but he still has a really, really solid base and those who oppose donald trump, are fractured. and nikki haley, 5% increase in the poll and desantis is popular and others coming in and now you've got even more disrupter candidates coming in, making some valid points. all of this adds energy to donald trump and creates a lot of fracture on the other side. so, one of the things that a lot of people are saying is that this might be the year that we have one of the smallest fields ever because if the parties can get and coalesce around who they want to be the nominee before they get to this, it could actually help both parties be stronger, rather than having this long

drawnout process that we saw in 2016 among the republicans. they had 17 # candidates and what ended up having is they all sort of took each other out and gave more energy to donald trump. and i think there's many people who don't want to see that happen again. although there are many candidates who seem to be jumping in and hinting at jumping in as well. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. neil: sometimes party l luminaries who come in, and clear at 30 seconds, what is your sense where things go? almost always they don't go well for the party in power. >> i think that's right. biden's best case for himself, notwithstanding what jill biden said, is to do what he did in the midterms, which is to raise questions about the republican right, to raise questions about

donald trump, so-called ultra maga. if the republicans get together, try to move to the center, they can win. neil: all right. we will watch closely. guys, thank you very very much. >> thank you. neil: and that's through history. they say that history doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes politically it sure does rhyme. we'll see if it rhymes this go round. that will do it here, fox news continues. have a safe weekend, everyone. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month. one role of a lifetime... one sore throat. but she had enough. she took mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who's boss. mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours.

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