day for a wide wedding. it's not >> i'm harris faulkner. russian forces closing in on ukrainian capital as world powers fear a wider war in europe. ♪ ♪ [explosion] >> missile strikes, shelling, and gunfire. crushing hopes of a negotiated end to a russian invasion. ukrainian women and children trying to evacuate, facing the impossible reality of hunkering down if they cannot get out. >> we just want our men, are women, to stay alive. >> harris: and their leader telling the men to stay behind and fight with him. now u.s. and nato partners

sending thousands of troops to protect europe's eastern edge. and joining allies in punishing putin personally. >> secretary psaki: the president is doing nearly everything in his power to lead the world and stand up against the actions of president putin. >> harris: i will ask senator amy klobuchar about the money and the might the president may be forced to engage to defend moscow. and with putin's war in day 4 come alive with me, former secretary of state condoleezza rice. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. then... >> president biden: my nominee for the united states supreme court is judge qatar and g jackson. >> harris: the president making good on his campaign promise to nominate the first black woman to this up in court and preparing for the state of the union as his domestic agenda faces major roadblocks. can the white house pivot again? plus... >> make sure it stays closed. >> harris: a spotlight on u.s. energy independence with the

texas primary only two days away. we take you on the road to the midterms. let's get started. ♪ ♪ >> harris: welcome. from our nation's capital.n bomn nonstop. e to those invaders and a backdrop, hundreds of thousands of people leaving their homes, making the dangerous trek to surrounding countries. billions more trapped in the war, sheltering in basements, underground garages, and subway stations. you've seen all the pictures of them huddled together. ukraine of estevez health minister reporting some 200 people have been killed just this weekend. those numbers expected to grow. among them, children, and more than a thousand wounded in the first land wars since

world war ii. alex off traveling with president biden in delaware. mike tobin in the veep on the border in western ukraine or poland is offering refuge to people who can get there. but we will begin in the capital city, kyiv. russian president putin's focus right now. fox news correspondent trey yingst. it is just hitting the wires now, breaking news, may be a breakthrough, but definitely a coming together for a few minutes. >> harris, that's exactly right. we are learning right now that russia and ukraine are set to hold peace talks along the border of belarus today. this comes after a phone call between the president of ukra ukraine, lotteries or linsky, and the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. this is significant as fighting continues not only here in the capital city of kyiv, but across the country. last night this capital city saw a russian missile hit just south of here, targeting an oil depot and black smoke was rising up across the skyline as everything looked orange.

it was an active war zone for the people here in the civilians who are looking to get away from the fighting. we do know there are warnings today from the ukrainian defense ministry that russian troops could try to disguise themselves in order to get into this city and launch more gun battles like we have seen over the past several days, taking place in kyiv. also yesterday morning, a moped russian missile struck an apartment building, killing at least two people and injuring half a dozen others. harris. >> harris: so a couple of questions for you. one, with this news, is that spreading? are people hearing about that and making any sort of difference in their actions today knowing that at least along a portion of the border there will be russian delegates and envoys from ukraine? >> i think the sentiment remains the same here in the capital city, hope for the best, and prepare for the worst. we have seen this preparation from people across ukraine from the beginning of this invasion at the beginning of this

conflict. we see civilians making molotov cocktails, preparing weapons, lining up at police stations, and saying they will use everything they can to push back against this russian offensive. i want you to take a listen to this man we met in the streets of kyiv over the weekend and how he described what he would do if russian forces entered his city. >> i'm no good at arms, but i have my kitchen knife and the day i see russian pigs here, ukraine, i will slaughter their throats. >> just underneath where we spoke with that man, there are civilians at this hour hiding from russian air campaign. they are staying in the metro of kyiv, the only place they can stay to get away from the bombs falling on the city. harris. >> harris: real quickly, reports that some of the people who have left, who have taken their families to the border, it may be to moldova or hungary or poland. if some of those men are now coming back into the country to get ready to fight.

>> absolutely. there is a general mobilization order right now. every men age 18-60, by law, must turn around if they are trying to flee the country, stay inside ukraine and fight back against the russians. we've also seen reports of foreign fighters coming into health ukrainians. back to you. >> harris: trey yingst, thank you very much. to the other side of the country, correspondent mike tobin is in lviv, western ukraine, near the border with poland were some people have been able to make it out. in fact, overnight, we saw the number more than double of people who have been able to make it out. it's like 368,000 i believe there. >> that is the latest figure from the u.n. and with the russian armored entering from the north, the east, and south, the flow of refugees of course comes this direction to the west. the problem is the traffic to the polish border is backing up greater than 30 miles. if crossing to the polish border can take as much or even longer than 24 hours.

refugees are also headed for hungary, moldova, romania, slovakia. our fox news cameras watched ukrainians abandon our cars, pull out the luggage, and complete the journey on foot. families break up of the border is the men's day back to fight. >> it's possible not to meet him again, to meet your relatives, your mom, dad, your grandma's, your relatives. just maybe your goodbye is a last one. >> since 2014, ukraine is have been migrating west. millions live in countries that are now sanctuaries from the violence. the crisis is creating tearful reunions at the border crossing. here in lviv, the streets are largely empty, but not a ghost town, and last night was the first night the people here were not awakened by air raid sirens, the first time since the invasion began. harris, back to you. >> harris: mike tobin,

thank you very much. i want to go straight to alexandria half now, who is traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, and big news potentially as, alex, i'm sure you're hearing about it too, there is that meeting along the border between delegates from ukraine and an envoy from russia. maybe they can work something out. we don't know yet. >> we don't know, and the white house has been in contact with all of those players. the president, by the way, is in wilmington for the memorial service of a family member. other significant plays have been made here as well. just yesterday the u.s. and european partners committed to removing several russian banks from the swift financial system, and effort to further isolate president putin. of the embassy in washington marked with the word "murder." hundreds rallied outside the white house in support of a sovereign nation under attack. from delaware, president biden

authorized $350 million in additional defense aid to ukraine. the white house has also requested $6.4 billion from congress to assist in the regional fallout. if >> secretary psaki: we are stronger together, especially as we stand in the face of the russian military's actions and their invasion of ukraine. >> on top of sweeping sanctions on russia announced thursday, on friday the u.s. joined europe sanctioning president putin himself buried of the several thousand troops activated in europe, the pentagon says many will be part of nato's first deployment response and history. history was also made friday once president biden shifted gears. >> president biden: i'm pleased to nominate judge jackson, who brings extorting her qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record. >> federal appeals court judge ketanji brown jackson is the first woman nominated to serve supreme court. expected to be joined by former

senator doug jones who will serve as her sherpa. on tuesday, president biden will give his state of the union address, what would have likely been a focus on domestic challenges that he's been having, this could shift, becoming a global address from a wartime president. harris. >> harris: alex, thank you. joining me in studio now in washington, minnesota senator amy klobuchar. welcome back to "fox news sunday." here's where i want to start. there have been so many developments but first of all, overnight, we saw three things happening, and one was movement with swift and taking away the ability for russia to move around its money. first talk to me about that. and that's a big sanction the people have been calling: it is. and this is an international transaction structure, and at first there was a lot of hesitancy from europe, particularly germany. great britain was out front calling for this. and we worked together. the western alliance, nato, all

of us, and basically what has happened now is we are going to be targeting these russian banks. they cannot be in this alliance, and this will make a big difference in slowing them down financially, because this is the gold standard of how people make transactions around the world. >> harris: we are learning this information, by the way, senator, from a senior official with the white house talking with fox news, so it's a three-pronged approach that we were told to expect yesterday, today, and in the very near future. so another step in this is to put together a joint alliance of people to go after some of the assets of the oligarchs in russia. what does that do exactly? i mean, to go out and collect somebody's got. >> senator klobuchar: i love this because it's personal. vladimir putin has shown what he is, he's a thug, he's a desperate, he has shown his colors and the people of ukraine, as your correspondent showed us, have certainly showed their courage, their colors. so going after his yachts, going after the thugs around him, the oligarchs, doing it where we know where the money are.

they are not for the most part in the u.s., they are in other countries. that's why we couldn't do this alone on my president biden felt that we had to work with the rest of the world. but this gets personal and it's very important, and the fact that the ukrainians have put up so much more resistance than people ever thought possible. it's a big country, they have a big heart. they are determined to resist. >> harris: all right, the third point in all of this three-pronged approach now is to freeze assets with the central bank. and you know, we are seeing something we haven't seen in a long time, and that is thousands of people in the streets of russia who are protesting against the war on ukraine. i mean, have you seen what they've been doing to these people? we know that it's a cruel world over there for them to speak out. they don't have freedom of speech as we do here in america, so they are arresting people, picking them up off the streets were even a sign that says "no more war," that sort of thing. if the ruble falls because of frozen assets through the central bank and other

sanctions, what happens on the streets of russia? >> senator klobuchar: exactly, because you're going to start see the effects of people economically and russia. there were protests in the past, he basically gets rid of all opponents by either poisoning them, putting them in jail, we've seen this happen over and over, including attacking people internationally. and so this is his playbook, but the fact that we are joining with the rest of the world to hit him hard on sanctions makes a big difference economically and will give them further reason to take to the streets. >> harris: look, i hear you, and i've been reading transcript of recent interviews you've given about the power that you think the sanctions have. on okaloosa book -- i believe it was generally 16th, i want to know what you told the president when you came back, because at that point, estimates had troops on the ground at the border, russian invaders, numbering 100,000. the president still wasn't moving. what did you say to him when you came back? >> senator klobuchar: first of

all, we talked to president zelenskyy, and we brought his words back to president biden, bipartisan group, very important at the time. and what we told him was that zelensky wanted more ammunition come a more arms, particularly stingers. if you saw our president, which already are government had given $650 million, you saw more arms going to ukraine, more to come. and i think really importantly you see arms from germany now that says that breaking precedent by allowing arms to be sent to ukraine. this was a major ask of the ukrainians that we conveyed to president biden. the second was of course more immediate sanctions and i think what president biden told us, which was understandable, working with the germans was key, and then you see some of the changes with germany's positions. >> harris: all right, i hear you on that. i'm going to push back. >> senator klobuchar: okay. >> harris: we've known those trips were coming in since early october. we actually didn't put any of the sanctions and didn't push for the swift -- i know the president can't do that unilaterally, but we have the biggest boys in the room, we

spend the most money in that nato room, so he wasn't moving the needle on that and they were able to build from a few thousand on the ground in october to over 100,000 when you were there. why is it, do you think, that after -- and you're one of the most persuasive people i've ever met. i covered you in minnesota. so you weren't able in that group come of that delegation came back from ukraine, on january 16th, right in there, right in there, you're talking to them. on the 19th the president goes on the air and starts talking about minor incursions and how we are not going to do much and how i'm going to have to twist the arms of people in nato to get them to come along. was he not listening to you? did you not make the kind of appeal that i've seen you make on other issues? >> senator klobuchar: we made a strong appeal but i think you have to see the strategy here, and i want to make this very clear. we are going to have differences on tactics, democrats, republicans and the like, and you certain you have guests on your show that are different. but i think as you hear from secretary rice, and what an honor to have her on the show,

this is got to be bipartisan. we have to work on this together buried next week before us will be an aid package that's critical for cybersecurity to ris: 6.4 billion. >> senator klobuchar: for more help with arms, aid to these refugees, the incredible stories, so right now i've got to look at as opposed to the divides and differences we may have, how we are going to handle this going forward, and to do this i have been actually hardened by the world leaders from liberals to conservatives working together in the same thing is happening in our country. that's how you stand up against this guy. he was betting, he was betting we were all going to be divided, that we had no way to come together, and he is seeing the opposite. >> harris: he was probably betting on something that former president donald trump brought up at cpac, the largest gathering of soup though my conservatives last night, he was betting on the fact that trump might still be the only one that wouldn't see an invasion on his watch. have you seen this? watch. >> under bush him a russia invaded georgia. under obama, russia took crimea.

hunter biden, russia invaded ukraine. i stand is the only president of the 21st century on whose watch russia did not invade another country. >> harris: your reaction? >> senator klobuchar: i have real trouble with that because i was in ukraine with senator mccain and senator lindsey graham, stood on those front lines, and i will say while donald trump was president, russia remains in crimea and there was still, of course, major problems in the region. secondly, it was donald trump that signed the agreement to bring the troopsd so it is donas and did the same thing throughout his presidency, so yeah, i have problems with that. but you know what? i don't want to dwell on that right now. what i want to dwell on, talking to secretary rice, how we go forward, democrats and republicans together.

that means standing tall, showing who we report, the ukrainians. and making very clear that we are going to get them the eight and a help that they need. >> harris: two points that i would double back if we had a whole hour, why president biden didn't go faster. and i know you pushed. >> senator klobuchar: i will say this. if one thing that biden did differently than we've seen before his he got the intelligence out there in a big, big way. with great britain, the world wouldn't believe vladimir putin, they believed us and they believed the ukrainians because we got the information out there. >> harris: i would also push back on the fact that the generals came clean about the president didn't listen to them on how we should leave afghanistan but you and i will get together again. >> senator klobuchar: excellent. >> harris: scotus reaction. so the nominee for u.s. supreme court for preside president biden, judge jackson, will be on the hill. your committee will be looking at her confirmation. what do you expect this week? >> senator klobuchar: l say one thing that i think people need to know about her, she's actually had more experience as

a judge then four of the people who are currently on the supreme court. she will be one of only two with actual trial judge experience on the supreme court. she's someone whose brother was in law enforcement, uncle. one of her uncles was the police chief of miami, received great praise from the federation of police, the fraternal order of police. i think she's going to defy some expectation. it's one of the reason she got bipartisan support throughout her confirmation hearings for other positions. >> harris: we literally have 15 seconds left. already criticism from republicans that she's far left. in fact, jonathan turley, who is an attorney who will join us on the panel later, said that this is a political deliverable, a good one, for president biden, because the other candidates were not as far left. he mentioned a couple in particular, there could have been more consensus. >> senator klobuchar: i just find those words offensive, honestly, because what i look at is this incredibly experienced woman who came up from two coparents, public school teachers, did everything she

could, star of her high school debased team and is now nominated for the supreme court and i think she's going to be a great judge. >> harris: senator klobuchar, when you go back to the twin cities, please pass along my thoughts and my love, i loved working there. >> senator klobuchar: thank you, i will do that. thanks, harris. >> harris: a "fox news sunday" exclusive, perspective from former secretary of state condoleezza rice on what the russian invasion means for the causes of peace and democracy around the world. stay put. ♪ ♪ ♪ retirement is an opportunity to fill each tomorrow with moments that matter. and a steady stream of protected income can help you secure the life you've planned. for more than 150 years, generations have trusted the strength and stability of pacific life with their tomorrows. ♪

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putin's war, and gain a better perspective on what's led to the current invasion. with me here in washington, former secretary of state condoleezza rice. secretary number great to have you here this morning, particularly to react to this breaking news because the world may lean into hope, do we not move too quickly toward that, knowing that a delegation from each ukraine and russia now about to meet today on the border? what you make of it? >> secretary rice: i'm certain that's a lenski in the ukrainian government will use the words of ronald reagan, trust and verify here. if it's always a good thing if in the middle of something like this there's a chance for a peaceful resolution, because we can see the suffering in ukraine of these incredibly brave people and what their going through, but we will see what terms the russians offer, and i'm sure that it's a good thing that they're going to talk, but if anything, what this may show is vladimir putin expected and easy win here. he thought he would waltz into

the capital, it into kyiv, in his own delusional rendering of history, ukrainians and russians are the same, and he would overthrow this government and might even be welcomed as a liberator. and of course the reality has been something quite different, so perhaps this is a little bit of a signal that the russians bit off more than they can chew, but we will wait and see if anything materializes here. >> harris: i wrote on exactly what you said, i often take notes when you speak. delusional rendering of history. it delusional. let's settle there for a second. senator marco rubio, the top republican on the intelligence committee, tweeted this. "i wish i could share more but for now i can say it's pretty obvious to many that something is off with putin. he has always been a killer, but his problem now is different and significant. it would be a mistake to assume that putin would react the same way he would have five years ago." he met with putin at least a half a dozen times.

you describe them differently today too. why? >> secretary rice: i met with him many times, and this is a different putin. he was always, senator rubio said, this is an x kgb man. he once said you're always essentially kgb man if you are, so he had that -- that tough veneer. he was always calculating and cold, but this is different. he seems erratic. there is an ever-deepening delusional rendering of history. it was always a kind of victim allergy about what had happened to them but now it goes back to blaming lenin for the foundation of kyiv in ukraine. so he's descending into something that i personally haven't seen before. >> harris: so i want to ask you now about what keeps you up at night with regard to that, because there is this worry

among generals with whom i've talked with -- and they do worry, because nobody wants -- no matter how great they are at their jobs, nobody wants world war. do something at this point that he might not have done a few years ago in terms of more of a land grab. the baltics, for instance. and because of article five with nato, what does that mean for us? we get involved in a war. we can't go to war with a nuclear power, but does he care about that anymore? >> secretary rice: well, i don't know where he is in that dark world, but i will say this: we have to make sure that he really understands that the cost would be extraordinary to try to cross an article five line, an attack upon one is an attack upon all, so the baltic states are indeed protection under that guaranteed by the united states of america. if he meets the kind of resistance that he is meeting in ukraine, if you can't get an easy win, if it looks like he's not going to achieve his objectives, there is a chance that he pulls up, but i want to

make sure that he does. i want to make sure that he doesn't decide that, i a russian -- is his next way to collec involve the. what we are doing in reinforcing nato forces in the baltics and in poland i'm a native's eastern flank, if you will, this is the way he would know if the cost would be very high. >> harris: it's interesting point that out because we saw the troop buildup on our own end. they put together that nato fighting force to go to germany, put more there. and you know, we arty have 3,000 in poland, a lot of that is an american ohmic humanitarian effort. i talked with secretary of state pro-trump, mike pompeo, and friday, and he was saying look, you can put together now something -- he is sitting a neonatal unit, a hospital with

those babies in it. we know that he's hitting targets he shouldn't be, and i say him via his military. he's got 200,000 troops on the ground. >> secretary rice: well, they are certainly committing acts that are, let's say close to the line in that regard. but i would like to put that aside. let's look after the entire campaign is over because right now what we need to concentrate on is getting further armament to the hum ukrainians. i was tremendous and heartened by the germans were moving objections, talk about increasing their defense spending beyond 2%. european countries are closing their airspace to the russians. you've been covering the protests that are going on around the world. >> harris: yes. >> secretary rice: the ukrainian grandmothers who are seeing to russian soldiers i'm going to put sunflower seeds in your pockets so that when you die on ukrainian soil they can pop up on your grave. if this is not what putin imagined. so let's concentrate right now on making sure that he pays the highest cost for what he's

already done. and by the way, if we continue to reinforce american forces. these are not humanitarian that are going in, these are -- >> harris: fees or heavy brigades. >> secretary rice: airpower. now he's looking -- he also has to look at i don't want to take on the united states of america, and so i think this is the right thing to do, and we will turn later to further punishment for what the russians have already done. >> harris: and i have argued when you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime. i mean, i think we are at just a basic, basic point there. >> secretary rice: it is certainly against every principal of international law and international order, and that's why throwing the book at them now in terms of economic sanctions and punishments is also a part of it. and i think the world is there. certainly nato is there. he's managed to unite nato in ways i didn't think i would ever see again after the end of the cold war.

>> harris: really? >> secretary rice: yeah. we may have little tactical differences about doing this are doing that, but i can't emphasize enough seeing the germans be among the first to come out and say yes, we should do the swift removal. yes, we are going to increase our spending beyond 2%. yes, netherlands and others, you can transfer german weapons, and by the way, we will transfer some on our own. he has stirred up a hornets nest, and we need to make sure it stinks him and stings him hard. back in russia people got to be asking if the last 30 years of being better integrated into the international order, of being able to go to graduate schools and places like stanford and harvard, being able to buy western goods for your kids, is putin putting all of that risk with now the isolation of russia so it begins to look again like the soviet union that was isolated from the world? for russians who don't even remember the soviet union, this

has got to be a terribly bitter pill to swallow. >> harris: that may speak to the issue of why they are protesting in the streets, willing to literally die for free speech against this war with ukraine. it's a really -- you stacked up a lot of facts there. i want to put some more into perspective now. back in 2008 you were one of the first world leaders to fly to georgia when the russian military was still making moves there. actively you were involved in the cease-fire negotiations. what does it take to get putin there today? do we know well enough what he wants? >> secretary rice: he has done things in ukraine that frankly he didn't do in georgia. the campaign in georgia was relatively fast. and i just might note, there were pictures this morning of massive protests in georgia against this war. let's remember that the georgian government, the government remained in power. the russians had actually set personally to me that they wanted him gone, and i told them we don't have secret talks about removing a georgian president.

and so the very fact that the georgian government not only survived, but today georgians are free to protest the russians, says that maybe he didn't even achieve his goals they are. frustrating him. that's what it takes to get him to back off, and when russian soldiers are dying -- and by the way, it's very hard now to keep everything quiet -- i'm very pleased that the administration was releasing intelligence about what he was doing. >> harris: along the way. >> secretary rice: reading his mail. he's got to be wondering who are these people around me that were talking to the americans? it will feed his own paranoia about his own inner circle. >> harris: fascinating. i hope no one missed that. you told him we don't keep secrets about taking others out in other countries. and then he didn't. >> secretary rice: that's right. >> harris: secretary rice, he listened to you. >> secretary rice: i told the foreign minister that. i said i'm going to call

everybody that i know and tell them one of your conditions is removal. being truthful, the united states has always been best in these information wars when we are telling the truth. not when we are using our own propaganda but when we are telling the truth. you have people in yo ukraine aa huge population in russia that knows their government is not telling them the truth. i've been told the russian television is playing war ii and nazis and so forth, but nobody under the age of 40 in russia watches television. they are on the internet. they can see what's happening there. he's having a harder time hiding his crimes than he did even in 2008. >> harris: secretary rice, a pleasure to have your time, your expertise here on "fox news sunday" today. thank you very much, good to see you. >> secretary rice: good to see >> harris: and a debate you don't want to miss. the sunday panel on the president 'has big shift in the state of the union. ♪ ♪

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book. and this is my son. we are people like all other people. yes, and we want to leave, we want to live in a peaceful country. we do not want to fight. our husbands didn't want to fight, but they came on our land and they are killing us, and we need help. please help us. >> harris: that mom with her 4-month-old baby daughter in her arms surviving for now and a bomb shelter in kyiv. she estimated 1-2 days worth of supplies and she said they will go hungry if they have to but they are not leaving. the sunday panel. peter doocy, george washington university law professor jonathan turley. fox news contributor charlie hurt. and fox news political analyst juan williams. gentlemen, thank you, let's get starting with some breaking news now. vladimir putin has put his russian nuclear forces on high alert. he says it's in response to what he calls aggressive statements

by nato countries. jonathan. >> i think what you're seeing is someone who is a relic of a bygone era. and this rela cap instead nuclear weapons, we are trying to face the fact that legally not much has changed since world war ii. there's no real legal avenue to stop someone like putin. the question is whether these economic measures can to tear him and also possibly china in considering about taiwan but showing that they can hoist russia like an economic wrench. they can isolate russia and make the cost too high. not just russia but for china and other countries. >> harris: peter. >> the other day i asked president biden if he underestimated putin and he said no. if i could ask him again i might ask him if he overestimated putin because yes, there is this news about putting the nuclear forces on alert, but we are also seeing news reports about russian military convoys running out of gas and the soldiers don't have enough food, and amy klobuchar was giving the president a lot of credit this

morning forgetting all the intel out there. how good is the intel? don't know. >> harris: charlie. >> you know, it's war and in wars the truth is always the first casualty. so it's pretty tough. obviously we have seen some positive signs like the convoys running out of gas. that's deafly positive sign. >> harris: not for them! >> not for them, but for the good nice it is. but that leads to another problem, which is that you have a madman to begin with, but then if the madman fails and then you have a desperate madman with nukes, then it starts to get even scarier. >> harris: juan, let's just tip off of that point. >> welcome i think right now it is putin's war and it's proven to be putin's hell. he's meeting strong resistance inside ukraine, as we have seen. it is persistent, it is not folding quickly. i think he had imagined that by now he would've been able to

capture kyiv and take zelenskyy under control, and that has not happened. there is strong international condemnation. the united states is not divided about this, and able to keep the allies, the nato allies, in place. these are all strong points. i just want to emphasize that he is trying this morning, apparently offering some sort of fig leaf to say let's have some talks, let's meet at the border. >> harris: he's been doing that for a while. >> let me just say there's nothing to negotiate. what is it that you would negotiate with putin? putin is there, that's a sign of his weakness at this moment, and the fact that the united states has kept the alliance together, germany, other countries now adding to the ukrainian military supply. >> harris: peter, would you describe it that way, that the president has kept them together? there's a lot of pressure on this president to have done something long ago. i got into a pretty heated back-and-forth with admiral kirby -- very friendly

back-and-forth. i said why didn't he wait so long? i said if this morning again, why did he wait so long? some of what he's done today they could have gotten. nobody can unilaterally do it. >> and it's interesting because as the stuff was all really starting to unfold on wednesday night, white house officials are working late, but the president was nowhere to be seen, at least not publicly. and in terms of trying to figure out whether or not he's keeping the west together, we might hear from zelenskyy about how he thinks the president is doing soon. a white house source told me last night that the president and zelenskyy have a good relationship, but there's also reporting now that zelenskyy, when the u.s. try to evacuate him, said the fight is here, i need ammunition, not a ride. >> but i think it's important to say that's a sign of support, peter, that your offering to say if you want, at this point, not to be captured, not to be held up as some symbol of russian -- >> harris: let me step in there. >> then you would want to leave. the key point is that he has

kept the nato allies together because, guess what, you can't impose sanctions if there were holes on the sanctions from other country. >> harris: afghanistan, only similar in this point. i'm not conflating these two issues, but similar in this point. the president was able to leave. he got some help doing that, and everything devolved and fell in after that. zelenskyy is doing some thing different, peter. >> to juan's point, it's not the joe biden is not offering support. he is buried question is whether or not it's everything that zelenskyy wants. >> harris: the right support. jonathan. >> actually part of the problem, part of the problem for the ukrainians is they opposed president biden waving the sanctions on nord stream 2 because they saw this addiction, this reliance of europe on russian gas, and at the same time we are continuing to buy russian gas. and so we fueling this monster with the funds that he needs. swift is a very important step.

it's a huge step. and i think that juan is right, there's credit to be given in terms of organizing an alliance on this, but there's also questions about whether this administration did enough and not listening to the ukrainians, not listening to critics, waving on nord stream 2, and also the question of how much did we actually get in the short period of time to the ukrainians? they are putting up a hell of a fight but they can't do it with their bare hands. >> harris: yes. charlie we are going to come back and i will go to first. texas is in focus as the nation will see it's first primary of the midterm elections. we will talk about the political battle over energy independence. by the way, what are you paying for a gallon of gas right now? is a co

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oil and gas prices were already high inflation and now russia is warning americans they will feel the consequences of sanctions. we begin "fox news sunday"'s road to the midterms. texas, nation's largest oil-producing state where the debate over energy independence right now is hot. texas is the first midterm primary. rich edson reporting. >> hectic meetings in the morning and driver checkups and a lot of correlating going on. make sure it stays closed. >> for mario torres, changing careers from managing a radioshack to working in the south texas oil fields has been demanding, but rewarding. >> it's been fantastic. i've never seen a career where you didn't have to have a college diploma to make over 100k. >> he's exactly the kind of texan that gubernatorial candidates are fighting to win over in the final days before the primary. energy voters. >> i'm running for reelection to ensure that we protect the oil

and gas sector that made america energy independent. >> energy is critical to governor greg abbott's case for reelection in the primary and against his likely democratic challenger in the fall, beto o'rourke. >> he has threatened to crush the energy jobs that help people buy homes, buy cars, take care of their families. >> but o'rourke says texas has to adapt and points to the massive failure of the texas energy grid in frigid temperatures last winter. >> we will ensure that the tragic events of the past week are never repeated. >> millions of texans went without power. state officials say nearly 250 people died in the storm, two-thirds from hypothermia. >> this did not happen through any act of god. this was wholly the responsibility of the person in the highest position of power and public trust in this state, greg abbott. >> progressives in texas house races say the grid collapse is

part of why their state needs the green new deal. >> if they weren't popular, i don't think we would have the crowd we have back here. >> and on the right, republican challengers also pounced. >> i think the governor without a doubt is responsible for that. >> but abbott's campaign says his opponents are playing politics and that the governor is taking steps to improve his state's energy infrastructure. and he's also focused much of his campaign on the border search, but a recent dallas morning news poll says texas sees strength any on the electric grid is a bigger priority than the border. 51%-40%. >> it so volatile interest-rate. >> he runs his oil and gas company, he questions u.s. imports of outside oil. >> prices have increased, and so there's opportunity for the industry, but there's also a lot of challenges, and we need to have, you know, our elected leaders that are pro-energy. >> pro-energy can mean more than

oil. >> folks here in the industry are supportive of all forms of energy. at the end of the day the perspective i think is job creation. >> their share of electricity generation from renewables, especially wind, here in texas, has quadrupled over the past decade. it's about accounting, the energy industry is evolving. once heavily reliant on oil and gas extraction, some of that business has shifted to wind power and the tax revenue that comes with it. >> we welcome to the wind farm industries into our economies, and they seem to be very compatible with the oil and gas industries. >> in 2020 the county voted republican for the first time in a century. locals say that reflects concern for their livelihoods. >> president biden: we are talking about the americans leading the world and the clean energy field. >> the president makes comments, we all listen and certainly it can play a role on how we feel about moving forward. >> we found that concern across a lot of south texas.

>> when you're here on -- when you hear on tv that we need to go green and we need to leave our oil and gas industry behind because it's going to affect us in the future, i mean, you sort of put our backs against the wall. >> in south texas, rich edson, fox news. >> harris: panel, let's go again. charlie, i start with you as promised. is energy enough to win elections? >> i think without a doubt. not only do people feel it personally at the gas pump, and then of course, you know, the degree to which it affects inflation, but i also think that in sort of the larger geopolitical sense and all that we are discussing with ukraine, it has an enormous effect. we talk about sanctions, president biden put all of his eggs in the sanctions basket and that didn't prevent putin from invading ukraine. this is not about sanctions. this is about gas prices. this is about energy independence and when you have a

situation where you have an american president who has done everything that president biden has done to undercut our energy independence, you wind up with scenes from "mad max," the movie, which is what we are seeing in ukraine right now where you have bad people who are emboldened and enriched because we have given up our own energy independence, so much so to the point -- you have democrats writing letters urging opec to give us more gas. you have become gas beggars from some of the worst autocracies on the planet, which is -- and if you believe that we should be the policeman of the world -- and i don't -- but if you believe that, then we have to be strong, but you can't do it and then we can us. >> harris: last check with the energy department, we are still waiting to hear back in detail on this but they are our third largest supplier of russia in the united states. 595,000 barrels a day.

>> which is going directly to this effort. >> harris: of course. well, it's income for them while we are sanctioning them. i want to move quickly to the u.s. supreme court pick, judge ketanji brown jackson. jonathan turley, you wrote an amazing op-ed that says that politically speaking this is a deliverable from president biden, to whom? >> well, it's a deliverable first of all on his promise that he would only consider african american phenols, so that's one deliverable. but also the liberal groups, this was their top choice. they opposed judge childs because they viewed her as to moderate and tough on crime. and so it is a deliverable. interesting to see senator klobuchar say well, that's offensive. the democrats in the barrett nomination referred to her as a deliverable, actually accused her to her face of being put on the court to kill the aca and row and demanded that she make clear how she was going to vote,

crossing a major rubicon and confirmation proceedings. >> harris: juan. >> i don't think she's a deliverable. i understand why any closure might say that's an offensive term, because she is a highly qualified judge. without dispute, this woman has the experience, more experience than many already on the bench. she clerked for justice breyer, she is a mainstream jurist. i hear people say oh, affirmative action, that she's right wing fringe. even senator mcconnell said he would have no objection. you know, to black people out -- >> that's not true. there are critics on the right side of the aisle now. >> it's not fair -- i'm just saying not fair, harris. >> harris: possibly being considered for the job were less far to the left. >> consider history as a force here. to black people out of 115 people on the court in 230 years. never a woman. >> harris: got to run. debate was great, see you next sunday. a final word on the week ahead.

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