to those people try me out. believe it there. congresswoman vast, great to see you back in the house. thank you all for >> bret: i'm bret baier. breaking today, russian air strikes had a military training center near poland's border president biden issues a stark warning. ♪ ♪ >> president biden: we will not fight a war against russia in ukraine. the right confrontation between being nato and russia is world war iii. >> bret: russian forces advanced, pushing their offensive west, fueling ukrainian leaders calls for more support while u.s. officials worn possible dangerous new false flag attacks. >> we have serious concerns that russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the ukrainian people.

>> bret: we will have live reports on the ground with the latest and the plight of millions forced to flee. >> we hope that this nightmare will end as soon as as possible. >> bret: we will speak with deputy secretary of state wendy sherman, who is leading the biden administration's strategic dialogue with russia. wendy sherman, only on "fox news sunday." plus, lawmakers blast the bite in the ministrations plans to restore the iran nuclear deal as russia stalls negotiations over sanctions. >> it is absolutely stunning that this deal is being negotiated by two of our worst enemies on the planet. >> bret: we will ask senator jim risch, the topper republican on the senate foreign relations committee, about the ripple effect in the war on ukraine on global security and it too is a fox news exclusive. then americans face surging prices on groceries, cars, clothing, and homes. in the white house shifts its messaging on those eye-popping

gas prices. >> president biden: people already feeling putin's price hikes is like the pump. >> bret: we will ask us undependable the practical and political cost of rising inflation. all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ and hello again from fox news in washington. you're looking live at western ukraine, where russian forces have escalated attacks, striking a military base near the polish border and bring in the war closer to nato's doorstep where the u.s. has dispatched soldiers and refugees have fled harm's way. russia has worn it sees u.s. weapons shipments to ukraine as a "legitimate target," but the white house is sending another $200 million in military aid after three weeks of brutal attacks. in a moment we will speak with deputy secretary of state wendy sherman. but we begin with fox team coverage. mike tobin and levee lviv.

first to benjamin hall on the ground in kyiv where leaders remain defiant. benjamin. >> good morning, bret. in a very significant strike this morning by russian forces just 12 miles from the polish border they were striking at a large ukrainian military facility and they have 35 people dead. that is the largest, biggest loss of life since this conflict began in a single strike. the target had been a former nato training facility, which housed u.s. troops until just a few weeks ago. yesterday russia said that arms shipments will be targeted and aid and thought this attack was an attempt to cut off that supply weapons. meanwhile, there has been repeated shelling overnight on the outskirts of the capital kyiv. still though no major push to put into the city itself. the concern now though is with other cities where grounding patience are faltered, the russians will resort to indiscriminate shelling. president zelensky earlier warning against it. >> if they kill all of us, then

they will enter kyiv. if this is the goal, then let them enter, but they will end up leaving a lot of this land, certainly without us. they will not find friends among us. >> ukrainian forces have had significant success ambushing russian convoys, largely thanks to the u.s. javelin antitank missiles that have come in, but it's also because the russian army has performed poorly, it's a quit and it is old, it's tactics outdated. instead they have been relying on overwhelming force. in some of the smaller cities and towns that russia does control, now they're trying to put in place a civil governance of their own i'm a kidnapping one mayor and replacing him with errors while also pushing to set up breakaway states in the south. but even there they are facing resistance, hundreds of people coming out and protesting the new occupation, a reminder that they will never tolerate russian rule. meanwhile, the siege of major cities continue with hundreds of thousands still stuck without water, food, heating, medicine.

the mayor says over 1500 people have died in that city alone while other smaller towns and cities to resist have been totally destroyed. on the diplomatic front, they say they're willing to negotiate but they will not surrender. president macrina france and presidential spoke with putin just yesterday seeking a 24-hour cease-fire, they couldn't get even that. now president zelensky saying he hopes israel might be able to mediate between the two countries, possibly hosting talks in jerusalem. bret. >> bret: benjamin hall reporting from kyiv, thank you. earlier we took a look at russia's latest maneuvers with fox news strategic analyst general jack keane. general jack keane, thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >> bret: a look at what's happened over the last 24 hours, there is still this big movement in the south and yet kyiv is still the focus. overnight though, general, the big focus was out west in these strikes, one of them just miles from the polish border.

significant? >> they begin to open up a campaign in the west here after two weeks of the war, which has largely been focused in the east and the north and the south and on the east side of ukraine. and this is about taking control of this area eventually, but they are starting with an aerial bombardment campaign certainly very close to the polish border here. it's well established that a lot of our re-supplies for the ukrainians coming through poland and also through romania. eventually they are going to interdict those supplies coming in here. >> bret: there's another airfield here and another appear that was hit over the past basically 36 hours. >> the ukrainians have still 56 airplanes left and most of them are partitio positioned in the . another reason for the bombing campaign. >> bret: taking a look at kyiv here. this is the central city but it seems that this is the russian forces coming down. there's also a big movement this way, right? >> yeah, there's two.

right. and where they are is right at the outskirts of the city now and it's taken them -- it's taken them almost two weeks to get there. the purpose of that is on the northwest side in the northeast side of the city, the purpose is really to encircle the city, to go around the city as the circle would indicate and they are bringing their artillery forward and once they get that artillery in position around the city, they'll begin to hammer it. as soon as it's in range they will start to hammer it, but it will be consistent and persistent once they encircle the city and this is the russian way of war. their intent here is to slaughter the people that are inside of it and get it capitulation out of zelenskyy. without having to go into the city. >> bret: the same thing they're doing in the south. >> exactly. >> bret: this is crimea, we saw the forces move out from here but in mariupol, that same

philosophy is happening? >> yeah. mariupol is under siege, they've shut up all the water, they shut off the power, they shut off food coming into the city and mariupol is key because it's establishing a land bridge to crimea. >> bret: all the way down. >> it cuts off ukrainians access to the sea. over here. what they are attempting to do is make sure that the entire black sea is cutting off. i don't know why my finger doesn't work. >> bret: they are trying to get the coast. >> this is going to be a major r operation there we are weeks away because they want to come by land and they also want to come by sea with naval infantry. >> bret: this is -- we are seeing a lot of different activity. i want to take you to a bigger map here. you talk about what's coming in and the effort to interdict it. that is going to start happening here? >> yeah, there's no doubt about that. they know full well that the roads from poland and the roads

from romania are the sources of the resupply that is sustaining the ukrainians. these arms and munitions are the lifeline for ukrainian military. if that gets shut down, it's likely the ukrainians are going to have real problems. >> bret: quickly i want to take it to another place and this is iraq in the kurdish region. u.s. consulate hit overnight by 12 rockets fired we believe from inside iran, that is a provocative action. >> here we are negotiating a deal with the iranians as we speak and this is the fallacy of that deal. the deal does not cover iran's malign behavior. here's an indication of that malign behavior and it doesn't cover their prohibition on ballistic missiles. why are they firing his missiles here? because they want the united states out of iraq and they want to put -- they want to create a violent situation where the legislature and the government at some point makes a decision to ask the americans to leave. the iranians have confidence about this. why?

because we gave up seven military bases and three cia bases east of iran in afghanistan, and they want us out west of iran. >> bret: it's going to be fascinating to watch. fortunately no one killed their very general, think he was always. >> great being here with you. >> bret: joining us now live, deputy secretary of state wendy sherman. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> would to be with you. >> bret: want to start about ukraine but i want to start where i left off with general keane. 12 u.s. missiles fired on the u.s. consulate from inside iran. just in the past few minutes iran is now claiming responsibility for that attack. what is the reaction to that, and is there going to be a response? >> secretary sherman: this was a very concerning attack as general keane pointed out. indeed we do not believe that the consulate was actually the target of this missile attack. we are very glad that our facilities are secure, that everybody is accounted for, that

no one has been hurt or killed, but all of that said, this is great concern. there will indeed be a statement i'm sure coming out shortly as well as calls in. this was an attack on iraq's sovereignty among other things and of great concern to all of us. we will be following this closely. >> bret: argues that we have u.s. personnel there who work and live there and as you mentioned, no casualties as of yet that we've heard of. but at the same time the u.s. is closing in on this nuclear deal with iran. is that true? is a close? >> secretary sherman: well, i think it's close and we would like all of the parties, including russia, which has indicated its got some concerns, to bring this to a close. you know, we are very concerned about what iran is doing but imagine these iranians with a nuclear weapon. we need to get that off the table so we can address their malign behavior in the middle east, and we will do all of the above, but first we've got to get this deal and it is not yet closed.

>> bret: madam secretary, you can understand the disconnect for the average american watching is happening as we are sitting at a table not only with the iranians, but the russians in vienna, we are getting fired upon by iran. you're saying the target wasn't the u.s. consulate, but that's where it ended up. help people get -- square this circle, because it doesn't seem like a lot of people think that we should be doing that. >> secretary sherman: it's hard to understand. i appreciate that. but here's the deal. if iran has a nuclear weapon, its ability to project power into the middle east and to deter us, our allies, and partners, is enormous. so president biden believes very strongly, as does secretary blink and, as i, that we need to make sure that iran never obtains an aware weapon, and then we also need to deal with their malign behavior in the region. but first we've got to make sure that they cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. >> bret: i just have two more quick questions. do you think that this deal is as good as the 2015 deal? you were a part of that as well.

>> secretary sherman: i think we don't know yet. it is not closed, it is not finished, we are urging all parties to do what they need to, and there's a lot of onus on iran to decide whether in fact it wants to move forward or not, come into compliance and ensure that iran never has a nuclear weapon. >> bret: and regardless of whether the deal is reached or not, is there a plan to deal with iran's regional behavior? proxies, terrorism, fighting these missile drones, whether there's a deal with removing sanctions are not? >> secretary sherman: absolutely. very high priority working with our partners and allies in the region to do exact with that. >> bret: okay, and last thing, there is reporting that two iranians belonging -- have been plotted to assassinate former national security advisor john bolton. according to the justice department, and this is the "washington examiner" reporting that the department possesses indictable evidence against the iranians with a bite biden demonstration resisting publicly indicting the men for fear that it could derail their drive for

the nuclear deal with iran, currently nearing completion in vienna. do you know that to be true? >> secretary sherman: what i know to be true is that we have a responsibly to protect american citizens from harm, we do that every single day, and that is true of all present and past american officials, and that is our highest priority. >> bret: but nothing's being held back? >> secretary sherman: nothing is being held back, we are going to protect americans wherever they are, however we can. >> bret: adam secretary, now to ukraine. new strikes tonight in the west, just miles from a polish border, the death toll now at 35, 135 wounded, nothing nato or the u.s. is done so far has stopped vladimir putin. how does this and? >> secretary sherman: well, right now it looks like it ends very badly already for the ukrainian people. i think we all spend every day just horrified at the suffering of the american people, as your report on the ground discussed.

it is just awful, particularly in mariupol where people are either going to starve to death or freeze to death or die because they don't have the medicine, it is truly horrifying. if there are two objectives that we have. one is to support ukraine in every way we can and indeed since the biden the administration began, we have put $1.2 billion forward in security assistance to help ukraine defend itself against this horrible attack. and the second is to put in norma's pressure on vladimir putin to try to change his calculus to end this war, to get a cease-fire, to get humanitarian corridors, and to end this invasion. that pressure is beginning to have some effect, we are seeing some signs of a willingness to have real serious negotiations, but i have to say, as your reporter said, so far it appears that vladimir putin is intent on destroying ukraine. we need to help ukrainians in every way we can. >> bret: madam secretary,

everyone is wary of world war iii, president biden mentioned that the other day but on capitol hill there are now more and more lawmakers seeming to say that they are tired of giving putin the upper hand here, at least publicly. here is senator mitt romney. >> president putin has actually said the things we are doing are provocative. he's already said that the sanctions we put in place are like declaring war. he's going to continue saying that, and we are fearful of provoking him. it's time for him to be fearful of us. >> bret: so is there a way to flip the script here? >> secretary sherman: i think we've already started to flip that script, bret. i think that $1.2 billion in security assistance, antitank, antiarmor, antiaircraft, is really helping ukraine to resist the onslaught of what your reporter said is a army of russia where putin very badly miscalculated how this war would go. it is nonetheless horrifying for the ukrainian people, and so we

want to support them in every way we possibly can, and we want to support everyone's efforts, coordinated with united states, to try to mediate and end this terrible, terrible situation. >> bret: you're saying support them in every way but the make 29 situation comedies jets from poland, really seem to be a mixed message. republicans are not talking about that openly, criticizing the of administration. here is senator tom cotton. take a listen. >> they are saying on the one hand ukraine is on effectively using its current aircraft and can't effectively use this aircraft, so the games would be very small but on the other hand vladimir putin is going to you view this as such an escalation that he might strength united states or strike nato. both of those things can't be true. >> the ukrainians don't need applause, they need jets. >> they want them, get them. of >> bret: if the ukrainian say these do want these, whether we assess that they are good or not from the battlefield, why not get them that?

>> secretary sherman: so look, if i were president zelenskyy, i would want everything and anything i could possibly get, so i understand this. at the however made an assessment that trying to move these planes was very complicated, that backfilling them was virtually impossible, that what ukrainians really needed were antiaircraft, antitank, and antiarmor weapons, which is what we are supplying them in great measure and coordinating with other countries to do the same, so i understand the frustration and one of the things i think has been really terrific in this horrifying situation is there has been bipartisan support for ukraine. i'm really grateful that congress recently passed the legislation to provide an additional $200 million in drawdown that secretary antony blank signed out yesterday, so this is a bipartisan effort at this security conference, there was a strong bipartisan delegation in support of ukraine and there is that kind of support on capitol hill, which i

think sends an important signal not only to ukraine, but to putin, that he can't divide america, he can't divide nato, he can't divide europe, he can't divide the world. 141 countries signed up to a resolution at the u.n. general assembly denouncing what vladimir putin is doing. this is one man's choice to wage a premeditated, unjust, unprovoked war against a sovereign country. we can't let it stand. >> bret: quickly, has the russia-china relationship suffered or strengthened as a result of this invasion? >> secretary sherman: i think that's an open question yet, bret, to be perfectly honest. we sell russia and china come closer together certainly before the olympics, putting out a long manifesto about their partnership and how they were going to move forward together and at the same time, we'd seen china pretty uncomfortable with an invasion of a sovereign country, china has the people's republic of china has often said that sovereignty is key

territorial integrity is key, that countries should decide their own political future. we agree with those principles. we hope that china does as well. you know, in two weeks, in two weeks vladimir putin undid 30 years of economic development. there was an international order that china and russia both subscribe to that helped both countries developed. for russia, that is now gone. we are seeing them be taken out of every organization. the president is going to move forward with the congress on removing them from most favored nation status at the wto, the world trade organization. i think the prc is watching very closely, has to make some tough decisions. >> bret: but yet they are sounding very bold, madam secretary. just yesterday china warned that any country supporting taiwan militarily would face "the worst consequences" adding no one, no force, would be able to stop the

party if it attacks taiwan. if that does not sound positive. so the last question i have for you, has russia's invasion changed china's calculus when it comes to taiwan? >> secretary sherman: i hope that china is looking very carefully at what's happening. we have a united world with a very grave very consequential sanctions on russia. we understand and support a 1-china policy, but we don't believe that china, prc, ought to take taiwan by force, and we will do everything we can to deter that effort by the prc, and i think they're watching very closely. in fact, i think they made that statement, bret, because they've seen what's happened and they are trying to go on the offense knowing that they ought to be on the defense. >> bret: secretary sherman, thank you, thanks for your time this week in. >> secretary sherman: thank you. >> bret: coming up, we will get reaction from senator jim rush, the topper republican on

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provide the nuclear deal with iran as russia tries to push back on sanctions. joining us now from boise, idaho, senator jim rush, ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, welcome back to "fox news sunday." thanks, bret, good to be with you again. >> bret: senator, you just heard deputy secretary sherman. let's start with iran and what's happening with that deal. what's your sense of this? >> senator risch: you know, sitting here listening to this, i feel like the administration is living an alternative universe from where we are. i mean, i heard wendy try to excuse the iranians that well they didn't really intend to shoot at our embassy there in iraq. what else were they shooting at? they fired seven missiles out of iran into iraq that hit near where our -- a nuke construction they're doing on an embassy there. i mean, this is -- this is

nonsense. and then it sounds like it had exactly the effect that the iranians wanted. they hit the dash fired these missiles at u.s. installation, and now wendy is saying we need to get signed as quick as possible. that got them exactly what they wanted it sounds like to me. thisnistration briefing congress about where they are on that, te not. they promised they would, they haven't. look, they know they are out of touch with congress. it would be nice if they would brief us. this was an awful deal when it was made the first time around. what we are hearing and we are getting only leakage, going to be worse this time than what it was. you've got to remember what's happening here. you've got a room that the iranians are sitting at the table, the russians and the chinese are in there, they don't even let the u.s. delegation in that room. they are sitting at the kids table out in the hall peeking through the keyhole to see what's going on, so you've got

the iranians and the russians negotiating a deal for us. i mean, what could possibly go wrong here? this stuff -- this is surreal. >> bret: you can't do anything, republicans can't do anything about it on capitol hill. >> senator risch: there's no question about that. they refuse, just as the obama administration did, to submit it to congress as required by the constitution to be submitted as a treaty. if indeed it was submitted as a treaty and we voted on it, there would be ideal. there is no deal. even if the bite in signs, they have what's called an executive agreement with iran. it will not last -- past the next or republican that's elected just as the last deal didn't last the minute that the republicans took over. look, if you're going to get this done, everybody needs to get together on this and we need to have a deal with his livable and a good deal.

this isn't even close. >> bret: how do you stop vladimir putin without starting world war iii? >> senator risch: well, there's no doubt you always have to keep in mind you don't want to escalate to direct confrontation with russia. i wouldn't call it world war iii. i think of the thing did get away there, i think it would end pretty quickly because with the conventional forces that he's had there, you know, we haven't seen this kind of ineptness in a long, long time, so i'm not as concerned about that. i think you always have to -- you always have to be wary of that, but look, the administration has projected weakness throughout this, it's been too little, too late from the beginning. remember, everything that we've tried to do they said no and eventually they say yes, and that started with the sanctions, it started with giving them stinger missiles. it they said no and then when

our allies stepped up and gave stingers than they said okay. the same thing with the javelin antitank weapons. when our allies stepped up they said yes. if you project weakness with these people you're going to have a real problem. that's going on with both iran and with russia right now and it is a serious situation. we need them to project some strength. >> bret: senator, there are some in europe party who think that some of the sanctions are having a reverberation on americans in the middle of the country. and that we need to have kind of a cost basis analysis for what we're doing before we levy these things. how do you respond to that? >> senator risch: look, we've been doing the sanctions for a long time, and there is collateral damage sometimes from the sanctions, but the sanctions are usually not broad blanketed, they have what are called waivers in them where you can put them on surgically.

but you always have to be concerned about that when you're putting on sanctions that you're not shooting yourself in the foot when you do it. this is a -- a delicate operation and it's watched very carefully. it is not painting with a broad brush, it's not shooting with a shotgun, it is very targeted, very much a shot with a rifle. >> bret: there are some former military folks, generals, who have written an open letter to call for a no-fly zone. it says we the undersigned urged the biden administration together with nato allies to impose a limited no-fly zone over ukraine, starting with protection for humanitarian corridors, corridors, that are agreed upon. is that feasible or is that too dangerous and crosses the line where you're going to have confrontation? >> senator risch: well, it's feasible, but there are dangers involved with that. this is another thing that we've

been pushing the administration on for some time. the ukrainians can pretty much put up their own no-fly zone if you supply them with the missiles that we have that the allies have, surface-to-air missiles. remember, the russians do this, they supplied it to the eastern ukrainian breakaways, and they brought down an airliner with it, as you remember. they brought down immolation airliner some time ago in the stingers are too light. they only go to about 15,000 feet, they are not quite fast enough. they do some good. the patriots are too big, you know, the launch system is about 5 billion, each shot is about a million, but there's a lot of stuff in between that are intermediate that the ukrainians could use to inflect their own no-fly zone, particularly -- particularly in the west part of the country.

>> bret: senator, you voted against the omnibus. >> senator risch: i did. >> bret: and in there is the aide for ukraine. so you're talking but aid going to ukraine, but you voted against that. defend that vote. >> senator risch: the problem -- if it was just that straight up boat this would have been an absolute no-brainer for me. i support that 100%, i have, but the other pork that they had in there, and numerous other things -- for instance, there is a piece in there that most americans don't realize, it brings back earmarks, for crying out loud. we fought for years to get rid of those earmarks. in addition to that, there was some gun legislation that was included in that that a couple of the gun lobby's were very much against. there were some provisions in there that a number of the pro-life group we are against. whenever we have these doggone big bills, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. i hope that no one would take this is not being a support for the ukrainian people, the

ukrainian war. >> bret: senator, we appreciate your time, have to leave it there. >> senator risch: always good to be with you, thanks so much for having me. >> bret: up next, they leave their homes behind bringing only what they can carry. we will go back to ukraine for the latest on the dangerous trek millions are making to escape harm. plus, we will bring in our sunday grip on the biden administration's response to the war. ♪ ♪

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she has only what she could carry and hasn't thought about a new home. >> we are just leaving now. we will search when we get there. >> the exodus of refugees has slowed, but not stopped. highways remain jammed, buses are packed. crossings over ukraine's western border operate at capacity. on the platform of the lviv central plane station -- train station, the arduous journey proved too much for an elderly person, another victim of latter may boudin's decision to invade. a lot of the people in the crowds are people who have been stuck in a bomb shelters for days and they finally had a chance to make a break for it. >> she was running straight to the station and she injured her leg. you could even see her bone. >> she survived world war ii with her daughters and her grandchildren. she spent 11 days in a bomb shelter until they could flee. and then it was struck.

>> we woke up because we heard that something was exploding outside. >> they fled again with only the family cat, there coats are all donated by aid organizations. the men stayed to fight. she is hopeful she will see her husband again. and hopeful in the violence ends the people of ukraine see a fresh start. >> we are russian speaking people. it is strange to hear that somebody come to us to liberate us, so why are you killing your own people? >> they come here hoping it is safer than the east of the country, but the west has now seen three air strikes in three days, the most recent this morning, just want to miles from here, killing 35 people, just 6s stationed in poland. the mayor posted a message asking the u.s. and nato rhetorically, do you now understand that war is closer than you imagined. bret.

>> bret: mike tobin reporting live from lviv. thank you. time now for our sunday group. fox news correspondent steve harrigan. former republican congressman jason jay fitz, "usa today" washington bureau chief -- ann marie hart. it's good to have you in studio, all of you. and especially you, steve. just back a few days from ukraine. you've been to a lot of war zones for us and for others. put this in context. >> it is a movie i've seen before. it's a bad movie. 20 years ago when i got started in chechnya, putin surrounded the capital and he used the verb rubble before. they are rubbling cities. so they rubbled until everyone was dead or left and every day we are waiting, data file, did it fall? they put us in an armored vehicle, drive us in, you pop out, you look around, it looks like the moon. kyiv good look like the moon in six months.

i don't see what's going to stop it. he's done it before, i've seen how this ends. >> bret: we just are deputy secretary of state wendy sherman, susan, talking bout how do you stop putin and right now it's the international get together to try to sanction him, to affect him on the ground, but it does not seem like it's moving. >> you know first i think we should recognize what an incredible job the ukrainian people have done. in productions beforehand it was that kyiv would fall in 1-5 days. we are into week 3 of this war but there is no expectation among u.s. officials that russia will not prevail in terms of taking control of a great part of ukraine, that's going to open a different kind of conflict there. we are going to have a different role, the of trainings we assume will move to insurgency, questions about the government we recognize and where they will be. i think that is the planning that is now going on within united states government and the capitals in europe. >> bret: jason, new poles from

cbs out about the president's handling of the situation. approval march 1st 41%, but now he's ticked up to 46% in this latest poll. sanctions are russia's oil and gas, 77%, that's a lot of support in america despite the fact we are feeling it at the pump. >> every american needs the president and the vice president to be doing well and when things are going on overseas if no time to just be throwing political barbs for the sake of politics. but i think americans are frustrated. why weren't more stringent sanctions put in place before? why are we so hesitant to sanction russian oil? how was it that we are still buying russian oil and not developing u.s. assets? the president at the state of the union talked about buy america, buy america, buy america but doesn't want to buy american energy. there are american jobs and things that can help europe and help the situation by being pro-american energy.

>> bret: marie, you heard senator romney say he is sick of hearing that we are afraid of putin, that he needs to be afraid of us, but there is that balancing act because getting in a war with russia directly changes the dynamic. >> it does. and president biden has led the world in this economic isolat isolation. we haven't seen this since the cold war. i think this will have an incredible impact on his people, to be on government officials, on people like oligarchs who have some power or some leverage with putin. that's the goal. but that's not an immediate solution, and so the challenge is to find ways we can support them militarily that don't escalate, that don't get to it world war iii or even a direct confrontation with russia. there's no magic bullet mothers no, you know, one plane or weapon we could give them that would do that and i think this is a real inflection point for nato. you know, nato is committed to defending its members, but we haven't figured out how we can

defend nonnato members that are threatened by the soviet -- excuse me -- look at that slip of the tongue there, by russia. whether it's georgia, whether it's ukraine, we are at a real inflection point for this alliance that was formed to counter then the soviet union that we are seeing vladimir putin try to reconstitute. >> bret: speaking of nato, article five means that we have to come to the aid of anybody under attack. these missiles at this base are just 12 miles from the border with poland. one errant strike and suddenly we've ticked up article five. >> that's right. keep in mind the forces that are arriving on both sides now. volunteers from around the world, and fight with us, no regulation, no governance. putin says he's bringing 16,000 from the middle east, there will be atrocities in this war. >> bret: susan, it does seem like the bad actors in the world seem embolden. if you have iran firing missiles on our base, our consulate in

iraq even though the of administration is saying it was not targeted for that. you have china with this very aggressive statement about taiwan just yesterday and you have a russia that's not stopping. i mean, why is this happening? >> does china's attitude towards taiwan get -- it doesn't make them easier to take action against taiwan because they see russia moving it or does it get harder because they see the united u.s. response to it? the rhetoric on taiwan i think is been very concerning to a lot of american officials. the iranian attacks, you know, there are reports from the region this attack was targeting actually israeli facilities, not the u.s. consulate. i don't think that matters to the people who are working in the u.s. consulate whether the missile was actually aimed at them or not, it's one more obstacle to this iranian deal, which is already been stalled, announced on friday even before this attack, a pause on talks, maybe we are seeing a new arrangement of the world getting

organized in which some of these forces, china, russia, iran, are going to be more of a problem than they have been even in the past. maybe it's meant to be a situation where the rest of the world is more united against them. >> bret: jason. >> the president does need to lead an effort to make sure the world is united. i think the effort has been leading from behind. i don't see president biden out there in front of this making sure that we are bringing that united coalition and making it as painful as possible on putin, making sure that they're talking tough and doing things about china. it seems as if we are reactionary, not being proactive enough. >> bret: i had senator dan sullivan on "special report" this week talking about that russia-china relationship. take a listen. >> these two dictators are increasingly working together. i think we're going to see more of that soon. you know, china has been putting on this notion of neutrality. i think it's going to be pretty clear soon that they are more of a coconspirator in ukraine.

>> bret: secretary sherman said it is still not certain how china is going to fall, but its concern and what they are doing and saying. >> it's concerning, but i agree that it's not certain and we should not assume that they would just support moscow. i think that beijing and leaders in china actually think the international system can be used to their advantage. they don't want to blow up the international system, whereas putin does. he's thumbed his nose is every -- at every international effort to bring him back in line with application so i don't think we should assume that about china we should have right now and intense diplomatic effort to try and bring china away from moscow. there's other countries we have to work on too, the gulf states, the uae, israel has had a close relationship with russia, india, so there was a diplomatic -- there should be i hope a diplomatic sort of full-court press going on around the world for countries that have those ties to russia, to pull them away, especially after steve mentioned, you see these atrocities, how can you defend that? >> bret: but steve, the prospect of sitting at a table

with putin right now negotiating even if china is at the table just doesn't seem like it's happening. >> stop treating putin like is a president, he's a thug. >> bret: we will leave it there. panel, we have to take a break. when we come back, why are gas prices so high? depends on who you ask, we will explore that next. ♪ ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ crossed the desert's bare, man. ♪ ♪ i've breathed the mountain air, man. ♪ ♪ of travel i've had my share, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere. ♪ ♪ i've been to: pittsburgh, parkersburg, ♪ ♪ gravelbourg, colorado, ♪ ♪ ellensburg, cedar city, dodge city, what a pity. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere. ♪

>> president biden: the second big reason for inflation is vladimir putin. from the moment he put his over 150,000 troops on the ukrainian border, the price of gasoline in january went up $0.75. >> bret: president biden telling house democrats at a retreat on friday who he thinks is to blame for surging gas prices. meantime, "the wall street journal" has a couple of falls. biden's approval for handling inflation, 34% according to this poll. on the overall job approval he stands at 42%, which is a little

bit of an uptick. and then on the midterms, the question about congressional preference, republican 46, democrat 41. jason, that line that it's putin that's behind the uptick, obviously we can point back to before this invasion where it was all going up. how does it sell politically? >> it isn't going anywhere because there's no basis in fact for it. government spending, the federal reserve, they are the ones that are responsible for inflation and the fact that on day one joe biden shut down and more, he shut down keystone pipeline, he shut down our ability to expand developing energy products on federal lands and whatnot, that is all on joe biden. they wanted higher gas prices in order to prove the case for their green new deal. it had nothing to do with putin. it's making it worse, but that's not where it started end of joe biden wants to reverse course, he can open up energy production in the united states and he can fight inflation by

curbing u.s. spending. if >> bret: how big a political volatility is the gas prices and the feeling at home that you're paying more for food and anything else? >> it's a huge vulnerability and it's real. we all feel it. if about a third of that inflation is energy related. that's why you hurt president biden announce in the state of the union that he's opening up the strategic oil reserves. we produced plenty of oil and other kinds of energy here in this country. they are going to be making that case. look, he wants to make the case ahead of the midterms about what they've done to rebuild the economy and there is some good economic news. combined with some bad economic news. so it's getting the good news in front of people, but that's hard. as you know, when you go to the pump and things are more expensive. i think they're going to try to do some things, the fed will take action this week i think on interest rates which is supposed to help but president biden can't do a whole lot to address inflation. that's the reality. >> bret: yeah, the energy question, steve. when you have the administration going out to venezuela, going out to iran, this iran nuclear deal, looking for oil, it is a tough story to tell for them.

>> it's going to anger a lot of people in florida too. i talked to my brother yesterday, he said he filled his tank in tennessee, knoxville, $90 for his truck, so i said for ukraine or gas prices and he said heck with ukraine. so the longer this goes on, the higher prices go, support will change. >> bret: does that reverberate on the bike demonstration do you think? >> definitely. he said -- they are looking for a slogan, he said thanks biden, so it's made for the republicans, that slogan. >> bret: here's congressman sean patrick maloney. take a listen. >> our agenda is extremely popular in the question is if they agree with us, why don't they like us more. and we spent a bunch of time talking but attributes in addition to issues, that we need to address the most urgent needs of the american people, they need to know we are doing it and we need to be fighting like hell every day for the things that matter in people's lives and we need to talk like real people. >> bret: talk like real

people, susan and they know, democrats do, talking on the hill, that there's an uphill battle head into november. >> democrats have been looking for a reset. there were looking for a reset during the state of the union address two weeks ago. i think that did not succeed in resetting some of president biden's problems. you saw at the meeting with house democrats in philadelphia that biden addressed them but did not outline what they should be trying to do in the united way this year to try and pass more legislation on the hill that will deliver results for people. you really get the sense that they are braced for the worst possible outcome in november. things sometimes change, we are still nine months away, but it is a tough time for democrats looking at november. >> bret: meantime, republicans, former president trump had a big rally last night, he talked again about the 2020 election. meantime, former attorney general bill barr has been out talk about his book. he said this about republicans and maga.

>> i would also say that the make america great again movement has to mature. people were very angry in 2016, they didn't like the smug elite, and the excess of the media and of the progressives and in some ways, trump was there -- you know, a wrecking ball. we are going to take a wrecking ball to these people. and he did disrupt the momentum of the left and i give him credit for that, but to make america great again requires more than that, and it requires a more decisive victory. >> bret: all right, there's bill barr. we will come back another time, congressman. thanks, panel, see you next sunday. up next, a final word on the week ahead. ♪ ♪ brightest minds in medicine, this is the only healthcare system in the country with five nationally ranked hospitals, including two world-renowned academic medical centers, in boston, where biotech innovates daily

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