. >>> plus, we'll speak with senator bob menendez, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and congressman gerry connolly, who was recently at ukraine's border with poland about the growing crisis and what the u.s. can do about it. >>> and right now, the house intelligence committee is about to begin a worldwide threats hearing, where ukraine is set to be front and center. we'll bring you updates throughout the morning. >>> and happening right now in ukraine, as you can see, civilians evacuated on buses through a humanitarian corridor, to flee the ongoing violence in the northeastern city of sumi, where a cease-fire is now mostly holding, after another night of relentless shelling by russian forces. and while some people were able to flee through another corridor, near the southern city of mariupol, seen here, ukraine officials say there are reports of shelling by russian forces on an evacuation route there. ukrainian president zelenskyy said a child has died of dehydration, after the city was cut off from critical utilities and supplies. nbc news's richard engel has the l

joining us senator bob menendez, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. always a pleasure to see you, sir. just a reaction to what is now going into the second month of the russian invasion of ukraine. >> well, the butcher of moscow won't stop the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, won't stop trying to starve out cities in contravention of security resolution 2417 which russia voted for that says, when you prohibit humanitarian corridors from taking place and humanitarian access from taking place, it is a war crime. russia is committing under putin war crimes as defined by the very un senate resolution they voted for. the ukrainians have shown an incredible spirit, courage, the fight that they've taken to the russians is extraordinary. but people are still dying. and that's why i applaud the president for being with the nato leaders to figure out what else can be done both in terms of lethal assistance to ukraine, both in terms of sanctions and other elements against putin so that economic noose around his neck continues to tighten until they're asphyxi

joining us is democratic senator bob menendez, the chairman of the foreign relations committee.hanks for joining us. forgive me if i have to interrupt our sddiscussion to g live to the president. we keep hearing desperate pleas from ukraine for the u.s. and for our allies to do more. and revoking trade status is another way to put economic hurt on russia. so why is this bill stuck in the senate? >> well, ana, it's presently challenged by some of our republican colleagues who are insisting on amendments and/or changes in provisions that really, for the most part, don't go to the heart of the question, but are necessary to deal with in order to get to 60 votes so we can pass this by consent versus a prolonged process on the floor because time is of the essence. and i know that leader schumer is very much engaged. i just came from a meeting on some of these issues. and i think we will get there, hopefully, before the end of the week. >> there is a sense of urgency. and this bill passed the house by a vote of 424-8. that was two weeks ago. every day, innocent civilians are dying. th

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. >> el senador bob menéndez dijo; (información en pantalla). >> mientras la otan y amigos de ucraniaa tercera ronda de negociaciones entre rusia y ucrania será el lunes circula el video de ataque a la planta nuclear . >> también estados unidos urgió a los ciudadanos en rusia que abandonen el país de inmediato. >> el presidente de ucrania volodímir zelenski pidió un boicot al petróleo ruso esto viene después que la casa blanca solicitara al congreso 10 millones de dólares para ucrania, regresamos con ustedes a los estudios. >> muchas gracias por el informe y hoy siguen los bombardeos rusos en zonas residenciales y han muerto unas 17 personas y al oeste de kiev los blancos incluyeron hasta una escuela, vamos con los detalles. >> etgamos llegando a la ciudad que ha sido bombardeada en los últimos días a pesar que rusia anunióreve tregua la ciudad a 150 kilómetros del frente de kiev ha sido blanco de ataques y también a casa particulares. >> estamos delante de la principal escuela y aquí solían venir niños de todas las edades pero por suerte no hubo que lamentar víctimas y solo hubo pers

joining us live to discuss, bob menendez of new jersey, the chairman of the senate foreign relations xhae. i want to start by replaying a moment from president biden's state of the union address last night. >> i've made crystal clear the united states and our allies will defend every inch of territory that is nato territory with the full force of our collective power. every single inch. the ukrainians are fighting back with pure courage, but the next few days, weeks and months will be hard on them. >> mr. chairman, despite the courage of the ukrainian people, do you believe that ultimately they really just don't have much hope? the russians will prevail? >> i don't come to that conclusion, although they are facing what could be considered overwhelming odds. you know, i have seen the images on your channel and others as well as those sent to me about average ukrainians doing what your network just showed. people standing in the way of those very tanks, armored vehicles and what not, engaging russian soldiers themselves. of showing a russian soldier who is captured and who they actuall

we will go one on one with senator bob menendez and number three democrat in the house. congressman hakeem jeffreys. i am halle jackson in washington. our news team is here and around the world, cal perry in western ukraine. kara lee outside the white house, lee anne caldwell on capitol hill. cam, what is happening where are you is driving so much of the decision-making and the discussion here in washington and it will drive what we hear from president biden tonight. more tax from russians and this question of the ukranian resistance we've seen and how long it can really last. give us a gut check. >> reporter: right. so, look, in the east we have heavy fighting. that is the story coming out of the east. in the northeast city of kharkiv, we continue to see what has been the heaviest bombardment this far. a little further to the west a and the capital, an important strategic strike killing six civilians, at least. on the ukrainian teleinvestigation tower. since that strike, no news in the hotel, ukrainian teleinvestigation is down. that is a beg deal for a country getting

we had senator bob menendez, chair of foreign relations, on our show saying he's not ready to take thateginning to take matters into their own hands, bracing for bat where will they live and trying to prevent the russian soldiers from destroying their homes. lester holt is in the west of ukraine with more. >> reporter: they are preparing to defend their country one block at a time. this barricaded checkpoint being erected in a la vooef suburb not by soldiers or police but by civilian residents. >> we join to help our city. we don't want russian troops to come here. we need to defend our families, our womens, children. we are not here mill ta republican strategists. we are civilians doing everything how we can. >> reporter: he and his neighbors are stacking sand begs, cement walls and steel barriers as part of layered defenses to guard against vladimir putin's army protect not just their homes but homeland too. do you think it's the duty of every ukrainian to fight or to support the war? >> of course. >> reporter: checkpoints like this are being built with great urgency because there is

bob menendez talking about the fact the biden administration might replace russian oil with venezuelanld not breathe new life into their reign of torture and murder. the quinnipiac poll shows 71% of americans back the russian oil ban even if it meant further increasing gas prices. the biden administration is not willing to do it, i continuing comes down to the environmental groups, which means biden is more interested in campaign funds than saving money for the american people. >> todd: great point. these green new dealers missed the key point or they are making us miss the key point. solar and wind may help my home, how will that help my car? i can't drive on solar and wind, i need the stuff on the screen. what does biden do? sends out kamala and pete, but not focus on gas? that is like going on tv on super bowl sunday and talk about the following preseason, makes no sense. >> carley: average price of electric vehicle is $56,000. worry about $4 gas, buy an expensive car. >> todd: they don't live in reality, it is insane. >> carley: one tech company is undertaking full-scale effort to

joining me now is senate foreign relations committee chairman bob me nen december -- menendez. let me start with the next perhaps most realistic punishment we can inflict, a full oil embargo on russia. where are you on this? and is it something that's gaining traction? >> i support an embargo, even though it would equate to if it's just the u.s. alone, about 4% of russian sales globally. but i think it is an important step to make, and i think it is gaining traction. i think, you know, the president will have to look to the strategic petroleum reserve and other measures to offset any domestic challenges. but, look, an evil, horrible war needs some dramatic actions, and so i think this is one of many that can be taken. >> i don't know how much you were able to watch our previous segment sort of -- we now see what the russian military strategy is, and it's -- the initial strategy didn't work. this one is going to be costlier for him but perhaps more violent, more messy, more bloody. senator, it will be hard to sit here and watch, is it not? and to watch a slaughter, to watch that

. >> carley: and have democrats like ilhan omar and bob menendez, saying we don't want gas from saudibia either. more to come on that front. congress reached deal on $1.5 trillion government spending package, they were able to do that without a fight. 13.6 billion is going to help ukraine. do you support this spending and how exactly would that ukrainian aid money be used? >> well, as of yesterday morning at our conference meeting, we understood some would be used for weapons and to help the ukrainians, it would be used to help those who are fleeing the country and that is important. keep in mind, the package explained to us at conference yesterday, yes, that package i think we can support and i can support and it included the amendment and increase in defense spending f. none of that changed during the day and it remained same, i think that is something we can coalesce around. >> carley: there is a big conversation, back and forth going on about the mig fighter jets, developed overnight. do you have any thoughts on that? biden administration and pentagon saying they don't want fighte

now by the democratic senator, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez after the briefing you attended today, one of your colleagues, democratic senator chris murphy, said there will be new announcements, he said, from the biden administration soon on transfers of weapons. i wonder what you can share with us on the details of this upcoming announcement. >> well, wolf, i think the administration is doing everything possible to make sure that that which the ukrainians can use and can get speedily and can put into action quickly is going to either be supplied by the united states or transferred from a neighboring country to continue to help the ukrainians both deal with air defense questions as well as with all the other elements of stinger, javelin, and other lethal equipment. and i think that that's -- that will build upon the president's humanitarian announcement today. >> they really do need the antiaircraft, antitank, all those kinds of missiles. and they need tons of them. do you think they're going to get what they want? >> i think there is an overwh

capitol hill for a ban on russian oil imports production and democrats like pelosi, manchin and even bob menendez though it would equate to if it's just the u.s. alone about 4% of russian sales globally. but, i think it is an important step to make. and i think it is gaining traction. so i think we should stop russian oil. now how the president chooses to meet the challenge of that percentage of russian oil that quawlsz the entire oil of the united states that it imports is a question for him to decide. >> jesse: he is right. it's up to joe biden whether is he going to help americans pump more of our own oil. solution simple, you ban russian oil and gas imports, you cripple their economy and then you boost production of our own energy here at home. but the white house they still won't budge. biden happy to pay russian blood money and sock americans in the wallet. today, americans pay an average, are you ready? 3.84 a gallon. joining me now house minority leader kevin mccarthy. all right, soon-to-be speaker mccarthy, have you seen at these gas pumps people have been slapping joe biden's stickers n

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. >> another democrat bob menendez has said it is time to reinvigorate sanctions efforts against iran and pursue new solutions for a diplomatic resolution. bret? >> bret: rich, secretary blinken paid contribute to our fox colleagues wounded and killed in ukraine? >> he did, bret, this afternoon before taking questions, he spoke of ben and pierre and sasha. this is ben hall's office. this is his beat and secretary blinken says there should be a seat for him at today's briefing that he has gotten to know ben pretty well here. >> he is incredibly talented reporter. always asking tough questions. he is lovely person as well. our thoughts, my thoughts are with him and his family, including his three little kids. two of ben's fox news colleagues pierre and sasha were killed in the attack. and brent renaud a reporter on assignment with "time" magazine was killed in a separate attack a day earlier. >> he added he knows the reporters feel that loss deeply something that ned pryce has been saying through the week and a number of state department officials in this building, bret. >> bret: yeah,

we've got democrat senators including dick durbin, jon tester, bob menendez speaking out against the get oil from venezuelan iran. those countries murder and torture their own people. iran is security threat. president biden said maduro was security threat five days ago. hillary vaughn with more on capitol hill. reporter: liz, pipeline workers laid off after president biden on day one canceled the permit for the keystone xl pipeline are taking it personally. greg russell has worked in the industry for his entire life. he tells me puts the blame on biden for killing his job when he canceled keystone. >> i would have to say it was president biden because he is the one that signed it to kill all that. you killed my way of life. you're trying to do away with my career, my way of life. he was really gut-wrenching to know they had just with the stroke of a pen shut down all of this. reporter: even with gas prices on the rise and biden eyeing other countries to supplement supply the white house and some democrats on capitol hill insist reversing biden's decision on the keystone pipeline wou

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you were on with democratic senator bob menendez. you were both optimistic that congress could impose a bipartisan bill to impose sanctions. you didn't. of course, the administration has imposed a lot of sanctions on its own. is there something more you want congress to do? >> well, i would like to see, as both bob and i talked about at that time, we'd like to see more sanctions. from my standpoint, i'd like to see secondary sanctions on every bank in russia. i think that with what's going on there, we really can't be too tough on sanctions. we just really need to bring the hammer down. so i'd like to see more. the administration, of course, they have control of congress, and they've been very active in p persuading their party not to pass sanctions. they want to do it themselves through the administration. i get that. every administration wants to be in full control. obviously i think congress plays a role in this. i'd like to see some language passed through congress. we've struggled with it. we've made a good-faith effort, came ve

chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob menendez says for zelensky, it's another pleatunity to call upon congress to do even more and to continue to rally the world through. congress has already approved 13 and a half billion dollars worth of weapons and humanitarian aid. >> more by far than any other single nation. but there are 2 specific request. is made that the u.s. hasn't granted. >> i would expect that he will ask for the no fly zone again. and the multiple senators tell lost a no fly zone over ukraine is unlikely. >> that option puts american pilots in a direct war path with russia. obviously, if you have any confrontation between russian troops and american troops, that takes us to a new and a very, very dangerous level. but there seems to be strong bipartisan support for providing ukraine with make fighter jets. the top republican on the foreign relations committee tells us zelensky asking congress for makes again will pressure the white house to deliver. they've always said no to start with and then eventually do it. but look. >> when you're in the middle of

dick durbin called it a deal with the devil and bob menendez pointed out the u.s. doesn't recognize venezuela's government so should not be buying oil from the regime. republican study committee introduced yesterday a bill that would block the u.s. from buying oil from iran arguing the administration needs to focus instead on boosting domestic production. according to a "wall street journal" report the president might not be getting too much help from overseas anyway. they are reporting that saudi arabia and the uae declined the president's calls. dana. >> dana: i read that report last night and talk about that in a little bit. >> bill: russia is responsible is what the president said. hakeem jeffries was asked what will you do? >> we are going to see gas prices likely increase. voters are talking about how to deal with this issue. >> it hasn't come up. >> dana: the issue didn't come up in the caucus. there was a meeting of all democrats yesterday and saying it didn't come up. there is a consistent thing for the white house when you poll americans they'll say do yo

bob menendez said we don't recognize venezuela's government and not be asking them to produce more oil. omar had a statement about leaning on saudi arabia because of the human tara crisis in yemen and republicans agree. >> negotiating with madmen is not a good look. that's exactly what we're doing. this administration does not -- either they have -- again, this is a reckless disregard for reality. >> the president is heading to texas today but not for anything having 20 do with oil. he will talk about burn pits. there is no white house briefing today because of his travel. the last time the energy secretary came into the white house briefing was all the way back on november 23rd. dana. >> dana: thank you so much, jackie. speaking of the energy secretary she was asked about high energy prices well before russia invaded ukraine on november 5. here is what she said. >> what is the grand holme plan to increase oil production in america. hill areas. would that i had the magic wand on this. >> dana: hilarious. she has taken it back. she had come into the briefing room and got sober minded bu