connell mcshane in poland. we begin with trey yingst in that capital city under assault. at all times 24 hours a day by russian forces, the capital city of kyiv. trey. >> good morning. fighting erupted overnight at this nuclear power plant. a city in the southern part of the country. officials say no radioactive material was released it took russian shelling and small arms fire. russian forces have seized the plant known as being the largest in europe. the incident left the international community on edge with concerns that clashes were taking place so close to radioactive material. with the russians now in control they will be able to weaponize and leverage this facility that supplies ukraine with 25% of its energy. the u.s. embassy put out a tweet saying it's a war crime to attack the nuclear power plant and putin's shelling of europe's largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. >> russian people i want to appeal to you how is it possible after all we fought together against the chernobyl catastrophe consequences? tell your authorities, go to the

neil: thank you, connell and again, thank you for that incredible reporting., take it all in, that's important that's important, we forget that connell mcshane, safely back here in the united states. enis elson joins us the ukrainian parliament member, and jumping for joy on these latest offers of more weapons for her beautiful country to help fight the russians, i don't know, but she's here now to talk about that. you know, always good to have you and thanks for coming back. you might have heard from president biden a promise of more military support, but not the kind of air support, i know, president zelenskyy was seeking earlier today or that you've been talking about for many days what do you think? >> well, some kind of no-fly zone is still crucially essential for us . it's basically like this. if we don't cover our sky in one way or another, all the other weapons will be great but they will not save us from the massive bombardment from air that the russians are continuing to do. just about 40 minutes ago, we learned that the russians and yet another air

connell mcshane doing great work on the polish border there. in robert o'brien, former national security secretary. great to have you with us. great to have you in person. >> thank you. >> martha: i want to start by playing this sound bite from president zelensky who has captured the hearts of people across the world. here he is earlier. >> we have proven our strength. we have proven that at a minimum, we are exactly the same as you are. so do prove that you are with us. do prove that you will not let us go. do prove that you indeed are european. >> martha: robert, you said if russian troops invaded kiev, you haven't seen any circumstances where zelensky could stay there. when he was offered a way out, he said he wouldn't leave. we need ammunition, not a ride. what was your reaction to that? >> we're watching a legend in real time take effect, this is like davey crockett at the alamo. god bless president zelensky. he's an inspiration and handled himself well. when a patriot. compare that to the man who is invading his country for no reason othe

connell, good evening to you. >> good evening, martha.are hearing stories like that all week long. it's moms and their sons, moms and their daughters, children coming in to a train station and waiting around for another train to come. they've been traveling for two or three days. speaks to how large this crisis for lack of any better term is. you're talking about a million people in a week. think about what could happen in two weeks or three weeks. i'll tell you, it's bigger than that. so many people here now, triple the size, maybe an hour ago, one of the trains came in from ukraine. we talk about the moms and the kids. there's people from all over the world here. i met these college students from earlier today from egypt. they were going to school in kyiv. medical school students. two months away from being doctor. the war breaks out. they ended up in poland. now they don't know what is next in their lives. they don't know who is there to provide them with resources, this is something that affects the entire european continent. these vo

crisis, connell, good afternoon to you at 12:35 in hungary.: yeah, we are at a platform, maria, in zahoni in hungary. just across the border. very active scene behind me because moment that is you came to us a train came from ukraine, volunteers waiting for them. we see the story playing over and over again. handing out a bite to eat when they arrive. what's been changing, maria, we are in third country, starting in poland moving to eslovaquia coming into hungary, when the people arrive they have been through much more than the people early in the crisis. just speaking to a representative from the unhcr, the un refugee agency about just that. take a listen. >> the stories we hear keep changing by the hour. we were here in the first days of the war, then people left as a precaution. they maybe heard a few explosions and they left. it took them 3 to 4 days from kyiv to reach the hungarian borders. as time goes by the stories change so more and more people have actually experienced firsthand violence and war. connell: exactly what we are seeing,

, connell.rolled out the red carpet for the american vice president and she will have a series of meetings in romania including the meeting she's in with now, one-on-one meeting followed immediately by a news conference which we will monitor to see if anything is out of it. yesterday the focus on reiterating the support of nato and thanking the countries along the border for taking refugees and to that point, maria, we have been covering the refugee crisis, total number of refugees now top two and a half million. maria: great reporting as always, connell mcshane, thanks for being with us. dagen mcdowell and steve forbes. jackie, take ait away. jackie: more devastation in two ukraine overnight. multiple casualties reported. satellite images show the 4-mile long convoy on its way to kyiv and has dispersed. it has repositioned along tree lines and neighboring town. we will take you live to

connell mcshane is on the ground in slovakia with more. connell.orter: liz, the total number of refugees is getting close now to two million. we've been watching them here? slovakia. so many people coming in after such a long trip getting across the border. there are volunteers waiting to help them there. what they will do they will come over, there are a number of buses across the street, if you line up, if you go to another part of the country, another part of europe. we're talking to one man from england originally working in kyiv as a teacher. he was telling us how difficult it is right now to get civilians out of ukraine. >> like crazy. you get messages every day from people that don't know what to do. they are trying to escape and the russians are attacking evacuation routes. they were attacking the trains we were on. when we were on the train, turn off all the lights, the train would stop. as soon as air raid sirens would stop and as soon as we moved again we would stop. reporter: this family arrived as well. children on freezing cold night.

connell, thank you. >> sandra: live to the white house where jen psaki is taking a question on the possibility of banning russian oil and energy imports. let's listen. >> and the president, the volatility in the oil markets as the president has been predicting and as you preference referenced and talked about in the speech last week is a direct result of the pact president putin invaded ukraine and that has created volatility. one of the big reason, of course, that the president announced the release of the strategic -- 38 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve and the coordinated release to address that and we are doing what we can to put more in the marketplace. but again, our -- his prism, he looks at this through, how can we maximize impact on president putin while minimizing it on the american people. >> president zelenskyy has called on russia to be stripped of the ability to vote in the u.n. security council. does the u.s. want russia to be removed as a permanent member? >> we don't

connell, thank you very much. safe journey to you on that train. we are getting, by the way, connell, a little more on that ria report. of remember, ria is a russian muse agency. russia will require lists of people and vehicles many advance before -- in advance before allowing them to enter humanitarian corridors. again, russia says it are open humanitarian corridors tomorrow. this is starting to smell a lot like 1939. okay. the war has grabbed most of the headlines, but there are brand new developments on america emerging from the covid pandemic. march madness many full swing, and that's got college hoops fans rushing to buy their tournament tickets. straight ahead, we're going to talk to the ceo of vivid seats about what he sees happening in the world of live entertainment and sports as the worst of the coronavirus pandemic fades from the front page. we have pared much of the dow jones industrial losses, we're now down 152 points after having been down 466. we have much more ahead and more on that possible bread shortage from stew leonard's, a to

connell mcshane is on the ground in slovakia where 125,000 ukrainians have fled. connell?e overall number of refugees will be two million soon. a million into poland as you said. thousands coming into slovakia. we're seeing constant flow. we're at busiest border crossing. it is all family and children. look at this guy, coming in on a cold night. they grab whatever bags they have at their house and come across. we've seen it, talking to people on the ground, the volunteers are just amazing as people come through with young babies. they had such a long trip. two or three days to get into the country. these volunteers are waiting. young man from israel, he came to help, he has a friend from slovakia. they told us what stood out to them working here at the border. take a listen. >> it is so different when you look into the peoples eyes, see the actual reflect and struggle. one-on-one meeting those individual people. emotional story. reporter: what about you? >> just like he said, looking into their eyes what they have been through the heartbreak really. we wanted to come here

connell mcshane back stateside right now taking a look at all of this , connell?mments strategically how effective they've been obviously the concern about kidnapping of mayors and all that notwithstanding in a place like mykolaiv in holding off the russian since one of the big stories we've seen developing over the last few weeks because look where they are located here just off the black sea in the southern port area that's been seen as very key strategically for russia. once you get through mykolaiv you're moving into odesa and that has just not happened. all what we're seeing in red is the russian-controlled area, terrific reporting from our friends at the wall street journal if you want to read more about this today, in mykolaiv the last couple of days some of the coffee shops that were closed, restaurants that were closed, they are reopening. they pushed the russians back and as we look at a broader view of ukraine right now, that's kind of the story here. yeah there's a lot of red controlled by the russians but if you have been watching this for the last fe

connell mcshane with us as he has the latest on the ground from poland. connell?en leaving ukraine have been coming here to poland. the foreign minister said the number topped 400,000. they say it very well, may eventually go over one million. the second part of that story is we've now seen, according to the border guard more than 80,000 people moving the other way, going from poland back into ukraine. many of them young men of military fighting age who say they're going back to defend their country. we even met at this border crossing however a young family a dad with two daughters who had gotten out before the war but they were online to go back in. they said things didn't work out so well for them once they got out of the country. this is where their life is, where their jobs are, where their family is. they were going back to live in their nation. so this is a story building for some time. it will continue to build. we expect the refugees to put pressure on these european economies including poland but so far the nations of the european union have been welcomi

. >> connell mcshane reporting live for us. he is there in poland at a train station, connell, what's happening there now? >> well, there are people coming in every few hours, a train will come in from ukraine and what we have sensed, and i think we can pass along to you, when you read out numbers, 2 million leaving ukraine or 700,000 coming into poland, what does a refugee crisis or humanitarian crisis really look like? this family has been a few hours, marissa is here with her grandmother, mom is here to speak with other people who spent time on the train with them, they are from kharkiv, hit so far, little dogs had a long trip with them as well. she picks up her own story when they all arrived in the capital city of kyiv. listen to this. >> when we went to kyiv we then started to like full bomb and then when we came to the railway station in kyiv it started to bomb from the sky and it was really scary. just came here and bomb exploded something. >> you saw that happen. >> yeah. >> at the railway station. >> yeah. >> wow. >>

connell would know this far more than i. he joins us now from hungary. connell, what is the latest? reporter: yep. the numbers are well over two million. interesting enough, hungary the third nation that team went to since the crisis began, is over 200,000. there is question about hungary because of tough immigration policies, how open the nation would be to the refugees. we talked to a representative from the u.n. here at the train station, so far so good they have been welcoming bringing them in. video of people arriving on a train at the station earlier from ukraine. one thing we've been noticing the last two or three days in slovakia and hungary, these refugees are different than ones early in the crisis. now instead of fleeing before the war began, they experienced war for themselves, it has affected them as this woman explains to you in very deep ways. take a listen. >> was here here driving here i thought it was airplanes coming. no, maybe we even in little bit better situation because a lot of my friends, for example, friends of my family, we have a connection with them for

now with more on that in a connell. it's overwhelming, and put it mildly and of all of the point, we talked to many people from the kyiv area who come in here as refugees and women and young children who have left their husbands and their fathers behind in that city as i convoy approaches and where we are today is actually in a makeshift refugee camp the local government has put together with a group of volunteers and these buses behind me, every few minutes of buses coming in from the border where people will be coming off and then they'll be given supplies and then they normally get another bus and maybe go to another part of europe or another part of this country and could be going as far as germany and the czech republic in the way the senate up, this christian i walk over this way, is a big sign, see the top there, transport and then where you going i'm talking to one of the volunteers earlier, this young guy from germany and explained the process and take a listen. >> transport coming from ukraine and they want to

can do about i connell, thanks very much on the ground in hungary. connell mcshane. stay safe.sir. joining me right now is former trump and george w. bush state department senior advisor, christian whiton. great to see you. what is your reaction to what has taken place so far and what are you expecting from the vice president's trip to poland? >> well, what's happened so far, you do have this trend in the war that's very much in russia's favor. there's talk that russia is on the back foot, that things have gone terribly wrong and maybe they have. that doesn't change the reality that the encirclement of kyiv goes on. there are rumors there are advanced talks between russia and ukraine, not the ones we just occasionally see about humanitarian corridors and things like that but actually a negotiation to end the war, to leave russia with part of ukraine, to keep ukraine out of nato. those are rumors. that would be consistent with russia encircling the capital, not capturing it just yet. harris' trip, this is not something you do to reassure allies. harris has been a failure in fore

that are is where you find our connell mcshane keeping track of all of this. hey, connell.he key part of that sentence as you point out, because what happens here, this particular makeshift refugee camp where we have been the last couple days, people arrive on the buses. in fact they're coming in at probably the busiest pace we've seen all day long in the last 15, 20 minutes. there have been four or five buses that pulled up. mostly women and children coming in from ukraine and they get off of a bus here. then they will get in out of the cold, go inside. tell one of the volunteers where they want to go next. let me show you video where it is inside. families lined up for a couple of hours. they get buses organized. while that is happening, we had a chance to speak with many, again, mostly women. every single one of them it seems wants to emphasize the people, family members, they're leaving behind in ukraine, take a listen. >> my husband stay in kyiv. >> stay in kyiv. reporter: your mothers too stayed. >> mothers stayed in kyiv. they are old women. they can't go here. repor

connell mcshane is live in slovakia, but alex hogan is live on the ground in poland, you tell amazing stories of the people fleeing ukraine to there. >> thank you, sandra. 1.2 million refugees have arrived here in poland, it is more than any other country. the people that you see here right now have just crossed the border. most tell me it took them about 1 to 2 days to get here, the faces you see are mainly women and children. >> where are you going from here? >> my mom tell me we have to get to germany. >> you are going to germany. >> any one you know, family or friends? >> my aunt. >> long journey for you. were you afraid, scared at all on the way? >> no, i didn't -- i haven't been scared, i just -- by the way, we are very long. >> very long trip, you are a very brave boy. >> some incredible stories here, we met one woman who traveled here with her sister, she said that they needed to get to safety to save her eight dogs. they packed up their eight little yorkies into bags and they fled. and while people have escaped, everyone that i've talked with say they are desperate to get hom

connell, thank you very much, connell mcshane on a rain in hungary looking at all of that.you know, millions now, when all is said and done, will be trying to exit the country or already have, 2 million plus. i guess a lot depends on how this all sorts out in ukraine whether they'll ever, ever return. what do you think? >> well, exactly. we don't know how this will turn out at moment. ukraine is fighting or -- for its survival. they're pounding cities, civilians, and the west is not doing everything we could to help them. if ukraine survives, i think a lot of them will want to go back, a huge rebuilding effort. they are very patriotic, hay care about their homeland, and they want to see it rebuilt. but if we allow ukraine to be exterminated by putin, i think we're going to see millions more just become permanent refugees or permanent displaced people living in other countries for years to come. neil: ambassador, do you think it was a mistake on our part to nix this polish idea of providing planes for ukraine? >> yeah, absolutely. i still don't understand what the rationale

thank you, connell, very, very much. connell mcshane following all of those developments. to accentuate the point civilians are target of these attacks, they're is little doubt that they are, we're hearing from the kyiv mayor, a new curfew imposed because of likelihood of more shelling. the read on all of this from alabama senator tommy tuberville who joins us right now. senator, what do you make of this, beyond doubt now, when russian air raids are targeting malls, they're not looking for soldiers. they're looking to inflict damage on civilian population. it has been echoed in attacks on hospitals, on theaters. what do you make of that strategy? >> well, neil, it is about food supply and water putin figured out this will not be real easy. he thought it would be a two or three-day ordeal. it didn't work out that day. so now he is encircling kyiv. that is where president zelenskyy is at. only one road in and out that is not taken by the russians. they're getting supplies to that road. sooner or later they will close it down. missiles are hitting malls and supermarkets. they

connell mcshane has more on that side of the story. hey, connell. >> reporter: yeah.t really put a number on that, to be honest with you. a couple of days ago the polish border guard said 22,000 people had crossed back the other way. i'm add one of the border crossings, christian will show you where the crossing happenings. -- happens. probably see i think it's a couple women or women and children coming many, that's what we've seen for the most part on the way in which is what is happening right now on foot. these cars also are on their way in. but on the way out we see mostly young men walking out. the last update we had, again, it was 22,000. it must be far more than that. we know from the polish government more than 403,000 have come in. nightfall is what you're looking at now, earlier pictures we shot at a different border crossing. you do see the women and the children coming across. they all have individual stories. this woman, victoria, has a 4-year-old daughter, went to see her mom in ukraine. she actually lives now in florida, and here's our conversation fro

connell mcshane following that. >> it's interesting.areas not only are they being stalled by the resistance, in some cases they're being pushed back. the shift that you talked about is in the southern part of the country. overall, you have about 1,000 miles of front line. the big picture of it here, you don't see it, but the lines have not moved. they started to move back a little bit in some areas. anyplace where we marked in blue is where ukraine is fighting back or again having some -- being affected in doing something. i'll zoom in around the capitol city of kiev. we talked and a suburb. heavy fighting there in the last few hours once again. there's other towns and cities. again, this blue area is where the ukrainians have claimed to counter offensive. instead of this being red as of a few days ago, the blue is screening in. ukraine is pushing the russians back. john kirby talked about how russia moved in 20 or 30 meters of the capitol and now they're being pushed back. jeff paul was reporting about the ukrainian claim that they hit

connell mcshane this morning live in poland right at the ukraine border. ukrainian cities are under attack this morning. a massive explosion rocks a government building in kharkiv overnight. today's missile strike and shelling coming as a 40-mile-long russian convoy closes in on the ukrainian capital ready to launch a bloody battle for kyiv even as president zelenskyy stays put in kyiv. but ukraine ukrainian president zelenskyy, he's holding the front lines after a talks between ukraine and russia yesterday ended with no deal made. joining me right now is california congress congressman canna, a member of the arms -- congressman ro khanna. congressman, thanks very much for being here. great to have you. your reaction to what we're seeing on ground in ukraine this morning. >> maria, putin is committing an unconscionable act. these are potentially war crimes, they need to be investigated. i mean, he is targeting civilian populations, and it's just inspiring to see president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people fighting. i was in munich, i met the mayor of kyiv

connell mcshane live this morning in eslovaquia with more. connell, good morning to you.ning just about everybody. you are thinking about the people that we are meeting in the border today. ten days into the war. they had the make a decision bombs falling around their neighborhoods as they describe it to us, what can i bring with me, how can i fit in the bag and howdy transport my children and the men in the home are not allowed to come if they are ages 18 to 60. think about this in your own family. nobody wants to leave behind family pets. i show you video that we shot a while ago. we see dogs coming across the border. they are freezing cold and maybe haven't had anything to eat or drink hours and hours. a couple of veterinarians volunteering their time down the street where i'm standing trying to help the dogs and the cats and all the animals. it's taking a personal toll on them. watch this. >> i will cry a lot. i cry a lot since the war started. i don't see anger. i see thankfullness. i would be grateful for what i have. connell: they have a tent set up so when the ani

connell mcshane in budapest.ext guest is a member of the ukrainian parliament currently at an undisclosed location in the country. we are keeping his where bass secret for his protection. his parents are in mariupol, currently under siege. last he heard from them was on tuesday when he learned they were at a bomb shelter. start off with you, and thank you for joining us with the situation where you are in general. >> we are at war and that's not some nation can, you know, can endure it. but we have, like problems in the cities, i mean, in mariupol, in kharkiv, we have a war all over the country. but what is going on in mariupol, for example, first of all, it's total disaster, catastrophe. a city, half a million people city and it's on the sea and no electricity, water, natural gas, and russian airplanes dropped bombs every 30 minutes and artillery don't stop at all. and all the roads out of city and all the fields around city are mined, heavily mined, and russian army, they shoot to simple cars with civilians tha

now it's all connelling to a head right now. it's taken a year-and-a-half to get to that point. so when people complain about the higher gas prices in inflationary prices, they need to understand this is about simple supply and demand. if you have less supply, the price -- and higher demand the price is going to go up. you have nothing to do with infrastructure. it has nothing to do -- our oil pro production in the united states has gone up from last year. this is all about corrections being made from the pandemic when we weren't using as much oil and i believe that that is what's driving everything right now. i think that's one of the big things we need to do. we need to shut off russia's oil exports, put a stranglehold on them, and then move forward. we're going to pay higher prices, people need to get that in their heads. it's coming. host: john from south dakota on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to say there's a lot of places to get information. it feems the fossil fuel industry control the networks. co2.earth on facebook and other places

i'm connell mcshane, fox news in russia.tensifying demonstrators are taking to the streets in st petersburg, where police are trying to control the crowds more than 5000. russian protesters have been arrested since the invasion of ukraine began. those speaking out say they must stand against war. or must be stopped. it must be. it's crazy. what's going on right now? we should all shout no to war. we should go out because it can't happen any other way. otherwise we will lose russia. not only will we lose ukraine, but russia as well. in addition to the protests, many are looking for ways they can help here in the u. s people are collecting donations and even sending tactical equipment to help out ukrainian soldiers. for the national flower of ukraine is the sunflower, and it has also emerged as a world wide symbol of solidarity for the country. social media users have been adding the sunflower emoji to their names, and many people protesting the invasion are holding the flowers. it's also seen as a subtle nod of support for th

i'm connell mcshane. fox news. locally based ukrainian organizations acting the way area for help. money supplies and providing immigration help for those affected by the russian invasion . igor markov, founder of nova ukraine, told me a short time ago what they're doing and how you can help. right now, as you're watching this on fold. how is your organization trying to help the folks of ukraine? the pope's that are still there and those that are playing? yes we're, uh, collecting donations were collecting money and different ways and we are sending money to or volunteers on the ground in ukraine to buy food and many places we hear from disabled people who cannot get food. uh in some places there is fighting or bombing and it's just difficult to move around. and so we have volunteers who helped. people were also moving a lot of supplies, especially medical supplies to poland and then through the border into ukraine , and just trying to see what we can do to help refugees. we just created a structure here with low firms that are going to help with immigration advice pro bono and we

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connell: a lot of land they hang onto.president saying sanctions are working, sanctions don't do what they think they do. >> what makes you think he will change course based on the action taken today. >> and sanctions would deter him. sanctions never deter. the maintenance of sanctions, increasing the pain and the demonstration why i asked for the nato meeting today is to be sure. and the remainder of this year. neil: they were imposing a lot of sanctions. thinking about invading the country. the vice president's defense secretary echoed that, up and down the administration. the ukrainian infrastructure minister, do you think the president is making a point? sanctions, never expected to deter vladimir putin, turns out they didn't, he is still fighting as we speak and waging a horrific war in your country as we speak but then why impose sanctions then? >> very happy to join you. mr. biden is right. a war started in europe. the main goal of putin is obvious. to split the west. to put aside allies who are fighting for democra

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we'll check back with connell soon.ria: good monday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. it is monday, march 7th. your top stories, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. oil shock, prices are surging as stock prices sell off, crude oil hitting 130 of dollars a barrel overnight, it is hovering at 123 and-a-half. it is up 6 and three quarters percent right now. the price of crude is up 112% from last year. brent is now at 125, 97, up 120% year over year and this morning showing a gain of 6 and two thirds percent. oil prices are surging, now take a look at the national gasoline price. average right now topping $4 a gallon, the highest price at the pump since 2008. worries of a disruption in supplies of oil and gas as the calls grow louder and the biden administration finally says it will consider a ban on russian oil. here's former u.n. ambassador nikki haley with me yesterday on sunday morning futures. >> we've got to make sure we sanction these energy companies, all of them. we've got to make

maria: connell, thanks very much. connell mcshane is in poland.gins right now. ♪ ♪ maria: good friday morning, everyone. thanks very much for joining us this morn morning on a busy morning. i'm maria bartiromo, and it is friday, march 4th. 7 a.m. on the east coast. now a nuclear worry as vladimir putin increasingly becomes a pariah to the free world. russian forces taking over europe's largest nuclear power plant in southern ukraine. staff saying that the troops are threatening to lay down explosives to, quote, blackmail the whole of europe. the u.s. department of energy if activating its nuclear incident response team as a precaution. european markets this morning are selling off in the face of all of this. take a look. ftse 100 down 3.25% and the dax index down 448 points, 3.25%, as oil prices push higher. after hitting a 14-year high yesterday of $116 a barrel before closing lower, now both crude and brent are back up again. the price of brent at 112.05, that's up 3-- 1.5%. crude oil at 10954. 109.54. the dow industrials right now down 274 poin

back to you. >> sandra: connell telling their stories on the ground in hungary for us.nk you very much. john, quite another two hours covering all of this. great to be with you today. >> john: yeah, what's going on there in mariupol with that hospital is just horrific, and you know, the world has to rise to the challenge to get that information out and do something about it. >> sandra: absolutely. we'll keep covering it right here. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> thanks, john. right now on "the story," we're waiting for an update on the war in ukraine from secretary john kirby. the world witnesses an attack on a children's hospital, a maternity ward. the strategic port city of mariupol. the aftermath here is graphic. this is a 30 second clip.

professional connell, would you like to comment on this? >> i agree with ms. simmons from the partnership about the various reasons. i would add with regard to the presidential personnel office, is -- is that we have seen a lot of ppo turnover in personnel and government administrations. any president obama's administration, the head of the ppo, all trying to fill plum jobs across federal agencies, decided he wanted to take a plum job as ambassador to south africa. he was gone from about personnel office within six months of the start of that administration. for president biden, the first president of personnel has also left. i think it is important for republicans and presidents in turnover of ppl in the chump administration, to have experienced people in -- and have the various computer systems, the online systems, to help process more quickly, people both first senate confirmed positions, then for these other political jobs. >> i see my time has experienced -- expired. i think we have to address the federal vacancies. we have a lot to do here. people need s

their way to hungary and that is where we find connell mcshane in budapest.what is the latest? regions first time we've moved into a big european city and this is a new phase of this refugee crisis, and about 2 million people have been displaced within ukraine. we also see how it the volume europe already. this is budapest, a big european city where people are coming in, a train arrived from ukraine, they the volunteer station set up like they have been in other cities where we have been where they try to set you up with housing or a sim card or whatever you might need, people have long trips, what we found today as they are moving to places we haven't heard before, people going to vienna or prague, someone going to istanbul, turkey. you hear the emotion, it floods and at times, this woman going to bulgaria with her family. >> this reminds me. >> reporter: two months maybe and back to ukraine hopefully. >> i really want to come back home. >> reporter: it is women and children, their husbands aren't with them. that part of the conversation comes up, the emotio

connell mcshane reporting now from poland. checked at the u.n. top 1.2 million. do you believe that in one week? we're outside a train station in poland. as we walk back you can see there are two lines essentially. it is a cold day. people on the outside are waiting to get in. a few minutes ago a train just arrived from ukraine. people clear customs and come out and they all as we've been telling you have individuals stories that fit into a larger narrative of the refugee crisis impacting the entire continent. on the way in you hear what people went through two or three days on a train. on the way out met this woman earlier for example. she worked in housekeeping on a cruise ship. that was her job. the ship came into port before her contract was up and she quit her job once they got to port and came here to get in a line to go back to ukraine and told us her story. listen. >> this is my country. this is my city. i have my son there and my husband now i hope. now i don't have any connections with my family now today. yesterday

connell: all over the place, the third border crossing today. ago, over the long trip and the stories one after the other, 2 million refugees coming in are just amazing. another family is coming in to a mountainous region that separates slovakia and ukraine. to give an idea what these people go through, on multi-day journeys. >> we want to live a peaceful life, we don't want to be like kyiv. we just want to live a peaceful life. we came here just for good life. connell: we came here just for good life was as we look at the border crossing these two people just came through customs on the slovakian side. amazing to see their spirits was they were waving at the camera with a smile on their face which i was talking to someone earlier from kharkiv. the young girl said it took five days to get here, stopping and going because we heard a number of reports out of ukraine, the ukrainian foreign minister said there has been shelling of the evacuation routes. they get a report that it is not safe, they stop and go into take so long to get here but you see

what connell lays out there is a long and complicated issue. >> such a catastrophe.thank goodness for poland and everyone being so welcoming. this is going to be a huge effect on all of those european countries that are taking these refugees in and the world to see what will happen. it is not over. this will last a long time. you will see dramatic effects on europe. >> dana: the u.n. general assembly had a vote yesterday. you know the u.n. well. here was the vote tally. 141 countries voted in favor of a resolution deploring russia's aggression against ukraine. four countries joined russia in voting against the resolution and 35 abstained. i can understand the four that joined russia. abstentions are interesting. >> it's good when you have the entire world coming together to condemn a violent dictator. no surprise that russia is standing with syria and north korea. you talk about the abstentions and the reason it's fascinating the arab community has not spoken up when it's an oil war, too. the reason it's happening, they don't trust that america will lead. and they do

neil: you got a lot of red in that map, connell. thank you very much.stinguished chair of the middle east institute. general, honor to have you with, thank you. what do you make of all that red on the map? the talk lately is that russia wants to make sure of to have that locked down and that these talks resume tomorrow in turkey as they're scheduled to, that will be one of vladimir putin's demands, that we lock in place a map that stands in place right now. what do you think of that? >> there are two thoughts there. first of all, we have to remember the russians are famous for a term they call -- [speaking russian] , and this could all be a diversion to take their mind off of them refitting and getting ready for another push in the wes. so we need to be careful, because we till see heavy fighting in the west -- we still see heavy fighting in the west, if that could mean they're still concentrated there. on the second piece, he has had failures, and now he's trying to find a way to put together something to call a win and to come out of this in the negot

connell mcshane and slovakia with how that is going. >> as you say it is such a process.le that have been through so much in places like kharkiv even outside of the capital of irpin. you see a constant flow of people not only committed to poland which is where we were last week a million refugees but the border nations here in slovakia. the border is up around where i'm standing. there has been people walking in you see a couple young women standing here they just drag whatever bags they have with them. it's interesting having a chance to talk and bring these individual stories. what were finding as the fighting rages on. people had to make some really tough calls about when they had to get out of their home. this young woman explains what it took for her to make the decision to leave. >> we realize we should go because bombs are falling every night. then we came west of ukraine and we stay there for a few days. it's cost a lot because it's not like it's for free it was for money and it costs a lot because we don't have a job. >> they couldn't afford housing but the tents

connell, i hear the number overall about a million.fugee camp the bus came in from the border. every so often they come about a 20 minute drive from the border to hear. more women and children moms [inaudible] these people long journey we have have heard two days three days four days. one woman was saying who travel with, take a listen it's sad money paying people go. there are many cars on the road. near the border a lot. >> did it take you a long time to get across the border? >> yes, but the people help us with because we have children but without children it's really really so many kill meters you have to wait. >> young children with their moms. maybe you get across faster if you are traveling with children. one thing that's important to realize. you guys were talking about the numbers in poland. somewhere between 500 and 600,000 officially that doesn't tell the whole story. that's not the end of the journey for many of these people. this is a europe wide story. when you get to a camp like this. there are other buses here usually f

and the anniversary of connell law.nk you so much chris bedford for coming on. >> thank you for having us. >> tucker: i don't want to start off depressing but the answer is for people to know what is going on and exert as they are allowed to as americans their constitutional rights. how is those rights of road or do you think over the past few years. >> they have been massively eroded and absconded to be a virus. i first really got a good eye on this in just a few months, maybe a month and a half and the lockdown i flew to washington, d.c., which was locked down to california. which i stopped in philadelphia, chicago at the airport and the bars were open but the city was locked down. and then i drove across country talking to businesses. i sold different states, towns living in their own reality. people didn't realize 100 miles from them people were free. and as focuses businesses businesses are being destroyed and that shirt shattered, their lives run, children separated from them and dying parents, babies having and a

they're not going to connell -- they're not coming. so, it's a tense situation right here. kyiv, a bustling city of 3 million is empty, it's quiet. walking around earlier, you see few people other than soldiers, sandbags, tank traps, concrete barriers. they're preparing for invasion but urban warfare, street-to-street fighting. the russians have made it clear, if there's resistance, they will fight hard and ukrainians made it clear they will resist and fight until the end. they do so because president zelensky leads on the front. he's on air constantly releasing social media posts, doing interviews, galvanizing public support for the opposition -- for the resistance here. so, it's a remarkable sight to see, but it's worrying, worrying because the russian forces seem to be coming en masse. despite the setbacks we talked about, the logistical issues, the supply issues. they're regrouping, they learning. and vladimir putin sheer size of military, these setbacks are not going to stop it. many people said you could add that strategic ambiguity so the russians were never sure if

connell mcshane, thank you very much, putting all that in order. to talk with the prime minister of slovenia saying that help should be on the way to all the countries doing their part to make things easier on ukraine including some of the richest. take a look. do you know or do you recommend that there should be american troops in some of the other countries talked about including the czech republic and, certainly, slovenia? >> actually, hay come to slovenia, they're welcome. but i think this is not critical decision, it's military decision. they have to tell us of -- they have to decide where to put such troops and what countries which are members of nato are a possible location. the focus is on ukraine, and currently we are to do everything we can, we're here to help them with defensive and offensive weapons to be able to defend themselves. neil: all right. the prime minister making it very clear everyone from the united states on down has to fork over more and save ukraine because it's all in their vested interest to do just that. john venable

increased since connell was there.people in ukraine, a lot of them will be looking to get out. local authorities there, can they handle the crush of people if kyiv falls? >> simplicity at this stage, no. there are a lot of volunteers. there's a lot of busses outside taking people from i noticed denmark, germany, and further. but yes, no, it's not easy to get that type of humanitarian aid done overnight, and that's why the call is going out, both to the united states and everywhere else, send resources and if you can't do that, send money. >> john: ashley webster for us, thank you. we'll talk to you later today. appreciate it. >> sandra: kyiv's mayor vowing to fight. >> we ready to fight. ready to defend our children, houses, we are ready to defend our country and defend our future. >> sandra: when he joined us last hour on this program, this after putin's latest attack on civilians. a strike on an apartment building in kyiv. our next guest says he is not a soldier but is learning to be one. ukrainian parliamentment, yo

connell, thank you very, very much. john. >> john: let's talk to somebody who has helped to get a lot of people out of ukraine and afghanistan prior to that. let's bring in brian stern, from project dynamo. we had on our air in recent days a woman from afghanistan, rescued from afghanistan and lived in ukraine, you see her on the left-hand side of the screen, she was named somaia, she was trapped in kyiv, your organization, project dynamo came along and got her out. tell about her story, how you connected with her and how you got her out of ukraine. >> happy to say somaia is a good friend of mine now, we spent a lot of time together traversing the battle space of ukraine. she's safe and sound across the border on her way to another safe location. her and her family are doing just fine. it was a complicated process but everything went -- everything went smooth and perfect, actually. >> we are so happy to hear that. >> what if the benefit of the war, my situation, i -- we are really tired of war. we have spent our whole l