we don't have a chance. >> this is like the escape from new york road warrior scenario, dagan.ng is aside from the victims, all of this amazing progress we made is just loss. i don't know we have the power to bring it back because we don't have the theaters. there is no rudy giuliani anymore that's going to command. >> there was some ap article that a friend of finds that me. he will be texting me any longer up to set this to me. it was written by the ap talking about kind of suggesting that it is all in our head that crime is that bad. it essentially said the best it's like it was much worse in the early 90s with more than 2,000 people were murdered in new york. 500 for murdered last year. that's what we have to wait for? were going to sit around for decades waiting until the number look people who were murdered in new york gets that bad? all stop cursing. >> i don't believe you but go ahead. >> i come on this show -- women are defenseless. for not allowed to go get a concealed carry permit and we have no way of defending ourselves. i came up with another one them up one of th

i met dagan mcdowell in for maria bartiromo. it's presidents' day with your top stories at 6:00 a.m. the brink of war. president biden agreeing to meet with russian president vladimir putin. white house officials making it clear the meeting will only happen if russia does not invade ukraine. the timing and format of the summit arch confirmed. us markets are closed for presidents' day. stock futures trade until 1:00 p.m. we have mixed action. this after all three market gauges, dow jones, s&p 500 and nasdaq finished down last week all the lower by one and a half percent or more. we are looking ahead to key economic data in earnings throughout this week, but macy's and home depot reporting earnings tomorrow. january personal consumption expenditures come out friday, a key gauge of inflation, particularly one for the federal reserve to look at to give us a better look at inflation as economists expect to see the 14th a straight monthly marking the fastest increase since the 1982. oil is mixed hovering around $91 a barrel. gold is s

. >> emily: and dagan, what are we looking at economically? >> dagen: oil prices are high, they are off high in recent days, but burden on americans, number one because well, people who actually have to commute and heat their homes and is part of the inflation being at a 40-year high. it also empowers and enriching vladamir putin. let me point to over a year ago and we talked about it on the sofa, is that joe biden actively has tried to destroy our energy independence here and the strength of our energy economy, what did that do? it made vladamir putin more powerful and richer. it encouraged him in essence to go into ukraine. i'll point to in recent history, putin aggression is highly correlated to the price of oil. go back to 2008, when oil was near all-time high of 147 a barrel, that is when putin invaded georgia. 2014. oil was around $100 per barrel and annexation of crimea, nearly $100, now what are we looking at? putin about to go into ukraine and by the way, putin's aggression keeps oil high and send its higher. a war continues to enrich

maria: dagan mcdowell and tammy bruce with me this morning.rdinary, i mean, these guys raised it $10 million and because of the content, because it was raising money to push back on an unconstitutional mandate , gofundme decided to just take it into their own hands and he sees the money until they had to retract. dagen: because they were threatened with fraud investigation from just over the weekend from florida and texas, so they went whoops, but even belong must noticed and called out the double standard coming out of gofundme because let's remind people, there was violence in the chop zone in shadow with reports of burglaries, rape and other violence yet they not only allowed a fundraiser for an individual within the chop zone, but also promoted it on their twitter feed, for example. they didn't have any problem with that and there are few to no reports of a violence from these truckers in canada and to all of the people who were banging their pots and pans say in new york city and other places at the beginning of the pandemic, almost two y