marc thiessen, thank you.sident biden speaking for nearly two hours with president xi on the phone, after the united states threatened action if back back if china backed action with russia. what would we do? china says the worst knots a minute wants to see but critics do not buy that. there's more news this hour. >> if you're looking for scum and traders in russia, putin, looking amir. you're the scum you're the trader. >> harris: lindsey graham. the senators never short on words. all eyes on putin's next move. that's what i've been trying to get to this more out. going down by the hour among the troops and sinking. so we'll put the ramp up his nuclear threats? and can weapons and vacuum bombs come all the things that he has talked about now. because he is frustrated with how slowly the invasion has gone. general jack keane, joins me next. >> harris: president biden just held a call with chinese president xi on the war in ukraine. it lasted one hour and 50, 50 minutes. the white house has criticized china for

analysis from marc thiessen. david spunt is at the white house and we begin with mike tobin in lviv. >> russians and ukrainians are said to get back to cease-fire talks. russians says the goal is to claim the east of the country but air strikes continue to come west. the sirens waild repeatedly this weekend warning of impending air strikes. three times russian missiles came down on fuel depos in the west of ukraine. most pictures came from lviv. russia negotiator says peace talks start tomorrow. ukrainians say it is not about surrender. >> it was not mean ukraine is ready to surrender. there should be diplomatic pressure to stop russia. we aren't ready to give up our territories or give up our people. >> a new round of negotiations is ahead because we're looking for peace. our priorities in the negotiations are known. ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are beyond doubt. >> territorial integrity means zelenskyy will not give up the donbas region or land bridge to the crimean peninsula. russia says tha

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. >> martha: marc thiessen joins me now. fox news contributor. marc, welcome.e on the part of anybody in russia who is getting in front of a tv camera. this is a brave woman. >> 100%. that means the amount of courage that it took to step up and defy the putin propaganda machine, which she said in that video that she posted that she was a part of. she said i was silent in 2014, silent when they poisoned and jail the opposition leader, navalny and i can't be silent anymore. but it shows, martha, that vladimir putin is not just trying to reconstitute the borders of the soviet union but the soviet union. aides to navalny had says there's double of political prisoners today than in 1976. they've arrested 14,000 people, this is a communist police state. he reconstituting the soviet union in ukraine and at home and the russian people need to resist. >> martha: let's watch this exchange with jacqui heinrich and jen psaki and what to expect tomorrow with this address from president zelensky. >> sounds like we're pretty dug in on our position when it comes to the no fly

marc thiessen, tell us your thoughts. >> marc: as a pollutant gets more desperate, he's going to become more brutal. this was supposed to be a three-day operation. he was supposed to be in kyiv right now and installed the puppet government. it was post be wrapped up and down and we are now in week three. he has not succeeded in achieving his objective. the longer it takes, the more brutal he becomes. our hesitance to do what is necessary to stop him and provide the ukrainians with those fighters that they are asking for, that president zelenskyy has been asking for, it's only going to put us in a tougher situation. let's set able to encircle kyiv but not able to take the capital. we can have a situation where we have a seizure of kyiv where people are starving in the streets and residential areas are being bombed. we need to do a berlin airlift providing mentoring supplies to the city. nato planes flying over ukraine. would it be better to give planes now so they can propel the invasion and prevent the siege? every time we hesitate to do something, we make the situation more desperate a

marc thiessen and former education secretary bill bennett.s. production is up or down or going up or down? >> >> well, i think it was the right thing to do. >> this is blood soaked oil. nevertheless, the president's palpable hostility to the fossil fuel, to oil companies is still present. why he would prefer the oil out of -- from maduro or iran, venezuela or iran over american oil i don't understand. and the claim that he did nothing to prevent the flow or inhibit the flow in production of oil is obviously false. so, you know, bill beckley used to say it's not where a man says but where he puts his emphasis. the animus of this administration toward the oil companies is clear and present. >> bret: harold? >> well, first, thanks for having me. i think the secretary has a lot of this right. i think we have to be focused on building nuclear, fracking and drilling. they set a challenge in ukraine have really triggered two things in my mind it has forced us in the west in the u.s. as leading the effort to set the tone for the struggle between auto

"the washington post" columnist marc thiessen and mara liasson, national political correspondent of "h his cabinet today and was hitting on what he said was the successful sanctions and adding sanctions on russian oligarchs. if there is a real debate about whether russian oil should be stopped, that u.s. should not be buying russian oil at all big debate whether we should ban russian oil, whether we should sanction russian oil. and there is a bipartisan consensus forming in coffin that it should be banned. in other words, the united states shouldn't buy russian oil. that's actually an easier move for us to make. if we want to put sanctions on russian oil. that means we have to get all of the allies to go in tandem. just like president biden has worked with the allies to go in tandem in all of the other restrictions that he has put on russian finance, central bank, oligarchs, et cetera. so that's harder. and also, there are domestic repercussions to sanctioning russian oil, maybe even to banning it. although we buy extremely little bits of it. >> bret: 10%. >> but that's small. we coul

and washington columnist marc thiessen. mark, do you see progress.ospects for peace immediately, no. i mean, i think the russians are pulling back not because they are trying to give the talks a chance to skied. they are pulling back because they're losing and ukrainians winning. keep in mind their strategy was to march on kyiv. decapitate regime and install puppet regime in its place. they have utterly failed to do it. the problem is our strategy has not caught up with that reality. everybody has been talking about the nine words in the biden speech in warsaw. i'm more concerned about the four words that were missing. ukraine wins and russia loses. to this day, five weeks into the war, joe biden has never actually said that our objective is to help ukraine prevail over the russians. he said our goal is to punish russia. our goal is to help ukraine defend itself. but he never says our goal is to defeat them. the problem is now the ukrainians have done such a good job that victory is actually a prospect and we should have a strategy of arming them in

marc thiessen is watching this with us. fox news contributor. great to have you with us today.ty loud and clear the message from the white house is that this entire thing has been a strategic blunder for russia and that they are scrambling, getting misinformed at the top levels of the kremlin. what are your thoughts on their take on this? >> the problem is the strategy is denying russia a victory rather than to help ukraine. we're not on a victory footing. we're providing ukraine with the amount of weapons that it needs to denied the russians the ability to take territory from them. we're not giving them the weapons that they need to take territory back from the russians, to drive the russians out. a few weeks ago when this started, everybody thought the ukraines were going to get crushed. we were delaying the inevitable. it's very clear that a decisive victory is possible for the ukrainians and. zelensky. president zelensky is frustrated that he's not getting the weapons. he gave a speech saturday and he said nato, what is it doing? what are they waiting for? they have the wea

. >> trace: let's bring in marc thiessen former speech writer for george w.s good to see you. the "wall street journal" writes the following. david's report. the right to free speech is a bedrock principle of the u.s. constitution. if these students are so blinkered by ideology they can't tolerate a debate over civil liberties on campus the future of the american legal system is in jeopardy. the theme here is at some point these future lawyers will have to listen to both sides of the argument. >> that's exactly right. judge silverman is right. none of these people should be anywhere near a federal courtroom or clerking for a federal judge or serving on a bench. they're adults on the fast track to high flying legal careers and students at yale law school, one of the most prestigious law school in the country. more federal judges and more supreme court justices than any law school in the country and they were disrupting kristin wagner from the alliance for defending freedom. this is a group since 2014 has argued and won 12 cases in front of the supreme court. s