viktor orban has presided over a short backside of democracy. his government has removed judges, corrupt press freedom, and given orban the freedom to rule by decree. his party is also racist, islamophobic, and particularly hostile to lgbtq rights. or bonds increasingly autocratic rule has made his relationship with fellow democracies in the european union tense and combative for years now. but he has become a hero and a model for donald trump. and his supporters and the united states. so i guess that's nice. trump has repeatedly endorsed orban for reelection this year including in this new reported statement that he put out today. and just like his right wing american acolytes, viktor orban has long been a fan of vladimir putin. in fact, it just last month, even as putin's forces were amassing on ukraine's borders, orban was meeting with putin, in moscow, saying that putin's demands of ukraine in the west were totally reasonable and, besides, there was no way putin was actually going to invade ukraine. so, when putin did invade ukraine, viktor

for cultural activities is tied to, you know, meeting the requirements of the fidesz party and mr orbanon't know whether your own festival orchestra has seen any funding pressures, any withdrawal of funds, but i just wonder whether you sometimes feel, "it's perhaps better not to speak my mind, "because it could become difficult." we could try that. for example, if i say something, let's see if it affects now the funding of my orchestra. i can only inform you that this is actually a good period in the orchestra's life. the hungarian government and the municipality of budapest both quite generously funded the orchestra, and we can make music without worries. this is a bit of like a wave, you know? at the moment we are very well looked after, so i have nothing to complain about. right. but does that funding that you still get from the state have any impact on your ability, or desire to speak your mind on political and cultural matters in your country? not at all. and i can tell you why, because people sometimes think that governments, if the government is authoritarian, or more democratic,

victor or bond is gearing up -- victor orban gearing up for an election, how is that playing out. maria: some tricky logistics and politics in budapest. when you look at the foreign policy that viktor orban is carrying out, he has made it clear he wants to keep the country neutral and not get involved. hungarian tv talk about a conflict, not a war. the language is important. they wore means there is an aggressor in the country being invaded. you talk about two countries that bear some responsibility. orban said there is no weapons delivery from hungary, and he said he would veto any potential energy embargo on russia. a lot of this reflects his own personal contradictions. he was one of the western leaders who want to see vladimir putin before the war broke out, they were on good terms. they were drinking champagne and having a toast. he said he has a good working elation ship with russia, but the other big issue is that all of his neighbors including poland, the usually have close policy, they are incredibly hawkish on russia and point the finger at viktor orban, saying this is n

from forest to orban, to trump. so we find ourselves here again though with the situation quite different in certain respects, and an interesting contrast. for many reasons, including, frankly, racism, anti-muslim bigotry, the paranoia of post 9/11 war on terror. many of those same countries which quite explicitly refused to accept refugees that russia created in syria are, to their credit, opening their borders and opening their arms to the refugees rushes creating in ukraine. just, today poland's right-wing paul prime minister along with sauvignon and the czech republic and met with zelenskyy in kyiv, traveling into the war zone. there were airstrikes in kyiv for the last 24 hours, and a sign of solidarity. hungary and poland, the same countries who, again, defining political nature is at least, under the governing parties, was control of their borders. strong borders, and their opposition to syrian refugees are together accepting millions of people displaced from ukraine. get this, warsaw, the city of warsaw, the

victor orban, he attended oxford as you did. he makes a bit of a business out of being anti-immigrant and talking about nationalism and the cultural heritage of ukraine, so the government is not that involved as they are in poland but civil society, the churches, individual volunteers, people had said that they were going to take refugees in as they came in. so at this hour at 2:00 a.m. on wednesday morning -- or thursday morning, wednesday night, a train came in and they had housing and transportation arranged for most people except there were some black people on there. because ukraine is full of, as you said, africans and south asians who generally go there to study and sometimes stay to work. and they struggled with it. the volunteers were telling me they struggled with it. they did get everybody a home, because there are lots of fantastic hungarian people and i've been meeting them for days and days and days who are doing all sorts of things to help everyone, but this is a country that struggles with this. hungary was the f

how is the war actually upending orban's campaign to stay in power?alked about this realignment triggered by the war in ukraine. this is a place that shows you the contradictions the government is facing. when you look at central and eastern europe, hungary is the odd one out. hungary has made it clear that it wants to stay neutral in this war, so it will not act as a distribution hub for weapons in ukraine. and he has said that he is not in favor of an energy embargo from russia. a lot of this reflecting the relationship that orban has with putin. he was one of the last leaders to go into moscow and have a friendly discussion with putin. he said sanctions would be counterproductive, that russia is still a great power and you therefore have to have a constructive relationship. normally, hungary and poland are very connected in their politics. right now, it is the opposite picture. the polish have been hawkish on russia, and the hunger aliens -- hungarians finding themselves in an awkward place. tom: you are speaking to the german finance minister abou

at the start of this campaign victor or bond -- victor orban wanted to make this about the issues he, family values, traditional family values. that had shifted to ukraine. the way this election is now being framed is this is war or you vote for orban and you stay neutral. his rivals will tell you his a puppet of vladimir putin and he has destroyed a lot of foreign policy. tom: the zeitgeist overnight was reporting including jeezy hq, the espionage -- gchq, the espionage unit of the united kingdom, about letting your prudent not being informed by his military staff. what veracity do you give to this. how in the dark is mr. putin? maria: at this point it is difficult to know or understand what he thinks and feels because we rarely hear from him. everything is done in such a way to send a political message to a western audience. we've not seen a lot of vladimir putin lately. that matches the intelligence united states has put forward, and now the u.k. saying there is a problem about the information being read to vladimir putin. zelenskyy gave an interview to russian journalists a few d

like putin, orban is an autocratic leader who wields strict controlled of media, restricts lgbtq rights and suppresses free speech. at that time i expressed my concern at what this may indicate about the growing sympathy for autocrats in our own country. unfortunately, this latest trend of praising putin and condemning zelenskyy tells me the slide toward autocracy continues. praise for autocratic leaders and what they represent is dangerous. at a time when political polarization has reached new heights and american vulnerability to misinformation is increasing we cannot afford to watch anyone of influence whether they be a member or a member of the media peddle in propaganda. conservatives should shake off the role of useful idiots and present putin, this war, and all demagogic leaders what they truly r putin has poisoned journalists and jailed his opposition. he has bombed children's hospitals and schools. he has slaughtered innocents in syria, and today he is murdering civilians in ukraine. if this has not been enough, these useful idiots and their ilk, i urge them to find the red lyn

that is, ukraine receives from hungary exactly what it has been provoking for years, for example, orban kiev, you don’t meet our interests with us, because ukraine is not wants to remember that orna herself answered that way when she passed the law on the language and violated the rights of the carpathian hungarians, when now these prime ministers are being abandoned by vereshchak. maybe you need our transcarpathia and they don’t answer her and can’t scream. to understand not only hungary, but also the poles accusing the authorities of the betrayal of europe, the poles also draw maps, where lviv is poland , bulgaria can ask their questions further, and it seems logical for zelensky to go in the direction of negotiations, which will end the operation, and not in the direction of neighbors, who may just be biding their time. otherwise, it will no longer be rebellious, the donbass, but several regions at once, and not now they even demand to take away the kaliningrad region from us and give it in addition, who even demanded east prussia in the forty-first and already drew a map of post-war

>> well, first of all, before they fell in love with putin they fell in love with orban and hungary.great again meant let's make america more like hungary which is a peculiar aspiration. orban like putin and like some of the acolytes this this country is a weak person's idea of a strong person. strength you hear all the time, sort of chest beating, dime store mussolini kind of toughness, and i don't think it goes much deeper than that. they talk about putin is going to defend christian civilization. church attendance in russia is 6%. 94% aren't going. >> they have a higher abortion rate than the united states does. >> i think one of the things we should take this out of politics and realize right now brave people within russia are risking their lives to tell the truth about what's happening in ukraine, to tell the truth about putin. we have people who are trying to get rid of disinformation, and we have useful idiots here in this country and, you know, i'm not going to call the whole republican party, but they -- >> i mean, in fact, most republicans in congress are solidly against --

this was a march in support of hungary's right-wing authoritarian prime minister, viktor orban.alist gatherings supporting him and his

think that is now waning well, i don't see it yet because we have of course peculiarities like viktor orban prime minister of hungary, who always begs to be a bit different. but then we see finally, when it comes down to the final vote he is, he falls in line. and and so i don't see the the unity crumbling yet. but it might come further down the road roman. and excuse me, i mispronounced your last name when i introduced you. but let me ask you this. um many observers have said from the e beginning that this conflict is really about russia versus the u. s. would you say that that is right and if so what could biden actually do to change russia's calculus? well i would disagree. i think it's a conflict between russia and the west, the west as a civilization and the worst as a system, political system and economic system. and this is how russia is has been seeing this conflict for years and years. so it's not actually knew the worst refused to see it like that the west has been looking at it as a conflict between russia and ukraine which is just a battlefield. um and i think to your question h

uh, this orban sync.nd i noticed that he says that there were more people behind this position, that is, he says that he says about the open and closed part for a reason, that it’s in the closed part, apparently, uh, and it became clear that many nato countries do not want, do not want war, close this, and so on. this is very important in my opinion. and uh, that's exactly what ukraine is now using. here in such an anti-europe, including this it is quite obvious maxim as for the body and its special position, then with regret, i admit that in the european union he is the only such organ of all the eu countries if we talk about nato, then, probably, only turkey, which is part of nato is not a member body. besides. here is erdogan, who did not impose any sanctions at all. as for the rest of those very people who are used to in russia as partners perceive the former prime ministers, the former chancellors who worked, uh, in russian companies, practically everything, except for latitude, everyone left and fio

you know, if you look around the world, marine le pen, eric zemmour donald trump, viktor orban, a lothese populists, these new populist movements all expressed sympathy for putin at some point, you know, some earlier point, and many of them have been forced to retreat from that because it's obviously, you know, just a very cruel and kind of absurd position to take, in light of what people can see, you know, through their own eyes on their television screens. so, i think it has imposed a kind of moral clarity on the world where people could imagine that putin was just a nationalist like them, but, you know, still basically not that terrible a person and now i think they see the direction this kind of populist politics is leading. ok, let's talk about that moral clarity that you talk about, because 30 years ago, you said western liberalism had triumphed over all its ideological competitors and would end up as the single form of government over the long term. in your latest book, liberalism and its discontents, you recognise and analyse why liberalism has been in retreat. do you think wh

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yes, hungary is showing some kind of independence, and viktor orban is probably the only european politician who, in this situation, said that it was interests. uh, hungary is the interests of the hungarians and hungary, and not the interests of ukraine there or anyone else. well, erdogan, he is not a member of the european union, he goes to nato, but he said that in turkey he does not collect any sanctions of his own, he does not want to freeze there without russian gas, that is, independence is manifested, but all the rest they just carry out in this situation american line to interest operates in the interests of america and not their own peoples. after all, this is how it turns out, and most, at least, governments act this way, uh, there were also statements in romania of this kind that we will not do anything to the detriment of our own population. ah, both in bulgaria and in bulgaria well, in bulgaria you have repeatedly shown even rallies that do not support the current government policy. from my point of view, the europeans were very much deceived. they apparently expected that if th

one can also add here the position on energy, if you stop buying coal, gas and oil in russia, orban saidhe other day. the country's economy will rise, the polish president, duda, said that he did not understand how the hungarians could behave in this way, while, as the ex-foreign minister sikorsky rightly noted, warsaw only demands that it itself does not impose any sanctions. evgeny reshetnev and vladimir ozerov to lead washington’s desire to get europe hooked on lng was seriously outraged even by the american environmental lobby, shale and its environmentally destructive mining, as well as the construction of export terminals can harm the green image of the united states, which before biden has already been buried by trump. slate. across the ocean, too, the atlantic is behaving capriciously due to the melting of glaciers and record high temperatures in antarctica daria okuneva on what is happening to the coldest continent of the earth heat in march on the continent two stations at once, russian vostok and french italian concordia, recorded absolute temperature maximums up to 40° above

remember how euroskeptics appeared, crowded their popularity with orban, and they were no longer consideredginalized. and who were they targeting? they focused on moscow, they called putin, maybe we will be here to be surprised, but they called him a conservative to the nationalists, the keeper of the old woman of europe of the traditional values ​​of christianity, and now they are raising a question before them. are you loyal to the ukrainian consensus or do you want to go back to the margins. this is the importance of this ukrainization of european politics, it is also being created to crack down on its anti-globalization left-wing legalists in stores, for example, they do not serve people who address the seller in russian. this is in order to solve their internal problems, including now ukrainians are presented as such crusaders who shed blood for the revival of the idea of ​​the european union. it will go out a little, but why? yes , quite recently. and now you see, people are very ready to shed blood for the sake of this european dream, so they will use this, uh, ukrainianism and this

and viktor mr orban spoke to reporters there.nd they are giving them opportunities to eat, to sleep, to get hot drinks and also helping them organise their transport onwards. teams of doctors are arriving here, volunteers from all over hungary. the response of the hungarian population i would say has been amazing, offering flats all the time, accommodation for those people who don't have anywhere to go. so pretty well organised response, hungry very much opening its arms. next let's go the the border with poland. around half of the refugees — some 500,000 people have fled there. kasia madera has been there since last week — watching more and more people arrive. just today alone at this crossing, i0,000 just today alone at this crossing, 10,000 people crossed into poland, i0,000 10,000 people crossed into poland, 10,000 people crossed into poland, 10,000 people in the space ofjust a few hours. bear in mind, we are talking about a displacement of1 million people in the space of eight days. the figures are huge, absolutely enormous,

you've seen viktor orban criticize russia, and even moral avatars like the international in olympic committee has even acted against russia when it is usually so incredibly reactionary. what's going on now is russia is also interesting, the economy has cratered. demonstrations have taken place on the streets, not only in moscow and some liberal interactions in the -- but in many many russian cities. alex in the lonnie has called for more demonstrations from his prison cell. this may be in the end, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next month, but this may be the end of the putin era. i don't want to jump to any conclusions and be rash and make stupid predictions, but one has to ask who in russia is for this. who is really for this? except somebody that has been isolated and filled with anger and resentment towards the west, and his set's army on ukraine. who is a really for? >> what i want to go back to what ivanovich told you about ukraine and her experience with it. because what we're seeing it's hard for americans to decide how surprising is it that a country is rising up against an invasion,

there's a reason putin and also orban's hungary, they are called mafia states and biden is perfect in and so resolute in calling these people out for what they are. the kremlin spokesperson said, oh, biden shouldn't have said that. it's only for russians to decide which is true, but then he said putin has been elected by the russians. not really because they don't have fair and free elections in russia and putin has to game the whole system. anybody who is a real contender is killed like boris or sent to jail. he can't really -- this is the weakness of the strong man. they can't actually have fair and free elections in and a free press because they probably wouldn't last very long. >> ambassador locke, in his first press conference last year, joe biden says xi jinping sees the test. is that how china sees the world and do you think they'll be inspired to do to taiwan what russia has done to ukraine? >> certainly, they will be watching to see how the west reacts and continues to react to russia and putin for the invasion of ukraine whether or not the west has the real resolve to sustai

has to do with the price of oil and gas and others with decisions made in the past that someone like orbansistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasian. before we go, i want to show you some images. these are the hungarian police. almost everybody is coming in with children. the police are helping people unload their baggage from the trains. this police officer here is holding the hands of two children as their mother tries to move along and get the aid they require when they get here. again, we can't whitewash the history of this country and its relationship to refugees, but in the moment at this train station in hungary, we are seeing a great deal of human kindness. that's it for me. i will be reporting here from hungary throughout the day. we'll be back tomorrow morning from 8:00 to 10:00 eastern. the cross connection begins right now. >>> good morning and welcome to the cross connection. we begin of course with the new developments in the russian conflict with ukraine. moments ago, president zelenskyy said negotiations with russia have progressed to concrete topics rat

not share timely and actionable intelligence with ukrainians, he won't central russian oil and gas orban russian oil imports to america, which even nancy pelosi is for. american dollars are funding vladimir putin's war machine. while ukrainian mothers and their children huddle in subway tunnels making molotov cocktails. of course, joe biden has done nothing to unleash american energy and russian oil and reduce americans pain at the pump. where president biden has failed, president zelensky has succeeded. [applause] sen. cotton: president zelensky embodies the resolve, courage, and indomitable will of all ukrainians. it is fitting that the reagan foundation has just announced that president zelensky will receive its ronald reagan freedom award. [applause] sen. cotton: president zelensky will join the ranks of the iron lady margaret thatcher in the rollcall of heroes who have received this honor. vladimir putin the contrast must pay for this unprovoked naked war of aggression. if joe biden will not make and pay, the republican party most. as i said at the outset, we stand with the ukrainia

it was this cultish fad, and somehow in all of that orban became people's hero and vladimir putin didction. you saw the depressing polls about how many republicans had a positive view of vladimir putin before this war began. >> yeah, but there was always an element within -- first, social conservatism and projecting strength abroad can exist within the same republican coalition. >> right. >> they have for my adult lifetime. this is not difficult to thread that needle. but cultural conflict became so preeminent, a unifying force within a particular sub set of the populist national right that they did begin to belief their own hype and believed the republican party had all but abandoned the notion that the united states can and should project force abroad, can and should attract allies. him and bad actors abroad like vladimir putin. if you were -- like i said in the op-ed, if you were focusing on donald trump's mind-boggling obsequious flattery of vladimir putin, you would perceive it is a sea change in the republican movement. they moved beyond the idea that the united states is the so

. >> hungary's prime minister, viktor orban, had a message for the migrants themselves. >> the moral human thing is to make clear, please don't come. >> trevor: that's really strange. when it's syrians who are fleeing a war, it's, "we do not have space. do not come." but now there's space and people must come. what changed? when the syrians needed refuge, even the camera crew was drop-kicking families. now ukrainians are getting accommodations, they're getting visas, they're getting work benefits. which is a good thing, i'm just saying, where is their drop kick. we don't have to speculate. we don't have to speculate about why they're treating ukrainians so differently from refugees and the middle east. the prime minister of bull carry said,"these are not the refugees we are used to. these people are europeans. these people are intelligent. they are educated people." yeah. it's kind of a shocking thing to say. but at the same time, i will say, i'm impressed that the prime minister of bulgaria has found the time to get to know all one million refugees that have fled ukraine in the past

you've seen viktor orban criticize russia, and even moral avatars like the international in olympic committeeacted against russia when it is usually so incredibly reactionary. what's going on now is russia is also interesting, the economy has cratered. demonstrations have taken place on the streets, not only in moscow and some liberal interactions in the -- but in many many russian cities. alex in the lonnie has called for more demonstrations from his prison cell. this may be in the end, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next month, but this may be the end of the putin era. i don't want to jump to any conclusions and be rash and make stupid predictions, but one has to ask who in russia is for this. who is really for this? except somebody that has been isolated and filled with anger and resentment towards the west, and his set's army on ukraine. who is a really for? >> what i want to go back to what ivanovich told you about ukraine and her experience with it. because what we're seeing it's hard for americans to decide how surprising is it that a country is rising up against an invasion, because co

orban was closer to putin than he was to president biden. between the west and the east, it is between these fights are within these countries. what's striking to me and europe, they're no longer, too hard to stand next to putin. you see people changing views on this. and you see it in the united states. i bet you some leaders that one point called mr. putin savvy and smart probably aren't going to call him savvy and smart as they watch the horrific photos out of mariupol. i hope others will reconsider and just change their mind and change their views. >> yeah. you speak of that with great sophistication about the interplay between different countries, talking right wing populist movements united by opposition to certain liberties, rights, democracy as we understand, a version of liberal democracy in the modern era and also a lot of the more anti-immigration, anti-refugees and all that, and you're actually seeing something different happen in western europe as you say, going a whole other direction. some relates to what we talked about frida

there is a stark difference between victor orban hospitality toward refugees and past treatment of muslim lies in the difference who he considers migrants and refugees. he told al jazeera this week, migrants are stopped, refugees could get all of the help. he added, quote, we're not living in a comfortable west. we're living in the midst of the difficulties not just now but throughout our history so we are able to tell the difference between who is a migrant and who is a refugee, end quote. in other words, who deserves hungary's help and who doesn't. it is worth noting that even in this crisis, while the rest of europe agreed to extend residency and work permits to those entering in ukraine, hungary said that asylum policies in place are good enough. but eventually relented under pressure from fellow european nations an in the face of stinging criticism from at home and abroad. this country has become so anti-immigrant that even the white christian ones scare them a bit. not as much as muslims, but still. i witnessed hungarian civilians, not the government, welcoming those from ukraine of

positive sense, because over the past several years you have had the rise of populist leaders like viktor orban been very close to putin and who have praised him. and we may say you have one in the united states, our former president, saying that putin was a genius into this date can't think of anything negative to say about him. and so the political ramifications of the russian setback, i think, are going to be global. it won't just be confined to this country ukraine. i think it will reverberate throughout europe and frankly it will reverberate in the united states. >> and when do you think those reverberations will be felt? what sense of a timetable do you have? >> that is very hard to say. i do think that there were some possibility that you could have military developments in the coming we x that could be decisive. but i would be the first to say that i don't know that. i do think that the rate at which both sides can -- mean that it's a problem. i think that the russians -- because the sanctions, they've created a very large part of the entire army as protecting the whole of the largest b

there's been no stronger friend to putin in the european union than viktor orban, the hungarian primenuclear investments were fine. three, four days ago, he condemned the russian invasions, something the chinese and indians won't do, and also said he would support russia's decoupling from s.w.i.f.t. that's a big deal for a country like hungary. putin clearly misestimated the international response to all of this. he thought it would be divided in terms of nato, and he thought it would be much more amenable in terms of his buddies and the longer the war goes on and the humanitarian catastrophe continues, a million refugees from ukraine, the pressure is going to increase. >> fascinating stuff. we thank you for your insights. good to see you. >>> the results are in for the texas primary, setting up serious show downs for the fall. steve kornacki will break down what it means for texas and the rest of the country. down what it means for texas and the rest of the country. and 5g maps that are mostly gaps— they're switching to t-mobile for business and getting more 5g bars in more places. s

orban is another person who has condemned mr. putin. so we will just have to wait and see whether they're able to get together. i suspect that the pressure is going to be on, now, at least for the europeans to think about moving away from importing natural gas. >> what we are talking about pressure, which is the pressure putin's feeling right now? how do you think it would react? the grand army is stalled a, don't know whether they had bad planning about intelligence service bad military, but it does seem they are now increasing airstrikes and missile strikes. which is still a big army, still a powerful military. does he feel back into a corner and is he going to get more aggressive as a result of this? >> i don't know if you feels back into a corner. he did very defined speech on friday, talking about his religious motivations, the fight against the satanic west. obviously the sanctions are already important, russians have been feeling them, which russians have been feeling them. as you said, the military is not a nearly as well as he

and return army john spencer and orban where affair expert and chair of the urban warfare studies with the medicine policy forum. cal perry, what is the situation there tonight? >> so lawrence, there were eight cities and there are eight cities that are under siege by russian forces across the country. at the beginning of the day, russian ministry of foreign affair said there would only be a cease-fire in those cities. really, it was only one city, the northern city sumy. that a humanitarian -- 5000 civilians able to make it out of that city but in almost every single of those other cities the bombardment continue. the indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas has continued in -- that city has been completely cut off from the grid. there are bodies in the streets that cannot be moved because people are just unable to get above ground for any period of time because the shelling there is so intense. and so you have a humanitarian crisis that is getting worse by the hour. we heard yesterday from president here in ukraine that a little girl died from dehydration, not even from the explosio

we've seen it in europe with the rise of hungary's viktor orban who describes himself as a illiberalrat, and the forces that push for brexit. of course, it's been happening right here at home, donald trump, frankly, kind of an aspiring authoritarian, who admires authoritarian,'s and try to overturn a free and fair election. of course, putin's russia, where his fascist ideology and wounded national pride has turned into a brutal assault on the battlefield. putin is not only making a completely illegitimate land grab in the attempt to build back the soviet empire, he's also committing war crimes in ukraine, threatening to use nuclear weapons. this new land were on the european continent, pending pitting a dictator against citizens of a flawed but resilient democracy. it feels like the first new armed contract combat in a new chapter. we are seeing the entire global order that was built during that strange period of time, those 30 years after the cold war, sort of fold in on itself. another order comes down from russia, but the stakes are high and grave. ukraine has been an independent

republicans have admired over the years, and subscribe to, whether that's falls in our brazil, viktor orbann the uae. the leaders that republicans have embraced, and the kinds of ideologies that they've embraced have last four years. particularly since trump took over the party. they are very much the types of people that were in line with vladimir putin. now, thus far, they've been kind of shocked. and what you've seen is them revert back to their instinctual hawkish political approach to foreign policy. but it's hard to make people forget what we all live through the last few years in this country, where the same kind of creeping ethnonationalism nationalist -- all the way to january 6th. i think president biden's task is to enlist republicans who try to tap into their desire to play constructive roles and providing things like support the ukrainians, but don't let them forget, don't let them walk away from the reality that in this democracy versus autocracy's battle, that ukraine is [inaudible] even on the wrong side. >> you know, the searing conflict has loomed large over everyone's per

watch as tucker goes one on one with prime minister viktor orban and exposes a truth behind the left's globalist ideals. so your success is a challenge to their worldview. tucker carlson originals hungary versus soros streaming now exclusively on fox nation. sign up today. >> we're out of time.e. break for a lot of people by thee way, in this country that may have gotten i you into an airport recently and if it has, you may. >>>> what's going on here where so many planes what's going on at the airport? don't we have a transportation secretary? wasn't a rhodesar scholar, wasnt he ? the mayor of south bend,ia indiana? what's going with ouroi transportation system? we noticed we're doing a segment monday. in the meantime, have a great happy and relaxing weekend with the ones you love. we will see you at welcome to this special edition of "hannity" friday night. i'm pete hegseth in for sean. and tonight, as the war in ukraine rages on , joe biden, he's in poland where he paid a visit to u.s. soldiers and had a battle of his own with a piece of hollow piano and pepperoni pizza. >> unfortuna

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orban who is condemning putin right now. the ground? poland. from american politics to european politics, it has been an extraordinarily good 3 1/2 weeks for rising good against evil. >> sometimes we are worry that people of the west won't shoulder burdens to protect and advance them, and we have been validated in the notion that the yearning for freedom is universal and deserves our support. it was touching yesterday to hear president biden say that america stands on the side of the forces for freedom. that's what is happening. >> so, peter baker,able you are seeing a bipartisanship we haven't seen really since 9/11. it is so interesting. i read so many columns that said, oh, that 9/11 moment, it is not possible anymore. it has actually happened. you have a united republican and democratic party. in fact, this is so bar it is almost humorous watching republicans going on certain cable news networks trying to find a reason to be upset at president biden. trying to say, oh, yes, he has done well this way, but he needs to do m

hungarian prime minister viktor orban says that more military and guards will be brought to the border next week to accommodate more of the refugees that they expect to see coming in just a matter of days. now back here at the border, there is no continued sign of relief. the school says it did not have a choice in closing down. but that this is what is needed. this is what they will do. sandra. >> sandra: just a bigger and bigger story each and every day paired there are more and more refugees. so many of those countries taking in so many of them. alex hogan, thank you. you can join fox news and donating to the red cross to help. visit redcross.org/fox forward paired so far you have helped us raise over $10 million. donations help get resources to the people that needed they are still in ukraine. those who have been forced to flee their homes. >> bill: awesome. $10 million and counting. 3 minutes of trade. down before it open. right now we are trading lower. about 173. were seeing where it goes today. do not expect relief at the pump anytime soon. oil prices jumped to more than a hund

when you look at tucker carlson and donald trump and i point to victor orban, he is the vanguard of this buddy of putins. he was over there before the war and an out liar on sanctions within the european union and nato. endorsed by donald trump. tucker carlson has flown out to to do shows in budapest. there is something about the ideology that vladimir putin that represents that does find fellow travelers and very powerful voices on the american right and it is not enough for people like lindsey graham to say they don't agree with that comment. donald trump is a de facto leader of the republican party and unless and until republicans renounce that and cut ties with this garbage, not only is it going to service as russian disinformation, it is going to allow that ideology to gain end roads here in the united states where it has no place in a battle between democracy and autocracy. we better get on the right side of that battle. >> i mean, ben rhodes, do we talk about that as though it is an open question. the parties pick sides in that battle didn't we have all but two republicans on the

. >> of course, never forget as far as orban goes, putin's closest friend in nato. a man who hates liberal democracy and said as much. so-called conservatives used to pretend to be conservatives have now taken up their cause with victor orbon and to sit there and parrot when he believes in his hayes trid of liberal democracy, hatred for a free press, hatred for diversity. his hatred for immigration. his hatred for the very things that have made this country so extraordinary, and the very thing that vladimir putin doesn't have right now. he doesn't have descenting voices and why he's being lied to. why his army's being destroyed in the battlefield by a fierce ukrainian resistance, and that's why he's looking like a fool in front of the whole world. i hope these so-called conservatives enjoy the money they're making, because they've sold their souls. >> lies catch up. may take a while, but they catch up. ian brzezinski, ed loos, anne applebaum, thank you very much for being on this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe" joined by nato's secretary-general to talk ab

orban may forget it.get it and never align with russia. >> mika, i was in poland a few weeks ago and i just heard the intensity, the passion of the polish feeling of nationalism, of the roots of their culture, of their anger at what putin is doing with russia, and of their solidarity with ukraine. that's the most important lifeline that ukraine will have going forward. a very dark heard is about to begin, as we've been saying. it is wonderful to hear zelenskyy give his speech this morning, but just over the next day or two we are going to see some nightmare scenes of a country being crushed and its best friend will be its closest friend, poland. we will be trying to help in every way we can, but we've said we're not going to provide troops. the pols said we will provide a corridor to help your partisans, your resistance struggles in these days ahead. so poland is crucial. i can only imagine, mika, what your dad would say if he were at the table with us here. he would just feel the deepest pride and convic

it is viktor orban's hungary and he faces actions next month. he is putin's puppet within nato. >> he has grown wildly in the last few days? >> he has, because public opinion among the public is pro-ukrainian. he is not letting lethal weapons go through. poland with the 330 mile border with ukraine and romania are the ones stepping up here. >> we still have a lot of angles to get to. we will get to clint watts at the board taking us through the maps, plus we will get insight on what it is like to deal with vladimir putin from the former national security adviser to president obama. >>> also ahead, the new reporting on the bipartisan push to ban imports of russian oil. >>> a little later, former president of ukraine petro poroshenko joins us right here on "morning joe." we will be right back. inner voice (furniture maker): i'm constantly nodding... ...because i know everything about furniture ...but with the business side... ...i'm feeling a little lost. quickbooks can help. an easy way to get paid, pay your staff, and know where your business st