i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
arm ored vehicles. the russians are firing into what they think the ukrainians move through are kill sacks and direct fire weapons and bring up air power attack helicopters in those kill sacks. that s what the ukrainians are dealing with every single day. ukrainians have an advantage here. they have the will to fight and determination. the russians are not as strong willfully nor, i believe, as skilled. secondly the ukrainians have an advantage at night. they have night vision devices on all western vehicles they have and they also have them on their individual soldiers. fighting during the day is walking right into a nightmare. fighting at night gives them an advantage. they made some progress particular fly in eastern donetsk and taken villages. it will go on some weeks.