on the taxpayer dollar. carley: id ask you a big question with 30 seconds remaining i m sorry to do it. thank you so much for doing it. fox & friends starts right now. steve: thank you very much, carley, it is #:00 a.m. here on the east coast on this thursday, january 11th and this is fox & friends. carley: that s right. coming up former president donald trump taking on the top issues last night during the fox news exclusive town hall in iowa. is chris christie back on his good side now that the former new jersey governor has dropped out of the race and said this about nikki haley on a hot mic. she is going to get smoked. you and i both know it. she is not up to this. i have already started to like christie better. [laughter] [cheers] plus, another scare in the air. a flight makes an emergency landing after an open door warning lights up less than a week after the alaska airline mid door panel blowout. brian: i m going to take the train. plus, hunter bid
ainsley: nome as the favorite kristi noem as the governor of south dakota. followed by elise stefanik who you interviewed yesterday who said i would be happy to help the president in anyway. vivek ramaswamy comes in after that. nancy mace being floated. tim scott like we mentioned. i wonder if it s going to be someone who is running against him or if it will be a governor or a lee zeldin type? steve: somebody to help him. brian: other thing i thought was important he said last night. the sarcastic way he answered the funny way he answered sean hannity on the dictator comment has been spun so inaccurately he handled it. he said on day one i m going to do the border. i m going to do dig. i m not going to be a dictator. and then he said on l retributi. i have no time for retribution i have to fix the country. he picked out two common attack operations against him about the dictator and retribution if he gets the job again. lawrence: so the president is having this conversation h
and luhansk provinces. i don t believe they re going to achieve a whole lot of military success. they are moving very slowly. they are about a week behind schedule in terms of their attack operations. ukraine is showing great capability in countering those forces and as more and more equipment gets to the ukrainian forces in the east, especially those artillery pieces to conduct counter artillery fires, you re going to see more of a stalemate for a long time. s as you talk about more equipment that is to make its way, what are you concerns about its distribution and the training of using these new assets? i don t have a whole lot of, you know, counter to say anything about the training. i think the ukrainian soldiers have shown themselves adaptable. they will be able to train very quickly and learn these devices even though they are advanced technology. what i am concerned about in the east, fred, is the supply lines because you not only have to get
nato in 1949, finland and sweden have rigorously maintained their neutrality and refused to join nato, even the people have said well, it would kind of be a good idea to join. it took vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine to switch what has been, in the case of finland, almost 80 years of neutrality. in the case of sweden, neutrality since 1809. so, we re seeing 210 years of neutrality being thrown out by this attack. of, course the russians haven t helped by constantly threatening and in fact conducting attack operations, or exercises, rather, against sweden. and so, this is a fundamental, fundamentally a result of putin s policies. in doing so, he has also
himself up for that and i think he s going down his calculus right now, he being putin. what is my tolerance for the sanctions and other things that i think will happen? it has been made very clear by nato and the united states. there will be no military action taken, other than the weapons we re providing to ukraine. so he ll go through and say, okay. can i get half the country up to the river where i can have most ethnic speaking russians on the eastern part of ukraine and create a land bridge from belarus to crimea? and then he would have all the sea. so i think he has these options rolling down. so it could be a big invasion, a cyber disabling attack, attack operations, a coup which many people believe he is preparing for at any rate. and then the conventional military activity that you see happening now in the four regions that he does occupy. and that s crimea and sba