forces, that means you are closer to doing a dramatic military operation and i think they are looking at taking a hunk out of eastern ukraine to give themself a huge land bridge between crimea and russia proper, the bridge over the black sea, so i think they are gearing up to go and i think it should be very, very worrisome. my concern is that i don t think we are taking it very seriously. what i mean by that, president biden, seems like he s always a step behind when it comes to national security and i think it s a huge instance where he is in fact, and the nation is a step behind. sandra: on that note, the president s press secretary was asked about this developing story in the press briefing this morning. she said this, listen. we are concerned the russian government is preparing for an invasion in ukraine, widespread human rights violations and russia is laying the ground work to have the option of a pretext
could possibly imagine. again, no mention of anything that s going on with the immigration front, no mention of foreign policy, add it to the laundry list of things that went wrong this week. john: let s put up on the screen the results of a new quinnipiac poll. president biden s overall approval rating stands now at 33% on the economy, he s 34%, 35% on foreign policy and just 39% on the coronavirus pandemic. he is way upside down on all of the major issues, and when things start going sixes and sevenes, white house staff gets sarcastic. things seem like they are going poorly right now for the white house. you know. build back better, blocked, voting rights blocked, diplomatic at 40-year high, virus is setting records for
are a bit north of 250. so, still making progress on those cases. sandra, and these are just federal arrests. we have many, many state charges against the head of the oath keepers, he will be before a judge in the next 90 minutes. back to you. sandra: you ll keep us posted. thank you. john. john: sandra, as if president biden did not have enough problems here at home, he could have an international crisis to add on to the pile. sandra: the pentagon warning it looks like russia is getting even closer to invading ukraine and american allies. so how should and how will president biden respond? general keith kellogg will join us after the break.
john: after a horrible week the president could not even get relief from his friends in the media. howard is coming up on that. democrats remain determines to jam through his agenda. chad, next week chuck schumer will play the role and try to role the boulder up the hill yet again. i like the reference, good afternoon. stymied by members of his own party, build back better last month, voting rights this month. democrats will try again next week to change filibuster provisions just for voting rights. g.o.p. will filibuster the democrats bill. if the senate republicans choose obstruction over protecting the sacred right to vote as we expect them to, the senate will consider and vote on changing the senate rules as has been done many times before to
i think, you know, part of the problem people have with trying to wrap their brain around this, we spend so much time on federal law enforcement that i think we don t always, you know, we don t realize the cities are set up differently. for example, federal law was not being enforced, then the president would fire the u.s. attorney, to have the attorney general do it, if that is what was necessary to do that. that doesn t work in the state because the district attorneys are separately elected. kind of their own political animal, and you have this weird situation where the mayor is separately elected but the police answer to the mayor, not to the district attorney, why you see them now reaching out to the federal authorities because the police can have that relationship with the feds independent of the district attorney. sandra: in the case of