today s white house briefing with jen secretary jen psaki who takes questions on president biden s agenda. it s about 55 minutes. joining us today is barat, deputy director of the national economic council for financial reform and consumer protection. he was formally the managing director of the corporate power program at the roosevelt institute. he also served on the congressional oversight commission for the c.a.r.e.s. act, a position he was appointed to by senate majority leader chuck schumer last year. previously ba rat was top economic adviser to senator elizabeth warren during her 2020 campaign and senior council for banking and economic policy in her senate office. he will give you deliver some brief remarks, take some questions and thank you so much for joining us. good afternoon. earlier today the president had the chance to visit a couple small businesses here in town. one is a locally owned hardware store that s been around for 150 years. the other, which lea
Secretary of state john kerry arrives. The real problem comes from the kremlin. We are fighting with the Russian Regular army. And a consensus that the west must do more to defuse this dangerous conflict. Is this evening we are following developments on both the diplomatic and the military fronts in ukraine. On the same day peace talks got underway in kiev, ukraines military says several soldiers were killed. And three more civilians were killed in shelling near donetsk. We begin with Charles Stratford on the front lines and a warning. Some of the images in his report may be disturbing. Tatiana and her children are lucky to be alive. As shells exploded around her home near debaltseve. Drove them to safety. When we were evacuated the rockets started raining down on us. The volunteers told us to get down. I took the risk because i had to save my children. Reporter tanniantannian ah and her children took shelter. There are 50 other people here who also fled the violence. The makeshift dor
Terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. More from the Freshman Center who schools the administration in terrorism. And also fights wars. Hes a veteran. He was bur shoplifting but then this cop let him go. Its not black and white for us. Theres a lot of gray. And you have to cipher through everything and you really need to figure out the whole story. Why he had a change of heart. Its friday and mornings remain better with friends. Its time for fox friends. Tgif thank goodness its fox. And friday as well. Were live this morning from studio e. Glad youre here and were going to bring you a fox news alert off the top. Were looking live where jordanians are marching in sol dari with the solidarity with the family of their murdered pilot by isis. Fighter jets launching airstrikes on isis targets in syria. President obama is expected to step up our assault finally against the militants and ask congress to authorize military force. Leland vittert details us on that
And to go beyond to build the conditions for humanity to live together in peace. Meanwhile, president obama delivered more nuanced talk but with little action to back it up and that has even some Top Democrats restless. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry has tonights top story. Reporter jordans military pounded isis targets today with 20 of their fighter jets plus 21 american planes as King Abdullah met with the family of the jordanian pilot who was burned alive. Jordans foreign minister exclusively telling fox that after that brutal murder the air raids have intensified. We are going to go after them wherever they are and we are doing that. Reporter the National Prayer breakfast, president obama offered some of his toughest words yet. We see a brutal vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of par barrism. Reporter the president s critics are pushing for him to back up those words with more action. This president is sitting on the sidelines pu
Hearings, there are many experts who would contend the complexity of the geopolitics that led to the u. S. Retreat from europe created an opening for putin and the ukraine. Clearly we must closely coordinate with our european friends for the sanctions against russia to work but i think without any doubt we can all agree on one point and that is that the United States must take the lead. I believe the administration the legislation passed with unanimous consent in both houses of congress. It authorized the president to provide much needed military and humanitarian aid to ukraine and imposes additional sanctions against russia. This legislation was necessary in december. And it is certainly necessary today. Now, we all want a diplomatic solution. But this can only come about when at the cost of continuing to ravage ukraine is simply too high. Providing nonlethal equipment like night vision goggles is all well and good. Giving ukrainians the ability to see russians coming, but not the wea