i think one lesson in recent history is that once russians are many your house, it s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave. bret: secretary of state anthony blinken speaking about a cracktown in kazahkstan which has left dozens dead, a former soviet republic, and its president called in russian troops to help. those troops are now shooting to kill, and it s beginning to look like a russian takeover there. meantime, russia is poised to invade neighboring ukraine, tens of thousands of troops amazed along the border there. russia wants to keep ukraine out of nato, the u.s. has threatened serious con consequences in russia invades. fox news contributor, cam rove. fox news correspondent gillian
all the while the president s approval rating plummeting to a record low of 33%. what does this mean for his presidency with three more years to go? joining me right now is tennessee senator marsha blackburn. she sits on the judiciary and armed services committee. senator, good to see you this morning. thank you so much. good to see you. maria: what do you want to say as president biden marks his one year in office this upcoming thursday about the first year and the three years to come? well, joe biden is the first president in history to become a lame duck within the first year of his administration. and it has been a bad week and a bad year. maria, look at the supreme court overruling them on the osha mandate, you look at globally what is happening with russia, kazahkstan, you look at the russia-ukraine issue, you look at iran shooting going after president trump, north korea shooting off a missile, china
stream that would go from russia to germany. i think germany has been reluctant to shut that down, but now you have president biden working with the new german chancellor saying, you know what? we have to look at this seriously and look at if there are alternative sources for natural gas to get to germany. that s a major, major shift in thinking among the germans and a critical sanction, critical punishment potentially for the russians. bret: gillian, meantime, kazahkstan, a country of about 20 million people, about four times the size of texas. it s the second largest oil producer in the ex-soviet state. so what s the significance of kazahkstan s action with russian troops going in, and could this ukraine standoff on the border be kind of a head fake for russia to do some action inside kazahkstan? the reason you just laid out,
america. if they if pull us out of this, the iss wouldn t exist anymore. reporter: in a social media tear on twitter, he claims the sanctions put on russia is to kill the russian economy and plunge the people into despair and hunger, to put russia on, quote with, its knees. he declared i believe that the restoration of normal relations between partners in the international space station is possible only with the complete and unconditioning lifting of illegal sanctions. the recent tensions raised fears that american astronaut mark vandehei might be left behind, but he and two russian cosmonauts landed safely last week in kazahkstan. it is worth noting l rogozin has not provided details as to when and how cooperation would end. eric: molly, thank you so much. hello, kevin hart! earn big time with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee.
the number one superpower, are joe biden s decisions compromised because of all of the money he s taken in? the china initiative, i remember a string of indictments under the trump administration that clearly identified people who were surveilling, who were spying on americans and sending information, intellectual property data back to the chinese government. is that not happening anymore? if i don t understand, why cancel the china initiative? why won t the doj now investigate intellectual property theft any longer? i mean, you have to be suspicious. and, remember, it was all underpinning the whole russian collusion with trump hoax was the media was so concerned that if trump had any ties with russia, that that would undermine the trump presidency and allow for blackmail. and here you have a treasure-trove of evidence ask joe biden that joe biden actually is compromised, he actually has this vast web of connections in china, in kazahkstan, in russia, in ukraine. and yet the media