lindsey graham. here s the grayest shade of gray and the biggest element, it s the gray a matter between vladimir putin s ears. it s whatever s going on in his mind, and that s what we have to answer. gillian is certain and i appreciate her certain i about what would provoke american response what we do no not know is what will provoke a vladimir putin response. i agree there are things we can do short of launching the nukes to deter vladimir putin, but what we really need to be considering and it s not being a putin tool and it s not being a propagandist to try to say let s attempt to understand his mind because if you don t understand the mind of your enemy, you cannot defeat your enemy. howard: yeah. and that is challenging these days with putin being so isolated. gillian, do you think the saturation coverage of this war by very bravists including those at this brave journalists including at this network has hammered hope that putin is a
in i ve never held a gunning in my life. however, right now once russia declared war on us, i got super, super angry. howard: sometimes a traditional media outlet helps a video go viral as in the case of a teacher who was badly wounded when her home was bombed. she said, never, under any conditions, will i submit to putin. it is better to die. just heartbreaking. now, one problem is that some of the pictures and videos posted to places like tiktok have turned out to contain untrue information, but those posting real stuff are enabling the world to see the ugly face of putin s brutal invasion, and that is why he is badly losing the social media war. that s it for this edition of immediate mediabuzz, we ll continue this conversation on twitter as we cover this extremely important story. check out media buzz meter,
talks produced ceasefire attempts, parties are scheduled to talk again tomorrow. howie? howard: that safe evacuation promised by the russians turned out to be just another lie. mike tobin, thanks very much for your reporting, stay safe. joining us now from the pentagon is jennifer griffin who covers national security issues for fox news. jennifer, the world the whole first week was cheering, inspired at the brave resistance of the ukrainians slowing the russian military. paradoxically, and this is not as heart-warming a storyline, hasn t that forced russia to use even more brutal tactics, to lie, to go after civilians and, for example, blacking evacuation from this port city of mariupol where they re running out of food, water and electricity and yet the shelling is preventing people from leaving? reporter: absolutely. in fact, what we ve seen is the very effective javelin missiles that have taken out tank columns and the stinger missiles that
kind of resis towns they re going to face, but the ukrainian people are pledging to fight. we have seen it in the streets here, civilians picking up arms, molotov cocktails, anything they can find. just a few days ago we met with the president, and he said he will stay and fight on behalf of his people. howard? howard: trey yingst, thanks very much. the pundits are certainly clashing over how much responsibility president biden bears for the invasion of ukraine, but almost everyone is onboard with the notion that america and its allies must use all our pressure against vladimir putin. as long as the u.s. and joe biden and our european allies, as long as they continue to import oil and gas from russia, you, the american people, ostensibly are funding this war and making russia and putin richer hand he s ever been. it does feel morally intolerable, as the ambassador was putting it, for the western world to stand united and
was when he said the united states stands with the people of ukraine. he also did a very good job explaining not explaining, or selling that covid is sort of coming to, we re coming to the other side of that, and life is going to go back to normal. unfortunately for the president though, howie, these are not the issues that are animating democrats or republicans going into the midterms. there s still a cry ace9 the u.s crisis at the u.s. southern border, still record high inflation, there s still a crime crisis in america s major cities. these are the issues that are turning people out come november. didn t really do i hate to say he didn t do a good job because some of those issues he didn t even touch on. howard: he did touch on a lot of issues, and i think the media were expecting a reset for the midterms, but he crammed in so many proposals and ideal ideas that it was dizzying. on and on. did it sound to a lot of people like just more big government spending? well, let s