front line of the free world, engaged in three separate initiatives, one is strong alliances to byzantine a different to russia, to has been the effect of sanctions on russia, we will add to those this coming month with energy sanctions. the third has been essential being sanctions. as well as financial military support for ukrainians fighting. this has been effective, it is working, ukraine is on the march, kherson has fallen. the last thing we need right now is a divided united states trying to rally the world going into a long winter. our thanks to congressman this morning, thanks for joining us. good morning. and coming, up trump s team and for damage control mode after he hosts a white supremacist at mar-a-lago just one week after announcing his 2024 run. does this give republicans yet another reason to get behind others like ron desantis? might power political panel is here next.
about the fact this is nation that believes in freedom. when we believe the declaration of independence speaks to universal human rights, to the fact that everybody is created in the image of god we have a bunch of ukrainians fighting. the boys at snake island the told the russian warship where it could go defined a motto that americans understand in our soul. we may not know snake island geographicly but we get the spirit. vladimir putin doesn t understand snake island and people with courage to lay down their life for freedom because they care about their future. for 30 years as ruler he has spent all of his time trying to drive people back into the pre-1989, pre-1991 world. vladimir putin is the guy who doesn t understand the dignity of humans and joe biden needs to speak for freedom-loving people in this country and elsewhere. dana: he has done it before. we ll see about it tonight. bill: thanks to see you. as ukraine fights for survival, some on the far left are blaming the u.
one and, you know, i was just at the meeting security conference yesterday and in meetings both official and unofficial, western officials and former american generals and very high level individuals have said that if we see ukrainians fighting, if we see the resolve on the part of ukrainians to fight, we will be supplying them with weapons and vladimir putin knows that. it would be, you know, an insurgency and i spent years covering iraq. an insurgency would be a very bloody affair, wouldn t it? it would be indeed, a bloody affair, especially if we talk about large population, you know, centers. once again, it seems very unlikely right now that vladimir putin would go for that sort of scenario, but once again, you cannot discount t vladimir putin has been in a bunker, in
some very fierce fighting. did you see the ukrainian military able to hold off the russian advance there? the russians are trying to take almost every day now, the point here is our forces have been taking back time and time again and that s why the fighting is happening right now. in the region, basically all over kyiv. see u.s. nato weapons getting to ukrainian forces. we see supplies getting in. exactly what weapons, the reality is that, at this moment,
you have mentioned that the anticipation on the ground with the russian forces would make their offensive on kyiv quicker, and it s taken roughly three weeks to try to encroach upon that area. what do you think changed? is it what we re seeing on the ground with respect to ukrainians fighting, being willing to stay in their country and trying to protect it? do you think that is strategically what s here because if it is, it almost sounds like it s become a game of chick when you hear zelenskyy talking about the fact they ll just have to bomb it and have tremendous blood on their hands. reporter: yeah, look, i think it s a two-part issue. one has to do with the ukrainians, one has to do with the russians. on the ukrainian side, there s fierce resistance. the russians are not walking into ukraine as early reports indicated they might. and as moscow really tried to push to their people that a they would. so they ve faced very serious resistance not only around kyiv, but kharkiv, a numbe