designations for i try to get the cartels designated that. irgc in iran, they certainly deserve that. i think it is tricky with russia. again, i think the best thing we could do is give them what they need now so they could win in the short-term. we re going to go into winter time. they have could have an offensive to take out the drones right now. i ll never forget being in the 82nd airborne right when this operation was starting, 50 miles of russian tanks stuck in the mud north of kyiv and we couldn t do a darn thing about it to take them out. and all they needed was one war hog to do that, that is a plane. why? so what you re saying is they don t need a designation to help them win this fight, they need artillery? very symbolic. what we need are the weapons that and you read between the lines in the speech, zelenskyy was being very gracious but he had to say that.
long column. you need a big unit, a big fighter pilot unit like a-10 war hog that the u.s. has would be effective in an environment like that. when you talk about a couple drones, you can make a couple strikes and get out, otherwise you are putting your equipment at risk. you need more air power than the ukrainian have right now. their air power and air field suffered significant damage in the early stages of the invasion. todd: mike tobin setting the stage. thank you. let us bring in nigel faragi. it is the question, should nato be doing more and if so, what should they be doing? nigel: aircraft, nato have state of the art aircraft, great squadrons, we could, if we chose go in and take out that k4r78, as we does in the iraq war.
0 we ll find out in the days ahead on whether or not russia has the resources. we continue to watch the 40-mile convoy, it sits just outside of kyiv. fox and friends first with todd piro and carley shimkus is next. i m trace gallagher, live from los angeles. todd: a fox news alert, the united states taking new action against russia. president biden using his state of the union address to reaffirm support for the ukrainian people. there is a rampage against kyiv. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. we have mike tobin live on the ground in lviv. more on the next steps from nato. todd: griff jenkins with more on the key steps left out of biden s speech. griff. griff: the president spoke for an hour, drawing bipartisan applause and promising to hold putin accountable, announcing closure of u.s. air space for russian flights. president biden: he met with a wall, he met ukrainian people. join ally necessary closing american air space to all russian flights. griff: biden
never served and donald trump his five deferments from vietnam, then theus yam for using our military around the world without going back to congress for authorization as the framers intended it. as a veteran yourself, what do you make of that? well, i think the john boltons of the world are hard for us when he said he didn t want to die in a rice patty in vietnam and he is a war hog. one of the conversations i had with president obama before he left office was with a group of veterans and he said, you know, there aren t that many veterans left in congress and, yes, there is no draft so we don t make a large percent of the population but he goes i think your voice is important because if i fought everywhere in the world the republicans wanted me to fight we would be in wars in eight different countries. i think that s one of the big reasons we try to get more veterans elected, like some of our veteran members in congress that can hold this president accountable. right now congress is
listen to john bolton. well, i would not have referred the matter to congress. and i think if i were a member of congress i would vote against an authorization to use force here. i don t think it s in america s interest. i don t think we should in effect take sides in the syrian conflict. that s interesting, john kirby. how do you think that will inform what happens today? he should be consistent on this. everybody talks about bolton being this war hog. if you really read what he has written and read his speeches, he is much more nuanced in that. he is hawkish when he believes an incident is in direct violation or harmful to national security interests. when he doesn t believe it is, and he has been clear the civil war has not raised to that level, he will rise against intervention. he will be supported by i think many in the pentagon, as i said before, who aren t interested in another ground war in the middle