us and nikki haley. watching what surround way between russia and ukraine. trey yingst is live on the ground where russian forces took power over chernobyl. russian forced crossed from belarus into northern ukraine fighting in an extense battle with ukrainian forces in chernobyl. according to the president s office in kyiv, the russians are in control of this area. a major concern is there is still radioactive material. it s an area of land that has to be closely monitored. there are battles erupting across the country today.
threatening. i know what he has done. the pentagon says they have not seen any shift in russia s nuclear forces. the pentagon announcing that 7,000 more u.s. troops would be deploying from the u.s. to germany. those troops will then come under the command of the 18th airborne corps and used to bolster nato s eastern flank in addition to thousands of troops, 80,000 troops that the u.s. already has in europe. they will go to the baltic states giving this new threatening tone from putin to deter him from going further than ukraine. the president believes putin has ambitions beyond zane. martha: thank you very much.
other side of the world of europe that doesn t have the historical ties ukraine does to europe. the sanctions president biden announced a couple of days ago were quarter measures. today we got half measures. the president needs to bring the european partnerships along for swift. we need to sanction their minerals and take another steps as home. the president set up a budget last year for the military that was inadequate. below the rate of inflation he created. the congress added 25 billion dollars. that will have to go up now. we will have to see a reversal president biden s war on oil and gas production in america. if we were producing more oil and gas in america, not only
the terrence effect has merit. martha: that did not stop vladimir putin from launching a full-scale invasion of ukraine. we bring in former secretary of state mike pompeo and a fox news contributor. we all just watched the president, he talked about sanctions that will be put in place. do you think it was enough? how do you think that fell on the ears of vladimir putin and the people of russia? well, i watched the president speaking while the attacks were coming in ukraine. i am convinced that vladimir putin doesn t care about what president biden said.
would be we energy independent but we could supply the needs of europe to reduce the leverage russia has over them. martha: if he opened keystone, saying we will alter our policies. this moment merits to be independent. i think he would improve numbers with voters he lost. a military question. the president announced that 7,000 troops will go to germany. we bumped our presence in the nato countries. what do you think happens next? what kind of impact can we have by doing that? well, the temporary measure to help reassure our nato partners like poland and hungary, these are not inappropriate. in the long-term we can t continue to commit more combat