what s your reaction to trump s comments there, hayes? i mean, defending his praise of putin, trying to downplay the close relationship they had when he was in office. what do you make of it, and ultimately, giving a level of propaganda to vladimir putin by calling our leadership dumb. well, first of all, bully recognize bully. he is seeing russia and putin specifically act towards ukraine in a way that he recognizes. he recognizes it when someone who is bigger pushes around someone smaller, and looks at him and says, ah yes, i see what you are doing there, and i think good job. so on the one hand there s that. on the other, you hear him say, oh, russia can take over a whole country and there s sanctions? what you don t hear is what he would do instead. trump in this speech and other times addressing this crisis has said, oh, well putin just wouldn t have done it when i was in charge. he wouldn t invade other countries. he didn t say what he would be doing at this point. russia has
forward. nothing certainly will happen with taiwan this year, but i believe the next couple of years are pretty dangerous years in terms of china s aggressiveness in the region. emily: general, in terms of the american impact, and much depends on how we respond, right? putin came out and said if we sanction the swiss banking system for international trade, russia might consider that an act of war, so this is very delicate on the part of our decision-makers, and as we head into the next hour where we expect these difficult, delicate decisions that our administration general keane: well, we are at a stage where the consequences we can punish and exact retribution for, hold
that s about 4:00 in the afternoon. in kyiv, you say the red dots start to fill in here. as of 11:30 eastern time, within the last hour, you see is multiply again. let me go back to 7:30 to give you the contrast. you can see it, many areas in the western part of the country and also around kyiv. i ll explain that to you in a moment. what greg palkot is picking up in london right now is in kyiv there is still heavy fighting. there s an air base outside of town that is now heavy fighting is underway. kyiv is a town of 3 million people. it is a key target for putin s army. over here in the east you might have seen a lot of this on social media. the russian armory came through in the middle of the night, that s another big city, 1.4 million people. donetsk, population in the
in pursuit of relationships with the united states and europeans. that has frustrated putin significantly. so ukraine is a part of what we all know is his desire, to change the balance of power in europe, to bring to belarus and ukraine under his orbit. i m absolutely convinced that he will pressure the baltics. of all the states that are aligned in the eastern europe under the umbrella of nato, it is the baltic states that are the most vulnerable. that s not good. i m not suggesting he s going to attack them, but he s going to put pressure on them. this isn t going to be immediate. obviously has a major campaign he has running here. let me just say that putin has selected the most ambitious and complicated military option in conducting this campaign.
closely with general keane s thought that i. i m also looking at most arabs states, who had largely or refrain from taking a position on this matter. israel and turkey publicly condemned russia s invasion of ukraine. contacted zelenskyy earlier today and purportedly said all parties should exercise restraint and resolved through diplomacy. i mean it s interesting how the rest of the world reacts. but specifically china as you said, martha. coming up we are watching putin s deadly assault on ukraine unfold in real time now. fox news has reporting on the ground, even in kyiv, where you saw our reporter have to do on his gear to protect himself because things are rocking outside that city. russian troops have surrounded the country on three sides, but they are also outside of kyiv now. stay with us.