military strategy has to be linked to a political strategy, and the political strategy, certainly from everything putin said was to replace zelensky with some sort of puppet regime, on the assumption that ukraine is, sort of, a an non country with no strong national identity, that the people of ukraine are under the thumb of the, sort of, nazis and militarists and so on, which is delusional stuff. and if he d had decent intelligence agencies they might have told him that or if he d listened to them. but i think that was the plan. it depended on getting zelensky and trying to replace him. well, that plan isn t going to work now, even if zelensky is in some way harmed, because you ve now got a mobilised nation ready to take on an invading force. and this is, you know,
gigantic nuclear arsenal and he will threaten to use it and the possibility that he could use a tactical small nuke on the battlefield is real. we should acknowledge that. that s reality. but what the administration is doing is constantly self-deterring by having meeting after meeting after meeting to say well, if we did, this maybe this literally hair splitting thing is the thing that would really make putin mad and then he would do something like, what bomb a maternity hospital and kill babies and moms in the process of delivery? putin is evil and the administration is constantly wrong about who he is and what motivates him and they act like lots of lawyerly distinctions is what he is paying attention to. that s not the right line. bret: you appreciate the side that is worried about world war iii. you appreciate the side after hearing what you hear on the intel committee about putin doubling down the cia director about he is not leaving any time soon, and what does that mean for us
sanctions we his eu partners. we support all the sanctions we will his eu partners. we support all the sanctions we will block his eu partners. we support all the sanctions we will block nothing i his eu partners. we support all the sanctions we will block nothing so l sanctions we will block nothing so what the prime ministers of europe ever able to agree with we accept it. we don t block it. this is not time being clever, this time to be united. so a war. siren drones. backin back in kyiv, air raid siren spring panic. civilians now feel like targets in their own home. ukrainian forces are stalling the russian advance. the fear must be that in an effort to break their resistance, president putin may order a yet more brutal assault. angus crawford, bbc news. ukrainian convoy was on its way to the capital when it was hit by an air strike the capital when it was hit by an airstrike and the capital when it was hit by an air strike and international correspondent 0rla guerin is in uk
with everything putin price hike when talking about the price of gas. obviously gas prices were going up before the ukraine invasion but let s talk about all of that with our panel. katie path listen news editor at town hall.com. juan williams and mollie hemingway federalist. mollie, what do you make of all of this? the situation in ukraine has been not good and the reaction of the biden administration has been confusing. much like what senator ben sas said earlier in the program. it doesn t seem that they have a coherent strategy. they and nato have been all over the place on providing aid and this is a really bad situation brought on in part by that weakness and confusing messaging of the biden administration. at the same time you are hearing people say like lindsey graham said on fox news last night that now would be a good time to remove putin. that s also not a realistic approach to handling the situation. we should be having calm and sober minds seeking to end the
irredeemable. you can t think of a world with putin anymore. dana: judge jeanine? judge jeanine: in russia, also, given what he has done to his own people and the fact that many of his own people don t agree with what he is doing, i think that putin is the persona non grata of the century. perhaps forever. all right. that is it for us. special report is up next. hi, bret. bret: maybe time for jesse to save the world. judge jeanine: he took the line. greg: very good. bret: all right. good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight [gunfire] [shouting] [sobbing] bret: russian strike hit a maternity and children s