he is 80. polling shows 65% of voters believe he s too old to effectively serve another four years and renewing scrutiny around the dnc not holding primary debates with jack dorsey tweeting this. open the democrat primaries and debates. this isn t fair to anyone. let s bring in our panel. joe concha, columnist at the mess messenger. juan williams and lee carter. welcome to you all. joe, to you first. it seems like the media says the gop is pouncing on joe biden s fall. let s play a little montage and get your response. okay. his age is an issue here. the republicans immediately jumped on this. they blasted it all over social media. givening voters concerns, this is not an image that his critics are pouncing on. this is not pouncing, this is relevant to this campaign. poll after poll shows that people are concerned about joe biden s age. as you said, other polls showing 2/3s of voters saying that they don t believe he has the physical or mental fitness or the the job
extremists. a phrase you can expect to hear a lot of in the coming months. these two likely opponents and spends zero time on threats from a broad, on china or russia in this particular ad. 60% of americans have low confidence in the president s ability to handle an international crisis, which is likely on the watch of this next president. 80% of americans are dissatisfied with the way that things are going in the country right now. a lot to dig into as we start to get a look at the shape of what is to come over the next several months of this election. we ll talk to bill and brian in just a moment. first to peter doocy standing by. hi, peter. martha, a surprise. president biden s first remarks since the big announcement did not mention the big announcement. instead, he stuck to his recent stump speech with lines like this. it s a fact that our economic plan is working. we now have to finish the job. there s more to do. the republican national committee s first crack a
8:00 in the morning. so right in the early morning rush hour here in kyiv. and the early times there was sirens going off for a very long time. and then just blast after blast that took place as the rockets were impacting the ukrainian capital here. and some of the places that we went to were in central kyiv. for instance there was a playground that was hit leaving a gigantic kracrater and a busy insection and there was just a seen of carnage at that intersection with several cars completely destroyed. we saw some dead bodies there as well and the ukrainians told us that five people were killed at that place alone. and just to give you an idea of the area that that was in, this was next to a museum and next to a university building. it is unclear that there would have been any sort of military infrastructure there. there certainly didn t seem to be any. and the ukrainians are telling us this is a scene that is going on in many parts of the country here in ukraine. they say th
more than 1,000 people have been detained across russia and heavily policed protests. you always feel worried at a time like this. if you have a wife and kids, i wouldn t want to leave them. it comes as occupied areas announce snap referendums on joining the russian state. for critics, a tiny fig leaf to cover a blatant annexation of ukrainian land and an opportunity to halt ukraine s advancing army by warning the western backers to defend the mother land. even the newest bits. translator: this is not a bluff. citizens of russia can be sure our territorial integrity, our independence and freedom will be ensured with the means at our disposal and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. reporter: it s a threat ukraine bristoling with u.s. and western arms has already rejected out of hand. officials recruiting the kremlin of throwing more men into the flames of a war it has no chance of winning. but in
who can t afford it. martha: the dow is up a lot on that news. in less than 24 hours, we ll know if the u.s. is officially entering a recession. charles payne joins me on that. and the other big story that we start the hour with here on this wednesday, china. warning the united states saying that when it comes to nancy pelosi s trip, it s a red line for them. china recognizes obviously china believes that taiwan is part of china, that it s not an independent country that can greet u.s. officials on their own. when asked were republicans from the hill will join her on this trip, the speaker said this. i never talk about travel. it s a danger to me. so why is the white house trying to dissuade this trip? we ll ask john kirby about that. he joins us in a few moments from there. first, to gillian turner covering this story for us today. it s a story that keeps moving all throughout the last couple hours, gillian. what is the very latest? martha, this just in. the secretary