his role in january six. reaction from the panel. later, only the lid s when it backfires. gop governors are driving up costs for their constituents. all of that and much more coming right up. a great sunday morning to you. i m katie fang. potentially major news in the war on ukraine today. president volodymyr zelenskyy saying that he is going to meet with united states ecuadorian state anthony blinken, and defense secretary lloyd austin and kyiv today. the white house, national security council, and state department have declined to comment. and the pentagon will not confirm zelenskyy s claims. but this would be the very first visit to ukraine by senior members of the biden administration since the war began. it comes as the u.s. has ramped up military aid and training for ukrainian officers. but perhaps not to the level that zelenskyy would like. at a news conference in kyiv on saturday, zelenskyy said the visits from ukraine s partners in the west are important to help. wh
he s begging world leaders to work together to get them out. joining me now from lviv, cnn s john wass. good morning. russia s defense ministry says he s allowing a cease-fire. do we think russia will honor that? what s been the ukrainian response? the ukrainians don t think the russians will honor that, kristin. they are saying, no, they ll continue to fight. whether you call it a cease-fire, an ultimatum, the russians have been putting this ultimatum out there. there was one sunday, monday and one today. the fighters inside the steel facility are refusing to lay down their weapons, they re tying up thousands of troops. preventing mariupol from falling and they re stopping the russians from creating that land bridge from crimea into the donbas region. it s mostly about tying up russian soldiers. there is a complicating factor. the russians may be planning on leveling that iron facility. it s four square miles. they have the fire power. the problem, kristin, is there are 1,
immigration. and overwhelm the men and women who protect our border. this is the faulkner focus and i m sandra smith in for harris. fox news has learned there were more than 220,000 migrant encounters at the border in march. that is a two decade high. and border officials say there could be 18,000 illegal border crossings a day when the administration lifts title 42 next month. that s the trump-era policy that let border agents turn away large groups of migrants due to covid concerns. we ve also learned there were nearly two dozen known or suspected terrorists caught at the southern border just last year. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say the president needs to be careful before he opens the floodgates. rescinding title 42 was grossly irresponsible. there is a crisis at the border. certainly right now the cartels are looking at title 42. the moment they lift that you ll see a lot more people coming across. we re doing the exact opposite of what we should be d
actually met face-to-face with russian president vladimir putin and says the russian dictator thinks that he s winning, also following a deadly weekend here at home and a terrifying scene in pittsburgh. two dead, nine others wounded at a air bnb property, and a gunman arrested in south carolina at a maul, all that and new questions of dealing with a deadly shooting in michigan and the officer involved and this hour, the new popular covid health hoax on the right. snake blood. that s coming up. we want to begin with russia s war in ukraine, a war, according to austria s chancellor putin thinks he s actually winning, on an interview with meet the press, carl nehoner who met the president in moscow believes the two month war is, quote, necessary despite the losses of his army, including the sinking of the flagship army and death of a russian general on ukrainian soil, good to talk to you. this interhave you with nayhamer, it was fascinating, the meeting with vladimir putin last
have shown how far xi is willing to go. nathan law is a self-exiled activist from hong kong and lo join us what pro-democracy countries expect from president biden. sandra: international effort to avoid war. leaders from the u.s., germany, and france are trying to prevent a devastating conflict between russia and ukraine. something that could happen any day in the words of a senior biden official. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you on yet another week in february. john roberts in washington. the french president is now in moscow to meet with vladimir putin in an attempt to lower tensions and now we have reports of at least two ceasefire violations by russian-backed separatists in ukraine. sandra: general keith kellogg with more in a moment. john: steve. russia could take the capitol in just 72 hours, kyiv, three days time. 83 ba at all battalions, 130,000 troops, deescalation up to the worst case scenario, a full scale in