touch. you were right. that was kind of a buzz kill. politico sam stein, thank you for the great polling information. we will speak to you again soon. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. stick around for morning joe, which starts right now. a senator who has never run anything at all, but his mouth. the senator obviously resorting to lying, cheating and trying to steal. senator, how gullible to you really think florida voters are? repeating yourself again. we ve seen this show before. socialist, socialist, crazy, marxist, silly when one would you prefer? on your list for talking points. look, the senator can play national security expert all he wants. i know he needs that for his next presidential run. yeah. i mean i don t know what you mean playing national security, vice chairman of the intelligence committee and previous chairman. it s actually my job. some of the highlights from last night s fiery
this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
escalation of the war in ukraine, announcing the mobilization of some 300,000 russian reservists and threatening a nuclear attack in clear and disturbing terms. translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. now global leaders are responding to that, calling that announcement from putin a sign of panic and the administration saying an admission of failure. this as the mayor of kyiv says putin has, quote, launched the process that will bury him. the question, though, today, jim, is how will president biden respond when he speaks in just over an hour in front of a global audience? no question, and how seriously does the world take what is a very public threat from the russian president who has often followed through on threats. our team is
toss-up in the senate. everything the american people care about is on the ballot. issue after issue, democrats are fail the american people. nikki haley is incredible governor. what is your name again. stoops to a new low it nikki haley using a fake name. there are some of us that can be camille yans and decide not to embrace our ethnicity. deplete left field. there it goes. will james judge has tied babe ruth with 60 home runs. good morning, everybody. 6:00 a.m. here in new york city. 1:00 in the afternoon in moscow. and we start with a fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin now threatening to use nuclear weapons and putin says i m not bluffing. ainsley: saber rattling comes as president biden is heading to the united nations. that happens later today to address the general assembly about the war in ukraine. brian: putin is humiliated already. what will he do? we can t tell. we have kevin corke to bring us up to date on what s at stake. kevin
to combat surging inflation. and are the rising price is going to stop? speak of the 3-1. deep to left field. there it goes! aaron james judge has tied babe ruth with 60 home runs! ainsley: we start with the fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin now threatening to use nuclear weapons, declaring he is not bluffing. brian: the threat comes as president biden is heading to the united nations later today to speak at about 10:30. he s going to address world leaders. we think they ll listen. speak when he s going to tie up traffic on the east side. brian: which is more important. steel and that s where we find jacqui heinrich, joining us by the east river and the united nations. hey, jacqui. good morning, steve, ainsley, and brian. this was supposed to really hinge on food insecurity as a result of russia s war in ukraine, but putin threat to use nuclear weapons and his call-up of the country s 300,000 reserve troops has really sent a chill, and that partia