so this campaign is full of risk, to be frank about it. normally the russians are a little bit more deliberate than this. they would normally do something that was more sequention. if you are operating at four different axis, they each have to have their own logistical infrastructure to support it. those of us familiar with large scale military campaigns, the people that lead these campaigns, guys like me and general kellogg and petraeus and others, we re a dime a dozen. we re operational commanders. the guys that help win this thing are the logistics men. he has four axis of advance. each one of them has to have logistic infrastructure to sustain that attack along that axis of advance. and that is significant burden he has taken on himself. bill: how long can zelensky
the house foreign affairs committee. you were just in ukraine. this is something that you have paid a lot of attention to as you watch what has unfolded in the last 12 hours. get your initial thoughts and also if you could just give us the mindset of where you think president zelensky, the president of ukraine is today. well, it s a tragedy to wake up this morning in 2022 and to see a sovereign nation invaded by a thug. that s exactly what happened. i was there just over three weeks ago and sat across the table from president zelensky. he said ukrainians would fight for their borders. border security mattered and said we wouldn t be here if it wasn t for an environment of weakness. i believe that weakness has been directly a result of president biden s policies specially regarding nord stream and energy security. i call on president biden and speaker pelosi to make sure that we have broad sweeping sanctions that will cripple the
government here. zelensky is trying to keep calm and make sure people aren t rushing to atms and stores so there isn t a sense of chaos. asked parliament to approve a full mobilization and encouraged people to pick up weapons and fight back. there will be an insurgency in the cities when russian troops come in, kyiv and also the second largest city. there is a ground fighting taking place. one thing to remember here is that when it comes to the military force of russia, they far outgun the ukraine military. when fighting in an urban environment such as the capital of kyiv it will be much more difficult to do so. they may try to draw in some of these forces and engage them in this type of battle. bill: with regard to putin. reports from overnight he made this recording to his own people three days ago. has it been confirmed as of this moment? yes, the metadata in the
night with a reduced size crowd with everyone having to be masked up, even though most of the rest of the world has moved on from the pandemic and figuring out a way to live with it. it feels a little discordant as we head into the state of the union. you re right. it will be a challenge for this president to stream and tie all of those things together in a coherent message. this takes center issue. we have bigger issues. now with crude oil and oil hitting $105 for you start thinking about the implications for americans down the road. there will be a lot i think in the speech today about the costs and suffering that we as americans may face. bill: thank you, bret. we ll be back with you shortly as well. 12:30 we expect the word. dana: we ll see bret all day. russia s declaration of war and attack on ukraine is hitting
go for the eastern blast. it is clear he will denazi the regime in ukraine. the leader of ukraine is jewish. they ll denazi a jew. it s one of the many lies the russians have told us, putin has told us, am bass tore to the united states has told us, lavrov has told us. everything that they have said in the last several weeks turned out to be a brazen lie and we need to respond strongly. dana: for several weeks the administration said they were not going to preemotion actively put deterrents on russia. he had all these troops set up and already escalated. now we have basically on our back foot. we have fairly timid sanctions. maybe the president comes out in two hours and announces