swift gets a lot of attention. it is a fancy way of explaining how close to 200 countries on this planet conduct business. now iran and north korea are not part of it, but if you think about it, they have found other ways to bartering and smuggling and nefarious back channel ways of getting at, is to override it. but the fear seems to be that without exacting that punishment on russia, it is free to conduct business in the western tradition, if you will, of the financial system. that is something that is a little weird. some people think you have to kick them out. i liken swift to the way we wire money on this planet. you can wire from luxembourg and germany as well as the united states and get funds back and forth electronically. it is an easy system for nations
0 security council and participated in a virtual g7 leadership meeting to talk about all that is going on. we expect to hear from the president on what he calls and unprovoked ms. by russia. more than 90 minutes later than what he was saying. so it will be interesting. what will he say, and will he take questions? keep it here on fox. sandra: fox news alert as war breaks out in ukraine after russia launches a full-scale attack, hitting cities and military bases with more than 100 ballistic missiles. large explosions could be heard across the country has russian forces moved in from three science. at least 40 ukrainian soldiers were reportedly killed so far, and a number of casualties is expected to rise. john: world leaders are ready to respond to hammer moscow. covering this from all of the angles with our expert lineup. bret baier, general jack keane, stephen moore, robert wolf, daniel hoffman, brett bruen will all join us, coming up. sandra: and that s where we began this hour
other people around washington with the real possibility as it turned out in the end the reality that it ended up getting leaked to the public. martha: you know, but do you put credence in the notion, chris, that enough people were aware of this that they felt they didn t want to leave either one of these sides, either the president or president-elect flat footed. they wanted to say we put it in fronts of you, it s unverified and around and deals with your relationship with russia and being compromised in some way you should take a look so you re aware of it. that s a legitimate argument. the counter argument, though, is that when you have a briefing this is a highly charged political briefing because of all the things that trump has said about the intelligence community. when you have that briefing and in that briefing you put this at them. there are a lot of back channel ways you could have gotten the information to president-elect trump. when you do that in the