line with that. brian: i can t believe how he kept his composure to slowly go through each. steve: the president said it didn t happen. peter said okay you said this you said this. brian: be easy to speed up. you knew the president would want to keep you. give you an example walk back. never happened. then he says that i would like to say this. we are not moving our stuff across into that country fast enough and the american people and ukrainian people deserve better. we have $800 million. we said we are going to get those kamikaze drones in there they are not there 2,000 javelins, 100 aerial systems those stingers as i mentioned. the javelins as i mentioned. they all should be there. let alone the harpoons. they are not getting there. we are the slowest out of all our allies in getting the equipment to the ukrainians. ukrainians who we thought had
welcome to the mezzanine level. fox & friends starting officially right now. brian is back from a trip somewhere. brian: yeah. i just want to toll lauren just texted me said for me to let her know i ordered the copy of. i just ordered the coffee. do you think she watches this channel come on. brian: together we pay the bill she gets to watch capable in the green room. ainsley: yesterday people wanted to know where is brian we don t know he doesn t tell us when he is leaving the producer says he doesn t tell us. brian: when i m not here i m fighting crime on my own. ainsley: can t wait to see the city. ainsley: you and geraldo. brian: very similar personalities and background. steve: what city is safer new york city? brian: safer yesterday. steve: a lot of news. start with a fox news alert. the u.s. and the country of
brian: they did have a sense of optimism to the day one to the point where oil dropped around the world. and lavrov came out with a statement saying maybe a meeting with zelenskyy and putin will happen sooner than we think. ainsley: steve interviewed tyler jacob s dad. the mom saying the biggest fear never season again. tyler lived in wurk his wife. married a lady whose family is from that area. they have a daughter together. is he trying to escape to get across the border. gets on a bus with all these ukrainians. the only one with an american passport. russia pulls him off the bus and said you never showed us your passport. he said that s not true. he said we are looking at your information and you look like you could be a spy since you have had military experience in the united states. they grab him and take him and put him in a small little prison cell and keep him there for 10 days. he was freed and now back in the u.s. listen to this. he was on with carley and todd on fox & f
once you get on the ground you get a sense of the warmth of the ukrainian people and how much they have bonded together in defiance and willing to talk to you and help you in any way they can. they are thankful there are western reporters here on the ground telling their stories. steve: all right. griff jenkins, who has been deployed to lviv, thank you very much for the live report. brian, you mentioned in your question to griff about the president and his trip, you know, he was supposed to stick to scripted but he did not and he made a number of gaffes over the last week or two. while he was there on saturday, late in the day, he said essentially sounded like the united states was calling for regime change. earlier he suggested that it sounded lining the united states was going to use chemical weapons. and it sounded like he was talking to some troops over in europe and he was suggesting that they would soon be in ukraine. our white house correspondent asked him about all the gaffes
not buying it. no one should be fooled by russia s announcement. we believe any movement of forces around kyiv is a redeployment not a withdrawal. everyone should expect that we are going to continue to see attacks across ukraine. brian: can we trust vladimir putin to act in good faith and how do you get him to act at all? our next stranger. negotiate with the taliban during the trump administration and joins us now. adam, what s the challenge of dealing with vladimir putin. what should you know going in. i think what you should always know with putin is. [lost audio] brian: i think we are about to unfreeze that, i got a sense. so a couple of things as we wait for adam to queue up again. start again. you said what you should know in dealing with putin and then we