already through the volunteer group, providing drones and other things. so they're going to continuel t to to to support russia againsto to work with russia, against us , because there are nos, consequences. that's the calculation. you know, a million americans fo died from from a virus thats tht they haven't been confronted t10 about. one hundred thousand americanse have died from fentanyl, that they haven't been confronted diedabout. spy balloon just flew over our whole country. and not only did we not get an n apology, they've essentially demanded an apology from us . w said a while we returbon their spycraft to them. no, no, no offense is toose i great. >> they'ves beeton able to get they away with everything c with thi administration and why wouldn't wouldn they see thi't they s as a windf opportunity?it i hate to say it, but the fear, se of many of us ise that they see a two year window of opportunity for continued aggression thad that may not ee after two more yearsr . inte yeah, continue to gather intelligence, continue to pump andpeople and deadly drugs acrs
0 so whatever .e now we learn that on february ho 8th, harris flew to atlanta forh a speech. she was in there for two. she s the sam at the same time, gavin newsom showed up in washington and went to the white house. soo >> that's not proof, but it' ws something to watch for sureforw. going forward. we're out of time. have the best night with the ones you love. sean hannity starts right now.sn welcome to this specialr sean o edition of "hannity". i'm pete hegseth, in for seann , on this monday night. presipresident's day.ts are >> and tonight, the lights are bethey might be on at the white house. >> you can see right there in. a live shot. but joe bidebut joe biden is not >> p he's been president . stay abroad. ad in kyiv, ukraine, with another president where joe held hands with vladimir zelenskyy and pledged an additiona vlar l taxpay 500 million us taxpayer dollarsi in military aid.s ha >> so far , the united states has appropriatedio one hundred and thirteen billion of your dollar s for end i the ukrainian war effort with no end in sight.sight. joen that's all joe biden will say.r this will never end. n matt gae florida congressman matt gaetz told fox news .com, quote,tztold on president's day. >> i'm not surprised that biden is ditching america for ukraine. day, i'm not he ditched america's interests since the start of his presidency. >>t joe bide they can keep him. cherkin gates was referencing the disaster in east palsson, s refereohio, which has been vid ignored by this administration. nom this visits from biden or pe pete or anyone else from the white house, for that matter. and until recently, fema, the federal emergency emergencyh management managing it agency has also been mi fea until they were shamed into deployinge a team two weeks afterd the crisis.to deploying a team two weeks later an unfolded and just moments after donald trump said he'drump saidd be visiting. under biden, be visiting under biden. serious problems. they have a tendency to fester f both at home and abroad.es at homt china, for example, continues to saber rattle all over the world. >> and is still refusing to apologize for flying a spyd balloon all the way across our entire country. >> watch apo for. you just got out of a meeting that in diplomatic terms is called on margins with your counterpart, wang lee of china.g with wei have read the readout. >> we have stated about what you said to him. about, i guess what i'm more concernedo about is what did he say to you? 1, didno. >> one , did it begin with an apology for the balloon? chuck, i don't want to characterize what he said. i don't think that would be appropriate. although i can tell you noo , ar there was no apology we know there was definitely n o apology. characterize what he said but where do we go from here? defin >> joining us now with more,gy. where do we go jormer director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. mr. director , thankin n you vey much for being here. hav so it's president's day. he could have gone, i don't know, the washington lincoln memorial that befitting on a president's day instead or east palestine for people who are suffering instead. he's ove orr in ukraine pledging even more for that effort. there. yet we also this is anotherg mo aspect to this, too, mr.or director . the the communist chinese have i sent their their foreign ministergn at the same time sped to moscow. so as we spend more in ukraine, china and russia seem to be getting closere . well, you know, even if you badly th look at how badly the bidenkrai administration has mismanaged ukraine up to this point , a war that many of us believe avo a strong president could have avoided, wid, wee believe that,e it was biden's weakness inn afghanistan that prompte even if tin to move on ukraine in the first place. >> even if you set that aside,an if you set aside that on the second day of the russian invasion, biden essentially wantedrussiainvasior he ukraine. remember, he offered zelenskyy r a ride out of the countrede ouye if you set that aside and you set aside that for the past r year, no matter whether we'ret talking about stinger missiles or javelins,er or anti artillery in or tanks, the biden administration in delivering supporint has been slow and late and indecisive, even when you set all that aside, it's just hard to fathom what a blunder this was that this national was security team would send him five thousand miles away to ukraine when they haven't sent him two hundred and fifty miles away. y toukraine and thto east paless and talk about ukrainian not pri just providing weapons, but buti talking about welfaret we and ukraine pensions and support to the ukrainian people when whenlfe an there's a train derailment and an environmental disaster. >> and this truly is a ukraine first. >> ohi firsto policy. rig >> and you're right at allht. at the same, while thisrages only encourages and emboldens china to to help russiana and fr them to work together. b and what has been and will continue to be a multi directional assault on american supremacy that they that sup they have done for the last two years. and we can expect to continue have done and will continue to do. for the next two years. >> you talked about vladimir you putin's calculation as pertained to ukraine, and i think you're right about that.c. they smelled he smelled weakness. they smelled an opportunity. they went fosmr itel just like d they did under obama. ent but when it comes to the communist chinese, what is their calculation in their involvement in ukraine and how much is it that does it. have to do with their view ofr washington? hey, we can get away with this. view o? the same time weakend at america? well, everyone saw whathanistan happened in afghanistan.china ct china certainly did. but makeainldid. no mistake, ch been involved in ukraine since day one , the day that china aaid it will take from russi all of the oil and gas that you want to sell us . they essentially said to vladimir putin, will fundt your war against ukraine. so now that they're talking about getting more directly involved with weapons not a and ammunition, i mean, it'sdifn really it's not a whole lot fron different from what they've spready been doing. in fact, i suspect that they'vee been providing lethal aidit already through the volunteer group, providing drones and other things. so they're going to continuel t to to to support russia againsto to work with russia, against us , because there are nos, consequences. that's the calculation. you know, a million americans fo died from from a virus thats tht they haven't been confronted t10 about. one hundred thousand americanse have died from fentanyl, that they haven't been confronted diedabout. spy balloon just flew over our whole country. and not only did we not get an n apology, they've essentially demanded an apology from us . w said a while we returbon their spycraft to them. no, no, no offense is toose i great. >> they'ves beeton able to get they away with everything c with thi administration and why wouldn't wouldn they see thi't they s as a windf opportunity?it i hate to say it, but the fear, se of many of us ise that they see a two year window of opportunity for continued aggression thad that may not ee after two more yearsr . inte yeah, continue to gather intelligence, continue to pump andpeople and deadly drugs acrs our southern border while working with the cartels and continue to poison- the minds of people terribly. >> that that's the concern. they'll move militarilyl on taiwan while there's a window of opportunity and essentially, you know, we've given no indications thath are ever going to be considered by the biden administration anything but a friendl be consi. competitor, because that's what we keep telling them, no matter what offense keep tellin they co matter what aggression against our country and our citizens, they just keep getting away with it. >> yeah, while we hold hands with ukraine, as if that is the largest strategigettinc imperat on planet earth right now. well, next to climate changeit, tor we director cliff, thank you very much for your time a tonight. we appreciate it.ppreciate it. sadly, whether the presiall right.broad, sadly, whether the president is at home or abroad, you know this biden will find a wayd by to embarrass, embarrass himself ex and by extension, our countryst. on the world stage. >> watch this from today. a coalition of nations from the atlantic to the pacific, a, nato to the atlantic, japan and the pacific. i meann , across the across across the world. the number o the world, a numbef r of nations that have over 50 wo here now with reaction, south carolina congresswoman nancsouth y bass. so if you're the americane people, are you confidenyot in this endless endeavor this administration is undertaking eo and you're vladimir putin keeping, are you wary of thir s ad alliances that seems to beare f everywhere and nowhere? >> and he didn't reall ty lay oh right. and that was quite the wordsalau salad. if you ask me, kind of an embarrassment on the world stage and to be in ukraine on presidents day, as was just da mentioned, rather than goinghan where americans are re to ohialo, where americans realy are suffering on the one largest environmental disastere. in my lifetime, at least itn is an embarrassment.assm and this president'sent. abject failure on foreign policy started with a failed evacuation in afghanistanghan and ended last week or two weeks ago.istan ano week ago when he allowed a chinese spy ball when he allowed a chinese spooy balloon to traverse all the way across our country ovey overr nr sites, military sites before it was shot down. and they knew about it lon downg before then.t it it is an embarrassmentore th on the world stage. and guess what? i just goten. got back from the munich security conference, so i gots s to see this firsthand while i was overseas. and there's great concern about what's going on in ukraine. but we've got to be strongere'su than us . >> well, i heard it was basically the ukrainian security conference. has t how do we get more weapons there? and it seems that the administration is falling right into step on that. tell me help me with theh th mindset of this congresswoman. sohe he's now spent about tim ten times more time.esore time or five tim i or five times or three times more time in ukraine. >> than he has.nd it has at least policy and the border combined. border com, pit stops at the bor or pit stop. >> how much his administratione? has been in ukraine, what's.. yes, what's the mindset of that view? we're going to spend billions in ukraine, but ignore o our problems at home. >>urs right. it's ukraine first and it'spo america last is the policyli cye thing and the one thing thas to stress, too, is that we have yo a country invest a hundred and thirteen billion dollars. as you said earlier tonight inur the program, one hundred and thirteen dollars billion has been invested. and we've seen this invested.s fumble the ball. if administration fumbled the ballv .est if you're going to invest thattu money, use it the wase it thy tt should be to get the lethal aidn there, to do it faster. and we're looking and watching i've and i've seen this over the last year, the statent fumbl department fumble e and slow ro. the aid that we're sending over there. and they don't have that much . on top of that on president' time. and then on top of it,o ukrain on president's day, he goes to ukraine, hasn'te an even heo hasn't even mentioned ohio is palestine isn't even talkinea about visiting it.re those people are suffering.. they n they need to hear fromeer fromtheir president. they need and they're not they need a they need support.d. our border wall , of course,five five million over five million people have crossed illegally into this countrople havy. and according to all the drugs c and fencing all coming across,o i just had a friend i know three or four weeks ago from an. accidental fentanyl overdose. th this is serious stuff that'sis happening. our border and every town in this country today is a border b . >> so when willie spend thesone billions just real quick, we don't havea lot of a lot of tim. but what is what's the easily stated digestible stated in state ofnds these hundreds of billions we're sending to ukraine? what do we o get out of it at send this point? >>to ukr well, i think it's imp that we that we protec t attenti ukraine. i mean, this all startedon t,goi i think, in 08 when the westd in didn't pay attention. what was going on in georgia,me that in 14 we had crimea and then the donbas region and putin feels emboldened. now he's got iras n and chinappi supporting him and his war inng ukraine. but the united states made wemmitmentst in the 90made to ukraine. apone thin they gave up their nuclearricans weapons. but the one thing that i think f americans don't know a lotl resn about is all of the natural resources in rare earth minerals the united states uses .es. if putin get f that,s ah the cost of war is going to be far greater than the cost of him.n taking ukraine will be13 far greater thanbillion th one hundred and thirteen billion dollars that we're investing right now. we'rat we'ree talking about neo, and palladium. we're talking about lumber or wheat and barley. lumber, wheat, barley, further security for the united states food security for the united wo. states and around the world. this it is a bigig deal , but te we're going to invest that kind of money. we need to get it doned and ged get the lethal aid thats very they need faster. that's something that's very concerning to me. conceseeing that that kind of t i don't want to see it wasted. spend it if we're going to spend it, invest it well and do it fast so they can win what we'll see.w >> yeah,e'll i mean, as someone who spent some time in multi decade wars in the middlmie easd an end state needs to be clear . m and i don't want my kids fighting in donbas to for forr n unclear in state in the future. >> congresswomand , thank you fr very much for your time. i appreciate it. yti all right.me. now let's turn our attention back to east palestine, ohio. >> as the congresswomanongressw where democrat reiterated, where democrat bro sherrod brown , he's no democrat. sherro d. he's the man o f the people.n forced t he's finally been forcede to acknowledge tha tis no the situation on the ground is no bueno. >> take look, senator brown, you were just there thisf east thursday. st should the residents of eastinet palestine accept the assurancese froms from the g the government or ar they right to be skeptical? th well, they're righe t to benisto skeptical.r i w the epa administrator, when i was there,asth the both the se and the federal epa, ifd administrators said that. but when you retur when yon to u home, we think the water is safe. when you return to your home, you sh f you should be testedor again fo. no your water and your soil and your air, not to mentionn w. those that have their owns cris wells. >> this crisis is finallyis ie attention that i getting the attention it deserves. but is it too little, too lateto after severe backlash, norfolk southern ceo train company so finally traveled to east palo,ut seen over the weekend, but not a word yet if anyone fromite ho the white house will eveusr make the trip. kind of like the border, it'r.s itwe happening. we just don't want don't wan tok about it. meanwhile, formersit president trump is set to visit the the town on wednesday. i joining us now, fox news o contributor ari fleischer. f ththe host of the larry elder" show for the times, larry elder news contributor, joey and fox news contributor joey hu jones. ari, okay, you're in the whitese far house. you've beemoren there far more dramatic crises than this. you know, you've got chemicals,, a smoke plume, citizens without the ability to determine whathe their next step is . step and you more or less do nothing. what's the thought process in the white house? >>e white when there's a naturl disaster or any type of disaster like this, a manmadsase disaster? t of whit a test of the white house and it's an easy test to pass. . you show up, you go , you go , you demonstrate your concern. i it shows people in the area that you take it seriously. the resources the government gov will be available to helpernm and to get you answers. and you dovet into the problem the biden administration, on the other hand , has been slow, weak, unclear wea and tainted. you know, i'vek, got to point out, be one of the reasons so many people are skeptical is because of all the statements the government made about covid that turned out to be wrong.e of, we werwe're all supposed to wear gloves. we were all supposed to wash gle all the clothes or wash. i'm sorry. tch all the items we bought fro. grocery stores. there's been s thero much thatn the government has gotten wrong. but in this case, it was jusinte the slow response,e that acting like they didn't care to theeasp people of palestine. it didn't matter if you were the fede evacuated from your home. the federal government is notra >> laro help you, larry. >> what's the why? the okay, so are just laid outu just how this is a lay up. if you just addres addresss it y on , what's the why of why o they why they maybe didn't or haven't? i well, you know, i used to live live in this part i of ohio. it's northeast. 9 it's about 90 miles away.s away cleveland. it's from cleveland and it's flyover country.pl it's part of the country thate people don't mucthath care aboue these are working class whiteeyo people and they're not a priority for this for administration. t adnmi reliends and relatives i that area. and i can tell youat, you watch/ the local news 24/7 on this and they are livid. they do nod they're vid.t trust the government. as already pointed out, we were told this, that and the otheras about covid that if you get the vaccine, you won't contracte the virus, that we are told youa won't get the virus. we're toldt it didn', didn't hay adverse effects. we were told that natural immunity was notwe're told thale better. now we find out from the lancetf that it is so there is a lotknow the government officials do not know. and after they did that, they did the controld controlley said, you can go back home, yo can drink the water. well, animaldys are dying.ng, the water is glowing, people's e eyes are stinging and they'reste developing rashes. rashes. >> so they do not trust the the government, nor should we sn they . yeah, we spent the weekend downh at the daytona. five hundred together. you know, you've been very thou this. for people that thoughtful on this for people that live in rural areas and they don't expect somethingo .t the resources are not what you b might have in a big city. you know city, the, the federal government is supposed to be there to step in in these. moments. what who are they to who get informatfrom? get information from? at are? are they to trust? yeah , i thought my brother in laws h law, both my brother in law, has been a fireman foremen5 twenty five years. town likhing like this happens at a small town like this one ,e like the one i come from, they're going to be the hazmatt experts to first respond and they're goinre they'lg to basicallydo create a cordon, identifn,y whai they see and then they railroad ronald reagan sends thei since they're hazmat out. and that's who takes action because you're supposed to be aa experts on the actual cargo of the railroad. i've talked to both theme and they said, hey, they probably burned it because they make a determination that terminatit's safer to burn it av least take action on it and have it seep intop in t the ground.he to the ground. it well, we're seeing from these streams, it seeped into the ground. it went everywhere the. re. and so who are people supposedst to trust? well, these local municipalities don't have anent. endless budget like the federal government. they actually have to be balanced in their budgete tobalo they can't buy every type oftily hazmat utility there is outo there. workto work in a town of the fel forty five hundred. so the federal governmen gt isto is who has to step in. that's that's when their job actually matters. in the railroads.ither. not exempt fro m this either.st who can they trust? >> well, we're trying to figure that out ourselves. well, we think we are. ourselve we are.s.aren do't we, p they do they recognie the disconnect of goinging to u and not going to east palestine? you think they to ukraine and not goingnderstan to east palestine? >> do yod u think they understah that in the white housousee? i , no. i think they look atth this. s they just think it's a bunch of they conservatives complaining and they think they ca tnk theyk and chew gum ae t the same timen look, president trump going weere wednesday is a smart move . he's going to draw a lot of s attention to the issues and hemh should the issue that i keep bag balancing, though, is a lot ofst the tests that are being dons t there locally by locale officials are coming back ansayg saying that the soil is fine, the air is fine, and people prot don't want to leave it.e that's the problem. stration has created by waiting s the bush administration's created by waiting so late. and i don't wantla to overstattt the fears or overstate the scare because we don't knows and i don't want people to rushn out and think, oh, my god, i everything is terrible. especially if local tests arenga coming back saying that. so people do neet. d to approacpeople nh. this with an open mind. but but the administration blew itat acting like thund to it so late and by acting like they didn't care, larry. >>eyt >> if they do arrive, caney they make up for this gap? mak >>e well, you tell me. he wouldn't giwas asked if he would drink the water and he wouldn't give a straight answer. >> once again,vet answer. ari is right. why don't the the officialser just say there's a lote' we just do not know?? there may be som e three years, he five years, ten years down we don the line. >> we just don't kno'tw. , instead, joey, they they go too- like- it is one hundred percene safe , have no fear, you know, feed it to your fear, to they ca water, to your newborn.n' why can't they have that nuance? >> we just don't kno nwua everything. right. approach? we easy for them to make proclamations because we just went through two years of tions because ough twos with no accountability for them, justtee like we started this segment with , hey, listensident had,edr the president had this amazing stunt planned for showing up isf a war zone with sirens going off and casually strolling downd the street. they couldn'n't has ruint have o ruin that. they couldn't ruin a bad news t week with something likeha that planned. so this administration over and over again takes the ioverfa ignore it, it didn't happenorde approach. we've seen that at the border. we see i re, al. you see it all over the place.os and apparently for some reason,o it seemsrk to work for so troop >> it's just like they had a trip planned to beijing were going and there was this balloon and they were going to ignoret x it, except one guycept tookd pictures of it and the nt ignore they couldn't ignore it anymore. >> it. ah, no, man, they're pesky. much. >> they're pesky artillery. than joey, thank you very much.k appreciate you all.co great stuff. mial ameril right.eran >> thank you. coming up, america's intolerant liberals, they just can't help themselves. more disgusting attacks . on nikki haley's age, race racen and gender. they were supposed to go after those things. d so join. as thill join us next to respond as this special edition of "hannity" rolls on . what a privilege it is for you. to have me here this evening. ladies and gentlemen, worry i'm going to get them out tonight. we learned that long, for god's sake. that they apologized. , now. and finally, dear abc losing weight can have a huge impact on your life. lose weight with nutrisystem, your biggest and best offer yet. 50% off all plans and fifty percent off a month of shaikh's act now. and get a shaker bottle free. but wait, hold everything. be one of the first to call or go online and get your first month of premium meals free, including hearty inspiration's. these offers have a combined these offers have a combined value of over $100. go online or call to get these . free offers and start losing go online or call to get these . weight today. lie to tell you about life rememberr insurance through the colonial pen program. if you're age 50 to 85 and if you're age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed on a budget, rememr the three p's? 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people. they think they know better than president trump. and night, one such bureaucrat hiding behind, of course, the veil of anonymity, almost everything c is anonymous, bashg this president in a "new york times" irresponsible op-ed, writing, "i work for president trump but my like-minded colleagues and i have vowed to forward parts of his agenda. and it gets worse fromve there. we will spare you all the sanctimonious details but here's how the president reacted earlier today. take a look. >> president trump: we have somebody on what i call the failing "new york times" who's saying he's part of the resistance in the trump administration. this is what we have to deal with. and the dishonest media because you people deal with it as well as i do. it's really a disgrace. you tell me about an anonymous source within the administration, probably who is failing and probably here for all that the wrong reasons. and of "the new york times" is