0 invasion of ukraine by russia. we have a lot of news happening, even as we speak at this moment. we know the bombs are going off inside of the capital of ukraine at this minute. let your heart not be troubled. laura ingraham, the ingraham angle will pick up the coverage. thanks for being with us. >> laura ingraham: welcome to the ingraham angle. russia continues an assault on military and energy installations. 130 ukrainian soldiers are dead tonight and 300 wounded in the first day of these attacks by air, land, and sea. explosions are being heard throughout the city of kyiv. at this moment and they there are reports now that russian troops are moving en masse into the city. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has ordered a full military mobilization. all men 18 to 60 have been ordered to stay in the country and promised to arm all of its citizens. reporters are on the ground in ukraine and in washington along with military experts to explain the national security and financial damage that this invasion will cause along with the needless human suffering we're beginning to see already today. we're going to speak in moments with the ukrainian member of parliament who says even though he's not a trained soldier, he's ready to fight. but also questions tonight loom regarding the effectiveness of biden's sanctions and the reluctance of nato to really squeeze russia. and what role is china playing behind the scenes? and what should we be doing right now to blunt russia's ability to affect our people and our energy supply? and finally, was putin's military attack truly as inevitable as the administration would have us believe? we'll answer all of that and more. but first, we go live to fox's trey who's on the ground in kyiv. what can you tell us as of this hour? >> laura, good evening. last hour, there were two large explosions here in the capital of kyiv. we're getting new information about what they might have been. the ukrainian interior ministry advisor, anton garashenko share avid you and claims that ukrainian air defense shot down a russian aircraft. i want to make sure we're clear with the attribution here. this is coming from the advisor to the interior minister and is being widely reported in local media. this advisor to the minister who has in the past during this escalation discussed a lot of movement in terms of the ukrainian military, someone with knowledge of the situation. again, it's claiming that the ukrainian air defense has shot down a russian aircraft. we don't know what kind of aircraft and we have not independently confirmed this report. but it would be a significant move by the ukrainians and it would also highlight the fact that ukraine has air defense in play. the russians have talked about in the initial hours of their invasion into ukraine took out all of the ukrainian air defense, but the videos that are going around on-line indicate this was indeed some sort of interception and we will get information about what was intercepted. it comes as there have been a couple of cruise or ballistic missiles fired at the ukrainian capital tonight. we're getting more information on those. and the second largest city in ukraine, kharkiv is taking a lot of fire tonight. the major concern is this city could be choked off amid a larger push by the russians in this larger blitz of the city. if that does happen, you will likely see a number of waves of attacks so that the russian forces can work their way to the capital. make no mistake, there are not only ukrainian forces and civilians say they will stay and fight even if this battle turns into a more urban guerrilla warfare style of war. laura? >> laura: we've been seeing heart wrenching video today from the underground subways in kyiv and other places, other areas that civilians feel certainly more safe in. people taking, obviously, their children, some belongings, some food. sometimes their pets. and it's -- it's difficult to watch. but this is what war ends up looking like, especially in the early stages where civilians try to find cover wherever they can. and a lot of the women that were interviewed said we don't know where to go. we're going to the only place we know is safe, and others are already fleeing across the border into poland where they're being allowed to go tonight. so, that's what we're seeing as far as the civilians on the ground in the vulnerable areas. >> it's heart breaking to see the images and scenes play out in the ukraiian capital. people are having trouble wrapping their mind around what is taking place. these are things you expect to see out of a world war ii documentary. people underground in the subway system trying to get away from air raids. over the past 24 hours in this city, a european capital air raid sirens blaring as people run for cover. and an air campaign against a european city is just something that is such a major escalation. and something that really even those ukrainians who believed would happen and would be some level of invasion, no one envisioned it would be like this. it's the worst case nightmare scenario. and you can see, civilians doing what they can to get out of the way going underground if they can and having the resources and ability to make it to the polish border, laura? >> laura: very quickly, i've been through kyiv and other parts of the ukraine very extensively. and the historic landmarks, not that's that is the most important thing right now, but the historic churches that speak to the heart of what kyiv is, there was some talk on another network tonight that those could be targeted. do you have any sense that is actually the case tonight? >> we don't have any information about churches or any sort of religious facilities in this city being targeted. one thing to keep in mind, though, is that this has been really a source of strength for people, having the churches here when we arrived in kyiv a few weeks ago, we went to one of these beautiful churches and spoke with an older woman who was praying and she was praying for peace. and it was just a place for her to feel comfortable and hopeful. and still even at this hour, we expect if there are troops ever coming into the city, it's a real possibility that the churches could be a place where people feel safe and could be way from the streets in any military operation that might take place. >> laura: thank you so much. stay safe out there, please. for the latest on the biden administration's response, we turn to peter doocy who's live at the white house. peter, what has been the reaction thus far after president biden's appearance today at the press conference where you got a few really good questions in? the response from some of your colleagues -- i know you all talk -- about the president's inability to really give us answers about what china's response has been to this. and even india's response has been to russia's aggression. >> peter doocy: it's interesting. the response, once you -- especially once you go back and figure out what people are asking of the president versus the press secretary is that a lot of folks did not getting the answers they were looking for from the president because they had to follow up with basically the same exact questions to jen psaki which is why isn't the president doing more? why isn't he sanctioning vladimir putin directly? what's really remarkable about the president's event earlier today, earlier this afternoon, he basically said, we're going to stick with the sanctions, even though we know that it's not going to have vladimir putin throwing up his hands and saying, okay, i need to stop right now. fast forward a couple of hours to tonight. we've been able to confirm that when lloyd austin went to capitol hill to brief senators about the pentagon plan from the biden orders to the military chief, they are trying to figure out how to train ukrainian forces to fight russians remotely. and, so -- >> laura: what? >> peter doocy: they're trying to figure out -- it's a very 2022 things to do it remotely. but it's in line with president biden's promise to figure out how to beat back the russians without putting any u.s. troops in ukraine to fight russians. so, that is brand new. but otherwise, the headline is just sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. we have a short sound bite where i asked the president, basically, if he is sure that that's going to work. >> president biden: i think that his ambitions are -- are completely contrary to the place where the rest of the world has arrived. >> you're confident that the devastating sanctions are going to be as devastating as russian missiles and bullets and tanks? >> president biden: yes, russian bullets, missile, and tanks in ukraine. yes, i am. >> laura: that was -- >> peter doocy: he spoke with us when he got off of the big zoom with the rest of the g7 leaders. so that's the plan. >> laura: peter, looks like the g7 begat the conclusion that not all nato countries were for removing russia's ability financially in the world. germany didn't want to cut russia off. yand is being silent, which speaks volumes. he couldn't answer your question. the answer was not an answer. to say that what they're doing with sanctions the same as tanks or -- or aramis sill attacks on ukraine, what? >> peter doocy: a lot of the coverage with this, because we have not done a ton on ukraine in the last couple of years, it requires you to look at a map. when you try to figure out the biden response to this, you look at a calendar. he's saying it might take 30 days for some of these sanctions to really bite putin. but based on all of the coverage that our teams have been collecting on the ground, it's not entirely clear that the people in kyiv have 30 days to wait around for financial punish m to kick in. >> laura: peter, unbelievable to watch today at the press conference. thank you so much. get some sleep, i hope. joining us is senator tom cotton who serves on the senate armed services committee -- intelligence committee, excuse me. senator, you just heard peter doocy. the report that lloyd austin told senators in this briefing, the administration is now looking at ways to train ukraine forces remotely. i don't mean to laugh at this. but what's your reaction to that? >> one more example of how the biden administration is on the back foot and ceding the initiative to putin. president biden has creeded the phone the allies on the sanctions we impose. you mentioned kicking russia out of the international banking system known as swift. apparently there are nations like germany that don't want to do that. we're not going to kick them out of swift. likewise, oil and gas are the two largest exports. europe is one of the many places beholden to russian oil and gas. biden's reckless policies have driven up the price of oil and gas in the last year. but even he and the administration is admitting they don't want to impose oil and gas on russia because it will add to what we've added. how about we impose sapgss and lift restrictions on american oil and gas so we can drill on federal lands again and put out new leases and reopen the keystone pipeline that brings more oil from america every day from canada than we import every day from russia. that's what we should be doing. >> laura: to your point, isn't this the moment where you show some flexibility, even if you're a climate change fanatic, show some flexibility and concern for your fellow americans on this? but john kerry, frankly, continues to embarrass himself in this country and the world stage with his comments today about what to do next. >> john kerry: massive emissions consequences to the war, but equally importantly, you're going to lose people's focus and certainly big country attention, because they will be diverted and i think they could have a damaging impact. so, i hope president putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate. >> laura: now, senator, what are the chance, one to ten, ten being the most likely, that vladimir putin is up tonight worried about really meeting john kerry's climate goals. >> tom cotton: yeah, yeah, it's a number somewhere below zero, laura. those are the rantings of a diluted ideologue. most americans are not ideological about these matters, they're clear eyed, sober, and understand you should not disarm your own energy production when a brutal dictator uses energy as a weapon against our partners. and then invades an innocent nation and creates some of those scenes that uh you played earlier of children screaming and families scrambling to subway stations. americans know it's basic common sense we want to protect our own energy supply and supply europe the energy it needs to get off of russian energy. >> laura: i want to talk about the idea that i grew up understanding when i worked for president reagan of peace through strength. a weakened america, senator cotton, what does that tell the rest of the world? our southern border is wide open. we don't have the media coverage of that. all of that carnage, the result -- the southern border, the economy, inflation, high energy prices, and all of the rest of the nonsense with the covid mandates and everything. what does that tell the rest of the world? and what did it tell putin and xi? >> tom cotton: putin was told he could build up troops on the ukraine border and invade. if we don't bring the hammer down on putin. if we don't turn them to a pariah state and cripple them economically and socially, it will tell jiping he can do the same. his economy is ten times larger than russia's. it's creating permission around the world for our adversaries to try to press against our interests, try to undercut our partners and allies, and ultimately put our own safety and freedom and prosperity at risk. >> laura: good to see you tonight. thank you so much. as you heard senator cotton mention in the last segment, a powerful economic weapon that biden is yet to invoke is basically throwing russia out of something called the swift banking system. that is basically a telecom network. and it kind of connects thousands and thousands of financial institutions around the world. and, so, if you cut russia off from that, it would mean no more money from all of the oil and gas exports. and that makes up about 40% of their budget. that would be crippling for russia. so, surely one could make them think at least twice about pressing on in ukraine if they didn't have access to that. so, why aren't we doing this? this is biden's excuse. >> president biden: the sanctions we imposed exceed swift or anything that's been done. the sanctions we imposed have generated 2/3 of the world joining us. they are profound sanctions. >> laura: oh, okay. what's really going on is biden is bowing to the wishes of berlin and brussels. for starters, you polled most of the $30 billion in foreign capital parked now in russia. they need the swift system in order to easily access their money, their investments. otherwise, they could lose it all. plus, europe still plans on buying energy from russia, by the way, using ukrainian pipelines no less. no wonder germany's chancellor add adamantly opposed to removing russia's ability to access the swift banking system. why are we ceding our authority to germany? they sold out economies to russia and china. they don't devote the amount of money they should be under the nato agreement to their military. we're seeing the cost of all of this. remember when people are getting on trump for asking nato nations to step up and do their fair share with their military budgets. they're saying, oh, you're making waves in nato. trump was right. we're seeing the results of this nonsense now. he's the only one to hold them accountable. so biden should put americans first here. but i'm not holding my breath. joining me now is walid farris, national security and foreign policy expert. you know this region. you heard me mention the deal that germany just doesn't want to cut russia off from the swiss banking system. i don't think they ever will. there's too much money on the line for germany. so, they're now the most furious impediment, along with a few other nations of our really being able to fully choke off russia's money supply. and i think russia knows it. your reaction? >> russia knows, this is the code, actually. the russian leadership, in order to conduct this operation in ukraine did an analysis and realized through this analysis that this administration is not willing to confront them. on the strategic level, just mentioned a very important point, there's a major financial game between germany, other european countries, and russia. we're partnering with both. we -- this administration, germany, russia, are part of what, the iran deal. and the iran deal is not just about $40 billion, but $150 billion and even more than that. so, the calculations in moscow are since you are sitting at the same table with these partners, including our administration and the biden administration is so much dead set on going back to the deal, therefore, their calculation will not going to confront them. there's a second reason, laura. they saw what we've done in afghanistan, that we have withdrawn from afghanistan and cut the deal with the taliban leadership. and that, in the eyes or in the mind of putin or the russian leadership means that we're not ready, this administration is not ready to confront them in ukraine as well. >> laura: there was another question asked today at the press conference when biden came out and addressed reporters in the country on this. and he was asked a question by a journalist, i believe from india, on what one of our most important allies is saying about this conflict and what's happening there. and i thought it was revealing. let's watch. >> india is one of your partners, is india fully in sync with the united states on russia? >> president biden: we're in consultation with india today. we haven't resolved that completely. >> laura: we haven't resolved that. isn't that one of the many conversations, one of our most important allies in the middle east in that region, we have not resolved what india thinks of all of this? what? >> you know, laura, this indicates this administration and the partners and the western partners and probably india were not ready for what russia has done. they're not ready because they didn't calculate russia would do so. the reason behind that, i go back to the first point, there are financial interests world-wide put together through the iran deal, through the trade in europe and russia, through the energy issue, nobody thought that putin is going to do it and calculate exactly that we're not going to react the way we should. >> laura: walid, thank you so much. we appreciate it tonight. we're going to bring you the latest from the ground in ukraine. plus, in moments, we're going to speak to a member of ukraine's parliament who's ready to fight for his country, no matter what. don't go away.