0 the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. you make this show possible, you know, when you think of well, what is america's role in the world? we're not going to be the world's policeman. no boots on the ground under any condition. but the ukrainian people have shown a desire to fight and i think helping them is the right thing to do but not your troubles or ingrams next year. >> tomorrow night. this is a fox news alert. i'm jonathan hunt in lviv, ukraine. just before dawn, about three hours ago, loud explosions rang out in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. air strikes again apparently hitting that city. and you can see the aftermath of one of those here. an apartment building apparently hit once more . we understand there are casualties. we do not have confirmation at this point of how many people were killed and injured in this strike. we can also take a live look at tev. the building still smoldering. we believe that this was an air strike as most of the strikes against kyiv have been. there is the possibility, of course, it was a ground based missile. the keep obviously the center of the russian offensive ground troops, russian ground troops have been stalled on the outskirts of the capital for some time now. that appears to have led to president vladimir putin of russia to order his forces to carry out more of these kind of air strikes. and as we have seen over recent days, they are hitting civilian targets. ukrainian air defense systems are in operation as well. they have been shooting down some of the missiles aimed at kyiv. sometimes those two can fall in the center of the city, but the bombardment of the capital city goes on the bombard of other cities around ukraine goes on all of this happening as the two sides prepare for further peace talks today those talks appear to have made a little bit of progress yesterday. the two sides saying they were breaking up for a pause in the talk to work on some details. that gives a glimmer of hope that when they resume today there could be some progress. but in the meantime, as you plainly see, the russian bombardment of the capital kyiv continues. this has been a fox news alert.n i'm jonathan huntd in lviv, ukraine. now back to our regular programing positively with such important commitments as that the u.s. does not seek a newes n coldld war or to change china's system, nor will it oppose china through strengthening alliances, support taiwan independence or seeka. confrontation with china. chinaa then reference ukraine at the end of this as an afterthought. nowte in washington, when a high level meeting fizzles and yields no deliverables as they call them, you send a spokesman out to spin the atmospherics. and over at the state department it was more words signifying nothing. now listen for the passive verbs connoting america as an. observer. watching very closely the extent to which the prc or any other countryan for that matter provides any form of support, any such support from anywhere in the world would be of great concern to us .. this is nakeded aggression.f this is a war of choice. this is a country a oneco individual at the top ofun that country violating in a brazen manner what have beenad the cardinal rules of the international order for the past 70 yearsse. okay, first, russia doesn't care about our watching what's happening. they care about what we're doing. and right now we're doing. nothing but making china richer by the day nearly what ?od $50 billion worth of goods we buy from them each month. russia is watching that two second. why are we actingwh as if theres any question about whether china is even helping russia even ifwe they're not selling weapons directly to russia, china is giving them crucial help by buying their agricultural products and of course their oilltur. so this is a total end runte around western sanctions. we'vern been saying this now fr what , two plus weeks and third, as i said for years, china does not care about the rules of the international community. neither does russia. so invoking them very piously p doesn't get you anywhere. itio doesn'tn't get you any rest . now this was as far as the state department got when itba came to accountability for putin's bankers in beijingnk. >> we have been very clear the privately with beijing, publicly with beijing that there would bet consequences. so we will not allow any country to compensate russia.en >> there is a lot for them to explain. okay, nice try, but none of these threats add up to anything other than a hugeth bluff. the real power brokers in the administration aren't on board with this. china has the higheststis paid lobbyists inside the beltwayand and they know that john kerryryh he is a guy who really countsch here. he puts climate change ahead of every other issue facing america and they knowy that kerry is desperate forsu china's help on the issue. as stupid as that is. the ccp also knows that it has a friend in biden, treasury secretary janet yellen, who has said that trump's trump's old china tariffs arere n contributing to inflation nowow well,, this is great news for china which of course wants them drop the tariffs. got wealthy for dubious woknows that joe biden himself, whose son got wealthy for dubiousrk work in china, has said that china's growth is not a threat to the united states. china is going to eat our lunchn commodities. they're not bad folks,ot folks. but guess what ? they're not a competition for us now what are the actual chances that a feeble mindedry, biden is going to stand up to john kerry, janet yellen,of the myriad of business and find financial interests doing china's bidding? what about the oddshe he'll take on the media establishment that loves and protects china? twenty four sevents c. the answer is zero. no chance. and understanding how she views the united states at this point is also critical in any interaction or crisis dealing with china now right now she sees us as a power in decline. this as weak and self-loathing, a country that is culturally depraved and politically divided. but he sees his communist system as superiors in every way.na he's a nationalist and he's short ofr nothing global domination and to his priorities range from the substantive the belt and road initiative type stuff to the frivolous like his banning effeminate male characters on tv. remember that ?reme oh ,mbery and by the way, when he did that thingth with the effeminate male characters, he knew that thee american film industry would never protest orr that was discriminatory or anti lgbtq. they wouldn't complain one bit. heckler was the last time youin saw a chinese villaines on the big screen and genos, by the way, that gop establishment figures they don't lose sleep about china's monopolization monopolization of key industries. of course not a's . ot the only thing that motivates them is money and a lot ofin money buys china a lot of political cover in congress. he knows all of this because he's watched it unfold over the past twenty five years. which brings us back to the current nightmare in ukraine now i could demand that john kerry go out and say that the administration is puttings climate change goals on hold at least as longre as china remainsma a destabilizing force on the world. he could also sayco that as lonu as the ccp is trying to by proxy overthrows zelenskyy in ukraine, we're not going to abandon our oil and gaser industriese. st but of course the biden people would never do something so sensible and as a result wemi might as well justgh have an beverage because we have zero leverage. fo >> countries formerly helpful to the u.s. are looking. eastward. thinkou about saudi arabia which just invited for a visit amidst another blunder by the united states and the us is either ate this point looking t all the things that have happened. they're eitherey'r'r eith going to get stronger by getting its own economic house in order and begin decoupling from these despotic regimes like chinaom or the world is going to get morech dangerous and more chaotic. men in the meantime, the onlyti ukraine negotiations are goings to happen in this scenario are the types of negotiations that let's say go on betweene a cat and a mouse. the cat's going to toy around with the mouse, then pounce when the time is right because it knows it can. and that's the angle. in joining me now is steven mosher ,president ofti the population research institute, author ofof bully of asia. steven, the readouts from this meeting today were quite q something to behold. the u.s. sends jake sullivan, who's thought to be one of the hawks in the bidenra administration to deal with this top chinese diplomat. from your sense, what came out of that meeting? well, i think the bushon administration w was a day late and a dollar short in approaching china for help. i mean, russia went to china four months ago and signed a new shipping agreement to help them avoid any future sanctions or embargo. so anyone who says that china doesn't have russia's back just has to look at the new shipping agreement which says that anything shipped from russian ports to china belongs to chinas as soon as it's put on the ship. so we can't seize the ship, we can't seize the cargo that happened four months ago. y and ofou course, as you mentioned, putin went to beijing right before the olympics, signed the five thousand wordan agreement pledging eternal friendship. five thousand word agreements don't get negotiated overnight., so this collusion this is the real russian collusion law between russia and chinaru and l claim now as jakeli sullivan did that well, we're going to enlist china in the effort toin help contain russia a and stop the carnage in ukraine is just is just nonsense because that ship has sailed. now the ccp keeps twistingif the knife on biden. stephen , this is the editorialr from the chinese basically media oregon globalba times. it's's brutal judging fromst the posture it is the u.s. that needs to ask china forth help in the context of russiae ukraine conflict. and it went on to say variousar otherio things about how this whole thing unfolded, saying the united states essentially how dare you think that you can swing around your influence in the world like what gives states this idea that you're this strong power? now it was it was super humiliating to have that kind of commentary come out of this meeting. >> so what's the point of this meeting if it ended up just being another moment for china to humiliatehu us ? there's been tt a whole series of meetings like that between china and thehe united states since the biden administration took office. who could forgetmik office the a meeting at which our secretary of state was harangued for minutes on end about all ofpr the problems of america and how americaob should try to dictatew to the rest of the world how it behaves? makestak no mistake, xi jinpingh a china dream and his chinais dream is to dominate the world by twenty nine and to do it in stages. ea and he's already taken hong kong. he's looking at taiwan but he won't stop there. he will move on other countries near china as well. and what he would like to do i think how he sees this whole ukrainian thingn unfolding is o get russia into china's orbit permanently, to make russia with all of its vast mineral and natural resources, oil stateva a kind of vassal of china, thus uniting eurasia in pursuit of his china dream. so i think we need to step back and i pray that the carnage in ukraine ends right now. but we need top step back andrl think about what the world isin going to look like afterg that happens. and if we have created a eurasian empire dominated by china, then then we're going to face a formidable opponent in the decades to come. >> yeah, i mean, again, going, back to this again this is a state media organ of china. this is their their spin on this. but they say the u.s. is the instigatoris of the ukrained crisis, yet it wants to exploit the whole world to expand its own strategic interests. well, you you can flip that on china. you're the instigator. you're funding russia youa wite oil and the agricultural exports. the agreement that you just . idth but this is what china always does. but just back to my point about diplomacy and why we need realvv diplomats to deal with these these savvy negotiators and its people. are you with a knife in china? you cannot set up a meeting where the upshot of it is that our national security adviser gets mockedon for asking china for help.s s that's what they're doing here. and this communique, it'sth mocking the united states on the world stage. itworl is an embarrassment for . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. these should thin kthe u.s. should have beensh hammered out ahead of time and when it was clear as it should have been clearay that china wasn't going to play ball because it wants to draw russiain into its orbit, it's happy to let vladimir putin to offit a little bloody piece ofth ukraine if that will bring russia into china's orbit permanently. and make no mistake, the wheat is already being shipped from russia to china. oil the oil and gas are flowingnt as well and this will onlyin s continue. so toee the extent that we see, you know, a tectonic shift w in the world today, we'rere looking at another sino russian empire kind of like the sino soviet. you collusion that we had during the 1950s. well, we can't way america has a got to get our economic house in order. we're no good to anyone else. that's what we're saying n with all this . we are not negotiatingeg fromtr a position of strength.um trump understood that . stephen , great to see you tonight . between russia and ukraine are said to and peace talks between russia ukraine are set to resume.n tomorrowon. but where's biden on this? so is this administration support piece or do they want this war to drag on ? some people are wondering that tonight. now, right now what's best for ukraine is a cease fire within russia as piece from the carnegie endowment for international peace argues the u.s.u. and allies should support zelenskyy in any diplomatic course he pursuesy and they must bee prepared too lift sanctions if russia and ukraine negotiate and implement a settlement agreement. joining me now is mollie hemingway, editoraing in chieff the federalist fox news contributor. mollie, my breath is still taken away by what happened at this meeting today in rome. it was this ends up being a nightmare for us in so many ways. but why does it seem like people aren't talking about getting to yes. on a deal , getting to yes in ukraine i to stop the horrors that we're seeing unfolding? it's absolutely shocking given the reality of the situationle in ukraine that we haven't had more people talking about. how to end this war. you know, it is up to ukraine to decide how much they want to fight and whether they want to negotiate here. absolutelyld support them specifically, including, you know, if they decide on neutrality as they discuss with russiaiacu war is a terrible tragedy and there are not very many good options for ukraine and having to see the portion of the donbas is not good. it's an awful situation but fare better than havingtt their entie country destroyed. sost it's important that sober voices bert encouraging them as they work to end this .. wonder if people decide that they would like a prolonged actionpr. pe you'veop had prominent people on both sides of the aisle talk about extending the situation, escalating the situation, using this asaski a means to engage in regime change in russia, a policy that has failed many of the times we've tried it recently but that some people seem to want to extend here. but that is not in ukraine's best interest and that's not in our best interest. be namingay you're not names tonight really on a monday. come on .? let's just name names here. i mean, mitt romney is callingic his big focus is toal basically have what tulsi gabbard tried for treason. i mean, that's his that'su his focus right now.ca i mean, you can't you can't make up how stupid this is. by the way, the media's main concern right now i'm talking about the media back inhe washington about the war in ukrainetch.. >> watch. so far, button hasn't received any of the politicalen capital that president zelenskyy has offered him. i don't understandd the white house's view of not getting these jets or shooting planesou out oft the sky with americansk help. >> we are in this i think that he's he's i guess a nominal republican , our former republican model. they they see this conflict some as a ticket out of low approval ratings for biden. but i don't think that's a good bet. so that's exactly right. you have you've seen in the democrat party and in the bidena administration in particular, their domestic agenda could not be goingge worse. we have a failed economy. we have border problems. we have, border these surging gs prices. inflation is out of controld o and i think they look to this situation with ukraine as a way to avoidas having to take responsibility for some of what they've done. but even the situation in ukraine is a product, as you know, from what was in earlierea in the show of the weakness of the biden administration in how it's handling its foreign policy portfolio as well. but there are a lot of people who look for short term gains and don't think about the long term consequenceslo of getting embroiled in literally world war three. and yes, mittge romney has not covered himself in glory, but so you know, unfortunately so have many other senators on both sides of the aisle. nowof there are a lot ofwa different waysys i think we coud describe the way biden has handled these recentt events.re but here's how politico chose to describe them. biden's presidency has never been so hectic. a here's why he's at ease. okay, hectic molly. this is what it looks like. i hates to see what chaos looks like. . it's just unbelievable, particularly considering what we endured evab for the foh years of the trump administration where we had peace breaking out all over the world. we had a strong economy and thee media coverage was hysterical. now we have everything going horribly and you get pieces like this about how how ablen biden is to handle this because he once servedhand on the senate foreign affairs committee and the judiciary committee neglecting to mention that he was really bad on those committees when he was on those , he oversaw some ofse the worst moments of those committees. they did not prepareit him well. and if someone is calm at this time while everything is in a handbasket domestically and globally, that's a signal of some major problem whether it's senility or something else that's very bad about the biden administration. but you canbi administrat alwayr corrupt corporate media to lift up any democrattmocr agenda and administration no matter how bad they are. mp imagine if trump was laughing when they were ushering reporters out who wanted to get questions answered as they did last week.o answer and biden had that weird laugh or carmela's laugh. imagine what they would have done with either pence or trump laughing at a time like this . i mean, it's bizarre and disconnected. molly, great analysis. and let's go to ukraine now. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot standing by with the latest developments in the war there. greg, prelaw. yeah, the war is grinding on here. russia basically pounding ukraine with no regard for civil life with its main forcesu just nine miles outside of the capital , kyiv. russian artillery rounds areat hitting a variety of locations in the very center of the city as well as the suburbs. two civilians were killed when an apartmentan building was hit, another when a checkpoint was struck. yet another one , a bus slammed now in the under siege port city of mariupol. a caravan of about one hundred and sixty cars made it out to