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house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan's air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i'm speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan's president and to visit taiwan's parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. to...

Russian troops will likely maintain a push to take the port city of Mariupol as well as other targets, Urkaine’s military staff said.

States are and the world was going to hit him with sanctions. buff, you know, the last time we hit him with sanctions big ones in 2014, putin has since had 17 years to make his country $1.5 trillion economy more insulated against any sanctions. and i think his political and military calculation is those sanctions from the u.s. are worth what he is going to get out of it. because he wants more of ukraine to return the form other so ever union to its original splendor. >> absolutely he does. this is his intention. we have known that all along. he certainly wants to take ukraine. he took georgia....

Ukraine and its people. destroy ukraine's democracy which offers a stark contrast to the auto to come crazy that he leads reclaim ukraine as a part of russia. >> do you wish that obama had done harsher, stricter sanctions in 2014. >> yes, i wish we had been more aggressive in 2014. >> ainsley: senator, if biden knew, if obama knew, why didn't they do something sooner? >> exactly, that's the point. as secretary blinken, we have been telling you this for months now. we knew that putin's intention was to invade ukraine and not just take these areas in eastern ukraine but a full on onslaught again...

Russia and putin. you know the great scapegoat in someone else. >> todd: it's a slight -- >> carley: i think americans know what's going on. they have seen it sean, also, point well taken. thank you so much for joining us this morning on this very busy wednesday. >> todd: and with that. >> carley: good to be with you. >> todd: like wvmentz our friends at "fox & friends" continue our coverage right now. >> authorizing president putin to use military force. >> meanwhile new satellite images show more and more russian hardware moving toward the border. >> all of this according to nato officials i...