NO MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS ARE
EXPECTED.
>> Harris: TREY, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
PETE HEGSETH CO-HOST OF "FOX &
FRIENDS" WEEKEND IN "FOCUS" NOW.
ONE FIRST BIG QUESTION.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
>> WHAT’S AT STAKE IS REPELLING
AN AUTHORITARIAN WHO BASICALLY
IS SAYING I WANT THE SOVIET
UNION BACK.
I WANT UKRAINE BACK AND KYIV
BACK AND WHAT’S AT STAKE IS
MAKING SURE WE DON’T ALLOW IT
TO BECOME AN ARTICLE 5 LARGER,
BROADER WAR THAN THAT.
SO EQUIPPING AND SUPPLYING
UKRAINE WITH WHAT IT NEEDS
FASTER THAN WE HAVE.
WE HAVEN’T BEEN DOING IT.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HASN’T
BEEN DOING IT FAST ENOUGH TO
THEY CAN FURTHER BOG PUTIN DOWN
AND PUSH HIM BACK.
IT WILL BE LONG AND BLOODY BUT
THOSE ARE THE STAKES FOR THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
>> Harris: BEFORE WE GET INTO
ALL THE MILITARY MOVEMENT AND
ALL OF THAT THAT SO MUCH YOUR
EXPERTISE, I WANT TO GET YOUR
THOUGHTS ON THE BACK AND FORTH
BETWEEN SOME OF THESE NATO
NATIONS ON HOW THEY STEP IN AND
HOW THEY DON’T.
AND YOU SAY KEEP US OUT OF THE
FRAY IN TERMS OF HAVING TO GO
TO WAR WITH RUSSIA.
WHAT’S THE STRATEGY THERE?
>> THE STRATEGY THERE IS TO
WAIT NATO COUNTRIES UP TO THEIR
OBLIGATIONS ON THEIR BORDERS.
THEY WENT WITH US TO
AFGHANISTAN BECAUSE WE WERE
ATTACKED AND THE LEAD EFFORT.
ARTICLE 5 WAS TRIGGERED.
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE IS NATO
COUNTRIES IN EASTERN EUROPE WHO
ARE THE MOST DIRECT THREAT
SHOULD PUTIN EXPECT TO EXPAND
AND SHOULD HE SEEK TO EXPAND.
AS A RESULT THEY SHOULD BE THE
LEAD IN ARMING RIGHT NOW AND
EQUIPPING THEMSELVES NOW AND
READYING THEMSELVES NOW AND
MAKING CALLS TO STRONGER ALLIES
LIKE GERMANY AND FRANCE AND
U.K. SAYING HELP US DETER.
WE WOULD BE THERE, TOO, WITH
AIR SUPPORT AND OTHER ASSETS TO
SUPPORT SHOULD IT GO IN THAT
DIRECTION.
BUT IT’S A WAKE-UP CALL,
HARRIS, A WAKE-UP CALL FOR NATO
AND DONALD TRUMP WAS TRYING TO
GIVE THEM.
IF YOU DON’T FUND YOUR MILITARY
AND DON’T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY
THREATS WILL GATHER.
IN THIS CASE VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS
BEEN TELLING US FOR THE BETTER
PART OF TWO DECADES WHAT HE
INTENDS TO DO AND HISTORY TELLS
US WHEN AN AUTHORITARIAN TALKS
YOU OUGHT TO LISTEN TO HIM.
EVEN IF YOU THINK WHAT HE IS
SAYING IS DERANGED.
>> Harris: LET’S FOCUS ON
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
OP-ED IN THE HILL SAYS PUTIN IS
GETTING DESPERATE.
PART OF IT READS DESPERATION
TAKES MANY FORMS AND DICTATORS
WHEN THEY GET UNHINGED THEY
CRUSH INFORMATION AS PUTIN DID
LAST WEEK WITH HIS DRACONIAN
CENSORSHIP LAWS AND
RESTRICTIONS.
POLICE WENT INTO A TELEVISION
STATION.
INCLUDING BLOCKING FACEBOOK AND
FOREIGN NEWS OUTLETS, ALL OF
THAT.
THE WALL IS JOURNAL REPORTS
RUSSIA HAS BEEN RECRUITING
FIGHTERS FROM SYRIA FOR URBAN
COMBAT IN UKRAINE.
THE MOVE POINTS TO A POTENTIAL
ESCALATION OF FIGHTING IN THE
REGION.
PETE.
>> I DON’T THINK HE HAS ANOTHER
SPEED.
IT IS DOUBLE DOWN AND LOCKDOWN.
LOCK DOWN AT HOME DISSENT
THROUGH INFORMATION AND
ENFORCEMENT.
HE WILL DO THAT.
HE IS VULNERABLE THERE.
HE KNOWS THAT.
SHOULD WORD GET OUT THE AMOUNT
OF CASUALTIES AND WHO THE REAL
AGGRESSOR IS HERE HE HAS
SERIOUS DOMESTIC PROBLEMS.
HE WILL KEEP LOCKING DOWN
ESPECIALLY AS THE ECONOMY
PLUMMETS.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO
WATCH WHO IS VLADIMIR PUTIN ON
FOX NATION.
IT TALKS ABOUT THE HUMAN NATURE. IT IS GOOD AND HELPS YOU GET AN
IT IS GOOD AND HELPS YOU GET AN
UNDERSTANDING HOW HE VIEWS HUME
NATURE.
WILL HE DOUBLE DOWN ON THE
TACTICS THAT BRINGS CIVILIANS
TO THEIR NEEDS.
HE DOESN’T PLAY BY THE RULES OF
WAR.
WE CALL HIM A WAR CRIMINAL.
HE DOESN’T CARE.
RUSSIA IS NOT A SIGNATORY TO
THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL
COURT.
CEASE FIRES ARE AN OPPORTUNITY
TO RELOAD AND PICK MORTAR GETS
AND HE IS ALREADY SAYING --
THIS IS THE PRECARIOUS PART FOR
ZELENSKYY.
HE SAID ANY MAN IN THE COUNTRY
PICK UP A RIFLE AND FIGHT.
IN THE TWISTED MIND OF VLADIMIR
PUTIN YOU KNOW WHAT THAT SAYS?
EVERY MAN IN THE COUNTRY WHO
WAS THE CIVILIAN IS NOW A
MILITARY TARGET.
ANY CIVILIAN TARGET COULD BE A
MILITARY TARGET.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAT ARE
THERE ARE HUMAN SHEEDS FOR THE
MEN WHO ARE CARRYING THE GUNS.
WE TALK ABOUT THE TARGETING OF
CIVILIANS AND RIGHTFULLY SO.
HE IS SAYING THEY ARE MILITARY
TARGETS.
HE HASN’T DONE IT TO KYIV THE
WAY HE HAS DONE IN OTHER PLACES
LIKE MARIUPOL.
WE’LL SEE IT COMING.
HE IS BOGGED DOWN AND HE WILL
DOUBLE DOWN.
>> Harris: I ENCOURAGE
EVERYBODY TO SEE THAT PUTIN
SPECIAL ON FOX NATION AS WELL
FOR THIS POINT IT TALKS ABOUT
IT AND YOU ARE GETTING TO IT,
THE MINDSET OF A MAD MAN IN THE
LATENT STAGES OF BEING A
DICTATOR.
AND HE DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME
QUALMS ABOUT HUMANITY THAT HE
MAY HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF
DECADES AGO.
HE DOESN’T.
I WANT TO TAKE A LIVE LOOK AT
SOMETHING FEELING THE PRESSURE.
THE DOW ON WALL STREET.
ONE OF THE INDEXES WE WATCH
AROUND THE WORLD WHERE MANY OF
OUR RETIREMENT FUNDS THAT COMES
FROM OUR JOBS ARE.
PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE IS
RATTLING MARKETS WORLDWIDE
TODAY ALREADY.
IT WAS DOWN A LOT MORE THAN IT
IS NOW.
IT WILL GO BACK AND FORTH AND
WHERE IT WILL CLOSE.
A BIG PART OF ALL THAT, THE
PRICE OF OIL.
IT HIT $130 PER BARREL OF CRUDE
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE JULY
OF 2008.
A TIME WHEN HE WAS WORKING TO
INVADE ANOTHER COUNTRY.
THE PAIN AT THE PUMP IS REAL
FOR AMERICANS.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
THE NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR A
GALLON OF REGULAR UNLEADED 4.06.
PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA LOOKING AT
NEARLY $7 PER GALLON.
WE’RE JUST FIVE CENTS AWAY FROM
AN ALL-TIME HIGH.
WE’RE PAYING 45 CENTS MORE THAN
WE DID JUST LAST WEEK.
A GROWING NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS
ARE PLEADING WITH THE WHITE
HOUSE TO STEP UP DOMESTIC OIL
PRODUCTION SO WE CAN BAN
IMPORTS FROM RUSSIA.
>> WE NEED TO STOP TAKING ANY
RUSSIAN OIL.
THE IDEA THAT WE WOULD GIVE OUR
MONEY TO AN ENEMY IS
UNTHINKABLE AND IT IS ABSOLUTE
LUNACY.
WE CAN’T ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE.
>> Harris: I WILL ADD THIS IN.
OP-ED IN THE "WALL STREET
JOURNAL" SAYS THAT TAKING AWAY
OUR DOLLARS TO RUSSIA FOR
RUSSIAN OIL IS LARGELY SYMBOLIC
BECAUSE IT DUCKS THE MAIN ISSUE
WHETHER TO SANCTION ALL RUSSIAN
ENERGY EXPORTS.
OIL AND GAS REVENUES TO MAKE UP
HALF OF THE KREMLIN’S BUDGET.
THAT’S CRITICAL TO FINANCING
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S BLOODY WAR ON
UKRAINE.
THE PROBLEM IS SANCTIONS ON
RUSSIAN ENERGY COULD HARM THE
WORLD ECONOMY AND ESPECIALLY
EUROPE UNLESS THE WEST IS
WILLING TO GRASP THE METAL.
THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE TO
FINANCE PUTIN’S WAR MACHINE.
NEXT STEPS FROM PETE HEGSETH
NOW.
>> YOU HIT ON IT, HARRIS,
ESPECIALLY EUROPE EVEN MORE
DEPENDENT AND MORE POWERFUL FOR
THEM TO TAKE THE STEP TO STOP
IMPORTING RUSSIAN OIL.
OF COURSE WE SHOULD DO THAT.
THE PROBLEM WILL CASCADE
BECAUSE OF OUR OWN MAKING AND
THIS ADMINISTRATION’S OBSESSION
WITH GETTING RID OF ANY FUELS
WHATSOEVER THAT POWERED OUR
ECONOMY AND CONTINUE TO.
YOU CAN’T SAY LET’S GET RID OF
THEM WITHOUT A PLACE TO REPLACE
IT AND THAT’S WHAT THEY’VE DONE.
I DON’T WANT TO PLAY THE
POLITICS OF THIS BUT THE LEFT
WILL PLAY THE POLITICS OF THIS
SAYING GAS AROUND THE CORNER IS
4.50 BECAUSE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
AND HIS AGGRESSION.
THAT IS THE RECENT CONTRIBUTOR
BUT OUR UNWILLINGNESS TO
MAINTAIN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
AND ENERGY DOM NANTZ.
IMAGINE IF WE HAD THE CARDS IN
OUR HANDS TO DECIDE WHERE IT
GOT SHUT OFF AND WHERE IT WENT
CHANGES THE GAME COMPLETELY.
LOWERS THE PRICE OF OIL
COMPLETELY WHICH HURTS VLADIMIR
PUTIN EVEN MORE.
THIS ADMINISTRATION IS TALKING
ABOUT TAPPING INTO RESOURCES
FROM VENEZUELA OR AN IRAN DEAL.
WE’RE SITTING WITH RUSSIANS
OVER A POTENTIAL IRAN DEAL
WHICH PAY ATTENTION TO THIS, HARRIS, COULD LEAD TO A DEAL
HARRIS, COULD LEAD TO A DEAL
FOR US TO GET OIL AND IRANIANS
TO GET NUKES.
I HOPE IT DOESN’T COME TO THAT.
WE’VE CREATED THIS SITUATION
FOR OURSELVES.
>> Harris: AS YOU WERE SPEAKING
IT IS AN OBSERVATION THAT I
OFTEN TIE TOGETHER.
WE DON’T PLAY THE LONG GAME
BECAUSE WE’RE A YOUNG COUNTRY.
OUR BRAFSH AID OWE MAKES US
BELIEVE, THE LEFT.
BRAVADO TELLS YOU YOU DON’T
HAVE TO PLAY THE LONG GAME ON
ENERGY INAT THE PEN DENSE.
ELON MUSK TWEETED OUT WE HAVE
TO BECOME MORE INDEPENDENT.
IT HURTS MY ELECTRIC VEHICLE
COMPANY.
I LOVE HE CALLED IT THAT.
A LITTLE COMPANY.
BUT WE HAVE TO DO WHAT WE HAVE
TO DO FOR THIS EXTRAORDINARY