Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
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In just a minute, we're going to be joined uh by a volunteer journalist uh inside of a bunker with 15 other people and get an on-the-ground Kiev uh perspective.
He's in Kyiv, which is under heavy fire and has been now for days.
It's gotten worse the last couple of days.
Um first I want to go back to if you missed it earlier today.
You know, here we have Kamala Harris, the great representative that she is of our great country, asked about you the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
And uh what did she do?
She giggles.
Thank you, Madam Vice President.
Uh I wanted to ask you about some reporting that my colleague here in Poland noticed.
He recently spoke with the mayor of the largest border town who told him that the refugee system is essentially not set up for this, that it will collapse.
It's an improvised system that can work for maybe two weeks, but not indefinitely.
And I'm wondering what the United States is going to do more specifically to set up a permanent infrastructure.
And relatedly, is the United States willing to make a specific allocation for Ukrainian refugees?
And for President Judah, I wanted to know if you think, and if you asked the United States to specifically accept more refugees.
Okay.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Okay, so this time.
Uh what was so funny about it?
I I maybe I'm just not in on the joke.
Now, just to compare that, let's go to uh I think he's been doing a terrific uh job for Fox News, and that's Trey Yangst.
Uh he's been in Kyiv the entire time.
He's been through every air siren, he's been through every bombing, and he takes a little bit more seriously than Kamala Harris.
Yeah, guys, this joint press conference came across like a bilateral check-in.
It was detached from the reality on the ground.
As the pair spoke, there were air raid sirens sounding in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
We heard this diplomatic and political speak from Vice President Harris.
The Ukrainian people don't need that.
They need anti-tank missiles, they need anti-aircraft batteries.
I mean, we heard just all of this talk that you hear out of Washington about cooperation and friendship, and to be nimble and swift in the response and understanding and appreciating.
There are people dying as we speak on the ground in Ukraine, across this country, thousands of people.
And the capital is being targeted from the ground and the air.
The Ukrainians right now are calling for a no-fly zone because women and children are being bombed by Russian forces.
And while we heard the vice president there talk about this hospital in Mariopol, where three people, according to officials, were killed overnight in a Russian strike.
She didn't talk about the consequences for that.
Ouch.
I mean, pretty powerful.
Then President Zelensky, you know, is asking the West, and Poland stepped up.
Poland said we'll give you our mix.
And and Blinken seemed all enthusiastic about it.
Then all of a sudden, uh Joe got nervous.
Never mind.
Maybe not a good idea.
The Pentagon came out and said, No, we don't support this.
Listen to Zelensky.
Listen, we have a war.
We do not have time for all these signals.
This is not pink bones.
This is about human lives.
We ask once again, solve it faster.
Do not shift the responsibility.
Send us cleanse.
Anyway, joining us now is Mark Savchuk.
Um he's leading a volunteer journalism effort in Ukraine.
He is the coordinator of the Ukrainian volunteer journalists initiative.
And he's now in Kiev.
He's living in a bomb shelter with 15 people.
He's given us a real-time on-the-ground perspective.
Uh Mark, first of all, thank you for being with us.
You actually in the bomb shelter right now?
Yes, I am.
Well, thank you for being with us.
Tell me a little bit about what the situation's like on the ground there for you.
Um, sure.
Well, uh, first of all, it's not 15 people, it's more like 10.
Uh, so not as bad as it sounds.
Uh but uh uh you've got to before before you answer that question, how how many square feet are you living in there?
Are you living in like a you know a 10 by 12 area or do is there some space for everybody?
Uh I'm sorry, I'm not gonna be able to answer you in square feet because we use meters.
I'm sorry.
I got it.
And I can't I can't convert either, so we're not we're both in the same boat, but go ahead.
Yeah.
Well, uh look, it's uh it's cramped, yeah, but it's you know it's livable.
So I wouldn't say that we're like in some kind of drastic situation or something like that.
Obviously it's cramped, obviously it's not uh in the city.
Let me ask you this how are you getting how are you getting bare necessities?
How are you getting food and water and maybe medicine if needed?
Yeah, easy.
Uh so uh currently in Kiev, let's you know, let's get back to the uh question of uh how how is the city doing right now?
Uh all the basic functions uh are there.
So uh we have basic uh banking services, we have basic uh uh public transport.
We have basic grocery stores are open.
Yes, of course, everything is quite limited, but it's there.
So if you want to go out and buy like milk and bread and stuff like that, you you can do that.
Obviously, there will be some uh products on the shelf that are going to be empty, so there will be none of uh say white bread, for example, but you will definitely not starve.
You know, the uh you know uh products are there.
Uh even public transport, even that is working, you know, even though it's limited as well.
There are big queues on the gas stations, uh, because again, they are very limited, but again, the petrol is there.
If you need to uh get your car uh filled, uh you will be able to do that.
And the grocery stores, they work also as a cash machine.
Uh so that also works.
So you say how do we get supplies?
Well, we just go to the shops and get them and buy them.
Uh like that.
But that's for now.
I I hope you're doing a little bit of stocking up on some bare necessities.
Yes, yes, yes.
We do a lot of sucking up on what now all the coverage that I have seen, especially in the last three days, shows that Putin seems to have surrounded Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, your country.
Um that he's now surrounded and sirens are going off frequently, a lot of bombings.
And how often are you hearing those sirens go off and how close have these bombs uh exploded in terms of your location?
Yeah, well, that's not true.
Uh he has not surrounded, he he hasn't managed to do that, even uh in each other.
On the outskirts of Kyiv, if you look at the map, I hate my beg to differ with you.
On the outskirts of Kiev.
If you look at the map, Russian troops are on uh have uh created a perimeter around on the outskirts, way outside of Kyiv.
They haven't made it to Kyiv, but within anywhere between eight and sixteen miles out of Kyiv.
Yes, that's true.
Uh that's uh uh small cities that are around Kiev, they are fighting there.
But I'm gonna tell you look, uh if I can if I want to get out of Kiev right now, I can do this easily.
We have like literally uh uh lots of cars, lots of cargo cars coming into Kiev and resupplying us.
Obviously, if the city would be uh would have been surrounded, that wouldn't be possible, right?
I mean, come on, if the city is surrounded, you can't get supplies in.
Uh but I'm what I'm saying is it is it is he's moved closer in the last three days.
He was twenty-five miles away from Kyiv.
Now he's anywhere between eight and sixteen miles away.
So it seems like they're closing in, and I also because our own reporters have been there on air while bombs have been exploding inside the capital city.
Uh I don't know when that was because I'm here for the last week, and they have been uh heavy fighting at Irpine and Bucha and Gastomin, those are three cities in the northwest of Kiev.
Correct.
Uh they have been fighting there for the last week or so.
Uh they haven't been uh Russians haven't been able to move forward since then.
And I'm talking for the last five or six days or so.
Uh so I g i if you want to come uh come out of uh Kiev and travel south, you can do this.
Uh so they haven't blocked it.
Uh they have blocked the uh uh northwestern and western routes, and they have blocked the eastern route.
But if you talk about southeastern routes and southwestern routes, it's com it's completely open, and you know, trucks go there every single day.
Now the to the credit of the Ukrainian people fighting back, and if you want to call it an insurgency, whatever you want to call it, they have been uh very effective at stopping, yes.
At at stopping the movement of of Putin's troops, uh but certainly I don't think there's any doubt in my mind that he has his sights set on on taking out the capital at some future point.
I just think it's been more difficult than he planned.
Um and the damage that he's done is is very real.
Now, um of the people that are staying, their estimates now that close to two million people have left the country.
You're saying there's still time for people to get out.
Are there are there still women and children in the capital city of Kyiv right now, or have they most of them left?
Uh well, most of them left, yes, but there are still some women and children in the city, yes, for sure.
So I would say that there are still people who should leave uh if they don't want to fight.
And I'm actually very much for that, because once the fighting will start, you know, uh we don't really want civilians running around the city.
That that would be uh a mistake.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back and we'll talk more with Mark Savchuk.
He is helping lead the volunteer journalism effort in Ukraine.
He's in a bunker right now as we're talking.
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All right, we continue with Mark Sabchuck is with us.
He's helping lead a volunteer journalism effort in Ukraine.
Right now he's in a bomb shelter with with ten other people talking to us from Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine.
So tell me more about the people that are staying and what the plans are, and is this insurgency is it organized enough and have you received from the from Western European countries and the US enough javelins, enough stinger missiles or is in other words, is the resistance, the insurgency, the men that have are fighting for their country, do they have the weaponry that would be most effective to stop uh Putin's troops?
That's an excellent question.
Let me answer that point.
So if we're talking about the organization, obviously it's lacking and it's flagging from the Russian army, and that's actually extremely good for us.
Uh because they're very slow, they're immobile, they make lots of mistakes, and some of your analysts even said that they are their their performance have been appalling, but I'm quoting here.
So and we have been able to go uh cause them uh very big significant damage uh using the javelin missile, uh using the puncher files from uh Germany and and loft from United Kingdom.
We have been incredibly successful at causing them lots of damage of the armor.
And uh, you know, we are really grateful for the support you guys have been giving us.
Uh you've asked, is it enough?
And that's a great question here.
We have so many volunteers that we can't enlist them into the army.
There's literally not enough weaponry from our Ministry of Defense to uh supply every single volunteer that wants to fight.
So that's an answer for you right here.
Uh the uh the uh help from the West has been very efficient and very good, but we still need more in order to uh effectively crush uh his uh insurgents and crush his invasion.
Uh when you do I've seen many Russian tanks just destroyed, you know, I've I've seen images of twelve of them taken out at once.
Um exactly exactly.
And that's That's exactly why I'm saying the Kiev is not surrounded.
Look, there is a line of armor coming in from the east.
And just this morning, we have destroyed something like ten tanks.
It was like a small part of their uh line of attack.
And we have completely immobilized it and caused it to retreat.
So uh they are trying to encircle the city, but they keep failing because they their performance is you know not very good.
Okay, I think I don't think you're fully understanding what I'm saying, because I I go through this map every night on my television show, and it's a little it's far more visual um that than what you're saying and what I'm saying.
We're really not saying the we're not saying anything differently.
When I say he's created a perimeter surrounding Kyiv, I'm not saying he's on the border of Kyiv and the city.
I'm saying outside, many miles away, that he has set up a perimeter around this the city, clearly looking for the opportunity to take the capital city.
It's you know you don't need to be a general in in the army to figure this out.
But so far the insurgency has been so successful that they pushed him back and they're preventing him from moving forward.
Uh whether that can continue, I don't know.
I mean, that's gonna be the big question for for Ukraine.
I didn't like that your president Zelensky, I admire the fact that unlike other leaders of other countries in moments like this, they he would have gotten on a plane with uh uh millions of dollars in cash and gold and and currency and taken off and gone to safety, he stayed and and not only is he fighting, uh he even gave out his location, which I thought was a little nutty on his part, uh, but he's being very brave.
And it seems like the people, uh the men that have stayed behind and people that have come in from the outside to fight, um, have been extraordinarily brave and effective with the weapons that if the West keeps providing, uh, I think you guys have a great shot at stopping this.
Exactly.
You're spawned.
All we need is just uh more of help and more of financial assistance.
You're absolutely right.
The weapons that the West is providing are efficient.
So uh this insurgency will be stopped if the West will continue to support Ukraine both financially and with military aid that is has already been providing so far.
Well, that's certainly very informative.
And I just want you to know there are a lot of people, you know, hoping and praying that uh uh that that you win and uh that he leaves your country.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's very important, and thank you very much for stressing uh the point that I think is also incredibly correct is that the people who are fighting for the right thought, uh, when they're fighting for their own country, where they're fighting for freedom against oppression, uh, they should be helped.
Uh I I completely agree with you on that.
And I and then while the women and children have an opportunity, and uh no child should be in a war zone, and I would urge them all to leave.
No young child should die in this war, if at all no more young children, enough have already died.
Absolutely.
I completely agree on you on that, and yes, Poland has been nothing but supportive.
We have uh so much love for Poland.
Thank you very much for that.
All right, hang in there.
We'll check back in with you.
Mark Savchuk with us.
He's in a bunker, he's in uh the capital city of Kiev with about ten other people, and uh we'll get regular updates from him uh as this uh continues.
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By the way, we just got this in exchange between Peter Ducey and Gen Saki.
Uh Janny, uh you're just gonna keep blaming um Russia and Putin and the war uh from now until the midterms.
We just heard you say again, you think inflation is going to be temporary.
We've heard you say that it was going to be temporary since last spring.
So how long do you guys think temporary is well again, Peter?
I think what we do is we rely on the assessments of the Federal Reserve and of outside economic analysts who give an assessment of how long will last.
The expectations and their assessment at this point continues to be that it will moderate by the end of the year.
There's also no question that when a foreign dictator invades a foreign country, and when that foreign dictator is the head of a country that is the third largest supplier of oil in the in the world, that that is going to have an impact.
And it is.
And so to that point, inflation goes up today.
The President's statement blames the Putin price hike.
Are you guys just going to start blaming Putin for everything and tell them in terms?
Well, we've seen the price of gas go up at least 75 cents since President Putin lines up troops on the border of Ukraine.
And last month, the statement didn't mention the Putin price hike.
It mentioned inflation because of the pandemic.
Why is that?
Well, last year, last two years, there was a global pandemic.
Everyone who's a global economist have all agreed that that has been the biggest contributor to date of inflation because of the impact on the supply chain.
Obviously, global events impact the economy, the global economy, as well as global inflation.
And the price hikes as a result that have escalated over the course of time of President Putin's further invasion of the impact on the global markets are, of course, having an impact.
You know, it's amazing because we had, what, four months, 40 year high of inflation.
The new numbers come out today, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is a 40 year high.
If you look at the inflation in January of 2021, when Joey took over, it was 1.4 percent.
You know, now we have a 40 year high.
And that means everything you buy at every store you go to is costing more.
The inflation rate over the previous three months is as high as it was in January of 1982.
And that was the fallout from the disastrous Jimmy Carter economy.
And Reagan turned it all around, took time, but he turned it all around.
And Reagan then created the longest period of peacetime economic growth in the history of the country.
But the inflation rate is is 7.9 percent year over year.
That's through the end of February.
But it's 8.4 percent in the last three months, December, January, February.
And the bulk of the increase in energy prices came before anything happened in Ukraine.
And if you look at the monthly numbers for last year, after stalling at about 5.3 percent for most of last spring and summer, the inflation rate really started to explode in October of 2021.
But it went up dramatically from what it was that Joe Biden inherited, which was, again, 1.4 percent.
If you're looking at that rate increase, now it's 7.9%.
So that means that's a 40-year high.
Everything you buy in every store you go to is costing more.
Every American was feeling the cost of Joe Biden's energy policies long before Russia invaded Ukraine.
This is one big lie.
JP Morgan, they threw out a truth bomb this morning as somebody tweeted out.
The Biden administration is open to easing sanctions on Venezuela in exchange to ramp up oil exports.
Perhaps we can ease some sanctions on Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, all at Alaska, while we're in the mood to ease sanctions in return for increased production.
I mean, it is if you look at shelter, it's the single biggest component of the consumer price index.
33% of it still widely understated.
And you get you can see, you know, everything is costing more.
Can't even get a new car.
If you're getting a used car, it's 30, 40% higher than it you we would otherwise pay.
Let's get to the phones.
Uh Ken is in Pennsylvania, the great state of Pennsylvania.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, Sean.
Thank you very much.
Um following you following the center primary out there.
Uh I'm friends with Dr. Oz, known him for many years.
He's an American first, make America great again, Reagan conservative.
And you know, when I said that about Trump, people, you know, rip me to shreds.
I think I was proven right.
I will be proven right if Oz wins that primary.
It'll be interesting to see.
What's going on?
Hey, uh I was always wondering uh how did we all of a sudden become a net um exporter of oil to a net importer?
And I was uh watching uh Brian Kilmeat's show yesterday and former attorney general Bill Barr was on and he said that uh the oil companies are having trouble getting financing because uh the insurers will not insure the loans.
Uh am I missing something?
That's something I haven't thought of.
I can understand it though, because if if you take all of the different restrictions that Joe Biden has put in place as it relates to the energy sector, and I've gone over them in great specificity and detail, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.
That would have been done by now.
The Alberta premier was very clear.
We would have 900,000 barrels of of Canadian oil being shipped to America every day if they didn't cancel the pipeline.
So they're lying about that.
If they didn't pause new oil and gas leases on federal lands, uh, we would we would be able to extract and and do more exploration and you'd find the areas that had the most potential, and that's where they'd start drilling and it would be the most effective.
Then they have the environmental regulations and emission regulations that they popped on everything, then stopping, you know, all drilling and and exploration in Anmoir.
Now my point to your question is is very simple, and that is you know, you're asking me whether or not the insurance companies won't insure it.
The problem is, as the petroleum institute points out, just because it's an open leased, it's a a por portion of open lease land, the nine thousand leases as they call them, doesn't mean that there's oil or gas there.
It means that they have the right to look.
The leases are granted before any exploration has ever done.
So a lot of times you think there might be there's indications there might be energy below the ground, but you don't find out until after you get the lease.
And for a lot of these companies, they just cannot afford the risk of drilling if they don't know for sure that it's there.
Now, as it relates to insurance companies, I think probably what would factor in, assuming that's true, and I have no reason to believe it's not.
Insurance companies are thinking, well, um they're already at a two decade high in terms of actual usage of leases granted.
Um there's probably not there's probably too great a risk that there's not a lot of energy in the remaining leases that are out there.
So if they per if they would t pick up these restrictions and and knock them out or change course and and rescind them, then I think the insurance companies would be more inclined to to bet on the oil and energy companies to do their job.
But I think those restrictions make it too big a risk for the even the insurance companies.
Okay, well, let's take them out of the equation right now because they weren't even um uh in development yet, and uh the Keystone Pipeline was not in service.
So my thinking was well, what would they do?
Did our government tell the oil companies to shut the pumps down, which created a situation where we became a net importer of oil now?
What about what was the case?
I just explained to you all the restrictions that they put in place.
They paused new oil and gas leases, they updated environmental restrictions, emissions restrictions, uh they ended Anmoir drilling and paused new leases.
Um all of that combined is you you're putting a stranglehold on the whole entire industry that doesn't need to be there, especially now.
And if the choice is begging a murdering thug dictator Maduro or dealing going into business with the Iranium mullahs uh or begging OPEC, I choose Texas, I choose West Virginia, I choose Pennsylvania, I choose Ohio, I choose Alaska.
I'd even choose New York State, but they're too stupid in this state to ever think of fracking here.
So I hope that answers your question.
Uh Bill is in West Texas.
Bill, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hello, Sean.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you for calling, sir.
I would like to address uh some of the questions that the gentleman before me just uh put on the table.
Yes, sir.
So we can turn around this oil problem.
I live in West Texas.
I'm in one of the world's largest oil fields, the Permian Basin.
I have a service company, and we put and we work for all the major oil and gas companies.
They can ramp up their supply, but we have major issues.
Major issues is lack of labor over the last two years.
Once we had fifteen hundred rigs running two years ago, we're down to six hundred and twenty-five.
We could be back to a thousand rigs, but we have nobody to go out there and run the rigs.
We have good paying jobs.
Everybody in the north, northeast, if you need a job, come west to West Texas, because we can help solve this problem.
$200 OL or $150 or $120 Oll does no one any good.
We can get it back into the $60 range, but we gotta have be able to have our supply chain shortages relief, and we need the government to take the tuff that they have on us to release the chains a little bit and let us go out and do what we do best.
The Americans and go out there and fix this problem for you guys.
We can do it.
I know we can.
I will tell you, I urge people to really hear what you're saying.
You're telling people that maybe they're in a dead-end job, young, healthy guys that want a new career.
You're saying that if you go down to Texas and you go to these oil companies, whether you have experience or not, you're very likely to get a job at a pretty high-paying rate.
Am I right about that?
Exactly.
That is correct.
And if you're willing to work hard and learn, you can have a career that will last the rest of your life.
And I know guys in the energy sector that would make an a hundred and fifty, two hundred, two hundred and fifty thousand a year.
Is that correct?
Absolutely.
That is correct.
Not bad money for a hard day's work, right?
It it's a young man's game.
Uh they put in the hours, but they get rewarded for it.
And they get all their benefits.
But the main thing is energy, domestic energy is our security.
We don't need the foreign oil.
We can take care of this problem ourselves.
Give us a chance, government.
Just let us go and let's get this thing under control.
Well, instead of begging mulas in Iran and begging dictators like Madura and begging OPEC, I think I'd rather just ask our friends in Texas like you and our friends in all these other states I mentioned, because I don't think we have to beg.
I think you guys will be grateful to get the work and and pumping as much as you can pump and getting as much oil and gas as you can.
So thank you for what you do every day.
Um I don't know why we don't have a president that can that that is it can't figure this out.
It's not that complicated.
Dave is in Wyoming.
What's up, Dave?
How are you?
Sean, thank you for taking my call.
I'm a big fan of your show, and I listen to you all the time when I'm traveling, so I really appreciate you taking my call.
Well, thank you.
I'm glad you called.
So I have a a question, and hopefully maybe you can give me some perspective on it.
You know, historically, uh in World War II, the Allies all got together, and and specifically the the petroleum production and uh the raw materials, steel, that sort of thing, production of the U.S. is one of the one of the contributing factors that that helped the Allies win that over time.
Um when we talk about doing ramping production up right now for the economy, I'm I'm totally in favor of that, and I'm certainly not an anti-oil or anti-drilling person or anything like that.
But has there been any realistic conversation that you're aware of as to the actual reserve needs that we would have if we got into a protracted land war?
I haven't been able to find anything on the internet, anybody discussing it.
Um I think you're I think your assumption is that the land war would be uh on the continental United States, I don't think that's where it would be.
And my I don't think it's I don't think it's so you so all right.
Let's say it's a war in Europe then it is uh to answer your question is um at that at some point you're gonna you're gonna hit a tipping point where inflation is gonna continue to grow.
Prices um the American people are gonna get angry very quickly because this is a preventable problem and one that's easily solved.
But you have to move now to solve it.
And the answer to your question is is we have enough natural resources that if we needed to warp speed energy, gas, and coal production, we would be able to do it.
And so on the reserve side, I think we need to have as uh we need to keep our reserves filled up to capacity.
That's what I would do.
I think tapping into them is a mistake, especially when you have the vast resources we have available to us.
I'd finish that Keystone XL pipeline as fast as I could, and I'd take those nine hundred thousand barrels uh a day from Canada.
Um, but they're not gonna do it because they're beholden to this this radicalism, this new Green Deal radicalism.
Um, I hope that answers your question.
I I've just got to roll because I'm looking at the clock, but it's a good question.
It's smart, and we have we do have a smart audience.
I'll tell you that.
Keeps me on my toes.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
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