Live from the Fox News radio studios in New York City, fresh off the set of Fox and Friends,

it's America's receptive voice. Brian Kilmeade.

Well, I'm excited to be filling in for Brian. Today, my name is Joe Kelly, and we're coming to you live from the Florida Freedom Zone,

where we had probably the best 2021 ever here in Florida with 118 million Americans visiting Florida,

the highest number of domestic travelers in the history of the state all during a pandemic.

We had a phenomenal year last year. We'll get into that coming up a little bit later. My name is Joe Kelly,

and I am with Brian's flagship radio station in Orlando, WDBO,

and I'll be filling in for Brian. Today, you can join the show with 866-408-7669.

You get details, of course, when you go to Brian Kilmeade Show.com,

and we're going to start off with talking a little bit of Russia here as Thomas Graham is going to join us.

He has a distinguished fellow that counsel on foreign relations co-founder of the Russian Eastern European

and Euro Asian Studies Programs at Yale University. Thomas, thanks for joining us here on the Brian Kilmeade Show.

I'm glad to be with you this morning.

We have been hearing the warnings and each day, you know, we wake up and think,

well, has the border been breached? Have the Russian troops invaded Ukraine yet? What is the latest there?

Well, you know, it is a tense situation along the border. There are 150,000 troops,

Russian troops surrounding Ukraine at this point.

There have been some skirmishes between Ukrainian forces and separatist forces,

the Eastern part of Ukraine that has raised the anxieties and tensions in that part of the world.

The United States, you know, the administration is saying that a Russian invasion,

a major invasion could occur any time in the near future.

We had a very tense, contentious session at the UN Security Council yesterday where the United States

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