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Today, a huge explosion rocks Kiev following Ukraine and Russia negotiations. Also, Joe Biden

prepares for his state of the Union address, but is he really preparing? I don't know. We'll

get into that. We've got all that more coming up and it all starts right now.

Welcome to the News and Why It Matters. Happy Monday. I am Sarah Gazzalus today joined

by Eric July. Belize, TV contributor and host of four Canon Sake. We've got Rob, you

know, blaze media critic back in the house as well. We appreciate both of you being here.

And look, it was a difficult weekend as far as news goes. It's very, very hard. Obviously,

a lot going on between Russia and Ukraine. I think that it's important that we talk about

it. I want to first go through the updates, if you will, from Friday when we left you guys

versus what has transpired and is happening now. The State Department has issued a security

alert urging American citizens to leave Russia by commercial means available. This is,

of course, during the time where an increasing number of airlines are canceling flights into

and out of Russia, numerous countries have closed their airspace to Russian airlines. It

feels to me like it's very late that the State Department is very late in the game to just

start now urging American citizens to leave. Like, hey, guys, actually, it looks like things

might be getting bad over there. So, this is a new development. We just learned. So, we

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