Putin Pressures America Again. How Should We Respond?

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Russia's aggression toward Ukraine has persisted for over a year now, but Russian forces have recently turned their hostility toward Americans. The Pentagon has released footage of a Russian fighter jet colliding with an American drone over the Black Sea this past Tuesday. Though Russia has denied that its planes made contact with the drone, the video evidence is undeniable to most of the world -- leaving many officials like U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin suspicious of this potential "escalation." On the Rundown, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) joins to discuss why "we need to be mindful" of the growing relationship between China & Russia as President Xi Jinping gears up to visit Moscow and how he believes the Biden Administration should ensure the U.S. military has proper funding and resources to stand against these "flagrant international criminals." He also discusses his recent trip to the Southern border and why he believes the President has failed to use American taxpayer dollars efficiently as the U.S. border remains insecure. Today marks 20 years since the U.S. ground invasion of the Iraq War. It was on this day in March 2003 that President George W. Bush began an American military operation in Iraq based on intelligence that said Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Eventually, coalition forces were able to defeat the Iraqi Army, but the vacuum created would cause strife in the region for years to come. Retired Major General Vinny Boles was part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and he joins the podcast to explain the factors that made the insurgency a formidable foe, how America's strategy in the war changed, and the importance of an exit strategy when engaging in armed conflict. Plus, commentary by Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dana Perino. I'm Jason chief. It's I'm Rachel Campo stuffy and this is the Fox News rundown
0:08.9	Monday, March 20th, 2023 on my command. A new week begins with China's president
0:14.9	She expected to spend a few days in Moscow with Russia's Vladimir Putin with official Washington and powerful lawmakers
0:23.4	Watching it all very closely. There's no question that these are are two
0:30.0	of the most blatant international criminals on the face of the earth and they're our two worst adversaries and we need to be mindful of it.
0:37.9	I'm Dave Anthony. It was 20 years ago today when the US invaded Iraq, starting a war that lasted for years.
0:46.7	We had some flawed intelligence when we started it. We thought people were telling us we'd be greeted as victors and you know,
0:52.2	avenging angels and it'd be wonderful to have us there. Reality turned out to be a little bit different.
0:57.6	And I'm Tammy Bruce. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:05.8	An alarming alliance is likely growing is China's president. She's expected to spend a few days this week
1:11.8	visiting Russian president Vladimir Putin
1:15.2	National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Fox News Sunday offered this assessment.
1:21.2	There's no question that both China and Russia and this is right out in the national security strategy or two countries that
1:26.7	are chafing against this international rules based order that the United States and so many of our allies and partners have built up since the end of World War II.
1:34.0	They'd like to rewrite the rules of the game globally.
1:37.1	After months of persistent aggression and violence, Russian president Putin has been charged with atrocities and war crimes
1:44.7	by the International Criminal Court. On Fox News Sunday, Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Mann Holland told me
1:51.6	Putin may not be heading for an international court just yet, but this is an important step.
1:57.0	We know that Putin and Russia have been committing war crimes in Ukraine. Here, they abducted Ukrainian children and forcibly put them
2:05.2	in Russia. So this is a signal that the rest of the international community, the ICC,
2:12.0	recognizes that war crimes have been committed.
2:14.5	This is also budget season in Washington and deputy defense secretary Kathleen Hicks as the Pentagon
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