only two reporters picked ahead of time, and it looks like at least for all of the questions that the president had some notes that he went to when he went to go answer those questions, which is interesting. john: the first question about ukraine and making sure ukraine had the money that it had the admissions it needs for the counteroffensive. we were hoping to talk to dan hoffman which is underway and how the dam break might play into whether or not ukraine would be able to complete, there is an idea that maybe it was ukraine behind the dam blowing up. because maybe it would help the russians prayed a lot of questions about that, also about whether or not we are going to you give ukraine any money, where the money has gone already, the president was asked a direct question about that and what is happening with speaker mccarthy basically saying he is not willing to take up a supplemental and the president did not quite answer that question, in fact p.m.
we are going to bring her inside for a while. i m not concerned for my health at all. or anything like that, but of course when you have a mother and a child, there are different worries for children and adults i think. i understand your trip has already been impacted today? yes, we were planning on stealing and seeing the statue of liberty with the kids, and we got almost to the pier and they called and canceled the vote ride, which is the right move, you can see if they are not flying planes they should probably not be on a vote ei either. hopefully this clears out, thank you so much for your time. so yeah, martha, again we are seeing varying levels of concern, but overall especially people with young children and older adults that they are the most concern for sure. will send it back to you. martha: thank you very much, so a catastrophic dam break and southern ukraine has forced thousands already living in an active war zone to escape
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president for russia and europe for the u.s. institute of peace. thank you for being with us, sir. let s look at a map and see exactly where this dam is located. how significant in your mind is this development, and specifically geographically where this is taking place. the geography is really important. where this takes place is the southern part of a long front that the russians have to defend against. the russians are very worried about this counteroffensive that the ukrainians have been mounting for months, we ve been talking about this. now it seems to be coming. the russians don t have enough troops to man the whole thing. it is 600 miles. what this dam break does is eliminate 200 miles of that line. so this gives them less area that they have to defend against. so the dam is two miles long, 100 feet tall. you re pointing out that it covers a very extensive area and
lines blown up unbelievable footage shows the dam split in half. emergency evacuations and widespread flooding. trey yengst live in jerusalem. the ukrainians say russian forces blew up a dam in the country s southern region. water rushes past the remains of the power plant. thousands of civilians are evacuating low lying areas as floodwaters rise. zelensky gathered his security council for an emergency meeting following the incident. ukrainian officials are warning the dam break could have severe consequences for the nuclear power plant that relies on water from the dam ss var to cool reactor. a statement this afternoon saying they re monitoring the situation and see no immediate safety risk. analysts say the event has long lasting consequences for the