correspondent and co-anchor jonathan hunt in lviv. really just such a captivating story in in a time of war , a time of horrifying visual images and sounds and pictures jonathan. really it s just exceptional to see some stuff like this . yeah, trace, it s hard not to be touched by the plight of children in war. they are always among those obviously who suffer the most. and i have to say it s hard not to be inspired by the smiles, the orphans that we met who had just days before been sheltering in a basement from russian bombs and then they were moved and brought to a modicum of safety here in lviv. some of them dream of making it to the united states. what s here? hello, mom and dad. thirteen year old yulia, one of many orphans waiting for this war to end hopes her adoptive parents in chicago are watching this . i want to go to chicago.
of yourself, sir, and we look forward to talking to you again and again. thank you so much for the pictures you are bringing us trace, sir. he is you know, you ve been talking to him all week, is doing incredible work there. and it was interesting to talk to him, see him almost reduced to tears. it s hard to imagine we all witnessed these things in war zones. it s not our country when it s your country trace his strength is just such an example. extraordinary. and that s why his exceptional reporting is just so compelling. and we watch it night after night because it s informative and it really is emotional and compelling. jonathan, thank you so much. we are joined now. i want to bring in quickly army reserves intelligence officer abraham hamady. he just returned from overseas a tour also of saudi arabia. and i want to know very quickly what do they think of of america banning russian oil? right. going to be with you right now if you just saw
their dead wrapping bodies just in plastic and putting them into mass graves trenches that they ve had to dig because there are so many bodies in the meantime, there s concern too about chernobyl, the decommissioned nuclear power plant which was the site of that terrible radioactive leak back in nineteen eighty six . it still has radioactive material stored there and now the ukrainians are saying power has been cut to the plant. that s a big concern, although the international atomic energy agency saying that they don t believe there is a major risk at this point at this point being the operative word that on the question of the polish government s offer to send mig fighter jets to help the ukrainians, they wanted to send them via that u.s. air base in ramstein ,germany. the u.s. saying that is not a viable offer. they say the risk of of mig fighters being involved and clashing with russian
organization. now, despite bipartisan support for this russian republicans are still blasting the administration for reaching out to unlikely partners in iran and venezuela in an effort to lower gas prices. let s cut a deal with the iranians, put their oil in the market with the venezuelans to put their oil in the market. what we have is an administration that would rather deal with internation killers than with american drillers. but trace things are far from over . now those bills must head to the senate where the clock is ticking. friday s deadline for the government funding to run out is fast approaching. they can t have any problems in that 50 50 split senate. otherwise it s going to get real interesting trace. very interesting. griff jenkins live for d.c. griff, thank you . let s get back to our co-anchor, our chief correspondent jonathan hunte live in lévy. jonathan, trace, there is a fear of radiation leaks here now as ukraine claims that its chernobyl power plant is
discussions about how to cut it off and perhaps for good to read this tweet from president biden quoting loosening environmental regulations won t lower prices but transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles powered by clean energy will mean that no one will have to worry about gas prices. it will mean tyrants like putin won t be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon. again, the president projecting years and years in the future when maybe everybody is using electric cars. but for now we need fossil fuels as a security blanket to keep us . and the only reason that putin was able to use fossil fuels as a weapon is because this administration, you know, they they declared war on fossil fuels in this country and so they open the door for russia to sell us gas. yes. and no one is the disagrees with the need to diversify energy sources. so this is not a discussion of one versus the other the way