good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. good morning. great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china s stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it s not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. more exclusive cnn reporting. sparking an international response, protests erupting in sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began s goal to help finance putt putt putin s war in ukraine. tell us more. we have known for some time about russia s project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven t been able to pin down is the mechanisms of the invasio
without the war in ukraine. as for what the rest of the world is going to do, you heard preside president biden talk about this program. when we were in the middle east, the gcc countries ponied up to $3 billion more for this program. so we re working very hard. as you ve seen, this morning the first ship left odesa and on its way to turkey to be inspected. has more than 26,000 tons of corn onboard. that s a good sign. it s a good start. so we re going to continue to work with allies and partners around the world to try to alleviate the food security problems and instability that mr. putin war cost. i want to ask you. we just learned from taiwanese and u.s. sources that speaker pelosi is indeed going to visit taiwan here in the coming days as part of her asia trip. has the white house talk to her about this directly? has white house heard of any specific threats from china when it could toms this visit? the speaker will talk to her about her travel.