rate hike possible and gdp numbers coming later in week. could the administration lose control of the narrative and the economy itself at the same time. white house director of the national economic council brian deese will be our guest. he ll have thoughts on that. also ahead, two americans are confirmed killed in ukraine. as russia strikes a key port in odesa. we ll have the very latest from the ground. as well as congresswoman and former navy pilot mikie sherrill, who just returned from a trip to the region. that is next. we ll be right back. region that is next that is next we ll be right back.
that there would be no retaliation, they send a missile into odessa. really shocking. one of our members of state department said to me, you know, never underestimate the ability of russia to disappoint. well and that is my question. so if this was about grain, this wasn t even about territory, this is about just feeding people around the world that are starving that this world is negatively impacted but the bombs didn t stop. so what sense did you get from president zelenskyy of the kind of reassurances he would need to negotiate seriously with vladimir putin to end the war. ? well of course, the ukrainians were negotiating with the u.n. and with turkey to get this deal done. because they don t regard him as a good actor here and i think they proven correct in that
and for a lot of the world and particularly portions of africa, and that food, that grain was not getting out. a deal was struck and then not even a day later the russians strike odesa. how much of a concern is this and is this a belief there is a beginning of a series of attacks to prevent food from where it is supposed to go. i was speaking to our ambassador in ukraine, speaking to prime ministers from the ukraine parliament and it really, or ministers in the ukraine parliament, it is inexplicable. and hours after and i was on the ground as the deal was struck and i could tell you the hope and relief that we could get this grain out of ukraine to the world, that we would be able to do that, and that there was a means forward here with turkey, with the u.n., to get russia to agree to that and then just hours later, after agreeing,
a artillery blast and as other foreign fighters rushed to help, a russian tank opened fire. he couldn t leave until the rest of his friends, the rest of the battalion left with him. the front of lines finding war has no bounded. and back here in odesa, ukrainian officials to plan export of the grain as soon as tomorrow. but it is concern what is beneath the black sea. naval mines left behind by the militaries proven deadly for chrismans. one man killed last month swimming with his family just 20 yards off the beach. jonathan. morgan chesky live in odesa, thank you very much. joining us here on set, mikie sherrill of new jersey. she is a u.s. navy veteran and member of house armed services committee. and she visited kyiv over the