prices could go up, and they have gone up, and we have seen it already that the food supply could go down, and impacting not just ukraine and the economy and the ability to export, but it really does impact so much of the world, so much of the world that is hungry and depending on ukraine for grain and other type of food that it does export. this is why it is called the world s bread basket. kate, we were up all night in odesa to wait and see if there is a fourth night of the intense strikes and they came after dawn and in the course of the morning and seven different types of cruise missiles, and seven missiles of different types used against the food storage facilities, and russia is claiming that it is hitting the military facilities and fuel facilities and hitting odesa and the surrounding region, because they say that is where the sea drones were launched against the
company, and the bottom line, and he says that florida is not going to do that anymore, and he is trying to get the florida s financial interest out of politics. steve conforto, thank you for breaking it down for us. kate? china-based hackers taking aim at another official, and this time, it is the u.s. ambassador the china whose email was breached, and another top official whose email was hacked was u.s. commerce secretary gina raimondo, and secretary raimondo is going to bebe our guest. we will be right back. i m currently out of the office [typing] focusing on a little blue-sky thinking. i ll be taking meetings with family and friends. and chking voicemail as my activities permit.
shipping. that is the nastional securiy spokesman john kirby who we heard this week that they are concerned that russia is going to try to frame the ukrainians for attacks on the civilian ships in black sea. of course, they are watching to see if russia lays mines as well at the ukrainian ports to prevent that grain from exiting ukraine. kate. important point that you have made though is the similar message from bill byrnes to john kirby at the white house about the coordinated messaging to go public to talk about it. that is extremely interesting. thank you, natasha bertrand. and now, joining us to talk about this is general mark kimmett, and i wanted to talk about the cluster munitions that the u.s. has provided, and could this be a game-changer in counter offensive, and what do
you see? no, i don t think it is a game-changer. it is important. it adds to the capability of ukrainians to get through that obstacle belt from hell. it is great for going against the troops in bunkers and possibly some of the armored vehicles in the rear, but it is not going to be a game-changer, but lit help. important but not a game-changer, and this is important context for us to understand. general kimmett, can i ask you about the warning from our colleague natasha bertrand that russia could present a false flag operation in the black sea for example. what would that look like? well, it was said earlier they could be floating ukrainian mine near a civilian ship. they could be conducting an attack against a turkish port for instance, but the best thing that could happen is what bill byrnes did which is to ul kate out and reveal it, and if you
january 6th, and then he would not come n and we referred him to the department of justice for prosecution, and the special counsel has leverage, and the ability to bring criminal charges and use the looming prospect of charges as leverage to get people to cooperate, and this is what the prosecutors do in all kinds of cases. i am not sure, kate, if this has happen in this matter, and mr. med dose has assessed the culpability that he has provided to the special counsel and he has not provided to the select committee, and if so that is huge, because he was in the prongs of the multi-pronged plan to disrupt the transfer of power. and we know that the grand jury heard testimony yesterday from a trump aide will russell. did you all speak with will russell as part of your investigation? we did not speak to russell. we heard a lot about him, but we did not actually speak to will russell.