ukraine. one of the most important story lines of 2023. the divide in the republican party about ukraine. alexi buchanan, thanks very much. and thanks for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. a dictator, building an empire, will never be able to ease the people s love of liberty. brutality will never ground down the will of the free, and ukraine, ukraine will never be a victim for russia. never. president joe biden marks one year of war in eastern europe with an impassioned speech promising continued support for ukraine and laying out the stakes of the conflict. meanwhile, we re were learning more about the special grand jury that investigated potential 2020 election interference by former president donald trump and his allies. we ll play for you new comments from a key juror in the case, as some republicans are still trying to figure out their messaging on donald trump and his third presidential campaign. als
with more details, julia ainsley, what more can you tell us here? i traveled to nebraska to see this large meat packing facility, run by a company called pssi, they recently lost that contract because the labor department found that they were employing almost two dozen children to clean that facility overnight. the labor department widened their investigation and found more than 100 children employed by that contractor, mainly migrant children, working overnight, and going to school during the day. here s what we learned. alarming accusations about what happened inside this nebraska meat packing plant. migrant children like this boy who federal investigators say was put to work in a job that can be incredibly dangerous. could anybody mistake these children for adults? i don t think there s any mistaking these children for adults. reporter: investigators say the child workers arrived for their shift at night, many of them from central america.
science but that is not the whole picture. you have to look at overall society. look when the outbreak started way back in march of 2020, if critical workers were exposed we said you don t isolate at all. we needed to do that or every hospital and meat packing facility will close. my issue they are confusing, contradictory and not implementing it correctly. they let the rapid testing infrastructure crater for nine months. they are playing catch-up and not doing it very well. julie: i want to get to the debate over vaccine mandates for domestic flights. that s back in the spotlight. thousands of flights are canceled. we ve been reporting on it every day due to staff shortages. fauci says masks are enough for now but says the situation may change. now another reversal. let s play the tape. right now we feel the masking requirement and the degree of filtration on a plane
who knew? olive oil up 30%. buffalo moz really 30 bucks a case. tomatoes up 30%. is that what you re seeing? absolutely. my brisket prices, these are trimming those. three months ago was in the high $2, and we re this last week it was just under $5. that s before the latest, you know, shutdown that happened with the jbs meat packing facility. bill: it s real. what about employees? it is real. bill: can you find the labor, chef? currently no. this is certainly for my type of food i don t cook out of a freezer. it is fresh, hand prepared. i need talent and with that comes frankly a hard job. and i pay very well. i have a great environment for
criminal gang is likely responsible for another massive cyber attack. the latest victim, jbs foods, the world s largest meat packing facility. alex marquardt joining us this morning. what are you learning, first on the extent of the hack. the good news is jbs says most of its operations are coming online. the bad news is this is yet another example of a part of critical american infrastructure that can be taken off-line. what we re hearing from jbs is the vast majority of their operations will be back up today. this comes after their meat packing facilities were taken off-line in the united states, after all their beef production was shut down here in the united states and their operations in australia were also impacted. we know the biden administration