with a country that some think is what america needs to do, that is write a new constitution. and he will speak to one of the top scientists responsible for the webb telescope and those awesome images it has captured. these videos show explosions that have happened in the last two weeks at russian military facilities in crimea, which has been occupied by russian forces since 2014. one attack at an air base destroyed at least seven russian warplanes. ukraine has claimed responsibility for that attack and two others according to an internal document obtained by cnn. is this evidence that kyiv is launching a counteroffensive against russia and could it gain back territory illegally overtaken by moscow? joining me now is retired u.s. army general mark hurtling. and general grks tohave good to have you on. great to be with you. let s talk about the attacks inside crimea, this territory has been controlled by russia for some eight years now. does ukraine s ability to strike beh
Thanks so much for joining me this morning. hello. david, i wonder if you could give us a big picture appraisal of where these headwinds stand with china because these are not headlines folks outside are used to hearing in terms of neglect it i have economic circumstances. you ve got the zero covid policy, it has caused a lot of shu shutdowns, you have the heatwave, and is this an economic crisis for china? it is an economic it is not a crisis yet, but it is a real economic slowdown, real economic pain in the chinese economy. and that has political consequences. china s communist party is obsessed with control he best of times. but this is an extremely sensitive year for the top leader xi jinping. toward the end of the year, we ll have one of the most important meetings the communist party has had in a generation. he s expencted to ask for a thid term as leader.
The wild week and what could be coming next. reporter: good morning. great to see you. wow, a wild week of trading on wall street ending in a sea of red. it s a week that saw a swing to the upside where the dow jumped more than 900 points giving the index its best day of the year only to make a stunning reversal 24 hours later, plunging more than 1,000 points to have its worst day of the year. the whiplash even shocking hardened traders and analysts saying the action was not just volatile, it was violent. the moves came after the federal reserve decided to raise the key interest rate a half a percent to fight inflation. that s sitting at levels we haven t seen since the 1980s. prices of everything from gasoline to food to cars have jumped in the wake of pandemic shu shutdowns, supply chain issues, and the ongoing war in ukraine. the fed is right in the middle of a delicate dance to try get