Submarines, activity in the black sea that you were showing earlier. we don t know when those videos were released or what they were fired at, or if there is indeed an accurate video from that specific time. but it is important to put odesa in context. it is of course a key target for the kremlin. russian-speaking city that is on the black seacoast of a million people, a cultural economic hub. but takeit is a huge task. something that they have taunted a skooucouple weeks ago, maybe second phase of their operation would involve them take position the black seacoast entirely. they have been trying that for months. so it may be about trying to keep ukrainian officials guessing as to what russia s actual goal in its renewed offensive in the south actually is. are they headed west towards even the border with moldova where we ve seen some military activity over the past days. are they headed to here, the
That. they would like to be able to make a kooucouple big changes. one would be to use social media and other online tools to speed up looking through people s backgrounds regarding their neighbors or whether they filed bankruptcies. it is a lot easier now, they don t have to actually do gum shoe look at all these people. so they want to streamline that. also they are trying to make it so that a person who is working in the intel field say at a contractor and they are going to go into the government, they already have a clearance, do they need to get recleared. there is a lot of reclearance going on here. the same thing happens when a person is in government and goes to a contractor or a person is in one agency and goes to another. it is called reciprocity and any are trying to eliminate the need for all the reinvestigations. and now we have so many new people that a lot more people
Left, about two dozen reporters pushing their way into a corridor. i can t see who they are surrounding. it probably is chuck schumer. from my understanding he talked to a kooucouple reporters sayin hoped to work out a deal. so if there is someone talking, i would bet it is chuck schumer. and you and i have been there and know how it works. sometimes it is just somebody from a staff coming out. kristen welker is there as well. she is inside the briefing room. what can you tell us, what is the expectation on the part of the president going into this meeting with chuck schumer? i can tell you that things were looking pretty grim prior to the white house announcing that there was going to be this meeting with chuck schumer, significant that the president