let's get to eamon javers for all the of the latest details. eamon? >> that's right, kelly just within the past couple minutes, we heard from volodymyr zelenskyy in kyiv, speaking in ukrainian, he asked people to continue to fight the russians he said he is sure that ukraine will prevail meanwhile, u.s. ambassador to the u.n., linda thomas-greenfield called on russia to withdraw forces from the nuclear plant and allow medical treatment for injured personnel and ensure that operators have full access to the site >> by the grace of god, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night, russia's attack last night put europe's largest nuclear power at grave risk it was incredibly reckless and dangerous. >> and secretary of state antony blinken braved the quick and decision i was response so far from the european union, but the key to this will be to keep the pressure up over time, because especially it seems like things can guesswork in ukraine before they get better. >> we have to sustain this until it stops, until the war is over, russian for

on our top story at the bottom of the hour eamon?urns said today that putin is somebody that might not be getting accurate information and is increasingly isolated take a listen. >> i think his views, congressman, on ukraine and a lot of other issues have hardened over the years. i think he's far more insulated from other points of view and people who would challenge or question his views, in my opinion. it doesn't make him crazy but it makes him extremely difficult to deal with >> reporter: officials today said putin likely views this war as one that he just can't afford to lose and is more likely to intensify it than he is to quit. >> this is a matter of deep personal conviction for him. he's been stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years. >> ryan: and at that same house intelligence committee hearing today america's top spies also offered their assessment of xi jinping and other chinese leaders who they say are a little bit unsettled by what they've seen of this invasion so far and are concerned

eamon javers in washington with the latest eamon?> reporter: we have new video and the video shows damage done to a school in ukrainian after it was hit by shelling in shytomyr you can see the destruction and fire teams making the way through the rubble there a terrible scene earlier today u.s. ambassador to the u.n. linda thomas greenfield called on russia to withdraw forces from the nuclear plant and to allow medical treatment for injured personnel there. >> by the grace of god the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night russia's attack last night put europe's largest nuclear power at grave risk. it was incredibly reckless and dangerous. >> reporter: and secretary of state antony blinken praised the response so far from the european union >> we have to sustain this until it stops, until the war is over the russian forces leave, the ukrainian people regain their independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity. we are committed to doing that. >> reporter: tyler, we got a statement from the g it is 7 foreign ministers

military on the front lines of a battle to fight against russian troops sara >> eamon javers, thank you we'll turn to the market, as stocks sit firmly in negative territory. dow on pace for its fourth straight week of losses, and nasdaq again getting hit the hardest. mike, what are you focused on? >> another day of very heavy apprehensive trading it has been very sticky, the s&p 500, around this 4300 mark last night, overnight, index futures rushed just below 4300 4280 or so that was also tuesday's intraday low. don't know if that's of signi significance, but it's interesting we're very sensitive to incremental headlines about ukraine, but in this range, that range being defined as just under 4200 and up to i think you would be generous and say right around there, 4500s, up to 4600. we're oslatding in here. it's significant the market is trying to get a little bit of traction at a time when there's really been no friendly news aside from the jobs report there's just no kind of clear green signal for risk taking when you have the volatility index where it is, credit spreads not cooperati

they have to go after hundreds of companies at this point, shep >> all right, eamon javers, thank you. >>> most of the atrocities we've all witnessed during putin's invasion were recorded on cell phones, by regular folks and now we may know who to thank for recording and sharing some of the crucial images nbc's kerry sanders introduces us to a group of brave and well organized ukrainian moms, living in the war zone and shining a light on thecatastrophe around them >> reporter: in the war zone, in the war, a mom with two kids and in every direction, horror these raw images of war gathered not by professional journalists, rather, by women still in ukraine with cell phones in what's become the mom news network. their goal, make sure the world sees everything they see do you think you are putting yourself in danger when you go out to get these images? >> we're not that afraid i'm more afraid to lose my country, my people, my friends, my relatives. >> the moms began gathering war videos 18 days ago when russia attacked now more than 100 ukrainian mothers connected across the country, almos

reading this letter as i was during a commercial break and some of eamon's report, it's striking how they've all come together you covered the threat of russia for years. how much more dangerous has this conflict in ukraine made vladimir putin and the kremlin >> yeah, i think we heard earlier in your segment there from the top u.s. intelligence officials about putin's state of mind he's extremely frustrated about how things are going the russians have underperformed, and as the first lady of ukraine suggested there, the ukrainians have done much better than we expected. but as we heard from the top intelligence officials, that means that putin is going to double down. i think we see from the history of personalist leaders around the globe, gadhafi and others, that the fate these leaders can expect if they are ousted from office in the wake -- or in the face of a performance like this in ukraine, that they can expect to be jailed, exiled, or killed. and so we know that putin is going to dig in his heels and he will use all the tools at his disposal in order to prevent that kind of out

eamon javers has that. eamon. >> good morning, jon, that's right.he connected commerce council or ccc describes its as a corporation that advocates on behalf of small businesses on issues until recently t they had a group of its businesses on its website. when cnbc, more than 20 said they were not actually members or never heard of the group. some members we talked to said they are active participant os the group. critics say it's an astro turf lobbying group that's washington slang where it a claims to be there for grass roots entity thees but is there forbid industry. it's financed by google and amazon and advocates against anti-trust legislation on capitol hill and facebook campaigning. amazon and google are listed as partners on the ccc website. until morning they represent a third company, the payment processing square known as block. when we called them to ask why they're partners with the council, they said, they're not members of the council afterour interview, block called and asks them to remove. they said all their members sign up on even

eamon? >> that's right.al experts today that made the case that blockchains are too transparent to be of much use for oligarchs to transfer the enormous sums of money to avoid sanctions and said that crypto is more useful on the ukrainian side the blockchain association that had to flee the home amid the invasion testified about donations he helped steer to his country. >> right now we collected $50 million in equivalent. we have reaching for $100 million and an opportunity to supply finance to the cities like mariupol, to kharkiv enclosed and captured by russians the incidents work to supply crypto and people can buy food and wherever it is required there. >> the big question is whether or not there's going to be new legislation imposing disclosure requirements on capitol hill this year. senator warren said she has a new bill to prohibit transactions with addresses in russia, report transactions larger than $10,000 and a public report to identify high risk digital asset platforms. back the you. >> overall i

eamon javers has the results eamon? >> that's right, morgan. but the group's first quarter ceo economic outlook index remains well above its long-running average despite the drop to evalof 115 this quarter. that according to the business round table. fueling the drop, they say, were uncertainty around ukraine, high inflation, supply challenges and global energy disruptions. the quarterly survey measures ceo plans for capital spending and employment as well as expectations for sales over the next six months. plans for hiring decreased nine points to value of 112 plans for capital investment, those decreased nine points to a value of 106 and expectations for sales, well, they decreased ten points to a value of 125. so all of that, guys, paints a picture of global uncertainty with a wide variety of input so it's clear that there's no single event that will be enough to dispel all of these worries still, though, the group is projecting 3.9% gdp growth for this year, which is unchanged from the previous quarter. so a glimmer of hope right there. bac

the feds say they have not arrested the suspect ayma eamon javers now what about the other two cases >> u.s. law enforcement officials today laid out a tale of deception, betrayal and espionage, sending a message to the chinese government, stop messing in american elections and don't try to trample on freedom of speech here >> today's complaints serve notice to all foreign intelligence agencies, especially the chinese ministry of state security, that efforts at refrpression within our bordr will not be tolerated. >> reporter: the allegations today included a heartbreaking story of betrayal. u.s. government officials say zoo june wong, a natural sized american citizen and high ranking member of a pro-democracy organization here was secretly working for the chinese intelligence agency, called the ministry of state security, and passing along information about chinese diss dissidents, one of whom was subsequently arrested by the chinese government this long-running campaign of harassment and intimidation allegedly included discussions of highway surveillance in indiana with an agent tai

eamon javers joins us with more. eamon, how concerned should we be. >> good morning, andrew.e should be pretty concerned but the intelligence is not really clear what the fbi told me yesterday is they're focusing on the russian ascent to the energy sector they could be anywhere within the country in about an hour to check if any abnormal cyber activity matches up with what they know about these russian threats. he revealed the white house -- their warning yesterday is based on specific investigative and surveillance work that the u.s. government has done as they watch russians scanning systems, researching victims, and accessing victims're in the united states. >> there's a whole range of preparatory work, which is what we've been seeing. we've engaged with companies specifically to help them button things down to make it harder for those attacks to go all the way to the next level. >> but, guys, the white house is also careful to say it's not predicting an attack alk it doesn't have specific intelligence of one thing. what they're concerned about is the steps that will put t

eamon javers have that story. >> good morning.ays in illicit finance around the world. it's a hearing that's taking place now. we heard concern from members of congress the past several weeks about the possibility of russian oligarchs using crypto, as you say, to he is same those worldwide sanctions. but what we are expecting to hear is testimony suggesting largely the opposite, that moving vast fortunes using cryptocurrency is difficult to do in secret the co-founder of chain analysis says the trans paurnsy of block chains enhances the ability of policymakers and law enforcement to detect, disrupt and ultimately deter illicit activity the former acting director of the financial crime enforcement network says crypto has been crucial to help victims of russian aggression in ukraine, including donations of more crypto by the public than funds sent by the united nations transparency makes it more difficult to get away with the oil for food type scandals and a lack of intermediaries or fees that would water down funds that are donated

the fire has been extinguished russia has gained control of that plant just looking at a headline eamond some fictional character from fight club, futures slide with traders shell-shocked from the ukraine news flow. there's some truth to that i feel shell-shocked almost every day with some of these new developments it's almost surreal that we're witnessing this in 2022, eamon >> absolutely. the pictures out of ukraine last night were apocalyptic the video showed what appeared to be tracer fire as round after round impacted buildings on the site of the plant igniting a blaze at the facility and prompting ukrainian officials to appeal to the west desperately for help and warning of a melt down that could be bigger than the chernobyl disaster now, the attack promped global outrage overnight and fears of a large nuclear incident that could impact much of europe. and the u.s. said the department of energy had activated its response team as a precaution. by daylight the photos a little more reassuring. these photos were posted by the national company of ukraine overnight. officials said no ro

eamon, thank you so much >> you bet. >>> that does it for "the exchange." "power lunch" picks things up right now. ♪ >>> thank you very much and welcome to "power lunch. here's what we have got for you this hour. three as mario will tell us why he finds opportunities in auto, aro space and agriculture. and the fed, the war and the market including interest rates and the infection. the industry inflation forgot. it's a sector insulated from many of the pressures that ores are feeling and a major vulnerability. we'll talk about the implications for investors. >> thank you hi, everybody. stocks at session highs with the dow up 279 points. s&p up 39. nasdaq up 139. oil prices also surging with crude back above $100 a barrel this one on some renewed supply concerns 7% jump today lifting the energy stocks some of the best in the s&p with about 7%, 8% gains marathon up 5 to 6%. tyler? >> thank you let's dive into the markets with ceo mario gabelo welcome. good to have you as always great to see you. >> you, too, tyler and kelly >> looking forward to the conversati

eamon javers is back with the latest >> good morning, carl. alliance is not planning to put boots on the ground or airplanes in the sky in ukraine despite the situation we've seen unfolding there here's what he said. >> at the same time we have a responsibility as nato allies to prevent this war from escalating beyond ukraine because that will be even more dangerous, more devastating, and will cause even more human suffering we are not going to move into ukraine, neither on the ground or in the ukrainian air space. >> reporter: those comments coming despite the apocalyptic pictures we saw out of ukraine last night russian forces attacking and shelling europe's largest nuclear plant in ukraine, the video showed what appeared to be tracer fire as round after round impacted buildings on the site of the plant igniting a blaze at the facility and prompting ukrainian officials to appeal to the west desperately for help and warning of a meltdown that could be bigger than the disaster at chernobyl. by daylight the photos were reassuring fire crews on

for romania and is getting the support she needs from her new romanian hosts. 19-year-old nigerian eamon jajobi was studying and playing soccer in ukraine and is waiting for a flight to qatar. >> i didn't expect people like this especially europeans. i've never seen anything -- i didn't expect them to be this welcoming. >> because you're african? >> yes. that is one. that is one. >> we've all heard the stories of africans and indians being treated differently on the border. >> this is completely different. all completely new. i'm very proud of them, very appreciative of what they've done. >> reporter: olga and her daughter are waiting for a flight, their town being pounded by rockets and artillery. some of her russian friends don't believe it. >> i know him from 4 years old. and he called me, "what has happened?" i say, "i am underground now, i can't tell you, it's all full, we have bombs on our houses." "oh! can't be! go home!" from kyiv, sasha, his wife, and five kids have nowhere else to go. how do you explain the war to your children? "the older kids understand what's happening," he

this as the fbi is warning network scanning activity from russian-based ip addresses eamon javers what are the feds asking these companies to do as if they're not already trying to protect themselves >> reporter: shep, that's exactly it they want them to do a lot of things that they should have been doing all along only now with much more urgency, and that includes steps to stop an a tact like using multi-factor authentication, checking in with cybersecurity professionals and changing passwords also what to do after the attack hits ensuring you have access to your backup data, running drills and encrypting information so the bad guys can't use it even after they've stolen it. the fbi tells me today the bureau is particularly focused on a russian threat to the u.s. energy sector. chris rey said the bureau has agents positioned so they can be anywhere in the country within an hour to see if abnormal cyber activity matches up with russian threats. the white house warning is based on specific investigative and surveillance work that the u.s. has done as they watch russian scanning systems,

. >> eamon javers, thank you >>> just getting a quick take on the markets before we wrap up the show here. the s&p actually just turning positive although barely. just above the flat line, 44.65 is the level there dow continues be under pressure and nasdaq and small cap russell 2,000. that will do it for "squawk on the street." "techcheck" starts now ♪ ♪ >>> good monday morning. welcome to "techcheck" i'm carl quintanilla with deirdre bosa and jon fortt. today did last week's rally signal a bottom? one of wall street's top strategists says the selling is not over what about a new plan? we get a new buyout this morning. does that signal a buy >> and chainos, revealing new short position why he says coin isn't in coin base's future. we're going to start with the rally, though, we have seen for the nasdaq gaining more than 8% last week, best week since november 2020. should investors be buying that dip? was that it? buying anaplan for nearly $11 billion. no shortage of bear ish arguments. arguing the fed is now too big a risk key questions for investors, is it safe to buy beaten down te

eamon javers, you do say joins us with more now on that story >> good morning. a washington, d.c.alf of small business on deck naelg issues i will recently the group had a list of those members displayed on its website when cnbc called the small businesses listed there more than 20f of them told us they weren't actually members or heard of the group other members did say they're active participants in the group. critics say they're an aphroturf lobbying group in fact, the connected commerce council is financed by google and amazon and advocates against anti-trust legislation on capitol hill and in a facebook advertising campaign amazon and google are listed as partners on 3c's website when we called them to ask why they're partners with the council they said, well, they're not. after our inquiry block called the council to ask the square logo be removed from its website which it was on monday in a statement it said all its directors signed up with events online or through a personal connection and he says small businesses have legitimate concerns now to be sure the group has small

eamon javers joins us right now.four russian hackers as a warning to the u.s. energy sector of what the russians have been up to in recent years, but you can also see this as a warning to russian intelligence that the u.s. government knows far more than they they might think about exactly who has been carrying out this campaign there were two indictments yesterday charging a total of four russian hackers, one associated with the russian ministry of defense and three men associated with something called center 16, that's a hacking unit of the russian fsb russian intelligence agency. the hacking took place in 2012 and 2018 but the u.s. says the indictments show the kind of hacking groundwork president biden warned about this week in one dramatic instance the government says they compprised the business business network but not the operating computers in kansas. in another case russian hackers allegedly hacked into a refinery causing a fault that led to two emergency shutdowns there. the u.s. says the russians had the i