john hanson is in the port city of odessa, with more on the situation in her home. in her son that counter offensive is gaining strength. that is a, according to british intelligence, you did have that bridge strike that was designed to cut the city off and isolate russian troops in that area. and we've heard below mirrors lens give ukrainian president say that it was a main goal for the ukranian army to take back harrison. that was a strategic point from which the russian military has been launching many of its operations. so the idea of isolating it is strategic in order to try to retain or to gain back bits of that area. and there have been members of the underground also active there were told by ukrainian officials that russian police officer was killed. that is part of an effort the russians have made in these towns. they've taken to sort of rush defiant, the issue russian i. d, 's. they ban the trading of the currency here in ukraine, the river, and require people to use roubles in the don best region in eastern ukraine. ukrainian officials have warned reside

let's speak now to john hanson, who's in the port city of odessa and john, if the green leaves ukraine, which looks like it's going to, it's going to be leaving from where you are. that's right, kim and the 1st ship. as you just heard, there has not left either of the 3 black see ports from which that grain will move . but already the careful choreography of the shipping lanes, those ships will travel through their so called safe passage corridor has already been mapped out. there is an inspection area, and then there is a specific shipping lane carved out. and there is supposed to be no military activity in that area. and as you just heard, this is expected to happen within days. that was possible. we were told earlier that it could have happened today. that's not going to be the case. but as everybody prepares to get that more than 20000000 tons of grain out of those ports, the attacks in ukraine and the war and ukraine continue. this was supposed to be statehood day. but thursday morning began with 26 rockets, fired out of bella ruse into territory in northern ukraine. it struck aro

joining me now is john ratcliffe, former trump director of national intel, and victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow. john , let's take these humiliations and that's what they are. one by one , how could the white house not have foreseen that the chinese would completely dominate them with this readout? well, your lead in was spot on . laura with the readout speaks volumes according to the readout, joe biden told president xi that he opposed any unilateral efforts to change the status quo. president xi was more direct. he promised a fiery death. he promised that those that play with fire set themselves on fire and would perish very clearly from that. it sounds like president xi is playing hardball. president biden is playing wiffle ball and we've seen that far too often. and to your point about whether this is accurate, well, we know that it is at least in part because both parties agree in the readout that the gentlemen agreed to a face to face meeting. president xi never would have agreed to a face to face meeting if after he set the red line on taiwan, had joe biden stoo