House this past week, but now the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee is speaking out. Talked with cnn today. Where does their investigation go now . Well, one of the big things that both the house and Senate Intel Committees are trying to weigh is just how valuable Michael Flynn, the former National Security advisers testimony will be. Of course, the big bombshell at the end of the week is that flynn said he is willing to testify if he is granted immunity for that testimony. Hes offered this up to both of those committees. He has offered it up to fbi and the Justice Department, but it seems as though the committees in the congress are a little skeptical that there will be any real value in flynns testimony, at least to the point where they would be willing to take that immunity. This is what adam schiff, that Ranking Member on the house intel committee, had to stay about it this morning on state of the union. We dont want to do anything that will interfere in any case t
for the year. last month, state-run media, kcna, said prevention measures were increased, including mask requirements and temperature checks. pyongyang has yet to acknowledge any confirmed cases in the country. the pandemic and pyongyang s decision to shut its borders in january of 2020 have exacerbated the food shortage, cutting off much-needed imports from main trading ally, china. in july, the united states department of agriculture estimated 63% of the population was considered food insecure. north korea s economy is believed to have shrunk 4.5% in 2020. but with ngos having pulled out international staff due to the pandemic, an international realtime assessment of how bad the crisis actually is has become almost impossible. aid agencies estimate north korea had a shortfall of hundreds of thousands of tons of rice last year, and predict more shortages ahead. making any efforts by pyongyang to ease this long-running
pyongyang to get the kim jong-un regime to stop developing these nuclear weapons. china does have a lot of economic leverage. it is north korea s only major trading ally on the world stage. i think when both presidents meet for the first time in mar-a-lago later on this week, this is certainly going to be very, very high up the agenda, given how tense the situation remains in this part of the world. matt rivers, our thanks to you. let s talk more about all of this with former ambassador to south korea and iraq, christopher hill. he is now dean of the university of denver. he was also the lead u.s. negotiator of the six-party talks. ambassador hill, thank you for spending some of your sunday night with us. now, when president trump hosted japan s leader in february at mar-a-lago, i think we spoke on that night as north korea hit the launch on a missile there. how likely is that north korea might act out again during the chinese president s visit? you know, it is possible they could