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She is afraid there could be food crises in other parts of the world. this crisis is only going to grow. we will only see more and more suffering if president putin doesn't stop. >> salma, thank you so much for that report. berman. all right. we have breaking news. we are getting word from russia that vladimir putin has authorized 134,000 people to be drafted into the russian armed forces. a new round of enscription. abigail spanberger of virginia who sits on the house foreign affairs committee. thank you so much for being with us. i wonder your reaction to that breaking news? what does it t...

Extraordinary detail about just how bad it may be. have a listen. >> you're seeing russian soldiers short of weapons and morale refusing to carry out orders. sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft. and even though we believe putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what is going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime. >> massively misjudging, but i think as everyone would agree, make no mistake, the russians still have problems on the ground, yes, but extraordinary firepower still that they can and ar...

Putin. his soldiers are sabotaging their own equipment according to the uk spy's chief. and a u.s. official told nbc that we have information that indicates that some russian government senior officials likely disagreed with putin's decision to invade ukraine. their disillusionment is probably amplified by the military's underperformance. ry'. >> putin signed a decree today, drafting more than 134,000 concrypts into the russian army. they are being told they're not being sent to ukraine, but putin also denied that conscripts had been sent in earlier in the war, and that turned out to be a lie....

I'm not giving up. we'll use every minute to make sure we build this majority. >> senator dick durbin, chairman, thank you for being with us. >> thank you too. the breaking news this morning, vladimir putin has authorized more than 134,000 people to be drafted into the russian armed forces. what that means for the next phase of the invasion here. and chris rock taking the stage for the first time since will smith slapped him. what he told the audience and why our next guest says they should sue. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

To add 134,000 conscripts to the russian military today. that's getting a lot of attention. but the kremlin insists the callup has nothing to do with the war in ukraine? >> reporter: well, whit, the draft does happen twice a year where men aged between 18 and 27 get called up to serve in the russian military for a year. there is no official mention of ukraine this time, but we do know conscripts are fighting here and a lot of young men have been leaving russia to avoid joining them. whit? >> james longman, our thanks to you tonight. also tonight, the ukrainian refugee crisis is reaching amer...