and a texas showdown, a judge hearing arguments right now in the high-stakes lawsuit over abortion pills. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. the u.s. state department does not call in the russian ambassador every day, but that is what s happened. this is after the pentagon says a russian fighter jets forced down a u.s. spy drone in international waters in the black sea. according to u.s. officials the russians first dumped fuel on the drone similar to the one you see here and then hit its propeller forcing the u.s. then to bring the drone down. the defense secretary slamming the incident as reckless. this hazardous episode is a part of a pattern of aggressive and risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. so make no mistake, the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. orrin lieberman joins us from the pentagon. you have new reporting als
not play by any rules. there is no international la that they care about it is all this inhumanity they are starting to see. the actions against people are really hard to understand. and as you said, it is a wa on civilians one of the things it is really interesting that you understan very well because you are a, farmer you have a farm i southern illinois, is that the ukrainians are farmers they are first and foremost. farmers they are producers o various agricultural crops and grains it s not even able to get a lo of it because of the agreement between them and russia in the world allows them to ship this grain out through the blac sea. that agreement may end on ma 18th, rushers continue to sa that it s not just bad for th ukrainians that s bad for the world think about this way. pre war, russia and ukrain exported 12% of all the consumed in the world. that is a huge amount. they are also huge exporters i
point and it will have a direct influence on what type of activity it exists and it s a sphere of influence thing and they look at the black sea and they re international waters and the united states has every right to operate there. so this is what putin is trying to achieve. it s very much directed. john kirby on this morning was asked about how concerned the administration was over what the russians could learn if they do retrieve the drone according to russian state media. they re going to try to retrieve that s now sitting in the pblac sea. i want to play for you how kirby responded to questions of that level of concern over the technology. listen to this. we took steps to protect information and to protect to minimize any effort by anybody else to exploit that drone.
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