extraordinary day of pageantry and mourning, including a show of unity by king charles and his family as they walked in a royal procession with the queen s flag-draped coffin. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy visits a newly liberated city and says he s shocked, shocked by the destruction russian troops left behind. cnn is on the ground with the latest on ukraine s gains, russia s retreat, and the state of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, a potential freight rail strike in the united states is already having a major impact just ahead of a friday deadline. amtrak shutting down all long-haul train routes as unions and freight rail companies try to hammer out a deal to avoid a work stoppage that could cripple fragile u.s. supply chains. cnn s pete muntean is joining us from just outside the u.s. labor department in washington where negotiations
well, i mean, there s constitutional duty. what he has, he s the commander in chief. that was my biggest issue with him, as national security adviser. white house advisers to former president trump understood the constitutional oath of the presidency. trump apparently did not. mika, as we have gone through the testimonies, as we ve talked through this the past several hours, one thing really does keep sticking out to me, and that is the testimony of cipollone, where he was asked who else in the white house agreed with the president that the riot should continue. who in the white house did not want him to stop the riots, did not want him to speak out and tell them to stop. he said nobody. nobody. he said nobody. nobody inside the white house wanted the riots to continue. let me put it a different way. everybody in the white house wanted the president to act affirmatively to stop the riots. they told him that. he refused. his family members, his children, told him tha
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine s minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. the move is part of an internationally brokered deal between kyiv and moscow, to release millions of tons of grain to foreign markets, and ease a growing food crisis. ukrainian officials say 16 more ships are waiting to depart odesa s port as part of that deal. meanwhile, russia advances have slowed, almost to a standstill, as newly-delivered western weapons are helping ukrainian forces re-claim
kick russian out of ukraine. there is no question that president xi is watching. putin is watching to see if the west, if the united states and europe lose interest in ukraine and if we do, then i think it potentially gives him a green light. so, we are on the cusp of the post world war ii order where big nations didn t change their borders through force coming apart. and i think right now the most important thing that we could do to stop china from making a move on taiwan is to make clear to the ukrainians we re with them today and in the future to make sure they regain their own sovereignty. senator chris murphy, thank you very much for being on this morning. we will be in touch. so we are well into the fourth hour of morning joe right now. let s talk more about the bills to help veterans that republicans blocked. joining us now, retired sergeant ted corcoran. he s a disabled veteran and a veteran advocate who suffers from the effects of burn pits. he s now organizing
department of homeland security wanted to try to recover those deleted secret service messages from around the time of the january 6th attack on the capitol. but then the trump-appointed agency, watchdog step in. mika, did someone gel on that. that doesn t make sense on any level for any department in government. i don t, something is definitely wrong and perhaps. steve kornacki is standing by to help break down leaks which feature a number of candidates who deny the 2020 election results. what is the anger meter, the rage meter this morning. well, the rage will join us. the rage will be on. he s going to be here? we re very lucky, joe. i thought he only did rodeos in august. we re very, very lucky, the rage is back. one of the reasons we re going to be hearing from rusty. there he is. wow, just got a chill down my spine. we ll hear from rusty bowers. the arizona speaker who may pay the price for the 2020 election and testifying before it before the janu