hosting a saudi-backed golf tournament at one of his clubs. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. it is friday, july 29th. thanks for being here. let s get started with the news. we begin on capitol hill where senate democrats are racing against the clock to pass a wide-ranging spending bill through the process of reconciliation. with just about a week to go before congress leaves for a month-long recess, a source says that senate majority leader chuck schumer called on his caucus to stick together during a closed door meeting yesterday. just one day earlier schumer and west virginia democrat joe manchin sent shot waves through congress by shock waves through congress by introducing the inflation reduction act of 2022 seemingly out of left field. planning to bring it to a vote at the senate floor next week and democrats are expressing cautious optimism about the chances of moving forward and that includes president biden who had this to say at
report of an attack in a certain city of mykolaiv. if i said that right. let us know what happened there. the attack in kyiv didn t kill anyone that we know about but certainly shattered the debt cal sense of calm that has crept back into the ukrainian capital. after weeks where there were no successful attacks in this region. and then this morning, these new attacks in the city of mykolaiv, where the death toll has now risen to five, about 13 wounded, jonathan, according to their head of the regional council there and this is a town near the black sea, adjacent to odesa, and of course, all eyes are on that very tentative deal to start exporting grain from ukraine, once again. and mykolaiv is also just to the west of russia occupied kherson so the fact that russia is now once again attacking mykolaiv, even as ukrainians are announcing the start of their offensive to try to recapture
doesn t seem to be chipping away at his lead and there are questions whether oz is a resident of pennsylvania and an unreported condo that he didn t report, in addition to his home in new jersey. so that has turned into not just a political fight but obviously new jerseyans weighing in on the fact that mehmet oz actually does belong to them. shifting to the governor s race, this is one of the cases jonathan where the republican party has been playing footsie with white nationalists and supremacists so long and chickens are coming home to roost. and antibe anti-semites, except for those that you are spending time with, time and money and those that are supporting white supremacy and anti-semitism. and they have to look at the future of the party and what looks like and especially with republicans, are in for fiscal matters and if you re supporting these conditions, you re
concerned or preoccupied by the possibility of a rare intra-party challenge for an incumbent president. president biden of course has indicated that he will run again in 2024, but an initial announcement and decision will not be until early next year. still ahead on way too early, what russia is saying about the u.s. offer of a prisoner exchange to free wnba star brittney griner and a former u.s. a marine. and plus, 9/11 survivors and families protest a saudi-backed golf tournament at former president trump s club in bedminster. a comment that raised eyebrows. will be right back. will be right back (burke) a new car loses about ten percent of its value the minute you drive off the lot. or more. that s why farmers new car replacement pays to replace it with a new one of the same make and model.
kherson from the russian, one of the first areas to fall from russia to russia early in the war, it is a symbol of just what a tit for tat conflict this is at this point in time. the ukrainians trying to get back territory from the winter to show they are not taking this lying down while the russians are on the march themselves trying to take more territory under ukrainian control as russian officials are still intent quote-unquote liberating all of ukraine. jonathan. you have new reporting on the wagner group, a group of russian mercenary fighters who are playing potentially a bigger role in the conflict with ukraine. that s right. this group came to prominence largely during the first invasion of ukraine, in 2014, para-military group, and the sga wagner group is known to do more