this week on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country we ll have the latest on the deadly conflict and what s next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, we ll dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around kherson, which suggests a retreat is coming up for the russians. ukraine, again, is trying to regain land controlled by russian forces, and that will ultimately, in the end, whenever that is, it s going to involve some very, very deep negotiations as it pertains to land they took. yeah. now opposed to crimea. good morning welcome to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th there s our good morning. good morning. happy monday with us, the host of way too early, bureau chief at q poli
desantis was pretty well poised to run as someone who kind of was a hybrid candidate yeah, he could dip his toes in the culture wars and rev up the base, but he could run as a, dare say, reagan republican who was, you know, you could be just a normal person who supported ron desantis i think he is too online i think that his campaign thinks that twitter, or maybe he thinks that twitter is the real world, so they ve doubled down really on the culture wars, going after mickey mouse instead of donald trump, instead of joe biden, really i mean, they re running this kind of culture war campaign, and there is a sense that, like, the big enemy out there is bud budlight, you know, not china, not even the democrats he is not running as a mainstream candidate who could win a general election he is running to be the he is