along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. he somehow becomes even more distinguished. he does. amazing. erudite is the word that come comes to mind. yes. willie, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciting?
isolated themselves in the world, then some sort of peace deal like that makes sense. by the way, i think you d agree with me also, there is no peace deal without china being a part of it, without china leaning on russia, saying, hey, the gig s up. 100%. you know, essentially china needs to say, the no limits relationship we saw 17 months ago, we changed our mind. there now are limits. it s contingent. we already see it, joe. china has reportedly given the russians very tough messages about not using nuclear weapons. hopefully they ve given them a tough message about not attacking the nuclear power plant. yeah, i think the day will come when we need to rope china into the diplomacy. it d be a positive demonstration, a rare one, about what u.s./china relations can accomplish. send a powerful message to vladimir putin about his diplomatic isolation. also, economically, china is in position to put pressure on