hello and thanks so much for joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. it is 10:00 eastern. this morning president biden is overseas for a high stakes summit in japan. it s a delicate balancing act for the president touting the u.s. as an economic power house to the allies while simultaneously working to stop the u.s. from teetering on the brink of default. back in washington, the president s team is furiously negotiating with congressional republicans. now just two weeks left until our country runs out of money. plus, tiktok going viral, but not in montana. the state becoming the first in the u.s. to ban the popular social media app, but will it actually work? so now we re just going to start banning tiktok on a state by state basis, huh? speaking from my own page in montana here, i am going to keep posting. we ll have a live report coming up on the legal fight over the ban and on the other states that may follow suit. and new reporting this morning about how s
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
Legend. Superstar prince was found dead at his estate at the age of 57. He was one of the best selling artists ever. And his new tour was just getting started. Thanks for joining us tonight. The news stunned millions of fans around the world. Police responded to his estate in minnesota today. After he was found unresponsive in an elevator. He had been hospitalized with the flu just last week. Lindsay davis begins our coverage in minneapolis. Reporter he was a master of the grand spectacle. Dearly beloved we are gathered here today for this thing we call Life Reporter dazzling millions at the super bowl. Reporter and then seven days ago, prince sat alone on a stage in atlanta. Purple rain purple rain reporter playing his purple piano. Then just hours later, a moment of crisis, his plane made an Emergency Landing in moline, illinois. His spokeswoman saying he was battling the flu. He had already cancelled two shows earlier this month. Three hours later, prince went home. Sounding upbeat
international day against transphobia. maybe that s just coincidental, but is this going to be a culture war campaign, and wouldn t trump love to go toe to toe on that? ron desantis now joins 18 other states with passing the sort of ban on transaffirming care for minors. for republican governors this has become a key issue that they have worked with their legislatures to pass. ron desantis was at the forefront of this. i think when we re talking in political terms, last year there was a lot of backlash when he signed that initial legislation in the spring of 2022. he ended up going on to handily win his re-election. the question is what would be the general election repercussions? he won in decisive terms. when you go to republican events, whether it be cpac or a trump rally or a desantis event, time and again, the issue that gets the loudest response from the crowd is having to do with a ban on gender affirming care or ban on trans athletes being able to take part in the sport with
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