domestic priority on the same day that gas prices hit a new record high. plus, a mixed night for trump-backed candidates in yesterday s primaries. with a win in west virginia, but a loss in nebraska. we ll discuss what this says about the former president s hold on the republican party. and the latest on the war in ukraine. u.s. officials say that vladimir putin is in it for the long haul. thinking he ll be able to wear down western support. we ll hear from the nation s top spy chief. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 11th. i m jonathan lemire. russia claims its forces have made significant gains in eastern ukraine, three weeks after moscow launched renewed offensive there. the russian defense ministry yesterday said its troops have advanced to the border between donetsk and luhansk the two russian-speaking provinces together known as the donbas. the ministry said it now controls more of the region than it did before the war started on f
do everything we can to deter these attacks by houthis and to byron s point, interfering with and impairing navigation, commercial navigation in that region of the world is really, i think, the final catalyst here separate but apart from that how do you ensure we don t widen and worsen this conflict. i thought our response today was long overdue. i agree with byron the sense and implication in his remarks that we should have problem done this earlier. i don t have access to all of the intelligence. obviously, none of us do. but i hope that the president can be taken at his word going forward that we won t allow this. these kind of attacks to impede commercial navigation. now, those who want us to attack for the other attacks on our interests and our soldiers, i m not i m not sure if i m fully there yet. because i understand administration s desire to calibrate and ensure that we don t widen and invite more conflict on top of an already very difficult war in the middle
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us to build a coalition. regrettably, i think what is happening is that domestic politics and geopolitics are getting in the way of doing right thing. we know what has to be done. unless we can overcome the domestic politics, we re not going to get there without significant losses of lives and a significant impairing of livelihoods. you ve been sounding the alarm on this for a while. do you come at this fundamentally as an optimist? do you think we re going to get there? i have to be. i genuinely believe that we could get there. we are human beings. we have the capacity to reason. we have the capacity engage. and i think one of our disappointments in the developing world on the pandemic and on the climate crisis is the absence of global leadership, absence of global moral strategic leadership that brings people to the table and said, hey, we need to leave something
overcome the domestic politics we re not going to get there without significant losses of lives and a significant impairing of livelihoods. you ve been sounding the alarm on this for a while, do you come at this fundamentally as an optimist? do you think we re going to get there? i have to be. i genuinely believe we can get there. he are human beings. we have the capacity to reason and we have the capacity to engage and one of the disappointments in the developing world and on the pandemic and on the climate crisis is on the absence of global leadership that brings people to the table and says, hey, we need to leave something each and every one of us, in my own country. i use a simple motto. share the burden and share the bounty. if we don t share the burden of saving the planet, then it is a moot point and to believe that