Chance to be briefed by the u. S. Pacific command and made his way over to the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the first lady. It will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. Now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. A number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats theyre posing, and south korea. The president will be in search of a united front before going to china where hell try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. Ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the Prime Minister of this country shinzo abe. Thats before the president s visit and the stops wont overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. Now, elizabeth. You made an important point
artilleryman. the ukrainian air force isn t flying. it tells me the russians have set up a good air defense system inside of ukraine. that s why they are keeping the ukrainian aircraft on the ground. what do you think is the greatest need right now for ukrainian forces? how effective do you think they can be if russia does ultimately occupy major cities, kharkiv, even kyiv? how capable are they at a guerrilla war? there are two fights we will see. one you are familiar with, anderson. that s the rear fight. as you remember from your times in iran, the insurgents were not attacking the big bases. they were going after vehicle convoys. they were going after humvees. they were attacking what we call the soft underbelly. that s one fight which is the
actually ends up being an extraordinarily long day, liz, because they have a ten-hour flight. then they have lunch, then they play golf and have dinner all before they get any time to go sleep in a bed that isn t flying 500 miles an hour. liz: you talk about how busy it s going to be, according to media reports, like you said, hit the ground running, he s going to be speaking to u.s. and japanese forces at an air base shortly after arriving and it looks like he s going to be doing, you know, he s going to be actually quite busy and you talk a little bit about the overlooming cloud that we are seeing with north korea and you wonder how much progress have we done with this trip and obviously will he be incorporating things like trade issues, is that going to be dominating the visit. but each trip like you said, he has to have the stamina for each of the meetings and it s
aircraft in paris. you said that air france isn t flying. would told you that? is that what you heard from delta representatives? yes, eye ti tried to rebook ticket, try to jump another flight to get there. the very friendly cabinet person said we d love to help you out but we re not flying there. i asked her how long and she said she didn t know. interesting. delta hasn t given you any sense because the faa which is now saying no u.s. carriers can fly. they re putting a 24-hour wind yes on this. delta hasn t said anything beyond that, obviously. not at all. kind of abandoned delta to air france at this point. there s not a lot of delta people around to give us any direction. have you approached el al? probably went that route as well because i was under the impression el al was still flying in there.
wow. we have friends in alaska and it s amazing how short their they don t really have a fall. all right, bill, thank you very much. coming up on morning joe, the plan to keep american troops in afghanistan for another decade. we ll go live to richard engel in ckabul to explain why americn support may be necessary. and when we come back here, we huddle around the cooler. like a rolling stone like you ve never seen it before. why the new bob dylan video has gone viral. [ female announcer ] i like to mix things up a bit