good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine s minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. the move is part of an internationally brokered deal between kyiv and moscow, to release millions of tons of grain to foreign markets, and ease a growing food crisis. ukrainian officials say 16 more ships are waiting to depart odesa s port as part of that deal. meanwhile, russia advances have slowed, almost to a standstill, as newly-delivered western weapons are helping ukrainian forces re-claim
kick russian out of ukraine. there is no question that president xi is watching. putin is watching to see if the west, if the united states and europe lose interest in ukraine and if we do, then i think it potentially gives him a green light. so, we are on the cusp of the post world war ii order where big nations didn t change their borders through force coming apart. and i think right now the most important thing that we could do to stop china from making a move on taiwan is to make clear to the ukrainians we re with them today and in the future to make sure they regain their own sovereignty. senator chris murphy, thank you very much for being on this morning. we will be in touch. so we are well into the fourth hour of morning joe right now. let s talk more about the bills to help veterans that republicans blocked. joining us now, retired sergeant ted corcoran. he s a disabled veteran and a veteran advocate who suffers from the effects of burn pits. he s now organizing
thanks to joe biden s insane economic and energy policies. breaking moments ago, senator joe manchin just gave into the radical climate alarmist called new green deal cult agreeing to a new massive spending deal. we are going to show you how his deal is going to hurt the people specifically in his state of west virginia and hurt them dramatically. another day, another scandal surrounding the president son hunter biden and later we will bring you disturbing new details about justice kavanaugh s would be assassin. by the way, in a terrible decision tonight, and the nicholas sandmann case, will tell you about that but first we begin. you probably didn t notice joe biden has been in isolation for about a week following his covid-19 diagnoses. good news. he is apparently all better and resuming his normal schedule. which is like his covid schedule. waking up late, going to bed early, plenty of naps. very few public events and during the speech in the rose garden is you just stop a
physician over the weekend says there is an extremely small number of cases, that is not true, it feels the rebounds happen with some frequency. can you tell us a little bit more about that? right. and because rebounds are happening, should people taking paxlovid be for the initial ten days than five. and there is a reeb, 1 to 2% of patients rebounded, but we re seeing instead of in realtime, you know, in the current clinical studies, where people are out there just taking paxlovid, in real life, it is that it could be as high as maybe 20 to 30%. and so i think what we re going to need is some guidance from the cdc about people who are on paxlovid, you know whether or not not only do they need to mask five days after their treatment, but should they also get tested, because the president has been tested every day with the rapid antigen tests, that is not what the krd necessarily recommends but that s how he was found to be