circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
where fields haven t been flooded next to the dnipro river, but it sits next to the kakhovka dam reservoir, which when you drive past it is like a sea. it s enormous. it s around 30 kilometres wide. hundreds of thousands of households rely on it for water. you have these zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, europ s biggest, further upstream, which relies on the water there for its cooling system. so it is notjust about if someone s house is flooded, it is about long term water supply. it is also helpful to look at it through a military lens, in that a river is a very useful natural line of defence. and i think that is what the game that is being played here. but it s a serious game. you know, russia has continued to spread its false claims about its invasion, the false justification. but it s right to say that both sides to blame each other. but people here are bright eyed about the military dynamic that is going on and they are in no doubt personally as to who is responsible. we will hea
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supporters of white supremacy. when we think about the crt hoax and the attack on truth teaching in the united states. voter suppression, this is all about the third reconstruction. tom s book is really a brilliant accounting of the second reconstruction through a military lens, and of course the first reconstruction which you ve talked about other people have written about very brilliantly is those three decades after the civil war where we re trying to confront the emancipationist legacy of the civil war, right, and i think the lessons we learned are that stories count. the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are as americans are the most important stories we can tell. and so this third reconstruction, we re locked in a pitch battle between those who are supporters of, say, stories like the 1619 project or stories like what james baldwin tells us and you have told the baldwin story brilliantly, versus that
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