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
republicans is, in addition to the sort of fringe base issues, like budlight and, you know, hunter biden s laptop and have w what have you, they re set on general election issues, whether it s abortion, whether it is same sex marriage, which they seem to be wanting to relitigate you know, things like climate, things like guns i mean, they are all if you look at background checks, something basic, there is a consensus of 80% of the country that thinks it should be harder for people to get ak-47s or ar-47s, bring them into public places and sohoot them up it s a settled consensus at this point. you have the top republican candidates, you know, loin lining up to go to the nra convention to out-gun the others at the top of the republican base, if you want to call it that, or the bottom.out-gun thef