nation s capital. yeah. the biden administration looks to get the mask mandate for travel reinstated. yeah. just in, new reporting on how republican leaders privately blasted donald trump in the wake of the january 6th attack. like heaven. and even about to drive him from politics. mitch! only to later hear from their constituents. i don t know. back off. welcome to morning joe . willie, it appears first of all, let s talk about the capitol being evacuated yesterday. it appears that somebody at the washington national s pr department, as jonathan lemire said, forgot to send one extra e-mail. oh, boy. say, we re going to have this plane flying overhead, over the nats stadium and drop some people out of it in parachutes.
view. a bizarre moment, but something that doesn t exactly speak well for the way the government is supposed to be interacting with itself to keep d.c. safe. no. i mean for people that haven t been to d.c., the nats stadium is just right across the interstate from the capitol. that s right. it is in very close proximity to each other. garrett, it is not just like the capitol police would have a reason to get upset and worried. but think about the people maneuvering around in the plane, they re lucky they didn t get shot out of the sky. it is impossible to figure out at this point who dropped the ball here and who knew that plane was coming and that it wasn t. our pentagon producers reached out to norad and it turns out there were never fighter jets scrambled in the situation so somebody knew about the plane. if you have flown into washington, d.c., you have the weird an it where you come up the potomac and land at dca.
putin wants to control, a strip of territory running from russia itself through the donbas region, luhansk, the nats, through the donbas region, luhansk, the mats, and then it hits mariupol and then it goes down to crimea donetsk. he won t he wants to consolidate that long stretch so that is the first point, watch mariupol, and the second point will be watch whether the russians decided to pivot to defensive tactics, and in other words, they are already in control of almost that entire stretch and they may put themselves on defence and that becomes a more difficult problem for the ukrainians because a military operation s defence is inherently a stronger position, so watch that. third and finally, watch whether putin continues long range strikes
anything and just amp up and celebrating the under dog team, willie. and they did, the final sunday on the regular season, they re down 5-1 in late innings, the nats. instead, they do come back and beat the yankees. it s 100 wins rays team. that was really sweet last night. it was a great rays team. speaking of the blue jays, i think all of us glad didn t have to face them. you look at four teams in the american league east, it s going to be a hell of a run. speaking of over achievers, look at what happened in atlanta. i don t think anybody expected them to do as well as the