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
breaking news. cnn confirming legendary singer david crosby has died. he was 81 years old. plus, a secret meeting between the director of cia and ukraine s president. we hear from a russian official bravely speaking out against putin. and desantis s statement. we are following some breaking news this hour. the legendary singer and songwriter david crosby has died. the grammy winner, two-time rock and roll hall-of-famer was the founder of the birds, crosby, stills and nash. crosby was 81 years old and we re going to have much more ahead in just a few minutes on his life and legacy. there s a song that they have that speaks to us all. we ll be speaking to our own bill leer who interviewed him to mark the 50th anniversary of woodstock which was actually crosby, stills and nash s second gig. so all of that coming up here as we confirm that sad news that will bring so many memories to everyone. i want to gbegin though with th secret meeting with the cia chief bill burns and vo
the list. and power is first. how we got there, i remember when trump was elected and i reached out to lizzie and i said, whatever are we going to do? and she said, don t let the bastards grind you down. there s no answer to this question, i m sorry, that will make sense. but margaret atwood and the story we re telling and the shape of our country and our world are hand in hand. and i don t believe the writers are trying to write about the world, they are following the characters in this story. the fact that they re lining up is terrifying. and it confirms margaret atwood s profound intelligence. it s a very upsetting one thing i think about all the time is the fact that it s so clear in our world, misogyny is at the rep till onbrain stem of all of these nationalist movements. you know, there s no so, there s no sense of making men s participation, in my experience, men seem to participate in pregnancies, but we re just going to punish the women. and it s something abou
that the pro life community spent 50 years trying to overturn roe, but it s kind of like winning the war but you don t win the peace. we weren t prepared for what happens, like, after the regime falls. how do we win the peace? how do we win the hearts and minds? there was very little work done there on building a culture of life having a plan forward. you would have thought we had time, but no one was focused on it really. how do you have time to implement, you know, a compassionate response that is common sense, that could win middle america over? very little time was done on that then the other problem, joe, is that if roe had been overturned 20 years ago, let s say then george w. bush was coming in, and compassionate conservatism was the ethos, the mentality of the republican party, then maybe it would have looked different but roe was overturned at the exact moment when the republican
crimea was such an important thing for putin, that might be the kind of thing that might lead to the putin regime fracturing and falling but you also have to understand if for some reason that were to happen, putin would probably lose his life. putin is such a scared little man right now, so scared for his own life, he s ready to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of men to keep this war going to keep himself from being defeated. so that s why i say it s a low probability event that the regime falls, because putin will hang on for dear life and he ll put so much at stake in the meantime. assassinations inside russia, outside russia, using poison is sort of a signature, it s a calling card for putin s forces. navalny not the only putin enemy who has been poisoned. i spoke recently to the lawyer and also to the son of the