summer. hey, do you work? what do you do? usually when an 81-year-old does that much traveling through europe, it s on a viking river cruise. [ laughter ] good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 13th. we re going to bring you the very latest from the g7 summit in italy. president biden is there meeting with world leaders and also talking support for ukraine. that s a top priority there. meanwhile, there s a lot happening today on capitol hill. donald trump will be in washington to meet with lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. it comes a day after a partisan vote in the house, holding merrick garland in contempt of congress. we re going to dig into all of that straight ahead. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former treasury official and economic analyst steve rattn
biden reportedly rejected president biden s choice for the head of nato. the ukraine wants to be brought into nato more quickly than the u.s. and in britain, cluster bombs are illegal. they cannot, would never, ever sell them and it s pretty clear that ritchie sunak disagrees with president biden on that issue. and if you look at king charles humanitarian work, i don t imagine he would ever support the use of cluster bombs. the best way of dealing with that in a monarchy situation is to avoid the situation altogether. and stick to whiskey. max, we ll circle back with you after this quick break as we watch the pomp and circumstance at windsor castle play out on this monday morning. our custom ink rep is just as excited as we are anand knows what great quality products to get. celebrate your milestones with custom gearar. get started today at customink.com.
sunak put out that press release saying that, you know, the uk is a signatory and these are the reasons why, and this is what we re not going to do, and this is why we don t do it as part of that convention. his press spokesman this afternoon, after meeting with president biden said, actually, ritchie sunak, in the format of that tea in the garden, said the back of number ten here did raise the issue, did say that he put forward, as he obliged to do, per the convention, to discourage the use of cluster munitions. so it does seem that this did come up for a conversation. but i think the tag line to what the press secretary said at the end of that was they understand, the british understand that this was a tough decision for president biden. so i don t think this is going to break any bridges. there s certainly the obligation on the british prime minister to do this. he was always going to be questioned about it. it was one of the first questions to his press secretary following the meet
can solidify that relationship with the u.s. while ritchie sunak is dealing with some prickly issues, really, in that, particularly in how they re handling the war in ukraine. political issues, i mean, you could argue climate has become a political issue, as well, around the world. this is something that charles is not going to let up on. in the past, these moments have been awkward for president trump, for example, getting a bit lost, but charles very much in control of this moment, showing the inspection of the guard, allowing president biden to inspect that guard and it all went pretty smoothly. so now they ve gone in for tea and for a discussion about climate. max foster, we ll continue checking in with you through the hour. and new this morning, we are now hearing from the kremlin that yevgeny prigozhin met with president vladimir putin after his short-lived mutiny at the end of june. remember that attempted coup. we re told the meeting took place on june 29th, that was five d
properly, to be fair, because it was always prince philip who had done that before. here in the uk, biden has been touted as an anti-british president, because he spent so much time focusing on the on ireland, which is of course legitimate, because he identifies as being of irish de des descent, but at the time there was a big row between the brexit agreements, and there was concern that president biden was favoring the british side rather than the irish side in those debates. that s certainly a tension here in the uk. one of the many tensions in the u.s./uk relationship right now. this body lanl, what we re seeing here, very important to show in images that the two heads of state do have a good chemistry. and are getting on. and to be fair to biden, he has a very good chemistry as well with ritchie sunak, the british