good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 16th. ahead this hour, the latest developments from ukraine following new russian missile attacks overnight. the strikes come as the ukrainian president is touring europe, looking to restock his army s arsenal. plus, the durham report was supposed to vindicate donald trump of his alleged ties to russia, but now that it s finally out after four years, there s not much in it that we didn t already know. we re going to go through the findings just ahead. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling talks ahead of a high-stakes meeting at the white house. also today, just ahead now, arnold schwarzenegger joins us live from austria, where some of the world s top climate activists and leaders are meeting right now. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and columnist and asso
over his trip overseas, forcing the president to cut short his time on the world stage. he was warned. new details about the man accused of leaking classified documents on discord. he was makinged for mishandling information, so we have to ask, why did he still have access to the documents? we re live from the pentagon with the latest. enough for the refs to say we are the ones who are out, now parents are stepping up. we are following these stories and many more, automatic coming in to cnn news central. right now president biden is juggling a looming debt crisis at home, and fragile alliances abroad. he landed in japan today, meeting with the prime minister ahead of the g7 summit in hiroshima. on the agenda, counters china, of course, aiding ukraine and reassuring allies that the u.s. will not default on its debt. the last bit depends on talks in washington. today, with two weeks to go, lawmakers from both parties are indicating that there s been progress. new cnn s
a barrage of missiles raining down on ukrainian cities, and russian says they took out major munitions, but ukraine says they took out most of them. a drought fueled by climate change is drying up the colorado river. leaving game. umpires are walking off of the diamond not because of the players, but because of their parents. the shortage of umpires. all of this coming up on cnn news central. president biden has wrapped up the first day of his big trip to japan. this morning he met with japan s prime minister before the g7 summit kicks off tomorrow. the main focus is on the support to ukraine and uniting the allies against the china s influence, but he decided to cut the trip short to head back to washington to deal with domestic matters concerning the debt ceiling. we go to mark who is following president, and now, how are the other leaders viewing this issue of the debt crisis and the president at home? kate, this debt ceiling distraction is one that the president
$1.9 trillion. shaking hands, kissing babies, and getting plenty of shut eye buying war bonds just to keep the kaiser on his toes trains those old beer cans with the pull tabs, what happened to those? slipping a few candy buttons into your phosphate to see how fast it makes you pedal the bike and the games on greta garbo and the best thing of all, naked with your best gal at the back of a picture show. go for it jack what was i talking about oh, i m joe biden and that s why i m running for re-election. but first i m watching the wheel of fortune oh, man oh my god that was so funny. keeping the kaiser on his toes man the gams on greta garbo, that was my favorite. too funny they re making fun of joe for one thing, that s his age. yeah. it s pretty funny. that s not so bad good morning and go for it, jack that s not right. it s wednesday, we re really it s been a long week already first of all, does anyone think it should be friday always. ple
she lost her bid for re-election last night failing to finish in the top two in a runoff election. it is the first time in more than three decades that chicago has voted a sitting mayor out of office. i m eternally grateful to everyone who gave us their time, support and money and prayers. thank you from the bottom of my heart. god bless you. god bless this incredible city. long time public schools chief paul vallas ran a tough to crime campaign. he will face brandon johnson a cook county commissioner in an april runoff. fbi director christopher wray says the bureau believes the covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab exteacciden wuhan. this comment is just days after the tent of energy low confidence assessment that covid most likely originated from a lab leak in china. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. we step back for a second, the fbi has agents, professionals,