china suffers by association with the ugliness of russia s aggression in ukraine. reporter: a notable exchange about china s role in all this. but there was this exchange between tom cotson, republican of arkansas, challenging the intelligence community directly saying i don t think you have this intelligence that russia would see providing more defensive equipment and more offensive equipment in the form of aircraft as escalatory. it s leading the biden administration to have these uncomfortable conversations now with states that we really have been trying to avoid. you have the president, we just got the readout of his call with president erdogan of turkey. remember, the standoff, the tension in that relationship because turkey, a nato ally, was buying a russian weapons system, so turkey offering to be something of a mediator. we have the president meeting late they are hour with the colombian president, the elephant in the room being the talks under way that have been
they feel they can get there with these two candidates. it s as simple as that no matter what they say. thank you all. still ahead on morning joe be i the way the larry king piece will clang the way american journalism. tom cotson is here. tell me quickly, larry king, in an nutshell, hold on, what itself deal? he s still alive. a number of people wonder, if he still has a show, both answers are true. he s a twitter god. everyone should go on to twitter, king sings. but he s obsessed with death, that s all he thinks about. we all are, not to the degree harry king is. we talk about the death in public life when have you the light go off. when you are cancelled. everyone should just read it. oh my god. thank you. i think. up next the quality of life concerns in new york city, are they valid or are they being overblown by critics? the city s police commissioner,