circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
involved in the second world war, we don t want, we can t have a sovereign democratic country wiped off the face of the earth. there s genocide taking police. i was in kyiv and near there in july. and stood on a mass grave. it s taking place in this century. it s extraordinary. and finally, we recognize, and i think many in the room did last night, that other countries like china are looking on and seeing how united the west is and how much we stay the course to determine what they might do. i think he was so wise in threading the reality of history. and talking about the battle of the bulge and christmas for u.s. troops during world war ii and christmas for the people of ukraine now under this invasion. the president said that the u.s. will stay with ukraine for as
that has killed growth in the country and that looks like continuing at least until the chinese new year next february has seen its growth slow down dramatically. we re probably in an actual recession. you don t believe the official number, so china is the big engine of the economy, and probably not for the foreseeable future. india is the high growth economy. there s china camping itself out for reasons hard to understand. putin making, you know, probably the most classic military blunder in modern history. if you define it by his idea of the map, putin has invaded russia in winter, which is not what you do. if he tells you not to do that, and it is, as a stroke, you know, united the west. restored an undisputed amount of leadership of the west and showed not only the american arms and equipment and
broadcasting equipment will be cut from russia s top three tv stations. this administration official says that they are a major source of propaganda and disinformation. there will also be more export control over russian military equipment and factories. two 2600 visas for select russians will also be restricted. and the u.s. is also sanctioning executives from two large russian gangs, which have not been targeted in previous sanctions. this official also previewed right into the g7 meetings, saying that the leaders will likely re-commits to squeezing russia of its resources. also discussing how united the west has become, despite the continued efforts to divide the west and topple ukraine s democracy. the sanctions coming just days after biden s most recent request for more aid for ukraine. military aid in the form of 100 and $50 million which will be divided into 28,000 artillery rounds, counter artillery
the russian president? i how to define the wire and defined the russian president? the russian president? i hope so. the trump the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction has the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction has had - the russian president? i hope so. the trump faction has had this . the trump faction has had this altogether wrong. you ve heard so many altogether wrong. you ve heard so many republicans saying we need to put boots many republicans saying we need to put boots to the ground and consider going put boots to the ground and consider going over put boots to the ground and consider going over it to europe and strengthening european we need to recognise if you are talking about two nuclear powers. america talking about two nuclear powers. america and the russian federation. do we america and the russian federation. do we want america and the russian federation. do we want to do some