good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine s minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. the move is part of an internationally brokered deal between kyiv and moscow, to release millions of tons of grain to foreign markets, and ease a growing food crisis. ukrainian officials say 16 more ships are waiting to depart odesa s port as part of that deal. meanwhile, russia advances have slowed, almost to a standstill, as newly-delivered western weapons are helping ukrainian forces re-claim
sense that right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the democratic party. it started minutes into the debate and it continues right now. it involves party strategists in evolves elected officials. it involves fundraisers and they re having conversations about the president s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket and they re having conversations about what they should do about it. some of those conversations include should we go to the white house and as the president step aside, others are other the conversations are about should prominent democrats go public with that call? because they feel this debate was so terrible. they do say, in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing. but then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting. the contrast between the two candidates. let me be clear. none of them and a lot of repub
muesli.com slash tv i m zachary cohn and washington. and this is cnn hello, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom, analyse and camerota president biden is fundraising and red bank, new jersey tonight, he s trying to reassure some major donors who are reportedly rattled by his very shaky debate performance. the president hit some wealthy zip codes today. first, the hamptons and then this new jersey event hosted by governor phil murphy. many democrats are wrestling with the question of whether president biden should continue to stay in the race and if he can win in november, seeing a white house correspondent, arlette saenz joins us now. so our let, what is the president s saying to these donors and how are they responded? well alison president biden is once again trying to assure members of the democratic party the he is up for a second term as president. the president is about to speak any minute now at that fundraiser and red bank, new jersey, that s hosted by the state s
democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
Dozens gathered as military rites were performed Monday morning at cemeteries and memorials in eastern Kankakee County by the Momence Honor Guard as they traveled to nine stops for Memorial