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
before. we are told that some clerks are so alarmed, they re exploring seeking counsel. let s bring in cnn s joan biscupic with the exclusive reporting. joan, tell us what you re learning. sure. first of all, remember, this is the most important case of this term, in many years, potential to roll back a half century of abortion rights, privacy rights. midway through negotiations of this case a draft document was leaked, as we all know, it was leaked from last february. so not only did the public see where the court was headed to roll back roe v. wade but seriously disrupted negotiations in terms of justice where is they were going to head by june. chief justice john roberts launched an unprecedented investigation four weeks ago today. apparently that has made absolutely insufficient progress, i would say. and they have taken this new step to have clerks sign affidavits. i m not sure exactly of the wording. but there would be denial of any responsibility. and also starting
with baby formula winding up on his desk. the biden view is that he is, this is a payoff of vindication, for playing the long game. so when that confidant said we are reagan, their extension of that was, we had a big plan, and it s getting in place. and what they say is that president biden, sticking to his bottom up, middle out strategy for the economy, rather than top down, has paid off. that they ve stuck to that across all of their big issues. and jonathan, they point us to a poll, in the washington post, august 1982, 40 years ago this month, for the seasoned viewers out there, barry sussman biline, one of the classics. and that was a poll with 58% of people in august 1982, saying that first-term president ronald reagan shouldn t run again. and of course, as resonance to
clean energy investments, pick supply chains, improve infrastructure. crack down on sky high overseas shipping costs. he has a housing supply action plan. shelter inflation has been a problem. he wants to show how to get affordable housing in the system. medicare negotiation, you ve seen some of these domestic priorities before. but also cutting the federal deficit and moving forward here on some of the other pillars, i think, of the biden view on the american economy. there s these are things it s a lot. it s a lot. but the person who is in charge of fighting inflation is less the president and more the federal reserve chairman. and that s why you re going to have that important meeting today. he says in his op-ed, the federal reserve chair handles this. and i m not going to mess with him. unlike my predecessors, i m not going to mess with him. a lot of what biden talks about is sort of the old build back better agenda which i ve not sure is viable. we know that was torpedoed
that is sort of the de facto leader of europe. so there have been changes in the sort of international order of who is the leading influencer among nations and president duda and president biden view things differently on certainly some of the ideological and political views. when it comes to sovereignty and security here they re aligned and certainly on the issue of trying to protect ukraine, there s a lot where they can work together and with that, they can forge some stronger ties and have some common goals and that is a good thing for the two countries at this time and they can at least for now set aside some of the other issues that are not as dominant. also for president duda, he did talk about the economic interactions between poland and the united states. although war is prominent, there are other issues of the ongoing