Evacuate now, now, now, you should have already been evacuated. Thats not hyperbole, its a matter of life and death. President biden urging floridians in the path of Hurricane Milton to take seriously Evacuation Orders from local officials. It comes as the storm is gaining strength in the gulf, expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours. We have the very latest on the Hurricanes Track. And a live report from florida straight ahead. Also ahead, a New Book by longtime Journalist Bob Woodward is putting Donald Trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin back into the spotlight. Were going into the staggering new revelations. Good morning, welcome to Morning Joe. Its wednesday, October 9th along with willie and me, we have Jonathan Lemire, Eddie Glaude Jr. And President Emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. Hes author of the weekly Newsletter Home and away available on substack. We have a lot to talk to, richard, especially on the revelations of Covid Tests sent to V
Two years ago when Elon Bus mosque. Twitter, he vowed to keep it nonbiased. He posted at the time it may be politically neutral which means upsetting the far right in the far left equally. It was a message he repeated frequently in interviews after purchasing the platform. The goal is to be as fair and evenhanded as possible. Not favoring any political ideology. That quickly turned out to be hollow. Instead he used his influence on his own Plaut Form to tell followers to vote republican. He voiced his support for Ron Desantis. There was one prominent republican that he was not a fan of, Donald Trump. He said he was too old and he should hang up his hat and sail up into the sunset. As you can imagine, trump did not take it well. He said the other day, i have never voted for republican. He told me he had voted for me. He escalated when he claimed that mosque came to the White House begging, adding that i could have said drop to your knees and beg. He would also go on to mock his Campaign
amid the war in ukraine media has been proven to be one of the sharpest weapons in russia s arsenal. think about the disinformation being spread by russian affiliates on social media and the false narratives across russian state television. here is the thing, ukraine was prepared for t ukrainians knew about those russian tactics and prepared. saw them tomorrow coming. the ukraine media center has been monitoring russian media s false depictions of ukraine for years. now that the war is being fought in the physical space not just the digital space it s important to see how ukrainians have viewed this and approached it and how ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is countering that propaganda. joining me now staff writer at the atlantic anne applebaum. this idea that the ukrainians were prepared, does that is that one of the reasons why the ukrainians were have been you know, why they were sort
in a relatively normal way. that s where we want to be and i believe we will get there, hopefully sooner rather than later. as i say that, i say we still always will be prepared for the possibility there may be a variant that will make that timetable turn around. meanwhile, if you go on spotify this morning you won t find most of neil young s music. the singer asked the streaming service to pull his work, accusing the platform of spreading covid misinformation. in a letter to his management team, which he posted online and then deleted, young wrote this. i m doing this because spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines, potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. they can have rogan or young, not both. young is referring to joe rogan, whose podcast on spotify reaches an estimated 11 million
can to make sure there s a diplomatic path, we are deeply concerned that s not the path russia has embarked on. let s get started here. joining the nbc news correspondent, erin mclaughlin from ukraine, and new york times diplomatic correspondent, michael crowley. we will start with you, erin. reporter: officials here in kyiv are strongly denning the allegations coming from separatists leaders that the ukrainian military is planning some sort of operation, and we heard the defense minister appealing to people saying not to believe the disinformation being spread. we heard this evening from the