this week on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country we ll have the latest on the deadly conflict and what s next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, we ll dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around kherson, which suggests a retreat is coming up for the russians. ukraine, again, is trying to regain land controlled by russian forces, and that will ultimately, in the end, whenever that is, it s going to involve some very, very deep negotiations as it pertains to land they took. yeah. now opposed to crimea. good morning welcome to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th there s our good morning. good morning. happy monday with us, the host of way too early, bureau chief at q poli
republicans. i m trying to help them every day understand why they just keep losing. because the hatred, the victimhood we watched a little bit of a certain network over the weekend, mika and i. you wouldn t believe i mean, it s hunter biden s laptop i think the trans influencer beer commercial. i forget the third thing, but you re sitting there and going, are there really people at home going, yes, these are the most important issues in america right now? you had this unbelievable statistic on politics nation about news coverage and pictures of all of these republicans getting ar-15s oh, my god. i kid you not, getting ar-15s and shooting up budlight beer cans acts of violence against beer
republicans is, in addition to the sort of fringe base issues, like budlight and, you know, hunter biden s laptop and have w what have you, they re set on general election issues, whether it s abortion, whether it is same sex marriage, which they seem to be wanting to relitigate you know, things like climate, things like guns i mean, they are all if you look at background checks, something basic, there is a consensus of 80% of the country that thinks it should be harder for people to get ak-47s or ar-47s, bring them into public places and sohoot them up it s a settled consensus at this point. you have the top republican candidates, you know, loin lining up to go to the nra convention to out-gun the others at the top of the republican base, if you want to call it that, or the bottom.out-gun thef
legislatures and anti-abortion groups are trying to stay one step ahead by making it harder to pass the measures or to get them on the ballot at all. the first state to test this new strategy is ohio a coalition of abortion rights groups pushing to get a vote on a constitutional amendment in november that would stop the state from being able to ban abortion before 24 weeks. why i ll tell you why. because 65% of americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, and that means it would very likely pass in ohio they just need a simple ma majority as the new york times writes, mika, republicans in the state legislature are advancing a ballot amendment on their own that would raise a percentage of votes required to pass future measures to a super majority because they know they re in the minority. similar efforts to block citizen votes are happening in
running to be the president of right-wing twitter, and i don t think that s a smart political move nevermind what it might be doing to the country. well, i mean, it s budlight instead of china it s mickey mouse instead of north orea it is hunter biden s laptop instead of russia. in fact, a lot of em are on putin s side they ll basically say that you listen to what marjorie taylor greene says listen to what other republicans say. it s frightening for people who are supporters of the freedom, not just in the united states but across the west. but this is exactly what this is the looming and still i ll say this carefully still existent threat of donald trump. when you see those numbers, you wonder what s going on there well, we just described it it s this entire media ecosystem