prevents the worst possible crisis, default for the first time in our american history, economic recession, millions of jobs lost and protects key priorities, accomplishments and values that congressional democrats and i fought long and hard for. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy have a deal to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts. we will go through what is in the agreement and the reaction from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. we have new reporting on the evidence that manhattan prosecutors have in the hush money case against former president donald trump. also ahead, the latest from the war in ukraine following the largest drone attack yet by russian forces on kyiv. good morning. it s 8:00 a.m. on the east coast on this monday, may 29th memorial day. i m jonathan lemire. joe, mika and willie will be back with me live tomorrow. let s dive into the news. in washington, a deal has finally been made over the debt ceiling. we have goo
today even. so what made him special was that he really put a human face on the war, where we had millions of troops serving overseas. it was really, really difficult for the average reader to picture and understand what was going on. ernie tried to paint that picture for them. david, tell us a little bit, a couple of sort of surprising things you learned as you put together this book and really dug into his life that now readers who may have heard the name ernie pyle but don t quite understand his importance, what would surprise and touch them from what you found? well, there are a couple of moments in his career overseas that really touched me as i was doing the research, and i retraced his steps through the war starting in north africa and then moved to sicily, italy, france, the pacific. there s this moment when he s in sicily where he had gotten sick. the doctors called it
chicago s harris school of public policy, david christian son. david, remind the viewers if you will a little more as to who ernie pyle truly was and the influence he had during world war ii. first of all, thank you for having me. second, ernie was maybe the most unlikely of war correspondents. he got his start in journalism in 1923 and he started in indiana and moved to washington, d.c. he worked his way up through the newspaper. really where he started to kind of figure out his style of storytelling is when he started one of the first columns about aviation, the early days of aviation in the 1920s and 30s. after that he became a roving correspondent for about seven years and traveled all across the country, crisscrossed the country 35 times, put on hundreds of thousands of whiels. wrote hundreds of thousands of
joe. he s been called one of america s most famous and most loved american war correspondents. journalist ernie pile was twice the age of most soldiers he wrote about while embedded with them on the front lines during world war ii in some of the war s worst places including normandy, north africa and points of the pacific. his articles brought the war home to american readers with his stories running in hundreds of newspapers. his dedication to documenting american soldiers in the battlefield led him to repeatedly risk his life and ultimately lose it. pyle s courageous story is now the subject of a new book titled the soldier s truth, ernie pile and the story of world war ii. joining us, executive director of the public policy writing workshop at the university of