Appearing at a Univision Town Hall with a spanishspeaking audience. Hes started preparing. Check this out. Do you want to learn spanish . Its got to be perfecto. You need dual lingo, trump edition. Its easy. Repeat after me. Manana. Melania. Venezuela. Venezuela. Puerto rico. Puerto rico. We love puerto rico. Before you know it, youll be fluent. Hambre pelequin. Is that right . Wow. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is thursday, september 26th. Vice president Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were in swing States Yesterday delivering dueling visions for the economy. Were going to play their remarks. Plus, hours from now, ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Biden at the White House, while Donald Trump snubbed a meeting with the ukrainian leader. Well tell you why. Also ahead, were tracking Hurricane Helene, set to intensify and cause catastrophic damage across the state of florida. A lot to cover this morning. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
the southeast, there s more territory that s been consumed by putin s army. again, watch this here. okay? that s a year ago. this is where we are now, in february of 23, you see it fill in. what is the contribution on behalf of the united states? it is significant. far and away more significant than any other entity in the world. the united states military financing humanitarian contributions so far, some say upwards of $110 billion to $115 billion total, easily dwarfing canada and on down the line. in the short term, at the moment, your gas prices, shot up significantly. okay? here s the start of the war. we peaked right around this mark. it was about june of 2022. that s just about $5.10 a gallon nationwide. we ve since come down, but that was the effect of putin s war,