sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
have to live in so far, we will talk tonight about the us to the decision tonight about the us to the decision to supply cluster munitions to ukraine and the latest request from president zelensky for long range weapons. the war in ukraine and the resulting energy crisis is weighing heavy on the german economy. figures out today such germany is heading into its longest sustained recession since 2008. data from the first two months of this quarter the alliance meets in vilnius next week, a summit at which ukraine s so lets start with ukraine. a lot of news in the past couple of hours. president zelensky has just landed in istanbul where he has been meeting president erdogan. the turkish leader touts a special relationship with president putin, and has in the past served as a go between. but he also, stands in the way of sweden s, full membership of nato. an issue that which will be a major part of the discussions when nato meets next week in vilnius. earlier in the day, on his
the conversation back to the possibility of financial disaster. after days of optimism, negotiators stopped talking all but leliminating the hopes of a deal by this weekend. and a mission for missiles and money, ukraine s volodymyr zelenskyy is headed to japan where he will ask the richest democracies to deliver more weapons at a crucial moment. plus mess with the mouse, misout on millions. ron desantis feud with disney drops plans with a billion dollar complex in orlando. that haas the governor insists that donald trump is damaged goods and he alone can beat joe biden in 2024. we begin with important news just into cnn. the debt limit talks on capitol hill hitting a snag. this morning the top republican negotiator walking out of a meeting saying the white house stance is unreasonable. one congressman says talks for now are on pause. that just a few hours after president biden was briefed by his top negotiators. the president leaving a g7 leaders dinner in japan early fo
and then nikki haley is going to deliver a major speech to abortion and then two legal battles surrounding former president donald trump in sudan, a shaky cease-fire as an evacuation is under way to help foreigners. what we know about why tucker carlson and don lemon were forced out. and then we remember harry bwho died president biden announced he s running for re-election he kicked off his bid for a second term with the release of a three-minute video called freedom, and he asked voters to tk give him more time biden also says maga extremists are lining up to cut the social safety net and take away personal liberties the announcement comes four years to the day after he launched his 2020 campaign when i ran for president four years ago, i said we are in the battle for the soul of america, and we still are the question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more or less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be, and i think you do,
we cannot do if we do it together this hour, we will bring you new developments in the criminal and civil cases against former president trump. i will ispeak to a top former diplomat who negotiated peace deals. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington we expect to hear from president biden this hour at a gathering of his strongest supporters here in washington, members of the building and trade unions. the president s first public remarks since announcing his re-election bid in the online video featuring vice president kamala harris and highlighting his record on the economy, abortion rights and the fight to preserve democracy when i ran for president four years ago, i said we re going to battle for the soul of america we still are the question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less. more rights or fewer i know what i want the answer to be i think you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent that s why i m running for re