angle. we already know that biden team is incompetent on many fronts, their embarrassing performance in afghanistan. in foreign policy, their humiliation across the table from their counterparts and that the border importing a trifecta of disasters from covid to crime to poverty, but as nightmarish as all of that has been, biden s on track to eclipse all of it with his pathetic handling of the economy. when you take a step back and look at what s happening, we are actually making real progress. maybe it doesn t seem fast enough, i d like to see it faster and we are going to make it faster. laura: he will still be making this claim in 2024. it s coming any day now because things are always going to improve in the future but they never do. it s the ultimate bait and switch. maybe we should call it bankrupt and switch. now, this could have been a slam-dunk even for biden s goofballs. after all, we have the strongest economy of any g7 country in 2018, 2019, and 2020. that was
ground. our correspondents are standing by in ukraine and over at the white house covering this pivotal moment of russia s war against ukraine. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin with russia s major new military offensive in eastern ukraine. the long feared assault now a harsh reality that will likely shape the final outcome of the war. clarissa ward and ben wedeman are on the ground in eastern ukraine this hour. let s go to clarissa first in donbas region, the battleground that s a primary focus of kremlin forces. clarissa, i understand you visited a town on the eastern front. is there still time for civilians there to escape what is expected to be a truly brutal battle? reporter: wolf, we are here in the town of bach moot, 20 miles from a town where there has been incredibly heavy fighting throughout the day, you can hear it from here, c
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresnahan.
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that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs. but a new young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced, and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketb