quarterback. it s all happening. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, april 30th. i m willie geist, joe and mika have the morning off. we have, we have katty kay. white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. professor at the lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas, victoria defrancesco soto. white house correspondent for politico, and co-author of the playbook, eugene daniels, and cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. we ll be talking a little nfl draft, jonathan lemire, bill belichick got a quarterback. what s going on with jim rogers. and katty kay, many people don t realize, the mel kuiper jr. of the uk, so we ll be going to her with full draft analysis, right, katty? yeah. maybe later in the program when we re in break, we ll do that, right, willie? when no one s watching. we ll circle back you. let s begin with rudy giuliani s role in the trump administration s role in the ousting of an ambassador
time for family members of u.s. embassy personnel in ukraine has in order to get out now for additional personnel there being authorized to leave. the state department really raising the alarm if you are an american in ukraine, it is time to get out now. if there is a russian impatient, there won t be an opportunity to air lift people out. in the meantime, president biden with a range of options including deploying 3,000 to 5,000 in eastern europe. this is a real shift in posture from just economic sanctions. here in ukraine the second shipment of american ammunition and weapons arrived. ukrainian officials but that total at more than 80 tons. the administration continues to and says no preemptive sanctions against russia. here is the secretary of state. the purpose of those is to detour russia aggression. so if they are triggered now, you lose the deterrent effect and the alliance is looking at very practical and important measures in the event of the russian impression.
closings that came with the big surge in cases, that didn t even start until mid-december meaning we probably won t see the real impact until next month s report. that said, the economy right now is as fluid and unpredictable as it has been in decades. we learned earlier this week that a record 4.5 million americans quit or changed jobs in the month of december, part of the so-called great resignation. and it makes sense. if you can take advantage of high demand from employers, either get a better job or start your own business, great, but if you can t you can be falling behind. for lots of people, though, the real problem is inflation and even the wages have been up and they were up again in december, lots of those gains get completely wiped out when everything costs more. in fact, despite all of the positive news about the economy, only a fraction of workers say they came out ahead in 2021. so let s discuss. i want to bring in cnbc s senior economics reporter steve liesman,
this post in 2017. he is also a registered republican. but that did not matter to the gop members who used today s hearing to go after him personally. when the court says the fbi misled, but it s a nice way of saying they lied. the american people fully understand that there is a two tiered justice system. that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs. and that you have personally been worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi. and certainly your description of my own approach. the idea that i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background. your job is to review what they do, your job is to protect the american people from tyrannical fbi, storming the home of an american family. i could not disagree more with your description of the fbi s tyrannical. you seem deeply and curious about, it don t you? almost suspiciously i m c