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united nations chief visits the country. we ll get a live report from the ground. and the january 6th committee ready to go public. as the chairman announces the date of the first open hearings. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday. april 29th. i m jonathan lemire. president biden is asking congress to fund a sweeping aid package aimed at keeping ukraine in the fight against russia for at least the next five months. the president is proposing $33 billion in military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. it s more than double the size of the nearly depleted $13.6 billion aid package that was approved last month. the president announced his proposal by acknowledging quote, the cost of this fight is not cheap. we either back the ukrainian people as they defend their country or we stand by and as the russians continue they re , atrocities and aggression in ukraine. every day, they pay the price with their lives for this front and so we need t ....
immigration here at home could get in the way. meanwhile, new attacks all across ukraine, including kyiv, as the united nations chief visited the country. plus, things go from bad to worse in mariupol, as russia bombs a makeshift hospital inside the steel plant where fighters and civilians are barely holding on. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, joins us in a moment. and later, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, on the very latest in ukraine. and the january 6th committee ready to go public as the chairman announces the date of the first open hearings on the attack on the capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, april 29th. quite a week. yesterday, we knew president biden would be asking congress to fund a sweeping aid package aimed at keeping ukraine in the fight against russia for at least the next five months. we just didn t know how much he would be asking for. we heard from the president, propos ....
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, april 28th. i m jonathan lemire. president biden is expected to ask congress to fund a new aid package for ukraine today, and in scheduled remarks from the white house this morning, two sources tell nbc news, that the president will lay out the details of a quote massive request, which is intended to last through september. the u.s. has already provided ukraine with more than $3 billion in aid since the invasion began, including an $800 million package that was announced last week. following that spending, president biden said the white house had nearly run out of funding authorized by congress. prices for natural gas have increased after russia stoked tensions by cutting off exports to poland and bulgaria for refusing to pay with russian rubles. both countries are members of nato, and are heavily reliant on russian natural gas. but so far, officials in those two countries say the action taken by russia won ....
that more than half of all americans have now been infected. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 27th. i m jonathan lemire. the united states is set to lead a new coalition of global allies to coordinate defense and humanitarian aid to ukraine. secretary of defense lloyd austin announced what is being called the ukraine contact group yesterday while leading the first official meeting at ramstein air base in germany. there austin and joint chief of staff chairman mark milliconvened officials from more than 40 other nations to discuss the assistance efforts. i like this whole group today to leave with a common and transparent understanding of ukraine s near-term security requirements because we re going to keep moving heaven and earth so that we can meet them. let s be clear, russia s invasion is indefensible, and so are russian atrocities. we all start today from a position of moral clarity. russia is waging a war of choice to indu ....
to ukraine. and u.s. diplomats begin returning to ukraine. we ll discuss the significance of that may have step, when state department spokesman ned price joins us later this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, april 27th. joe. a lot a lot going on, mika, right. a lot going on. your former party is fascinating. fascinating is a term you can use for it. but, as i was saying, a lot going on today. today is holocaust remembrance day. and it seems to me, for most of our lives, most of our adult lives, whenever there was holocaust remembrance day, we were looking at black and white photos, trying to figure out how madness spread across germany and the rest of the continent the way it did that would lead to such grave tragedies. how one man would be responsible for each evil and influence so many others. these pictures are actually historic reminders and unfortunately bring warning still to us today. unfortunately, more relevant than ....