great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last hours, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops and the paramilitary wagner group for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counteroffensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday fo diplomatic talks touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic talks with many of the gathered heads of the g7 nations. that includes prime minist
morning. we have major announcements, joe biden will hold a phone call with the president of china. the state department offers a deal to russia to get brittney griner and paul whelan release from jail in moscow. at what price? we have the host of way too early and the bureau chief of politico, and the author of the big lie. we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, and the former chairman of the republican national committee. good morning to you all. let s dive in after a year and a half of on and off negotiations. joe manchin has reached a deal with party leaders to pass a number of democratic agenda items through the reconciliation process. in a statement, he wrote in part, this bill will cut the inflation taxes that americans are paying. it will lower prescription drugs and health insurance. it will ensure that we invest in energy security and climate change innovations. he went on, it is time to put away the partisan swords and advance legislation that is in the b
Have gone to the hiroshima peace park which commemorates the victims of his devastating atomic bomb blast to mark the end of the world war of 1916. and i am pleased to be able to talk about this without tokyo correspondent shaimaa khalil. this would be the last we will get to chat like this. get to chat like this. don t make me get to chat like this. don t make me sad get to chat like this. don t make me sad laughter. | get to chat like this. don t - make me sad laughter. these two countries have make me sad laughter. these two countries have got make me sad laughter. these two countries have got a make me sad laughter. these two countries have got a very countries have got a very difficult history and plenty of bad blood between them but the two leaders have met three times in the last three months? after almost no visit by either leaders. after almost no visit by either leaders, no visit certainly by south leaders, no visit certainly by south korean leaders to japan
jeff, you ve also gone around the world. and you have the speech from emperor hirohito from the end of the world war. and he wanted to deliver some kind of apology for the war. but he wasn t allowed to by general macarthur. why not? yeah. so this is a fascinating episode. he was really heartsick, when he began to see what had happened to his country, what he led his country into. so he wanted to apologize. and we, macarthur, as you say, didn t want him to do it. we wanted the emperor seal of approval on our occupation. and there was something where if the emperor resigned or admitted he was fal ableible, apologized because she was supposed to be a deity, the fear was that the japanese would rise up and fight again. so macarthur felt it convenient to have the emperor and power and kept him there. and the draft, translated for
Can t kind of if they their way, they would put their head in the sand. but unfortunately, they didn t have their way and there was a lot of brouhaha against them. to your point, joe, the answer is less is more for companies, but sometimes they can get this is going to be a big thing going forward with corporations. as i said earlier, young people want to take stances. they re damned if they do and damned if they don t. i feel for disney. they need to be thoughtful to it. let s bring in founding editor of the washington freebie continue, author of the right: the 100-year war for american conservativism. thank you so much. how timely for you to come in on this conversation on where conservativism is right now. give us your thesis. it s fascinating. thank you, joe and mika, for having me. i think the way it relates to our current discussion at the moment is since the end of the world war, without communism to unite the conservative movement and to provide a connection on nation