all five people, including a 19-year-old, on board a titanic tourist submerible died while diving toward the ship s wreckage. it comes as we re learning the u.s. navy may have actually picked up the implosion sounds on its underwater microphones. meanwhile, there are more prominent voices criticizing the vessel, pointing out its fatal flaws. james cameron, yeah. also ahead, we re going to go through indian prime minister modi s state visit at the white house and the impact it could have on u.s. relations with other world powers. plus, two outspoken, far right republicans trying to rewrite history on capitol hill. we ll explain. and is it possible? tomorrow marks the one year since the overturning of roe. we ll take a look at new polling on the supreme court s decision. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 23rd. good to have you with us. also with us, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lem
given the chance, he didn t walk it back. he said he didn t expect it to necessarily, you know, spoil the relationship at the moment, still expects to see president xi later this year, but it came the day after secretary of state tony blinken had just been in beijing in order to smooth over the rupture in relations that followed that chinese spy balloon earlier this year. you re right, of course, the modi visit is also about china, not just about russia. in both cases, modi didn t give biden anything on that. he didn t signal any movement to the u.s. position on russia or china. when he addressed congress yesterday, he didn t use the names russia or china. he said, war has broken out in europe, in the ukraine, but didn t say who started the war. he talked about dark clouds of coercion and, you know, in the indo-pacific region, without saying that china is the one responsible for those clouds. basically, the biden administration hoping on a long-term basis india moves closer to the am
i think it is important for the president of the united states to say that if you have uighurs in china who are being placed in mass camps and reeducated, quote, unquote, that s a problem. that s a challenge to all of us, and we have to pay attention to it. i think it is true that if the president meets with prime minister modi, then the protection of the muslim minority in a majority hindu india, that s something worth mentioning because and by the way, if i had a conversation with prime minister modi, who i know well, part of my argument would be that if you do not protect the rights of ethnic minorities in india, then there is a strong possibility india at
what you are seeing and you probably discussed this many democrats don t like this. they see that modi is autocratic, that modi is cracking down on the press, on religious minorities, the muslim minorities on political opposition and that is autocratic or at the least a liberal democracy. as you know, there is a very, very keen desire to try to win modi over to try to help him peel away from china. the entire focus, it looks like at the moment, of america s foreign policy is on china. and, therefore, they are trying to get as much support as they can, including they are trying to get india s support to bolster the not the confrontation, but the idea of trying to make sure that china doesn t pose an even more dangerous threat. it s risky, of course. modi has not and india has not gone ahead with many of the u.n. resolutions he against russia on this ukraine war, keeps buying
reporter: do you want to name names? of course not. but you had to do business with them because they are important for national security reasons. you know, there are a range of economic interests. i dealt with china to get the paris accords done. i dealt with modi to get the paris accords done because you think climate change is something that transcends any particular momentary issues. it s a problem that humanity has to deal with over the next several decades in a serious way. i do think that it is appropriate for the president of the united states where he or she can to uphold those principles and to challenge whether behind closed doors or in public trends that are troubling. and so i am less concerned about labels than i am concerned about specific practices.