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good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this monday, august 1st. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine's minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. ...

hosting a saudi-backed golf tournament at one of his clubs. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." i'm jonathan lemire. it is friday, july 29th. thanks for being here. let's get started with the news. we begin on capitol hill where senate democrats are racing against the clock to pass a wide-ranging spending bill through the process of reconciliation. with just about a week to go before congress leaves for a month-long recess, a source says that senate majority leader chuck schumer called on his caucus to stick together during a closed door meeting yesterday. just one day ea...

The atlanta suburbs, this issue really popped. and even in more conservative parts of blue states like states in new jersey or new york, this became an issue. it wasn't the number one issue, but in the top three especially among suburban women we needed to win. >> i think that could possibly be because at this point, voters realize that if nothing is done, it can eventually be them. we're at churches. we're at schools. we're at shopping centers. the reality is that no place right now is safe from guns as people would like them to be. and if nothing changes policy wise, this is going to continu...

There's a question of whether republicans are. last week you had democrats calling for hearings related to pruitt. what's interesting is the senate environment committee chairman did put out this statement after the phone booth reporting. it is critical that the epa and all federal agencies comply with notification requirements to congress before spending taxpayer dollars. epa must give a full public accounting of this expenditure and explain why the agency thinks it was complying with the law. is that going to happen? are we actually going to see a hearing on this? >> i think perhaps the most...

defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. >> reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up in august, that's really what all of this stems around. well, he has resigned, and to listen to the d...