kick russian out of ukraine. there is no question that president xi is watching. putin is watching to see if the west, if the united states and europe lose interest in ukraine and if we do, then i think it potentially gives him a green light. so, we are on the cusp of the post world war ii order where big nations didn t change their borders through force coming apart. and i think right now the most important thing that we could do to stop china from making a move on taiwan is to make clear to the ukrainians we re with them today and in the future to make sure they regain their own sovereignty. senator chris murphy, thank you very much for being on this morning. we will be in touch. so we are well into the fourth hour of morning joe right now. let s talk more about the bills to help veterans that republicans blocked. joining us now, retired sergeant ted corcoran. he s a disabled veteran and a veteran advocate who suffers from the effects of burn pits. he s now organizing
many veterans are impacted right now with these types of illnesses, dying of cancer, or have died already? we don t know the numbers. ant that is the shocking thing about this. is that the people that have died do this in silence. what this bill could help is 3.5 million veterans. that is one in five living veterans right now. going back to agent orange and massive amount of soldiers that we had in iraq and afghanistan. all right. retired sergeant ted corcoran, thank you very much. we ll be following this. and for more on the legislation swirling around capitol hill, let s go to co-founder of punch bowl news jake sherman. he s an msnbc political contributor. jake. so, jake, we re talking about a lot of thing this is morning. obviously a lot of news going on if you look at at manchin and