Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Thursday, May 5th, and we've got a lot to get to this morning.

President Biden using the issue of abortion as an example of what he calls the quote,

ultramaga agenda, sharpening his midterm message against the Trump wing of the Republican Party,

calling it the most extreme in recent American history.

You can actually make it more simple.

Just call them Trump freaks.

Well, there's that too.

I just say they're crazy as, well, we'll fill in that blank later.

We have a lot of examples.

We're also following the latest developments from Ukraine, new reporting that intelligence

given to Ukraine by the United States has led to the deaths of many Russian generals killed in action.

Plus, more civilians evacuated from war-torn Mariapole.

And just a moment we'll talk to former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor.

And it's been 27 months since the first confirmed case of COVID in this country.

Now the U.S. has passed a stunning one million deaths from the virus.

One million people will discuss how we got there and where

we go from here. Willie, there's so much to talk about here. Of course, we're going to start with

the story about the Russian generals. It's certainly consequential. But it does seem like we've all just

sort of breezed past that one million mark.

We all remember back in the spring of 2020 when we had officials saying maybe 70,000 people

would die, maybe 100,000 people would die.

I remember there was a British, maybe it was from King's College,

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