both paries as leaders try to secure their votes. plus, president biden and former president trump mark memorial day with very different messages. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis makes a pitch to voters ahead of the first event of his presidential campaign. we ll show you what he said. also ahead, we are following a developing story out of moscow this morning. drones attacking residential areas for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 30th. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, johnson lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. joe, on the debt ceiling, you said they d get there, but how d they finally do it? they had no choice. they got there. you know, we live in this world that s designed this
security, protecting our veterans. that was a big goal for us. we did get some changes in the negotiation at the end on that that i m proud of. i want to make sure this gets to the finish line. i ll be encouraging them to step up and do the right thing. congresswoman, claire mccaskill here. pardon me while i get into the weeds of beau country. sure. it s my understanding mccarthy promised 150 republican votes. i d love you to confirm that. secondly, this thing swirling around the rules committee, he put some very extreme voices on the rules committee, and there seems to be a disagreement. the three very extreme voices there, some of them are saying that he promised, when he got their votes for speaker, that all of the republicans would have to unanimously support something for it to come out of the rules committee. on the other hand, there are others saying that there only has to be seven of the nine
if you will? this tells us where the center of turkey is. it s not a liberal western country, quite cultural and politically, nationalistic, quite resentful. look, there s no silver lining to this, willie. he is a, like it or not, this is a liberal democracy. you don t want to be a journalist or kurdish in erdogan s turkey. i think you ll have continued turkey will go its own way, forge its own relationships with russia, and it will be very difficult. they ll be willing to use the pressure of immigrants to get from europe what it wants. turkey is technically an ally but it is not a partner. that s what we have to understand. so long as erdogan is in charge, we ve got this problem within nato. by the way, nato s treaty has no mechanism for expelling a country. we have to live with this. it s a real problem given turkey s strategic importance in the middle east, in europe,
we do need to before we move on, we ll quickly congratulate you on man city, once again, winning the premier league. okay. yeah. actually, i think next weekweek we ll see man city and man u at wembley. that s a secret, by the way. i m getting tickets for my husband. i haven t told him yet, but that s what we re planning to do. what gene said, that was the smart take. what gene said. all right. let s get to president joe biden, who honored the country s fallen troops yesterday by visiting the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. in his memorial day message, the president spoke about preserving the legacy of those who died to protect democracy, and his own personal experience with losing a child. tomorrowmarks eight years since we lost our son, beau. our losses are not the same.
several years, sometimes you take what you can get, give what you can get, and you make a deal to help the country pay its bills. exactly. i ve been a back bencher. my hair has been on fire. yeah, the republic is falling if we do this, that or the other. but, you know, after being up there about six months, i turned to a friend of mine in the freshman class. it s funny, we keep saying the world is going to come to an end if this bill passes or that. we re still here, aren t we? at some point, they aren t going to believe us anymore. maybe, maybe we should stop throwing bombs. i have to say, lemire talked about throwing bombs, willie. uh-oh. i saw some bomb throwing last night. that s mean. the celtics could not put one in last night. you talk about being grown-ups and responsible and getting the job done, that would be the nuggets, willie. that would be the nuggets. yeah, the nuggets were waiting for this one. the celtics were on the doorstep of history.