information about the apartment building that partially collapsed on sunday. heavy machinery is now removing debris, as search and recovery efforts continue. mosquitoes. they are pesky and persistent. there is a reason you may be feeling more bites this summer. what attracts mosquitoes to us? psammophile. norah: there is a new spelling bee champion, and the nor e, psammophile. that is correct. it is still kind of surreal. norah: and it is friday, so we go on the road. i couldn t read. started teaching yourself? yes, because practice makes perfect. dottie says it was reading that helped her find love again. a love that she had never known. the message she put across that day. really touched a lot of people s hearts. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we begin tonight with the majority of the country facing hot and humid temperatures, from the midwest to the northeast. 97 million americans across
principal on this kind of case. that s coming up later. we will learn things. we will fact check. i invite you to stick around for that. that s later. the speech you may have heard about is landing tonight around 7:00 p.m. eastern, inside of an hour. president biden s first ever address from the oval office. we have heard him from the white house before. this is a thing we in journalism and white house junkies keep track of. this is in the views of the biden team, a positive that they are summoning the grandeur of an oval office address, the first several years in to talk about breakthroughs on debt, the economy and the new jobs report. that s 7:00 p.m. eastern tonight in joy s hour. we will cover that. you will see the president and the reaction. we have that. as for this moment, our lead story is what we are learning about the clear lid blowing off a key part of trump s dewith this report that everyone has been talking about all week, that he himself said he knew things
normally would have people fearful the federal reserve will be inclined to start hiking rates again in the face of this. again, that was not a worry for the markets. maybe with a strong jobs report, there s a lot less worry about a decision and a lot more hope that we could dodge one altogether. welcome. i m neil cavuto. because you ve got that juxtaposed against republican candidates criss-crossing battle ground states talking about how awful things are. we re following the principals and how the economy is going and the debt ceiling package and relief that we have a package and avoided default fed into this rally today. let s go to rich edson in pella, iowa. how that is going down there. rich? good afternoon, neil. got a couple of republican candidates in iowa today. many more coming tomorrow for senator joni ernst s roast and ride in des moines about an hour drive from pella. governor ron desantis will be at that roast and ride event. he s finishing up a full day of camp
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
andrea mitchell picks up with news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, the debt ceiling legislation clears the house with a bipartisan vote. a showdown in the senate starting today. a handful of senators in both parties demanding amendments that could delay final passage past monday s default did the line unless leaders can win agreement to overcome their objections. time is a luxury the senate does not have. if we want to prevent default. any needless delay or last-minute holdups could be an unnecessary and even dangerous risk. i will be joined by a senator who will vote against the bill. former treasury secretary larry summers with his take on the economic fallout. the special prosecutor has an audio recording where former president trump says he kept a classified defense plan related to iran after leaving office, according to a source familiar with the matter. this as mr. trump hits the campaign trail this hour in iowa to continue his unrelenting polit