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
the ceo and co founder of openai, the company behind the artificial intelligence tool chatgpt has been testifying before us congress for the first time. sam altman says the technology has the potential, to revolutionise how people work, shop and interact. us lawmakers have been questioning him , both about the huge benefits the technology can bring and the threat artificial intelligence could pose for humanity. in march, elon musk and other tech leaders published an open letter calling for the development of ai systems to be paused. before we go any further a quick explainer about artificial intelligence. ai allows computers and systems the think in a more human way. it uses problem solving skills based on information that it can access. openai is the name of the company at the centre of the senate hearing. it s run by sam altman and was founded with one billion dollars of support from silicon valley investors. open ai is behind chatgpt which at the heart of the s
hi everyone, thanks for tuning into this hour where we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have a great lineup of reporters here to share their scripts with us. here tonight, priscilla alvarez, rahel solomon, matthew chance, and brand generous. guys, great to have you here. really fun, looking for to the conversation. the race to the white house is heating up. there is a big announcement expected tomorrow. priscilla is following all this closely. what s going to happen tomorrow? that s the question on everyone s mind. we can t overlook how sentimental tomorrow is to president biden. he announced on april 25th of 2019 that he was going to run for president. and we are expecting that a similar announcement is going to be made tomorrow. but this time it will be his reelection bid. and we expect he will do so in a video, again, very similar to how he did this before. and so everyone s on pins and needles waiting for this announcement to come. is it a surprise? not really. h
argument that he declassified documents as president. writing in part this, the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. but even without evidence, the former president continuing to make this claim. in an inteiew, just last night, the fox news host sean hannity claiming he declassified documents by simply thinking about it. it doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. you know, there s different people said there are different things but as i understand, there doesn t have to be the president. you re the president of the united states, you can declassify by saying it s declassified, by thinking about, it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. but the headline here is, really none of that matters, right, as the 11th district writes this, in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or r