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
service even issuing an alert that didn t mince words, exclaiming quote to protect your life. take cover. now a former mayor of rolling fork told a local television station that a tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house. and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting gas leaks and people trapped in piles of rubble, mississippi governor tate reeves saying in a twitter post that search and rescue teams are active and that more ambulances and emergency assets are being sent to those affected areas. the governor also saying quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. the storm prediction center, saying the greatest threat of tornadoes overnight will be in arkansas, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee. storms with damaging winds and hill also forecast from eastern texas and southeastern oklahoma into parts of southeastern missouri and southern illinois. let s go now to fox weather meteorologist ian oliver, who s standing by with th
war, given the human loss and the rest. i just don t see where there s anywhere for it to go. politically, it seems to me, putin is in pretty safe position. there could be a tipping effect one day, that when it changes, it changes. if i were advising our side, i would simply say, do not assume there s going to be any break on the russian side. assume putin is in control, has the narrative going his way. most russians buy into it, that it is russia against nato. lots of russians are sympathetic to the claims in crimea and so fort. i just wouldn t depend on any real weakening in russian resolve. would love to be wrong there, but i d be really surprised. richard, let s talk about the gesturing that keeps going on in china toward the united states now. they re saying they don t want to meet with secretary of defense austin. xi was going to meet with blinken before the spy balloon was shot down. the gesturing, it seems, just
to people who affirmativelofy want to learn a skill that s in demand. these are not scholarships fornm four year degreeand.s. this is money for training steamfitters, pipefitters,. welders, hvac technicians, electriciansand so, and so fort. we ve been doing it since labor day of 2008. and the reason we award work ethic scholarships and the reason we try and keep that topic top of mind is because their scholarships for everything else, there s academic scholarships, there s talent scholarships, there s scholastic talent scholarship. why notemic and this? id right. so look, whether you take s and expose them to ae or new part of our workforce or whether you just encourage the kind of behavior that wemo want to see more of inreic our country, work ethic has i to be a part of it.s a and closing the skills gap t of that, too. yeah, mike , i think all the concern that you re reading abouat.t, about generation zratn looking for stability, part of-z it is just the normal course of offe
bloody and violent in the days ahead unless we get some support and assistance and get this fighting stopped. i am hoping that the united states and our allies are going to push stinger missiles into kyiv now while there is a break, now. jim, these forces cannot operate continuously 24 hours a day, because somebody has to sleep and they have to be refuel and so fort, so you will be seeing the pauses in the action from time-to-time, and right now, it is time to get the reinforcing supplies into kyiv and into the ukrainian defenders and the president said that we will do it, and i am hearing the nations talk about it, and it has to get there now, and in the meantime, we should be calling for a complete cease-fire and halt to the russian operations. they have no right to invade an independent country, and take them to the u.n. this is the action of a war criminal, and he should be held to account on that basis. i believe that the united states is looking at a number of