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
nomia, tell us some of the reaction you have been seeing to the vote having passed? fix, to the vote having passed? huge sigh of relief, really, by those members of the republican party and democratic party who were somewhere in the middle and glad this has now past this hurdle before it gets to the senate. the numbers are really interesting. 71 republicans opposed the bill. some are not surprising. 46 democrats also voted against. again, some of those members were not surprising. but what is interesting, ultimately more democrats supported, 165, than republicans, 149. now the next big battle is the senate. find big battle is the senate. and what can we big battle is the senate. and what can we expect - big battle is the senate. and what can we expect in the senate, nomia? what can we expect in the senate, nomia? well, the democratic senate, nomia? well, the democratic party, - senate, nomia? well, the democratic party, chuck i democratic party, chuck schumer, the demo
that a total of nine people have been arrested over the serious disorder in parts of cardiff, including five who were detained early this morning yesterday you watch the police conference condemning the levels of violence, explaining the timeline of the disturbances, of those two teenagers who died. that news, nine people have been arrested over that disorder including five who had detained a little earlier on that day. that is the latest. we will obviously return to this if there is more. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s ollie foster. over to you. arne slot has ruled out a move to tottenham hotspur. the dutchman led feyenoord to their first eredivise title in 6 years and it had been reported that spurs had identified him as their number one choice as a fulltime managerial replacement for antonio conte who was sacked in march. slot says my wish is to stay at feyenoord and continue working on what we created last year. there is not and there
and the most important thing is, it doesn t have to be absolutely true, it has to be supportable. they have to prove that i was deliberately lying, which i wasn t. you know, it s so fascinating about what he just did there. yeah, it s good stuff. good stuff. it is as if he read david french s column yesterday in the new york times talking about maga man. mm-hmm. and what it takes to be a maga man. he mentioned rudy giuliani as the prime example but listed mark meadows, kari lake, listed a number of other people who may have all done different things in the past, may have all had different backgrounds, different political ideologies, but the key was once they became infected by trump, there were two things you had to do. yeah. again, david french wrote this before rudy went on and lied again last night. he said, number one, you have to lie. the key is, if you re going to follow donald trump, if you re going to be a part of donald trump s team, you ve got to be
he talks about the spring offensive and also towards the end, listen to his description of the russian forces, let s take a listen. i believe we will see the results of true combined arms effect, tanks protected by infantry against anti tank guided missiles, artillery keeping heads down, engineers reducing the obstacles, breaching the fortifications that the russians have established, air defence, keeping the russians off the ukrainians, electronic warfare jaminet russians already not a and control, all orchestrated by very good ukrainian command and control, and using drones over the russians to attack them in depth with the precision munitions that the us and uk and others have provided. and this is going to break, i think, the front lines. where they will do this attack, i m not going to speculate, although the ukrainians have said that their objective is to sever the ground lines of communications that enables the russians to go along the south east coast into crimea. we