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
up about one year later to the senate with his hands very bruised and it is still kind of unclear as to what caused that. the condition of the minority leader remains unknown and we will keep you up to speed as the show goes on. also breaking right now, three police officers in los angeles have been shot in the line of duty after some sort of standoff with a barricaded suspect. a tactical alert has been issued to, which is another phrase for all hands on deck. this happened in lincoln heights which is near downtown los angeles, primarily an asian hispanic area. we are told they responded to a call and someone open fired and somebody involved in a standoff. the police officers were taken to usc medical center, a level 1 trauma center that s good news. we are being told that we don t know exactly what the injuries are and we are being told all three officers are expected to survive. we ll have breaking information on that as well as the show moves on. now to our other top story
can ask the family of the hundreds of russians who rushed our troops in syria. that lasted three minutes. ended very badly for them. because america can now send 2,500 troops anywhere in the world and completely change yeah. completely change the outlook for that country and bring security to it. when you take them out, as we did in afghanistan, again, a mistake i believe, chaos suddenly reigns. those 2,500 troops kept the taliban at bay. you take them out, the taliban takes over the country in a week. same thing with syria. when our troops are in syria and i hate to go on and on about this, but i get so angry at republicans who keep trashing our men and women in uniform. yeah. for political reasons, saying they re too woke. really?
everyone knows it. today the world is a much more dangerous place than it was a month ago. a civil war not already has begun but the civil war in afghanistan has already been won by the taliban. executions are taking place, cultural cleansing is taking place. thousands of americans and allies are being held hostage. we ll see terrorism grow and spread from the region it s going to require u.s. involvement again. we didn t end a 20 year war. we started one. we should have never left. americans have been conditioned to believe we were in a 20 year war. the war was over three years ago. we were supporting the afghan army and the international community. it ways working. they it was working. they were keeping the taliban at bay. we left without consent and put the taliban we put the taliban in power and we re responsible for this and we re going to have to pay a price for
hope that with engagement comes influence, allowing aid agencies into afghanistan to avoid a humanitarian crisis. and also, taking the taliban to task over their commitment to human rights and their commitment to human rights and the role they will allow women and girls to play in society under them. back here, the recriminations continue over the rapid rise of the taliban and the uk s withdrawal. the defence secretary ben wallace has said to an interview with the spectator magazine that the game was up spectator magazine that the game was up back injuly in terms of keeping the taliban at bay. we are told he didn t want to criticise or contradict anything the foreign secretary has said. sources close to dominic raab says he doesn t want to be drawn into a blame game. the result is a bit of an unsightly scrap over who may or may not have seen this coming, but the practice collectively, the government didn t and it is now dealing with the consequences. and it is now dealing with the con