at this hour the u.s. president is holding talks with his newly inaugurated south korean counterpart on his first trip to asia as commander in chief. last hour joe biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the south korean national cemetery. before arriving at the korean ministry of national defense for his meeting with yoon seok-youl. we re expecting them to give their remarks soon. on friday mr. biden says the future of the world will be written in asia, and the region will prove to be critical in the years and decades to come. we re standing on a reflection point in history where the decisions we make today will have far-reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. now, the threat posed by pyongyang is expected to be a main focus of mr. biden s bilateral meeting with south korea s leader. we ve also learned that beijing is holding military drills in the south china sea during this visit. the u.s. says pyongyang could conduct a missile test w
we ll talk to congressman bob goode from the freedom caucus about their sticking points. first to lucas tomlinson, who joins us live at the white house. always good to see you, lucas. what are you hearing? president biden returned from his asia trip earlier to negotiation with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. they met one time. now, it s back on monday. here s mccarthy at the capitol. the american public wants to see us curve our spending addiction, curve inflation that they created by adding $6 trillion and they want to see us cut the red tape that americans can build things again. that s exactly what we re doing. the white house had a sharper rebuke to recent comments on your show from the chair woman of the republican party. ronna mcdaniel would bode well for republican officials. now, a fox news poll says she could be right.
a short time ago president biden, who hasjust returned from his asia trip was speaking about the shooting and he said it was time for the nation to do what needed to be done and to stand up to the gun lobby. another massacre, uvalde, texas. an elementary school. beautiful, innocent, second, third, fourth graders, and how many scores of little children who with just what happened witnessed, see their friends die as if they are in a battle field, for god s sake. it will ruin the rest of their lives. it ruin the rest of their lives. it will be with them for the rest of their lives. there is a
received the first two orders for ingredients and supplies under the defense production act. that could speed up manufacturing here in the u.s. for all the parents who need that formula right now. kate jo, thanks so much. president biden is about to begin the second leg of his asia trip, but today his economic and diplomatic agendas were overshadowed over the concern of the spread of monkeypox. kelly o donnell is in tokyo with the president. reporter: for president biden, the surprise of this first trip to asia is not to build diplomatic alliances and economic ties, not the visit to thank u.s. troops. first of all, i want to say thank you. reporter: the unexpected is that another health threat, growing cases of monkeypox, demands his attention. it is something everybody should be concerned about. we re working on it hard to figure out what to do and if there is a vaccine
originally. coming from europe into the united states on a weekly basis. they ve not yet given specifics on when those planes will come after the one that s supposed to come on wednesday, but we do know this is going to be a continuous thing, where we will see more than 100 palettes of this formula coming into the united states. certainly a story we re going to stay on. signs of hope but a long way to go here. it s become a priority for the biden administration. operation fly formula has begun. nbc s meagan fitzgerald, thank you for joining us live from indianapolis. thank you to you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. a busy morning joe starts right now. good morning. welcome to morning joe. we have a lot to cover on this monday morning, may 23rd. the president continues his asia trip, and the biggest headline from that trip so far came just a few hours ago when he said the