to take you there live. the president is facing a big foreign policy on this friday. a potential russian invasion of ukraine. our secretary of state, tony blinken, just spoke for 90 minutes with his russian counterpart. what we re learning about that meeting, and whether russian aggression is inevitable. plus you want to see why voting rights are so critical right now? new voting laws in texas are taking root and a harris county judge says one in three, 33% of the vote by mail applications in her county is being flagged for rejection. i ll talk to her about that, especially with the midterms looming just a few months from now. and we re also learning about a new push on capitol hill to pass some sort of election legislation on the federal level. not exactly what activists and most democrats had hoped for, but there does seem to be some movement afoot. but we are going to start with our team standing by for president biden, mike memoli, also with me jake ward. michael says e
florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
Churches in middle america have been hallowed out, churches on both coasts have been hallowed out and where they have the communities have started to fall apart, and he looks at the data that shows, there is a connection to this spiritual void that s been replaced again by smartphones, that s been replaced by technology, and there s a hollowness, an emptiness. what follows? well, you ve got depression, you ve got anxiety, suicidal ideations, you ve got health care, a mental health care crisis that at least people like me, i m not saying everybody is going to believe this, just like you, but people like you believe, there is a connection. we you know it s very interesting, this isn t a conservative thing. i looked up barack obama s announcement speech because i thought i remembered him saying when he announced for president
America and had about 40% of global production. since then american manufacturing is the back boeb of our economy got hallowed out. companies moved things overseas especially from the industrial midwest. we used to invest 2% of our gross domestic product in research and development. we invested 2% decades ago of our gross domestic product in pure research and development. today it s less than 1%. we were ranked number one in the world in rnd. guess what. we now rank number nine. r&d. china was number eight in the world three decades ago. now they re number two. other countries are closing in fast. as a result, today we barely produce 10% of the computer chips despite being the leader in chip design and research. we don t have the ability to make the most advanced chips right now. but today 75% of the production
Apartment block in borodyenka, leaving the building just hallowed out, just look at that. ukrainian officials tell cnn 100 people may still be trapped in the wreckage but they can t get to them because shelling is continuing. the terrible expectation is that the suffering we ve already seen is likely to get worse before it gets better. for as long as russia pursues these methods. the suffering is getting worse. the lucky ones, the millions fleeing the only homes they ve ever known, like this little boy, saying goodbye to his father. we ve also got this incredible moment. itv news correspondent, john irvine and his crew confronted by russian tanks as they tried to leave mariupol. reporter: we filmed the russians as surreptitiously as