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
increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
our politics nation. i will host keisha lance bottoms, senior white house adviser, as well as martin with the king the third, congresswoman terri sewell and the reverend jesse jackson. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone, i am alicia menendez. we begin this hour with breaking news, showing donald trump s stronghold on the republican party on full display at the conservative political action conference, also known as cpac. in the last hour, he won the cpac straw poll with 62% of the vote. florida governor ron desantis with only 20% of the vote. at this hour, trump speaking to the crowded cpac, who want former years of trump in the white house. we are not going to show you trump s comments live, but our producers are listening so you don t have to. you are welcome. for the past four years, trump s turned the must anticipated conservative conference into the trump show, focused on his divisive po
we admit we are guilty. of amplifying the voices. insane people like this guy. hello, i m mike lindell. a guy like this is given a platform. we want to make sure. when you re watching fox news. it ll make you dumber. my slippers are back in stock. take us off teltelevision. before we allow these crooks to turn. our country into a. dump, a big, massive dump we ve done our part the context of that is probably the big massive dump what was trump talking about what s that i m curious about. keep it here. probably as close as we ll get to an apology from fox news. in fact, the network put out a defiant statement on another defamation lawsuit it is facing for airing false claims about election fraud we ll have much more on that in a moment plus, the supreme court delays a decision on the abortion pill. we ll take you through what s next in the very consequential case plus, more brazen acts of gun violence in america. this time, in maine
team to watch. it is, i agree with that. they ve defied expectations. expectations this year were modest, to be clear, but they ve been pretty good. it s the a.l. east. we saw the standings, what a beast of a division that is. sox with a handful of games above .500 but 9 1/2 games out. they got kluber out of the pitching rotation. reinforcements for the bullpen. they re starting to hit. devers could use, you know, a hot streak. he s cooled off the last week or two. they just went out west, always tough, and did fine. they come home to fenway starting tonight. they re in the mix. they are okay. we try to compete with those powerhouse trillion dollar teams ahead of us. that s the truth. what mika and katty were talking about last night while they were watching the celtics game and facetiming each other about it, they said that the yankees, because the a.l. east is so strong, and this was a great point, katty, yankees will be in