sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
he s a tough man, strong man, very respected. i happen to think he is a good man. the press goes crazy when i say it. we can t have a weak president. we have a weak man who cheats like hell. they cheat at elections like nobody has ever cheated before. i saw shots you wouldn t believe. missile launch, and you hear a bell go. i see this. it s so incredible. they calmly walk to a seat, ding, ding, ding, ding. they have 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out, right? okay, missile launch, boom. and we don t have it here. i really take back i don t know where to begin. i take everything back that i said about elvis in 1977. i apologize to the ghost of fat elvis right here and now. he looked better then joe, we re supposed to talk about how he was talking about orban. i mean, i m just saying i m so distracted. first of all, we go back to what was said over the weekend on x. if he keeps putting i can t unsee that. the bronzer on at this level, white sup
last 60 years because they understand the power of incrementallism. i think part of the problem with republicans is that we are so often focused on hitting the hail mary pass we forget about the power of incrementallism. this is going to spend less money next year. that is not sufficient. it s a big win. let s put in our pocket and get another win tomorrow. republican dusty johnson of south dakota with a plea to house gop hard liners who are criticizing the debt limit bill. we ll have the latest on where support stands for members of both parties as leaders try to secure their votes. plus, president biden and former president trump mark memorial day with very different messages, and also ahead we re following a developing story out of moscow this morning. drones attacked residential areas for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 30th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begi
there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to breaking re