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
master to oversee the review of the mar-a-lago search. to go through the documents to see if any of them were privileged. the judge says she has a preliminary intent to appoint one. today is the deadline for the government to respond to trump s request in writing. there was supposed to be a 20-page limit for this filing. but the department of justice has asked for up to 40 pages. one might infer they have a lot to say. and this file be will be public. so just in terms of page count this could be more than we ve heard from them yet. all this, as the secret service official at the center of the january 6th hearing steps down. more on tony ornato s departure in just a moment. joining me now, maggie haberman helping to lead the coverage of the mar-a-lago search. i m very interested in the filing today. the subject with the special master, i used to write term papers, i never asked them to double the length of the assignment. you certainly don t do that unless there s stuff they w
unfold? so lots of dynamics going on. i don t think it s really clear on all of these attacks who s really in charge and who s making the decisions. and speaking of shaping attacks do you think that s what russia is doing with the strikes in kyiv, with the increase of missiles lobbing towards ukraine they re trying to rain some kind of terror campaign ahead of this offensive that as you say we ve been waiting for quite some time? we see them launching lots of missile strikes. we should ask why they are doing that. it s largely because they re frustrated on the battlefield. they re not having great success on the battlefield. bakhmut they took but with extreme losses. when they are frustrated we ve seen them launch these missile strikes really taking a rain of terror campaign to the ukrainian people. the targeting is haphazard.
the resources, the weapons, to take back territory from russian forces. that is the intention here. that s the ambition. zelenskyy said that last night had in his address. he said we re going to go back, bring it back and not be satisfied with the borders as they stand. this is the attempt to do so. they are make something progress, you know, but also managing expectations. i think they got four villages yesterday. they have said deliberately, we re not going to gain this all back in a day. this is a slow grinding operation. but that s the intention here. i ve been speaking to u.s. officials about this for some time. they saw the shaping operations as we were discussing yesterday. preparing the battlefield for it. now what we re seeing the ground operations following those shaping attacks. attacks on ammo depots, missile defenses, infantry units, et cetera. russia is acknowledging this, but downplaying what s happening? well, i think, listen, anything that comes out of the kremlin
they ll be able to get off? i m not sure with seeing their full offensive yet. this could be the sort of shaping attacks, the reconnaissance by fire as it is termed to figure out where they should be reinforce, how they should try to breakthrough and perhaps envelop, encircle some of the ukrainian forces that are defending in the southeast. but this clearly is going to be a pivotal moment without question. the russians have repositioned a large number of forces. it is also unclear, jim, whether those forces will truly be combat effective or not. because a number of them were pulled off the line in the north and the northeast, additional forces shoved into them, additional weapons systems provided to make up for the losses of personnel and track vehicles and so forth. that s not the ideal way to develop a cohesive well trained, well oiled machine, if you will. and so my sense is that there may be areas in which the ukrainians are pushed back,