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
judge s order that he testify in the probe. laura jarrett will be joining us shortly with her reporting on that. first as we come on the air, we are watching history house speaker kevin mccarthy is meeting right now with taiwan s president ing-wen, the first meeting since 1979 when the u.s. ended diplomatic negotiations with taiwan in a deal to establish a relationship with china. they are expected to deliver a joint address at any moment. we re going to bring that to you as soon as it gets underway. no doubt beijing is also watching very closely as the president is capping off a ten-day diplomatic mission intended to strengthen taiwan s relationships with its foreign partners the announced stopover in the u.s. prompted immediate condemnation and threats of retaliation from china chinese leaders have repeatedly called on the u.s. not to engage with taiwan officials. the people s republic of china claims taiwan as its territory the u.s. government stance is not to take a posit
positions. john fetterman takes everything to an extreme. those extreme positions hurt us all. dana: just one state over in new york another big contest we ve been following. the race for governor. republican lee zeldin going head-to-head against kathy hochul in a state where crime is surging in nearly every major category. here is what they had to say last night. unfortunately kathy hochul believes that the only crimes being committed are these crimes with guns. you have people afraid of being pushed in front of oncoming subway cars and stabbed and beaten on the street with hammers. we need to talk about all the other crimes. instead kathy houck you will is too busy patting herself on the back. we can work on keeping people scared or focus on keeping them safe. i have worked hard to have real policies that are making a difference. bill: wow, it is crunch time, right? new york post calling governor hochul clueless on crime saying give them zell. in a moment dr. marc
101 people across florida across 11 different counties. ian s wrath is also blamed for at least four deaths in north carolina. right now, search and rescue operations remain under way. 2,000 rescues have been carried out across florida. the red cross housed 2900 people in their shelters sunday night. the state has 2.3 million meals and 83,000 have applied for assistance. this morning, fort myers beach remains closed. crews are searching for survivors, working around the clock. 400,000 people there remain without electricity. and an official warns it may be weeks or months for some to get it back on. well, tomorrow, president biden fresh off the tour of hurricane-ravaged puerto rico is set to visit florida. let s begin in florida with anchor and fellow correspondent boris sanchez. boris, good morning. thank you for being with us. that is a really significant jump in the death toll from when we spoke to you yesterday morning. at the same time, officials haven t given up hope
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc