Thinking, with nick robinson. Should israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, should his Defence Minister, yoav gallant, face a Trialfor War crimes . That is what my guest on political thinking this week is arguing. He is the prosecutor, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Hes a british lawyer, whos trying also to bring the leader of hamas, yahya sinwar, to that court a court thats been derided, condemned for having no real teeth. And its notjust the two sides in the Gaza Conflict who hes targeting. Hes also said that President Putin of russia should Face Trial for war crimes. Karim khan, welcome to political thinking. Thank you for having me. Now, on the 24th Of May this year, you stood in front of a camera and you announced that you would be applying for Arrest Warrants at the International Criminal Court, for crimes committed during the ongoing conflict in gaza. Did you have any idea of the row that would follow . Well, i knew it was a powerful moment. I kne
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
course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
vis-a-vis russia. erdogan, he plays his own game. it s not going help us. there s really not a lot we can do about it. our final stop and the most consequential is in the bronx. the yankees are playing well, richard, but six games out. judge hit home runs last night. 17 on the year. yankees are playing well, but we re looking up at the race and orioles. if i may quote joe scarborough, the well-known expert on yankees baseball, it s still may. yes. yankees pick up two games a month. guess who is in the playoffs, guess who is in the world series? we have to pace ours. look, compared to two weeks ago, it s looking a lot better in the bronx, willie. looking a lot better. somehow, judge just keeps rolling, following that season. you re excited about how judge is playing. yeah, thrilled for him, great. we can pick on him over the last no, we re going to let him go. we hit that already, richard.
mika, you know, i don t even want to mention their names, republicans have said they wish american troops were more like russian troops, manly like russian troops. oh, my gosh. really? so you want them dead? is that what you want? you re saying you want them to be so incompetent. it s so extreme and it s bizarre, and it s dangerous. to say you want to defund the fbi, to say you want to defund the doj, to attack our men and women in uniform, it s just really un-american. jonathan lemire, katty kay and eugene robinson are still with us. joining the conversation, we have former u.s. senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill joins us this hour. good to have you. claire, i d love to get you in on this. you have people, and you know this, if donald trump gets his way and all of his little trumpers that are following him,