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
now, people are using the clock to speed up other things. look at this interview from the president. is your age into your own calculation as to whether to run again? first of all, look, first of all, to look, they the no but yes. there you go. it worked. jimmy fallon having some fun with baseball s new rule. we have a lot to get to this morning. a major conservative conference is going to be missing some star power. we ll go through the big names in the gop who are skipping cpac. we ll tell you which event many of them are attending instead. meanwhile, ron desantis takes control of a key figure in his so-called war on woke. we ll explain what is happening in florida. and we ll have the latest bombshells to come out of court documents in a lawsuit against fox news, including rupert murdoch s testimony on false claims about election fraud. also ahead, we will be joined by education secretary miguel cardona, as president joe biden s plan to cancel student
so we ll get to our top story this morning. willie. it s front page of all the newspapers, pictures of president biden and governor ron desantis together one week after hurricane ian made landfall in florida, president biden warning more storms will come. the president visited florida yesterday, just days after surveying storm damage in puerto rico. in florida, president biden and governor ron desantis temporarily put politics aid aside as they met with residents in the fort myers area. we were fortunate to have good coordination with the white house and fema. one of the things you re seeing in this response, we are cutting through the bureaucracy, we are cutting through the red tape, and that s from local government, state government, all the way up to the president, so we appreciate the team effort. i think he s done a good job. look, i called him i think even before he called me when i heard the storm was on its way, we worked hand and glove. we have very different
now, it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, there s no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. i m opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just hours before we got stunning new details overnight about why the justice department felt it had no choice but to seize classified documents from the president s florida estate and club. including evidence that some of the documents were likely moved and hidden. we ll have the many new revelations from the late night court filing. also this hour, remembering mikhail gorbachev, the final leader of the soviet union. a reformer who lifted the iron curtain and helped to end the cold war. good mor
blamed for the botched response to the school massacre has been placed on administrative leave. and stunning underwater photos of an american swimmer being rescued by her coach after fainting during the world championships and sinking to the bottom of the pool. the swimmer is okay. this is not the first time this happened to her. we ll explain what s going on there. along with joe, willie is back and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee michael steel and white house bureau chief at politico and host of way too early. good to have you all onboard. i have a couple things i want to start with today. you re warning me. i have a couple things on my mind. i need the american flag and i need to talk. i have about five minutes. really, yesterday you missed i have to tell you, you missed a very special moment in washington politics. there was an aticus finch like character who testified before the january 6th committee. he was a speaker of the a