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
Decision in the last couple of days. Mr grove has been a close ally of course of the Prime Minister rishi sunak and he served under a number of Prime Ministers, theresa mae and borisjohnson, alongside mrjohnson boris johnson, alongside mrjohnson he borisjohnson, alongside mrjohnson he was one of the leaders of the campaign to leave the eu. His decision of course comes as more than 70 conservative mps have announced that they are leaving rather than fight the election in july. Now, this is our understanding, laura ginsbergs understanding, laura ginsbergs understanding that michael gove will not stand as an mp. Laura goons. This newsjust breaking come not stand as an mp. Laura goons. This news just breaking come of that michael gove the long serving can Cabinet Minister is not going to stand as an mp at the upcoming General Election injuly. He was elected in 2005 and of course well known as a minister for a number of different things. Hes the levelling up different things. Hes the levell
them. president biden has pitched it as a solid deal for democrats. we just heard there from the republican congressman who said, look, this is a bipartisan agreement. no one gets everything they want. that s not how negotiations work. yes, there will be some late nights ahead this week. there will be a little twists and turns and some politics here, the extremes of both sides need to play to their respective bases, but there is a consensus, guys, that right now, this is on track to pass. it ll be close, but they re confident they ll get it done. i think they ll probably figure it out. again, kevin mccarthy and joe biden got together, willie, and they re grown-ups. they did the heavy lifting, the hard work, and they ve come up with a bill. surprise, surprise, this is how washington used to work, that the extremes on both sides hate and the vast majority of people in the middle don t like at all, but they figure out how to bring it together. that s how legislation passes. it s how it