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requested, everything, all of the money that harlan crow spent on clarence thomas. we ll get the senator s latest attempt to get that information, when he joins us tonight. lawrence, he has been leading the charge on that in a way that i think is so critical, given the other silence from his colleagues on the other side of the aisle. i am eager to hear what he says. he has really stepped up. alex, there is a tweet that i want to read to you. this is from feisty granny, which is a handout that i think will probably available to you for years from now, she says, i never had doubts. this was not his first time dealing with the negotiations. he knows what he is doing. i ignored all the breathless reporting knowing that it would be okay. she is of course talking about president biden s handling at the debt ceiling negotiations. feisty granny is just much cooler than i am about this. i was worried for months and weeks. but it turns out that the guesswork thing that i of ....
of dead white guys, am i right? like washington, jefferson, lincoln. well, guess what. latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latin-tinged music] in fact, latinx heroes have fought in every war for the united states for centuries. this goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. american forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by a young venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. and then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. almost half of them were mexican-american, and that was only 13 years after the mexican-american war. now where s the monument for that? huh? huh? huh? now, today, nearly 20% of the u.s. population is latin, and our numbers are growing. our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2% of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do have some prominent figures, li ....
despite those who say, go back to your own country, puerto rico is part of the u.s. it s not a state. but its inhabitants are 100% american. and this right here is el viejo, san juan, the oldest part of a heavily fortified colonial city established in 1521 by none other than ponce de leon. and the spaniards named it puerto rico, aka rich port, so you can get an idea of what their intentions were for this island. sugar, spices, gold, just a few of the perks the spanish enjoyed for over 400 years. that is, until the u.s. was happy to help, you know, liberate the island from the spanish and make it a u.s. commonwealth. that means puerto rico is neither an independent country nor an official state. and its people don t have a vote in the u.s. congress or in presidential elections. despite all of that, puerto ricans are unstoppable. and their cultural impact on the u.s. and the world? massive. to really get to the bottom of how puerto rico has not only survived but thrived ....
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 ....