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>> absolutely. axios' mike allen, thanks for spending time with us. thank you for getting up "way too early" with us on this friday morning. i'll see you sunday, 6:00 p.m. eastern, right here on msnbc. "morning joe" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, may 6th. we have new reporting on the role u.s. intelligence is playing in ukraine's success on the battlefield. including the sinking of russia's most lethal warship. and the concern among some u.s. officials about vladimir putin's response to that. pentagon press secretary john kirby joins us later this m...

Also produce marjorie taylor greene, so maybe they'll be fine with him. let's talk about lost, but not least. we have nevada where mcconnell is dropping $50 million to defeat another democrat. and eight republicans are battling for the nomination. nevada is interesting for multiple reasons. especially that latino vote. and that great top of trump making inroads despite the racism he's pushed against yeah, latinos. that is fascinating state. people might now remember, we flip nevada blue under obama. novato was a fairly consistent red state. it's been trending more blue because of the growth in...

Should be punishing a company for their positions on issues. there's also drama on another front in the legislature today. we can see here democrats erupting in protest. this is about new maps to decide congressional districts. there are critics who say that governor desantis is targeting black congressional districts, majority black congressional districts to break up their voting power. tell us the state of this issue. >> reporter: right. well, democrats did stage that protest and republicans moved forward with the vote while they were protesting, so there was no final debate on this. but, y...

In this redistricting cycle as usual. because we're operating under a greatly restricted environment, with the newly-conservative 63 supreme court. which seems to have a special jurisprudence for voting, much like it has shown for abortion. where is willing to ignore principles that were previously in play. that's why we're seeing this process, where state supreme courts and state legislatures are newly emboldened to cut back on maps that really try to give effect to principles like preserving minority voting power. and that's the reason we're seeing this wet, in my judgment, it's a very unusu...

Exists, states are feeling free to draw their maps in ways that clearly dilute black voting power in ways that are unconscionable. it's not just the states that we are talking about, this is a broadly based move. for instance, there is an alabama case already sitting at the supreme court. look, when these maps are drawn in a way that manages to make it impossible for black voters to elect the candidates of their choice, that we know something is wrong. and, although the supreme court has said that you can't challenge a gerrymander on political grounds, only on racial grounds. florida, for inst...