The straits have to be open. They're going to be open one way or the other. So they need to be open. What's happening there is not lawful. It's illegal. It's unsustainable for the world. It's unacceptable. I don't know of any country in the world. The Russians are not in favor of the tolling system. The Chinese are not in favor of the tolling system. I mean, there's no country in the world that's in favor of the tolling system except the regime in Iran. So that's not acceptable.

That cannot happen. The straits need to be

open, unimpeded without tolls. And obviously that needs to happen immediately.

All right. Secretary of State Marco Rubio there making it clear where the United States stands on the Strait of War moves, which was open before this war started nearly three months ago.

We'll bring you the latest on the talks to end the conflict and dig into whether U.S. strikes yesterday.

We'll actually complicate those negotiations or what. Plus, we'll have an update on

the developing situation at an ICE facility in New Jersey. After Governor, Mikey Cheryl,

says she was denied access amid a reported hunger strike by detainees inside. Also ahead. After 13 months and $135 million, the Republican primary

between Senator John Cornyn of Texas and the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, will come

to an end tonight. We will preview that runoff election. And for the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are in the NBA finals.

We'll have the highlights after last night's sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Good morning and welcome to Morning, Joe.

It is Tuesday, May 26th with us. We have the co-host of our 9am. Our staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire, co-host of the rest is Politics Podcast. The BBC's Caddy Kay. Columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post, David Ignatius, is with us, and former White House official under President Biden, retired rear

admiral John Kirby. He is now an MS now, National Security analyst. Joe, we have so much to get

to. But I think we start with the Knicks. Yeah. Yeah. I'll allow. I just want to go back to the New Jersey story, though, with Mikey Cheryl.

It remains extraordinary that governors of states, that United States senators, that members of Congress who actually find these what many people inside are calling concentration camps.

I think that really internment camps certainly do fit, that they can't get in.

You're a governor of a state where they have placed one of these internment camps.

And the Trump administration does not allow you to go inside there.

You're a United States senator or a United States

congressman, congresswoman, and you actually fund, you fund these internment sites and they're black holes.

They're black holes. And you have people inside there that are being held that shouldn't be held there.

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