his mother said a lot of things. god love you, indeed. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, march 19th. with us, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lamir. joe and mika have the morning off. it is a busy morning, though, as kasie just mentioned, we re getting fans in the stands for baseball. good for you. mets, yankees, 20% capacity, a few thousand fans in there. at least it s a start. i know how excited you are about the yankees hot start and spring training and seeing some of those great yankees fans populating that stadium in the bronx. as my mother would say actually, i can t say that on the air. you better no. we re going to have 12% capacity at fenway park. lamir, you excited for the yanks? they re looking good in the spring? willie, my question is, as yankee stadium fills up to 10, 15, 20% capacity, that s obviously going to leave a lot of empty seats, particularly dow
there is more evidence that the uk variant is spread something widely in the u.s. beaches are full with few masks in sight. there won t reach immunity until people get shots. in a new cbc poll, a third of republicans say they would not get vaccinated while another 20% said they were not sure. yesterday president biden asked for help i discussed it with my team and they said things that would have more impact than anything trump would say the to the maga folks, would be what the local doctors say. today on morning joe, dr. fauci said he has not had contact to the former president. i have not reached out directly to him. but i do it so many ways indirectly including the conversation you and i are having right now about what the importance is of getting the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated. joining me now is kristen welker and jonathan. what is the president s strategy? he is heading to delaware county. those five counties around philadelphia were b
to ram through the most aggressive radical agenda and american history and all across the board and they are moving at lightning speed because they don t want you to know about it. we are not having hearings in congress of any sort so you can find out what is taking place in the process has slowed down so your representatives are standing there like statues with nothing to do. president of the united states is signing executive orders one after the other that would make any dictator around the world very, very jealous. these are very serious events that are taking place. now, you can see on the screen some of the executive orders and some of the executive actions that biden has been taking. i will get back to them in a moment but first i want to talk about this. this book by edward bernays called propaganda. this book was the original book on the subject of propaganda and all kinds of people read this book, franklin roosevelt read this book, he advised woodrow wilson who put
number of migrant kids remained in custody but the biden teams are still not calling the situation, sandra, a crisis. john: griff jenkins is live near the border in el paso for us where we do expect to hear from a group of lawmakers a short time from now. the microphone is set up. i had a fat, you are on the ground they are. what have those lawmakers been seeing? hey, sandra and john, how are you? the leaders which by the way includes congressman tony gonzalez and el paso as part of his district. what you can see behind me, the press conference is waiting to begin after the tour and the visit, the briefing to lawmakers are getting. they started at the el paso central processing center resources told me they are at or near hitting their capacity levels right around us today or tomorrow, certainly this week. then come up they are going to go up to what is called monument three and get an overview briefing, a briefing and an overview of the high points. you can see here as w
he joins me to tell us his inspiring story, coming up. storp good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and le