Even better, the man has by doing so gained what we call street credit. Why is street cred important . Once you establish a reputation for the willingness and ability to use force and to be ruthless about it, you dont have to use force and conquer next time. You just establish a reputation as a nasty bastard and so people will, you dont have to wield power in order to have it. So he may stop here because he has now so much intimidated the ukraine that the ukraine will do his bidding. However, if he goes, if he goes farther, i dont think were going to do much about it either, because again, it is our periphery but his century. He is close. He is got the determination. He has got the street cred. How in the end will the game unfold . One, i dont think well use military force. Im pretty sure, to dislodge, to dislodge putin. To dislodge somebody is a hello of hell of a lot more dangerous than to slip in when nobody is looking. Too much risk. So both the u. S. And germany will use civilian
How are the roads this morning . Looking pretty good right now. No real complaints. 66, 95 in virginia moving along. Looking good. Over to Prince Georges County, indian head highway, branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, everything looking good. A wider look at things. Everything is green at this point. 270 is moving right g. Beltway at colesville road, thats my beltway barometer. If that looks good, were pretty much good across town. Im back at 5 11. Weather and traffic always on the 1s. Several developments in the ebola crisis. The second dallas nurse to contract the virus is waking up in atlanta. Amber vincent was treated yesterday at an emery hospital. The nurse was cleared by the cdc to fly on monday, a day before her diagnosis. Now they are trying to contact passengers who she shared a flight with monday night. The former Airlines Plane in question is out of service this morning. It flew from cleveland to denver last night. It is parked inside a hangar and will have an additional c
Tracking hour by hour the chance of rain in your neighborhood later today. Are you tracking breaking news right now. We are in rockville. 270 northbound at mont rows. I just spoke with police. Four lanes closed. Four vehicles involved in the crash. You are jammed as you hit the spur. No word on any injury. Wider look at things. Were a little bit slow bw parkway as you head inside the beltway. We have that crash. Bw parkway north of that southbound 198 with the overturned vehicle. Into town youre a little bit slow. Out of town completely fine. Opens up in oakton. 95 in virginia, slow after quantico. Melissa, thank you. 6 02. The texas hospital where two nurses contracted ebola is fighting claims about a lack of safety protocols. Texas Health Presbyterian followed the guidelines when Thomas Eric Duncan was admitted. One of the nurses Amber Vincent was transferred to atlanta and is being treated at Emory University hospital. Plus, we know the cdc did not stop vincent from flying even thou
Accelerating next. Hewlett packard enterprise. Michigan was definitely feeling the bern. [ cheers and applause ] and the bern was not just from the water in flint. [ laughter ] Bernie Sanders stunned the prognosticators by taking michigan after trailing Hillary Clinton by 21 points in the latest polls. [ applause ] but she took it graciously. Heres her official statement after the results came in. Whats happening . [ laughter ] good morning, its thursday march 10. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have veteran columnist in and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Former treasury official Steve Rattner. And in miami, managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin. And in washington, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for the Washington Post, Jonathan Capehart. Joe, a lot going on, fl boy, mika, theyre trump strong. There is so much going on if you look at whats happening in florida, look whats happening in the Rubio Campaign. It looks like there may be some consolidation o
Fell on hiroshima according to one group of experts. President trump reaffirmed the u. S. Commitment to protection its allies in a call with the japanese Prime Minister as south korea, meantime, takes the step of conducting live fire missile drills. We have a team of reporters and Analysts Covering the Nuclear Standoff and the increasing tensions on the korean peninsula. I want to begin with Cnns Barbara Starr at the pentagon because barbara, that statement we just heard from defense secretary mattis was both extraordinary and very carefully worded. Indeed, ana. Extraordinary because it was him out there in front of tv cameras standing at his side, of course, general joseph dunford, general of the joint chiefs and the chief military adviser to the president of the United States and neither of those men particularly cared for appearing in Television News cameras so the fact that they came out was very noteworthy. The message, very detailed and pretty specific saying that the u. S. Would