you can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable i was. frankly, i didn t know how to handle that episode. i still think about it every day. it s something dr. fauci and i talked about all the time, is how to correct the record. wow. i still think about it every day. dr. deborah birx, the former white house covid response coordinator under president trump in a new interview with abc news. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, march 16th. so let s talk about that for one second. you know, willie, at the time, dr. birx was getting abused oh, yeah. and criticized and you know, there are some things she said and did that were concerning to me, but you know it was mostly what she didn t say. she was trying to stay in to have some influence on a guy who was erratic and crazed on this issue. and people can say, well, she people are saying, she should just quit. and you re like, okay, how could it get worse if she just quit? well, dr. scott atlas cou
you probably were sleeping. we ll give you the highlights. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. it s monday, march 15th. 5:00 a.m. here in new york. we re so close we can taste freedom and yet so far. one in five americans have received at least one dose of a covid vaccine. since friday, the u.s. has hit three of the largest single day jumps in vaccinations. scenes like this can set us back. this is miami beach. a lot of people out there but few masks. spring break could trigger a surge in cases and saint patrick s day is also worrying. we ve got too many people coming. we ve got too many people coming who are just acting out and we have covid at the same time. and people are flying again. air travel hit a new pandemic era record. new tsa figures show more than 1.3 million people were screened on friday. the highest number in a year. duke university under grads are in a stay in place orders. more than 80 students are in
join us live. benjamin: smear campaign, new yorkers boiling over claims that california has the best failure. fox and friends first starts right now. i m hungry like a wolf jillian: a live look at london. i am live in new york city. that last story reminded me of two things. i always get blasted because people say i word a bagel weird. are the bagels in london? benjamin: we are more scone people, jam, cream scones but i don t believe there are better bagels in california than new york, new york is the home of the bagel. jillian: the debate continues. good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. benjamin: the biden administration is in denial about the border crisis despite admitting more migrant children are crossing into the us and facilities available to house them. jillian: good morning from washington. reporter: republicans are calling this a crisis, democrats are calling it a challenge. no matter what word you use there is no
administration still thinks they made the right call. the decision to withdraw from afghanistan was an incredibly difficult one but also the right one. we ended america s longest war. joe biden made two things clear after he botched, completely botched that withdrawal. one, this was an unmitigated success. and two, any afghan national who helped the u.s. in that war would be welcome to our country with open arms. remember that big airlift? we know number one was a lie from the get-go. we saw it before our eyes. 13 dead americans is not a success by any measure. it s an abject failure. now two years later we know the second part was a lie too. this is habib. for years he worked alongside u.s. special ops as an interpreter. he survived two ied explosions and was shot multiple times. he also became lifelong friends
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