Plans. Fema ships those every week. Now thats along with esper, assistant secretary for response at hhs. We announced yesterday, what we talked about a little bit last week and that is federal surge sites. We opened these in three communities. There was a list of communities identified by dr. Birx and her team that had certain characteristics of their infection trend but also met certain characteristics of numerical numbers in isolation that surge testing might have an impact over a short period of time. So our goal in those communities is to do at least 5,000 tests per day and those are in baton rouge, jacksonville, and mccowan in texas. Again, this is a partnership with the state and local governments to make that happen. Theyre up and running with testing in all three sites. Baton rouge started yesterday, the other two sites start today. And we also have almost 6,500 appointments already made this morning so thats going very, very well. The last thing i want to talk about is phoenix
Generals role in the felony convictions of Donald Trumps friends and former advisors. First the bombshell news that william barr, whos already under fire in the sentencing of trump advisor, roger stone, is taking the rather extraordinary step of investigating the investigation into trumps former National Security advisor, mike flynn. Flynn admitted to lying to the fbi and should be sentenced soon. The new york times, quote attorney general william barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to scrutinize the case against President Trumps former National Security advisor mike flynn. This is highly unusual and could trigger more accusations of political interference into the work of career prosecutors. Nbcs own carol lee adds details. Quote, the Justice Department recently opened an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the fbis interview of Michael Flynn while he was serving as president Donald Trumps National Security advisor. Barr asked the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of
Steve rattner. Ching ching. Money. And former director for ted cruzs campaign and now msnbc political director rick tyler joins us as wealth. So great to have Richard Haass with us today, i want to talk about yesterday before we came on the air we were talking about whiplash. But if these policy shifts yesterday were whiplash, our neck was over here and now its upright. Whether it was on nato, tillerson was tough as nails according to William Cohen and other trump critics, had a good tough meeting with putin and with the foreign minister ther . China, normalcy in that chinese relationship where were actually lined up where we with work with them as a partner on north korea. A lot of shifts yesterday. I cant think of one thing that went in the wrong direction. These are all things over the past two years that have scared us and now a shift. Its quite a shift. A lot of stuff happened yesterday, youre right. China not being a currency manipulator, nato having a role, a fairly blunt talk w
Mark barnacle. Analyst and professor of Public Policy congressman harold ford, jr. Good morning. The Washington Bureau chief for the Associated Press julie pace and carol lee, a part of the nbc news team behind this mornings new reporting on what happened inside the president s meeting with top pentagon officials. Joe, we talked about this story in the campaign. That conversation was so it was so disturbing on so many levels. It was chilling and, of course, right after that, thats when you delivered your warning to the republicans first and to americans who would vote for him, saying if you vote for him, this was right i think during the Republican National convention or right after, at that time he was a candidate and a lot of people werent giving him a chance to win. But you still issued your warning and i can tell you the Foreign Policy expert i spoke with afterwards was rattled and the impression was, my god, the conclusion was, my god, could you ever imagine this guy getting his h
How and from where we got all this brandnew information, because there is a lot more where this story came from. For that, joining me now is chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel who helped break the story. Richard. Good to join you. Its a busy news day. Let me try to lay out the reporting we have, how we got it, and its implications. We have been given access to what some people call the paradise papers. They are an enormous pile, 7 million pages in all, of files and emails that somehow leaked out of a law firm in bermuda called appleby. The papers were originally obtained by a german newspaper, and then passed on to the International Consortium of investigative journalists who has done a great deal of work on this. They have been organizing and cross referencing the documents, looking at the people and companies who are the clients of this law firm. Generally, the kind of people who hire a highend offshore law firm like appleby have two things in common. They have lots of money,