Governor Chris Christie has left for maine. The white house is claiming it does have a plan to give in to the states forgoing their own way on the ebola quarantine. Right now federal and state ebola policy is all over the place. You jersey governor Chris Christie, this is what he said in melbourne, florida today about the nurse he had isolated and about the at mono Obama Administrations ebola policy. Its a common sense approach that the federal government wants to take. It has now been adopted by chicago and now by maryland. As i said yesterday on the news this should become the national policy, it is a smart, commonsense policy. Their policy is not exactly a stringent as new jerseys, but they do have a good policy there. Is this fight between the states and washington about ebola ending, or is it just beginning . I think is just beginning. One of the things weve learned over the last few days is that as long as there is an ebola crisis in west africa, there will be american medical pe
The white house is claiming it does have a plan to give in to the states for going their own way on the ebola quarantine. Right now federal and state ebola policy is all over the place. One person who is being his usual decisive self, however, is new jersey governor Chris Christie, this is what he said in melbourne, florida today about the nurse he had isolated and about the Obama Administrations ebola policy. Its a commonsense approach its a commonsense approach that the federal government wasnt taking. It has now been adopted by chicago and now by maryland. As i said yesterday on the news, this should become the national policy, it is a smart, commonsense policy. Their policy is not exactly as stringent as new jerseys, but they do have a good policy there. Is this fight between the states and washington about ebola ending, or is it just beginning . I think it is just beginning. One of the things weve learned over the last few days is that as long as there is an ebola crisis in west a
Good morning, everybody. It is friday, august 7th, and im yasmin vossoughian. Were going to begin with grim new coronavirus numbers. With the United States now exceeding 160,000 deaths. Since the virus began, america has reported 4. 8 million cases. Texas has reported at least 300 new deaths for a third day in a row. Meanwhile california continuing grapple with a Technical Glitch in its tracking system. An official says its impacting its response efforts across the state. Meanwhile theres a new prediction from the university of washingtons health metric and evaluation. The key coding model suggests the number of deaths in america is expected to climb to nearly 300,000 by december 1st, but researchers claim that if starting today 95 of americans wore masks when leaving their house, that number of projected deaths would drop by more than 66,000. The report also predicts that states might lockdown measures once the chart reaches 8 million. Schools will offer online instruction for this Up
So we have an election this year. I heard the music and that so we have an election this year, mika . Yes, we do. Do we really . Yes. 60 years in 60 seconds for you. The Democratic National Convention Kicks off today and because of the coronavirus, it will be unlike any of the Party Conventions weve seen to date. Wont look like any of those. Good morning and welcome to morning joe it is monday, august 17th. With us we have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire wait. Jonathan, this is important. Jonathan, so the great thomas ricks who has a wonderful book coming out in a couple months said that what the Boston Red Sox are doing are nothing less than a remarkable experiment. He said they decided to elevate an entire triple a pitching staff to the major leagues at the same time, of course, tom is a little off. This is single a, double a pitching staff the red sox have sent up. But its just its beyond words how bad the pitching staff is. I dont know if you know thi
Hes going to nominate one of those justices. Im going to vote for their confirmation. But democrats insist the senate should wait. Voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice. President trump hopes this will upend a race hes losing, but is there any evidence it will . Ill talk to former democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar of the judiciary committee. And the third ranking republican in the senate, John Barrasso. Plus an administration at war with itself. Covid deaths hit 200,000, and President Trump fighting his own experts on vaccines and on face masks. This face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take a covid vaccine. Its not more effective by any means than a vaccine, and i called him about that. Ill talk to health and Human Services secretary alex azar. Also, how the coronavirus is impacting President Trumps reelection chances. Our brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll on