morning joe starts right now. all of a sudden, i aced the cognitive test doesn t knee what s going on. do you plan to use pac money to pay some of the penalties in the new york defamation and fraud cases? i don t understand. what? are you thinking of potentially trying to use campaign money to pay some of those penalties that you might incur what penalties? in the new york fraud case, the defamation case. i didn t do anything wrong. i mean, that s been proven as far as i m concerned. yeah, but as far as the court is concerned, you did do something wrong and it ll cost you around $83 million. i see what he s doing, though. i know exactly what he is up to. he s like the mob boss who pretended to be crazy by wandering around the town in a bathrobe. he is vinny the chin, is who he is. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is i m sorry. are we not coming in? q s is the best music guy anywhere, right? by far. i know where you re going. what s toda
plus, 700 and counting, that s the latest number of classified documents that donald trump had at mar-a-lago. we ll explain why there s likely many more to come. also ahead, president biden is expected to announce a decision today on a controversial plan that could impact millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 24th. i m sam stein, in for jonathan lemire. results are pouring in this morning after key primaries in new york in one of the most closely-watched races this primary season, nbc news projects that congressman jerry nadler has won the democratic primary for new york s 12th congressional district. he defeated his fellow encouple bantd, maloney. third candidate in the race was patel, former staffer for president obama who ran on the platform of generational change. and new york s 17th district, democratic congressman sean patrick maloney beat back a fierce primary challenge from progressive state senator biaggi
be sensible about this. if you are going in an office people where people are vulnerable, if you are surrounded by people who are vulnerable, take care. if you catch covid, you don t want to infect people who might get sicker than you do with it. it will be an interesting test case to see how the uk respond to this, but the feeling very much in europe is, look, we can move beyond covid as it stands at the moment. there s an exhaustion there and here in the united states, and we ve seen in the last couple of weeks this sort of domino effect of mandates going away. nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez reports on the easing of those restrictions here in america. reporter: with the omicron surge fading and covid hospitalizations plummeting, more states, cities and businesses are easing pandemic restrictions, but dr. anthony fauci warning it may be too much too soon. there s a lot of pressure and a lot of pent-up fatigue on the people s part about the restrictions, but we be
beautiful shot of the capitol in washington, d.c. 45 past the hour. we heard discouraging words from the vaccinemaker moderna, saying current vaccines could be less effective against the omicron variant. as nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez reports, there could soon be another new tool in the fight against the virus. reporter: we re one step closer to a pill for treating covid. an fda advisory panel narrowly voting to recommend merck s pill. this can be administered in the comfort of the patient s home, can be given as a prescription and picked up in the pharmacies. how does this drug stack up against the omicron variant? i wish we knew. we re looking at it very carefully. reporter: as the omicron variant spreads, the world health organization is advising