Has upended life in america. Today in a Campaign Event that was falsely labeled as a rose garden news conference, the president conducted what the New York Times called one of the most rambling performances of his presidency. Along the way, he all but ignored the fact that we now have over 136,000 deaths and climbing. Instead, he again congratulated himself and his administration on its response to the pandemic. He theorized there would be millions dead without his brave and decisive action. Much more on that just ahead. But we want to begin tonight with a glimmer of progress toward a possible way out of this, a story you probably saw from earlier this evening. The cambridge, massachusettsbased biotech firm moderna today announced that every participant in its preliminary, early, early Covid Vaccine trial, all 45 patients all developed antibodies, in effect triggering a potential immune response. Now, because this is potentially big and important news, before we begin our leadoff discu
Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im john king in washington. The coronavirus summer surge is accelerating and fresh evidence today that the white house is well aware of the scope of the problem yet seemingly will not take charge. A new daily case record yesterday. More than 77,000 new infections reported. The surge also causing a spike in hospitalizations in many states. Deaths heading up in many states, as well. Yet its been tn days since the president of the United States held an event specifically to address the pandemic. And that was to tell schools to reopen despite any local coronavirus numbers. You get the scope of the challenge. Even if the president doesnt. 60 of americans disapprove of how the president is handling the Coronavirus Crisis and greater numbers say they trust little or nothing of what the president says about this pandemic. Now weve watched for months as the president ignores oris puts the science, cannot ignore the numbers and the t
Coronavirus. Were learning that cdc scientists objected to that but it was published anyway. The president deamericaned and dismissed the cdc directors testimony under oath that masks can be more important than a vaccine and a vaccine likely wont reach the general public until next summer and a top aide of mike pence has resigned and accusing the president of a flatout disregard for human life saying the response was all about the election. And were learning the white house nixed a plan to send 650 Million Masks to americans in the mail in april. A federal judge rebuked the president and the postmaster general for quote a politically motivated attack to make changes to the service that could disrupt the 2020 election. And after rebuking his own cdc director the president defends russia and putd put, rebuking the fbi director he hand picked after chris wray testified that the russians are interfering in the election trying to hurt joe biden. It is clear that the Administration Knows the
Contours of the outbreak have stayed alarmingly constant. I say that nearly 30,000 people are affected every day, an average, 600 or 700 people have died and they project those tragic daily death counts can nearly triple. With the death toll at over 200,000 people in the country, the president continues to flaut flout the guidelines, and its literally life or death situation. And why we will be joined by former heads of the cdc, tom frieden, richard deshss, dr. Julie gerberding, dr. David statcher, and jeffrey canoplan. We ask you do, you trust the cdc for covid19 information . Why or why is not leave a comment or tweet your answer to us. We will tweet some of your answers later on in the hour. We have reports from around the kurnd and around the world, in new york, where parents of kids in the nations biggest Public School system are right now torn and in the dark as covid clusters pop up where they live. We will talk about that with the experts and with you. First, heres the big pict
I had 206 to 223 in the Electoral College. 306 to 223. Im saying to myself, wait a minute. I just won one of the greatest elections of all time in the history of this country. 306223 thats a big shellacking. Then it got bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder and then we won by a lot. Dont forget it was 306223. Thats a lot. We had a landslide, 306223. 306 electoral votes. Well, on friday, nbc news called the georgia race for president elect biden which brings his projected electoral vote to 306. Identical to trumps tremendous landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, one of the greatest elections of all time in the history of this country. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, november 16th. With us we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early kayleigh mcenasie hu. And reverend al sharpton and from the american presidency at Vanderbilt University and unofficial adviser to joe