his mother said a lot of things. god love you, indeed. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, march 19th. with us, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lamir. joe and mika have the morning off. it is a busy morning, though, as kasie just mentioned, we re getting fans in the stands for baseball. good for you. mets, yankees, 20% capacity, a few thousand fans in there. at least it s a start. i know how excited you are about the yankees hot start and spring training and seeing some of those great yankees fans populating that stadium in the bronx. as my mother would say actually, i can t say that on the air. you better no. we re going to have 12% capacity at fenway park. lamir, you excited for the yanks? they re looking good in the spring? willie, my question is, as yankee stadium fills up to 10, 15, 20% capacity, that s obviously going to leave a lot of empty seats, particularly dow
authorities say they are not ruling out that this was possibly a hate crime. president biden has ordered all federal flags to be flown at half staff in honor of the victims, and he will head to georgia tomorrow. and as the president said, as vice president harris said, as atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms said, whatever the motivation here, the fact is attacks on asian americans are on the rise. people are rightfully scared and we need to do more to combat that bigotry and violence and stand together. to that point, today in congress a house committee held its first hearing on the rise of anti-asian discrimination in more than 30 years. but things quickly took a turn when republican congressman chip roy of texas first said that all americans deserve protection and to live in a free and secure society. then he said some more things, and i want to warn you, some of this language is offensive. we re only going to play it once, and we re going to play it once because it not
york and told to go back where we came from, or that we don t belong. so the daily news characterizing it as a political commentary that does not include race, just rings false. it followed you responding to a question about what your favorite subway station was. you said the times square station so it shows you coming out of the times square station. you don t think there s any legitimate way to depict that? again, the cartoon does not work if it s a person of a different race. and i said times square is my favorite subway stop because i live blocks away in hell s kitchen and use that stop to get around the city. it goes just about anywhere in the city because there s so many lines that converge there. it is very convenient. you talked about anti-asian hate crime. the president did sign a bill on that recently. have you seen any change in the last week or so? i am thrilled that joe signed that bill. it was championed by new york s own grace mang who is co-chair
he was only there ten months. skyrocketing when they haven t he had the connections already. put the plans into effect yet? you being a little dangerous had bought cocaine on several with how much political spin you put on something that s so occasions in d.c., but, again, central to the well-being of so he had an acquaintance who most many families? well, i appreciate the likely was an informant for the adjective you tossed my way. dea or the fbi, and that s how you know, john adams famously he got busted. you know, wolf, how does a said, facts are stubborn things. here are some facts. about 100,000 people have signed congressman in washington, d.c. up and gotten new insurance think that he or she is not going to get busted for buying under obama care. drugs on the street? about 5 million people have lost people talk. their insurance off a obama care. those are facts and those are there s a lot of informants in washington, d.c., for a number real people that can t be spun of differe